Entries drawn from the college history timeline
Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man, a play by Alexander Ostrovsky, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Presented by the Mermaid Players, the production ran October 30-31 and November 6-7.
The Orchestra of the International Festival of Brescia-Bergam, under director Maestro Agostino Orizio, performed a selection of 18th-century music in the Social Hall on the evening of November 9, 1970. The event opened the 1970-1971 Cultural Affairs series.
The Collegium Musicum presented "Music and Poetry Honoring St. Cecilia", the patron saint of music, on St. Cecilia's Day at 3:00pm in Mathers Theatre.
Kathy Engle, Sue Dreisbach, Susan Morrel, Valerie Perko, and Pamela Posey performed self-choreographed dances in a concert on November 23, 1970. They danced to music written by Professor Malcolm Goldstein. Mrs. Carol Goldstein directed the show and led the students in choreographing their...
The Department of Music presented a Noonday Concert featuring performances by the College Brass Ensemble, as well as other student and faculty musicians. The Brass Ensemble played Johann Pezel's "Sonata #2" from Hora Decima, Johann Sebastian Bach's "Contra punctus #1" from The Art...
The Freshman Plays program of 1970 consisted of The Valiant, Crawling Arnold, Winter's Night, The Ugly Duckling, The Intruder, The Sandbox, Trifles, and Frisbee Fantasia. The plays were performed by freshmen and directed by upperclassmen.
The College-Community Orchestra presented their annual winter concert at 3:00pm in Mathers Theatre. The orchestra performed Charles Ives' "Tone Roads #1", John Dowland's "Flow My Tears (Lachrimae)", Robert Schumann's "4th Movement from the Symphony #3", Igor Stravinsky's "Double Canon; Raoul...
The Modern Jazz Quartet, which was composed of John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, and Connie Kay, performed in the Dining Hall on Friday December 11. The Cultural Affairs Committee organized the concert.
The College Choir, accompanied by Darby Mackenzie on the piano, performed for its annual Christmas Concert at the First Lutheran Church. The choir performed Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols", Melchior Franck's "Three Motets based upon texts from the Song of Soloman", and Ralph Vaughan...
Train, a cover band, performed a concert that featured "golden oldies." The concert also included a light show entitled "Lucifer".
The New York Rock Ensemble, a band that blended classical, hard rock, folk, and rock 'n' roll musical styles, performed in the Holland Union Building Social Hall to approximately one thousand students.
The College Choir performed a selection of Russian Liturgical music as a part of an Alfred Swan memorial concert at Haverford College at 8:30pm.
An exhibit of figurative and abstract paintings, sculptures, drawings, and etchings by professors Dennis Akin and Eric Weller opened in the Holland Union Building on Monday, February 15.
The Paul Gregory company's production of Hamlet, starring Dame Judith Anderson as Hamlet, performed at the College on February 15, 1971.
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, a play by John Arden, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Presented by the Mermaid Players, the production ran February 27 and March 4-6. In this show, the title role of Serjeant Musgrave was played by Charles Eldridge.
The Office of the Chaplain presented The Roaring Twenties Scrapbook, "a nostalgic entertainment of music" edited by John G. Fuller, at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Proceeds from the show benefited PEER and Project Africa.
Mike and Sheila, a folk music duo, performed "mellow" music in the Social Hall on Thursday, April 1, and on the following Friday and Saturday.
The Congress of African Students presented the second annual Black Arts Festival on Friday, April 2, and Saturday, April 3, 1971. The festival featured dances, plays, music, singing, and poetry.
The Dickinson Follies, resurrected after a period of nonexistence, performed Robert Merrill's Carnival! at the Carlisle Intermediate High School Auditorium on the weekend of April 2, 1971. Mary Ruebush and Frank Noonan starred.
The Department of Music presented a Noonday concert featuring students singing a program of nearly twenty songs: Giacomo Carissimi's "Deh, Contentatevi"; Johann Sebastian Bach's "Komm in mein Herzens Haus"; Georg Friedrich Handel's "Verdi Prati", "O Sleep, why dost thou leave me?", and "Ombra...
John B. Sebastian, a well-known hippie guitarist, performed a concert at the College on Friday, April 16, 1971.
The Time of Your Life, a Pulitzer Prize and Critics' Circle Award-winning play by William Saroyan, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Presented by the Mermaid Players, the production ran from April 23-26, including a matinee performance at 2:00pm on April 24.
The Collegium Musicum gave a concert of music by Josquin des Pres in Mather's Theatre at 3:00pm.
A travelling group named Mime Troupe performed Jean-Claude Van Itallie's The Serpent in Mathers Theater on the evenings of April 30, May 1, and May 2.
The College Choir and the College-Community Orchestra presented Israel in Egypt, an opera by George Friedrich Handel, at the First Lutheran Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania at 3:00pm.
