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EMT Program
In Murfreesboro
By DONVERDONE
The Emergency Medical
Technician Program started in
North Carolina in 1973 as a service
of Emergency Medical Services
under the North Carolina
Department of Health. This
program is based on the guide hnes
and recommendations prepared
for the National Highway Safety
Bureau by the Committee on
Emergency Medical Services of
the National Academy of Sciences.
The Emergency Medical
Technician or EMT for short is an
81 hour course designed for
training the Emergency Medical
Technician in all phases of
on-the-scene care for the sick and
injured. The EMT course is put to
use where ever emergency
services are rendered for
example ambulance and rescue
squads, police officers, fire
fighters, and by specialized units
such as sii patrols.
The EMT course is being offered
here in Murfreesboro Rescue
Squad and is being coordinated by
Coach Hawkins. Among citizens of
Murfreesboro, students and
faculty are also participating in
this course they are Coaches,
Garrison, and McCraw, Mr.
Collins, Mr. Sowell, Harry Baird,
Mark Romulus, Stuart Dixon,
Mark Reaves, Mike Hillis, Don
Verdone, and Rich Hambleton.
When the EMT course is finished
the participants will be efficient in
what they have learned and will
greatly benefit the citizens of
Murfreesboro and vicinity by
increased knowledge of emergency
help to those who might need it.
Rich Hambleton gets a short course in taking blood pressure.
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Rich Hambleton tries his luck at the newly aquired skill.
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Musings
By PROF. ROBERT G. MULDER
Community Concert Series
Announces 1975-76 Schedule
TED ALAN WORTH
HALSHANE
EDITOR
Mike Patterson
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Nancy Sullivan
STAFF
Richard Hambleton
John Hill
Teresa Martin
Nelson Nichols
Frank Ranker
Allen Ross
Louis Saunders
David Shuford
Ricky Winstead
ADVISOR
Marianne Jackson
By PHIL ROYCE
The nation’s top brass quintet
(as recognized by many critics),
a concert organist, and a ver
satile popular entertainer will
headline the Chowan College
Community Concert
Association’s 1975-76 season.
Chowan College students are
admitted without charge by ID
cards.
The concerts are: October 18 —
Hal Shane; November 11 — New
York Brass Quintet; January 19
— Ted Alan Worth, concert
organist; January 26 — North
Carolina Little Symphony.
The story of brass chamber
music as a modem concert at
traction began 17 years ago with
the formation of the New York
Brass Quintet. The brass
literature of the Renaissance and
Baroque periods has had a
glowing rebirth in the hands and
instruments of these five
musicians, and through them has
found enthusiastic acceptance by
20th century audiences.
The Quintet has also
thoroughly explored the con
temporary repertoire. On their
many North Ainerican tours, the
members of the Quintet are
welcome visitors to university
campuses. Equally popular in
Latin American and Europe, the
Quintet regularly performs in the
capitals of the world and at such
leading festivals as Spojeto and
HoUand.
From the Washington (D.C.)
Star; “As usual, the New York
Brass Quintet appearance. .
.turned out to be an evening of
magnificent playing.”
Hal Shane — singer guitarist,
composer has been praised by the
Dallas Morning News and others
for his “astonishing versatility.”
This handsome, young artist is
equally at home with solo guitar
compositions of Purcell or Villa
Lobos, old English “ayres,” the
works of Rod McKuen, Jacques
Brel, Burt Bacharach or, of
course, his own compositions,
Mastery of the banjo is another of
his many talents as is his ac
complished dancing.
The multi-talented young
musician also possesses a
“sensitively beautiful baritone
voice,” according to a Columbia
Artists spokesman.
“Shane possesses a clear, lyric
baritone voice and deft fingers
for the guitar. He could change
mood and style not only from
group to group of songs, but even
within groups.” Aborning News,
Dallas, Texas.
Ted Alan Worth is an organist
whose immense talent must be
seen to be believed. For the past
several years, Ted Alan Worth
has tour^ half the world to meet
a sudden, burgeoning demand for
his artistry. He is a firm believer
in robust, contemporary organ
sound.
“Ted Alan Worth is sranebody
who can make an instrument and
its literature use an artist like
him.” San Francisco Chronicle.
Some of the really old books in my
library never cease to claim my reading
time. It was my grandmother who
passed on to me years ago a volume
which I’ve enjoyed a great deal
recently.
Published in 1895 by James H. Earl of
Boston, Success and Its Achievers was
one of her favorites. The collection of
essays at random was written by
William Thayer, a very prolific writer of
the nineteenth century.
Mr. Thayer’s essays cover a wide
range of subjects, and his very profound
feelings may be easily gleaned from
each literary treatment. I find par
ticularly interesting his opinions on the
value of books.
A book that starts a young person off
in a life career, good or bad, is a power.
Nothing is more to be coveted or
dreaded. The inspiration of a single
book, or a few, has made preachers,
poets, philosophers, authors, and
statesmen. On the other hand, the
demoralization of a book has sometimes
made infidels, profligates, and
criminals.
Benjamin Franklin read an infidel
book, one by Shaftesbury, at fifteen
years of age, and it demoralized his
religious opinions for years. But for the
excellent books he read before, his in
fidelity would have blasted his life. As it
was, his influence became baneful over
two associates, whom he made as
thorough skeptics as himself. One of
them became a drunkard and died in
disgrace; the other lived without moral
principle, holding the Christian religion
in comtempt. In ripe manhood, the good
lessons of his boyhood, in a Christian
home, asserted themselves, and
Franklin confessed his grave mistake
and became a defender of Christianity.
In his early manhood, Abraham
Ldncoki had several boon companions,
who were infidels, and they influenced
him to read Paine’s “Age of Reason”
and Volney’s “Ruins.” The reading of
these two books caused him to doubt the
truth of the Bible, so that for a time he
was at one with his companions in their
hostility to religion. He even wrote an
essay upon the unreliability of the Bible,
which he read to his associates. But,
after a few years, he saw his folly,
renounced all skeptical opinions and
returned to his early familiarity with,
and confidence in, the Scriptures. Those
two books well-nigh unsettled his moral
character and robbed the republic of a
good president.
On the other hand, a single good book
has often conspired with good counsels
and good principles to make life a
success. It has started the reader off
upon a career of honor and usefulness.
Rev. John Sharp said, “Shakesj^are
and the Bible have made me Archbishop
of York.” John Wesley claimed that
“The Imitation of Christ” and Taylor’s
“Holy Living and Dying” determined
both his calling and character. Henry
Martyn was made a missionary by
reading the lives of Brainard and Carey.
Pope was indebted to Homer for his
poetical inspiration, it being the origin
of his English “Iliad,” as he said.
Bentham read “Telemachus” in his
youth and many years afterwards he
said: “That romance may be regarded
as the foundation of my whole
character.” Goethe became a poet in
consequence of reading “The Vicar of
Wakefield.” Cary was moved to go on a
mission to the heathen by reading the
“Voyages of Captain Cook.” Samuel
Drew said that reading Locke’s “Essay
on Understanding” decided the aim and
achievements of his life.
Dr. Samuel Johnson has been quoted
as saying, “Beware of the man of one
book,” as if he were putting in a plea to
read many books. But Johnson did not
say or mean that. What he did say was
“Beware of the man of one book.
Beware of the man who knows anything
well. He is a dangerous antagonist.”
The reading of a single book thoroughly
is better than the superficial reading of
many, was really what he said. He who
knows one book well is better equipped
than he who reads many in a cursory
^ay.'DBIhOStHenes was a great admirer
of the history of Thucydides. He fell in
love with its plan and style and resolved
to be benefited thereby. He recopied the
work eight times in order to make
himself master of the style. That per
sistent effort to improve his own style
proved of greater advantage to him than
the reading of a hundred volumes in the
usual way.
The foregoing does not commend the
student of a single book at the expense of
all others, by no means. In showing
what it is possible for one book to do, the
wise use of a few of many is not
questioned.
Trailblazers Find Fun and Fellowship
On Trip to Tuscarora Beach
By DON VERDONE
On Saturday September 13, 1975
The Chowan Trailblazers got their
year of activities off to a good start
under what looked like not the best
of weather conditions.
was warm but boy was it cold when
you got out!
The day was drawing to a close
and after supper a relative of the
owner of the beach offered to take
us for a boat ride up and down the
Chowan River which was the
highUght ot the day for me. The
river takes on a whole different
perspective when you are out on it.
When we got back we closed a fun
filled day with a campfire toasting
marshmallows and listening to a
guitar and banjo player from here
in Murfreesboro.
Everyone who went 1 know had a
good time and for those who did not
go or could not go you are invited to
come out and join the Trailblazers,
new members are always
welcome.
Leaving Chowan at 11:00 A. M.
we were on our way to Tuscarora
Beach for a day of fun and
fellowship. All of us who went were
some what hesitant on going
because of the way the sky looked
and with a temperature of about
65 degrees it did not look too
promising for much of anything. »ii •
When we arrived about 11:30 the TrQllDlQZOrS
sky was beginning to clear and it
was starting to get warmer.
The first thing we did when we
arrived was to eat lunch, which
was greatly welcomed as most of
us had not bothered to get up and
eat breakfast. After eating and
cleaning up the afternoon was full
of many activities several
volleyball games, a football game,
frisbee throwing and couple of card
games. A few members in the club
even got brave about 3:00 and went
swimming in the river. The water
At
Tuscarora