^^aleigh, North Carolina Long Range TLIC Mitch Ryder Planning Meeting 1 H ^ 1 W 1 i To Perform See Page Two ■ II Lir 1 W W 1 See Page One Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College Vol. XLIII MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., MARCH 20, 1969 No. 10 Dr. Horry Cooper Plans to Retire MITCH RYDER displays his vocal magnetism as h« performs. Booked by Premier Talent Association of New York, Mitch will sing tonight at 8 in Jones Anditorium. Mitch Ryder, Spirit Seel Perform for Campus Fans Strains of “C. C. Rider” from Jones Auditorium? Tonight at 8 p.m. Mitch Ryder and the Spirit Seel wiH add a new sound to the campus concert series. Co-sponsored by the Concert and Lectures Series and the Student Ac tivities Board, the Mitch Ryder show is free to alt Flick ’68 ticket holders and open to other students and dates for $2.00 apiece. Selected Students May Take Semester Program at Drew Through an arrangement with Drew University, Madison, N. J., Meredith students may spend one semester in study at Drew. The program, a result of action taken by the Academic Council, is open es pecially to qualified juniors who may reccive credit for as much as 12 semester hours. The program consists of seminars led by members of various delega tions of the United Nations, courses on the Drew University campus, and an intensive research project. Groups participating in the United Nations program will meet all day on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Drew Facilities immediately across the street from the United Nations Headquarters. From this base of operations contact can be made with members of the United Nations Yale Spizzwinks Plan Performance For Friday Chapel The Yale Spizzwinks, a singing group, comparable to the Meredith ensemble will perform in chapel on Friday, March 28 at 10 a.m. Term ing themselves a “motley group,” the Spizzwinks are fourteen under graduates who tour during their spring vacation. The group, started in 1914, have played a great variety of concerts, performing often enough to “hone their musical edge, but not so often as to cause academic catastrophe.” The majority of their concerts have been at various major club meetings at such college campuses as Smith, Vasser, and Wellesley. They have also had a two-week booking at the Hotel Interconti nental in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The next issue of THE TWIG will be distributed on a Tuesday instead of tlie usual Tliursduy, therefore, the deadline for any let ters, suggestions or other contri* biitions is March 28. Lynch to Head Music Department The Chairmanship of the Depart ment of Music at Meredith College will be assumed by Professor W. David Lynch effective with the 1969-70 college year. His appoint ment was authorized by the Board of Trustees at the February meeting upon the recommendation of the President and members of the Mu sic Department. Mr. Lynch will succeed Dr. Harry E. Cooper who is retiring as Chairman of the De partment at the end of the current school year and has accepted an appointment for 1969-70 as Pro fessor of Music, as provided by the College retirement policy. Mr. Lynch is a native of North Carolina and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Larkin Lynch, are as sociated with Mars Hill College. He earned the B.M. degree from Oberlin College, was a special stu dent for one year at Akademie “Mozarteum,” Salzburg, Austria, and studied under Andre Marchal in Paris during one summer. He re ceived the M.M. degree at Eastman School of Music and expects to com plete his work for the D.M.A. de gree at Eastman this summer. W. David Lynch Sue Wood, student chairman of the Concert and Lectures Series, had announced in the fall the possibility of inviting a famous popular singer to the campus. Paid for by the profit from the sale of movie tickets, the show will now be the first of its kind at Meredith and, as Sue com ments, “We hope this type of pro gram will continue here in years to come.” English Department to Conduct Annual Alumnae Seminar Secretariat and member delegations both in speaking to the group in being available for student inter views and informat on research projects. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday the students take two or three other courses in regular Drew curriculum on campus. Applications should be made through the Meredith College co ordinator, Dr. Sarah Lemmon. Final application approval rests with the Director at Drew University and the Dean of Meredith College. The cost for one semester, in cluding tuition, board, and special United Nations Program fee is $ 1,682.50 for the semester. What better department to pre sent a program entitled “Words” than the English Department and that is just what they are doing at the 27th Annual Alumnae Seminar, Mar. 22. The alumnae program begins at 9:30 a.m. at the Alumnae House for registration and coffee. The morning session follows at 10:30 a.m. at Jones Auditorium with a welcoming talk be Edith S. Simpson (’45), introductions by Alice G. Satisky {’37), and the presentation of the program by Dr. Norma Rose. At 10:45 a.m. Mrs. Ruth Ann Phillips will present “Xingu,” a one-act play written by Edith Whar ton. After a short break, Dr. Mary Lynch Johnson will address the seminar with “Words and The Word." The meeting recesses at 1 p.m. for luncheon at the dining hall with Mrs. Simpson presiding. The afternoon session begins at 2:30 p.m. in 103 Joyner Hall and features Alumnae readings entitled “As Poets Do” by Mary Ellen Hall (’53), Ruami Squires (’34), Sarah Cook Rawley (’29), and Sidney Anne Wilson (’43). Upon the completion of these readings at 3:30 p.m., the program and the 27th Annual Alumnae Seminar will adjourn for another year. Mr. Lynch has taught at Oberlin College, State University College of New Y ork at Geneseo, Eastman School of Music, and is currently teaching at Centenary College for Women in Hackettstown, New Jersey. Of Mr. Lynch’s qualifications. President Heilman commented, “I am confident that he will help us to maintain the excellent and noted Department of Music for which Meredith has long been known.” Carol R. Fraser Conducts Clinic On Riding Skills Owner of All Trails Riding School and first winner of horsedom’s “Triple Crown,” Carol R. Fraser, will conduct a Riding-Training Clinic at Meredith College, March 17-21. The clinic will cover instruc tion in Forward Seat, Saddle Seat, Stock Seat, and Dressage. Private and class instruction will be avail able. Miss Fraser, a widely experi enced competitor, student, teacher, trainer, and manager of a horse and cattle ranch, brings to the clinic expert knowledge in houseman- ship. She was the first winner of the “Triple Crown” having won both the five and three-gaited amateur stakes at the World Championship Show held during the Kentucky State Fair, the American Royal in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Chicago International. Four years in dressage study was received in Texas under Edgar von Petkovich; in Germany under Oberst Seunig and Robert Schmldtke; and in New York under Richard Watjean. Miss Fraser has been guest lec- (Conliiuied on page 3) Dr. Helen Daniell Writes French Text Dr. Helen P. Daniell has recently completed an edition of one part of the longest of the French me dieval prose romances, L'histoire (ill Roy Perceforest, for use as a textbook at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is being used currently by Dr. Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr., in his Middle French class. This text, under the title Passelyon, Chevalier de la Grant Bretaigne, was published by the Department of Romance Languages at Chapel Hill and makes available to students material last printed in 1532. One of these rather rare editions is to be found in the Rare Book Collection at the university’s Wil son Library. Suze Thomas Receives Prize For Art Entry Suze Thomas, a Meredith senior art education major, was one of ten students from five North Carolina colleges and universities to receive an award Sunday, Mar. 15 in the seventh annual Student Art Compe tition held at N. C. State University. The winners were honored at an awards presentation Sunday, at 3:15 p.m. at the Erdahl-Cioyd Student Union. Nearly 240 works of art were en tered in the competition, which was sponsored by the Student Union Gallery Committee and the Presby terian Campus Ministry. Schools represented by the winners are, UNC at Chapel Hill, with four win ners; East Carolina University, three; NCSU, Salem College and Meredith college, one each. Suze, a transfer from State, came to Meredith through a desire for art education courses not offered at N. C. State. She plans to do her stu dent teaching this semester. Her drawing, entitled “Cutie & Capt” as well as many of the other entries in the competition will be on dis play at the Student Union at NCSU until March 30. CUTIE & CAPT captured first prize for Meredith’s Suze Thomas in the Student Art Competition at NCSU.