West Virginia State University - Arch Yearbook (Institute, WV)

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26 Martin Luther King Jr. exhibit opened at State An exhibit of historical photographs of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement was on display on the West Virginia State College campus in February. The King exhibit consisted of 65 black-and-white photographs, copies of landmark documents and quotations from King's speeches and writings, all mounted on 10 free-standing panels. Each panel - 20 in all counting both sides - dealt with different aspects of King's life and involvement in the civil rights movement of the 1960's. Some of the panel titles were The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Nonviolent Resistance, High Court Bans School Segregation, Birmingham Jail, The March on Washington, The Selma March, Voting for the First Time and Free at Last which depicts King's funeral. Dr. Ancella Bickley, Vice President for Academic Affairs at State, arranged a program of speakers to open the State exhibit in early February. The exhibit will eventually be housed in the Resource Center of the Humanities Foundation, located on the State campus in Institute. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led 250,000 persons in the March on Washington.

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28 — eS Se ON oe OL LE CE SC LU OO OS ET OS ET eT De ee Ce ea eee ee ae eo West VIRGINIA STATE COLLEGE presents Deedalus Productions of ‘Ain’r MISBEHAVIN- The Fats Waller Musical Show 48 WA 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 4, 1986 Auditorium Harrison H. Ferrell Building Set ina Harlem nightclub of the 1930's and 40's, Ain’t Misbehavin’ celebrates the music, personality, and high-living style of one of that era’s most beloved jazzmen and clowns, Thomas “Fats” Waller Fats Waller: My dad, Thomas Waller, was born in Greenwich Village in 1904, and reared in Harlem. His parents were deeply religious; to his father, jazz was the devil's music. Dad studied classical piano and played church organ. He began his professional career as organist at the Lincoln Theatre on 135th Street. In 1920, he met this mentor, the great stride pianist James P. Johnson, and soon became a prized attraction at Harlem rent parties, and one of the most respected musicians in New York. With the success of his songs for the musicals Keep Shufflin’ and Hot Chocolates, and a Victor recording contract, the stage was set for Fats Waller. A man of gargantuan appetites, dad's overindulgence in food, liquor and loving is a legend. He never slowed down through all the years of one-night stands, big-time radio, triumphant concert tours of Europe and Hollywood films. He died aboard the Santa Fe Chief near Kansas City in 1943. Dad raised the art of stride piano to its highest level, and was one of the inventors of swing music. He was a prolific com- poser, a great comedian and a brilliant singer and musician—talents which made him one of the first black superstars in America. By Maurice Waller, Co-author with Anthony Calabrese, of FATS WALLER SIurmer Books. 1977 Da:pdaLus PropuctTioNns John Adams, Managing Director presents Best Musical Tony Award Winner N.Y. Drama Critics’ Circle Award AIN’T MIsBEHAVIN’ The Fats Waller Musical Show Starring (in alphabetical order) Kevin ANDERSON Yvetre Curtis ALVALETA Guess Monror Kent III JANNIS WARNER and Bassist Percussionist Hank HANKINSON James Beau Hampron eee Directed and Choreographed by Rosert Durkin Stage Conductor Piano Man Joun Letir Oprar Musical Supervisor Producer Ronat.p METCALE BERNARD L. Tansey Production Stage Manager Thomas A. Procinow Company Manager Set Design Rictiakpy D. WoLLENBERGER BERNARD L. Tansey Costume Design Lighting Design Don MAaNcon} . 7 Kim Hanson Technical Director Sound Engineer Susan Y. Rori BEN Abam AINT Miser tiavin’” is presented through the Special Arrangement with Music Theatre International Musicat. Numprrs— All music by Thomas “Fats” Waller alone, except where ( ) indicated. Songs not written by Fats Waller were recorded by him), Act ONE 1. Ain’t Misbehavin” (1929) . } D — oo) eee Ol) Daim Music by Thomas Waller and Harry Brooks Lyric by Andy Ravaf 2. “Lookin’ Good But Feelin’ Bad” ( 1929) Company Lyric by Lester A. Santly