August 30, 2000
Meredith Herald
Campus News
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The Learning Center is now
officially open and ready to
assist Meredith students in
achieving their academic
goals!
Nan Miller, director of the
Learning Center, said, “After
14 years experience with this
service. I see that tutoring can
make an appreciable difference
in a student’s progress."
The staff is comprised of
Meredith students who have
been trained to tutor their peers
in different subject areas.
Jennie Davis, a senior Eng
lish major who tutors writing
and grammar, said “I actually
learn a lot from tutoring. It
helps me work on my English
skilts-’’
Students can be tutored indi
vidually in writing, grammar,
math. French or Spanish- There
are also several options for
group help sessions.
A Math Lab is available each
week on Tuesdays from 7-9
p.m. in 113 Joyner. The Lab
will be staffed by two math
tutors who can help students
with problems they encounter
in their homework.
Beginning Sept. 24. the
Writing Center will offer
Grammar Review sessions to
help students prepare for the
Competency Test, which all
English 111 students must take
on Tuesday, Nov. 7.
One of the Learning Cen
ter’s first customers of the year,
freshman Elizabeth Malta, is
already preparing. Her profes
sor, Suzanne Britt suggested
that her students utilize the
Learning Center.
Matta said, “My teacher
thinks it is such a good idea. I
want to do well on the Compe
tency Test and get a head start.”
The Learning Center is free
to all Meredith students. To
make an appointment, students
should go to the sign-up sheet
outside of 122 Jones or call
760-2800.
Trained tutors in
the Learning
Center can help
Meredith students
with math, writ
ing, English,
grammar and
foreign languages.
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Speaker:
Anna Kate Ellerman,
Associate Campus Minister
10:00 A.M.
Wednesday, September 6,
2000
Jones Chapel
Opera to
premiere at
Meredith in
October
Officr of Marketing and
Communications
The Meredith College Opera
Theatre will present the world
premier of its second commis
sioned opera, Felice, from Oct. -
5 - 8, 2000, in Jones Auditori
um on Meredith’s campus.
Benton Hess composed this
music to a libretto by Roy
Dicks. The opera is based on
the novel Felice, by Angela
Davis-Gardner. 1-isbeth Carter,
director of Meredith's Opera
Theatre, will stage the produc
tion, which is being supported
by grants from the Fletcher
Foundation,, the Kenan Foun
dation and the A.E. Finley
Foundation.
This will be the second time
in two years that the Meredith
College Opera Theatre has
commissioned a new operatic
work based on a living North
Carolina writer’s work.
Carter established the goal
of commissioning new operas
based on the work of North
Carolina writers, both to give
credit to the rich literary tradi
tion of the state, as well as to
create works to focus on the
talents of Meredith students
and faculty.
The story of Felice takes
place in a convent school in
Nova Scotia in the 1920s. The
title character is a young girl
who yearns to take holy orders
and dedicate her life to saintly
acts, but she finds that earthly
passions keep intruding as she
deals with her attraction to a
sailor who has been taken in to
recover from being ship
wrecked.
The New York Times called
Felice “a fine first novel. The
author gives her readers the
rewards of both the realistic
novel and the romance. It is
Davis-Gardner’s triumph to
have shown us at once the
allure of the convent life and its
limitations."
For more information, con
tact Lisbeth Carter at 760-8609
or by email, carierl@mered-
ith.edu.