Empath, 1979 March 30

              VOL. 6, NO. 7 ST. MARY'S CITY,MARYLAND MARCH 30, 1979
A W e e k e n d fo r E n t e r ta inm e n t
by Bill Lawler
Many were on hand as the Maryland Dove returned to Brome’s Wharf last Sunday
photo by John Allard
D rum m e r M ile s
H e a d l in e s C o n c e r t
The St. Mary’s College Jazz Ensemble
present their eighth annual spring con­cert
on Monday, April 2, at 8 p.m. in
Somerset Gymnasium. Directed by trum­peter
Bob Levy, associate professor of
music at St. Mary’s College o f Maryland,
the group will play music by such jazz
greats as Leonard Bernstein, Chick
Corea, Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie,
and SMCM’s own Scott Taylor0 Sets
by the Sax Section and the Jerry Ma­honey
Trio will be featured.
Butch Miles, currently the drummer
with Count Basie’s Band, will be guest
soloist with the group. Miles is a veteran
of several years’ touring in the United
States and aborad with Basie and earlier
with Mel Torme. He has appeared with
Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Della
Reese, Tony Bennett, and Sarah Vaughn,
and has played before the Queen o f
England. A frequent participant in
school and college workshops, he has
given clinics all over the U.S., and in
Canada, Australia, and the United King­dom.
His latest recordings are Butch’s
Encore and Miles and Miles o f Swing.
The St. Mary’s Sailing T eam was ranked
4th place out of 15 a t the Admiral Moore
Trophy Regatta held during the weekend
of March 17. The competition, held a t
SUNY Maritime College, employed
Rondar Intercollegiate Sloops (420’s) in
the P o rt Triangle course of approximately
one mile.
Saturday, racing was delayed until afte r
noon, due to no wind. Light winds allowed
The College Jazz Ensemble was
formed by Levy in 1971. The group
numbers 20 members, and tours exten­sively
in Maryland and neighboring
states; they have just completed an
eight-stop tour o f high schools in Mary­land,
New York, and New Jersey. In
1977 the Jazz Ensemble was one o f
three groups selected to play at the
convention o f the College Band Directors’
National Association. The musicians are
Rick Humphreys, Don Stapleson, Alan
Friedrich, Phil Burlin, and Scott Taylor,
woodwinds; Jim O’Donnell, Terry Alvey,
Tom Cashman, Bob Hall, and Doug
Renoud, trumpets; Marc Neagles, Harry
Hafer, and Kevin Givens, trombones;
Tony Langston, Steve Ragsdale, Ralston
Taylor, Rod Tompkins, and John Zidar,
rhythm.
Admission to the concert is $1.50
per person; tickets will be sold at the
door only. SMCM students with ID will
be admitted free. Visitors may park in
the lots adjacent to Somerset Gym­nasium.
For further information, call
the Public Information Office at the
College, 994-1600, Ext. 280.
th ree rac es to be completed before winds
failed again. Sunday, racing commenced
with excellent winds which continued to
increase in strength and resulted in
cancellation of racing a fte r completion of
five races. The series consisted of only
four A-Division and four B-Division races.
The re g a tta had an excessive number of
protests and several collisions resulting in
damage to boats. P a rtic ip an ts involved in
(cont. on page 3)
This past weekend St. Mary’s College
has been privileged to receive an
enormous array o f holiday festivities,
singing, and dancing. Of course the big
attraction was the “Dove,” a replica
model o f the first ship th a t landed in
Maryland and founded a colony. The
Dove sailed toward the State House
Dock with a convoy of ships by its side,
making a proud entrance to St. Mary’s
City at about 11:40 a.m. Ceremonies
were held to welcome back the Dove
and such dignitaries as Gov. Harry
Hughes, Louis Goldstein, St. Mary’s
City Commission and Renwick Jackson
were on hand to greet the Dove.
At the Maryland State House the St.
Mary’s College Chamber Singers and
Ten a re a girls, students a t St. M a ry’s
Academy in Leonardtown, and the ir
te a ch e r, Mrs. Roseann Adams, visited the
physiological-response labora tory a t St.
M a ry’s College of Maryland this week as
guests of Dr. Joseph Miller of the
psychology d ep a rtm en t a t SMCM.
The students, Diane Kemper, Amy
Loker, Michele Jo rd an , and Kathy Halpin
of Lexington P a rk ; Darlene Szmer of
Hollywood; Cindy Rohr of California;
Bridget Hayden and Tammy Dean of
Bushwood; Lynn Fowler of Charlotte Hall;
and Je annie Gough of Chaptico, came to
le a rn about biofeedback. Biofeedback is a
set of techniques for teaching voluntary
control of some involuntary physiological
responses. The process has therapeutic
applications in the tre a tm e n t of high blood
pressure, tension headache, and various
psychosomatic illnesses.
Choir sang an array o f Russian folk
songs to Negro spirituals to pop. The
Chamber Singers did three pieces o f
music th a t were the highlight o f the
program: “One Less Bell to Answer,”
“You Are So Beautiful,” and the popular
“Copacabana,” complete with jazzy foot
work. The program was concluded with
the entire Choir singing “Dixie,” bringing
a tear to Dr. Sandy Willetts’ eye as she
conducted. Besides singing and dancing
there was a vast variety o f foods and
drinks and interesting arts and crafts
from early Maryland.
But besides all this entertainment,
there was also a junior recital and a
senior recital. The junior recital, fea­turing
the talents o f Rob Slepitza and
(cont. on page 6)
To dem o n strate the principle of biofeed­back,
Dr. Miller fixed electrodes to the
a rm s and foreheads of several of the
students. Changes in the g irls ’ skin
tem p e ra tu re , muscle tension, and h ea rt
ra te produced minute elec trica l currents
which, picked up by the electrodes and
passed through recording and amplifying
equipment, a c tiv a ted a small light or a
beeper.
Changes in tem p e ra tu re , h e a rt ra te , or
muscle tension produced simultaneous
changes in the frequency and pitch of the
beeper, or in the frequency of the flasher.
Because “ feedback” is virtually instan­taneous,
the subjects quickly le arned to
lower or ra ise th e ir skin tem p e ra tu re a t
will and to relax on command.
While a t SMCM, the Academy class also
had an opportunity to inspect the Behavior
Re sea rch Laboratory, nicknamed the “ ra t
la b .”
S a ilin g T e am R a n k e d
4 th in R e g a t ta
by John A llard
The Spring Jazz Concert will feature Count Basie’s Band drummer Butch Miles
photo by Dave Constantine
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