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Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio
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Jesse Owens, internationally known for his a thleti c achievements, and outstanding and avid crusader of humanitarian causes will address the I 9 7 3 0 Herbein College Commencement on June 1, 11: 30 a.m . at Memorial Stadium. The Baccalaureate for the Class of 1973 is scheduled for 9 a.m. of the same morning. In inclement weather, ceremonies will be held in Cowan Hall. Owens will address his audience with "Education and Open Doors". Presented the Doctor of Athletic Arts by his alma mater, Ohio State University in 1973, Jesse Owens is recognized for his many services to his fellow man which are "deserving of the highest honor and respect". At the 1936 Olympic games held in Berlin, Germany, Mr. Owens gained international repute with a dramatic victory that set new Olympic records and gave him the title "the world's fastest human" . He won individual titles in the l 00 meter and 200 meter dashes and the broad jump as well· as setting the pa on the relay team. garnering hun four gold medals in all. It is considered unlikely that any single Olympic contestant will match his accomplisment because of the athletic specialization required in Ol ympic track and field events. Mr Owens is now better known for his "Jesse Ownes Image", that of a superior athlete and dedicated human being who could talk eloquently and sincerely about America and the Olympic spirit. Author of three books, The Jesse Ownes Story, Blackthink, and I Have Changed, he has demonstrated his perpetual concern with underprivileged youth throughout the world and has been cited many times for his continuing interest in the South Side Boy's Club of Chicago. In 1955, the Department of State sent him on a 62-day tour of the Far East to conduct youth sports clinics. A recipient of the 0 SU A 1u mni Association Citizenship Award in 1965, he continues to make numerous public appearances before youth groups. An "immoderate moderate" of the Black Movement here in the United States and throughout the world, Owens says in I Have Changed he hoped "to create a new island for that uncommitted center which hadn't known which way to turn." His deep interest is with the ''Human Spectrum" had caused him to hope for a "third position", but in his latest publication, he comes to the realization that there can be "no third position". While there remains in the world a lack of
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Otterbein
May 11, 1973
''Canterbury Tales'' is lyrical "What could it be that women wanted most?" Geoffrey Chaucer's characters ask in "Canterbury Tales". Produced by the Otterbein College Theatre in association with the department of music on May 16,
WATERGATE GAINS TV COVERAGE (CPS)- "Gavel-to-gavel" coverage of the first series of Watergate hearings planned by the Seante Select Committee investigating the incident will be broadcast nationally on television by the Public Broadcasting service (PBS) .
Jesse Owens
opportunity for young people who live in ghettos and while an "idea like the ideas which bred Hitler" is possible in the world, there is no third position. To Owens this will not be possible until like Emerson, men learn to believe that "what you feel in your heart is true for all men". "Respect" is the emotion and
the cause of which Jesse Ownes has committed his life. For the ''world's fastest human", the greatest life lesson he has learned is ''that every human being deserves respect simply because he is a human being. Everyone has some Hitler in him ... and if anything can drive that out, change us for the better, it starts with respect."
The coverage will be delayed serveral hours sb it will appear during "prime time" on educational television channels across the nation. The National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT), the special events programming arm of PBS, will produce the programs which are scheduled to begin on May 15. Each hearing should last four or five hours and transmission to the nation's 234 public television stations will commence at 8 p.m. EDT during the five to ten days of the committee's first session. The committee is expected to hold a second series of hearings after a break of several weeks, but no determination has yet been made as to whether or not those later hearings would be broadcast in their entirety.
NEW MAGAZINE TO PUBLISH STUDENT WRITING The New Writer, a magazine exclusively to quality short stories by student authors and offering a paying market for novices, will be published this fall in New York City. The magazine, while focusing on fiction, also will include an open forum for reader views, interviews and profiles of teachers and students, and articles by instructors and notables in the literary field. The New Writer is being published by Constance Glickman, instructor, journalist, author and Gladys Gold, journalist and author. "We believe encouraging talented new writers, and developing critical readers of the short story to be the best way to revitalize the whole fiction field," state the publishers. Stories from students enrolled in any college, university, community writer's workshop or writer's groups within institutions, adult education and continuing education programs will be considered for publication.
Final selections of short stories for each issue will be made by a board of prominent educators and editors directed by Alice S. Morris, former chief literary editor of Harper's Bazaar and instructor of writers at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Information concerning subscriptions and rules for submission of manuscripts may be obtained by writing to the publishers of The New Writer at Workshop Publications, 507 Fifth Avenue, New York , N.Y. 10017.
May Day brings madness May 19th, mark that date on your calendar. That is the day that this campus will witness the ext rem es of frivolity in the Greek games to the serious anticipation of the crowning of the 1973 May Queen. The morning will begin with a strawberry breakfast sponsored by Rho Kappa Delta. At 10:00 a.m. retiring queen Miss Evon Lineburgh will crown one of these four, Miss Linda Bechtel, Miss Leslie Burrell, Miss Dee Hoty, or Miss Rosanne Meister. The queen and court will then reign over the day's festivities. During the coronation, the best decorated dorm will be announced and a surprise will be
in store for all. The organizations on campus have their chance to get even with all, as booths range from a dunking machine, to a jail, to a pie throwing booth. At 1:30 p.m. the Greeks will challenge one another in games and relays for the May Day trophy. The evening will end with the Otterbein College Theatre's production of "Canterbury Tales". Throughout the day. sororities and fraternities will be having open houses and teas for all the returning alumni and guests. This May Day will be unique! There will be something for everybody. Come participate or watch Otterbein's "Timeless Tales of Canterbury".
17, 18 and 19, the musical adaptation of four of his wittiest st or i e s seeks to answer the timeless question. "We cannot love a husband who takes charge ... we like to be at large!" one of the women answers in the Wife of Bath's Tale. The contemporary musical adaptation of the medieval tales is as colorful and lively as when Chaucer wrote his collection of the perennial progeny of men and women. Translated by Nevill Coghill from the original Old English, they retain the humorous perception and the flavor and rhetoric which has made them classic for seven centuries of literature. There is a dramatic illusion of tellers within the framework of their hilarious tales. There is the Miller, "very drunk and rather pale, straddled on his horse half-on, half-off," old January and his young wife May; the lusty Wife of Bath, "a worthy woman all her life, what's more She'd had five husbands," and there is the Steward (Reeve), "old and choleric and thin ... no auditor could gain a point on him." With the other pilgrims from the Tabbard Inn they travel to Canterbury , telling their stories to amuse one another along the way. "They are alive as people because they are made alive by Chaucer, " Dr. James Bailey, who has taught "The Canterbury Tales" says. "We see a complete world, a world which gives lie to the notion that medieval people are different from us." "The Canterbury Tales" is taught in English classes of almost every college in the country, and in many high schools. The already funny stories with dialogue sensitive to the poetry come alive accompanied by music, costumes and staging. We see segments of every society, from the rogue to the righteous, the learned to the ignorant. There are idealized types and romantic types, but all are realistic and delightful to see and hear. In the musical production of "Canterbury Tales" we find on stage a scholarly work which retains its classicism and is a vehicle of pure entertainment. Bawdy but beautifully sentimental, lyric and lusty, it is a musical which should leave its audiences laughing at Chaucer's world, because they identify it with their own. ''Canterbury Tales" at Otterbein College is directed by A. Richard Nichols, guest director and assistant professor at the Ohio State University. Musical director is Lyle T. Barkhymer and choral director, William A. Wyman.