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VOL. 4, NO. 10
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE, ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.
. FRIDAY, MARCH 17,1989
What attracts coaches to Wesleyan?
By GREG STREHMEL
Head men's soccer coach
Tony Ferrell announced to the
men’s soccer team on Jan. 15 at
8:30 p.m. in the gym locker room
that he would resign on Jan. 29.
After all the hard work, effort,
and commitment put into the soc
cer program at Wesleyan, why is
he resigning? What kept him at
Wesleyan for nine years? Who
will be the next men’s soccer
coach? These were some of the
questions that were left blank not
only in the players’ minds but
Pianist ends
this season
of arts series
/
The North Carolina Wesleyan
College NEW Arts Series pre
sented pianist Ralph Votapek,
gold medal winner of the first
Van Clibum International Piano
Competition on Thursday night
in concert at First United Meth
odist Church in Rocky Mount.
NEW is an acronym for Nash-
Edgecombe-Wesleyan, repre
senting an invitation to all area
residents to attend local perform
ances by internationally-known
musicians.
Votapek is a classical pianist
who is a regular on National
Public Radio networks and on
public television. He has ap
peared with hundreds of orches
tras throughout the world, in
cluding the Boston Symphony
Pops Orchestra and the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, and has
recorded on the RCA, Cambr
idge, Time-Life and Concert-
Discs labels. Votapek’s talent
has been enjoyed throughout
Europe and the Americas.
This concert was the finale of
a successful season for the NEW
Arts Series at Wesleyan. Plans
are now being made for the
1989-90 season. For season
ticket information, contact the
Office of Development at North
Carolina Wesleyan College
(Courtesy of NCWC P.L)
also in the minds of people in the
administration, faculty, and staff
at Wesleyan.
Looking back at Tony Ferrell
and other previous athletic
coaches at Wesleyan the question
is what keeps the athletic coaches
at Wesleyan? How long do most
male and female athletic coaches
stay? And why do male coaches
stay longer than female coaches?
The average length of service
of all the coaches since 1961 is
three years and four months. The
average length of service of mens
soccer coaches since 1964 is six
years. Men’s coaches stay at
Wesleyan almost twice as long as
female coaches do.
Bill Music, the first head
men’s soccer coach, who was
here from 1964 until 1970 had a
losing record each year.
A1 Home, head men’s soccer
coach at Wesleyan from 1971 to
1977, and also with a losing rec
ord each year, said, “I stayed at
Wesleyan for six years because I
loved the college atmosphere at
the time and I loved the sport. It
was rewarding to me because I
saw the student-athlete mature.”
The next coach was Rick
Helms and he stayed as the men’s
soccer coach in 1978 and 1979,
Raymond Bauer, Professor of
Physical Education said, “He
stayed at Wesleyan for only two
years because he had problems in
his personal life and in the ath
letic department.”
Tony Ferrell said, “I stayed
nine years because I loved the
game and because of the good
relationships I had with my play
ers. I also built the program from
scratch. I think though, that it is
time for me to move on. The offer
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as a sales representative for
Beechum Laboratories in Fay
etteville was good, and finan
cially I had to think about my
family, as well.”
The women’s soccer program
was started in 1984 by Bill Music
and the average length of service
for a woman’s soccer coach is
two years.
Why do men’s athletic
coaches stay at Wesleyan longer
than women’s athletic coaches
do?
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College hosts
literary series
SEASON ENDS — Pianist Ralph Votapek performed last night in
the final concert of this year’s NEW Arts Series.
North Carolina Wesleyan
College is hosting a literary se
ries entided 3x3: Postmodernist
Prose, featuring lectures and
readings by three of America’s
leading experimental writers -
Paul Metcalf, Michael Rumaker
and Fielding Dawson.
- Metcalf, known for his juxta
position of personal and histori
cal voices, lectured and read
Wednesday on poets Charles
Olson and Charles Reznikoff.
Metcalf is the author of Genoa,
which examines the Hfe and
work of his great-grandfather,
Herman Melville.
Rumaker, a fiction writer who
has spoken of the story as “a map
of the unconscious, its terrain
and peopling,” will describe his
experiences while at Black
Mountain College. He will also
read from his own work. Both
the lecture and the reading will
be held on Wednesday, March
29.
Dawson will discuss the life
and work of William Carlos Wil
liams and read from his writings
on Monday, April 17. The
“memoir-fictions” of Dawson
include Tiger Lilies, An Emo
tional Memoir of Franz Kline,
The Black Mountain Book and
The Greatest Story Ever Told.
All of the events are being
held in the browsing room at the
North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege Library, with lectures be
ginning at 3 p.m. and readings at
8 p.m. There is no admission fee.
19 inducted into Phi Eta Sigma
Nineteen new members were
inducted into Phi Eta Sigma in a
formal initiation.
Freshmen inducted were
Robert Baker, Elizabeth
Bookhardt, Robin Exum,
Melissa Joplin, Chun Ling Kao,
Robin Parker, Neela Redford,
Clyde Corales.
Sophomores inducted were
Cindy Burris, Lynda Calhoun,
Alison Peterson, Mark Peterson,
Gwen Brinson, Carol Barwick,
Patricia Breland.
Seniors inducted were Ava
Jefferson, Johnny Mitchell,
James Hood.
Phi Eta Sigma, a national
freshman scholastic honor soci
ety, is a member of the Associa
tion of College Honor Societies.
It was founded at the University
of Illinois on March 22, 1923.
Its goal is to encourage and
reward high school scholastic at
tainment among freshmen in in
stitutions of higher learning.
Freshmen men and women who
attain a scholastic average of or
better than 3.5 are eligible to join.
David Poole is President of
the Chapter, Christine Adams is
Secretary, Melanie Bolling is
Senior Class Representative for
1990, and Dr. Steve Ferebee is
Faculty AdviscM".