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MARS HILL. N. C.
October 21, 1967
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Today is Band Day on campus
and, in terms of number of bands
and number of persons involved,
it is the largest such event ever
slated at Mars Hill.
Five high school bands from
neighboring Buncombe County
are scheduled to participate in
the annual event, which begins
at 3 p.m. They are the Clyde A.
Erwin band with J. R. Still direc
tor, the Charles D. Owen group
with Richard Hipps director.
North Buncombe’s band with Mrs.
Brenda J. Russell director, and
the marching units from Enka
and A. C. Reynolds schools, where
John Lackey and Bobby Edwards
0'1‘e the directors.
The latter two men are gradu
ates of Mars Hill and former
members of the Blue and Gold
Band.
Including majorette squads, the
total group of high school visi
tors at the game tonight will num-
I*er approximately 400.
Band Day action begins with
rehearsal this afternoon on the
football field. A pre-game show
will be presented by the Owen
band.
At halftime the combined bands
■ including the college group—
will perform. First they will play,
“Hey, Look Me Over,” while the
majorettes from the various
Schools perform. Then they will
Piay the march “Our Director”
m honor of their musical con
ductors, and finally they will play
the North Carolina state song,
“The Old North State.”
Robert Schwuchow, a new
member of the music faculty, is
director of the college marching
band and is in charge of the Band
Day program.
WRA 'Very Active'
The Woman’s Recreation As
sociation is currently “very ac
tive,” reports Miss Aileen Tyler,
faculty advisor to the club. A
tennis tournament is in the heat
°f competition as of now. Next
Week, volleyball competition will
begin. This volleyball tournament
*s to be held similar to competi
tions held by the men’s intramu-
^^Is in that competition will be
between dorms. This is an inno
vation for the WRA, according to
Miss Tyler.
Archery is currently available
to those wishing to participate in
Jt. Times for this activity are
Tuesdays and Wednesdays from
^-4 p.m.
Other activities planned for
the year by WRA are a swim
and perhaps fencing. A
track meet for girls is hoped for
this spring.
The project of the year for
V'RA is the writing of a consti-
ution for the organization.
Strictly an extracurricular pro-
p’am, WRA encompasses several
_ Undred coeds who are interested
Various types of activities for
*"6creation and exercise.
The agenda for the year varies
rom hiking and crafts to softball
®Pd slimnastics.
Demonstrations Evoke
Lengthy Discussion
This was the scene last week when President Fred Bentley
engaged in a two-hour and 45-minute discussion of pro’s and
con’s, facts and figures on football at Mars Hill. The setting is
the Owen Building.
Unique Musical Scheduled
“Curlew River,” a music drama
vastly different from most per
formances given by touring com
panies in the nation today, will
be presented in Moore Auditorium
at 8 p.m. Monday.
The original work by Benjamin
Britten will feature members of
the Little Orchestra Society of
New York. The musical director
will be Thomas Scherman, and
design and direction will be by
Vlado Habunek.
Based on the Japanese No-play
“Sumidagawa” by Juro Monto-
masa, “Curlew River” is the
simple but dramatic story of a dis
traught and obsessed woman in
search of her lost child.
The English libretto by Wil
liam Plomer unfolds like a moral
ity play and its compelling drama
is heightened by the stark econ
omy of its stage movement and
action.
All the members of the cast
assume the roles of monks and
the presentation begins with their
procession into the theater. As
the members take their places,
the soloists don their Japanese
costumes and the music and ac
tion begin.
Scherman, who has presented
distinguished performances in
New York of such operas as “Die
Frau Ohne Schatten,” “Castor
and Pollux” and “Ariadne,” has
solicited the first desk players of
the Little Orchestra Society and
members of the Concert Opera
Association to assemble the finest
musicians for the touring com
pany of “Curlew River.” The
cast includes five vocal soloists,
a male chorus and a small instru
mental ensemble.
When the drama had its United
States premiere last summer, it.
was hailed by music critics across
the country as an excitingly dif
ference contribution to the world
of music. Time magazine called
it “a smooth melding into what
is a new wholly engaging musical
form.”
Chosen as part of the college
lyceum series for 1967-68, the
performance will be open to the
public as well as the student body
and faculty.
Boisterous demonstrations ac
companied by frequent chants of
“Whatta ya want in ’68? Foot
ball! Football!” resulted in a
lengthy confrontation last week
between several hundred students
and President Fred Bentley.
The results were apparently not
to the liking of all for a majority
of the students stalked out of the
meeting after an hour or so to
stage another demonstration.
The face-to-face meeting did
serve, however, to produce some
Injured Pair
Recovering
One of the Mars Hill students
who was injured in an automobile
accident two weeks ago has re
turned to classes, but the other
remains in the hospital in Ashe
ville.
William B. Pollard III, a junior
from Black Mountain, returned
to the campus Wednesday of last
week and resumed classes Thurs
day.
His companion in the accident,
Betty Henley, junior from Chapel
Hill, is still in Memorial Mission
Hospital in serious condition. She
is slowly recovering from several
broken ribs, a broken pelvis, a
concussion and numerous bruises.
The two were injured when
the car he was driving struck a
bridge in a curve near the new
four-lane highway at Weaverville.
It is the same bridge at which
Mars Hill student John B. Ed
wards was killed in November
1966.
The accident occurred on Sat
urday night of the homecoming
weekend.
Both Pollard and Miss Henley
formerly attended Montreat-An-
derson College prior to transfer
ring to Mars Hill in August. He
also had attended Wofford Col
lege.
Thomas Discusses Cast, Theme of Play
James Thomas^ of the Drama
Department announced this week
the cast for the department’s third
production of this semester, “The
Subject Was Roses.”
The play won the Pulitzer Prize
in 1966 and was voted “Best Play
of the Year” by New York drama
critics. “The Subject Was Roses”
will be performed arena-style on
the stage of Moore auditorium on
Nov. 29, 30, and Dec. 1, 2. Cur
tain time will be 8 p.m.
The three cast members include
veterans of the Mars Hill stage.
Perry White, senior biology ma
jor, plays John Cleary, the father.
Perry, whose father is Executive
Secretary of the Sunday School
Board of the N. C. Baptist State
Convention, is originally from
Charleston, S. C. Last year he
played the leading role. Captain
Bluntschli in “Arms and the Man”,
and Feste, the clown, in “Twelfth
Night”. This year he is the
scenery assistant for the drama
department, having served as tech
nical director for the department’s
last production, “Antigone”.
Wayne Slagle, a senior drama
major, has had varied experience
with the campus theatre. Last sea
son he played Orsino in “Twelfth
Night”, and Tommy K. Djilas in
“The Music Man”. Slagle, who
hails from Marshall where he has
been a staff announcer with the
radio station WMMH for several
years, has considerable technical
experience in the theatre, especi
ally as sound technician. Wayne
will play Timmy Cleary, the war
veteran, in “The Subject Was
Roses”.
Mars Hill audiences will remem
ber Katie Swofford as Ismene,
sister of Antigone, and as the
dark-haired beauty, Olivia, in last
season’s “Twelfth Night”. Katie
will portray Nettie Cleary, John's
wife, in the forthcoming produc
tion. Katie is a junior drama ma
jor from Charlotte.
The action in the prize-winning
play is deceptively simple. A son
who went away to war as a
pampered boy comes back as a
man of his own, and the varying
effects on his mother and father
are devastating. They want to
love each other to relive the good
old times and build some better
ones together, but each finds it
impossible to communicate with
either of the others. They have
grown irrevocably apart and can
no longer reconcile the dream
and the reality.
A polka with his mother throws
both her and Timmy into fits of
laughter; but then, this isn’t the
boy she remembers at all.
They want to love one another,
but do not know how.
much-desired communication be
tween the student body and the
chief administrative official of
the college.
Sitting on the stage of the
Owen Building and armed with
a copy of the 1967-68 college
budget and other materials. Dr.
Bentley fielded questions from
throughout the audience. He
readily quoted figures to support
his statements. Some of the stu
dents expressed disbelief in the
accuracy of the figures.
The range of questions was wide.
Many reflected an interest in the
ultimate welfare of the college
as well as a concern over the
immediate question of dropping
intercollegiate football. Some of
the questions concerned legiti
mate problems and showed sound
logic; others were unreasonable
and simply emotional.
One of the first things the
students wanted to know was
what influenced the trustees to
decide, during their May meeting,
to drop football after the 1967
season.
Dr. Bentley explained that ap
proximately $60,000 is currently
being spent on the football pro
gram and yet Mars Hill is unable
to compete favorably with the
various colleges on its schedule.
He said information supplied to
him by the Athletic Department
indicates that in order for Mars
Hill to compete successfully
against such schools at Furman,
Catawba, Western Carolina and
Carson-Newman an additional
$60,000 would have to be put into
the budget annually for football.
He explained that with its pres
ent income Mars Hill does not
have this amount to spare. If
this amount were appropriated
for football, it would be at the
expense of other aspects of the
college program — primarily the
academic program—^he said.
He explained that the foremost
objective of the college at pres
ent is to become accredited as a
senior college and that this is re
quiring all the funds the college
has. To take an additional $60,-
000 per year from general funds
for football would endanger the
college’s chance of becoming and
remaining accredited, he said.
Faced with making a choice be
tween the two alternatives, he
recommended and the trustees
agreed that football should be
dropped, he stated.
One student commented that
the range of social activities on
campus is already too limited and
that dropping football will fur
ther complicate this problem. Dr.
Bentley agreed and suggested that
students and the administration
would need to work together in
seeking a solution.
One coed asked if there were
other colleges which do not spend
large sums on football and which
Mars Hill might play competitive
ly with its present football bud
get. He replied that there are
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