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NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE
Rocky Mount, N. C.
VOL. IX—NO. 14
MONDAY, MAY 20, 1968
ANNUAL AWARDS CONVOCATION HELD
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iSarbara Gfoiseclose, Marily Schoon, Mary SparrQw, A1 Horne, Bill Litchfield, Dennis Patrick, Bill French, Eugene
Stowell, Mlike Schaden (president Nu Gamma Phi), Claire Anderson, Alice Nixon^
Honors Award Convocation
^as held on Tuesday, May
14, In the gymnasium. The
program opened with the as
sembled group singing the
North Carolina Wesleyan
Song. This was followed by
a prayer offered by Dr. Col
lins and the morning anthem
by the Wesleyan Singers.
This year’s speaker Dr.
Allen S. Johnson was intro
duced by Dean Jack W. Moore.
Dr. Johnson’s address dealt
with the problem of arousing
the “intellectual curiosity”
of students. He warned of
the attempt on the part of
both parents and the educa
tional system to hamper the
development of this curiosity.
Schools and even colleges have
come to reflect the political,
social, and economic values
of the community in which they
are found. Often it seems
that the communities are run
by adults to suit the adults.
The type of teacher who mere
ly preaches to his students
produces the wrong kind of
citizen, characterized by a
weak personality, dogmatism,
and dependence.
In order to counter this it
is necessary that no one and
no thing should be held so
sacred that it is considered
to be above analysis. Yet
a truthful opinion can not be
reached until one has com
pletely analyzed the situation
and can back up his valid
reasoning with sound facts.
Dr. Johnson suggests that you
develop the habit of intellec
tual curiosity for your own
sake as well as that of Wes
leyan.
Dean Wilde then proceeded
to make the presentation of
awards which were as follows:
Outstanding Achievement in
Music awarded to Barbara
Groseclose*
The Freshman Writing
award presented to Mary
Sparrow®
The Wesleyan Players
Award to Eugene Stowell and
William French u
Outstanding Athlete of the
Year awarded to A1 Hornet
Phariss-Strickland French
Award to Claire Anderson*
John Paul Jones History
Award presented to Dennis
Patricks
Outstanding Academic
Achievement awarded in a tie
decision to Bonnie Flemming
and Alice Nixon »
The newly authorized Dean
of Students’ Award went to
Nu gamma Phi Fraternity*
Leadership and Service
Award for Women to Marilyn
Schoon o
Leadership and Service
Award for Men to Bill Litch
field
The President’s Cup Award
was presented to Barbara
Groseclose.
Various other awards and
presentations were also made.
James Perry was recognized
for his outstanding contribu
tions in the field of religion.
Coach Music’s annual trophy
for the most outstanding
soccer player went to Ralph
Thomas. Dr. Collins was
then called to the rostrum to
receive a plaque to be dis
played in the library in com
memoration of Wesleyan
alumni who have fallen in
Viet Nam. The presentation
was made by the Bobbitt-
Zimmertnan Memorial Fund,
which also hopes to raise
enough money through con
tributions to purchase an In
ternational Relations En
cyclopedia for the library.
Dr. Collins mentioned that
still another alummnus, Paul
Nance, had fallen and that
there would be a permanent
plaque honoring these former
students placed in the Stu
dent Union.
The Delta Club made
presentations to Senior Gil
Spruill in the field of Chem
istry, Junior Faye Cooley for
Mathematics, Junior Rick
Khol for Biology, and Senior
Quinton White for Biology,
The benediction was pro
nounced by Dr. Collins and
the assembly was adjourned.
Singers Present Concert
The Wesleyan Singers
presented the North Carolina
college premiere of one of
this century’s most popular
choral works for their fifth
annual Commencement Con
cert in the N. C. Wesleyan
College Gymnasium Tuesday
evening. May 14, at 8:15 P. M.
The work performed was Carl
Orff’s "Carmina Burana”and
its performance engaged the
talents of an unusual number
of participants including a
chorus of boys’ voices from
the Rocky Mount public
schools, three soloists, two
pianists, and a percussion en
semble of nine players in ad
dition to the Wesleyan Singers.
“Carmina Burana” was
written in 1936 by the con
temporary German, Carl Orff.
It has received countless per
formances both in Europe and
America and was first heard
in North Carolina this past
fall at a performance in Ra
leigh’s Friends of the Col
lege series when it was pre
sented as a ballet by the
Canadian National Ballet
Company. The Wesleyanper-
formance was the first in this
state by North Carolina per
formers. The work display
ed both great vitality and tran-.
quility and had an immense
range of humor and unflagging
interest,
A children’s chorus of for
ty boys, the Rocky Mount Boys’
Choir, was organized espe
cially for this performance
by Miss Patsy Wiley and Mrs.
Bettie Jane Tulloss, public
school music instructors in
the Rocky Mount City Schools,
Accompaniment for the per
formance was provided by
duo-pianists, Mrs, Thelma
Sasser and W, Ted Gossett,
organ instructor at the col
lege, and by the Wesleyan
College Percussion Ensem
ble, directed by Richard Dill,
band instructor at the college.
The immense percussion de
mands of the score put a
heavy strain on the music
department’s resources as it
called for a wide variety of
unusual instruments such as
finger cymbals, ratchet,
sleigh bells and tubular bells,
in addition to the more usual
percussion items such as var
ious sizes of drums, kettle
drums, xylophone, gong and
triangle.
Three outstanding soloists
were featured in the presen
tation, Barbara Tilley, so
prano, Clyde Hiss, baritone,
and John Davis, tenor.
Mrs. Tilley, a native of
Atlanta, Georgia, was ed
ucated at Stetson University
and Georgia State College in
Atlanta, She has appeared
as guest soloist with the At
lanta Symphony Orchestra and
has also sung in the Atlanta
“Pops” Concert Series. She
is currently a resident of
Raleigh, where she has been
featured as soloist with the
Raleigh Oratorio Society in
performances of Bach’s “St,
Matthew Passion,” Poulenc’s
"Gloria,” and the Great
Mass in F by Bruckner,
Dr, Hiss is Assistant Pro
fessor of music and director
of the Mens Glee Club at
East Carolina University in
Greenville, He is a native
of Ohio and a graduate of
Baldwin-Wallace Conserva
tory of Music and received the
Ph.D, degree from the Uni
versity of Illinois, He has
sung both operatic and ora
torio roles professionally in
the midwest and was the bari
tone soloist for Wesleyan Col
lege’s performance of
Brahms’ “German Requiem”
last spring.
Dr. Davis is well known
to local audiences both as a
performer and as a composer.
A tenor with a wide profes
sional background, he is As
sistant Professor of music at
N. C. Wesleyan. His degrees
are from the University of
Arizona, where his opera,
“The Pardoner’s Tale,” was
performed last year. At Wes
leyan he teaches theory and
composition and is director
of the Wesleyan Chamber
Singers.
The Wesleyan Singers, a
student choral group of 55
voices, is directed by Dr.
William Sasser, chairman of
the college’s Music Depart
ment.