Guilford College - Quaker Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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ing in Sternberger in October, the Ac- tors gave us a great performance. The music was in the air ... our radios blared day and night and our weelcends were filled with the sounds of the bands and the D.J. ' s that got us dancing. The Student Union did an out- standing job this year of keeping us singing and dancing. The slate of musical events began on the first weekend of the semester with a well attended Quad Dance on August 31. The second big Quad Dance was held as part of our Homecoming fes- tivities in September, on Friday the thirteenth. On October 4 the Union spon- sored a concert in Sternberger fea- turing The Accelerators. A Video Dance held the next night in Stern- berger drew a good-sized crowd. The arge screens and excellent sound were in inovative atmosphere for dancing. The Quad Dance tradition contin- ued with the Halloween Dance on November 2, and culminated on No- vember 16 with a fantastic Air-Band Contest, featuring many creative groups. Dancing in the rain at the Halloween Dance, Eric Zeigler moves to the beat.

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The Music In The Air Kept Us Moving To The Beat Rocking in the cafeteria, Kris Weick and Snee Piaut demonstrate the fine art of Air-banding. 10 Dances And Bands

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Behind The Scenes Preparing for dress-rehearsal, Tim Moore and Sarah DeHart listen as Director Joan Zubl offers some last minute reminders. Warming up includes sc tongue-twisted Spencer exhibit. The finishing touches : make-up artist Heathei tme tricky speech exercises as Diggs and Abby Donahower Guilford Gets Tartuffed On the second weekend in October, the Revelers Tartuffed the Guilford community, leaving their audiences as charmed as the trusting characters on stage brainwashed by the sly Tartuffe himself. Tartuffe displays a fox in frills — a greedy, conniving parasite who man- ages to worm his way into the confi- dence of Orgon, an aristocrat, in hopes of gaining Orgon ' s wife and wealth as ell. Unfortunately, the only characters blind to Tartuffe ' s ploy are Orgon and his domineering mother, Madame Per- nelle. Thus, Orgon ' s entire family and staff must convince their master of his naivete. Although each player well en- acted his or her role, three perfor- mances are especially noteworthy. Becky Gunn, playing Dorine, a nonser- vile maid, compensated for her lack of status by raising her voice and level of sarcasm in futile cause to change Or- gon ' s mind concerning his adopted heir. Spencer Diggs as Orgon personified the insecurity of someone who must defend his own judgment against the igno- rance of others, even when they are right. Finally Adam Robinson ' s (Tar- tuffe ' s) feigned sincerity to Orgon be- came clear when his hopefully seductive chuckles and grins to Orgon ' s wife El- mire (Donna Stause) reveal more pas- sion than his prayers. The combination of Gunn ' s constant exaggeration, Diggs ' blinding insecurity, and Robin- son ' s self-assured hyprocrisy generated laughs for everyone. Tartuffe was dedicated to Doc Dea- gon, the late chairman of the Drama Department, and was selected in accor- dance with his belief that theater should be instructive as well as entertaining. Director Joan Zubl summed up the pro- duction, The play shows that 17th Century wisdom is still relevant now and that society hasn ' t really learned that much. I wanted to do it because it would be fun. The play made some good points, but it ' s one big inside joke that the audience is in on. I wish we could have had larger audiences be- cause you laugh out loud at this play. It fuels itself and it ' s shared humor so that the more people present the more fun happens. t2 Rcvelers