Vol. XXIII - No. 4
The Lance
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
October 26. 1984
Strides of Unity: Peace For All
David Tew
On March 1, 1984, five people
began a pilgrimage to the East that
would everntually bring them to St.
Andrews and beyond. They are the
group embarking on “A Walk For
The People - Pilgrimage For Life”.
They left from a windswept Califor
nia beach at sunset that day.
Over seven months later, the
group arrived for a three-day stay in
Pate Hall on the St. Andrews cam
pus. On September 9, the group
conducted a fireside chat, initiated
by college Pastor Bob Martin. At
that meeting the purpose being the
walk was discussed. As the name
implies, it is a mission of peace. Yet,
it is more. It is a sharing of ideas
between people of different
backgrounds. “We are collecting
pictures from school groups around
the country and sharing them in a
scrapbook with not just children in
other parts of the country, but also
with children in other parts of the
world,” said James Outhouse, the
leader of the group.
Outhouse, a New York native, in
troduced the rest of the group. They
were Adele Kushner, from Atlanta,
Ga.; Andy Rector, from Mobile,
Al.; Kevin Shay, from Dallas, Tx.;
and Barbara Hirshwitz, from San
Francisco, Ca. During the meeting,
the group pointed out that, as a
group, they support no particular
political party or ideal. Each in
dividual makes his own choices. The
only thing they officially share is the
Group Walks Towards Goal of Peace
desire to see a safer world emerge; a
world without nuclear weapons.
Among the literature the group
brought to pass out were leaflets on
the effects of nuclear war, and what
meager attempts have been made in
the area of civihan defense. “The
only way to survive a nuclear war is
not to have one” was the major
theme behind most of the group’s
information.
The following night, September
10, the group allowed a private in
terview to be conducted. The
following is a text of that interview:
Lance: How many peace walks have
you been involved in?
St. Andrews Cosponsors Concert Series
On October 4, St. Andrews and
the Scotland Arts Council cospon
sored a Loonis McGlohon Trio con
cert at Scotland County High
School.
The trio, which has been seen on
“Entertainment Tonight”,
“20/20”, and CBS “Sunday Morn
ing”, performed jazz and modern
music from 1900 to the present.
Among the worked featured were
tunes by Irving Berlin, Chopin,
Duke Ellington, and McGlohon
himself. The group also has com
posed and performed the music for
“On the Road With Charles
Kuralt”.
Quite a number of St. Andrews
students and faculty attended the
concert. “I was very impressed with
their ability to improvise, especially
with the song for the kid,” said
Senior John Conyers, alluding to
the trio’s on-stage creation of a song
dedicated to a small boy in the front
row. “They were very
professional,” Conyers continued.
“They played very seriously, yet in a
relaxed manner. I really enjoyed
listening.”
Freshman Lee Huber was a bit
more technical in his remarks.
“They blended well together. The
bass player was using a new bass,
which sounded great in the hall. The
drummer’s set-up was perfectly tun
ed for acoustics. The only set back
was Loonis* microphone on the
piano wasn’t turned up loud
enough. The improvisation of these
three was superb. I was greatly im
pressed with their overall musician
ship and quality of sound.”
McGlohon included the audience
by including bits of background and
trivia before nearly every piece. The
audience responded by calling them
back for an oncore.
Events yet to come on the Arts
Council’s agenda are “The Tommy
Dorsey Orchestra” on November
13, “The Jubilee Singers of Fisk
University” on March 7, 1985 and
“Easy Moving Company Dances”
on April 18, 1985.
Dale: This is the eighth since 1980.
They’ve mostly been directed
towards the arms race, but a few
were directed toward Native Indian
rights or local issues.
Lance: Tell me about your first
peace walk.
Adele: It was a walk to the Savan
nah River Nuclear Plant. I felt
strange and scared. None of the
group had ever been to a demonstra
tion before. But is was exhilarating.
It turned me on to demonstrating.
Lance: Briefly tell what led to your
joining the walk.
Andy: Just the realization that a war
with the U.S.S.R. is possible and
planned. I attended a workshop and
was trained to be a fallout shelter
manager. I felt then that the only
civil defense was to stop the war.
Lance: How do you feel about what
the group is trying to do?
Kevin: I’ve been in it for four mon
ths now, and I wouldn’t be if V
didn’t believe in what we’re doing. I
used to be a writer, and I was
employed by four newspapers, one
full-time and three free-lance. When
I heard about this group in a
newspaper article it just struck me
as a way to find out what problems
there are out there and what can be
done. It’s a learning process. I’ve
learned a lot about peace and
justice.
Lance: Tell me about your peace
walk experiences.
Barbara: There are four walks going
on right now, and I’ve walked with
two of the others. I hope to walk
with the last one, which is called
European Peace Pilgrimage.
Lance: Does the group follow any
political views at all?
Dale: Each individual has his own
views, but as a group were not tak
ing a partisan view on any issue such
as the freeze. We only want our
voices heard. We don’t feel the need
for politicians or “experts” to make
our decisions for us. We are our
own best experts.
Lance: What is your route and
timeline?
Andy: We’re going through all the
capital cities between here and New
York. We’ll stay in D.C. about a
week. From D.C. to N.Y. we’ve
scheduled three weeks and hope to
arrive on December 14. Then we’ll
take some time off. Then we hope to
be in Dublin, Ireland on January 20
and begin our European leg of the
See Peacewalker, page 8.