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B.F.A. FROM PAGE 1 Writing and author of 13 books of poetry, one of fiction and a mono graph of literary criticism, Bayes in 1989receivedNorth Carolina’s highest award for literature. He was awarded the Roanoke-Chowan Award for “The Casketmaker” and his “Beast in View” was a Pulitzer Prize nominee. Pulitzer Prize winner Carolyn Kizer, who has read frequently at St. Andrews, has said: “Bayes is the best undergraduate creative writing teacher in the country.” Bayes founded the “St. Andrews Review,” a literary magazine that has since become “The Sandhills/St. Andrews Re view.” Its current editor, Stephen E. Smith, is an adjunct professor of literature. Bayes began the St. Andrews Press, which has grown into a respected publisher of regional, national and international litera ture. The Press offers students in ternship opportunities within a publishing operation, When asked why a student should study creative writing, Bayes has a ready answer: “To improve writing skills and develop imaginative insight. For pe^nal enjoyment and increased empa thy with all who pursue creative expression, past and present. To enhance employability in a highly competitive time. As a major in surance executive put it recently, ‘Good writers are a major com modity and good writing ability is the first thing we look for when hiring.”’ The B.F.A. from St. Andrews will be academically strong enough that anyone completing it could go on to graduate school in English or to pursue a master’s of fine arts in creative writing, Bayes said. Core faculty in addition to Bayes will include Dr. Beverle R. Bloch, assistant professor of the atre and communications; Dr. Paula Kot, assistant professor of English; Dr. Edna Ann Loftus, associate professor of English; and Grace L. Gibson, adjunct profes sor of English. Creative Writing Students - Visit Writers and Get Credit Students in SA's newest ma jor “ the B.F.A. degree in creative writing, will have a unique op>por- tunity to dialogue one-on-one with visiting writers, and receive credit. Beginning with Fall Term, 1994, the traditional Thursday night writers' Forum will be at 7, rather than 8 p jn. Visiting readers will-as usual-be followed by a 30 to 60 minute open mike period. Following that-usually about 9 p jn.-Declared Majors in Creative Writing will retreat with guest writers to adesignated area, where a discussion of the writer's work, theory, process and ambitions will continue at a conversational level, from 45 to 60 minutes. "I think it's a great idea," says the Forum's faculty advisor, Ron Bayes. "It will in no way interfere with the Open Mike tra dition and it won't impede all stu dents and faculty having access to the writer's individuality. It WILL provide an important, intense, in formal time for BFA majors to hone their skills and deepen their insights into craft and craftsperson." "I want to take off my hat to Dr. Bill Loftus, who proposed the possibility. Methinks I was too close to the forest to see the trees," Bayes said. He added that, on weeks where there is no outside guest, a targeted author or piece of writing will be discussed. The unit will cany one credit hour. Creative Writing majors may be declared currently with any one of the Core Staff, which in cludes Bayes, Professors Kot, Edna Ann Loftus , Bloch, and Gibson. Evans Lecture April 9 - U BOARD FROM PAGE 1 In closing his speech. Board said,"I will work hard to help all of us." In a March 10 interview, he stated his short term goals were to, "bring the college's financial situation to a state of equilibrium." His IcMig term goals include increasing enrollment so that by fall of 199S the campus will be utilized to maximum capacity. Board also said, "If we are a community there are some things we will eventually leam to share in common. By next fall there will be things we say we do and be lieve we do." Board finished his personal interview with an encouraging statement for the St. Andrews community. "I've got one college left in me—it's St. Andrews. I'm married to a North Carolina girl and this is my home." Dr. Joan SalmonCampbell, pastor of St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, Ohio and a past moderator of the Presbyte rian Church U.S.A., has been named the 1994 E. Hervey Evans Distinguished Fellow by St. Andrews College. Dr. SalmonCampbell will visit the St. Andrews campus and Laurinburg community April 9-11. The public is invited to two major addresses by the visiting lecturer, one on Sunday night and one on Monday night, as well as two worship services at which she will speak. She will preach at the morning worship service at Laurinburg Presbyterian Church on April 10 at 11 a.m. She will also deliver the message that evening at 6 p.m. at a vespers service in Belk Student Center on the St. Andrews cam pus. That service wiU be conducted by college chaplain David Thornton and students from the campus Christian Service Orga nization. After the vespers service, a re ception will be held in the main lounge of the Belk Center at 7 p.m. At 7:30 p.m. the Rev. SalmonCampbell will speak on a topic within the general area of Christian faith and current social issues. Her talk will be followed by an open question-and-answer period. On Monday, April 11 she will again deliver a major public ad dress at 7:30 p.m. in the Belk Center main lounge. In addition to her work with the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., SalmonCampbell has been active in community service, education and music, including being con tralto soloist with the world-renowned Wings Over Jor dan Choir and choir director and arranger for Joan & Co., “The Black Folks Legacy to America,” She holds doctor of divinity de- grees from Austin College and Central American University, a master of divinity degree frim Interfaith Metropolitan Seminary in Washington, D.C. and a bachelor’s 'degree from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New York. The Evans Distinguished Pel- lows Program exists through the generosity of the family and friends of the late E. Hervey Evans, Evans Fellows are chosen for the rigor of their intellect, for the breadth and depth of their con cerns and competency, and for their wisdom in relating the hu mane values of the Judeo-Christian tradition to the pressing issues of our time. The lectureship reflects the val ues and commitments of Evans, an active leader in business and civic concerns of the Laurinburg community and a key figure in the development of St. Andrews Pres byterian College. Bom in Laurinburg, Evans at tended school in Maxton and Laurinburg and graduated from the University of North Carolinr in 1921. He sought to be a well informed and active citizen and pursued this personal goal in his community, throughout the state of North Carolina and well be yond it. A pioneer in many new agri cultural enterprises and fanning techniques, Evans’ wide-ranging concerns guided him throughmul- tiple endeavors. He was president of the Laurinburg and Southern Railroad and of Southern of Rocky Mount, chairman of the board of Durham Life Insurance Co. and director of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. He served on the N.C. State Board of Public Welfare, playeda significant role in the develop ment of Scotland Memorial Hos pital and Scotland County Memo rial Library, was elected a ruling elder in Laurinburg Presbyterian Church and saved as a trustee of Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Va. “This program makes a very significant contribution eachye^r to the life of the college,” said Df' Carl Walters, Warner L. Hall Pro fessor of Religious Studies and St. Andrews’ Evans Program Co ordinator.
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