Spring Fling Tops Events
Everyone get your danc
;hoes polished up and your Sw.
lay duds to the cleaners be
lause it’s Spring Fling time!'
7he weekend of May 1 is the
late and the entertainment pro-
nlses to be great.
Friday night, April 29 starts
he proceedings with Ronnie Hess
md the Rythm Kings playing a
brmal dance in the student cen-
er. The attire Is formal or any.
hing appropriate and girls have
ate permission until 12:15. The
lance is co-sponsored by The
^ance and the girls of Concord
lorm. This dance was conceived
imong people for people. It is
without charge, get that again,
10 charge, and promises to be
I real swinging affair. Ronnie
md the Rythm Kings have played
,t numerous place including
)uke. State, W&L, The Blair
louse in Durham, The Planta-
ion Inn in Raleigh, and others,
rhe remarkable sucess of this
land is to their brilliant and wide-
y ranged repertoire. Specializ.
ag in all types of music, they
>lay popular jazz, dixieland,
ock n’ roll. Ronnie and his
and are not charging for this
ance as their contribution to
he Spring Fling.
Saturday afternoon brings us
t>ne other than the Four Preps.
’he iconcert is slated for 2:30
1 the National Guard Armory,
’he Four Preps have made hit
ongs such as Twenty Six Miles,
'wo Wrongs Don’t make a Right,
nd others. Tickets are $2.50
lus ftax in advance, and $3,00
t the door. The Four Preps need
0 introduction, they have pleas-
d night club and college
udiences all over the nation.
)ue to the tremendous cost of
his group, the concert has been
pened to the outside also, so
et your tickets now.
Patty and The Emblems will
•e on campus Saturday night
’hey iare famous for their hi
‘I’m a Mixed Up, Shook Up
iirl.” Girls again have late per.
Qission, this time until 1:00.
)ress for both the concert and
he dance Saturday night is
asual.
Dr. Altman
pointed At
St. Andrews
LiifcRINBURG, N. C. — The
ippnintment of Dr. W. Forrest
lltm'an of Greensboro as an asso.
□jiilm professor of English at St.
Andrews Presbyterian College
beg^ining next fall has been an.
tiDunced by Dean Robert F. David
son.
Dr. Altman is currently an
^sociate professor of English
and Jacting head of his depart,
ment at Guilford College. For
four (years he was an associate
professor of English at Earlham
College in Richmond, Indiana,
and [had previously taught as
an ^structor at the University
of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Dean Davidson noted that the
new professor is a specialist
in the field of American litera
ture. He has directed workshops
in religious drama, and has work
ed with campus groups in drama,
journalism, and creative writing.
A graduate of Earlham College,
the new St. Andrews faculty mem
ber took his masters degree at
the University of Pittsburgh, and
earned his doctorate in English
at Florida State University.
Dr. Altman’s religious alfilia.
tion is with the Society of Friends
He and Mrs. Altman have two
children.
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VOL 4, NO. 11 ST. ANDREWS PREbiiVTEKiAN COLLEGE, LAUHLVBURG,
APRIL l(i, 1!)(55
McDonald
Presents
Fantasticks
April 20th tnrough the 24th
the Highland Players wQl pre-
sent a musical fantasy in two
acts, “The Fantasticks.” The
two , delightful, well.meanlng
fathers are Richard McCord and
Bob Bercaw. The leading roles
are sung" by Glenn Arnette as
El Gallo, the gypsy narrator;
BUI Abrams as the boy; and Sue
Scarborough as the girl. Charles
Anders as Mortimer and Boner
Stone as Henry aid the fathers
in their conspiracy to get their
children married.
The production is under the
direction of Professor Arthur
McDonald assisted by Gall Carl-
son.
The scenery is simple and
handled on stage by David Hen-
continued on page 2
St. Andrews Hiring
English Professors
LAURINBURG, N. C. — Dr.
W. D. White, an assistant pro-
fessor and director of under
graduate studies in religion at
Duke University, will join the
faculty of St. Andrews Presby-
terian College as porfessor of
English in September.
Before coming to the Duke
faculty in 1961, Dr, White had
been an assistant professor of
English at St, Olaf College in
Northfield, Minn., and at Bay-
lor University in Waco, Texas. .
In making the appointment.
Dean Robert F. Davidson of St.
Andrews noted that Dr. White
has given lectures and addresses
at 14 colleges and universities
in addition to papers at major
state and regional professional
meetings in the past three years.
In March Dr. White address,
ed the Missouri.Kansas Faculty
Christian Fellowship at Kansas
City and lectured at Park Col-
lege, Missouri.
At Duke, Dr. White has been
active in the American Associa
tion of University Professors,
the Modern Language Associa-
tion, and the American Academy
of Religion.
A graduate of Baylor Univer.
sity in his native Texas, Prof,
White took his masters degree
at Princeton and his doctorate in
English at the University of
Texas, with a minor InGer^^n
language and literature.
During World War n, the new
St, Andrews faculty member saw
two years of combat with an in.
fantry division in Europe, be-
coming a first lieutenant after
a battlefield commission. He and
Mrs. White are Baptists, and the>
have two children.
Professor W. D. White