The Stetson Reporter

1 ft it THE FLORIDA'S OLDEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER STETSON REPORTER Vol. 79 Friday, January 27, 1967 No. 12 Artists & Lecturers Present Vincent Price Saturday y Concert Choir To Perform At N.Y.'s Lincoln Center By PENNY LIGLER 40 members of the Stetson University Concert Choir will be presented in concert in Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, New York. Feb. 7th at 8 p.m. This will be one of the biggest opportunities for the Concert Choir and Stetson since the choir began touring the United States. "Prof" Harold M. Giffin will be conducting. The choir leaves on Feb. 4th for what will be a two week tour. In addition to spending three days in New York City, the choir will be singing at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland; North Greenville Junior College in Tigerville, South Carolina; Walker Junior College in Jasper, Alabama; and churches in Arlington, Va., Charlotte, N.C, Ashville, N.C, Huntsville, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. Betty Kelly will be the choir accompanist on tour with assistance from Music School President, Webb Wiggins. For the concert in Philharmonic Hall, Mr. Paul Jenkins, organ professor, will be flown in to play the Halsey Steven's "Testimony of Life", a work commissioned for Stetson in 1959, and Vincent Persichetti's "Te Deum." . Other music in the choir's repetoire will include works by Telemann, Richard Donovan, Brahms,. Tallis, Goodman, and Vittoria. The choir will travel by chartered Greyhound Bus and will return Friday, February 17th. Parents and friends of Stetson in the greater New York area may purchase tickets for the performance direct from the box office, Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, New York. Cummings Gym Blaze Causes Little Damage A fire was brought under control quickly Monday night, Jan. 16, and.did apparent minor damage to the interior. Police said the fire was confined almost entirely to the equipment storage room, and no one was injured. Discovered shortly before 6:00 p.m. by a passing student, the blaze was out before 6:30 after quick action by the DeLand fire department. Estimate of the damage was with-held pending an examination of the damaged area. According to a spokesman for the. University, the fire seemed to start in one end of the storage room and spread to nearby shelves containing papers and books. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined. "I was walking by the Gym and noticed flames in a ground- floor window," reported Frank Carter, a student at Stetson. "I ran across the street to Chaudoin Hall and told the desk girl to notify the fire department." Notice, of the alarm was received by the DeLand Fire Department at approximately 5:57 and they were on the scene within minutes. After the doors to the building were broken open (Combined on Page 2) VINCENT. PRICE will appear in Elizabeth HaU Saturday night at 8 under the auspices of the Artists and Lecturers Committee. Students will be admitted free with IDs. 4th Student Of Year Dies In Car Crash By RACHEL PIKE Stetson student Brian Polk, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Polk of Frostproof, Florida, was killed Friday, January 13, when the car-he'was driving rammed into the rear of a semi-trailer truck carrying a load of oranges. Pallbearers from Stetson were Ron Webster, Bob Jenkins and Frank Gayiord. Assistant Dean of Men George Borders said of Polk that "he was no stranger on the Stetson campus. His loss will be felt by both students and admihis- • tration alike." In 43 American Voices'Program The works of three great American artists — a poet, a painter and a playwright — provide the substance of a program to be presented by Vincent Price in Stetson Uni- versity'a Elizabeth Hall Auditorium Saturday evening. The special music performance which begins at 8:00 p.m., is sponsored by the University's Artist and Lecturers Committee. ..The program, "Three American. Voices," will feature selections from the works of Walt Whitman, James McNeil Whistler, and Tennessee Williams. Price, noted star of stage and motion pictures, has revealed himself as one of the top one-man performers of the day. This will be particularly noticeable ih his one-man version of "The Last of My. Gold Watches," a character gem by WHliams in a gentle, warmly compassionate vein. WALT WHITMAN The golden tones for which Mr, Price's voice is justly celebrated promise to give full scope to the majestic sweep of .Whitman's monum e n t a 1 "Leaves of Grass." This is also true of his presentation of excerpts from Whistler's provocative essays, "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies." A brief, informal reception in Mr. Price's honor will be held in the Sampson HaU Gallery of Art following his performance. The performance is open to the public as well as to students and faculty of Stetson University. Tickets are $1.00 each and may be purchased at the door. Stetson students and faculty will be admitted by presentation of their identification cards. EEKLY CALENDAR! By ANGE SHIRLEY "The Loved One" 7 p.m., Stetson Room S p.m., Elizabeth Hall Friday, Jan. 27 S.U.B. Movie: Senior. Recital Saturday, Jan. 28 Movie: "The Last Bridge" 7 p.m., Stover Theater Vincent Price, lecturer 8 p.m., Elizabeth Hall Basketball Home — Farleight-Dickenson Monday, Jan. 30 Basketball Away — Rollins Tuesday, Jan. 31 Faculty Recital Stetson's fourth fatality of the school year, Polk was driving his 1955 Plymouth automobile south on State Road 33 just north of Clermont, Florida, at - about 6 p.m. when the accident occurred. He was en route to Frostproof to pick up his family for a Stetson basketball game in Lakeland. Polk, a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, was a sophomore accounting major. The funeral was held on Monday, January 16, at the First Baptist Church of Frostproof. AT THE DELAND ATHENS / BOULEVARD DAYTONA BEACH CAPRI—- CINEMA DAYTONA WINTER PARK SEMINOLE PARK EAST PARK WEST MOVIES THIS WEEK-END (Thursday only) "The Great Society" (Fri. & Sat.) "Bang, You're Daed" "The Great Spy Chase" "Music City U.S.A." "Return of the Seven" 'iAlfie" -—-'"The Beatniks and Gutter ;Girls" "Th-.. Endless Summer" "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry" •The Poppy is also a Flower" "Once Upon an Island" "The Spy with a Cold Nose" I j! i, lit-