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*The Voice of the Student Body’
Vol. II, No. 4
Southeastern College, Whiteville, N. C.
JANUARY 1967
Franz Reynders, Mime, To Appear Feb. 3
Radio Series Starts Feb.
The Fine Arts Committee of
Southeastern College will spon
sor Its third performance of
the season on Friday, February
3, at 8:00 p. m. In the Whiteville
High School auditorium. This
performance will feature Frans
Reynders, the celebrated Dutch-
born mime.
In addition to his performance
on Friday night; he will conduct
a work shop in the college audi
torium Friday afternoon from
2:00-3:30.
Frans Reynders has pe-
formed in all parts of the nation,
and many critics consider him
the most outstanding practitioner
of his art on the American scene
today.
When world War n ended,
Reynders enrolled as a student
at the Amsterdam Academy of
Art. He became Interested In
pantomime, and went to Paris
to study in the Theatre de Mime
under the leadership of Etienne
Decroux, foremost master of the
modern mime and teacher of
other such performers as Jean-
Louls Barrault and Marcel Mar-
ceau. For two years he toured
Europe and Great Britain with a
Decroux troupe before returning
to Holland, where he enhanced his
reputation as a performer, and
as a director, lighting technician
and costume designer in musical
comedy. He has continued to
freelance in all these fields for
theatre, television and motion*
pictures in the United States,
Pantomime is a subtle and
graceful art. Delicate humor
(never far from tragedy), wit,
poignant illusion and beauty are
inherent in it. But these qualities
cannot be interpreted and con
veyed to an audience without con
summate skill on the part of the
performer. The mime never
really imitates a character, but
rather he suggests or carica
ture. Behind each nuance in
the Interpretations of Frans
Reynders there Is, of course,
his obvious talent. But in ad
dition there are many years of
training, constant exercise and
discipline, close observation of
people and things, a thorough
knowledge of theatre and music,
a sense of humor, and his In
dispensable Interest In human
nature.
Yet, his Is one of the oldest
of the theatre arts, dating back
to the Graeco-Roman period and
probably earlier. Conventional
stark white and black costumes
and makeup used by most mimes
today are a refinement of those
seen in Italian Commedia del
Arte of the sixteenth century.
But only these are stylized.
Starkness in a performance by
Frans Reynders is one of its
most attractive and deceptive
aspects. With a simplicity that
at first seems almost naive, he
soon reveals hlmselfto be a mas
ter of the finest machine we
know - the human body.
Since he has been In the United
States, Reynders has perfected
an Impressive program of mime.
His performance here may in
clude, from his original re^r-
tory, such favorites as Counter
point, Adam and Eve, Marionette,
Tho Bird, Man at the Table,
The Girl, Surgeon, Soldier, Sam
son and the Lion, and Game with
FRANZ REYNDERS, MIME
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ed with the Springfield,
sachusetts,
to give a world premiere ^
formance of “^°S?er ^n^
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Name Changed
nf the sttident body
newspaper has TCen
new nameplate.
A radio program entitled “Col
lege Talk” Is in the process of
being formed. Production man
ager and director is Randy Ra-
bon, a student at SCC.
This program is sponsored by
the Student Government Asso
ciation of SCC, and its purpose
is to promote student views and
ideas on any variety of subjects
and serve as a means of adver
tising SCC and its activities.
The program will be run in a
series beginning in February and
continuing through May. It is
being produced with the aid of
students and teachers of SCC
with accent on the former.
Recording will be done at
WENC and on location, with copy
ing and editing done through the
facilities of WENC in Whiteville.
It is hoped this program series
will be aired on (in addition to
WENC) WFMO in Fairmont,
WBLA in Elizabethtown and
WCVB in Shallotte.
This program series is the
first of its kind to be sponsored
Randy Rabon
by the SGA. Students should
watch the bulletin board for the
announcement of the date and
time this program will first be
aired.
Teachers Scholarships
His visit to this campus is
one in a series Reynders is
making to several colleges and
universities in various parts of
the naUon. He has performed
since 1959 under the auspices
of the Arts Program of the As
sociation of American Colleges.
Voc-Tech Talk
Upon talking to the students in
the vocational program a re-
Mrter found that the there
feel very neglected by the student
hodv of Southeastern.
It was “shocking” to find out
that they knew little abou^e
“cUviUes of the col ege. They
sav that they did not know when
basketball games were sch^-
uied or when FAC was having a
concert. Even the campus news-
paS^ris delivered there three
or four days late.
The boys have little or no con
tact with the other students. They
soeciflcally complained that they
wanted to meet some girls from
the college.
The Marks Building has no re
creational facilities, there is not
so much as a vending machine to
be found anywhere. Parking facil
ities are Inadequate.
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Applications for the Prospec
tive Teacher Scholarship ioan
Fund, a program created by the
General Assembly In 1957 to en
courage students to train as
teachers, are now being mailed
to prospective teachers request
ing them.
Morris C„ Brown, supervisor
of the Teacher Scholarship Loan
Program for the State Depart
ment of Public Instruction, said
students interested in teaching in
the North Carolina public schools
and who are in need of financial
assistance for college training
during the 1967-68 school year,
should write to: Prospective
Teachers Scholarship Loan, State
Department of Public Instruction,
Raleigh, North Carolina 27602.
Information on the aid and anap-
plication will be sent to them*
Applications will be accepted
through March 1, 1967. All ap
plications will be reviewed by the
Awards Committee in April and
applicants will be informed of the
results in early May.
Recipients of the Prospective
Teachers Scholarship Loan Fund
will receive $350 per year for not
more than four years, or a total
of $1,400. The aid is a scholar
ship if the recipient teaches one
year for each year they receive
assistance from the fund, Brown
explained. It is a loan if the
recipient does not teach in North
Carolina.
The program has afforded aid
to 5,236 students since it began
in 1957. Nearly half of the re
cipients are still in college, al
most 2,000 are teaching in the
public schools of North Caro
line, and the remainder have been
granted an extension of time to
begin teaching or they are re
paying the scholarship loan,
Feb. 9th.,
FAG Film
On February 9, The Great
Battle of the Volga will be shown
at SCC in the college’s audi
torium. This film concerns
the defense of the city of Stalin
grad. the victory and some of
the peace that followed. It was
filmed on the spot by army
cameramen during the battle that
routed the Nazis and turned the
tide of the war. There can be
only one word for the Great Battle
of the Volga—Impressive.
Students and their guests will
be admitted free to this movie.
It will begin at 8 p.m.
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Campus Briefs
Southeastern Community Col
lege students will be admitted
free to the evening performance
of the. North Carolina Symphony
on Thursday, February 2, in
the Whiteville Auditorium at
8 p.m. by showing activity cards
at the door.
SGA President Phil William
son reports that election com
mittees have been formed for the
upcoming campus-wide spring
elections. The deadline for
filing for office Is March 22.
Elections will be held on April
5. Applications can be picked
up In the Student Personnel Of
fice in the near future. This
Is a full SGA election (except
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