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NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE Rocky Mount, N. C. V(au K — NO. 8 MONDAY, February 72, 1968 smgs SPANISH MEXICAN and TURKISH FOLK SONGS Folksinger Appeared Here Tuesday night, February 6, Cynthia Gooding performed for Wesleyan students in the cafe teria. Sponsored by the N.C.W.C. Calender Committee, Miss Gooding presented a con cert of Spanish, Mexican, and Turkish folk songs. Born in Rochester, Minneso ta, where her grandparents still live. Miss Gooding recalls that she began singing when she was very young, to the accompani ment of the carillon of the Mayo Clinic. Her family moved to Cleveland when she was three, and she was educated at pri vate schools there and in Toron to. The Goodings moved again, to Lake Forest, Illinois, where Cynthia made her debut. After a brief stint during the war as mailgirl at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, she re turned to Rochester for a time, and then, at 19, she went to Mexico City. There she worked in the American Embassy, first as a messenger and later as a bilingual telephone operator. Returning to Rochester for two years later witb a guitar. a fluent knowledge of Spanish, and a matador’s cape, she did a weeklyradioprogramofSpan- ish music and commentary in honor of the city’s many Latin American visitors. Miss Gooding feels very strongly that folk singing is a highly personal art - an ex pression of the singer’s own experience of the subject of emotion represented in the songs she sings. She is not one of those folk singers who sing what is re quired by the current market. In fact, she says, “The art ists are those who sing as they think and feel they must and wait for an audience to find them.” Miss Gooding differentiates sharply between folk music and popular music. The latter, she feels, tends to present life through rose- colored glasses, while folk music, springing as it does from the realities of man’s-expe rience, expresses the fact that life is NOT easy and that man is responsible, in large meas- Watch For It! The Second Annual N.C. Wesleyan Monogram Cbb Horse Show Will Arrive Next Month As a performer Miss Gooding is not a “grandstand player.” She meets an audience very much as she would meet people at a social gathering. There is a gradual warming-up process, the performer and her listeners becoming acquainted with one another. Always the song and her feeling about it comes first, and so complete is the commu nication between singer and au dience that even a large audi torium becomes an intimate room. She finds that the folk buffs she hears from have a number of things in common; they are above-average in education, curious, and seem to have a desire to create something that is theirs, even though it is only a small work of art. As for the current revival of interest in folk music. Miss Gooding thinks that any one of the explanations being circu lated may have some validity; It is a symptom of the search for a “national identity,” a return to simplicity in a too- complex, technolo^cal age, or at the simplest level a part of the “do-it-yourself” craze. Russell Scholarship Announced A full tuition scholarship to N. C. Wesleyan, to be known as the Leon and Alta Russell Scholarship, has been estab lished by the Russell children and will be awarded annually b y the college here. The Rev. Mr. Russell, cur rently superintendent of the Goldsboro Methodist District, was pastor of the First Metho dist Church in Rocky Mount at the time of the campaign to establish N. C. Wesleyan. He has served on the college’s Board of Trustees since its founding in 1956. He is widely known through out the N. C. Methodist Con ference as a builder, having fostered the construction of several new churches while serving as their pastor. One of these was the $1/2 milliop sanctuary of the First Metho dist Church here, a funds cam paign for which he spearheaded and saw completed along with the college drive. The scholarship fund is to be administered by the college without restrictions, but the donors requested that in mak ing awards preference be giv en children of ministers and students from Rocky Mount, Greenville, Goldsboro or Bur lington — cities in which the Russells have served. For the present, one scholar ship will be awarded each year. As funds accumulate, through investment returns and addi tional gifts from the children and possibly others, the num ber of annual awards will be increased. n Dr. lames Publishes Book Dr. Ralph E. James has had his book, “The Concrete God,” published by Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Co. The 236-page book, based on the thought of contemporary American philosopher Charles Hartshorne, proposes an alter native to radical theology. Dr. James maintains not that God is dead as some theologians suggest, but that God is chang ing. Dr. James, assistant profes sor of philosophy and religion, was honored with an autograph party Wednesday, Feb. 7, at Pickwick’s in Tarrytown MalL “The Concrete God” dis cusses the uses of Hartshorne’s , philosophy as a new horizon in .Christian thinking about God, Christ and the Church. Of the book, the “Library Journal” says, “The reader should not lightly dismiss this unorthodox view; although sym pathetic to Hartshorne’s view, Mr. James . . . presents his ►commentary logically and sin cerely. Christianity is chal lenged, but not denied. The relation of Hartshorne’s work to that of Whitehead, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, and even Marshall Me Luhan should widen the scope of reader’s interest.” Dr, James graduated from Wake Forest and earned his B. D. degree at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and his Ph.D. in philosophical theology at Drew University. An ordained minister of the Western Conference of the Methodist Church, he served as a pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, Newark, N. J., prior to coming to Wesleyan in 1964. A native of Asheville, N. C,, Dr. James is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the American Philosophical Association. He is married to the former Mary Lou Chapman of Ashe ville. They have two young sons, Bradford and RandalL
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