Nicholls State University - La Pirogue Yearbook (Thibodaux, LA)

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G tape recorder and a record player. Two faculty members went on sab- batical this year. Ierry Gee and Iohn Croom both went to LSU to continue working on their doctorates. Ben King was hired to replace Gee and Vernon Taranto to replace Croom. The Nicholls band, directed by Raul Prado, assistant professor of music, performs at all home football games. This year they went to the Superdome, gave a spring concert and area concerts. The Nicholls Chorus and Singers gave a Christmas concert and spring concert and visited area schools. Both groups are directed by Dr. Iames Fields. Other members of the faculty are Dr. lack Shinn and Loretta Haddad. The music department held music festivals: the piano and vocal festival, the stage band festival, the solo and ensemble festival, a chorus festival and a band festival. Faculty members will hold wood- Charlene Crawley. assistant professor of Eng- lish. answers a question after class for one of her humanities students. Iune Lafont. education major from Cut Off. steps forward for a solo during the music department's performance of Mozart's Vespere Solennesf' In addition to Lafont, the spring per- formance featured Ben King, instructor of music: Dawn Duplantis, education major from Belle Chasse: and Dr. Iames Fields. assistant professor of music. Dr. Timothy Lindsley. head of the music depart- ment. seems to be enjoying registration l H . S uv 1 Q15- P C.iLltirl'I wind and brass workshops in area schools. lane Watkins and Iohn LeBoeuf received outstanding music student awards at the Liberal Arts Honors Con- vocation. Shirley Hebert serves as department secretary. Department of Speech The SPEECH DEPARTMENT. headed by Dr. Pat Hardesty, includes the theatre and communication arts. The Nicholls Players had two pro- ductions this year, You Can't Take it With You and Marat!Sade. You Can't Take it With You, directed by Dr. Mel Berry, is a three-act comedy by Moss Hart and George Kaufman. It was presented during the fall semester. Marat!Sade is an alienation play which was also directed by Berry. lt is a two-act play set in an insane asylum and was performed in the spring. Berry. associate professor of speech, was elected Louisiana representative to the Southwestern Theatre Conference for Colleges and Universities. He also was chosen to represent South Louisi- ana for the Theatres of Louisiana. Theatre students in Speech 410 tDirectingJ directed one-act plays this year. In the fall. Ioan Chadwick directed Memorial Day and lace Ber- geron directed The Feast. In the spring semester the directing class presented Garden District, two one-act plays by Tennessee Williams. lace Bergeron directed Suddenly Last Summer and Loyal Duet directed Something Unspoken. Berry is advisor to the Nicholls Play- ers and is a member of the Artists and - A5 l.ilit-I.ll.'XIl .ZH

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it Department of Music The MUSIC DEPARTMENT is headed by Timothy Lindsley, professor of music. The department's major project for the year was a variety show called Parade, directed by Ben King, instructor of music. The show included student talent in all areas and the Nic- holls choir and stage band. Also helping in the production were Vernon Taranto and Paul Mathis, music instructors. The profits from Parade went toward music scholar- ships. The department got a new electric piano lab this year, open to both music and non-music majors. The lab cost 310,000 and consists of an electronic teacher's combination piano-communi- cation center, eight student pianos, a

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