Vol. 4. No. 22
North Carolina School of the Arts
April 7. 1970
CONVOCATION
"DIRECTIONS IN MODERN ART"
Hayward OubTe^ chairman of the
Art department at Winston-Salem State
Universityt will speak at the oonvo-
oation, Wednesday^ April 8j at 1:30
p.m. in the Drama theatre. His topic
is "Directions in Modem Art" which
will be illustrated with slides and
some of his own wire sculpture. His
art has been exhibited throughout
the country and he has exhibited
several one-man shows.
Mr. Oiibre is also the author of
several books and magazine aji^ticles.
F R A G E N T S IN riONTREAL
Miss Pauline Koner has been
invited to stage her ballet,
Fragments^ by Les Grands Ballets
Canadiens. Four dancers from the
School of the Arts are now members
of Les Grands - Manny Rowe, Rusty
Chambers, Bruce Weavil and Cathy
Sharp.
Miss Koner has also been
asked to stage Poeme for the Western
Dance Company, Vancouver, in May.
She will also perform The Farewell^
a tribute to Doris Humphrey, for
filming in mid-June. The film is
to be given to the Library of
Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
Miss Koner has just returned
to the School from Atlanta, Gal,
where Concertino was performed by
the Atlanta Ballet Company. George
Beiswanger, dance critic for the
Atlanta Journal, acclaimed
Concertino "...a modern dance master
piece."
€D!TOfiS TO G€T
$500 STIPfOD
Mr. Robert Hyatt, dean of stu
dent Activities, announced recently
that a $500 stipend will be offered
next year to both the Editor of the
N.C. Essay and to the Editor of the
yearbook.
These positions are now open
to students for application . In
terested students should see Mr.
Hyatt immediately. A traning period
of four to six weeks will be ne
cessary for the Essay editor, and
yearbook plans are already under way.
Appointments must be made this month.
Although previous experience is
not necessary, it would certainly be
taken into consideration in filling
these two positions.
ORCHESTRA ON TOUR
N.C.S.A. Students Pay More !
Many students showed consider
able concern for the recent increase
in tuition and fees for the 1970-71
school year, and rightly so. For
the present school year the tuition
for the in-state college student is
the highest for any of the 16
state-supported universities and
senior colleges.. The percent change
in the tuition from last year to
this year was larger than the per
cent change at any other state-
supported school. The NCSA tuition
is twice as much as 3 of the state-
supported schools.
But not all of NCSA's figures
are rising. In fact the SAT
(Scholastic Aptitude Test) scores
have fallen steadily since the school
opened in 1966. NCSA was fourth
highest of the 16 state-supported
schools with SAT scores in 1966 and
has dropped to seventh in 1969; it
was the only school to drop steadily
since 1966.
Some other interesting statis
tics include our library facilities.
We are second to the 16 state-
supported schools in the number of
bound volumes per full-time
equivalent in college. Chapel Hill
is the only library with more volumes
per FTE.
CARLSON ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Lawrence 0. Carlson, Academic
Dean, will be on leave of absence
for the remainder of this semester,
announced today by Mr. Robert
Ward, NCSA President. Dr. William
Baskin will assume his duties for
this period.
~ Fifty-eight musicians from the
North Carolina School of the Arts will
board a bus early Monday morning,
April 6, to begin the student
orchestra's annual spring tour to high
schools. They will play two concerts
every day for five days.
This year four of the concerts
will be held in the auditorium at
Abingdon High School in Abingdon,
Va., sponsored by a chapter of the
American Association of University
Women. Concerts there will be at
1:15 and 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, and
Wednesday, April 8 at 10 a.m. and
1:15 p.m.
Concerts at North Carolina high
schools, financed by a grant to the
School of the Arts from the Mary
Babcock Foundation, will be given each
day at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. That
schedule includes Lexington Senior
High School in Lexington and Boyden
Senior High School in Salisbury on
Monday, April 6; West Charlotte High
School at Charlotte and North Meck
lenburg High School at Huntersville
on Thursday, April 9; Dudley Senior
High School and Grimsley Senior High
School, both in Greensboro, on
Friday, April 10.
Marc Gottlieb is conductor of
the orchestra, and he is also first
violinist with the Claremont String
Quartet, in residence at the School
of the Arts, and teacher of violin
at the school.
The tour repertory includes
Ravel's La Valse, Mozart's Musical
Joke, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
and Wagner's Overture to Die
Meistersinger von Numberg. Each pro
gram will be made up from this
repertory.
nsTon
Amelita Facchiano, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. V.J. Facchiano O.D.,
Rockford, Illinois, is the winner of
this year's Miss Winston-Salem Con
test. Amelita is a high school senior
here at N.C.S.A. and is in the voice
department.
There were thirteen contestants
this year and the night of the com
petition was Saturday, April 4, at
8:00 in Reynolds Auditorium.
Contestants must carry a B
average and be between the ages of 18
and 21 (Miss Facchiano was the only
18 year old in the contest.)
I
The contestants presented a three
minute program of personal talent,
then modeled in bathing suits and
then evening gowns. All contestants
were judged on the basis of appear
ance and talent.
The contest is being sponsored
by the Winston-Salem Junior Chamber
of Commerce and WSJS Broadcasting
Company. Last year's winner was
Denise Pence, a dance major here at
the school.
The staff of the N.C. Essay
would like to congratulate Miss
Facchiano on her success in this year's
Miss Winston-Salem Pagent.