THE N. C. ESSAY VOLUME V, NO. XVIU NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MAY 28, 1071 Henderson SCA Pres. •ij Mr. Dirk Dawson, for- iv merly Director of Public Joseph Papp by Kathleen Fitzgerald :j: Relations, has been named :S Elections for representatives to The number of people who •i;: as Director of Alumni for serve on the Student Council next voted in the initial elections was the 1971-72 school year. His Commencement Speaker year were held a few weeks ago refreshingly large, 289 students duties will entail seeking Jx information concerning and these are the results:- managed to stop long enough to Joseph Papp, founder and sion of Hamlet which was President - Steve Henderson. make a few pencil marks on a School of the Arts alumni, :$ as well as recruiting. He producer of the New York published by Macmillan. Vice President - Steve Geiger. ballot before rushing into the Shakespeare Festival Public In April of this year, the New Secretary - Marylin Mclnt^e. cafeteria. 210 students registered will also take over the g position of Assistant to the Theater, will give the com­ York City CouncU purchased the Judicial Board Chairman ^ for the run-offs which followed. mencement address at the North Public Theater BuUding, which it Richard Kaplan. At any rate, the representatives Director of Admissions.The Director of Admissions, a Carolina School of the Arts at will lease to Papp’s Vestival Upper Division Drama - Glen were chosen by a se ^ e n t of the 11:00 A.M., Saturday, June 5 in Theater for $1 a year, thus O’Mally, Chris Coan and Henry student body which is concerned g position newly formed by j-J subsidizing the operation further. Pankey. with the S.C.A.’s continued ef­ the state, has not yet been the Main Auditorium. Papp will M filled. ^ discuss what young performers Much of his $1,600,000 annual Middle Division Drama - Carol fective functioning and this face in the arts today as they operating income comes from Levinson. segment was larger than in any Mrs. Donna Jean Dreyer, |S city and state government. Upper Division Dance - Karen previous elections. There were $5 formerly advisor to the relate to the cultural scene in the N.C. Essay and Journalism |^: United States. Gober and Stephanie Ely. also a good number of students Unlike the summertime Middle Division Dance - Cheryl running this year, again, more instructor, will take over as A native of Brooklyn who grew Director of Public up during the depression, Papp Shakespeare Festival, the winter Katy. than in previous years. counterpart concentrates on the L ^ e r Division Dance - Louise Asked what his reactions to the Relations. ;§• learned about theater putting on % Mr. William King, from shows in the Navy, in the Actors contemporary, the experimental d’Amelio. election results were, Steve and the avant-garde. The staff, Upper Division Music - Dee Henderson replied that he had §:• Lynchburg, Virginia, will Lab workshop in California and be the new advisor to the as a TV stage manager. In 1957, who read over 500 plays before Moses and Francis Perry. been “shocked at first but then choosing a dozen or more to be Middle Division Music - Joe happy.” He said that while there Essay and instructor of he organized the New York English and Joumalsim. Shakespeare Festival to present product, feel that their first Genualdi and John i^errill. is certainly a lot to be done by the responsibility is to the Lower Division Music • Lee CouncU next year there are a lot He will assume his duties in professional Shakespearean Metcalfe. of people to work with and that :$ September. iS productions at no charge in playwright, then to the actors and Central Park and on the Mobile directors and finally to the Upper Division Design and the Student Affairs staff is really audience. The Public Theater is Production - Paul Dale and Peter with us. “We’re going to do Theater touring the boroughs of Girvin. everything we can,” he said, New York. not trying to buUd a reputation on NCSA NAMES Ten years later, in 1967 the hits or long nms, but rather on Middle Division Design and “And then we’re going to be doing giving new plays a chance, on Production - Kevin Dreyer. some more!” Right on. Festival established a permanent MERIT AWARD home in the landmark Theater presenting ^ows they consider building in New York, which worthy. WINNERS presenUy includes five theaters This approach to the theater where contemporary works and has, however, produced some The North Carolina School of films are presented on a year- hits. Two shows, the long-running the Arts has announced the round basis. Papp’s concept is a Hair and No Place To Be recipients of the School’s annual free and subsidized low-cost Somebody, have carried on weU Merit Awards, given to the top theater, making professional beyond the confines of the Public students in the various depart­ productions availalbe to all Theater. Joseph Papp, the Public ments. The scholarship awards, segments of the population. Theater and individual actors, ranging up to $1,000, were an­ He has directed many of the directors, writers and producers nounced at a School convocation Festival’s more than 60 have won 21 awards jwth for on Wednes^y, May 5. There productions, over 20 of them specific plays and general ex- were three categories of awards, Shakespeare, the most recent ceUence since the establishment covering the Drama, Music, being Twelfth Night, In addition, of the year-round operation in Dance and Design and he directed at the Public Theater, 1967 and more than 50 awards Production Departments. The Memorandum, Huui, Huui, since the inception of Overall Excellence Mod Donna and a modern ver­ Shakespeare in the Park. The Nancy Reynolds Merit Award was established in 1970 as a $100,000 gift to the School for the purpose of honoring those Kaplan New Essay Editor students whose year-long per­ formances indicated overall appointment as editor, the Essay excellence. It is designated to be Robin Kaplan, a coUege junior REVOLTIONARIES PLOT THEIR COURSE IN A SCENE majoring in Creative Writing, announces that Gavin DiUard, a given to the top student in each of high school junior in the Visual FROM THE recent Drama Dept, production of Albert Camus’ “The &e School’s major departments. has been named as the editor of Just Assassins.” From left, Christine Rosania, Joyce Reehling and the N.C. Essay for the 1971-72 Arts program, has been named Each recipient received $1,000 Assistant (or associate) Editor. Kurt Yaghjian, central characters in the play. For a review of the toward their next year’s tuition. school year, aie wiU succeed play, see Page 2. Photo By Beck Michael Ferguson, the current He wUl work in conjunction with Winners of the Reynolds Merit editor, who wiU be graduated this Robin as the Essay’s senior Award were Lynn Keeton in June. A Valdese, North Carolina editors. In this capacity, Gavin Dance Company Formed Dance; Marilyn McIntyre in native, Robin has been a student will cover high school news in an Drama; Ed Helbein, a trumpet at NCSA for two years and on effort to give that division of Robert Lindgren, Dean of the Koner, Noble, Sanders, Balan­ major in Music; and Paul Dale in NCSA more coverage. School of Dance of the North Design and Production. Essay staff this past semester. chine, Lindgren and Tyven, Robin wiU officially assume her Gavin has worked on several Carolina School of the Arts an­ Bettis, Englund, de Mille, Gib­ Fogle Award publications in the past, having nounced last week the receipt of a duties next September. son, Fisher and Limon. The Jessica T. Fogle Award is In addition to having worked on edited a publication for a com­ $250,000 grant from the The grant was secured by Mr. a $500 scholarship awarded to a munity workshop. He has been an Rockefeller Foundation for the student in one department various other high school and Lindgren in conjunction with coUege publications, Robin was Essay staff member this year, establishment of a new Roger G. Hall, President of the selected by rotation and honors having contributed several ar­ professional dance company. The an outstanding highschool senior also editor of the temporarily North Carolina School of the Arts defunct Artful Dodger, the ticles, art work and assisting in Foundation had already made a Foundation, which will assume moving into the college division. layout duties. $24,300 grant last year to enable Althou^ the Fogle Award has literary magazine of the N.C. responsibility for raising a Essay. As weU as having been a Mr. Lindgren to form the nucleus matching $250,000 over the next been given to an NCSA stjdent of the new company, to be called frequent contributor to the Essay The Essay is stiU in need of a three years. since its inception, it is also this year (her short story, “The Business Manager and a full time North Carolina Dance l^eatre. available to outside students. typist. The positions of Business The announcement was made Tom Hulce, a high school Public Messiah”, was serialized at a press reception, hosted by recently in the Essay), Robin Manager is a salaried one and Bill Dreyer and his Acting for student in the Drama Depart­ anyone interested should contact Agnes de MiUe, Madame Eugenie ment at NCSA was the recipient also edited the Essay’s recent Dancers class presented a literary issue. either Mike Ferguson or Robin Ouroussow and Jose Limon, all of history of musicals to the Little of the award this year.