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* * * • i THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., March 6, 1969—6-A Clinton High Highlights PC Players Travel New Path BY LINWOOD COX Because of the two day snow holiday, CHS’ers did not receive their report cards until Monday afternoon. These report cards marked the beginning of the last semester of school for the “ brave ole’ Seniors," and some seniors found that they would have to work a little harder to reach their dream - exempting exams. Tuesday afternoon at the end of sixth period, all students were asked to return to homeroom. We seniors went quickly to our re spective rooms and anxiously waited for an explanation as to why we were sent there. After the last bell had rung, someone courageously asked, “Why are we here?" We then were told that the underclassmen were filling out registration forms for next year’s enrollment at CHS. We were very relieved to learn that we had not been purposely left out, but we were also unhappy to recollect that we would not be at “good ole’ CHS* next year. Tonight and Friday night the Junior Class will present a three act comedy entitled, “Don’t Take My Penny." This play will be pre sented at the high school audi torium at 8 p.m., and admis sion will be $.75 for students and $1 for adults. Everyone is urged to attend this presentation! During the past week try-outs for the musical comedy “My Fair Lady" have been held. This play will be presented in May by members of the senior class, the band, and the chorus, under the direction of Mrs. Rosemary Johnson, Mrs. Eugenia Johnson, and Mr. Harry Bouknight. BY CHARLOTTE P. REED F rom Grandma in the Sandbox to a Roman tomb, the fanciful vision of the PC Players travelled a new path to open a- nother dimension of theatre for its Clinton audience. They pre sented Edward Albee's “The Sandbox’ and Christopher Fry’s “A Phoenix Too Frequent", last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at the Black Magic Theatre in the Jacobs building at Presbyterian College. “The Sandbox* is a brief but effective example of “theatre of the absurd" where the author chooses a shock technique to ex pound his ideas. By combining a ridiculous situation with a cast Taylor Agrees On Needs, Wonders About Revenue COLUMBIA, - Rep. David S. Taylor feel Gov. Ro bert E. McNair’s legislative re commendations are “what South Carolina needs," but adds “the state can not afford all of the pro posals that were made." Gov. McNair delivered the message to a joint session of The General Assembly on Jan. 15, the beginning of the 1969 Leg islative session. Among topics of the message discussed by Rep. Taylor were teacher and state employe sal aries, kindergartens, and col leges. “In 1962," Taylor said,“we were appropriating $4 million to the University of South Carolina. In 1968 we appropriated $12 mil lion to the University. This re presents an increase of $8 mil lion or 300 per cent in six years. “The Moody Report," Taylor continued, “recommends four new state supported colleges. We simply caie^ft afford them at the present time."McNair, however, Whitten Village Herd Ranks 6th In S. Carolina Dr. Roy B. Suber, Superintend ent of Whitten Village, announced that the institution’s dairy herd ranked sixth in milk production out of the top ten dairy herds in South Carolina, according to the yearly herd summary com piled by the Dairy Herd Improve ment Record Service. The rating was awarded at the annual meeting of the South Caro lina Federated Breeding Asso ciation on February 27th in Co lumbia. Managed by Robert G. Wrenn, the Whitten Village dairy herd produced a herd average of 14,544 pounds of milk. The DHIA Service maintains a lifetime history of the dairy herd’s milk production, quality of milk and breeding characteris tics. Through the South Carolina Federated Breeding Association, the dairy herd is improved by ar tificial breeding for better milk producing characteristics, butter fat content of milk and desirable physical characteristics. The dairy herd produces the entire milk supply needs of the 2,800 residents of Whitten Village. Mrs. Fincannon Teacher Of Year In Va. County Mrs. T. A. Fincannon, the for mer Geraldine Haydock of Clin ton, has been named Outstanding Youth Educator of Dinwiddle County, Virginia. She received a $100 cash award, plaque and certificate from the Jaycees. Mrs. Fincannwi teaches the fifth grade at Rohoic Ele mentary School and this is her first year teaching at the Din widdle County SchooL She is also eligible for the Virginia state competition for Teacher of the Year. -Mrs. Fincannon, a 1964 grad uate of Presbyterian College with a B.A. degree in Psychology, previously served as a guidance counselor and teacher at Whit mire High School. Before moving to Petersburg, Va., she served as a case worker with the Lau rens County Welfare Department. recommended only one new four- year college at Florence. Taylor said it seems certain that teachers and state employes will get increases in salary. “But," he continued, “in my opinion, these will be the only two areas that will receive major increases in appropriations." The new state supported kin dergarten program will also re ceive consideration, according to Rep. Taylor. The big question that has not been answered, he said, is where to get additional space and enough qualified teachers. Rep. Taylor is in favor of a program that would permit the kindergarten session to be held during the summer months when the public schools are on va cation. “This approach would make it possible for the buildings, teach ers, and transportation to be a- vailable," Taylor explained. Scene From "TTie Sand Box’ HOSPITAL NEWS Patients currently in Bailey Memorial Hospital from Clinton are Baby Boy Booker Baby Birl Wyatt, Baby Boy Lark, Baby Boy Prewitt, Baby Girl Pace, Lewis Stanley, George Howell, Lila McCullough, Geneva Dean, Susan Wilson, Mary Adair, Ho- zie Dalton, Louise Smith, Win fred Norris, Mattie Harvey, Ada Little, Hannah Williams, Joseph Corley, Lillie Murphy, Roslyn Burton, Ella Harvey, James Young, Patsy Barnes, Inez Duna way, Lloyd Weir, Linda Power, Florrie Burdette, Dorothy Tram mell, Myrtle Gilliam, Lonnie Hiers, Hattie Bonds, Maude Med- lin, Robert Campbell, Banche Young, Margaret Davis, Bessie Braswell, Fannie Ellison, Charles Young, Rufus Young, Theodore Blakely, Henrietta Corley, Cora Stone, Olar Werts, Mattie Lankford, Robbie Sam ples, Helen Drakefor, Marie Wells, Jessie Holbert, Brenda Pace, Brenda Wyatt, Frances Lark, and Annie Booker. Patients from Joanna are Ka thy Metts, Mary Oxner, Barto Mason, Louise Kramm, Burley Humphrey, Margie Young, Toy Murphy, Essie Boisky, Harold Darnell, Maxie Reeder, Jesse Motes, Bertha Smith, and John Y oung. Patients from Mountville are Daisy Bluford, and Rosa Lee Bishop. Patient from Kinard is Daisy Kinard. Patients from Laurens are Ruth Whiteford and Emma May- field. Patients from Chappells are Bessie Smith and Baby Boy Smith, Patient from Columbia is Charlie Byrd. of equally absurd but sharply de fined characters, Albee puts forth his concept of the moral decay in man’s relationship with his fellow man. The scene is the beach (a sand box) and it is set by Evins Good win, the young man, whose well- oiled muscles aped on a literal level every gorgeous lifeguard in the world, and on a symbolic level every vacuous but physi cally beautiful human specimen that has ever been admired. Mr. Goodwin exercised most convinc ingly. ‘'•'Judy Simpson was Mommy, a shrew, and Sam Hobson was Daddy, a worried and browbeat en incompetent, who deposited Grandma in the sand. Then they both wait for her to die, which he does in the night. Both roles were one-dimensional cameos enhanced by the almost puppet like make-up, and the actors car ried them through successfully. Grandma, the querulous tragi comic figure shovelling sand fit fully in her second childhood, was well portrayed by Ann Fade- ley, and her fate was hauntingly emphasized by Barry Schatzer, The Musician, on his clarinet. “The Sandbox’ ended as sud denly as it began, plunging the audience into a darkness people with its bizarre images and its forceful ideas. When the lights rose once more the set was trans formed cleverly into the interior of a Roman tomb and another world came alive. Marg Bounds set the scene for the audience. As Doto, the serv ing wench, she charmed everyone with her natural, earthy, sim- pleminded ways. She revealed that she had followed her mis tress, Dynamene, down into the tomb to join their dead master, Virilius, and that they were a- chieving their desired end through starvation. Very slow and hard on the stomach! In contrast with the blowzy, overblown Doto, Kathi Williams’ Dynamene was austere and pa trician, and in the end, delicious ly female. The two women acted as excellent foils for each other. Into their retreat stumbles a young Roman centurion, Te- geus, who becomes enamored forst of the idea of Dynamene’s sacrifice, and then subsequently of the lovely lady herself. He is most persuasive, and once she actually allows herself t( consider the idea, she renamef him Chromis and embraces hei new love with all the enthusiasm put to her earlier grief. It remains to Dynamene to re affirm, with typical female logic, the pragmatic rights of the liv ing when she volunteers the dead Virilius to save her new lover, Tegeus-Chromis. Kathi Williams and Marg Bounds both fulfilled their parts with gusto. Fred Pratt as the cen turion seemed young, impress ionable, and suitably malleable, obviously no match for the match less Dynamene. Elizabeth L. Gurley can justly be satisfied with this her first effort as a di rector, she produced a delightful, clever play which well comple mented its stark and dynamic partner. Theatre lovers in Clinton would do well to attend every play this group presents, for the PC Play ers are making it a point to challenge their theatrical palates with a rich and varied fare. \bu can’t be there to help them. We can. .iff s. 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