THE LANCE
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Laurinburg, N. C., Friday, Sept. 29, 196':
Vol. 7. No. 4.
Glenn Yarbrough, Ramirez Trio
Spark Parents’ Day Activities
Glenn Yarbrough here to entertain parents and students.
Gymnastics Demonstration
Shows Championship Form
The Nlssen Gymnastic De
monstration will be held in the
SA gym on October 6 and 7.
The team consists of three men
and three women.
One man is the Southeastern
representative for Nissen and
the other two attend Northwes
tern State College in Louisiana,
The two college students are
potential Olympic contenders
and have participated in the Pan
American games. The lone wo
man on the team competed in
the Olympics in 1960 and in
1964 and is now the World's
St. Andrews Coed
Has Heart Failure
Wendy Crapsey died Thurs
day, September 21 at Scotland
Memorial Hospital. She enter
ed the hospital suffering from
pneumonia, but her cause of
death was determined as heart
failure.
A transfer from Roberts
Wesleyan College in Roches
ter, New York, Wendy came to
SA last year a sophomore. She
was majoring in English and
was active in drama.
She attended high school in
her hometown of Rochester,
New York where she was in
terested in playing the piano
and the clarinet in the high
school orchestra.
Wendy is survived by her
parents, three sisters and one
brother.
Circle K Campaign
The Circle K Club is open
ing its membership in the club
to all freshmen boys. The club
is a service organization for SA.
Any boy who is interested in
becoming a member of the Cir
cle K, should contact Don
Stokes, box 660, Jim Neal, box
541 or A1 Thompson, box 314.
The club meets the second
and fourth Tuesday of each
month at 6;30 in the small
dining room.
Champion in the uneven parall
el bars.
The demonstration in gym
nastics will be at 7:30 p.m.
in the main gym on October 6,
at 9;00 a.m. on October 7 there
will be a workshop for elemen
tary teachers and students.
From 12 to 1:30, there will be a
luncheon for the women P.E.
teachers in the area. From
1:30 to 4:00 there will be a
workshop for all high school
and college students.
The team will use most of
SA’s gym equipment, but will
bring some additional equip
ment of their own. The de
monstration is free and any
students are welcome to come.
The far side of the hill has
always Intrigued Glenn Yar
brough. As a singer he has tra
veled this country from one end
to the other and as a sailor he
has investigated the waters of
the Pacific. But Glenn’s hori
zons are notboundedby the con
fines of land or sea. He is li
mited only by the imagination
of composers arid the skill of
musicians, for Glenn is on a
constant exploration through the
world of music.
When Glenn chooses a song
for himself it is only after
careful thought. It must have a
beautiful melody and a mean
ingful lyric, and once he has
found it he treats it with care.
As he explains it, ‘‘I just try
to do good songs. I don’t care
whether their pedigree is
Broadway, folk or rock and roll.
But the melody must be so good
that it becomes a vehicle for
the words: it must be good
enough to stay in the back
ground. The words must have
the most importance.”
The beginning of Glenn s In
terest in music can be traced
back to the days when he was a
soloist at Grace Church in New
York at the tender age of eight.
In fact his initials can be seen
there today, chiseled in marble
on the wall of the Grace Church
to commemorate the fact that
he was the best boy soprano
they ever had.
A vocal scholarship brought
Glenn to St. Paul’s School which
he attended through the twelfth
grade. When Glenn’s voice
changed in about the tenth grade
his scholarship was quickly
shifted from music to football,
and he played varsity football
all during high school.
Although Glenn received
scholarship offers from several
excellent universities upon
graduation, he decided to take a
year off and hitchhike through
the United States, Canada, and
Mexico. In 1949 Glenn returned
from his wandering and enroll
ed at St. John’s College in
Annapolis--the “Great Books”
College of legendary intel
lectual toughness. He continued
his studies there for three
years.
However, following his usual
preference for doing the unex
pected, Glenn later deserted his
study of ancient languages and
culture to pursue a singing
career. His first professional
appearance was at The Gate of
Horn in Chicago in 1956. The
club’s owner had heard him sing
at a party in New York and of
fered him a job. Glenn refused
until the club owner tempted
him with an astronomical sa
lary of $150 a week.
Glenn continued to work as a
single performer until May of
1959 when a chance meeting in
Williams Gives
Recital for C&C
Professor John E. Williams
will perform music from the
Medieval and Renaissance per
iods in an organ recital to
be presented next Tuesday at
the First Baptist Church in
Laurinburg.
The program is the first
of four historic organ music
programs presented under the
joint auspices of the School of
Music and the C and C pro
gram. For the first time, the
C and C curriculum Includes
a study of music of the his
torical periods examined in the
course.
To be included in the first
public recital are works rep
resenting composers of France,'
the Netherlands. Spain. Italy,
England, and Germany.
Film Lab Wants You
Are you a senior with in
terest or with background in
accounting administration,
chemistry, biology, or sales?
A representative of Baxter
Laboratories, Inc. from Mor
ton Grove, Illinois will be on
campus Monday. October 2 for
the purpose of interviewing pro
spective employees.
Baxter Laboratories is a na
tional film manufacturing intra
venous solutions, ethical phar
maceuticals, and medical me-
chanicai specialty items.
Appointments for personal
interviews may by registered
in the Office of Student Affairs.
GYM DEDICATION
TOMORROW MORNING
AT 10:00 A.M.
“Cosmo Alley,” a Los Ange
les night club, brought him to
gether with Lou Gottileg and
Alex Hassilev. The rest is his
tory. Organized as the Lime-
llters, the trio became, in the
next four years, one of the
most popular folksinging groups
in the nation. Possessing the
outstanding solo voice in the
group, Glenn was the featured
performer on most of the
group’s ballad numbers and it
was his voice that gave the
Limeliters sound its unmistak
able soaring quality.
He took six months off to sail
his boat and then came back to
record his first solo album
for RCA Victor. Today, eight
albums later, Glenn has de
veloped a style that is unique
ly Ills own and yet one that
differs perceptable from al
bum to album. Perhaps that is
because Glenn Is still intrigued
by that which is unexplored and
his music reflects his disco
veries.
‘ Freddy, you’re ruching the
piano.”
“There’s too much rhythm
on the giiitars. How about one
of you fingering and the other
strumming';”’
‘■Come on guys, don’t drag
it.”
Tills is example of the re
hearsal talk which goes on be
tween Glenn and The Fred Ra
mirez Trio.
F red joined Glenn in 1964
and has traveled with him ever
since, occasionally deserting
his piano for the vibraharp
or bongos. Recently, his dis
tinctive piano style convinced
Warner Brothers Records that
Fred Iras a future as a single
performer and he was asked
to sign a recording contract
with them. His first single will
be released soon. -\s for long
range plans, !■ red hopes to turn
to composing as Lii;i»ther outlet
for his musical talt-n:.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
claims bassist Ted .\rr.ol(l as
its own. He left Philadelphia
only once in his first 21 years
to tour Europe for the State
Department, performing in jazz
concerts all over the continent.
Well-prepared for a career
in music, Ted began to study
the piano at three, switched to
the trombone at 12 and moved
to the bass at 16. When Ted
joined Glenn two years ago he
brought with him impressive
credentials.
Drummer Don Dexter start
ed playing professionally at the
age of 15 with a Dixieland band.
But when he graduatedfrom high
school in Appleton, Wisconsin,
Don gave up Dixieland for the
exotic melodies of the FarEast
when he traveled through the
Orient with the United States
Marine Corps. During his time
in the Navy School of Music
studying both reading and the
ory.
Now that you feel that you
know all of the performers, be
sure to attend their perfor
mance in the Gym Saturday
night at 8:30 p.m. - Glenn
Yarbrough
The Fred Ramirez Trio compliments Glenn Yarbrough Concert