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SEPTEMBER 22, 1976 THE TWIG PAGE 3 72 graduate returns to teach voice by Kim Dale Ellen Barney Williams, the musical director for Meredith’s fall musical production, CABARET, is a new face in the music department to many people on campus but not so new to many others. Ellen has “come home” in a sense, for she is a 1972 Meredith graduate. This year Ellen has joined the Meredith faculty as a part- time instructor of voice and phonetics, or as she explained, “stage diction for singers.” She received her BA in music and religion from Meredith in ’72 and her masters in ’75 from the New England Con servatory in Boston. Originally from Burlington, N.C., Ellen remarked, “My husband and I Thomas attends conference in Miami by Rosie Bowers Dr. Sandra Thomas, vice president for student development, joined women and men from 24 countries in the first Hemispheric Con ference for Women, held August 5-8, in Miami, Florida. Presenting her remarks in English and Spanish, Dr. Thomas spoke on the subject of research on women in Latin America. Through workshops and seminars, participants examined hemispheric goals of development, dynamics of societal changes, and research programs to im prove the status of women in the Americas. Attempting to provide dialogue between women of the hemisphere, the con ference was concerned with such themes as education, health, economics, and political participation. Summarizing the purpose of the hemispheric con ference, Dr. Thomas said that women from diverse backgrounds came together with the knowledge and ideal “that to improve the condition of women in the Americas is to improve the condition of all people in this hemisphere.” Participants in the con ference included women from throughout the hemisphere. The United States, Canada, and the nations of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and the Bahamas were represented. Delegations to the Assembly of Inter-American Commission of Woman and members of national com mittees of Cooperation met with women in government, professions, industry, com munications, education, and the public sector. A cross-section representation of women from Latin America increased the opportunity for meaningful cultural exchange among participants, said Dr. Thomas. With some 10 million Spanish speaking people in the U.S. alone, the hemispheric conference provided significant influence for the Hispanic people of the Americas, Dr. Thomas concluded. Slmericau (Collegiate $)oet)5 Sntfjologp International Publications is sponsoring a J^ational College JPoetrp Contest Fait Concours ]976 open to all college and university students desiring to have their poetry anthologized. CASH PRIZES will go to the top five poems: $100 $50 $25 Fourth First Place Second Place Third Place $10 Fifth AWARDS of free printing for ALL accepted manuscripts in our popular, hondsomely bound ond copyrighted anthology, AMERICAN COLLEGIATE Deadline: October 25 CONTEST RULES AND RESTRICTIONS: 1. Any student is eligible to submit his verse. 2. All entries must be originol ond unpublished. 3. All entries must be typed, double-spoced, on one side of the page only. Each poem must be on o separate sheet and must bear, in the upper left- hand comer, the NAME and ADDRESS af the student as well as the COLLEGE attended. 4. There are no restrictions on form or theme. Length of poems up to fourteen lines. Each paem must have a separate title. (Avoid “Untitled”!) Smoll block ond white illustrotions welcome. 5. The judges' decision will be final. 6. Entrants should keep a copy of oil entries os they cannot be returned. Prize winners and oil authors awarded free publication will be notified immediately ofter deodline. I.P. will retain first publicotion rights for accepted poems. 7. There is on initiol one dollar registrotion fee for the first entry and a fee of fifty cents for each additional poem. It is requested to submit no more then five poems per entrant. 8. All entries must be postmorked not later then the obove deadline ond fees be paid, cash, check or money order, to: INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS 4747 Fountain Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90029 went there (Boston) so I could get my masters. I was pretty lucky. There aren’t many husbands who go where their wives want to go.” Ellen commented on the changes Meredith has un dergone since her days here as a student. Concerning the dress code, she said, “The first year I was here, in ’68-’69, we had to wear dresses and skirts except in the dorms. My sophomore year, we could were pantsuits or nice pants and tops, but not jeans. My third and fourth years, they started wearing jeans.” She also said that she thought girls were “starting to dress and go back to what it was before ” Ellen said curfew hours got “progressively later’’ each year. “On weekends, seniors had SDH.” Ellen remembers when the library was on the second floor of Johnson Hall during her freshman year. When the new Carlyle Campbell Library opened, Ellen said, “Everyone helped take bodes to the new library and everyone felt they had a part in it.” She also remembers when the gym was a white wood building in front of where Barefoot dorm now is. Weatherspoon Gymnasium was open, she said, by her senior year. Ellen loves musicals and operas. She remembers the first musical done at Meredith while she was a student - “The Sound of Music”- her senior year. She was in operas in graduate school, she said. Ellen remarked that it is “really fun” working on Cabaret. She commented that the play gives her a “chance to get to know people.” Commenting on the music in Cabaret, she said, “The music is not easy to learn but it’s singable and interesting. It’s up-to-date and has lots of rhythm and syncopation.” She also mentioned that the show contains such popular songs as “Willkomen” and “Cabaret”. Ellen’s husband, Douglas, is also interested in music. He runs an instrument main tenance business which in volves rebuilding pianos and harpsichords, working on antique pianos, and tuning pianos. During the interview, Ellen remarked that she really enjoyed the Meredith traditions like Comhuskin’, Stimt, and Play Day. She said that at Meredith, “The communication and rapport is so good between the faculty and students. Everyone is so friendly.” r^jf^ Musical director Ellen Barney Williams looks over the “Cabaret” score at a recent practice. Byrd sees quake^s effect by Carolyn Morton Sophmore Denise Byrd spent her summer in the Central American country of Guatemala, where her father is a Southern Baptist missionary. Denise wanted to be with her family and to work with people who have been stricken by earthquakes in Guatemala. Denise had several odd jobs. She worked weekly at a hospital with paralyzed patients. She said, “I’m in terested in nursing, so it was a good experience”. She also worked in the seminary library and at a Baptist book store. Denise also worked with a reconstruction team in an earthquake-destroyed village. She explained that they stayed in tents with no hot water or toilets. “It really got me close to the effects of the earthquake,” she said. The earthquake took place on February 4, 1976. According to Denise 23,000 were recorded dead, 77,000 were wounded, and about a million were left homeless. At the time of the quake her father was in the U.S. for medical treatment. “I con sidered it a miracle that he was not in a Guatemalan hospital during the ear- thquake,”Denise said. “One night we were watching the news on television when they showed a man sitting in front oi a Brothers Pizza Palace 2808V^ Hillsborough St Across from NCSU Campus We have take-out service 832-3664 Our specialities: Lasagna, Veal Parmlgiaiil, other Italian foods, and sandwiches. destroyed house”, she stated. “It was a friend of ours. That really brought the quake dose to home.” Denise was born in Raleigh, but she moved with her family to Guatemala when she was ten. She speaks fluent Spanish having lived there until her junior year in high school in 1975. The trip to Guatemala this summer gave Denise a chance to see old friends and help the earthquake victims. She left the U.S. May 17 and returned August 16 just before the opening of school. “Everyone kidded me about going back and another earthquake oc curring. The first night I was back we had a tremor,” Denise chuckled. Denise’s room decor shows influences of her life in Guatemala. Everywhere there are South American posters, statues, and wall hangings. She spdee of the adjustment of coming to America, “I found that since my parents provided me with an American home life that it was easier to come.” Denise loves Guatemala, but she feels that America is also her home. When asked about her choice of Meredith as a college Denise com mented, “I checked around and Meredith seemed like a good place. Everyone I talked with liked the school. I par ticularly like the location and the academics.” Denise commented on the increased enrollment of foreign students at Meredith. “It is good that Meredith is getting more international students. There is a girl on my hall from Costa Rica,” she noted. What are the advantages of living in Guatemala? “Being able to speak Spanish helped me place out of some (tf the requir^ hours,” Denise explained. Pam Dail, her roomate, quickly added, “Tell her about the guys you met.” That’s one subject that is popular in all countries!
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