April 14, 1967
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The libraries announced this week that Henry Taylor, a Quaker poet
and professor of English at Roanoke College, will present a reading of
his poetry during convocation on May 1.
In addition to the reading, Mr. Taylor will be the guest of honor at
a faculty tea from 2:00-3:00 p.m. in the lounge of the Student Union.
From 3:00-4:00 p.m., Mr. Taylor will autograph copies of his latest
publication, a book of poems published by the LSU Press, entitled The
Horse Show at Midnight. Copies of the book will be on sale in the Col
lege bookstore. Free coffee will be furnished for bookstore patrons dur
ing the autographing session.
Later in the day at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Taylor will give a second reading
in the Moon Room of Dana Auditorium. Students, faculty, and interest
ed public are invited to the evening reading.
Mr. Taylor is a native of Virginia and attended George School and
the University of Virginia, from which he graduated in 1965 with
an A.B. in English. In 1966 he received the M.A. in English from Hollins
College.
He was a founding editor of Plume and Sword, university literary
magazine.
His work has appeared in Encounter, Shenandoah, Georgia Review,
Transatlantic Review, and other publications.
In addition to his comment on Taylor's characters, Pulitzer Prize
winner Louis Simpson said: "It is clear that Mr. Taylor is a very good
poet. He has feeling and intelligence, and writes with skill."
William Stafford, winner of the 1962 national book award for poetry,
has described Mr. Taylor's poems as "sleek and vigorous, carrying
stories, dreams, and a kind of wistful but alert observation."
Mr. Taylor's second appearance at Guilford College is being spon
sored by the libraries as a belated celebration of National Library Week,
which takes place April 22-26.
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HENRY S. TAYLOR
THE GUILFORDIAN
Library Contest
The Faculty Library Committee
is sponsoring a local contest for
the undergraduate student with
the best personal library. The con
test is known as the Amy Love
man National Book Award.
Will's Bookshop and Straughan's
Bookshop are ottering cash certi
cates of $15.00 each for the local
winner. The winner of the local
awards will have his entry sub
mitted to a national contest by the
library committee. National prizes
are $1,000.00 for first prize and
two honorable mention awards of
$200.00 each.
Deadline for local entries is
April 17. Rules for entering the
contest are as follows:
Any four-year college or univer
sity in the United States may nomi
nate one student.
The nominee must present an
annotated bibliography of not less
and not more than 35 books, de
scribing each volume and its spe
cial value or interest to him (her).
The nominee must include a
commentary on his (her) library
covering the following:
a) "How, why, and when I be
came interested in building a per
sonal library."
b) "My ideals for a complete
home library."
c) "Ten books I hope to add
to my library."
The nominee's entry may consist
of:
a) a general library;
b) a collection centered on a
subject;
c) a collection of a single author
or group of authors.
There are no specific limitations
in respect to the quantity of books
(minimum of 35), date of publi
cation, physical format or list price
of books in the student's library.
The sponsors suppose that since
this is a permanent personal li
brary, many of the books will be
hard-bound but recognize that
many students will have collected
paper-bound editions.
EACH ENTRY WILL BE
JUDGED on the basis of knowl
edge, scope, interest, value, and
imagination, as shown in creating
the collection.
The commentary written by the
applicant on his (her) collection
is an important factor in judging
the entry and selecting the winner
and must be included.
THE JUDGES for The Amy
Loveman National Award include:
1) a Book-of-the-Month Club
editor
2) a Saturday Review editor
3) a qualified member of Wom
en's National Book Association
4) a nationally - known author,
collector or critic
5) a college or university libra
rian
The panel of judges, each distin
guished in his or her field, will
select the award-winning entries
in time for presentation at com
mencement exercises.
AMY LOVEMAN
Amy Loveman was for many
years an associate editor of Satur
day Review, a judge of the Book
of-the-Month Club, and a promi
nent member of the Women's
National Book Association. As a
discriminating collector of books,
she inspired people widi her love
of reading and ideas.
In her memory the Book-of-the-
Month Club, the Saturday Review,
It's Never Too Late
by Valerie France
Every year the W.A.A. presents a
May Day program given by the
women students in honor of the
May Queen and her court. This
program is performed in the after
noon, followed by a tea, and on
the same evening a formal or semi
formal dance is presented for all
students by the W.A.A. These pro
grams have had a problem which
contradicts the statement recently
published in the Guilfordian.
Someone said, in relation to Men's
May Day, that one reason for its
failure (because freedom of pre
sentation was replaced by censor
ship) was that too many uninvited
guests came to observe the pro
ceedings.
The Women's Athletic Associa
tion has found the opposite to be
true. Although all women students
are invited to participate in May
Day and although all Guilfordians
—past, present and future —are in
vited to come, people neither parti
cipate in nor come to the programs.
Now that participation is no longer
required of all women students, a
voluntary participation program
has been and is being used —not
too successfully.
May Day is not a program to be
put on by the faculty; it is the re
sponsibility of the students. Last
year Miss Reddick, Mrs. Clark.
Mrs. Steele and other faculty mem
bers had to take time from their
classes to work on May Day. It is
not fair to them or to their students
to do so again.
In September, Lynn Dorsett,
realizing that May Day might not
be presented this year, began
working on ideas to rejuvenate and
recreate interest in a May Day that
would be supported by the stu
dents. Almost every W.A.A. meet
ing held this year has been devoted
to the problems of May Day.
Since the number of students
coming to the Homecoming Dance
(also sponsored by the W.A.A.)
was almost smaller than the num-
and the Women's National Book
Association established, in 1962,
the Amy Loveman National Award
cf $1,00() ... In 19fi6 two honor
able mention awards of S2OO each
were added to the first award.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
SIOOO Winners
WALTER ROSENSTEIN
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.
THOMAS M. WHITEHEAD
Bucknell University, Lewisburg.Pa.
JOHN R. T. MOLHOLM
Ohio State Uni., Columbus, Ohio
JANE BOCERT
Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa.
GRANT L. HUTCHINSON
Uni. of Calif., Santa Barbara, Calif.
S2OO Winners
WILLIAM H. FLAYHART 111
Lycoming College, Williamsport,
CHARLES FREDERICK ALT
MAN,
Duke University, Durham, N. C.
Judges for the local award are
Dr. Henry Hood, Dr. Cyril Harvey,
and Mr. Herbert Poole. Interested
students should contact Mr. Poole
in the Campus Library or Mrs.
Jernigan at the Downtown Cam
pus Library.
o
Guilford
Gift House
Gifts for all ages
and all occasions
ber of faculty present, the cabinet
decided that some other type pro
gram was needed for Saturday
night. Lynn Dorsett and Lynn Cull
er met with Kay Brewer, and a
number of organizations pooled
their money and made a contract
with the Impressions to appear in
concert in place of the dance. Leav
ing the rest of the planning to the
Social Committee, the cabinet
turned to the problems of the after
noon presentation of the court and
program.
The theme of Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea was chosen
and work was begun. A meeting to
discuss May Day was held after
closing hours for all interested
women students. The attendance
was not good. Much more help is
needed to present the program.
Committees for refreshments,
props, costumes, publicity, etc., still
need to be filled. We of the W.A.A.
cabinet will present May Day this
year. Without help it cannot be
successful. Without interest this
will probably be the last year of
the May Day tradition at Guilford.
It is almost too late. If interested
in helping to preserve May Day for
future queens and for future stu
dents, please contact:
Lynn Culler, Binford
Marikay Noah, Shore
Rose Paul Blackwell, Founders
Janet Cardy, Hobbs
Florentine
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