amsnorn *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 Early in I960, ed with the Springfield, sachusetts, to give a world premiere ^ formance of “^°S?er ^n^ Becoming “almost ^ strument of the orchestea, ^ SlrtXTiUhfthiSlf^ard^au^ nf nn Eulenspiegel.” Cmcs 5oS?renllS®ch^'£4e w^to a performance m^k^ by agUlty, the%S*of 1964, Reynders Doors'» on Sic jack Gould r^the per formance as “superb . 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. (Continued on Page 4) 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. [ 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 (Continued on Page 4)

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