Dinkins Wins Cliapbook Award
Jon Pargas
Paul E. Dinkins, a third year philoso
phy major, has been named this year’s
winner of the Bunn-McClelland Chapbook
competition. The series, begun in 1972
provides campus writers with an opportu
nity to be published before they leave
school.
The competition was set up as a memo
rial for Alan Bunn and Jeannette McClel
land, writers and former students at St.
Andrews, both of whom were tragically
killed.
The first year saw two winners, Ames
Arnold and Charles Gottenkeinney. Last
year Belle Gironda was chosen. Skip An
derson won in 1986.
Traditionally, an off-campus judge is
used for the competition and this year Dan
Mizell was chosen for this task. Mr.Mizell,
who graduated from St. Andrews twelve
years ago, is now working as a senior agent
with the William Morris Agency in New
York where he handles literary, theatrical
and acting accounts.
Prior to joining William Morris he
handled the accounts of Yukio Mishima
and Kobo Abe, both of whom are taught in
Ron Bayes' Modem Japanese Fiction class,
with International Creative Management.
He wiU be present for the Chapbook Night
reading at Writer's Forum on April 28.
Mr. MizeU writes, "Paul E. Dinkins
writes with maturity and authority. His
words are searching and optimistic. There
is a sense here that the soul triumphs over
the intellect, and that out of the 'thickets and
thorns of sins and cigarettes' comes su
premely heightened awareness."
When asked about the book, entitled
"Thickets and Thoms." Paul said that the
poems generally deal with his struggle with
his spiritual identity.
The poems are for the most part short
and succinct. He uses words sparingly and
avoids verbosity or wordiness. Sometimes
self-critical, there can also be found a sense
of confidence and, as Mr. Mizell states,
optimism. A sprinkling of the didactic also
appears throughout the book.
He has previously put together three
such manuscripts although he has never
tried to publish them. He hopes to teach
after graduation.
Dead to Visit Hampton
John Null
Everybody knows by now that the Grate
ful Dead are playing their annual spring tour
once again. The tour starts in Atlanta, and
quickly moves to one of the so-called hot
spots, Hampton, Virginia.
The Dead like playing Hampton and it
shows in their music. This year it has been
extremely hard to get tickets. Several St.
Andrews’ students including myself tried but
were unsuccessful. Don’t lose heart, go to
Hampton anyway.
Let us not forget that it is a Dead show
we’re going to see, and that a lack of tickets
will not deter Dead Heads. They will be there
anyway singing “I Need a Miracle Every
day!”
They will point to their sign “I Need
Tickets” and they will walk a lot. Let me
leave you with this quote: “I don’tknow what
I’m going for, but I’m going to go for it for
sure.” Hope to see you in Hampton!
Chorale on the Road
Steve Skinner
Students participating in the St
Andrews Chorale will travel to
Wadesboro, Laurel Hill and Lynchburg,
Va. to perform works by Johann Kuhnau,
Jacob Handl, and a host of contemporary
composers during the 1988 spring cconcert
season.
The chorale, noted for its many
campus engagements which include the
Madrigal Feast and ceremony appearances
such as the baccalaureate service and com
mencement will sing on ten occasions this
term.
The season began on March 11 in
Belk Lounge with the group’s annual ap
pearance at scholarship weekend. The
concerts continue with SCTvices at First
Presbyferian Church in Wadesboro,
Church of the Pines in Laurel Hill and First
Presbyterian Church in Red Springs. The
38-member group will perform for bodi the
Honors Convocation and Tower Club
meetings on April 21.
Chorale members are looking
forward to a travel engagement with St.
Andrews Presbyterian Church in Lyn
chburg, Va. It will be the first out-of state
concert this year. Musical selections
currently rehearsed include Tristis Est
Anima Mea by Johann Kuhnau, as well as
En Eggo Campana by Jacob Handl.
“The group likes to have fun,” said
Chorale Director Robert Engelson. “We
plan to throw in several contemporary
croud-pleasers, like Zion’s Walls (Aaron
Copeland), 0 Clap Your Hands (Maurice
Green), Home on the Range (arr. Mark
Hayes), and Song for the Mira (Allister
MacGiliivray). The encore piece will
remain traditional. We’re the Choir, of
course.
“We’re the Choo' is a quick
choreographed tune by Kjell Lonna,”
Engelson said. “It brings each concert to a
complete finale.”
Sher Shares
l-1eritage
Beth Russo
The March 10 Fortner Writers Fomm
featured Steven Sher, poet and assistant
professor of English at UNC-W. Sher, who
has been published in over 75 magazines,
and has 5 books to his credit, read both old
and new poetry at the reading.
Sher has drawn on his Jewish heritage,
and on his personal life experiences for his
writing. He is intrigued by the experiences
his family in earlier generations had gone
through because of their religious beliefs.
One of the most important things about
his writing, he feels, is that he can “go back
and touch base with family roots.”
One of the most interesting pieces he
wrote was entitled “Promised Exodus”,
which was an incorporation of the Passover
celebration, and the drug culture of the Six
ties.
He talks of “Acid to simulate forty days
in the wilderness” and how he used mari
juana to baste the lamb.
Also featured was student Oliver W.
Wilson Jr. who read a few of his poems at
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