18 Area news media, Raleigh News and Observer, N.C. Christian

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news releases chronological file august, 1969

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Elackstock book

Area News Media, High School English Depts., Seletted State Newspapers and college English Depts., Atlanta paper

ScholarshipsflMethodist N.C. Christian Advocate

Scholarship-WSCS Carteret County News Times, Fayetteville Observer, Mebane Enterprise, Burlington Daily Times News

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Scholarship-WSCS N.C. Christian Advocate

12 Faculty-Dr. Knott Fayetteville Observer, Area Methodist Churches, North

Article published Carolina Christian Advocate, Raleigh News & Observer

18 ACADEKICeopenine Area news media, Raleigh News and Observer, N.C. Christian

Advocate, selected papers in surrounding counties

FACUL^Y-new

Area news media,ftaleiffhNews and ubserver, N.C. Christian Advocate, selected papers in surrounding counties

FACULTY-Longest

Area news media, Raleigh News and Observer, N.C. Christian Advocate, selected papers in surrounding counties, WinstonSalem.

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Area News Mectia, Raleigh News and Observer

College opening

COLLEGE EDITIONS, Raleigh News and Observer, Durham Morning Herald

M E T H 0 IXI ^T C O L L E G E Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301 Department of Public Relations Carol M. Ouverson, Assistant Director Information Services, 1*88-7110, ext. 228

August 1, 1969

METHODIST COLLEGE PROFESSOR PUBLISHES NINTH POETRY BOOK

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.-Walter Blackstock, professor of English, has published his ninth volume of poems, "Not As Leaves Are Shaken," under the auspices of the Methodist College Press.

A native son of Atlanta, Ga., Dr. Blackstock has taught in North Carolina for more than ten years. He is presently chairman of the Area of English Language and Literature at Methodist College.

In his foreword to the new poetry volume, Sam Ragan, editor and owner of The Pilot (Southern Pines, N.C.), writes, "Walter Blackstock reveals a new depth, and, in some measure, a new style of poetry."

Editor Ragan notes Ma wry quality" as the poet "probes beneath the too often accepted surface of a time, a place, a people."

The editor, however, states that Blackstock "writes without malice but with sympathy and an understanding pity for man's frailties of body and spirit." He is concerned "primarily with people" and "takes us on a journey across the landscape of the heart."

Dr. Blackstock received in December, 1967, the Roanoke-Chowan Award and Cup (North Carolina's highest tribute to a poet of Tar Heel "adoption"--or a native born "Heel-ian") for "Leaves Before The Wind" (1966).

The 1966 volume also brought the poet in October 1967 his second Oscar A. Young Memorial Award which is given annually by the Poetry Council, Inc., of North Carolina.

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Dr. Blackstock received the same award for the first time in October, 1961, for his book of poems, "Miracle of Flesh."

The author was awarded a post-doctoral Faculty Fellowship from the Ford Foundation of America under which he studied during I9^h-^ with Archibald MacLeish at Harvard. Also in May, ~L95h> he received the Literary Achievement Award for Poetry from the Georgia Writers Association.

In addition to publishing eight previous volumes of his poetry, Dr. Blackstock edited in I960 the "Selected Poems of James Larkin Pearson," poet laureate of North Carolina, and in 1966 "Word-Gatherers: An Anthology."

He has authored numerous articles for professional journals, among the latest being "The Existentialist Quest for an Authentically Human Existence in Contemporary Literature" published in the University of South Florida Language Quarterly (summer 1968).

Degrees awarded the professor include a B.A. (English), University of Georgia, Athens; an LL.B., Woodrow Wilson College of Law, Atlanta; an M.A. (American literature), Vanderbilt; and a Ph.D. (American literature), Yale University.

Dr. Blackstock holds a sustaining membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, the Modern Language Association of America, the Poetry Council, Inc. of North Carolina.

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August 7, 196?

Carol M. Ouverscn, News Director, b.88-7110, ext. 228

MET'-fODISF COLLEGE STUDENTS .REG?TV UNITED MKTHODTST SCHOLA S-'IPS

FAYETTEVILLE - Three Methodist College students will receive United Methodist Scholarships for 1969-70, according to the Board of Education of The United Kethodist Church.

They are Wesley F. Brown, an entering freshman from Williamston, 'N.C.j

Howard J. Lupton, a rising sophomore from Autryville, N.C.j and W. Thomas i

Smith, a rising sophomore from Sandston, Va.

Brown, a 1969 graduate of Williamston Hiph School, was president of the student government association for 1968-69, subdistrict president of the

Methodi-st Youth Fellowship, secretary of the Key Club, a member of the

newspaper staff qnd of the National Honor Society.

Wesley is the. son of the Rev. and T'rs. C. P. Prcwn of llii East Churcfi Street, Williamston.

/ Lupton, a business administration ^jor, is president of the class of

t 1972 for 1969-70. He will also serve as justice of the student povernmpnt hi'h court, on the external affairs committee and on the acpdemic affairs

committee. Howard is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. James 3, Lupton of Ht. 2,

Autryville.

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A00 05E--M.C. students Smith, also a business administration major, will serve as a senator

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in the student government association and as a delegate to the State Student Legislature. He was president of the Worth Carolina Conference Methodist Youth Fellowship for 1966-6? and 1967-68.

Tommy is the son of Kri" and Mrs, Clifton W. Smith of Rt. 1,. Sandston, Va, (formerly of Rocky Mount, N.C.).

United Methodist Scholarship Awards cover tuition and fees up to $500 .per academic year. Criteria for selection includes superior academic standing, leadership ability, active churchmanship, character,,personality and need.

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