Empath, 1979 September 24

              Vol. 1, No. 2 - September 24, 1979 St. Mary‘s City, Maryland
Phase One Digs
Up Route Five
Bo Kibler
Choir Sings For Pope
If yo u ’ve wondered on the why’s
and wherefore’s o f all the construction
taking place on Rte. 5, rest easy. The
mammoth yellow machineries, digging
and clawing by the roadside are n o t on
their way to China. They are the work­ings
o f The Bay Intercepter project which
must be completed before Phase I and II
o f the College Master Plan can be initi­ated.
Please, again, rest easy. I will
explain.
The Bay Intercepter Project is the
resulting colloberation between State,
County, and College bigwigs, designed
to sophisticate the College sewage system
up to par with the rest o f the State. Ac­cording
to Ed Geiger, Director o f Auxil­iary
Services, Budget and Personnel on
campus, there is an existing county wide
Plan which shows the areas in which
sewage can be dumped and where it
cannot. Although the college has been
doing it for years, St. Mary’s River is
n o t a designated sewage swallower.
There has never been a real problem with
“You and your chorus are invited to
take part in a most exciting liturgical-musical
event. Pope Jo h n Paul II will
celebrate a Pontificial Mass in the City o f
Washington on Sunday, October 7 at
3:00 p.m., at a special altar constructed
on the Mall in the vicinity o f the Smith­sonian
Institution. Some 500,000 people
are expected to attend, and ABC-TV will
broadcast nationwide the entire Mass.”
So reads the opening paragraph o f the
le tte r o f invitation from the Music Com­mittee
for the Pontificial Mass sent to
the SMC Choir. The Choir is invited to
be part o f an Archdiocesan Chorale
composed o f some 400-500 voices from
colleges and universities in and sur­rounding
the Archdiocese o f Washington.
A chorus made up o f chosen parish choirs
will also be involved in the Service.
The Archdiocesan Chorale is scheduled
to perform parts o f the mass itself as
follows: Choral Prelude, Glory to God,
Motet for the Preparation o f the Gifts,
some Communion Anthems, and the
Recessional Anthem. At this writing, Dr.
Willets, the director o f SMC Choir and
Chamber Singers, has n o t received the
specific pieces o f music to be performed.
Interestingly enough, ABC-TV has
never before recorded a choir o f this
this in the past, says Mr. Geiger, but
sooner or later the county was doomed
to experience a “Coming o f Age.” St.
Mary’s County is less and less a place
associated with lost travellers, and the
College is no longer a small female*
seminary. As you can imagine, the new
sewage dump will be the Chesapeake
Bay.
multitude in an outside setting. As a
result, the rehearsal will be held the day
before at 2:00 p.m. a t the Museum of
Natural Histgry so th a t the Chorale can
walk on to the Mall for a dress rehearsal
with the television sound equipment.
When asked why she thought St.
Mary’s Choir would be chosen for such
an honor, Dr. Willets replied th a t several
ideas had crossed her mind. Dr. Willets
has sung on previous occasions with
Paul P. Traver, the Director o f University
o f Maryland Choir, who is also directing
the Archdiocesan Choral. Dr. Willets
wondered a t first, if the name “ St.
Mary’s College” had led Mr. Traver to
believe th a t the school was church
affiliated. Dr. Willets later learned that
Mr. Traver was well aware th a t SMC is
a state college when he extended the
invitation to the school. Rather, his
aquaintance with Ms. Willets, her reputa­tion
and th a t o f the Choir, appears to be
the catalyst which brought such an
honor to our small Music Department
and our entire campus.
Dr. Willets is b oth excited and hon­ored
by the opportunity to sing for
such an important event and expressed
a desire for anyone interested to come
hear the service on the Mall, or on the
Sewage will no longer be treated in
the noisy little brick house next to Queen
Anne Dorms, but will pass through it’s
piping up Rte. 5 to a new pumping sta­tion
being built on to p o f the hill, by the
big white house. It will then be pumped
through pipes laid under the athletic
field, then up Mattapany Road, and
down Rte. 235 to the Pine Hill Run
see page 4 Clarvoyant Conjurer Gives Dance Lessons
television. by Sharon Anne Mckay
The mist clears as electrical impulses
permeate the brain. Dance, the mysteri­ous
voice says, dance as if your entire
existence depended upon it.
This may sound like an excerpt from
the ballet “The Red Shoes,” but if one
attended the Gil Eagles Show on Septem­ber
18, this may seem more like an act
performed by one o f his hypnotised
subjects. A specialist in the field o f ESP
and hypnotism, Gil Eagles delighted the
St. Mary’s crowd with feats o f mind
reading and hilarious performances of
hypnotism.
Mr. Eagles was born in Cyprus, then
moved to Tankanyika, East Africa while
still a baby. Spending his entire child­hood
and most o f his adolescence in
East Africa, he was raised by a Swahili
nurse. Being fluent in Swahili, his parents
encouraged him to learn English, al­though
they themselves spoke Polish.
When asked if his surroundings in any
way influenced his present abilities, he
replied that it was possible th a t his lack
o f verbal communication between his
parents, caused him to develop other
means o f communication, th a t being
ESP. Mr. Eagles held various jobs before
seeking his profession as a clarvoyant.
Some o f these jobs included a barker in
a carnival and a shoes salesman.
voyance, as experienced by Mr. Eagles,
is the process o f perceiving information
without the aid o f the five senses.
Along with being clarvoyant at age
thirteen, Gil Eagles has also been in­volved
in hypnosis for about fifteen
years. Mr. Eagles expressed that hypnosis
was merely the “ power o f suggestion.”
Contrary to popular belief, he stated
th a t the h ypnotist had no real power
over the subject, only th a t the power
came from within the subject himself.
Mr. Eagles also holds seminars for doc­tors,
dealing with “ personal effective­ness”
or hyJ prn osis. see page 4„
INSIDE7
EDITORIALS........... page 2
NOTICES...................page3
SGA.............................page 3
SPORTS.................... page 5
AUNTI EM.............. page 7
CARTOONS........... page 7
CLUBS NEWS...... cage 8
Susan Byrne
Gil Eagles first became aware o f his in his mannerisms at th a t time, his
abilities in clarvoyance at age thirteen. friends were the first to point out his
Although he did not notice any change extra sensory abilities. The act o f clar-
Rich Young and Melissa Ball assist Gil Eagles