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VOLUME 29
ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
FEBRUARY 1968
NUMBER 4
Dr. William Gray^ Speaks
Religious Emphasis Week
For
With its theme,
“Christianity and the
Space Age”, and with its
guest minister. Dr. Will
iam H. Gray, Jr., of Phil
adelphia, Penn., the Eliz
abeth City State College
family will commence its
observance of Religious
Emphasis Week, March
10-14.
Our guest minister is
pastor of Bright Hope
Baptist Church, Philadel
phia; a member of Civil
Service Commission,City
of Philadelphia; and re
cently elected delegate to
the Constitutional Con
vention, Harrisburg,
Penn.
He is a native of Rich
mond, Va. He graduated
with a B. S. from Blue-
field State College; M.
S., University of Penn
sylvania; Ph. D., Univer
sity of Penn.; D.D., Ed
ward Waters College.
He has served, as pres
ident of Florida Normal
and Industrial College,(St.
Augustine) Florida Agri
cultural and Mechanical
College, (Tallahassee).
Among his many other
former professional ex
periences are: Editor,
Philadelphia Afro-Amer
ican ; Executive Director,
Industrial Race Relations
Commission, Department
of Labor and Industry,
Commonwealth of Penn.;
Vice President, Pennsyl
vania Council of Chur
ches; Specialist, State
Department of Public In
struction, Harrisburg,
Vice President, Citizens
& Southern Bank & Trust
Company, Philadelphia.
Religious Emphasis
Week will also bring in
our midst a Jewish Rabbi,
as well as Protestant and
Catholic leaders of this
region. EC SC students
and faculty will partici
pate in Morning Watch,
Devotionals, Panel Dis
cussions, Dramatic
Readings, and Music.
Choral organizations
during the week will in
clude: The College Choir,
the Glee Clubs of the
P. W. Moore and Marian
Anderson High Schools.
Mr. Henry 0. Kingsbury
INSIDE LIFE
Sports -
Founder’s Day, Old
And New
DR. WILLIAM H. GRAY, JR.
Faculty Member Gives Recital
Faculty And Staff Featured 8
One of the outstanding
entertainment features of
the year at Elizabeth City
State College was a piano
recital given by Mr. Henry
O. Kingsbury. Mr.Kings-
bury began playing at the
age of 3.
He is a native of Ken-
nebunk, Maine where he
graduated from High
School. He received his
B. A. from Oberlin Col
lege, Oberlin, Ohio and
his M. Mus, from Uni
versity of Michigan (Ann
Arbor). Mr. Kingsbury
also studied at the Pea
body Conservatory of Mu
sic in Baltimore, Mary
land.
He is a new faculty
member at ECSC. His
teaching career began at
ECSC.
As a student in Col
lege, he played for the
graduation recital at O-
berlin College and Uni
versity of Michigan.
Mr. Kingsbury’s recital
included:
Sonato in C, K. 132 by
Domenico Scarlatti.Scar
latti’s sonatas were writ
ten not for the piano but
for the harpsichord, a
piano-like keyboard in
strument which has a
light, somewhat guitar
like sound.
Sonata in C, K. 133
by Scarlatti; Sonata in
D. K. 311 by Wolfgana
Amedeus Mozart . Mo
zart’s sonatas are lar
ger scale works, consist
ing of three separate
movements. They are
true piano pieces.
Nocturn in B, Op 62
No 1. by Frederic Fran
cois Chopin. With a very
few exceptions, Chopin
composed only for the pi
ano. However, he was less
inclined toward sonatas
than toward various types
of dance and “character-
pieces”: shorter works,
reflecting the moods or
emotions of the com
poser.
Scherzo in C Minor,
Op. 39 by Chopin; Var
iations on Theme by / Ro
bert Schumann, Op. 9 by
Johannes Brahms. Most
of Brahms’ early compo
sitions feature power and
enormity. The “Schu
mann” Variations are
thus typical because of
their introspective quie
tude. They were written
as a tribute to the great
composer Schumann, who
was a close friend of
Brahms.
Le Tombeaude Couper
in by Maurice Ravel. The
title pays hommage to
Francois Couperin, a
great French composer of
the 18th century, and fea
tures some of thesenor-
ities common to the jazz
music of this century.The
name of the pieces in this
suite refer to types of
pieces common in the 17th
and 18th centuries;
Ravel’s Toccata, how
ever, belongs to a more
recent family of “ham
mering pieces,” having a
perpetuant motion qual
ity.
Mr. Kingsbury’s re
cital was enjoyed by the
college family and visi
tors.