FOLK SIT 7 GE" 70 APPEAR AT FFEREYD
Stanley Shepherd will appear at the
Behrend Campus at 2830 p.m. on Sunday,
March 20, to present a program of West
Indian folk sons. Shepherd forsakes his
usual slide rule as a member of the
Physics Department at Penn State to
accompany himself on the guitar. He is a
native of Jamaica, and provides a
historical introdudtion to the melodious
songs of his homeland.
Native folk songs of the West Indian
isles form the basis of Shepherd's program.
He illustrates the development of the folk
forms from their original African roots
through the West Indian melodies and their
popular uses of today. Shepherd, a student
of the Jamaican folk forms, is adept at
explaining the origin of the familiar
style and rhythm of the Caribbean folk
idiom.
He studied in England, and returned to
teach physiss in his native land after
receiving his degree. He later came to
the United States, and did graduate work
at the Kent State University, receiving
his masters in 1959. Shepherd taught in
Ohio and Alabama before coming to the
Altoona Campus of Penn State. He was
transferred to the University Park Campus
in 1965.
He has presented programs throughout
central Pennsylvania. His easy delivery
and free style of introduction leads his
audience with him from, ballad to work song
to Calypso, amny of the sons being
audience participation numbers.
This program is part of the Pennsylvania
State University's Artists Series and will
be presented in Erie Hall. The program
will include such favorites as Brown Skin
airl, You Play de Game, She Takes All My
Yary Anne, and other numbers.
Money,
All Behrend students will be admitted
free of ohar7e.
UNIVERSITY PARK SPnRIS YEWS
Penn State's wonderful gymnastics squad
has finished the season with a perfect 8-0
record and has won the Eastern team champ
ionship for the second straight year. The
team will be competing in the Eastern
Intercollegiate League Championships this
Friday and Saturday at Pittsburgh to
determine Eastern individual titlists
in all the separate events. These
titlists will later compete at the NCAA
Championships to determine national
titlists.
The KAI?, wrestling semi-finals and
finals will be held in Penn State's
recreation building on the afternoon
and night of March 12. Capacity crowds
of over 7,000 are expected.
The following is for those who won
der how Penn State athletic teams have
been doing in the lost-won department.
The basketball team has an impressive
10-4 mark, the fencing team is 1-4 for
the season, the trab - k team has a 1-2
record, the wrestling team stands at
6-2, and the Eastern Champion gymnastics
squad is 8-0.
THE WOPID OF APU
On Saturday, March 5, at 8:00 pem.9
Erie Hall will be the scene of the
showing of the sixth movie in the for
eign film series. This film comes
from India, The World of Apu, accom-
panied by a short entitled
Bharatnatyam. It promises to be one
of the best foreign films shown this
year.
Jeff Disend has requested to be heard
by the Student Affairs Committee aboutt
the method of serving food in the cafe
teria and the quality of food being
served to the students. It will be
interesting to see how this turns out.
Have you seen the new cubicles in
the library? They are expressly
designed aid studying by blocking out
distractions. A student can now study
in peace, unless he doesn't want to.
In a recent poll taken among Behrend
boys it was discovered that most of them
prefer girls' hair to be long and
straight.
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