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VOLUME XI, NUMBER 22
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1970
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Wilde Resigns As Dean
To Become Full-Time Prof
From left, Johnny Wilson, Barbara Koehnlein, Eileen 0»Grady,
Roland Shaw, Bob Thomson, and Bob Bronough rehearse for the
Wesleyan Theatre’s spring production of “A Thurber Carnival,”
Dean of Students Sim O. Wilde
announced in the Senate meet
ing Monday night that he had
submitted to Dr. Collins his re
signation from the office of
Dean of Students. He stated
that he would not be leaving
Wesleyan, but would become
full-time professor and the head
of the Education Department
here,
“I wanted to announce the re
signation to the student body
through this particular repre
sentative group of students,”
Dean Wilde said at the begin-
Thurber Carnival:
Coming From WCT
The Wesleyan College Thea
tre is again hard at work in
preparation for the spring pre
sentation of A THURBER CAR
NIVAL. Based on the short
stories and other writings of
humorist James Thurber, the
Library Plans
April Contest
The Friends of the Library
organization is currently spon
soring a contest open to all
Wesleyan students. According
to Mr, Alva Stewart, head lib
rarian, the purpose of the con
test is to give students incen
tive to build their own person
al libraries.
Entries will be accepted un
til April 3 and will be display
ed in the library. To enter, stu
dents must submit five to 20
books of one particular field
accompanied with a 50 word
annotation including a factual
summary of each book. A one
page annotation should be in
cluded in the entry, also, and in
this, the entrant should describe
his interest in the chosen area,
his reasons for acquiring the
books, and his future plans for
the expansion of his personal
library.
Judges for the contest have
not been selected as yet. How
ever Mr, Stewart, who plans to
be one, says that he will judge
entries on their “overall ba
lance as to the subject mat
ter,” and other factors will be
the entrant’s presentation of
the annotation. He further rela
ted that the subject topic is
irrelevent.
Prizes for the contest will
include $25.00 for first prize,
SIO.OO for second prize, and
.‘?5,00 for third prize. Mr. Ste
wart expects that judging should
'()iii|ilcted by April 15.
show is presented in a modern
vein.
Anyone familiar with the
writings of Thurber and who has
rolled in the aisles as a re
sult of such reading will quick
ly recognize some or all of the
sketches presented by the Wes
leyan troupers. These sketch
es include “If Grant Had Been
Drinking at Appomattox”, “The
Little Girl and the Wolf,” “The
Unicorn in the Garden”, “Mr.
Preble Gets Rid of his Wife”
and “The Secret Life of Walter
Mitty”. Also included at the
beginning and end of the play
are two “Word Dances” which
are presented in the style of
Rowen and Martin’s Laugh-In.
The sketches are short, and the
cast of seventeen doubles in and
out of the sketches.
The Wesleyan cast consists
of Bob Bronaugh, Barbara Epps,
Maria Gargano, Jeannie John
son, Judy Johnson, Barbara
Koehnlein, Miriam Leyda, Sean
Moran, Eileen O’Grady, Nancy
Phillips, Roland Shaw, Daniel
Shepard, Dave Siple, Helen Stei
ner, Bob Thompson, Joe Vinson,
and John C. Wilson. No speci
fic role is given any actor or
actress, since most performer
will necessarily carry more
than one role.
A THURBER CARNIVAL was
a successful broadwayplaywith
a cast that was seemingly more
adept at comedy than at seri
ous acting. The play opened in
1960 with a cast including co-
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News Summary
By JOHN HINNANT
The debate on the nomination
of Supreme Court Justice Ha
rold Carswell continued this
week. Sen. Russell B. Long,
D- La, stated that we needed a
straightforward “B student or
C student” like Carswell more
than a “brilliant . . . upside
down thinker.” Sen. Philip Hart
D-Mich. replied “It’s the first
time I’ve heard that argument
and I hope it’s the last—that we
should look for mediocrity when
we staff the Supreme Court of
the United States,” Carswell
apparently has the 50 votes
needed for confirmation.
After a 14-week Pentagon
probe into the My Lai incident,
the Army has charged 14 offi
cers, including the Superin
tendent of West Point with char
ges ranging from dereliction of
duty to false swearing.
Conflicting reports from
Laos leave the situation of the
strategic U. S, logistics base at
Sam Thong near the Plain of
Jars in doubt. There was ap
parently some fighting still
going on late Thursday.
Last week the United Arab
Republic received a large
amount of military aid from
Russia. Both Soviet troops
and modern SAM-3 anti
aircraft missiles were included
in the package. This is appa
rently another upward step in
the tension - mounting Middle
East.
Prince Sihonouk, v/hile on
trip to Moscow to ask Soviet
aid in helping to rid his coun
try of North Vietnamese, has
been deposed. The Cambodian
National Assembly ousted Sih
onouk and blamed him for the
presence of 40,000 North Viet
namese soldiers in Cambodia.
The new government is descri
bed as Right wing-(Pro U. S.)
military government. Thursday
the U. S. State Department an
nounced that it would recognize
the new Cambodian government.
ning of his speech after being
given the floor by the presi
dent of the Senate Bill Brantley.
The resignation will not take
effect immediately and he stat
ed that he will probably remain
in the office of Dean of Stu
dents until the end of summer
school.
Concerning his successor.
Dean Wilde said that there was
no particular candidate in mind
at this point. He also told the
Senate that the present assis
tant to the Dean, Mrs. Sarah
Alexander had expressed a de
sire to remain in her capacity
as assistant to the Dean of Stu
dent upon his resignation.
Dean Wilde spoke openly in
his speech before the Senate and
told the group that he felt that
many difficulties had been iron
ed out in the Dean of Students
office in the past four years.
He said that a basic reason
for his decision to leave was that
he was not able to spend as
much time with student affairs
as the job demanded. He also
reported that a position as a
faculty member would not only
allow himtoteachbutalsowould
give him more time for reading
and writing.
Circle K Sponsors
March Talent Show
Thursday, March 26, the 5th
annual talent show will be held
in the gym, beginning at 8:00,
The talent show is traditional
ly sponsored by Circle K, a ser
vice organization, as their one
money-making project. The or
ganization then uses the money
gained as it sees fit to con
tribute to Wesleyan.
Two rather unique aspects of
this year’s talent show will be
the contributions of the “Sha
dows of the Nights”, with Er
nestine Dancy, Mary Johnson,
and Lessie Pittman and Sharon
Chang’s performance on an an
cient Chinese instrument.
Though a “talent show” usu
ally implies a rather amatuer-
ish grouping of people striv
ing for talent rather than peo
ple with accomplished gifts, the
image seems to be false in this
case, especially in the “Sha
dows of the Night” with “A
Little Bit of Soap” on the At
lantic label.
Regarding Sharon Chang, the
musical instrument on which
she is performing is so old that
it has no comparable English
name. Pronounced “gou-gen”,
it has thirteen strings and re
sembles the Japanese koto.
Two opposing musical trends
are represented by the con
tributions of the “Consorts
LTD” and “The Moss”. In the
“Consorts LTD” Bruce Wright
plays piano, Ed Gunter plays
trumpet, Jim Keller plays bass
guitar, Dave Walker plays rhy
thm guitar, Jim Fields drums
and Sarah Shumaker the sole
singer. In “The Moss” Rob
Smith the main singer and plays
lead and rhythm guitar, Jon
Bennett sings and plays bass
guitar, Rob Kirckoff plays rhy
thm and lead guitar and Art
Falcon on drums.
Nancy Tonkins will sing and
play the guitar, as will Wray
Wheeless. Barbara Epps and
Paul Tuttle will folk in folk
music.
Music majors Roland Shaw,
Debra Peiffer, Bill Neal, and
Linda Lewis also participate.
Roland Shaw will sing and play
the piano, Linda Lewis will play
the piano, Debra Peiffer will
sing, and Bill Neal will play the
piano.
Pi Epsilon and Nu Gamma
Phi will both enter a comedy
skit.
There will be three prizes for
general performances, $15 for
first, $10 for second and $5
for third. For the most ori
ginal performance $10 will be
offered, as it will to the best
comedy.
The price will be $1.00 for
adults and students and 50?
for children.
Tarry town Hosts Wesleyan
For Annual Spring Formal
By MARSHA WHITE
Tarrytown Mall will be the
scene of one of Wesleyan’s
most gala events this year as
the Social Commission pre
sents the annual Spring For
mal Saturday, April 11 from 10
p.m. to 2 a.m.
Providing the entertainment
for the formal will be Corbitt
Rae and Orchestra a group
composted of four men and a
girl vocalist.
Free invitations will be is
sued to all students, faculty
members and alumni on March
30.