Bridgewater College BC Digital Commons Bridgewater Magazine Journals and Campus Publications 4-1966 Vol. 41, No. 8 | April 1966 Bridgewater College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/bridgewater_magazine Recommended Citation Bridgewater College, "Vol. 41, No. 8 | April 1966" (1966). Bridgewater Magazine. 288. https://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/bridgewater_magazine/288 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals and Campus Publications at BC Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bridgewater Magazine by an authorized administrator of BC Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume XLI T h e IAs I See It --- No. 8 :lJriJ9ewaler Freedom or License? Across the land, on a thousand ALUMNUS campuses, there is a cry for "Free- dom" on the part of students. It is not new or unique A Bridgewater College Bulletin though the present generation of stu- APRIL, 1966 dents may think so. Today's cry for IN THIS ISSUE freedom is freedom to drink, freedom 2 As I See It fro m conformity, freedom of speech, (freedom of filthy 3 Medea: A Portrait of a Play speech), freedom of sex relations, just freedom from rules and regulations. 8 If I Could Choose for My Grandchildren The tragedy is the immaturity and limitlessness to which this cry for 9 Bridgewater Briefs "freedom" goes. As I see it-this is 10 Faculty Activity the harvest, in part, of the age of permiss:veness. Many students just 11 Eagles' Sports Parade want to know how far they can go. 12 Commencement \IVeekend, May 28-29 If there is a difference between Berkeley and Bridgewater, besides 14 Pritchett Museum Holds Rare and Price'.ess Articles size and locale, it is that Berkeley is state owned and operated (public) and 16 Alumni Profile Bridgewater is privately owned and operated (church-related). Students 18 In Memory of a Distinguished Daughter of Bridgewater know this long before they arrive on either campus and by their own de- 19 Class Notes c1s10n to matriculate, knowing the 21 Wedding Bells regulations and traditions, they give the'r assent to such a type of insti- 21 Future Eagles tution. 21 The student, by maturity or by In Memoriam authority, is in no position to change 22 Chapter Chatter bas:c rules established through years of experience and judgment. On the campus, many of the petty acts of PHOTO CREDITS: 1, 3-7, Gentry; 14-15, Litten; 22, Amato. defiance and destruction go beyond the idea of freedom. Littering of the OUR COVER campus and deliberate acts of destruc- tion often appear to be the tantrums This ALUMNUS features the excellent work of the B. C. Pinion of a spoiled child. This goes be- Players in their recent production of "Medea." Marty Zinn, a philos- yond "freedom." It is a thwarted ophy major from Houston, Tex., gave her finest college performance desire to "do as I damn please." in the role of Medea. Go behind the scenes of "Medea" on pag-es 3-7. Thank heavens, the majority of students are not of this. stripe, whether on Berkeley or Bridgewater. Jacob F. Replogle '37 BA, Editor This we often forget. The vocal minority get the attention they childishly desire, but the great bulk ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD of students are disgusted at such Barbara Metzger Anderson '53 BS Maurice K. Henry '36 BA antics and somehow become silent by- Fred W. Swartz '58 BA Georgie H. Holden '28 BA standers of a tragic miscarriage of the pursuit of learning. Bridgewater College is a member of the American Alumni Council and of the American College Public Relations Association. The Bridgewater College Bulletin is published nine times a year by Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Va., August, September, October, November, December, February, March, April and Tune. The Bridgewater ALUMNUS is issued in August, December and Avril as a part of the Bulletin series. Entered as second-class matter at the post office, Bridgewater, Va., Jacob F. Replogle '37 under act of Conizress of Aug-ust 24. 1912. 2 Medea: Portrait of a Plal] BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE has always been noted for the qual- ity of the drama and musical pro- ductions which it has presented. There is a long history of the finest in American and English drama gracing the stage of Cole Hall. Countless students and devoted fac- ulty have combined their skills 111 scores of outstanding plays at Bridgewater. With the advent of a full-time professor of speech and drama in the person of Charles Frank Fuller, Jr., drama has taken on a new and a vastly more professional dimen- sion at Bridgewater. The latest full-length production of the Pinion Players of Bridgewater College attests to the new heights to which drama has come on the B. C. cam- pus. Finding the right script is the director's first big problem. Is it good literature? good theatre? Can we do justice to it? The director and stu- dent group discuss the script. 3 A 1niniature Medea floor plan or perspective elevation is worked out on the drawing board and designed to scale. 0 n March 18 and 19, "Medea," a modern adaptation by Robinson Jeffers of the ancient Greek trag- edy by Euripedes, came to Bridge- water. Living through the tragic action of the play, set before Medea's house 111 Corinth, is an experience itself. It depicts the fury and length to which the wife of Jason will go when she is spurn- ed for a more lovely and politically- advantageous daughter of a Greek king. After audition rehearsals are held, the cast list is posted on the dram,a departinent bu11etin board for the expectant eyes of the hopefuls. What one does not see 1s the long hours of planning and plotting to make such a masterful produc- tion a success. Herewith we go behind the scenes to see the "ana- tomy o·f a drama" from its selec- tion to its resounding applause. Some will recall all too well similar experiences on the Bridgewater "boards" but all will catch the movement of the production and the fine details and technical sup- port so very necessary in such a college production. Hours and days of intensive rehearsal are re- quired to whip the play into shape. The stage manager holds the production book which shows the diagrams of blocking and direction notes as the drama coach instructs the actors in rehearsal. 4 Publicity crews get to work on posters, tickets, program,, advertis- ing to let the world linow that Medea is co111ing. Set building day I A replica of the front of an authentic Greek home is constructed while rocks and mountains are made of paper mache. s The Ca.st (In Order of Appearance) The Nurse .................... Bobbie Marshall* The Tutor . Glenn Bowman* The Children ............ Eric Kyger, Greg Liskey First vV oman . Lynn Sparks Second Woman .................... Donna Spitler Third Woman .................... Gloria Barron The lighting crew gets the co111pli- Medea ............................ Martha Zinn* cated control board ready for cur- Creon ............................. Frank Harris tain time. This maze of wiring controls the two sets of lights in- Creon's Soldiers . Charles Hagedorn, Andy Meade stalled on the side walls of the Jason ............................ \i\Tayne Miller Cale Ha ll auditorium. Jason's Soldiers ......... Jerry Beatty, Bill Forrest Aegeus ........................... Larry vVhetzel Jason's Slave Edward Poling * * * Director Frank Fuller, Jr* Technical Director ............ Mrs. Hope Jopson* Stage Manager . Carolyn Martin Assistant Stage Manager . Tina Egge *-Members of Alpha Psi Omega The big night! "Nlrs . .T." (Jopson), technical director, and experienced make-up crew work on actors to give appearance of age and color. Martha Zinn, playing the lead as a real pro, pre- pares herself before the actress' dressing table for the heavy and artistic role of 11/I edea. 6 King Creon condemns NI edea and her sons to banish- ment and exile so that his daughter might marry Jason, Medea's husband. l\!Jedea, beside herself in anguish and hatred, vows death to her oppressors and plots revenge on her un- faithful husband. Medea was a team effort. ·while Miss Zinn carried the major acting responsibility in the role of Medea, it took approximately fifty people who combined their efforts in doing everything from blowing a trum- pet, selling the ads, giving out the programs, to tending the lights, learning the lines, and applying the make-up. The ALUMNUS sa- lutes the excellent cast, the profes- sional direction, the production crew and to Misses Pat Manlove and Marty Zinn, in assisting in preparation of this "Portrait of a Play." Jason seeks in vain to get his sons fro 111, his estranged wife, !YI edea, who will kill them as revenge on her unfaith/id husband. 7 in spite of our over--emphasis on OvER THE YEARS, I have grades which destroys the fr.eedom sampled a number of colleges and to learn. There is nothing •can universities in a variety of ways. I strangle true education so much as am astounded and -excited at their grade enslavement. Even in the gr-eat potential to educate. small college, I would be guarding Recently, I visited a university against it, in my choice. If I Could Choose A of some 20,000 students. I was on What sort of program do I want one of the walks when classes were the college to have? A broad foun- changing. A dog was running in dation in the liberal arts is my College For My front of me. I stepped off the side- choice. If there is need for special- walk to let the hoards of students ization, let it come after they get Grandchildren pass.