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  • Page 10 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN 1966 Christmas Edition Buckner Serves As Director, Student And Musician "Again, that first cord was beautiful...I could listen to that all night, Why dont you do it like that all the time?" The conductor lifts his hands for silence, the muscians raise their instruments in readiness and they begin again. The conductor jabs with his finger in the air to pick up a sluggish horn player and the band plays on. Not great, but good; better than it had ever been before. This was the scene in the bandroom of the Sylva-Webster High School three nights befor j their appearance in WCC's homecoming parade last Oct, The conductor and band director was Bob Buckner, a Western Carolina College senior and music education major from Waynesville. The band had*only shortly come from the field where it had practiced its precision marching for its home half- time show that Friday, and the WCC parade. It was the first year the band had ever marched and the first year it had regular band uniforms to wear. All this had come about due much to the efforts of Mr. Buckner, as they all call him, and his enthusiastic 50-odd charges. In a lull between numbers, while the bandmembers searched their crowded stands for the next piece, Buckner perched on the high stool from which he directed answering their questions: "Mr. Buckner, is this the one we play in 4/4 time?" "Mr. Buckner, my saxaphone's broken, what shall I do?" "Is that a double forte you want, Mr. Buckner?" Buckner, who will do his student teaching at Sylva-Webster this Spring, carried a full load of courses at Western, participated with the WCC marching band, served as president of the band, and taught music at Sylva-Webster and at 6 "feeder" system schools in the area. The "feeder" system, as Buckner explained, are elementary schools whose students will be enrolled at Sylva- Webster following completion of the 8th grade. It includes Sylva, Webster, and Scotts Creek Elementaries, Log Cabin School and Qualla Elementary near Cherokee, and Swanannoa Elementary in Franklin. He drove an average of 35 miles a day to teach one hour a week at each school. He said, however, that this was inadequate and at least two persons were needed to do the job. The solution he sees is junior high schools serving these areas. BOB BUCKNEK ^e has been playing the tuba for over 10 years and won the John Phillips Sousa award as a senior in high school. He attended music camps and summer workshops while in high school and distinguished himself throughout, Working with the Sylva-Webster band itself, he says,, has been the "most satisfying activity* which he has ever done. The band, made up on 54 members with 3 majorettes and drum major, had been working hard since before classes started in the fall. They tooK seconu piace at me Labor Day parade in Canton, the first time they had ever been, he said, and were look- The Brothers Of Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity Extend Seasons Greetings The Sisters Of Delta Zeta Sorority Extend To Yon Christmas Greetings English ing forward to other achievements throughout the year. Buckner commented, "The band has never marched before* and their uniforms are the "first new uniforms" the school has ever had. Previously they used second-hand marine uniforms made over. Buckner, who has had over 70 job offers to teach upon graduation, was undecided in his future plans. However, teaching is what he enjoys most and what he intends to do. He had made up his mind in the 10th grade that he wanted to major ^bn music and be a band director. He has served as president of the WCC band for two years, and has been a member of the pep and stage bands here for the past four years. Experienced in every kind of music; including rock-'n-roll and country and western, he has played with many private combos in high school and college. Recently included in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, Bob Buckner is an example of that individual student whose drive and talent has made Western Carolina College what it is. Stanford Uplifts Frosh STANFORD, Calif. (CPS)~ Freshman English, once the bane o f all first year students, may easily become the favorite course for freshmen at Stanford University. Professional writers will teach a creative writing program for freshmen in a three- year experiment. The writers, brought to Stanford from universities across the country, will devote their entire teaching time to seminars consisting of only 20 freshmen. Professor John Hawkes, novelist and member of the Brown University English Department, is director of the project. His latest novel, "Second Skin", was nominated for the National Book Award, First term instructors, in addition to Hawkes, include short story writer Sylvia Berk- man, Wellesley College, and novelists Leo Litwak, San Francisco State, and Jerome Charyn and Clive Miller, both of Stanford. Others teaching during the academic year include novel academic year include novelists Mitchell Goodman and Mark • Mirsky, both from City College of New York, and poet- playwright Professor William Alfred of Harvard, author of the current New York stage hit, "Hogan's Goat." Novelist-critic Benjamin DeMott, head of the Amherst College English department, is scheduled for next year. Novelist Kay Boyle, San Francisco State, is a consultant. The U. S. Office of Education is supporting the project with a $185,000 contract. The curriculum for Air Force Junior ROTC is designed to cover the major aspects of aviation and space at the high school level. Air Force Junior ROTC is not a drill-centered program, but Air Force drill and ceremonies, customs, courtesies, traditions, and other military considerations comprise one area of instruction in high schools across the nation. Hwy. 107 Leads Students Away s*» Western Carolina College has been referred to as a "suitcase college," meaning, of course, that every weekend everyone who can piles his clothes into a suitcase or bag and leaves for distant points. The campus and surrounding housing developments for students are deserted from Friday evenings until Sunday evenings, except for those few unlucky students who are forced by various rea= sons to remain at Cullowhee. Why does this situation exist? Weekends should be a perfect time to catch up on studying and relaxation, and what better place is there than the dorms or apartments or wherever the students may happen to live to do this studying or relaxing? There is only one answer to that question—anywhere! After a week of classes in the same buildings, retiring to the same dormitory room, eating the same food at the same cafeterias, studying the same ma= terial in the same library, a weekend away from the college is both relaxing and refreshing. Of course, there is no orthodox method which would enable the college to offer a break in thi s daily routine, nor is one expected. It would be absurd and bordering on chaos if the routine wasntestablished. But, there is much that could be done to make the weekends at W.C.C. more bearable for those who must study. Indeed, such action could easily be taken that would go as far as to make the students want to remain on campus during the weekends. If more activities were plan- nedfor weekends,morestudents would desire to attend them, and thus would stay on campus during the weekends. If more than the usual one (sometimes not even as many as one) activity from any of the many entertainments available were to take place on weekends, many suitcases would remain in the closets or under the beds. Weekends should be, as was mentioned earlier, a perfect time to catch up on studying and relaxation, and there could be a suitable environment at W.C.C. to do both, Eut, studying all the time can be boring and tiresome, and to relax all the time could result in relaxing oneself into a coma. On the other hand, if a student had something to look forward to that would break the monotony of constant studying, his studying would be more eniovabie and would lose it's sense of perpetual hopelessness. To know that entertainment awaits after a day of studying will make studying a pleasure, and not a plague. Instead of having one choice of activity to attend or not to attend, a student should have a choice of which activity he wants to attend When have there been two activities occurring on the same night at Western Carolina College, and when have the suitcases remained empty? Western Carolina College students should never need to want for a break from boredom, for there are many entertainments waiting to be called upon. But, until they are—"Where's my suitcase fellows?" Peace Corps Improving U.S. Image Abroad The Peace Corps has gone far toward improving the United States' image abroad, particularly in the globe-circling belt of 52 developing countries where 15,000 Volunteers now serve, according to an opinion profile drawn recently by Louis Harris pollsters. Conversations with 1,200 college seniors across the nation showed that 51 per cent felt the Peace Corps helped to cast a favorable American image overseas; 86 per cent said they believed the Peace Corps was doing an "excellent* or "good* job. The poll was undertaken to determine student attitudes toward the Peace Corps andother public affairs issues, such as the Vietnam war, civil rights and the War on Poverty. The Peace Corps was judged the most successful American effort abroad in terms of not only promoting a better "image," but of improving the well-being of foreign peoples. Attitudes diverged, however, between the total sample of seniors and about 250 who already had been accepted by the Peace Corps. The latter group viewed Peace Corps service as a "chance to make personal contact and help create mutual understanding" between Americans and foreigners, while the average senior felt that an improved U.S. image was the best thing to be derived from the Peace Corps. This last point apparently re= fleeted an obvious and closer involvement by the Peace Corps applicants with the realities of service. Said the Harris report: "There is a distinct sense of potential commitment and action" among those thinking of or having already applied to the Peace Corps. "The liberal and activist sen= timent they express," it continued, "is correlated with a strong feeling of dissatisfaction about the progress made in the last ten years in dealing with a roster of major problems. "The Peace Corps is considered (by the entire sampling) the best example of what America can do in the world. K CONTINUED, Page 13
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