Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ma A lot was said last year about the performances by the University of South Carolina Marching Band. Many called the band large at 13 pieces. s fail observers will se a 250-piece marching unit, -and director Ralph Wahl and his staff are winding up a hectic sum meuin preparing to field the enlarged group. The band for this fall must prepare to: -.Appear at all home USC football games and all the gam*es on the road with the exception of the Georgia Tech game in Atlanta Sept. 12. --Perform at halftime of the New York Jets Baltimore Colts game in Now York Oct. 18 and at halftime of the Atlanta Falcons-Chicago Bears game in Atlanta Nov. 1. --Play on tour, in parades, in campus concerts and toher engagements. "Logistics of preparing for a year's activities of a AR Is RUSSELL CAPSTONI BATES Hi COLUMBI M&N CAI SOUTH I THE RO( Our mail we are most Please. a rching band of this size are tremendous, "Wahl said, "and that Is only the beginning." -A summer staff of about a dozen people have been involved in securing and filing music, preparing Instruments and choosing and evaluating personnel for the band. The work is being done in crowded quarters in McMaster College. Says Wahl: "Planning for the intricate machine the fans know as the band doesn't really start at any particular time, because It never stops. All year we make sketches, watch other bands, do research, com pare notes with other directors, examine musical scores and watch the tune popularity charts." Wahl said as the mar ching season approaches the directors make broad plans for shows, all the while considering thins of national interest to tie in with the music: elections, A SLA proud to providE at the U HOUSE: Cafe Faculty and Parties :'Top of C )USE: Amer IA HALL FETER IA ALL )ST i responsibility is your anxious to meet with Iways feel welcon1 Campus Al Ban< holidays, current news, homecoming and other special events. Putting on a band show from the drawing boards to the field Is a "gigantic ef fort in teamwork, Ingenuity and imagination," ac cording to Wahl. Gamecot SIN TER you with a varif niversity of South teria, Gamecoi Statf Dining Ri arolina, cafete catered func -ican plan dining satisfaction and you personally. . e to visit with ai RA SLATER I I plar In his second year at Carolina, Wahl expects to have some 115 former members of the bond return this fall to join forces with some . 150 freshman members. 'In addition, put In football terms, nearly all of last year's "stars" will ,k marching f( bscril ERVI( ty of dining servi Carolina :k Snack Bar, )Om, Special fu,nctions ria, special p; tions to assist us in meeti; my of the managi )ining Servik LS exc be back. Band members will report nearly two weeks earlier. than most USC students for a band camp, so members can got oriented and start rehearsals. "The USC bands travel as rmation rES ces Cockpit, arties and ig this objctive irs of your :e. Ltlflg* much as any university band in the nation/' Wthl says, "yet each rewmber will pay only $10 or so for the year for out of Pocket expenses. It's quite a Metum on the Investment, .1 4hink, to be a band member." To help, support the expenses involved in producing such a band, ths Carolina Band Club has been formed and Is soliciting memberships for $12 each which includes a long-playing album featuring some of I#st Jones birds,-c Don't be surprised if walking 1 the home of President Dr. and . Thomas F. Jones you happen to. hear the early morning crowing of a rooster. It's only Rusty waking up the USC campus for another day, and he's just one of the nine pets that form the menagerie in the Jones' household. A sparrow, two parakeets, a cat, two dogs, and two turtles complete the list. Most of the pets are acquisition of 14-year-old Cissle Jones. At least, the University's first family acquired its Gamecock through her. It seems a Columbia businessman gave Cissle a rooster for a Christmas present. "She kept it in one of the bathrooms for several days," recalled Mrs. Jones. "She must have gotten up at dawn each morning to keep it from crowing. We did not even know she had it until Christmas morning when we opened our gifts. She brought it in and I turned around and screamed. But Rusty has really turned into a people gamecock now." Pussy Cat" was one of some 30 cats located behind a nearby apartment building when Cissie found her and began feeding the cats dog food. "The cat was a stray wild beast when Cissie broght her home, absolutely wild. A man had asked her to tame the cat for him," explained Mrs. Jones, "but. after we tamed her ,e wanted to keep' "Pussy Cat." Mother fed her warm milk and gave her a bath," added Jon, the Jones's 16-year-old son. Boris, whose name in Russian means fighter, joined the Jones' menagerie a week before Mother's Day last year. Jon noticed the baby sparrow walking alongside the fountain in front of the Jones' home. The mother lay dead beside the fledgling. After picking at specks of bread, the young bird was brought Into the home. "Cissie bought a book on feeding birds and I spoon fed Boris a R esear gains I In 1950, Dr. Peyton Teague of the University of South Carolina's Chemistry Department, received $2,500 to begin the University up the long road in the field of research. Twenty years later Teague has been able to witness the Univer sity's research program grow to over $i.3 million for the establish ment of a separate University division to help promote research. According to A. Riley Macon, an official with the division of ad vanced studies and research, USC has lagged behind gravely In the research area until the last five years. But as can be seen with the acquisition of over $500,000 from the Scaife Family Foundation from Pennsylvania for research work in the field of international studies, and with the receipt of over N800,000 from the National Science Foundation for numerous research projects, USC has en tered Into an era where research almost marks the success of a University. "Five years ago research was almost neglibie except in the area of chemistry," Macon said. Only since President Jones, the impetus has been on research and the graduate program." In the last three yearstricted research grants under the division of advanced studies and research has almost- doubled. "We are -rwn very rapky," Mae said, but noted, "We are n. great research InstItution." In I963, the University reeived year's perfo Three ge*e$et assistants Witt brve s ' assistant dirOctov. Ashley Fleshman, a *#C,gVaduate and former nm rO the U.S. Army Bndi, Johnson, 1969 gadsta Sf Troy State University where he was ,and ad ministrative officer; and Roy Sugden, a ,former student of Wahl at Wisconsin State University at LaCrosse who t*ught in public schools this past year. house: its,dogs combination of egg yolk, cen meal. and warm water. After a ointh, I began feeding him baby fobds and vegetales, but now he eats bird food or part of Father's breakfast," laughed Mrs. Jones explaining that Dr. Jones often shaMa his breakfast with BorW. Critter, the Jones' dog, tumed u in the excavations for Carolina Coliseum. "A lot of the families moved and left their dogs," said Mrs. Jones. "We had as many as eight dogs here at one time. The chilken found homes for all of them. Critter was one of the dogs that we gave away. About two months later, though, he turned up cold, wet and hungry at our front door. We later found out the people that had him lived on the other side of' the Sesqui-Centennial State Park, so we kept him, too." Lady Beamus Jones, the family's bassett hoad, appeared under the Christmas tree in 196. Since that time, she's become a familiar sight around the UOC campus. The family's turtles and parakeets were gifts to the Jones. "Spastic", a blup parakeet, is absolutely "uncouirdinated" and "Jerry", the white parakeet, never grew wings. And these a% qly part of the many animalslV t 3Ja4 have' included in their family life. Says Mrs. Jones, "Love is the most improtant word in our language. Love of adults, animals, or children is quite the same in my opinion. An animal without love-consistent, everyday care and response-Is a frustrated creature and reacts as such." She added, "An animal responds to a consistent pattern or mood and observing the metamorphosis from a wild creature to one who responds to consistent human love and warmth is truly a lesson In life for all who care even a little bit for those the world calls animal." ch nade Atomic Energy Commission. But It was not until 1964 and 1956 with the establishment of the graduate program that any emphasis was put on reasearch. The division of advanced studies and research handles only restricted grants, contracted for a specific project, working together with University's division of development which handles , unrestricted grants. Research accounts for only one- . thrid of the money acquired from con tracted grants1 withheld Rtesearch accounts for~ only one-third of the money~ acquired from contracted grants with the remaining funds allotted to maintenance, admninstratgh and other areas. In 1969, USC received almoet S.I million In restricted contracts Mr all programs under the resegra division. Projects range fromn a g~tby the Baruch Foundation to sthe flora of the Baruch PIla~ South Carolina to thecftebia study of intestinal parasItes became a major Issue In Carolina In 19S. With the establismnst he reerch h very h an agency In which pen*sp research Ideas and matched with agencies to carry out speiiw; needed. V aes.afthmtesE