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  • Page Jwo THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN March 26, 1949 WESTERN CAROLINIAN Semi monthly publication of the Student Association at Western Carolina Teachers College, Cullowhee, North Carolina. WESTERN CAROLINIAN STAFF Co-editor Phyllis Bowen Co-editor Bill Easterling Sports Editor Tom Grogan Feature Editor Charlie West Feature Writers Robert K. Phillips, Herbert L. Hyde Society Editor Martha Ellen Lynch Circulation Manager Tom Horton Reporters—Jane Callison, Bud Smith, Frank Murray, Clayton Ramsey, Paul Nash, Ted Gayle, Annie Ruth Watts. Business Manager Charlie West Faculty Adviser L. R. Taff Greetings, Former Students: As potential alumni of Western Carolina Teachers College, we wish you all the success you deserve. We miss the Class of '48, whom many of us know personally, and we want you to feel that you still influence things that go on in the college. We remember the goals that you set and we are trying to attain them. We have finished oiy badly needed stadium that you helped to plan; our building program is still in the incubator stage, but we hope the buildings will be here for future classes to enjoy; a new lake is in the process of being built behind the Methodist church; much has been done by both individuals and groups of students to get more public recognition for our activities; the F.T.A. is inviting higeh- school students to visit the college in an effort to attract more new students to the teaching profession. To the alumni of a few years back, we send greetings and our thanks for all they have done for the college in the way of gifts, advertising and just plain good-will. We are sure you miss Western Carolina just as much as we shall when we leave. We are always glad to see you visit the campus, and hope that the welcome we receive in the years to come will be as sincere as the one we extend to you. -v The college needs the constant and tireless support of its former students. We know that we have no truly wealthy alumni; our students as a rule do not prepare themselves to go out and make fortunes; their aim is to train future citizens. However, we feel that there is strength in numbers, and that if all our former students back the college, it can Accomplish anything it sets out to do. For this reason we beg you to keep in contact with old "Cully" and let the students and the faculty know that you're interested in the college, as we are sure you are. Sincerely, The Editors. Lyceum Com. Brought Outstanding Programs To Western Carolina Campus The Lyceum committee has brought three excellent groups of performers to Western Carolina Teachers college this year. The first was the Page-Stone Ballett, official ballet of the Chicago Opera company, which appeared as the fall lyceum number. The First Piano Quartet, reputedly the first musical unit of its kind in the world, drew aproxi- President Bird Expresses Appreciation For Field Day Sponsorship This is to express my deepest appreciation to the Science Club of the College for its excellent method of conducting Field Day on the College campus for the various high schools of Western North Carolina. We feel that the day was in every way a success. The contests were carried out in fine order and showed that careful planning had been made beforehand. The day itself signified vastly more than one of mere enjoyment. It was a day filled with valuable educational activity. Here were not only physical contests and demonstrations of manual skill extremely valuable within themselves but exhibits of highly intellectual and purely cultural nature closely associated with the highest type of the physical. A considerable portion of these exhibits represented activities exclusively cultural in nature. A Field Day of this kind serves as a great material stimulus. It brings to our attention the possibility of youthful talents of various kinds. It creates wholesome rivalry. It inspires widespread effort to excel by mere impact of comparison and example. Again, I congratulate the Science Club and its sponsor*for its farsightedness in promoting this Field Day. I congratulate also the fac-; ulty and the entire student body in their fine spirit of cooperation. I was delighted with the response of the public school principals and their faculty in their readiness to respond to an opportunity such as this Field Day affords towards motivating learning and the development of useful skills and talents among their students. It should be worth all the effort spent by everyone concerned. W. E. Bird. N. H. Gurley Designs Memorial Stadium N. H. Gurley, resident engineer and supervisor of buildings and grounds at Western Carolina Teachers college, is the man to be credited tor the design of the stadium on Hunter field. The athletic committee discussed the building of the stadium with him and asked him to draw the plans. The stadium rests on a natural Held. It was possible to get a great ileal more seating space for less money by placing the stadium on undisturbed earth. Mr. Gurley received his B. S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State college. After graduation he went to work as operating engineer of the staie plant at Goldsboro. He worked for the Budget Bureau for one year and came to Cullowhee in 1937. His work here consists of opera- lion and maintenance and the smaller construction jobs. His men are now developing part of the football field to make it more attractive. Mr. Gurley served in the United States Navy from June, 1944, to April, 1940. He attended indoci- rination school at Hollywood, Fla., and pre-commission school at Seattle, Wash. His ship, the U. S. Rockwall 230, was commissioned in January, 1945, and was at sea in the middle and south Pacfic until discharged. Mr. Gurley was at first division officer of all four divisions of the ship, later assistant engineer, and later chief engineer. Mrs. Gurley is the former Unice Sutton of Kinston. The Gurleys have two children, Nestus and Lo Ellen and have built their home on Faculty hill. Mrs. Gurley and Nestus visited Mr. Gurley for 3 months while he was stationed on the west coast. Hunting and fishing are Mr. Gur- ley's main diversions, outside of gardening. "I love my garden," is the way Mr. Gurley expressed it. mately 200 outsiders to watch its performance. The spring lyceum number was the Emory University Glee club. The committee is now negotiating to present one of America's leading poets, Carl Sandburg, to the student body. Thi Western Carolinian wishes to express its thanks to Mrs. Buchanan, chairman of the Lyceum committee, to Miss Albright, Mrs. McDevitt, and Mr. Chrisman, members of the committee, for the outstanding quality of the performances given here. It also wishes to express the hope that additional funds will be granted to the committee next year so that the number of the programs may be increased. Cullowhee Baptist Choir (Continued from page 1) The program in the Cullowhee Baptist church will consist of Easter music. The choir has a membership of fifty mixed voices from the Cullowhee Baptist church and Western Carolina Teachers college, representing seven states and twenty- seven counties of North Carolina. It is a member of the State Federation of Church choirs and the National Federation of Music clubs. Membership in the State Federation makes members of the choir eligible to participate in functions of the state organization. The choir is under the direction of Dr. H. P. Smith, professor of social science at Western Carolina Teachers college. The accompanists are Mrs.- Zula Murray Smith, Clayton Curtis, Jean Kilpatrick, and Clarence Chrisman. The soloists are Maxine Barbour, Clayton; Virginia Gallemore Barnwell, Greenville, S. C; June Wright Brown, Bryson City; Juanita Benton, Burgaw; Kathleen Davis, Cullowhee; Jack Barnett, Murphy; and Bronson Matney, Waynesville. Kathleen Moss, Hayesville, is president of the choir. Jack Barnett is vice-president and director of the junior choir, Virginia Barnwell is secretary-treasurer and assistant to the director. Juanita In the Spotlight The moving finger of the Western Carolinian's spot light picks up Forrest Lindsey of Lowell for its high light of the week. He is one of those rare individuals on whom the gods bestowed good looks, a radiant personality, a fine mind and high character — a person in every way worthy to win this column's oscar. Lindsey entered college in the spring of 1946, just after he had been discharged from a stretch of five and one-half years in the naval air corps, two and one-half of which had been spent in hospitals, the result of an air crash. He flew in both the Pacific and Atlantic theaters before he was injured and forced out of active duty. He entered college on a GED examination, which means he came ^ without the benefit of the traditional four years of high school. After a period of getting "rehabilitated to civilian life", he has been an honor student in two of the college's most difficult fields, science and mathematics. He will graduate in August with a double major. Lindsey's ability with a microscope or the compass is not his only claim, however, to his place in this spotlight. He has been active in campus activities throughout his college career. He has a —Continued on page 6 All My Sons (Continued from Page 1) bert Deever ran a successful machine shop which made airplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the death of many men. Keller went free and made a lot of money. The twin shadows of this catastrophe and the fact that the young Keller son was reported missing during the war dominate the action of the play. The love affair of Chris Keller and Ann Deever, the raging bitterness of George Deever returned from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, are all set in a dramatic structure of almost unbearable power. The powerful and inevitable climax showing the reaction of a son to his guilty father is a fitting conclusion to a play electrifying in its intensity. Benton is also an assistant to the director. Homecoming for former members will be observed Easter Sunday. Former students who have made outstanding records in choir work will represent the choir alumni. Miss Nellie Runyans, Shelby, winner of the 1947-48 choir a- ward ,is expected to be present and to participate in the home concert on April 17.
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