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PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, May 7, 1970 Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Allen Buddin of Newberry an nounce the engagement of their daughter, Nan Layton, to Lawrence Neill Bridgers of Columbia, South Carolina. The bride-elect received a B. A. degree in Sociology in 1969 from Columbia College, where she was selected a member of Who’s Who in American Colleges and Univer sities. Since her graduation she has been employed as as sistant to the Director of Alumnae Affairs at Columbia College. Mr. Bridgers, the son of Doctor and Mrs. William Hen ry Bridgers, received a B. S. degree in Biology in 1969 from Wofford College, where he was a member of Pi Kap pa Alpha fraternity. He has been employed as Laboratory Technician at the Columbia Hospital, and has also been taking post-graduate studies at the University of South Carolina. The wedding will take place on July 25 at 6:00 P.M. at O’Neal Street United Methodist Church in Newberry. Friends and relatives of the couple are invited to attend. College play begins tonight Neil Simon’s comedy, “Bare foot in the Park”, will be pre sented by the Newberry College Theatre this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Wiles Chapel Theatre on the campus. “Barefoot in the Park”, gen erally agreed to be one of the funniest and most successful comedies in American stage his tory, was a three and a half year long hit in New York from its opening in the fall of 1963. Ila Anderson, Atlantic Beach, Fla. sophomore, (Mrs. Banks) will be seen in the comic role of a sedate suburban widow, caught up in a wild romance with a charming Hungarian ne’er-do-well—a penniless gour met she encounters on a visit to her newlywed daughter. She is overwhelmed by the continen tal charmer’s determination to feed her exotic foods and to have instant romance, and this role enables her to generate some of the loudest laughter ever heard in a theatre. The partner of her escapades,the ir resistible deadbeat, is to be act ed by Steve McCutcheon, New berry senior, (Victor Velasco). The comedy, the second of seven consecutive hits by Neil Simon, tells of the hilarious dis orders of a pair of newlyweds who are trying to establish a love nest in a draughty walk-up apartment, whose broken sky light admits snowdrifts into the living room. The bride, an ador able kook, has to employ all her loving wiles to convince her serious minded lawyer husband that their flat, despite the six- flight climb to reach it and its February winds, is a bit of Para dise. The newlyweds are to be played by Susan Gerrett, Pick ens freshman and Dan Sand berg, Aiken freshman. “Barefoot in the Park” fol lowed Neil Simon’s first com edy hit, “Come Blow Your Horn’ and the musical “Little Me”— all of them long-run triumphs. He subsequently turned out such other blockbusters as “The Odd Couple”, the musical “Sweet Charity”, “The Star Spangled Girl”, and “Last of the Red Hot Lovers”. “Barefoot in the Park” takes its title from the bride’s insis tence that to walk shoeless in the February snow is a test of whether her young, rather pro per bridegroom is sufficiently a free spirti to deserve her. The Newberry College Theat re’s production is under the dir ection of Dennis Sanderson, as sistanl professor of speech and dramatics. The setting is design ed by Dale Willis, assistant pro fessor of speech and dramatics. Tickets may be purchased at the door the evening of the per formance; prices are $1.00 for adults and 50 cents for children. DR. STREET SPEAKS IN GREENWOOD Dr. T. Watson Street, Exe cutive Secretary of the Board of World Missions of the Pres byterian Church, U.S., will be the guest speaker at a meeting in the Fellowship Hall of First Presbyterian Church in Green wood on Tuesday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting is sponsored by the South Carolina Presbytery Committee on World Missions in the interest of providing an opportunity for dialogue, which will help promote understanding and support of current develop- nent in the World Mission en- erprise, particularly through .he work of the Presbyterian Church. The public is invited to attend. RIDENHOUR BE CHAPEL SPEAKER A former Newberry College faculty member, the Rev. Tho mas E. Ridenhour, Sr. will be the “Guest Preacher” at the 11:15 a.m. Sunday service May 10 at Wiles Chapel. The Rev. Ridenhour accepted a parish at the Church of the Ascension in Greensboro, N. C. last summer after serving a year as an instructor in religion at the college. A native of Concord, N. C., he received his undergraduate work at Davidson College, his theological training at the Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn., and the Lutheran Theo logical Southern Seminary in Columbia, and additional grad uate work at Duke University. Trustees have annual meeting The Newberry College Board of Trustees is conducting its an nual meeting at the College. On Wednesday the commit tees for the 33-man board con vened with the regular business session slated for today (Thurs day). Routine business and election of officers are on the agenda for the two-day session. Current president of the Board is A. Hart Kohn, Jr. of Columbia. He is assisted by vice-president, Dr. Thomas H. Pope of Newberry; and by secretary the Rev. Garth Lee Hill, pastor of Zion Luther an Church in Lexington. One new board member, Ern est Belvin of Florence, Ala., was elected to a three-year term in April at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Sy nod of the Lutheran Church in America in Savannah, Ga. He replaced Herman W. Boozer of Atlanta, Georgia. Band clinic set ** college “Strike Up the Band”, high school musicians are coming to Newberry College on Saturday, May 9 for the annual Stage Band Clinic. Students attending the day long clinic will have an oppor tunity to learn from four pro fessional musicians who will be on campus to give the high schoolers help and instruction on their instruments. Percussionists will have the assistance of Emil Cafaro, a native New Yorker who plans to open a private studio in Col umbia; trombone players will listen to a professional bands man, Billy Cully of Columbia; trumpeters will receive help from Johnny Helms, a Pelion High School instructor and lead er of his own dance band; while saxophone players will look to Roger Pemberton, a member of the Merv Griffin TV Show Band for their guidance. The annual clinic is being co ordinated by Charles Pruitt, as sociate professor of music and director of bands at Newberry College. WITH MEN IN The SERVICES NORTH CHARLESTON-Air- man First Class Kenneth W. Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vir gil W. Cook, 1255 Kinard St., is a member of a unit that has earned the U. S. Air Force Out standing Unit Award. The 437th Military Airlift Wing at Charleston AFB was cited for meritorious service from July 1968 to July 1969 for its support of military operations. This marks the fourth time in five years the wing has been honored as an outstanding unit. Airman Cook, a jet engine mechanic in the 437th,will wear the distinctive service ribbon to mark his affiliation with the unit. The organization is a part of the Military Airlift Command which provides global airlift for U. S. military forces. The airman graduated in 1966 from Newberry High School. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Woodrow Newton request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Frances Anne to Mr. Joseph Wayne Folk on Saturday, the sixteenth of May at half after seven o’clock in the evening First Baptist Church Newberry, South Carolina Reception, Church Fellowship Center Yes... Mother’s Dav i/ May we help you with her gift? We have much from which to choose. Carpenters I Newberry, S. C.