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Ko-Kela
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pleting an advanced degree at the Uni
versity of Southern California.
Their program for the concert at Mars
Hill will include Mozart’s Piano Quartet
in E-flat, K. 493; Aaron Copland’s Pi
ano Quartet; and Brahm’s Piano Quar
tet in G-minor, Op. 25. While chamber
music is not usually considered exciting,
one reviewer noted after listening to Ko-
Kela that “big sound is not the sole
preserve of large symphonies. It is
remarkable that a four-person unit with
relatively small instruments can produce
sounds that flash and thunder like one
of those summer storms that frighten
and inspire at the same moment.’’
Ko-Kela is sponsored by the college’s
Visiting Artists and Lecturers Commit
tee. Admission to the event is $3 for
adults and $2 for students with iden
tification. Additional information is
available from Dr. George Peery.
America Is
Graying
The United States Bureau of the Cen
sus identifies Americans over 65 as the
fastest growing population group in the
country. While the total national popu
lation has tripled over the past eight
decades, the number of older Americans
has increased eight-fold! Over 11.3% of
the population, some 25 million persons,
are now 65 years old and growing older.
During the next fifty years the post war
baby boom will reach the “Golden
Years’’ inflating the senior citizen popu
lation to 55 million, nearly 25% of the
national population.
Through the Department of Social
and Behavioral Sciences, Mars Hill Col
lege offers a certificate in gerontology,
the study of aging, for students interest
ed in broadening their knowledge and
skills for serving the elderly. The course
of studies provides an overview of the
sociological, psychological and physio
logical aspects of aging. It considers the
needs of an aging population and the
development of relevant service pro
grams. It evaluates societal attitudes
towards aging and explores the processes
of dying and death. An internship offers
an experiential learning opportunity
with an elderly population in a variety of
social, recreational, medical or religious
settings.
If you are interested in further infor
mation about a minor in gerontology,
please stop by Founders Hall for an in
formation sheet describing the objec
tives, course work and faculty. If you
wish to discuss the program further,
please contact Ms. Julia Nooe at Ext.
#228.
Mike Cross in Concert
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In the last few years, Mike Cross has
become something of a legend - one of
those little backwoods tales that turns
into real life.
There was a time when only a handful
of people in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
showed up faithfully whenever Cross
played a local club. Now, folks across
the South and Midwest stand in line to
crowd into clubs and concert halls to see
this fiddling storyteller they’ve heard so
much about.
And as with any legend, the hearing
comes from friends with records they
got from other friends, not through the
usual media channels, who are them
selves just becoming aware of Cross’
special brand of homespun humor, high
energy performance and his just plain
old good-time type of evening.
But everything about Cross and his
music is one cut above fantasy anyway -
his show, his music, his beginning as a
musician.
“Well, the gist of it is, I got sick in a
snowstorm during my junior year in col
lege and ended up spending the night in
this guy’s dormitory room,” is the story
as Cross tells it. “It turned out his room
mate played the guitar.”
That roommate spent the next two
days teaching Cross his first chords and
songs.
Now, nearly ten years later, he still
plays guitar - and fiddle as well - travel
ing from place to place across the coun
try delighting audiences with 12 string
bottleneck blues, Irish jigs and reels, old
time mountain fiddle tunes, plus a
wealth of own tunes full of backwoods
humor characteristic of Will Rogers and
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Mark Twain.
The fact that Cross originates songs
and stories in this tradition is the only
logical part of his saga. Born in Mary
ville, Tennessee in 1946, he grew up
“back in the Appalachian mountains,”
as he puts it - a region well known for
storytellers and songwriters. But here
the logic ends.
“The ironic thing about this is.
though I grew up around a bun'
good musicians, my great addictio'jp
life was golf. I was a hardcore
from the time I was about ten
until I went off to college. I was SP^
go to college and play golf on a sch^’j
ship. But I fell in love with this j
thought I’d go off to college and j ^
to be a doctor; do something solid
secure so she’d marry me.
Turn To PaS^
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Residential Language
School - Live& Leam
By CYNTHIA CRAWFORD
A new way of teaching foreign lan
guages will be available this summer for
college students, certain high school stu
dents, and others who wish to achieve a
greater proficiency in either Spanish or
French.
The school will feature the “total im
mersion” method of teaching in which
the participants will live together, take
meals together, participate in extracur
ricular activities together, as well as meet
in classes all conducted in the language
they are studying.
In each of the Spanish and French ses
sions there will be daily instruction, in
cluding grammar, lab practice and
group conversations, as well as classes
on cultural understanding involving lec
tures, discussions with native resource
persons, and films.
Up to seven credit hours, four for lan
guage study and three for Hispanic or
French Civilization, are available to the
participants.
The programs will have four members
of the college’s Department of Modern
Foreign Languages as instructors. The
Spanish program will be conducted by
Mrs. Gwyndola Fish, chairperson of the
department and professor of Spanish,
and Dr. Katherine Macoy, associate pro
fessor of Spanish. The French program
will be coordinated by Dr. Sandra
Obergfell, assistant professor of French,
and Dr. Richard Knapp, associate pro
fessor of French. Two native language
consultants will also participate in each
session, serving as tutors, counselors.
and resident-hall directors. .
The participants will live in ^
House, a specially designated
campus for international studies-
the campus’s recreation and
ucation facilities, as well as the
and college union will be availabl®
participants. ^
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while the French program
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