Emory and Henry College - Sphinx Yearbook (Emory, VA)

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ACEP This year’s Academic and Cultural Enrichment Program despite groans about required attendance (at only five events per term) offered enough variety in several fields for almost everyone. Musical events ran from Gene Cotton and the Southern Mountain Music Festival to the Highlands Chamber Orchestra con- certs and the Oratorio Choir’s Performance of Bach’s Magnificat.” Speakers on this year’s program included' Dr. Maurice Brooks speaking on the Appalachians, Dr. Kurt Lcidcckcr on Buddhism, and David H. C. Read, the Sta- ley Distinguished Christian Scholar Lec- turer. John Simon, New York drama and film critic spoke on film criticism as this year’s Reynolds Lecturer in conjunc- tion with a Midwinter Film Festival featuring film of Truffaut. Fellini. Bergman, and Wexlcr. The Southern Mountain Music Festival 194

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Rosemary Ructher spoke on “Liberation Theology. Poets Dabney Stuart (above) and Jonathan Williams visited the campus reading their works and talking with stu- dents. The African Heritage Dancers were a contrast to the performances of the Sullins and Hollins dance troupes. Among the visiting drama groups were Norman and Sandra Dietz doing original material, the Alpha-Omega Players with Saint Joan and The Diary of Adam and Eve, the Wing, an improvisational group, and the Barter Theater Intern Ensemble doing an original presentation of Greek myths. Movies encompassed a range of emo- tions, styles and depths with Stop the World, I Want to Get Off”, Inherit the Wind”, Henry V”, The Phantom of the Opera”, The Wild Child , The Red Bal- loon . Marat Sadc , Phaedra , and Women in Love” among others. 195