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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 C o u n ty S tu d e n t s V is it B io f e e d b a c k L ab
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FullText | 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 C o u n ty S tu d e n t s V is it B io f e e d b a c k L ab |