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Observe U. N. Week Volume XLV Founders Day Set For Tomorrow Dr. James Rea 11th Annual Ward Lecture Dr. James M. Read, new presi dent of Wilmington College, will deliver the 11th annual Ward Lec ture at 8:00 tomorrow night in Me morial Hall. The subject of the lec ture will be "The Responsibility of a Quaker College to Train for World Leadership." Since 1951 Dr. Read has served as United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, a post which has taken him to virtually every corner of the world to carry out negotiations in regard to the protection, care and resettlement of homeless people. Dr. Read was born in Camden, N. J., was graduated from Dickin son College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1929, and continued his college studies on the graduate level in Berlin and Marburg in 1932. He earned a sec ond Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1941. As a teacher, Dr. Read served on the faculty of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, from 1935 to 1943. He became the president of Wilmington College on October 15. Dr. Read, along with Mr. Charles A. Dana, will be honored at a re ception in the College Union Fri day afternoon at 4:00 p.m. Renowned Artist To Lecture Here Paul Bartlett, renowned through out the United States and in Eu rope for his artistic creations, will be the guest speaker at the Friday night lecture on Nov. 4. Mr. Bart lett will give a demonstration of portrait painting. Using a live model to sit for him, he will illus trate the techniques of starting a portrait. "Of course," he said, "I can't cover the subject fully, but will attempt to give a quick survey of how to begin such a painting." Mr. Bartlett was born in Paun ton, Massachusetts; he studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Julian's Academy in 'Paris. For many years he was a regular ex hibitor in the North, especially in New York and Chicago. More re cently, he lived and worked in Charlotte for about twelve years, prior to coming to Greensboro in 1959. He also has spent a great deal of time in Florida. Mr. Bartlett has done outstand ing work in portraits, landscapes, and still life. His work has won numerous prizes, mostly in the landscape division. Some of his paintings hang in the American division of the Luxemborg Mu seum, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and in various other places. A great deal of the last twenty eight years has been spent in teaching art. Mr. Bartlett has taught in Florida, Connecticut, and Charlotte, before coming here to Guilford College. He taught a class here on the campus last year. As for the present, he says, "We're trying to get one for this year and will probably start as soon as we can get organized." Mr. Bartlett and his wife live on King Street here in Guilford Col lege, where Mrs. Bartlett is a fac ulty member in the natural science department. The QuilforSan Published by the Students of the South's Only Quaker College DR. JAMES M. READ Mrs. East Joins Alumni Office Staff Mr. Gene Key, Guilford Alumni Secretary, has added a new secre tary to his department. Mrs. W. J. (Judy) East began work October 1. She has been working mainly with the alumni mailing files and with the current building cam paign. Mrs. East lives on Walnut Circle in Greensboro. She is the mother of two children Ginger, 7, and Tyrone, 6. Mrs. East can be found at her desk in the Alumni Office on any weekday. Dana Science Hall Dedicated at Greensboro Division At 4:00 p.m. today the new wing of the Greensboro Division of Guil ford College, known as the Charles A. Dana Science Hall, was dedi cated during a 30-minute program. This $300,000 structure was fi nanced by Mr. Dana, who paid half the cost, and by a group of Greensboro citizens including in dustrialists and business men, who matched Mr. Dana's gift of $150,- 000. The Dana wing was presented A. GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., OCTOBER 27, 1960 Guilford Will Celebrate 124 th Year of Service This Friday Guilford College will celebrate its 124 th birthday at its anual Founders Day Celebration. The day's activities Will begin with a special assembly program at the New Garden Meeting House so that visitors and members of fresh man chapel can attend. Following Special music by the college choir under the direction of Mr. Carl Baumbach, Mr. Charles A. Dana will address the group. Mr. Dana has recently promoted and partially financed the con struction of the new science wing of the Guilford College Greensboro Lyric Soprano to Appear in Recital Here November 8 Natalie Bodanya, lyric soprano, will appear in an 8:00 p.m. per formance here on Tuesday, Nov. 8. She will also be featured in chapel on Nov. 9. Her recital will be given in Memorial Hall. The magic aura of the "golden age" of singing is irrevocably bound up with the career of Natalie Bodanya. Although she is an Amer ican product (she reversed the age old custom and did not even sing in Europe until she had made her Metropolitan debut), Miss Bodan ya is one of the last pupils to come under the tutelage of the great Marcella Sembrich, famed colora tura of the period of Caruso, Mel ba, Fremstad, de Reszke and Emma Eames. When Edward Johnson, director of the Metropolitan Opera, heard Miss Bodanya he signed her for the by Mr. Arnold Schiffman, board ' The three-story addition to the member of the Greensboro Divi- Greensboro Division will provide sion, who then recognized Mr.! additional classrooms and labo- Dana. After a tour of the Division , . „ t n a coffee hour and reception was ratones on first floor - There Wlll held in the library. jbe a visual and audio-equipped A dinner honoring Mr. Dana will room and a laboratory equipped be held in Founders Dining Room for research work. On second floor at 7:00 o'clock tonight. At this din- the foreign language rooms are fur ner the ten recently selected Dana nished with the most modern scholars will be presented to the equipment and the psychology lab approximately 150 guests and will has a one-way window installed ex receive certificates of merit. I pressly for the purpose of observing Division and awarded scholarships to 10 outstanding students here. At 4:00 p.m. a reception will be held in the College Union for Mr. Dana and President James M. Read of Wilmington College who will present the annual Ward lecture at S:00 p.m. Founders Day was originally known as Charter Day and was cel ebrated in January. However, be cause of bad winter weather the time was changed to the early fall. In 1930, Nathan Hunt, feeling a concern over the state of education before Friends, expressed his views during the Meeting for Worship. Jeremiah Hubbard, a teacher in the leading soprano role of Micaela in "Carmen." The day after her debut she was acclaimed by critics as "the talk of the operatic world." Other leading roles were immedi ately assigned to her, and she cre ated that of Lizetta in the American premier of "The Clandestine Mar riage." Miss Bodanya has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Or chestra, New York Philharmonic, and other leading orchestras in the United States,. France, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. While in Copenhagen, she gave a command performance for the Danish Royal family. She was also a guest artist at the famous Venice Festival in Italy. This year Miss Bodanya's campus visits are being sponsored by the Arts Program of the Association of American Colleges. Voting Day Is November 8 little school house at New Garden, agreed with him and proposed the founding of a yearly meeting school. The school later became Guilford College. During the year 1834 land was bought, buildings planned, bricks were made and the first large gift in the amount of $2,000 was received from English Friends. In August of 1837 the school opened with fifty young North Carolinians enrolling —25 young men and 25 young women. Guilford College is now celebrat ind its one hundred and twenty fourth year of continuous educa tional service. Department Tutors Selected for Year Tutors for various departments have now been selected. Billie Adams will be helping in the Natural Science Department. Tutors in English are Joyce Camp bell, Margaret Haworth and Jamie Mathews. Helping in the Math Department will be Richard Paul. Karen Ljung and Richard Swin dell are Spanish tutors. In the So ciology Department is Anne Tayler; in the French Department, A lan Gordon. All of the Dana Scholars are act ing as tutors. They are Miriam Almaguer, Brenda Alexander, Fran ces Cook, jimmy Childress, Steen Spove, Dora Smith, Doug Connor, Maurice Raiford, Penny Smith, and Doris Walker. Anyone desiring assistance in any departmental work should see one of the tutors. Their service is free to the student and willingly given. children in Child Psychology cours es. Third floor consists of labora tories for chemistry, biology and natural science. There are 624 persons enrolled in college credit work at the Divi sion with 124 carrying full sched ules (12 hours or more). This means that presently the total en rollment of persons taking college credit work at Guilford (both here and in the Greensboro Division) is approximately 1339. Number 3
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