vriT.-5. No. 2
ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERTAKS COLLEGE
, laurinburg. n. c.
Moore Releases Building Program;
Will Be Aaldemic and Physical
Plain and Fancy
Cost Chosen
plain and fancy, a Uvely,
colorful musical comedy about
life in the Pennsylvania Dutch
country, will be presented by the
Highland Players as their first
production. With a full orchestra
conducted by Professor Franklin
West, and the musical direction
of Professor Anne Ratzell, a
cast of 25 will execute this
successful Broadway hit. Blues,
greens, and imrples are the pre
dominating colors of the cos
tumes, which are being designed
by Helen Gregory. Colorful drops
depicting the Amish country will
be created by Sherry Baldwin.
Other student technical crew
chairmen are: Properties, Shall a
Corbett; lighting, Louise
McLeod; make-up, Ann Strick
land; house manager, Lynne Pou;
rehearsal pianist, Bonnie Will
iams, and student director, Kay
McClanahan.
Playing the roles of the sophis
ticate New York couple are
Bob Bercaw and Yibbett Phillips,
The roles of Peter Reber and
Katie Yoder, the young lovers,
are being portrayed by Joe
Mitchell and Elaine ElwelU Papa
Yoder, Katie’s stem father, is
being played by Walter Boyce;
Ezra, the young man that Papa
has picked out for Katie is being
played by Robert Frothingham,
Sue Scarborough plays Hilda, a
young Amish girl dissatis
fied with coimtry Ufe, and Nancy
Hitt plays Emma, her mother.
Tlie'roles of Isaac, ffllda’s father,
and Mambo Joe, a carnival
dancer, are taken by David Hend
ricks. Supporting the principals
as Amish folk are; Milton Bigger,
Sherry Baldwin, Eleanor Brown,
Margaret Crowell, Joe Dins-
more, Mary Katherine Field,
Lynda Fc^le, Barbara Garver,
Helen Gregory, Mary Hardy,
Mary Key, Marshall Krug, Larr"
Mathes, and George Shaffer. |
Freshmen English Presents
Vietnam In "Happenings”
On Monday night, September 27,
in the National Guard Armory
In Laurinburg, the first of a
series of English 101 “Happen
ings” took place.
ITiis program dealt with the ever
rising crisis in Vietnam. Three
speakers were present: Edward
F. Snyder, chairman of the
Friends’ Committee of National
Legislation, Senator Ernest
Gruening of Alaska, and Turner
Shelton, a representative of the
State Department, Professor W.
Forrest Altman and Professor
Henry L. Harvin also spoke,
Mr, Snyder opened the “Happen
ing” by stating the basic out
line of events. A “Happening”
is an organ of public discussion
which allows the public to become
better informed on current
events. Part one was a group
of three speeches giving the back
ground of Vietnam, a conserva
tive’s view on Vietnam, and the
State Department's view on Viet
nam.
Professor Harvin gave the first
talk on the history of Vietnam,
Vietnam is a long, narrow
country, smaller than California,
with a population of 30 million
people. A long chain of moun.
t*ins ~’J“ '^''wn the center of the
country with a fertile valley at
each end. High temperatures, heat
and humidity are the prevelant
climatic conditions.
Ttie next speaker was Senator
Ernest Gruening of Alaska, giving
a conservative’s view on Viet
nam. He believes that the United
States should withdraw troops
from Vietnam, and go to the
United Nations for help. This plan
has never really been tried in
this situation. The United States
has no real commitement to the
Vietnamese people, according to
Gurening. President Eisenhower
told Diem in a letter, that the
United States would give them aid
only on the condition that the South
Vietnamese show some evidence
of reforms. Since no reforms
have been shown, the U. S. has
no real reason to be in Vietnam,
except personal pride, which is
a poor reason for a war, Gruening
pointed out that tiie presence of
the U.S. in Vietnam is a direct
violation of the Geneva Agree
ment which said that all troops
should be removed from the
country. The president should,
said Gruening, watch the increase
of unrest with the current U. S,
foreign policy. Many rallies and
petitions have happened in the
past year, all of which were In
protest of the President’s foreign
W
LAURINBURG, N. C.—Presi
dent Ansley C, Moore of St.
Andrews Presbyterian College
today revealed a series of major
building and academic programs
which he termed “our most sig.
nificant advance since the college
opened its new campus in Sep
tember, 1961.”
New structures authorized by
trustees include a i^ysical edu
cation, science, dormitory, and
chapel buildings; course offer
ings have been greatly
strengthened this year in mathe
matics, science, and English; and
a guaranteed tuition plan will take
effect next year for all students.
First building constructed will
be a physical education plant of
75,000 square feet at an esti.
mated cost of $1 million. It is
designed to carry out the
college’s twin £4>proach of Intra
mural and intercollegiate ath
letics, with an emphasis on life
time recreation.
Architect A, G. Odell, Jr., of
Charlotte was instructed by the
trustee building committee to
proceed with working drawings
after they approved preliminary
plans last week.
TTie physical education building
will have a flexible basketball
area, with seating for 1,200
spectators or courts for three
intramural games. Ttiere will be
an Olympic-size indoor swim
ming pool with three div
ing boards and seating capacity
of 200,
Another 200 spectators can be
accommodated in an area for
court games. Other facilities in-
elude six bowling alleys, recrea
tional game rooms, wrestling
room, weight room, three class
rooms, offices for the physical
education staff, and dressing
rooms for students and J,aculty.
In October, Dr. Moore
announced, plans for a new
science building and the academic
program in sciences will be re
viewed by a five-man panel of
consultants.
Dr. Arthur Roe, executive in the
National Science Foundation and
one of the planning group for the
original science curriculum, will
lead this panel. Other members
are Dr. Carey H. Bostian, former
policy.
Turner Shelton from the State
Department gave the next speech,
which endorsed the present U.S.
policy. Although we want peace
without war, Shelton said that at
this point, there seems to be no
way to leave Vietnam. From 1954
until 1959 the Vietnamese seemed
to be progressing very well. Then
in 1961 the North Vietnamese
stepped up agression and the
government headed by Diem in
the South fell. Since then, the U.S.
has sent thousands of troops to
Vietnam, to supplement the five
hundred thousand South Viet
namese troops. Shelton believes
that a peaceivil settlement can
eventually be gained, but not
until the North Vietnamese will
be willing to negotiate with the
United States,
chancellor of N. C. State Uni
versity; Dr* Irwin G, Foster,
chairman of mathematics and
natural sciences at Florida
Presbyterian College; Stan
Leggett, educational consultant
from a New York firm; and Dr,
William M. Roberts, a St,
Andrews trustee and head of the
food science department at N.C,
State,
Preliminary sketches on the new
chapel are being reviewed,
President Moore stated, and the
decision on a construction date
will be announced later, as will
the starting of a ninth dormitory.
The guaranteed tuition charges
will take effect in the 1966-67
school year, Dr. Moore stressed.
Freshmen entering in that year,
as well as upperclassmen, will
pay fees which will not be in
creased living costs,” the St,
Andrews president noted.
In academic areas, the presi.
dent pointed out that the mathe
matics faculty has been increased
to five members - all of them
trained in the new math.
The English faculty has been
almost doubled to allow small
classes of 15 to 20 in the Basic
English course, which has been
completely overhauled in a new
approach to bridging the gap be
tween high school and college
levels in using the language.
St. Andrews
Campus Plans
Parents Day
Parents of St. Andrews stu
dents will be invited to come to
the campus on October 30 for a
day of special events and a visit
with their sons and daughters.
Letters of invitation will be
issued by the college Develop
ment Office and the Dean of
Students to these V.I.P.’s (Very
important Parents). The De
velopment Officer, Stan Bell,
suggests that students may also
add their own personal invita
tion when they write home.
These visiting dignitaries will
be welcomed by President Ansley
C. Moore at a luncheon. This
will be followed by a coffee and
dessert hour in the lounges of
the Student Center, where par.
ents may talk with various facul
ty advisers.
In the morning parents may
choose from several “interest
groups” such as discussions of
Christianity and Culture, Eng
lish 101, graduate study op
portunities, etc.
The second annual Dean’s Cup
races will add a rousing note to
the day’s events.
Much of the afternoon will be
free, and all visiting parents are
invited to attend the Saturday
evening performance of “Plain
and Fancy” by the Highland Play
ers and the School of Music,
Some may also arrive early
enough for the Friday evening
performance.
Some 15 reservations have al
ready been made by parents at
a local motel, A list of other
motels will be supplied in the
letter of invitation, and early
reservations should be made.