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ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
NUMBER 1
VOLUME 48
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1967
Sahlmann Plays Elon Concert
ELON GRADUATE TO OFFER NEXT LYCEUM PROGRAM
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Well Known Pianist
In Lyceum Program
FRED SAHLMANN REVISITS HIS ALMA MATER
Brandes Speaker On Campus
Dr. Paul Brandes, of
the faculty of the English
Department atUNC-CHat
Chapel Hill, was a guest
speaker in Whitley Audi
torium at 7:30 o’clock
Monday night on the sub
ject of “A Look At Latin
America Today.”
The speaker, who ap
peared as the guest of
the Elon College Spanish
Department, is regarded
as one of the outstanding
authorities on Latin A-
■nerican culture and
problems of the present
day.
Dr. Brandes spoke at
length concerning the
speeches of Fidel Castro,
Cuban dictator, but
he also talked of present
and probable future prob-
today.
Following his talk,Dr,
Brandes participated a-
long with three members
of the Elon College fa
culty in a panel discus
sion, during which mem
bers of the faculty and
student body and others
in the audience were in
vited to voice questions
concerning Latin Ameri
can problems.
The Elon faculty mem
bers joining the guest
speaker on the panel in
cluded Dr. Albert Gmind-
er, chairman of the Span
ish Department; Dr. Jose
M. Bohigas, a native of
Cuba and resident there
until 1961, who now tea
ches Spanish here; and
Dr. Durward Stokes, of
the Elon history faculty.
lems of all the nations in
the Latin American bloc
Fred Sahlmann, an E-
lon College graduate and
former member of theE-
lon College music facul
ty, who might almost be
called “Mr. Piano” by
those who have known him
on the campus, will return
to the scenes of his stu
dent and early teaching
days, when he presents
the next Elon College Ly
ceum program in Whitley
Auditorium at 8 o’clock
next Tuesday night.
A native of Charles
ton, S.C., Fred Sahlmann
began playing the piano at
the age of five, played his
first solo recital at the
age of ten, and appeared
as a piano soloist with a
symphony orchestra when
he was only fifteen years
old.
All of this was before
he came as a student to
Elon College, where he
studied in both piano and
organ under Dean Flet
cher Moore and won nu
merous honors as a per
former on both piano and
organ during his student
days. He was recognized
during his student days
as one of the top pia
nists in the South and
played frequently with the
North Carolina Symphony.
He earned both the A.B.
and B.M. degrees from
Elon College and later re
ceived the MA degree
from Teachers College
of Columbia University.
After two years in the
armed services, Sahl
mann spent a year at the
Academy of Music in Vi
enna, Austria, as a Ful-
bright Scholar, but he then
returned to Elon as a
member of the faculty un
til 1963, when he accepted
his present post as a pro
fessor at McNeese State
College in Lake Charles.
La.
In August of 1966 he
completed requirements
for the Doctor of Musical
Arts degree in both Per
formance and Pedagogy at
the Eastman School of
Music in Rochester, N.Y.
While there he was a stu
dent of Jose Echaniz and
qualified for a diploma
in performance and ap
peared as a soloist with
the famed Eastman Phil
harmonic Orchestra un
der the direction of Dr.
Howard Hanson.
The music critic with
whom President Harry
Truman fell out over crit
icism of Margaret Tru
man’s voice had better
things to say of Fred Sahl
mann’s piano playing, for
Paul Hume, of the Wash
ington Post, praised the
pianist’s “fine ear for the
instrument’s widest dy-
namin range” and his
“brilliance and power”
with the keyboard.
Reviewing the same re
cital, Day Thorpe, of the
Washington Evening Star,
said, ‘‘Sahlmann is a very
fine pianist. In a program
of many kinds of music
he showed a technique that
met every demand and a
rernarkable interpretive
insight.”
SCENE AT GROUNDBREAKING FOR NEW BUILDING
iuture proij- uic
S.A.M. Presents Speaker
Richard Basile, emi- ment.
nent retailing executive
from Philadelphia, Pa.,
spoke inMcEwenMemor
ial Dining Hall at a dinner
nieeting on Wednesday
■^ght, appearing as a
guest of the Elon College
Chapter of the Society for
Advancement of Manage
ment.
The guest speaker,who
is the vice-presidentof
the Automatic Retailers
of America, spoke on the
subject of “Food Service
Management, Its Place In
Business Today.” The
meeting was open to the
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Shown above is the ground-breaking scene for Elon’s new living-dining complex, with
Dr. J. E. Danieley and SGA President Dale Morrison releasing the bulldozer by cutt
ing the ribbon. The scene took place on the eve of the Elon Homecoming Celebration
on October 27th.