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Western Carolinian June 28, 1984 u Dr. Schwartz- Historian of Decades Jones in Beauty Pageant by Mark Haskett Betsy Jones, a junior at WCU, will be competing for the Miss North Carolina title this week in Raleigh. Miss Jones won the Miss Blue Ridge Valley Pageant last November to qualify her for the Miss NC Pageant. She will be one of forty-nine girls from across the entire state involved in the competition that began last Sunday and runs through Saturday night. The finals will be televised statewide at 9:00 p.m. Jones has been preparing for this week for quite some time. When school let out in May, she centered her concentration toward the pageant. She has been working out and practicing her tap dance in the dance studio in Reid Gym. Jones will be involved in various activities all week. The activities include touring the Governor's mansion and state capitol, signing autographs in a Raleigh Mall, and posing for t.v. promotional shots. Miss Jones will have her interview Wednesday morning and participate in the evening gown competition Wednesday night. Swimsuit competition will be held on Thursday and concludes on Friday with the talent portion of the pageant. For her talent Jones will perform a tap dance to "Maple Leaf Rag. Miss Jones is a computer information systems major, and served as a WCU cheerleader this past year. She competed in the Miss Sylva-Webster Pageant three consecutive years, and was named Miss NC Rhododendron Queen last year before winning the title of Miss Blue Ridge Valley. WCU StudentsBakingln Caribbean Sun by Danell Arnold Staff Reporter During June 9-30 15 Western Carolina students are earning three hours credit while touring the Bahama and Caribbean islands. The three week tour will have included sites in the Bahamas. Jamaica, Mexico, Florida, and Georgia before the students and instructors return to North Carolina. Learning while on "vacation" is all a part of the International Study Tour. This particular cruise is one of the 1984 International Travel Careers Summer Institute's requirements. This is the first time the students in Western's Department of Parks and Recreation Management have had all their courses off campus. The institute has been set up so students interested in careers in the travel industry interviewing people involved with the cruise such as passengers and various personnel. The cost of each course is $108 for in-state students and $180 for students from out of N.C. There is also an travel agency management, a 400-hour internship, and two more seven-day courses in tour planning and organization and travel and tourism which were held May 21-27 and May 14-20 respectively. After completing the required courses of the institute, the students will can receive appropriate training. This training is comprised of the study cruise during June, a seven- day course which was held from May 30-June 5 in receive a certificate and 15 academic credit hours applicable toward a bachelor's degree in parks and recreation management. Completion of the courses takes one or two summers. Last year approximately 15 students were enrolled in the courses, but that number has doubled this year. The courses are taught by professionals who can give by Alex Lesueur Staff Reporter Call him Dr. Swartz or Dr. Schortz or Dr. Schlitz. Or why not call him Dr. Sports? He doesn't mind as long as you learn his name by the end of the semester. Dr. Gerald Schwartz is a key member of the WCU History Dept., teaching courses in American history. He specializes in the United States' recent past. In the summers, besides teaching survey courses he offers decade studies which have practically become his trademark. In the past, he has offered courses on the Roaring Twenties, the Fabulous Fifties, and FDR, and this summer he is teaching about the Sizzling Sixties and Mencken's America. Dr. Schwartz was raised in New York City, and attended Abraham Lincoln High School, the same school which produced Arthur Miller and many college basketball players of the I940's, '50's and '60's. He started college at New York University after four years in the Air Force. After his freshman year at NYU, Dr. Schwartz transferred to the University of Alabama, where he also remained for only a year. He then spent his junior and senior years at the "now defunct Mexico City College," where he earned a BA in Journalism. For a while, Dr. Schwartz worked as assistant editor of severai trade publications in New York, and he freelanced a bit. He also taught at two different junior high schools, one in Queens and the other on the Lower East Side of New York, near the house where his father was born "on the kitchen table." At the time, he was living in Greenwich Village, where he "bummed around and traveled alot." He traveled in North Africa and Europe for several months in 1961. In October, 1964, Dr. Schwartz married the former Molly Somers of Fort Wayne, Indiana; they had met almost five years earlier in the Cuatro Caminos bullring in Mexico City. After a year of living in a Greenwich Village apartment which had once been part of Boss Tweed's townhouse, Mrs. Schwartz became pregnant, and they elected to Congress in 1932. At the age of 72, Pierce was the oldest man ever elected to a first term in the U.S. Congress. In December, Dr. Schwartz and his family arrived in Cullowhee,and he soon began teaching American history at Western. He says that he has always loved Cullowhee, despite having spent most ol his life in New York. Living in the small town of Pullman, Washington, and spending some time at his wife's lake cottage in Indiana had been a good transition for him, so he was ready for life in a small college town. Even though Dr. Schwartz specializes in the recent U.S., his major research interest for about eight years has been in the huge project of editing and publishing the Civil War diaries of Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, one of the first licensed female physicians in the U.S. Dr. Hawks helped freedmen and slaves in federally occutied areas of the South during the Civil War. Dr. Schwartz expects the diaries to be published by the University of South Carolina Press in November. 1984 Dr. Schwartz has many hobbies and interests, and tays he is "not very serious" about any of them. He likes camping, hiking, trout fishing, tennis, chess, poker, and basketball among other things, but says that he does none of these things "with any expertise." He enjoys reading, and his favorite writers are HI Mencken, Hemingway, Twain, and Henry Miller. He also likes classical and jazz music, and he used to enjoy foreign travel, but not in the last nineteen years since his children were born.. He has two children, Rebecca, who recently completed her freshman year at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and Billy, who is in high school at Cullowhee. They expect to get their children through college by 1990, and they hope to begin travelling again soon after that. Dr. Schwartz says that he "had a brief flirtation with the counter-culture of the late '60's and early '70's." During this time, he "veered from traditional ways, preferences of music, and mode of dress." He enjoyed listening to Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis Joplin, among others. All of this happened to "coincide" with his first few years at Western, and he says that he gets "a kick out of people who have been there for a long time," who have first impressions of his as "a rebellious guy." He says that people don't know what he is all about, and mat he has returned to "traditional values." Dr. Schwartz says that he goes to New York about once a year, and that New York and Cullowhee, different as they are, are his two favorite places. When asked about the differneces between New York people and Cullowhee people, he said that the people in Cullowhee are more "easy- going, relaxed, and friendly," and that the New York people are more "sophisticated, cultured, stimulating, and have a better sense of humor." but aren't as friendly and easygoing. He said that New York people are more fun ■for a couple of hours in a bar, but Cullowhee people are better to live around. the students practical travel industry experience. The decided to move. They had hoped to travel for a while students will also learn by institute fee of $25 per course. The study trip costs $1750 including transportation, the 11 days on board, meals on board, and instruction. Editor's note: There will be a follow-up story in the next issue of THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN with interviews from some of the students who baked in the Caribbean sun! but instead prepared for a growing family. Dr. Schwartz and his wife moved to Pullman, Washington, there he did graduate studies at Washington State University. He was doing so well that he was advised to skip a masters degree in history, so he went straight on and earned a Ph.D. in American Studies. He did his dissertation on the career of Walter M. Pierce, a former Oregon governor who was THE WELL HOUSE SANDWICH EMPORIUM Hot Deli Sandwiches Riverwood Shops, Dillsboro, NC Open 11 am-4 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 586-8588 Get for Off Campus Some Fun Granted, there are very few students on campus at this time of year who are old enough to drive. However, we at the Carolinian feel that perhaps those who are actually attending summer school, and are tiring of gifted and talented company, might be interested in some upcoming off-campus happenings. June 30 is the long awaited date in Cashiers, as more than one hundred runners from all over the Southeast will gather for the first annual Raccoon Run. This will be a 5K event. Age groups will be 17-29, 30- 49, 50-65 and 65 and older. Also included in the day's events will be a one mile fun run, a barbecde dinner, and country music. Trophies will be awarded. The fun begins at the Cashiers Community Center at 2:30 p.m. The Racoon Run follows at four o'clock. For the art and craft minded, a number of shows have been scheduled for this area in upcoming weeks. The Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a series of art and craft exhibitions and sales on various Saturdays throughout the summer. The dates of the remaining shows are as follows: June 30th, July 28th, August 18th, and September 8th. Also October 6th. The shows will be held in the town park on Main Street in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. The event is free of charge to visitors: The High County Arts and Crafts show will be held in Fairfield Valley. Sapphire, North Carolina June 29 through July I. Over 70 exhibitors will be present. Admission and parking will be free. The Appalachian Folklife Festival will occur July 19- 22 on the grounds of Ski Beech, in Banner Elk, N.C. Dancing, crafts, folk tales and pioneer-mountain living exhibitions will be featured. Pioneer Day will be held on August 11 in Cashiers. Events will include a Pioneer Breakfast, a Wagon Train, Blue Grass and Country music and a variety of contests. Seven A.M. to Eleven P.M. No admission will be charged. And on September 29, our own Mountain Heritage Day will take place. Western Carolina University's annual Arts and Crafts show, which draws thou sands of visitors each year. Not quite a mid-summer event, but one that warrants mention nonetheless. Free admission, parking. Last Minute Productions is offering a variety of outdoor activities this summer. July the third, a beginning canoe trip will be held on the Tuckaseegee River. Those who wish to participate should meet at the University Center at 12:30 P.M. The cost for students is $7.00. non- occur on the fifth of July. Meet at 12:30 P.M. at the UC. Student cost will be 10 dollars, non-student $15.00. Beginning Kayak-Tuckasee- gee River July 10. Meet 12:30 P.M. at the UC. Student cost is $5.00, non- student $8.00. An Oconee Raft Trip will be sponsored on the 14th of July. Meeting time at the UC will be 9:00 A.M. Student cost-$l2.00. non-student cost will be $15.00. Another Beginners students $10.00. A raft trip , „, .in- ii Canoe trip will be held on on the Nantahala River will iWeUpdate | by Danell Arnold j Staff Reporter IJUNE j Thursday 28 7 pm Film: "Citizen Kane," Jackson County Public | Library, free. 8 pm Theatre: "The Fox," Little Theatre. For |reservations, call ext. 7365. j Friday 29 j Mars Hill College Upward Bound Program, through (July 1. 8 pm Film: "The Final Countdown," auditorium, JForsyth Building, students $1.50, other adults $2. Rated |PG. jsaturday 30 (Camper College: "Outdoor Photography," taught by JLarry Tucker (must have 35 mm camera and film), $29, jthrough July 1. 9 am EXCEL (Exercise Class For Elders), Dance IStudio, Reid Gym. II am EXCEL: Humor Day (sharing jokes, stories, land funny experiences). Dance Studio, Reid Gym. JJULY jsunday 1 |NCSU Fisheries and Wildlife summer camp, through |JuIy 6. JElderhostel IV, through July 7. JMonday 2 J2-13 |Orff-Schulwuk Workshop. For more details call ext. J7242. Registration by mail for evening/ Saturday classes on and tff campus for 1984 Fall Semester. b-September 1984 l"The Migration of the Scotch-Irish People." a major new lexhibit in the Mountain Heritage Center. continued on page 4 the seventeenth of July, on the Tuckaseegee. 12:30 P.M. meeting time, at the UC. Student $5.00. non- student $10.00. For those still wet behind the ears and wishing to remain so, the Cherokee Magic Waters Amusement Park has opened on what was once the sight of Frontier Land. See page seven for related story. WCU Student Drowns Tragedy too often seems to strike the young before their time. Such is the case of Patrick Henry "Rick" Winston, a WCU senior in political science, who drowned at Atlantic Beach on Sunday, June 10 after he apparently decided to go swimming alone and got caught by an undertow. Rick was known to be friendly and out-going by those who knew him. He lacked only one elective course to graduate, and had planned to attend law school. Dr. Gordon Mercer. Winston's advisor expressed his shock and remorse over the death of such an outstanding student as Rick. He also said that the University will be awarding Winston his degree, which will be given to the family. Those wishing to remember Rick are asked to make a contribution in Rick's name to the Atlantic Beach Fire Department. P.O. Box 10, Atlantic Beach. N.C. 28512, in lieu of flowers. NO OBLIGATION 4b % BE ALL YOU CAN BE TO LEARN MORE CALL 227- 7438 OR SIGN UP FOR MS130

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Date original: 1984-06-28
  • Date digitized: 2019-02-19
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  • Dimension: 22.75" x 15"
  • Pages: 8 pages
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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