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The concert will be opened to the public.
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by Wayne Staples
Eighty-three Mars Hill College
*®niors, a record number for any
semester, have been approved
** student teachers for the spring
‘Dniester. The students, who will
^aduate in May or Augrust of
1^68, will begin their practice
^aching on March 9 and will
'“adude on May 10.
The students and the schools
which they are teaching are as
allows: Erwin High School, Ashe-
Dixie Barnett, Kenneth
^®11, Mrs. Ann Boyd, Bill Dyar,
^aul Early; East Mecklenburg
®%h School, Charlotte, Ronald
^jdridge, Wanda Brown; Mars
?Jll High School, Dennis Adams,
v'aginia Eddleman, Carroll Reed;
^arris High School, Spruce Pine,
^•'s. Barbara Bacon, Charles Prof-
Danny Shook, Elizabeth Wil-
^1; West Mecklenburg High
'^hool, Charlotte, Rebecca Ber-
^Uniors Plan
^^*Sr• Dance
The iunior class has announced
^•ans for the first Junior-Senior
.’'Um at Mars Hill. It will be held
.aturday, April 6 from 8 to 12
jj the Gold Room of the Battery
^a^k Hotel in Asheville. Bert
assengale and his orchestra will
ay for the formal affair,
j Junior class president David
%ith IS in charge of all arrange-
j^uts and committees. There will
Uo charge for seniors or facul-
• Juniors will be charged two
"^lars per couple.
j, Reservations may be secured
March 23 at the evening
Jal in the cafeteria. Tuxedoes
be rented from the Hilltop-
^hrel office on March 20. Rental
be $9.60,
spokesman for the junior
stated that one of the finest
,1^'^kestras in the South has been
,|^^ined. The Massengale Or-
,^stra plays any and all types
hmsic.
Anyone coming to the event
Ibe virtually assured of a to-
enjoyable and memorable
,, ®uing,” the spokesman con-
'^ded.
gen, Wayne Laughter, Ralph Ma
gee.
North Buncombe High School,
Weaverville, Mrs. Katy Bolton,
Monnie Gahagan, Carolyn Kins-
land, Judith Meadows, Joel Reed,
Alfred Snipes, Felton Stephens,
Catherine Tilghman, Bob Wood;
Independence High School, Char
lotte, Heather Brose, Jerry
Moore; Lee Edwards High School,
Asheville, Linda Brown, Larry
Clark, Dorothy Thompson.
East Henderson High School,
Flat Rock, Judith Cabe, Mrs. Beth
Pace; T. C. Roberson, Skyland,
Sandra Cannon, Robert Collins;
North Mecklenburg High School,
Charlotte, Ann Cantrell, Earl El
ler, Ann Kirby; Tuscola High
School, Waynesville, Charles Du-
Rant, Eva Gilman, Wayne Strick-
ler; South French Broad High
School, Asheville, Sylvia Ful-
bright; Enka High School, Gary
Henry.
A. C. Reynolds High School,
Asheville, Ronald Howard; Char
les D. Owen High School, Swan-
nanoa, Jerry Jenkins, Bee Mayo,
Ronald Slaughter; East Yancey
High School, Burnsville, Peggy
Ledford; Olympic High School,
Charlotte, Judy Whitlow. Ranson
Junior High School, Charlotte,
Jerry Blevins, Barry Brown, Wil
lie Cox, Rick Holbrook, Sandra
Duck, Rheta Swicegood; Hall
Fletcher Junior High, Asheville,
Joan Farrell, Carolyn Henderson,
Harold Owen.
Sedgefield Junior High School,
Charlotte, Mrs. Jane Hamrick,
Cheryl Moon, David Water*; David
Millard Junior Higb, Aibeville,
David Keith, Martha Morris, Mrs.
Betty Van Dyke, Royce Walsh,
James Warfford; Waynesville Jun
ior High, Charles DuRant, Wayne
Strickler; Berryhill School, Char
lotte, Susan Barnette, Janis Elam,
Mary Saunders, Lynn Truell, Faye
Wallace; Bruce Drysdale School,
Hendersonville, Catherine Bartles;
Rankin Elementary School, Ashe
ville, Brenda Cole.
Valley Springs School, Skyland,
Sandra Cannon; Aycock Elemen
tary School, Asheville, Hilda
Decker; Rosa Edwards School,
Hendersonville, Sharon Godwin;
Flat Creek School, Weaverville,
Jane Haerle; Vance Elementary
School, Asheville, Judy Justice,
Kay Peppers; Newton Elementary
School, Asheville, Pat Karriker;
Weaverville Primary School, Kar
en Lambert, Diane Mason; Harris
Elementary School, Spruce Pine,
Mrs. Carolyn Warner; and Mrs.
Margaret Tilson.
For the past four or five years
the education department has
tried to renovate the student
teaching program and has achiev
ed a great deal of success accord
ing to Dr. John Hough, head of
the department. He stated that
the Charlotte school system con
siders ours as one of the best
systems in the state.
Secretary
Goes to Hawaii
Mrs. Charles Gray, secretary to
Mr. Robert Chapman, returned
to Mars Hill on Feb. 1 after nine
days in Honolulu where she was
reunited with her husband. Chap
lain LTC Charles Gray, who is an
Army Chaplain with the 4th In
fantry in Viet Nam. Chaplain
Gray was in Hawaii for a week
of rest and recuperation.
The Grays spent a week on
Waikiki Beach, toured the capital
city of Honolulu, and were given
an official tour of Pearl Harbor
on an admiral’s flat.
Then Mrs. Gray returned to
Mars Hill and Chaplain Gray re
turned to Viet Nam. He had
been stationed in Pleiku but has
now been transferred to Long
Binh.
The Grays have been involved
in Army life for eighteen years.
This has allowed them to live in
eight states and has also taken
them to Germany for three years.
It was in Germany that they
adopted Gary, their 12-year-old
son. They also have a daughter,
Cathy, who is a sophomore here.
Mrs. Gray attended Mars Hill
from 1941-43. She was a member
of CLIO and the Scriblerus Club.
She also served as house presi
dent of Spilman Dormitory.
Norman Luboff Choir
To Present Concert
The final lyceum feature of
the school year, the famed Nor
man Luboff Choir, will be pre
sented in Moore Auditorium Mon
day, March 11, at 8 p.m.
The group, which has recorded
some 30 albums, has a repertoire
that is wide in its selection of
types of music, from Bach to
blues. All of their albums have
been best sellers.
Some of the songs in their
repertoire include “Black is the
Color,” “All the Things You Are,”
“There Is Nothing Like a Dame,”
“Whoopee Ti Yi Yo,” “Lonesome
Valley,” “Joshua Pit de Battle,”
“Ave Maria,” “Glory to God,” “Te
Deum,” and “H Coro Delle Mal-
maritate.”
The choir consists of 30 singers
and four instrumentalists. Luboff
himself has arranged most of the
numbers done by the choir.
Luboff and his choir have been
traveling since 1963, and are
known as one of the busiest groups
in show business. An average con
cert season sees the choir doing
in excess of 100 concerts.
In recent seasons, tours have
been extended to twenty weeks
and more. How does a chorus that
performs so much avoid going
“stale”? “Easy,” says the tall and
handsomely bearded leader; “We
avoid set programs, and in their
stead, distribute to our sponsors
copies of a long ‘Programmatic
Repertoire’ list from which indi
vidual selections will be chosen
as the concert progresses. This
has other advantages besides
keeping the choristers and musi
cians fresh and on their toes;”
he continues; “it gives me a
chance to communicate orally and
directly with the audience, for I
announce each selection, and make
some brief explanatory remarks
about it.
“In addition to establishing a
pleasant rapport, I am able to
get a surprisingly good ‘feel’ of
what the audience in question is
like—in a general way, of course
—and this in turn helps me to
make the future program selec
tions with them, as well as the
members of my company, in
mind. Finally,” concludes the
Maestro, “this method gives us
an unusually large repertoire—
all of which we are prepared to
perform at the drop of a down-
beat, and we can comply with
surprisingly many of the encore
requests called out to us by mem
bers of the audience.”
Luboff’s professional career
had a three-ply beginning: he
taught theory, began to make
commercial arrangements and or
chestrations, and sang “pops”
music. Soon he began appearing
regularly on various radio pro
grams, in local theaters, and on
recordings.
By 1946 the demand for Nor
man Luboff arrangements had
become so great that he gave up
singing entirely. Shortly after
ward, Hollywood beckoned, and
the Luboffs moved to the West
Coast.
It was only natural that tele
vision and motion picture work
would follow, and for the next
seven years Luhoff composed and
arranged music for more than 80
motion pictures, including “Giant”
and “The Miracle.” Luboff ar
rangements were also heard on
such television programs as the
Bell Telephone Hour, the Jerry
Lewis Show, and the Dinah Shore
Show.
It was during this Hollywood
period that the Norman Luboff
Choir came into existence as a
recording entity. It was an in
stant success and has remained
solidly so ever since.
Radio Report
The Student Government Asso
ciation appropriated $360 for the
establishment of a campus radio
station Wednesday night. The
action followed a Monday meet
ing in which Tim Ellmore re
viewed progress to date and Lar
ry Moore handled questions from
the floor.
The $360 appropriation, part
of a revised budget, was passed
unanimously.
Thursday, project leaders be
hind Dan Hayes, met to discuss
the purchase or acquisition of
equipment and needed items. The
leaders of the project expressed
optimism about the station.
'Godot' Coming
To MH Tonight
The Cumberland College Play
ers will present the Samuel Beck
ett “tragicomedy” Waiting for
Godot tonight in the Owen Build
ing at 8 p.m.
Waiting for Godot is one of the
leading plays which are classed in
the modem “theater of the ab
surd.” The entire play evolves
around two characters, Vladimir
and Estragon, who are waiting for
a man named Godot. Godot, how
ever, never appears. He does
send a messenger boy with the
news that he would not be able
to come today, but will certainly
appear tomorrow. There are two
other characters in the play, Poz-
zo and his slave. Lucky.
The New York Post has stated
about the play, “(It is) one of
the most fascinating plays of the
postwar theater . . . grotesquely
beautiful and utterly absorbing.”
The Players are under the di
rection of Mr. D. Michael Blas-
ingame, professor of speech and
drama at Cumberland College.
Blasingame founded the drama
program at Cumberland, where
the theatre is a renovated gro
cery store.
The school, a small Baptist in
stitution in Kentucky, offers no
major in drama but does have a
minor in the subject.