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  • 2 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN November 5,1970 Drama Dept announces casting for Thoreou The Department of Speech and Theatre Arts announces casting for THE NIGHT THOREAU SPENT IN JAIL, an original and new play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, authors of two previous "Goldmines," INHERIT THE WIND and AUNTIE MAME, which will be presented November 17 through November 21 at 7;30 Pvin. in the University Little Theatre, Stillwell Building. Lawrence and Lee have written a play of yesterday, but which has strong relevance for today with its anti-war individual, Henry David Thoreau, who refuses to bea conformist, Western Carolina University has been fortunate to gain the Twenty-five bands to be here for festival Twenty high school bands from a five-state area will participate in the first annual Western Carolina University Marching Band Festival Saturday, November 7, in Memorial Stadium here. Beginning at 1 p.m., the bands will perform marching shows in competition for ratings to be awarded by three prominent judges. Trophies will also be awarded to outstanding drum major, twirling corps, and other auxiliary groups. Unlike most band days, the festival will be held on a day when no football activity is scheduled at Cullowhee. The festival will last aU afternoon, and will finish with a field show performed by the WCU marching band. The public is invited to attend, and there will be no admission charge. CIRUNA meeting There will bea CIRUNA planning general session for all members Thursday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m. in 118 McKee. All committees will meet, Plans for speakers, programs, films and awards will be announced and discussed at the meeting. Members and friends are expected to attend. All interested persons are invited to become members,. J*KW rights to this new play molded in modern form from American Playwrights Theatre. Leading role include Henry David Thoreau enacted by John Richard Polenek, a Senior Speech and Theatre Arts major from East Point, Georgia; Ralph Waldo Emerson played by Dan Smith, a Junior Speech and Theatre Arts maior from North Wilkesboro, N.C; Mrs. Thoreau enacted by Gloriana St, Clair, a member of the WC U English faculty, from Tonka wa, Okla.; John Thoreau played by John Rahnestock, a Freshman Speech and Theatre Arts major from Lititz, Perm.; Lydian Emerson played by Karen E. Morrow, a Junior Speech and Theatre Arts major from Flat Rock, N. C.j and Ellen portrayed by Vernelle Mills, a Sophomore Speech and Theatre Arts major from A she- ville, N.C. Other important members of the cast include John Clark as Sam Staples, Joe Smyth as Bailey, Allen Freeman as the farmer, David Hearst as Williams, Nick Searcy as Edward, Dr. John Bennett as Deacon Ball, and Julia Higginbotham as the woman. Townspeople include Mignon Dureka, Nancy Hammill, Terry LeIXic, Tara Wilson, Debbie Lewis, Robyn Carter, Anita Cerio, Clifford Rider, Joe Laughter, Jerry Opp, Luther Jones, Brent Carter, Randy Zartman, and Tony Brown. The play will be directed by Beverley B, Pevitts; the setting is designed by Robert R Pevitts and the lighting is designed by Janice A„ Gary, all Speech and Theatre Arts faculty. Musical Consultant is Dr. Alexander Lesueur, WCU Music Department, Assisting with the historical background of the play are Dr. Gloriana St, Clair, Dr. Marilyn Jody, and Dr. Hal Farwell of the WCU English Department. Stage manager is Jim Wood and assistant to the director is Phyllis Ghioto. Production dates for THE OTGHT THOREAU SPENT IN JAIL are Nov. 17-21 at 7:30 p.m. in the University Little - Theatre, Stillwell BuUding. Reservations may now be made by mail to the Department of Speech and Theatre Arts, Tickets, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, N. C. 28723. Telephone reservations may be made by calling the Department of Speech and Theatre Arts office (704) 293-7491 after Nov. 4, from 8:30 to 12:00 a.m. and 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. Monday thru Friday. The Theatre Box Office will open for advanced ticket sales November 11 at 3:00 p.m. It survives THERE IS A FOREST that has not yet been raped by civUization. in this modern world only 50 miles southwest of Cullowhee, but it may not survive in its virgin state for long. A hard battle is being waged by a few people who care about Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest and don't like the idea of building a highway which will destroy the natural beauty and even the ecology of the forest. Virgintimber maygetax "Roads are made by fools like thee, but only God can make a tree." The Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, "one of the most impressive remnants of our Nation's virgin wilderness," may soon be infringed on by a federal "scenic highway." The highway is being promoted by people living in the area to increase their tourist traffic. The proposed highway will cut a three mile gap into the 3,800 acre tract of land in western North Carolina, set aside in 1936 by the U„ S. Congress as a memorial shrine honoring the soldier poet and author of "Trees". Now under construction, the road is planned to run between Robbinsville, N. C. to Tellico Plains, Tenn. Carl A. Reiche, a Florida accountant and the organizer and present head of the Save Joyce Kilmer League, led a group of about 130 protest hikers, including 10 students from WCU, throughout the forest on Saturday, October 24. The protest wasagainstwhatHeichedes- cribes as "one of the worst examples of political and bureaucratic skuU-duggery ever known." COURT HILL INN ABOVE THE COURTHOUSE IN STXVA Phone 704/586-4484 •*-W Steak 'n Salad Room. 1 Where dining is infinitely rnote thanmerely eating. 0° ,L $ J STEAK *N SALAD ROOM COURT HILL INN QUIET AIR CONDITIONED LUXURIOUS ROOMS m MON.-FRI.: 6-9 P.M. SAT.t 6.IO:0O P.M. BROWN BAQ LICENSE According to Reiche, the documented detail of that skullduggery is not a pretty story. At the time this memorial was dedicated by Congress —' and right on up to 1968, for that matter — the U. S. Forest Service promised that the forest would be kept "in its primitive and natural state and that no plants living or dead may be cut or removed." Reiche accuses the National Forest Service of selling out to political pressures in sup= porting the road construction. At a meeting in Atlanta on May 25, 1964, James K.Vessey, the man then in charge of For- ers Service holdings in the southern part of the United States, said that under no circumstances would he permit this road to cross the boundaries of the Kilmer Forest, He said that to permit this would ' 'not be in harmony with the dedication of the Forest" and that such an action would cause the public to distrust all promises, past, present and future, of the U. S. Forest Service to keep certain forest areas inviolate. Within three weeks, however, Vessey changed his mind and accepted the route proposed by engineers ~ the route that crossed the forest, This dramatic change occurred, Reiche says, because Vessey was subjected to tremendous pressure from local politicians in North Carolina and Tennessee and from his own superiors. At the same time that decision was made, a public hearing on the proposed road was dismissed by the Chief of the U. S. Forest Service, because "it was felt that noth ing„..would be gained by such an advance meeting at this time." As a result the planning of the raod and the initial construction began in secrecy, insofar as the conservationists were concerned. Upon discovery of the project, a belated public hearing was held in Robbinsville. Due to a lack of publicity, however, the hearing changed nothing. Reiche, supported by the Carolina chapter of the Sierra Club and other conservation groups, has new mounted his campaign to prevent completion of the road. They have proposed an alternate route, five miles shorter, which would run to the south of Kilmer Forest rather than through it, This alternate road would not destroy the Little Santeetlah Watershedand would utilize a valley which already contains a road and is devoted to sustained yield timber production. In a petition delivered by hand to President Richard M. Nixon, on October 28, Reiche explained that the existing access road to the Forest "has been kept in a state of disrepair for many years while this 12 million dollar monster was hatched and built," He then proposed to the president a resolution passed unanimously at the October 24 protest hike which urged the immediate rescinding of the "secret and improper actions" of the Chief of Forest Service in June 1964 and reaffirmal of the status of the Forest in its inviolate natural and primitive state as pledged by the government in 1936. CONTINUED Page 8.... \lummQpEtiSl PHONE 586"2312 ■••••■llllllll SYLVA. N. C We can handle all your Photographic needs FILM pApER CHEMICALS 24hr, Print Service 6 East Main, Sylva, N.C.
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