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Beaver College Eugeni~ Fuller Atwood library. c Glenside, Pennsylvania 19038 KUNCIO TO SPEAK ON "TITANS WITHIN" OCT. 24 MARKS FIRST FACULTY LECTURE BY DOT1'Y GRAHAM "The Titans Within: Despair in caller RchlS Contemporary Fiction" is the topic that Robert C. Kuncio will discuss Volume XLII, No.2 BEAVER COLLEGE, GLENSIDE. PA. Wednesday, October 11, 1967 at the first in a series of Faculty Lectures. Mr. Kuncio proposes to discuss the nature of the Titan w;thin each individual, that ele James H. Robinson To Speak; ment against which one must al ways fight. In literature the reader can see that self m u s t necessarily go Founder of Crossroads Africa through Hell, sometimes literally ar.d other times metaphorically, in The founder of one of this dec est m thte African continent and his The effect of a Crossroads proj order to purge or prepare self for ade·s most successful experiments t:llent for enabling college students ect is felt long after the summer Grace or Reward to follow. in international understanding sums to translate idealism into practical is over. To an African country, Mr. Kuncio will trace this Hell up his philosophy in this fashion: action. (During his years as a pas the visit means construction of a purging-redemption theme through "When you are under a hundred tor, he recruited hundreds of stu badly needed schOOl or community li terature. The myths of Homer and pound bag of cement with an Af dents to build and staff a camp center. More important, it signifies rican, a lot of barriers break Virgil arc examples in which one for the children of Morningside the good will of young people who, down." Dr. James H. Robinson will s(:es the individual going through Heights.) without U. S. support, came to Hell or the underworld and, as a be at Beaver's convocation, Tues serve and become better acquaint result of this experience reaching day, Oct. 24, to explain this view Crossroaders, as participants call ed. of his philosophy. salvation. ROBERT C. KUNCIO themselves, combine both work To Crossroaders, the summer af This theme can be seen in Judeo Blest be the tie . Since 1958, Dr. Robinson, pastor program~ and study seminars. Cir fords understanding of a style of Christian heritage in Job and also emeritus of the Church o[ the Mas cumstances vary according to the life totally different from that at in Eastern literature. Dante, led by a just God who will reward those ter, New York, has translated this country, but everyone can count on home. Also, thousands of Ameri Virgil, also travels through Hell in men who wrestle within them statement into a program by which the following experiences: mixing ican!" and Canadians g a i n new order to ultimately be able to be selves? more than 1,000 American students, cempnt; making and laying bricks; knowledge of Africa from the doz One with God. Mr. Kuncio will use such authors teachers, and other specialists have trying to carry objects on his head; ens of speeches given by partici In the examples cited above, the as }'ranz Kafka, Malcolm Lowry, gained firsthand insight into Af washing with cold water; sleeping pants. individual has been able to strug Graham Greene, William Buroughs, rica's emergent nations. This sum under a mosquito net; getting blis Morc than a third of the alumni gle and achieve salvation. Mr. Kun Albert Camus and Herman Hesse mer nearly 300 youthful Americans ters and an upset stomach; writing continue their relationships with cio's main thesis will involve con to explore those problems. Each were sponsored by "Operation home by candlelight; taking ma Afric'l th rough service as mission temporary fiction, in which the author or protagonist experiences Crossroads Africa" and, for the laria suppressant tablets; learning aries, in Peace Corps assignments, protagonist necessarily struggles the Hell. but faces the problem of first time, 26 Africans visited the snatches of the local language as in foreign service posts, or in within himself, going through a redemption or salvation in a dif United States. well as songs and dances; teaching teaching overseas. Such statistics metaphorical Hell, yet not always ferent manner. In modern writing "Opel'alion Crossroads Africa" Eng lis h and visiting African lcnd aedence to Dr. Robinson's '1tiaining salvation. redemption is not definitely pres has married Dr. Robinson's inter- homes. statement "When you go to Africa Thp general question is then ent; this then is the despair in with Crossroads, you never really raised; is there any reward for the contemporary fiction. come back." individual who is tried and does Mr. Kuncio may be heard Tues DR. WM. MOULTON TO ADDRESS CONVO. struggle within himself? If a man day evening, Oct. 24 at 8: 15 in the goes through Hell, is this an auto Little Theatre. The public is in matic ticket to Paradise? Is there vited and admission is free. AS DANFORTH VISITING LECTURER Dr. William G. Moulton, a lin guistics expert, will speak at Bea HOURS SET "MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY" ver College OCt. 17 as a Danforth Visiting Lecturer. He will give a Beginning Monday, Oct. 16, conVOC3.mon address on "The Design THEME OF DADS' WEEKEND, OCT. 22·23 of Language" and a public lecture the Library will remain on "Linguistics and Language The second annual Beaver Col of afternoon activities, has sched open unti111:00 p.m. Sun lege Dads' Weekend will be held on uled volleyball, softball, touch foot Training." Oct. 22-23. The ltilleme of the event ball, tennis, archery, bridge, and T h,- visitir.g lecturers program day-Friday. is "My Healit Belongs to Daddy." horseshoes. Announcements con und~r which Dr. Moulton comes to It will be an opportunHy for the cerrung these actiViities will be made Beaver was initiated in 1957 by the fathers and !lleir da ugh ~ers to en at 1:30 from the platform on the Arts Progrwn o[ the Assn. of Amer joy a weekend of [un and recrea campus lawn. ican Colleges, and is supportted by a tion. The most carefully guarded se grant from the Danforth Founda tion. Each year several men and It was w~lh this purpose in mind cret of the weekend is the content Playshop Presents that Judy MacCrate and a few of the novelty relays. Chairman women of outstanding intelleclual members of the A:hletic Assn. orig Ellen Brennan promises that they stature from this country and a inated the idea in 1965. Last year will be the most ingenious ever. broad are made available to colleges "Children's Hour" and universities. the Circle of Beaver Paren>ts agreed In case of inclemenlt weather, Theater Playshop will presenl to underwrite the cos/ts and assist lunch will be served in the student Dr. Moullion is a specialiSt in the WILLIAM G. MOULTON "The Children's HOUl'," by Lillian Man the words in the planning of activ~ies. dining room and the afternoon ac history, structure, and evolution of of Hellman, as theil' first production tivities will be held in Chel'tenham various languages. He played a ma guage Supervisor in Fal- East Civil The present commiUtee is headed this yea 1·. The play will be held on High School gymnasium. jor role in the development of the Affau"S TI'3ining Schools. by chairman Linda Harkins '69 and the nigh'ts of Nov. 15-19. The val,iety show will take the pl·ogram in linguiStics at Princeton Following this assignment, h e assistant chairman Chris Clark '69. Casting has not yel been com vaudeville form. Maryann "Cookie" UniverSity, where he joined the fa served for a year as a captain with Rep r esen~ng the Beaver Circle of pleted. The caSt at preserut is com Cook will act as emcee. The show culty in 1960. the Army, concerned with the "re_ Parents are Mr. John R. Thomas. prised of Bonnie Herron, who will will feature, among others, Judy He bas a background of more president, and Mrs. C. Wayne Mc education" of German prisoners of play the paJ1t of Karen Wright; Pam Bvown, Ginny Burch, and Linda than two decades of resea1'Ch and Clintock. Miss Frances H. Lewis, war. He has been a member of the Young, who will play the vole of Cowgill. teaching in American and European director of public rel·ations, is act facuLty at Cornell University and a Mal'tha Dobie, and Sandy Somer The first day will end wi th the universities. He has special inter ing as Dads' Weekend coordinator. visiting professor all the Univel"Sily ville, who will play Mrs. Tilford. Father-Daughter Dance, to be held eSts in Dutch and German dialects, of Michigan, Columbia University, The weekend will begin with re at 9 p.m. in Grey Towers. Featured dialect geography, and the applica and a t the NDEA Institute for Ger Mary Tilford Will be acted by gistration at Grey Towers on Satur a,t the dance will be the OastleaiTes tion of linguistics to the teaching of man teachers sponsored by Stan Jane Hertz, Ann WiIlIters will play Agatha, and MlaTgare'l Cl·on will day morning from 9 to 10 a.m. The and the Beaver Dam Six. Awards foreign languages. ford University at Bad Ball, Ger coffee hour in the dillling room will will be presented to the relay race In 1953-54 he did research on a many. play Mrs. Morlar. Various other be hosted by members of the facul winners. Fulbright gl"ant at the University of girls in the production will be play ty.