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O'Hanlons Give Memorial AmphitheatreOutdoor dramatic and musical perfor­

mances will soon be possible on the col­lege campus.

The seat for such open air productionswill be the Michael Terrence O'HanlonMemorial Amphitheatre on which con­struction began in late March.

The amphitheatre, to be located on asection of wooded land adjacent to asmall lake, will seat approximately 250persons initially and 500 when it is com­pleted. The first section is marked forlate spring completion.

Several years ago Mr. and Mrs. I. H.O'Hanlon of Fayetteville established theMichael Terrence O'Hanlon MemorialFund in memory of their son who, hadhe lived, would have been 20 years oldthis past February 19. The- amphithea­tre is a gift from that fund.

In addition to outdoor musical pro­grams and dramatics, Easter services andother similar programs will be held inthe facility.

Beauty Queens ReturnMr. and Mrs. I. H. O/Hanlon are shown on location discussing plans for the MichaelTerrence O/Hanlon Memorial Amphitheatre to be built on campus.

Eighth Religious Emphasis Week Observedthe best about himself," the spiritualleader pointed out. He blames every­thing but himself for the problems ofthe world.

"Don't build on a lie," the Rev. Mr.Hubbard warned.

A native of North Carolina, the min­ister has held several pastorates in thestate, among them Trinity in Raleighand University Church in Chapel Hill.

He attended the University of NorthCarolina and Duke University and holdsthe A.B. and B.D. degrees. Active in theNorth Carolina Conference of the Meth·odist Church, he was one of the organ­izers of the Methodist Foundation, Inc.,and president of the board of ChristianSocial Concerns. He is currently servingon the Commission on World Serviceand Finance.

"Who Am I?" was the theme of theEighth Annual Religious Emphasis Weekheld on the Methodist College campusFebruary 26-March 3.

Featured speakerfor the week's pro­gram was the Rev.Charles Hubbard,pastor, First Meth­odist Church, Wil­son, N. C. The Rev:Mr. Hubbard sug­gested possible ap­proaches tot h 'etheme question.

Individuals are toblame for the worldsituation in which they find themselves,the minister said in his opening speech.

"Man refuses to believe anything but

Joy Ray (left) and Pam Zollars, Meth·odist College coeds, arrive at the Fay·etteville airport after an Alaskan holi·day. See story, page 3, columns 2 and 3.

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Rodney Hill, Methodist College in­structor in music, presented a flute andclarinet recital March 20. Featured pian­ist on the all sonata program was Row­land Matteson, assistant professor ofchemistry and mathematics at Methodist.

Harriet Fitzgerald, director of theAbingdon Square Painters, New York,lectured March 7 on "How a PaintingWorks" (an introduction to art from amodern point of view).

April24-M. C. Wind Ensemble

Student Union (8 p.m.)May

I-William Miller, tenorStudent Union (8 p.m.)

4-Annual May DanceStudent Union

ll-Annual oratorio"Israel in Egypt"Community ChorusMethodist College ChorusFayetteville Symphony OrchestraStudent Union

Coming Events

Guests and ArtistsCynthia Gooding, a nationally-known

folk singer, opened the second semesterConcert-Lecture Series of Methodist Col­lege on February 8 with a strikinglybeautiful and well-attended performance.

The Musical Arts Woodwind Quintetof Ball State University, Muncie, Ind.,performed March 27.

The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra,under the direction of Willis Gates, pro­fessor of music at Methodist College, ap­peared in concert March 16.

Dr. Randall D. Wood, lipid metabolismscientist with the Oak Ridge Institute ofNuclear Studies, lectured March 14 on"Principles and Applications of Gas­Liquid Chromatography." He was spon­sored by the campus Science Club.

Elwood Adams, violinist, appeared inconcert February 21. World-renowned,he has performed in Russia, Germany,Belgium, France, Romania, Poland andCanada.

The United States Army Field Bandand Soldiers' Chorus appeared in con·cert March 18. Under the direction ofLt. CoL Wilmont N. Trumball, the unitis over one hundred members strong.

The East Carolina University ConcertChoir, under the direction of Charles W,Moore, delivered a colorful and variedperformance for the Concert-LectureSeries March 2.

Some 152 students earned academichonors by qualifying for the 1967-68fall semester Dean's List, according toDr. Samuel J. Womack, Jr., dean of thecollege.

To qualify for this honor a studentmust earn at least a "B" average on 15or more semester hours.

Fall Dean's ListNumbers 152

the All-Tournament team after Meth­odist placed fourth in the Dixie Confer·ence tourney.

Game marks which fell to Darden thisyear include most points per game (36against Greensboro) and most reboundsper game (25 against N. C. Wesleyan).

His career totals in points and re­bounding also set records as he becamethe first Monarch to break the 1,000point mark ending the season with 1,100.He has jumped to 908 rebounds.

"Darden is the finest basketball play·er we've had at Methodist to date,"Coach Gene Clayton said of the Monarchco-captain.

Methodist College grapplers brought home the Dixie Conference wrestling champion­ship recently upsetting favored St. Andrews College in the conference tournamentat St. Andrews. The Monarchs took four of the eight classes they entered andforfeited the unlimited class. Victory for the Monarchs took shape as Tommy Spence,a freshman from Alexandria, Va., decisioned his St. Andrews opponent in the semi­finals and pinned a lynchburg foe in the finals for the 123-lb. class title. MikeBuck, a Greenville freshman, swept the 130-1b. class pinning, in turn, wrestlersfrom St. Andrews and lynchburg. Richard Swink, a Greensboro junior, added the167-lb. title by pinning a lynchburg grapppler and decisioning a St. Andrews foe.Topping off the victory, Mike McBride, a Morehead City freshman, pinned St. An­drews and lynchburg opponents in the 177-lb. class. Methodist also had two runners­up places, Steve Gibson, Winston-Salem, and Warren Montagna, Metuchen, N. J., tocompile a 32-point team total and finish well in front of St. Andrews and lynch­burg with 20 points apiece. Pictured above standing from left to right are: CoachMason Sykes, Warren Montagna, Richard Swink, Mike McBride; Assistant coach,Bill Woodall. Front left to right: Tom Spence, Gene Odom, Brian Tuttle and SteveGibson.

Darden Collects

Top DIAC HonorsJim Darden, the Monarch's 6'5" junior

center from Clinton, rewrote the Meth­odist College record book during thisyear's basketball season while compiling

1 an impressive listI of Dixie Conference

honors., For the third-time

i n his three-yearvarsity career, Dar­den was named tothe All-Conferencebasketball team. Hewas also 'named cap­tain for the All-Con­

ference Team, compiling 57 of the 60votes.

Darden came out of the season thetop scorer and top rebounder in theconference. He averaged 20.4 points pergame overall, 19.5 in conference play.Rebounding, Darden averaged 16.0 pergame in both conference and overall.

The lanky junior also won a berth on

Methodist Takes DIAC Wrestling Championship--.-~

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Beauty Queens Return From Alaska Festival

First Wedding Solemnized On Campus

MR. and MRS. ROBERT FLYNN

the North Star Elementary School. BothJoy and Pam are elementary educationmajors.

Their first ride on a dog sled camewhen they appeared on the Bill Kellytelevision show. Later in the week Pamput the experience to good use, winningthe Celebrity Dog Race at the Fur Ren­dezvous Ice Show.

As visiting queens the two appearedin the Miss Alaska Pageant Parade,which is somewhat different from thosein North Carolina, they said. The girlsstill have to weather the cold, so theywear' fur parkas rather than formalgowns.

In accordance with her title, MissZollars presented Alaska Governor Hic­kel with a blueberry pie. They also pre·sented the Governor and AnchorageMayor George Sullivan with the Orderof the Long Leaf Pine and took withthem miniature bales of cotton sent bythe Board of County Commissioners andkeys to the city sent by FayettevilleMayor Monroe Evans.

Teresa Jeanine Faulkner becamethe bride of Robert Clark FlynnMarch 9, 1968 in the first weddingceremony to be performed on theMethodist College campus.

The bride, given in marriage by hergrandfather, Johnny Moss, wore afloor-length gown of organza andchantilly lace styled with an empirewaistline and a chapel train. Her illu­sion veil was draped from a head­piece of petals with seed pearls.

Miss Drusilla Taylor of Alexandria,Va. was maid of honor. She wore afloor-length gown of blue and whiteand carried a basket of mixed springflowers. The groom had as his bestman Anthony Whisler of Waynesboro,Pa .. Both Miss Taylor and Whisler arestudents at Methodist.

Dr. Lorenzo Plyler, area chairmanof religion and philosophy at Metho­dist, performed the 3 p.m. ceremonyin the chapel.

Mrs. Flynn, the daughter of Mrs.Geraldine M. Faulkner of Raleighand the late Charles L. Faulkner, is afreshman majoring in English. Herhusband, the son of Mr. and Mrs.Fred Flynn of Roxboro, is a sopho­more majoring in religion and plan­ning to enter the ministry.

VISIT ALASKA METHODIST

(See picture on page 1)Joy R~y and Pam Zollars, Methodist

College ambassadors of beauty, were inAlaska February 16·27 to attend the an­nual Fur Rendezvous and Miss AlaskaPageant.

Miss Ray is the North Carolina Straw·berry Queen; Miss Zollars, the NorthCarolina Blueberry Queen. Pam was alsothe 1966 Methodist College May Queen.

Attired in fur parkas ~nd boots (giftsof Fur Rendezvous), the two wentthrough a flurry of activities in thesnow country. On their agenda was avisit to Alaska Methodist Universitywhere they presented letters of intro­duction from Methodist's Dean Womackto Alaska's Dean Frost.

From their base in Anchorage (at thehome of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jones)the campus beauties attended the Minerand Trappers Ball and a Fur FashionShow where they tried on Alaska furs,"everything from seal to mink."

One highlight of the trip, as the girlscalled it, was entertaining children at

Membership GrantedIn American Colleges

Methodist College has been elected amember of the Association of AmericanColleges, an organization which promotesthe interest and welfare of private col­leges across the country.

Formal confirmation of this actionwas received in January by Dr. L. StacyWeaver, president of the college, in aletter from Dr. Richard H. Sullivan, pre·sident of the association.

Membership in the association is con·tingent upon regional accreditationwhich Methodist College received in Nov·ember, 1966, by the Southern Associa­tion of Colleges and Schools.

Spanish Club ShowsNew York FashionsSeventeen magazine's March issue fash­

ions walked off the printed page intoFayetteville's Cumberland County Mem­orial Auditorium March 21 as the Spanish

Club of MethodistCollege presentedits annual concertand fashion show.

Following thefashion show, TheImpressions andJames and BobbyPurify too k thestage for a popmusic concert.

The Seventeenshow brought DarylAtkins, the maga­zine's assistant mer­chandising coordina­tor, to Fayettevilleas style commenta­tor. Some 30 Meth­odist College coedsmodeled over 50 of

the newest spring ensembles. CindyStrickland (see picture), Durham sopho­more, is shown modeling one of theSeventeen fashions.

Miss Atkins, who has her own busi­ne.ss handmaking evening bags for Man­hatten boutiques, commentates at styleshows from coast to coast for Seventeen.

Proceeds from the concert - fashionshow will help send Methodist Collegestudents to the University of Madrid forthe summer study program (Spanish cuI·ture and language) inaugurated in 1966by the Spanish Club.

Energetic student leaders behind theproject were Spanish Club officers Ro­bert D'Alessandro, Fort Bragg; RonnieRussell, Alexandria, Va.; Barbara Schutz,Atlanta, Ga.; Micky Mazza, Bethlehem,Pa.; and Connie Autry, Fayetteville.

Assisting the Spanish Club with theprogram were the Miss Vogue style shop"OfFayetteville and Seventeen.

Chorus Gives Concert, Completes Tour

Garden Club Lends HANDS For Campus Project

The Methodist College Chorus delivered its annual spring concert March 30, itsfirst campus appearance after an extensive concert tour throughout the piedmontand western North Carolina region. Thirty voices strong, the chorus is a selectgroup of young men and women under the direction of Alan M. Porter, instructorin voice. The spring concert included both sacred and secular music such as "In'flammatus et Accensus" from STABAT MATER by Rossini; "Hava Nageela", an.Israeli folk song; and "Blowin' In the Wind" by Bob Dylan. The program presentedby thE; chorus on its tour included such sacred choruses as those by Bach, Mozart,and Rossini. New hymns from the 1966 edition of The Methodist Hymnal were alsosung. In addition to its concert tour, the chorus provided special music at the Dis­trict Lay Rallies of The North Carolina Conference of The Methodist Church atNew Bern, Burlington and Rockingham. The next on·campus performance will beMay 11.

Dr. William C. Cooper was in Wash­ington, D. C. at the National ScienceFoundation where he helped evaluatesome 375 requests from colleges anduniversities for financial support of theirscience program. Dr. Garland Knott hashad an article accepted for publicationby The Christian Home magazine pub­lished by the Methodist Church for par­ents and youth. Mrs. Janet Cavano andMr. B. L. Crisp will take leaves of ab­sence for the 1968-69 academic year inorder to complete Ph.D. programs. Dr.L. P. Plyler has been appointed to aFellowship in the Fourth Session of theSouthern Institute of Medieval and Re­naissance Studies. His seminar assign­ment is "The Transmission of BiblicalTexts in the Middle Ages."

FacuIty Footnotes

Thirty-five Methodist College studentshave been placed in teaching internshipsfor the spring semester, according to Dr.Karl H. Berns, area chairman of educa­tion and psychology and director of stu·dent teaching.

A breakdown of the list shows 32teaching on the elementary level insideCumberland County and 2 outside (Golds­boro and Sanford). Twelve students willtake teacher internships within the Fay­etteville City Schools and one will internon the secondary level in CumberlandCounty.

In addition four students who aremusic majors will be working within themusic program for grades 1-12 in theFayetteville and Cumberland CountySchools.

The teaching internships run fromMarch 21 to June 7.

Student Teachers Placed

Club learned of the need for help withthe project, the cooperative effort be­gan. Mrs. David Drake is garden clubchairman for the campus HANDS pro­ject.

Now with the assistance of the HANDSprogram, soil preparation has alreadybegun. The plans call for three semi­circular beds of native plants, the firstshowing the total spectrum of plants,the second demonstrating the fou):"majorplant habitats, and the third illustratingthe effects of different kinds of soilson the distribution of plants.-

Campus beautification has led thecollege Science Club to join hands withthe Town and Coun~ry Garden Club ofFayetteville.

The Science Club, working in coopera­tion with the city-wide HANDS programof the garden club, plans to beautify theScience Building courtyard. For severalmonths P. J. Crutchfield, assistant pro­fessor of biology and Science Club ad­viser, has worked with the students indeveloping a plan to put this area toaesthetic as well as scientific use.

When the Town and Country Garden

Second Class Postage PaidFAYETTEVILLE. N. C.