Florida Memorial College - Arch Yearbook (Miami, FL)

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Dedication. . . Mr. $okri S. Price For nine years, John E. Price, Assistant Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at Florida Memorial College has been working to ameliorate the status of our college. Throughout our time of crisis and difficulties, Price has stood up like a champion always giving sound advice, and to those troubled and frustrated students, a new sense of direction. Everyone that knows Price knows also of his unbroken devotion in helping to better the conditions of FMC and for the entire Black race for that matter. He was born in the Tulsa Dust bowl on June 21, 1935. His family had its roots in South Carolina, Texas and Oklahoma. During the public school years he began composing. A piece of his was played at his sixth grade graduation exercises. A test in junior high which revealed his primary interest was music probably determined his career. At Lincoln University in Mis- souri, he majored in composition. Felicia Weathers, now a leading soprano at the Metropolitan, was his close friend. He actually in- troduced her to the Menotti aria with which she won the Met Audi- tions. His Scherzo 1 (for clarinet and orchestra), composed in those years, is currently being performed by the Oakland Symphony Or- chestra and has been recorded by them. After graduation in 1957, Price worked for two years at Karamu Theater in Cleveland as, among other things, vocal coach and composer in residence, doing the incidental music for Twelfth Night and Death of a Salesman. He also assisted the jazz group which ac- companied Langston Hughes ' reading of his poems. At Tulsa he studied under Dr. Bela Rozsa, a student of Schoen- berg and Nadia Boulanger. His Thesis was a setting of the last scene of Marlowe ' s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra. In 1963, he was a musical di- rector of Jamaica, a production of the Atlanta University, More- house, and Spelman Players, on its European tour. Since 1964 he had been on the faculty of Florida Memorial Col- lege, with a year off (1967-68) to study toward his Ph.D. at Wash- ington University in St. Louis under Robert Wykes, Academy Award winning composer. Beginning in 1967, his music began to attract even wider audi- ences. In that year, he performed a program of his own composi- tions for piano at Bates College in Maine, and Rutgers. In 1968, the first movement of his Sonata for Trombone was per- formed at Washington University. He also performed at Wisconsin University in River Falls with his Trio for Clarinet, French Horn and Tuba. He has hopes and plans for Florida Memorial College by placing more emphasis on musical history, more performances, more work in opera and musical theater, and more composition. Black-On, From: The Yearbook Staff m

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j a6!e o Contents Editors Message 10 Mr. Miss Arch 12-13 Seniors 14 Juniors 40 Sophomores 50 Freshmen 60 Faculty Administration 78 President Mrs. Puryear 112-113 Miss Florida Memorial College 114 Queens 115 Miss United Negro College Fund 121 Organizations 122 Greeks 146 Activities 168 Yearbook Staff 187-195 Basketball 196-199 Track Baseball Team 200 Advertising 203