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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.
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