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Mercer’s Spring Wind Ensemble concert planned
Robert Pack to speak and
read this week at MU
Dr. Jack Delaney, director of in
strumental activities at Emory
University, will be the guest con
ductor when the Mercer Universi
ty Wind Ensemble performs on
Sunday, May 28 at 3 p.m. in Will
ingham Auditorium.
Lyn Rocker, a senior music
education major at Mercer, will be
featured as the oboe soloist.
At Emory Dr. Delaney teaches
courses in conducting and wind
literature in addition to conducting
the Emory Wind Ensemble. He
holds both the bachelor of music
and master or arts degree from
Ohio University and the doctor of
musical arts degree in conducting
from the Cincinnati College-
Conservatory of Music. He is a
member of numerous professional
organizations and is active as a
clinician and guest conductor.
Rocker, the featured soloist, will
perform the oboe solo of Rimsky-
Korsakov’s composition, Varia
tions On a Theme of Blinka for Solo
Oboe and Military Band. The stu
dent of Jason Weintraub, she is cur
rently student teaching at Warner
Robins High School with E.C.
Wamock, director of bands, as her
cooperating teacher. She plans to
continue her music studies at Col
umbus College next fall where she
will pursue a master’s degree in
music education.
The program for the concert will
include Festive Overture by Dmitri
Shostakovich, transcribed by
Donald Hunsberger; Carlos
Surinach's Ritmo Jondo which
features Karen Goss, clarinet;
Ricky Williams, trumpet; Billy
Williams, Delisa Pierce, Rob
Sumowski, Colin Blakely, Robert
Feaimore, and James Cooper,
percussionists.
Other selections include Varia
tions on a Theme of Glinka For
Solo Oboe and Military Band by
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Trauer-
sinfonia by Richard Wagner, revis-
Discussions of the languages of
science and poetry will take place
on both campuses.
Scheduled appearances include:
Mercer University, May 16, 11
a.m., IDS House, conversations on
language, science and poetry; 7:30
p.m. Ware Music Hall, a poetry
reading. On May 17, Pack will visit
the Macon College campus for a
discussion of poetry and science at
10 a.m., building C, room 103;
Timepiece awards and
autographing party, President's
Dining Room; and 7 p.m. a poetry
reading at building C, room 104.
All events are free and open to the
public.
Robert Pack teaches at Mid-
dlebury College, in Middlebury,
Vermont. A former Fulbright
Fellow, recipient of National In
stitute of Arts and Lcttcrcs and
Borestone Mountain Poetry
Awards, his books on poetry in
clude: The Irony of Joy, A
Stranger's Privilege, Guarded by
Women, Nothing but Light, Home
from the Cemetery, Keeping
Watch, Waking to my Name. Faces
in a Single Tree, and Clayfield Re
joices, Clayfield Laments.
Pack has published three books
of poetry for children a critical
study of the work of Wallace
Stevens, and Affirming Limits, a
collection of essays.
Pack’s visit to the area is spon
sored by Mercer University's Great
Books Program and Macon Col
lege's Humanities Division and is
coordinated by The Georgia Poetry
Circuit. These events are partially
funded by The Georgia Humanities
Council and The National Endow
ment for the Humanities, and
through appropriations from the
Georgia General Assembly, and by
the Georgia Council for the Arts
through the Georgia General
Assembly and The National En
dowment for the Arts. This pro
gram is partially funded by Macon
Magazine.
Studies, to deliver the first lecture
of the series. Dr. Meeks will speak
on May 22,1:30 p.m., in room 314
Student Center. The members put
much effort into the decision, says
Sigman, because the success of the
series depends largely on a good
beginning—but also, she says,
because the idea itself is so
important.
“Many males and females don't
know who the women faculty are,"
she says, "and there aren’t that
many. Basically, the idea was to
spotlight them. ...We hope that the
chosen woman faculty member will
take this to be the honor that it is."
On April 22. a Tea sponsored by
the Panhellenic Council in
augurated the lecture series. A few
members are working on a perma
nent banner as Nvell, com
memorating the beginnings of the
feels more confident as a woma
herself in planning the
essay contest over topics concern
ing women’s issues for both
primary grade and junior high
students.
"What nukes this special to us
is that we're looking at schools with
low income status," says Sigman.
Sigman says she has been im
pressed with the work the commit
tee has done so far, and says she
Students at a religious law school
sue for the right to practice law
"It has inspired me to look in
graduate schools (Yale. Duke, ar
Emory) recommended by my
visor. The more I get to kno
about our women faculty matter
the more I want to follow in the
footsteps."
In addition to the lecture series,
the committee is also planning an
(CPS)—CBN University law
students have asked a court to order
the American Bar Association
(ABA) to accredit their school
before their May 20 graduation
date and to pay them damages.
In refuting to accredit the
Virginia school, the ABA, the
students said, violated their civil
rights by subjecting them to
“deliberate administrative delays,
arbitrary standards and processes
hostile to religious schools."
"If they don’t approve us (befo
graduation), we can't practice It
in at least 43 slues.” explain
Paul Hedges. Hedges and his •
classmates are the first to go all ti
way through the school.
Founded by televangelist F
Robertson, CBN—which origin,
ly stood for "Christian Broa
casting Network"—teaches ll
Lambda
Robert Pack, poet, scholar, and
director of the Bread Loaf Writers
Conference, will be in Macon for
several days to speak and to read
from his work at Mercer Univer
sity and Macon College.
Pack’s latest book, Before It
Vanishes, is based on Heinz R.
Pagels' The Cosmic Code, and
deals poetically with new theories
of the origin of the universe.
Meeks
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