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December 19, 1963 THE TWIG Page Five Bear Hunting to Cooking Music Faculty's Hobbies Are Index to Personality hy JANIE ERNST What does Jones Hall mean to you? Does your major confine you to Hunter or Joyner Halls so that you think of Jones only as “that place where we have Chapel?” Or are you aware that the less formal name of Jones is the music building and beneath the main auditorium lies a whole new world of offices, studios, and practice rooms? Music majors come and go there, and are seen in other classes every day; but less often known to non-music stu dents arc the regular inhabitants of this melodious underworld, the music department faculty. Dr. Harry E. Cooper heads the seen around the campus, for he’s)smile, and a radiated air of con- well tied down as head of the piano j cern and sincerity make Miss Haese- division of the music department. Other activities of his include serv ing as organist and choir master of St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Raleigh and as state chairman of certification for the North Carolina Music Teacher’s Association. His wife teaches at the State School for the Blind, and his one daughter is married and busy as mother of his only grandchild. He, too, counts photography as a hobby, but had a more intense gleam in his eye as he spoke of his in> terest in hunting and fishing. He enjoys salt water fishing, but locally Mr. Clybura and Mr. Pratt use time away from (caching for practicing a duet. Music faculty work witb eacb otb«r as well as witb students. department. He came to Meredith in 1937 and, just two years ago, re ceived a silver bowl for twenty-five years of service from the Board of Trustees. Other than teaching or gan here at Meredith, Dr. Cooper plays several organ recitals each year and may be found every Sun day morning playing the organ for Raleigh’s First Baptist Church. An interesting part-time job finds him acting as consultant with churches rebuilding and buying or gans. His two children, Robert and Alice, are grown and married. He and his wife show an avid interest in photography, and Meredith owes quite a debt to Dr. Cooper for his long devotion to photography work for our annual. Pratt Leads Piano Division Mr. Stuart Pratt is less frequently COLLEGE GAINS RIDING TEACHER (Continued from page 1) A small schooling show was held at the Meredith show ring Friday afternoon, December 6, with col lege students and town pupils com* peting. Nancy Von Elm and Jane Hendricks placed first and second, respectively, in the equitation cla^s. Ann Partin, Macki Rudisill, Donna LeRoy, and Murilla Oates also placed in pleasure and equitation classes. A new horse has been given to the college by Mr. R. A. Morris of Marion. Sparkling Queen is an eight-ycar-old chestnut mare stand ing 15.3 hands. She is by Sparkling Waters and out of Kentucky Cardi nal Belle, and promises to be a nicc pleasure horse. Mrs. Mary Edwards, equitation instructor of Meredith, recently took a group of students on a field trip to Dr. and Mrs. Pugh’s Tara Farm on the outskirts of Raleigh. Here they talked with Mr. Tom Hunt, trainer, and viewed the sixteen horses of Morgan, saddle horse, and thoroughbred breeding. Mr. Hunt does dressage work with “high school” horses and promised an ex hibition at some future time. fishes for catfish. Quite recently he has turned to hunting for deer and bear. A dccr has been his, but of bear he can only report being “with in fifteen feet, but the brush was too thick to sec beyond ten.” Clyburn^s Many Musical Activities Mr. James L. Clyburn has a very music - centered life. Aside from teaching piano at Meredith, he has been organist at Hayes - Barton Methodist Church ever since coming to Raleigh five years ago. He serves as accompanist for the Raleigh Ora torical Society and each year is dis trict judge for the State Piano Fes tival held in the spring. When asked if he had any hobbies he replied, with a puzzled frown, “No. This is all I do. I used to have a photography hobby, but now — well — I’m just too busy." An added point of busyness in his life is his growing young family. Mar ried three years he has a sixteen- month-old daughter, and he and Mrs. Clyburn now anxiously await a second child to be born this Christmas Eve. Haesclcr Is Avid Sports Fan Miss Isabelle Haeseler did not mention hunting as Mr. Pratt did, but she calls herself “an avid sports person" with loves ranging from golf and swimming to bowling and ping-pong. With tennis, though, she shakes her head saying, “I’m just not much of a tennis player — too strenuous!” Neat, short, blond hair, elegantly casual clothes, a strong Johnson’s Jewelers CATERING TO BRIDES Raleigh, N. C. ler a very pleasant person to meet and talk with. Outside of Meredith she serves as director of music at the West Raleigh Presbyterian Church and is busy working on her Ph.D. in edu cational psychology at Chapel Hill in the summer. At home she enjoys yard work and building things like coffee tables and bookcases. With her live two tiny bundles of activity, a pair of chihuahuas that she fondly calls “my family.” *‘Fun to Teach Girls'’ Mr. Stephen E. Young is new to Meredith (his year. He received his M.A. in church music at Union Seminary in New York and hopes to soon begin work on his Ph.D. at Chapel Hill. He had his first teach ing experience last year at South eastern Seminary in Wake Forest where he taught Hymnity to gradu ate students. He likes Meredith, be cause he enjoys teaching music ma jors who are really interested in his courses. “Of course,” he adds with a grin, “it’s always fun to teach in a girls' school, even if you are mar ried.” Likes to Cook Mr. Young’s family consists of his wife and one nine-nionth-old girl at present, but a new addition is expected in March. His hobbies include devotion to Duke basket ball games, stamp collecting with a part-time dealership in his home, and cooking. “Yes, cooking,” he says, “I like to cook fancy things for parties.” Garriss Has Talented Children Mrs. Phyllis W. Garriss is a mod est musician and proud mother of “three very sweet little children.” Daniel is eight years old, and her daughters Meredith and Margaret arc four and two. The two older children take piano lessons and both already play on a little eight-size violin. Mrs. Garriss just sighs and says, “I’m afraid there’s no talent there — just boredom.” She teaches violin here at Mere dith and is eager to share her love for her instrument with all others who care or might come to carc. In fact, this is how she met her husband. He was a Duke gradu ate working for the state when he began coming to Meredith to take violin lessons from her. She plays regularly in the Duke Symphony and with groups from Peace and St. Mary’s Colleges. On the edge of her desk sit clippers and a nail file, and her students know that “fiddlers sacrifice fingernails!” Over the rest of her desk sprawl papers and books. Having just moved her studio this fall, she has a battle cry of “I’m going to get this cleaned up!” Blanchard Makes Oratorial Appearances Mr. Edwin K. Blanchard was born in Niagara Falls, N. Y. There his H«ir Styling Academy lU s. Ml*«y «•••, carcer in music was early defined and with moving to different towns Miss Haeseler willingly gives Ginger Brown a minute of tier spare time. and different schools his activities ran from boy soprano to student conductor of his high school orches tra in Nashua, N. H. Enlistment in military service interrupted his collcge years, but he later returned on the G. I. bill and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from East man School of Music in Rochester, N. Y. He taught for three years at the University of Georgia before coming to Meredith in 1952. He has made opera and oratorial re cital appearances in New England, New York State, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. Father of a collegc son, a son who’s a senior at Cary High School, and a sbcth grade daughter on whom he dotes, he still holds an active love for athletics. Tennis is his spe cial favorite and is replaced by handball in the winter months. Other hobbies include playing in chess tournaments and making furniture for his home. Donley’s Ensemble Miss Beatrice Donley is known to many as the director of the chorus and the Meredith Collegc ensemble. That hers is a pressing schedule and active life can best be seen in the fact that there was no time in her days to allow for an interview be fore the great responsibility of the annual Christmas conccrt was off her mind. Downstairs Jones constantly buzzes (sometimes quite loudly) with activity, but any visitor may al ways find a welcome behind one or another of the faculty’s studio doors. Switchboard Girls Are Amused and Perplexed by Calls By FRANCES GARRETT The switchboard operator at Meredith College has no dull job. During her hours of work in John son Hall, she can anticipate a gen erous amount of excitement. Her vulnerable ear to the earphone, the Meredith operator braccs herself against the curses of the Saturday night drunk, the confusion of the nervous date, or the impatience of the professor whose call she has ac cidentally disconnected. Like telephone operators every where, the Meredith operator is ex pected to make the correct connec tions for the whisperer as well as for the shouter. Immediately after listening to a Charleston drawl, she must be able to adjust her ear to a Chinese - English staccato. The switchboard operator can testify to the fact that each human being has his own peculiar voice. Boys Are Best Customers In the switchboard room the un usual is the usual. According to Nicky Childrey, the leader of the switchboard operators, boys “are our best customers.” She reports that it is not unusual for the boy whose girl is not in to say, “Well, I’ll be glad to talk with you, honey.” Phyl lis Ann Dean has had calls from (Continued on page 7) 42nd ST. OYSTER BAR JONES & N. 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