VOL. 1, NO. 7 ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, LAURINBURG, N. C. DECEMBER 19, 1961 4 Who's Who Recognition Ceremony To Be Held Tonight At 6:45 WG Service Held Tonight At 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 19 a special assembly will be held in tihe L. A. Auditorium recognize those students These students are getting ready to go caroling tonight. They are 1st row, 1 to r Claude Aiidreds, Jewel Deane Love, and Libba Stewart. 2nd row 1 to r Dee Howard and John Bedhead. C.A. To Sponsor Caroling Tonight At 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, De cember ly, trucks will leave from the Student Center to take students caroling. Several stops will be made in the town area, and free hot chocolate and cookies will be served in the snack bar afterwards. Visits will be made to the recreation area between the hospital and the Presbyterian church, the nursing homes, the Methodist church (main high way), East Laurinburg School the Trading Post area, and pos sibly others. Students who plan to go on the carol sing and who have flashlights are asked to bring them along. There will be printed sheets of carols, buf anyone may suggest songs in ».ddit'on to those on the sheets. Schedule of Events Dec. 19, Departmental Clubs Who’s Who Ceremony 6:45- 7:15 Liberal Arts Auditori um. White Gift Service follow ed by Carol Sing 7:30 in LA Dec. 20, Holidays begin at noon Jan. 4, Classes resume Highland Players 4:00 Jan. 6, Orange Hall Party Jan. 8. Georgia State (T) Jan. 10, Faculty Meeting Student Recital 5:00 Vespers 7:00 Jan. 11, Curtis String Quar tet 8:00 Campbell College (T) Jan. 13, Charlotte College (H) NOTICE Mr. Yates Forbis, Librari an, has announced that all library books now circulat ing will be due before to morrow, Wednesday, Dec. 20. Students may check out books for the holidays to day, Tuesday, Dec. 19. A White Gift Service will be held in the L. A. Auditorium Tuesday, Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m. An oifering will be taken up which will be sent to the Leper Colony at So Chulla Namdo, Soonchun, Korea. Dr. Charles G. Vardell, Dean of the Conservatory, will give the invocation; Betty Ruth Bar ker, president of the Christian Association, will explain the history of the White Gift and give the dedicatory prayer; and Robert K. Gustafson, acting Dean of the Chapel, will ask the benediction. Selections from Benjamin Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols” will be sung by the Girls’ Chorus, directed by Anne liese Schober. The Leper Colony at Chulla Namdo always has approximate ly 1200 patients, and discharges one hundred or more each year as they are cured. Out side the Colony is a “Home” wliere the “clean” children of Leper patients live and go to school. Contributions to the Colony are always used in part for buildings and repairs, part of the cost of which is defrayed by the use of voluntary labor of the patients. Donations may al so be used for aid to students and for medical supplies. Dis tribution ol the offering will be left to the administrators of the Colony, who later will inform us of how the rnoney is being used. Cabinet members wiU accept offerings from students who w'ish to contribute but cannot attend the Service. String Quartet ToPerform Campus Beauties To Be Chosen The Student Life Committee in cooperation with the staff of The Lanlp and Shield an nounces that there will be a con test to select campus favor ites from among the resident and non-resident women stu dents. Beauty, poise, charm, and personality will be basic criteria in this selection. Each of the 6 dorms wiU be given Up to 4 nominees and the Day Student Association will also be allowed 4. A group of off-campus judges will be invited to select from this group of up to 28 the fav orites for the yearbook. A St. Andrews Queen will be selected from among these to represent the college in several official events. It is hoped that dorm leader? and Day Student leaders will give early attention to having tlieir candidates chosen. The deadlines for these nom inations is January 10. On Thursday evening at 8:00 p.m. Jan. 11, 1962 in the Na tional Guard Armory, The Cur tis String Quartet will be heard in a performance of chamber music. The Curtis String Quartet is composed of two Violinists, a Violist, and a Cellist who are resident teachers at Curtis In stitute in Philadelphia and Phil adelphia’s New School of Mu sic. The Curtis Quartet is one of the oldest String Quartets in musical history and has for over 30 years reflected this country’s extreme interest in chamber music. The term “Chamber music” originally meant that type of music which was best perform ed in the drawing room or pri vate chambers of a person of high standing. In modern times, however, it has come to em brace types of music of a more intimate nature capable of be ing performed in a small-sized hall either private or public. Chamber music is instrumen tal ensemble music which is performed by one player for each part. In true chamber mu sic the emphasis lies on the en semble, and not on individual players. The two violinists are Jascha Brodsky and Mehli Mehta, both of who completed notable Eu ropean tours before coming to the USA and joining their pres ent colleagues at the Curtis In stitute. Mehta also organized and directed the Bombay Sym phony and Chamber Music So cieties before coming to the Institute. Max Arnoff, violist, is the founder-director of the New School of Music in Philadelphia and has produced many of the country’s outstanding violists. Cellist Orlando Cole graduat ed from the Curtis Institute and is now a faculty member there. He has done a great deal of solo work with orchestras both in the USA and Canada. The string quartet is the chief type of chamber music because it “always says what is necessary, and never too much.” The present day repertory for string quartets begins with the "father” of the string quar tet, Haydn (written between 1780 and 1790). and those works by Mozart of the same decade. The Quartet has brought forth the highest praises from American and European critics, in unity of thought, tonal blend ing and technique. Lionel Tertis, dean of British string players writes: “Recalling the many quartets I have heard, I give the palm to the Curtis String Quartet. They have achieved the ideal.” The Curtis String Quartet re cords for Westminster Records. to elected by their classmates to appear in “Who’s Who in Am erican Universities and Col leges.” No small honor, this is one of the highest positions a stu dent could hope to attain. Sen iors and juniors are eligible for this distinction, and are elected by vote of the student body. Although this is the first academic year for St. Andrews, lome very outstanding students ire on campus, and were reco- 'i.nized as such in this recent election. Fourteen students were deemed worthy of being list ed in “Who’s Who”. This is not only a means of recognizing our better students but it is also a means of saying tihank you to these in dividuals for their tireless ef forts to make their school the best possible. Dr. Price H. Gwynn, Dean of Faculty, will conduct the program. See story and pictures page 4 Dr. Moore Is Improv iiig Dean Rodger W. Decker reports after a recent trip to Miami that Dr. Moore is in fair conditioii and recover ing steadily after his heart attack. He is expected to re main in the hospital for a period of three weeks and then will be brought home for a long period of conval escence. Mrs. Moore and their daughter are with him. Students are welcomed and encouraged to send cards to him. The address is Room 614, Mount Sinai Hospital, Alton Road, North, Miami Beach, Florida. Curtis String Qoarlel