Singer Mary Wells to Perform at Homecoming

Page 3 The Decref- Kiiday. December 9, 1966 ,v<.' Singer Mary Wells To -'% & ■:■ ■■ Perform At Homecoming Mary Wells, nationally known recording artist, will provide the entertainment for the First Annual Homecoming Dance to be held at Tarrytow'n Mall December 17 at 9:30 p. m. Miss Wells, with her scintillating style of com bining blues and mellow ballads with a strong vibrancy, now has developed into one of the nation’s better nightclub performers and has become one of the more sought after performers for personal ap pearances on college campuses throughout the na tion. She has had many top selling The overwhelming results of records in her short six-year her records and her “ My Guy” career. She wrote and record album induced 20th Century- ed her first song, “Bye, Bye, Fox to a keener look at the Baby” , at age 15. The record talented songstress and a four- swept the nation for eight year recording contract result months on the top of the nation ed. al charts. Miss Wells began singing Seven months later, Mary re early in her life. Although corded “ I Don’t Want To Take she had never studied music, A Chance,” which stayed on the she sang in the Junior High charts for four months, and her School choir of 70 students album. “ My Guy,” has been where her musical talents were one of the all-time best sellers first discovered. She went on since its release. to Detroit’s Northwestern High Miss Wells career had an in School, noted for its outstand teresting beginning. When she ing choir, and was featured so was 15 she had written a poem, loist during her first year. MOTOWN REVUE star MARY WELLS will headline the week and although she couldn’t read Accompanyment for Miss end’s features as North Carolina Wesleyan College observes music, she thought of a tune Wells performance will be pro its first Homecoming Weekend, December 16-17. to fit it and made a trip to vided by The Inmates, a well- the Motown Record Corp. of known local group from fices to get some opinions. The Raleigh, who are notedfor their tune was transcribed and the re showmanship and versatility. sult, “ Bye, Bye, Baby,” sound ed good to Motown officials. There was one problem. There We can be absolutely certain was no artist available to sing only about things we do not under Two Wesleyan Professors it. The result: Mary Wells stand. sang, Motown recorded and this Eric Hoffer first effort stayed on the best selling charts for eight months. Receive Sabbaticals This record, plus the success Summer Sabbatical study and of “ I Don’t Want To Take A Carolina Cafe travel programs were granted Chance,” prompted Mary to to Dr. Arch W. Sharer, Pro postpone her studies and she fessor of Biology, and to Dr. began a national tour with the “We serve James R. Hailey, Associate Motown Revue. Professor of Religion, at Her renditions of toprock-n- W<M»derful Food and NCWC, by the Board of Trustees roll favorites helped to make Our Coffee Can’t at a recent meeting. the tour one of the most suc Be Beat” Dr, Sharer received approval cessful in rock-n-roll history. to use the summer of 1967 Turn-away crowds greeted her for several weeks of travel and performances in Chicago, Cin 9M N. Church S t study in the tropics or sub cinnati, Philadelphia and St. G1 Mrs. GeorcoB tropics of Central and South Louis. America. He would study o r ganisms of particular interest such as reptiles and amphibia, such as are found in the Barro Colorado Island of the Panama Rocky mount Lanes Canal Zone, or some similar areas. Upon conclusion of the major study period, he would make Great for a Date” brief visits on his way back to North Carolina at institutions and environmental areas in Cenral and South America. OR. SHARER HAILEY Cn- SHOP EVERY NIGHT Central and South America. Dr. James R. Hailey will Monday thru Saturday either serve as Caravan Counselor for the Methodist Youth Caravan to Europe for until Christmas ^til the summer of 1967, or study and do research work in Pal estine. If he seij/es as Caravan by Jim Perry Counselor, he and Mrs. Hailey will lead a select group of Although many views have Do I have a solution? I college youth in work visits been aired on the suject of to Methodist Churches in Eng don’t know if there is one, but required chapelfromadifferent I have an idea. Allow chapel land, Germany, Italy, Austria, point of view. Let me say in Switzerland, and France. speakers to draw from other the beginning that I oppose any sources such as poetry, philo The alternate summer sab form of required worship ser batical program would call for sophy, or even politics; and vice. I don’t believe an in encourage them to use different Dr. Hailey to do Old Testament dividual can be forced to wor research in archaeology and orders of worship. As you re ship. There are those who call, the Interfaith Commission s 'A geography by traveling in Pal wish to abolish chapel entirely. estine, visiting i mportant arch used this type of service on Obviously this cannot be done November 22 for Thanksgiving. aeological sites and participat as long as we retain our pre ing in the excavation under For those who were present sent relationship to the Meth it was received as a welcomed the program of the American odist Church. Therefore, the School of Oriental Research change of pace. Let me again logical thing to do is to change point out that this is no slo- in Jerusalem as planned by the present form when and if Dr. Nelson Cleuch of Hebrew of the problems of required point out that this is no so ROCKY M OUNT’S Union Seminary in Cincinnati. monotony of the services. The summer sabbatical is de lution. It may be a step in the Every Thursday there is the LARGEST AND FINEST signed to enrich the background right direction, and we need to same order ot worship that take some steps in the right of the professor, to lead to re people just quit listening to DEPARTMENT STORE search and writing in his dis direction. This problem will after a while. There is no never be solved by faculty a- cipline, and to enhance class change of pace in the ser room teaching for all students. lone. It must be solved by vices with the exception of ser faculty and students joining in BELK-TYLER’S Tomorrow will be a better d;iy vices assigned to Dr. James, a cooperative effort to achieve if you begin to improve it today. S tudents can predict everything a common goaL Your Downtown Shopping Cente except the hymn numbers..

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