Range Rider, Volume 30, Number 1, March, 1979 Page: 5a
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Marc, 179 RNGERIDE Pae 5
H-SU and Saud
By PAT KILP4 TRICK
Arabia America Oil Company, and Hardin-
Simmons University have gone into a musical part-
nership in the second annual Saudi Arabian Music
Festival in Dhahran March 8.
Not only was H-SU the only foreign group to be
included, but in the event of a successful trip, "it
would be up to you and your people to make it an
annual visit," Norman Murrell, entertainment
supervisor for Aramco in Dhahran, said in extending
the invitation.
The unlikely connection between a leading oil
producing nation and a private Baptist university in
West Texas began when Murrell was in Abilene in
the fall of 1977 to visit his son, Mitch, a sophomore
at H-SU, and attend that year's All-School Sing.
"Mr. Murrell was apparently very impressed with
the music department here for he hopes that, with
our help, the Saudi Arabian Music Festival can
- ~urArabia make music together
become an annual program of great importance to
the Aramco communities," stated Dr. Jack Dean,
dean of H-SU's school of music.
So in early March seven faculty members and
three students from Hardin-Simmons were
recovering from jet lag, and eating schwarmas (an
Arabian version of the burrito filled with lamb) in
between teaching and performing music ranging
from Handel to "Star Wars" to Chicago in one of the
world's leading oil producing nations.
The H-SU musicians performed at each of the
four Aramco compound schools in Dhahran,
Jeddah, Riyadh and Najmah and prepared each
junior high school band for the massed performance
March 8. They' also worked with the Dhahran
Community Chorus in conjuction with its per-
formance of Haydn's "Te Deum" and Vivaldi's
"Gloria" on March 12 and 13.
Dr. Loyd Hawthorne, choral director at H-SU,National Music Award Winners
Two Hardin-Simmons students claimed national pose with two constant companions-their
honors in December (see story on this page). teacher Jaynne Middleton and the ever-present
Above, Marye Clavert (left) and Jon Stricklin practice piano. (Mark Keuthan Photo)Stampede:
First Reid Scholarships presented
The first Reid Mathematics Scholarships at
Hardin-Simmons University were presented
December 14 in the Watts Colloquim Room of the
Sid Richardson Science Center.
Karla Smith of Stamford and Jana Davis of
Memphis, Texas received the $500 grants in memory
of Professor William Thomas Reid, an H-SU
alumnus who established a national reputation as a
mathematician prior to his death in 1977.
It is the goal of the fund to provide major
scholarships to promising mathematics students to
encourage and aid them in completing studies in the
field.
Mrs. Reid attended the ceremony along with
several members of her family. H-SU President Jesse
C. Fletcher headed up the administrative
representatives to honor the two sophomore math
majors and to express gratitude to Mrs. Reid for the
scholarship and what it means to the University.
Warren wins Marshall award
LESTER WARREN a senior, has been named the
recipient of the General George C. Marshall Award
for outstanding military science students.
The award is presented annually to military
science students in ROTC programs across the
United States.
Warren will join approximately 270 other senior
students attending the award conference in
Lexington, Va., April 19-21. Co-chairmen of the
conference will be Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway and
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge.served as guest conductor and clinician for the choir
performances and Lawson Hager, director of
university bands, directed the massed bands.
Other faculty members included Larry Wolz,
instructor in voice, Dan McAlexander, instructor in
piano and music theory, and Celeste Myall, in-
structor in strings.
Students Dan Gideon, John Orr and Phillip
Burnaman, besides getting to miss 10 days of school
and arrive home just in time for spring break, got a
chance to practice the teaching skills they've been
learning by individually instructing the Saudi music
students.
The group left for Saudi Arabia March 1 with
Aramco Services Co. in Houston arranging and
footing the bill for all passports, visas, vaccinations
and plane reservations and living accomodations.
Besides helping prepare the junior high bands for
the mass performance, the Hardin-Simmons
musicians performed themselves. According to
Dean, they were requested to present classical
works since "the people are starved for classical
artists there.", H-SU voice instructors Jaynne
Middleton and Kathy McNeil were asked to
perform solos with the Community Chorus'
production of "Gloria."
"It's such a great opportunity that we almost had
to accept," Dr. Dean said. "It's a rare opportunity
for our faculty members and students to expand
their world view, enhance their musical exposure
and, as a sidelight, tell the Hardin-Simmons story in
a pivotal, Moslem country."
Aramco, obviously one who takes care of its own,
is flying in each of the other three compound school
bands to Dhahran for the festival.
Since instruments and most of their music were
provided for them, the Abilene people had only
themselves and their luggage to manuver on the trip.
Said Dean, "The Aramco people have been won-
derful in' taking care of every detail. Jim Nieboer,
festival chairman in Dhahran, wrote to let us know
the music we should purchase ourselves and told me
'music is very difficult to get here so I cannot send
you copies; money is not difficult to get here, so we
can reimburse you when you arrive.' They take care
of everything!"...what's happening with today's students
Warren, a native of Electra and a resident of
Abilene, is a finance major at H-SU and team
captain of Hardin-Simmons' number one ranked
orienteering team. He is also a graduate of the
ROTC airborne school.
Two win national music awards
Two Hardin-Simmons University music students
won top honors at the National Association of
Teachers of Singing Texoma Regional finals held in
Houston in December.
JON STRICKLAND, a freshman from Arlington,
won second place overall and MAR YE CAL VER, a
senior from Mt. Airy, N.C., won fourth place in the
competition. First place winners from four districts
in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico competed in
Houston.
An applied music major with a major in voice,
Stricklan sang Leoncavallo's "Mattinata" for the
competition. He is a member of the H-SU Concert
Choir and is a student of Ms. Jaynne Middleton,
associate professor in voice at H-SU.
The tenor has been soloist for performances of the
Concert Choir, H-SU Chorale and with the Southern
Baptist'Convention's Youth Evangelism Conference
in Houston. He has also sung with the Texas Baptist
All-State Youth Choir and the 1978 Texas Music
Educators Association All-State Choir.
Mrs. Calvert performed Laetitia's aria from
Menotli's "Old Maid And The Thief" at the com-
petition. Mrs. Calvert is also a student of Ms.
Middleton and has been a NATS semi-finalist twice
before. She has been a member of the H-SU Concert
Choir for the past two years and is the sopranosoloist for the First
Abilene.Presbyterian Church Choir in
Band, Horses aid inauguration
The World Famous Hadin-Simmons University
COWBOY BAND and the SIX WHITE HORSE
Unit participated in the Inauguration Parade for
Texas Governor-Elect William P. Clements, Jr., and
Lieutenant Governor William P. Hobby on Jan. 16.
It was the fifth time that the Cowboy Band has
participated in the inaugural parade for a Texas
governor, the first coming in 1929 for Governor Dan
Moody.
The band has made four overseas tours, including
visits to most European countries, several Atlantic
islands and a month-long tour of Japan. It has played
in five presidential inaugurations, including those
for Herbert Hoover in 1929, Franklin D. Roosevelt
in 1941, Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953, Richard M.
Nixon in 1969, and Jimmy Carter in 1977.
The Six White Horse Unit has also marched in the
inaugural parades of five presidents. In addition, the
White Horses have gone down such famous streets
as New York's Broadway, New Orleans' Canal
Street, San Francisco's Market Street, and Chicago's
Michigan Avenue. In the past quarter of a century
they have performed in 40 of the 50 states.
Riders for the horses this year are: MIGNON
LA WSON, senior from Abilene; GEORGIANNA
MASSEY, sophomore from Napa, Calif.; TONYA
JOHNSON, sophomore from Abilene; DENISE
HEATON, senior from Garland; ALICE ELGIN,
junior from Abilene; and DENISE WATKINS,
freshman from Abilene.RANGE RIDER Page 5A
March, 1979
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