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MAROON AND gold
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reportorial staff
Claes Alexanderson, Peggy Beale, Percy Benton,
Nancy Boone, Charles Boroody, Barbara Bugg, Bobby
Bulla, Tom Campion, Sandy Carrington, Janice Car
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Halstead, Keith Handy, Holly Hollingsworth, Barbara
Ippolito, Gary Jordan, Lloyd Kanipe, Jim Lunsford,
Glenda Lutterloh, Jim McClure, Lynn Michael, Robert
Monacelli, Richard Moon, Donald Morrison, J.W.Pace,
Jeannette Robinette, Rosalind Shoffner, Larry Small,
Ike Steele, Malcolm Sullivan, Ronnie Tugwell, Bill
Turner, Charlie VanLear, Tom Ward, Claire Webb,
Rebecca Whitaker, Bob Williams.
ARTS AND FLOWERS
(A Keview)
By DAVID JOHNSON
For its most recent
offering, the Lyceum Ser
ies presented a recital
featuring soprano Anne
Rothgeb, accompanied by
pianist Robert MacDon
ald, who also performed
four solo works. The pro
gram began with three
songs by Haydn, which
was unfortunate; thank
God, the composer was
not in the audience to
hear them! I suspect that
the lyrics—poor as they
were—are of much later
vintage than the music,
and Miss Rothgeb’s ter
rible enunciation and
phrasing only made mat
ters worse.
Mr. MacDonald fared
much better with his sty
lish performance of Mo
zart’s popular Sonata No.
II in A Major.If Mozart’s
piano works are hardly
the equal of Beethoven’s,
they are still valuable
and interesting pieces in
the hands of a pianist
such as MacDonald. Cer
tain members of the au
dience should be criti
cized for applauding be
fore the end of the so
nata; this is highly an
noying and contrary to all
rules of concert etiquette.
Miss Rothgeb returned
to sing four songs by Hugo
Wolf, the Wagner of ro
mantic lieder, and her
German sounded much
better than her English.
The slow songs were per
haps taken too slowly, but
the two quick selections
were effectively done.
Gustav Mahler is best
known for ten gigantic
symphonies, but his song-
cycles are equally im
portant. “The Youth’s
Magic Horn,” composed
in 1888, is therefore a
real challenge to the so
prano’s art. Regretfully,
Miss Rothgeb was not
quite up to the challenge;
she performed the first
song well enough, but her
singing was far from
adequate in the remain-
,'lng selections.
In his second solo ap
pearance, Mr. MacDonald
played three varied works
by Chopin. First was the
famous “Fantasy -
Improptu” (best known as
the theme to that asinine
song “I’m Always Chas
ing Rainbows”),which the
composer would not even
publish during his life
time. This was beautifully
played, as was the diffi
cult Nocture No. 5 in
A-sharp, Op. 15, No. 2.
But MacDonald’s great
est moments came in his
brilliant performance of
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MAROON AND GOLD
Job Chances
Are Offered
For Seniors
Job interviews for
members of Elen’s sen
ior class are offered in
Gastonia in this state and
at Atlanta in Georgia dur
ing the Christmas holi
days, according to infor
mation received recent
ly in the office of Prof.
A, S, Hassell, who di
rects the Elon job place
ment service.
The Gastonia Chamber
of Commerce is holding
a Career Opportunities
Day in that North Caro
lina city on December
28th, with interviews of
fered at the National
Guard Armory between 9
and 4 o’clock on that date.
Jobs will be offered in
industry, merchandising,
banking, utilities, educa
tion, government work
and service enterprises.
The Georgia State
Chamber of Commerce is
sponsoring a special
“Careers in Georgia”
placement program, to be
held at the Marriott Mo
tor Hotel in Atlanta on
Wednesday and Thursday,
December 27th and 28th,
with a large number of
job opportunites offeredo
Interested persons should
write the Georgia State
Chamber of Commerce,
1200 Commerce Building,
Atlanta, Ga., 30303, con
cerning the interview
schedule for the two days.
Other information con
cerning either or both
of these programs may be
obtained from the office
of Professor Hassell be
fore leaving for the holi
days.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1957
THAT
Ima Substitute
I’m a substitute, and I
don’t wait;
When a column’s not ready,
I’m not late.
Let someboy miss a news
deadline;
I’m ready to give some
views of mine.
If my ideas seem not wise
nor cute.
What can one expect from
a substitute.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
“To be or not to be?
That is the question.”
Why, of course that is
a question; whoever
doubted that it is a ques
tion. But, let us look clos
er, for most questions de
serve study.
If we are to be, then
what are we to be? What
call can we be?The “to
be” is all-inclusive. Yes,
we can be many things.
One could be a bee. But,
what is a bee? Webster
says that a bee is an insect,
but he also says that a
bee is a neighborly ga
thering of people engaged
in united labor for the
benefit of one individual—
as a quilting bee or a
husking bee.
But a quilting bee or
a husking bee would ne
cessarily be a working
bee, and who wants to
work? Perhaps the terms
“quiltingbee” and “husk
ing bee burnished the
source of that expres
sion, “to be as busy as a
bee.” But, if a bee is
too busy, then he might
grumble, and grumble
rhymes with bumble.
That’s it! We will be
a bumble bee. Webster
says that “to bumble is
to bungle,” and a bung
ler is very likely to fum
ble, stumble and fall.
But, if one were to
fumble, stumble and fall,
then that wouldn’t be fun
ny, and funny rhymes with
honey, and honey is pro
duced by the honey bee.
Honey bees must have
somewhere to store their
honey, and that brings up
die question of where one
is to be if one is to be
a honey bee.
Webster also goes fur
ther and speaks of “a
bee in the bonnet” as a
favorite expression of
many people. But who
wants to be a bee in a
bonnet, because that
brings up the question of
whose bonnet one would
be in? One could be in a
bonnet with a blue ribbon
on it, like in the song.
But blue ribbon reminds
us of beer, and who wants
to be a bee in a beer?
Besides, beer can cause
one to fumble, stumble
and fall!
Aw heck! Who v/ants to
be a bee anyhow?
Why
Is It?
By JAMES PAYNE
Guitarist Will Play
At Elon January 9
Why is it that students
very seldom take the op
portunity to broaden their
education by venturing
outside of the field in
which they are majoring
in their selection of e-
lective courses?
One of the main rea
sons is that students to
day are “grade con
scious”. Usually a stu
dent will make his best
marks in his major, so
the attitude of many stu
dents is “Why take a
chance of lowering my
cumulative average by
taking a course like
Physics”. Another exam
ple which shows us to be
‘grade conscious” is the
oft-heard remarks such
as “Dont’ take Profes
sor John Doe for Eco
nomics, take Professor
Richard Roe, for he is
easier to make a “B”
under.”
In the complex world
that we are living in to
day and with the increas
ing number of college
graduates each year, the
number of really good
paying jobs for the aver
age student is decreasing.
Grades are not the only
determining factor in ob
taining a good job but it
has quickly become a pre
requisite for getting one’s
“foot in the front door”.
I have heard the old
saying used, “It doesn’t
matter what your grade
is, what really matters is
how much you learn”.
This may have been true
thirty-five years ago, but
today in a growing in
dustrialized society such
as ours, a firm is looking
for the bright, well edu
cated young man to fill
their positions.
Since the major pur
pose of a college or uni
versity is teaching, a firm
must thus place empha
sis on an applicant’s aca
demic standing, and when
the letter system of grad
ing is used to determine
academic standing,
“grade consciousness
arises.
One institution came up
with a new innovation in
their curriculum which I
Robert Guthrie, one of
America’s most promis
ing guitarists, will play
a recital in Whitley Audi
torium at 8 o’clock on
Tuesday night, January
9th, appearing as the
next Elon Lyceum attrac
tion.
Guthrie, who is a 24-
year-old Texan, will play
a program which includes
works by Narvaez, Fres-
cobaldi, Sanz, Bach,
Tansman, Ponce and Tor-
roba, with the program
being free to both public
and students.
The young guitarist was
originally a self-taught
musician, but he began
formal study of the gui
tar at the age of twelve,
studying while in high
school with James Hin-
tikka in Houston and Ed
ward Freeman in Dallas.
believe is worth taking
notice of and looking in
to. Briefly it was this.
A student was allowed to
take 6 semester hours of
credit a year outside of
his major field and could
be graded on a satisfac
tory and un-satisfactory
level.
Under this system it
was found that many stu
dents took courses that
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Guthrie moved from his
home town to Dallas in
1964 and both taught and
performed there, in Dal
las he played an audition
for Andres Segovia, with
whom he later studied in
master classes. He has
also studied with Alirio
Diaz, Oscar Rhiglia, Cal
edonia Romero and Jesus
Silva.
He has played exten
sive concert tours in the
United States and Latin
America and is now
teaching at the N. C.
School of Arts in Win
ston-Salem, where he is
assistant to Jesus Silva.
ROBERT GUTHRIE /