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Chorus Concert Honors Bicentennial
With “A Cry For Freedom”
The Hazleton Campus
Chorus presented it's an-
nual Spring Concert on Sat.,
May 18.
In conjunction with the
beginning of our nation's
Bicentennial celebration, the
main piece of the program was
"A Cry For Freedom." William
Billings, the composer, was a
friend of Paul Revere anH a
minor political figure during
the 1700's. "A Cry For Free
dom" is a compilation of some
of his works concerning the
conflicts of the American Rev-
olution.
The piece was arranged
in such a way that the events
of the Revolution could be
Chairman Lance Kubic, next to Collins, and other
winners, Christie Tito, Cheryl Matteo and Donna
Baver, look on.
Two reading festivals, , ,
both sponsored by the Belles- t,- pc , a _, a - p^ 1 ° n of "Here
Let tres Literary and Cultural Th-m-ho T.. S -n ro^>y 1 . James
Society of our campus, were f , * onna Marie Baver
held recently. f° r h ® r Performance of an or-
There were about 25 com- composition,
petitors in the high school o Klnd - of Love";
reading festival from twelve r ..i. l 0 P°etic
high schools within a three- y. I ° n P°rax"
county area. First place M * „ eus f * Cheryl
winners were Jill Redash, . , ° r p er ‘dramatic
poetry; Mary Magagna, prose; k "pi JLn 3 ? aJI0 I n^ mo ' as
and Marcy LaMont, drama. jt.+ | . ase Hear What lAm
The Seventeenth Annual ying .
Penn State Dramatic Reading Among the judges were
Festival was held Thursday, !? en ® Collins, Helen Dossen-
May 8, with Lance Kubik Pierucci,
serving as master of ceremonies.?";. ys Schwartz, and Let-
The four winners were Donny 1 la “ a ll er i.
Serfass, who performed a semi-
followed in succession, as
the feelings of Billings, and
the feelings c£ the Colonists
of the time, were expressed
through the music and lyrics.
The work was a multi
media presentation. It in
cluded a slide presentation
and recordings along with nar
ration aside from the actual
choral work.
The program for the con
cert included: A Cry For
Freedom, We the People; Ode
to Music, The Walrus and the
Carpenter, I Remember, Hey
Tomorrow, Time In A Bottle,
and an amusing selection by
Norman Luboff.
KAFKA
Continued from page 1.
years and now plans to see them
again. Prof. Kafka invites stu
dents ,to drop him a postcard
occasionally and he may for
that reason be reached at
the Highacres Campus,
writing and traveling.
Among the writing pur
suits Prof. Kafka will do is
a book on philology. He des
cribes its theme as "one deal
ing with one thread in
the loom of language. That is
reduplicatives."
Prof. Kafka also intends
to finish a play entitled "The
Awakening" which grew out of
a creative writing summer work
shop at the lowa State Univer
sity. He also plans to complete
a biographical dissertation on
George Parsons Lathrop, a con
temporary of Mark Twain.
Prof. Kafka also plans to'
visit many former students. He
mentioned that many of these
people now reside in such dis
parate places as Greenland,
the Pacific area, and Europe.
He has maintianed a friendship,
through correspondence, over the
Elections for Residence
Hall Council were held in the
Residence Dining Hall on April
50. As a result of the elec
tions, Julie Lalo will succeed
current president Kim Reich as
next year's RHC president.
As head executor of EEC,
Ms. Lalo would like to see more
student interest in campus ac
tivities. She hopes to get
the residents to "come out of
their rooms," make them "more
aware of what's going on at
Penn State," and will attempt
to revise some of the current
University policies pertaining
to the Residence Hall.
Voting for the offices of
vice president, secretary and
treasurer, resulted in the
election of John Kelly, Sue
Frey and Alissa Dußois to next
year's RHC cabinet respectively.