February 17, 1967
The N.C.Esaay
BAMPTON SPEAKS
Miss Rose Bampton served as a
spokesman for our school February 14
shen she aadressed to the Historical
Book Club of North Carolina at Greens
boro. The core of her talk, which
might have been titled "The Corre
lation of the Arts and the Humanities”
centered on several points made by
Academic Dean John Cone, in a memo
randum released earlier this year,
which Miss Bampton quoted.
-'^Central points in his memoran
dum were that we must ’’break away
as much as possible from any drab
traditional approach to various aca
demic areas; to decide which areas
in any given academic subject are
truly paramount; to analyze the a-
mount of time the academic teacher
should devote to specific correla
tion in any given course; to ensure
that the artist is well rounded and
that he is not solely a virtuoso
but that he has a grasp of the hti^
manities, and aove all, to provide
that the artist is adequately pre
pared, so that if he is not to enter
fully into an artistic career, he
will have the skills gained here to
be employable in other areas. What
interests me is the Education of
the whole young lady and gentleman,
not just the education which ensures
competence j.n an art.
Miss Bampton developed these
points with examples from her person
al experience as an artist and a
teacher. In particular, she said
”it is necessary to find the poten
tial of the young person,...to
discover what the young artist does
best, and...to disccrt^rage those striv
ing for a career, who do not have
the vocal equipment or the phy
sical presence to make a career.”
She emphasized that "For our
young students to be able to inter
pret this 'grasp of;..the Humanities’
is an absolute necessity. Then the
technique is secure, one is free to
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Mr. J. Howell Smith, assistant
professor at Wake Forest College, re
places Mr. Barnett in the history
department. Graduating from Baylor
College, with a B.A., and from Tulane
University with a M.A. in American
History, Mr. Smith plans to receive
his Ph.D. from the IJniversity of Wis
consin before June. Mr. Smith has
had articles published in both the
Wisconsin Magazine of History and the
Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
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ACTORS FROM PERU
I TO VISIT HERE . : .
Next Thursday four actors from
Lima, Peru, will visit Winston-Sa
lem and the School of the Arts and
will stay through Saturday.
The group, including Miss Auro
ra Colina, Miss Sara Jaffre, Mr.
Jorge Flores, and Mr. Roberto Rios,
comes from the YMCA in LimaVto pre
sent Spanish plays,
Organized in 1963 the company
used a rented room in the Art Center
in Lima for their informal theater,
or ’’Chamber Theater.” Every Sunday
they perform for a full house, 80
people.
Being versatile, tl;ie small com
pany performs for hospitals, riiunici-
palities, and childrens parties. On
holidays, the group travels to Pro
vinces for productions.
Many of the actors in the group
write plays for their own use. Six
of the eight members attend univerr
sity and concentrate in Drama.
Their rehearsals begin two months
before the opening of their three-
month season. At the close of the
season in December, they hold a fes
tival in which they perform all the
plays of the season. .. „
THREE JOIN
ACADEMIC FACULTY
Dr, John F. Cone, Academic Dean,
announced the appointment of three
new teachers for the college depart
ment,
George Major, an instructor at
the N.C.Advancement School, has join
ed NCSA faculty to teach a course in
modern poetry and poets. In the
course, students are creating their
own poetry also. Although Mr. Major
is quite a young man, he has already
served as a high school principal at
Greek-American School at Astoria,
New York. He received his A.B. from
Franklin and Marshall College, con
tinued graduate work at George Wash
ington University, Hunter College,
and Rutgers University, and taught
at Develeux Foundation at Devon,
Pennsylvania.
Also from the Advancement School
comes John C. Kemp to teach a course
in the Amercian Novel. Mr. Kemp re
ceived his A.B. and M.A.T. at Harvard
University.
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interpret all that is in his heart and
mind.”