Meredith
October 29, 2003
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Volume XVVm, Issue 10
Poet Betty Adcock spoke at Friends of
tlie Library lunclieon
CRYSTAL DAVIS
Staff Writer
Bern- Adcock. Kenan
Writer in Residence at
Meredith since 1983. read
at the Friends of the
Librar>'s Fall Luncheon
(POL) on Monday, October
27, She read from three of
her poems, including one
entitled "The Case for
Gravity" that she explained
was inspired by a combina
tion of a childhood memory
and her mother's death
shortly after Adcock turned
five. Gerry Sargent, Library
Administrative Assistant
and Laura Davidson, Dean
of Library Information
Services organized the
luncheon.
Many faculty members
at Meredith including
Connie Harris, vice presi
dent of Institutional
Advancement; Dr. Jean
Jackson,
Meredith’s vice
president; and Dr.
Garry Walton,
dean of
Humanities and
Social Sciences
were among those
who attended the
luncheon to hear
Adcock speak.
.After lunch was
served. Sandra
Close, vice presi
dent for
Membership of thi
POL, spoke about
the membership,
followed by
Davidson, who
gave a brief report
on exciting news
concerning the
library. Dr. Eloise
Grathwohl, head
of the English .
department, intro
duced Adcock by saying
Writer in Residence Betty Adcock.
Photo courtesy of Meredith College
library website.
that she is one of
vieredith's greatest
issets to the class-
oom.
Adcock, a llill-time
3oet, has received
nany awards for her
5oetry, including two
Pushcart Prizes, a
Fellowship in Poetry
from the John Simon
Guggenheim
Foundation, the North
Carolina Governor's
Award, the Poet's
Prize and was a final
ist for the Lenore
Marshall Prize from
the Academy of
American Poets. In
2001, the Dictionary
of Literary Biography
Yearbook named her
•book of poetry.
Intervale,
"Distinguished Volume
of Poetry Published in
2001." Her five books
of poetry include Intervale,
Walking Out, Nettles,
Behuldings and The
Difficult Wheel.
Adcock is a resident in
Raleigh and is one of
Meredith’s Writers in
Residence for which she is
on campus'dvery other
year. She is serving as the
NCSU Distinguished
Visiting Poet this semester.
FOL is an organization
that accepts donations for
the library in order to
expand its horizons and
invites distinguished writ
ers to Meredith's campus to
enrich the college experi
ence for the college's stu
dents. The organization
includes alums and friends
of the college and meets
twice a year for the Fall
Luncheon and Spring
Banquet.
Mereditli liosted tlieater conference
AMY KAY
NICKERSON
Staff Writer
Meredith will host two
theater conferences this
week; the North Carolina
American College Theater
Festival, sponsored by the
Kennedy Center taking
place October 29-30, and
the North Carolina Theatre
Conference Annual Theatre
Gathering 2003, sponsored
by the North Carolina
Theatre Conference run
ning October 30 through
November 2.
The first conference,
NCACTF, contains a com
petition of play productions
in which the winner goes
on to compete at the
regional and possibly the
national level in
Washington D.C., at the
Kennedy Center.
According to the
Kennedy Center's website,
"the Kennedy Center
American College Theater
Festival is a national the
ater program involving
18,000 students from col
leges and universities
nationwide which served as
a catalyst in improving the
quality of college theater in
the United States,"
Three college theatre
productions will compete
for a spot at the regional
conference including
Meredith College's produc
tion of And Then They
Came for Me:
Remembering the World of
Anne Franic to be per
formed at 7:30 pm on
October 29; Country Songs,
by Wingate University at
' 10 a.m. on Thursday
October 30; and Catawba
College’s original produc
tion, Islgnd, at 5:30 p.m. on of fiin," stated freshman
October 30. Athena Gamer.
"Theatre at Meredith has
its serious, professional See Theater
side, but it's certainly a on Page 2
place where you have a lot
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