'Talented' 72-member cast selected for Homecoming show by Kay Goree Bison staff writer The cast of Fiddler on the Roof, this year's Homecoming play, will be one of the largest ever on stage for a campus musical, according to Robin Miller, director of the production. The 72-member cast was selected after auditions early last week. Callbacks, to see how various performers worked together, were on Friday before the final cast decisions were made, Miller said. "This cast list has been extremely difficult to put together," Miller said. "We had too many talented people. Often we were forced to pass over extremely talen~d people simply because of not having enough roles. " The storyline of the play revolves around the town of Anatevka and the struggles of a Jewish family in their quest to keep traditions. Tevye, a poor milkman, must cope with the changing times and the newer ideas of his daughters. Playing the lead role of Tevye will ·be Bob Ritchie, a senior public relations major from Canterbury, N.H. Ritchie, a member of A Cappella chorus, Troubadours, Chamber Singers, Chorale and the Bison band, was a cast member of the University's 1980 Homecoming production.A Midsummel' Night's Dream. The role of Tevye's wife Golde will be Winners announced . in writing contest "Jungle Drums" and "A Farmer's Hands," bothwritten by junior English and French major Eddie Madden, were awarded first place inpoetry and essay respectively in the Jo Cleveland Creative Writing Contest as announced at an awards banquet March 27 in thef'' , Heritage Room. \ · Sophomore English major Sherry DanieJ won first place in fiction with her entry, 1The Leavetaking." "Why Darkness Falls Always" by Daniel won second place in poetry and was Iollowed by Lisa Cox's "Haiku for a Rainy Day" in third place. "Capitalism" captured second place in essay for senior ps cbology major 1 Neil DeCarlo, and a , s ophomore public a ms ra on major, was awarded third place for her , essay "The Hateful Slaughter." There was no second or third place awarded in fiction. EdwardWhite, associate professor of English; was chairman of the contest, which was named last fall for Dr. Cleveland. She retired last summer as professor of English. The contest was judged by members of the English department faculty. Dr. Larry Long, Dr. Eugene Underwood and Betty Ulrey judged the poetry entries; Dr. Dennis Organ and Bill Lambert judged the fiction entries· and oo .Brewer and Alice Jewell judg ~ essay entries. played by Becky Maupin, a senior ac– counting major. A member of the A Cappella chorus, Maupin has no ex– perience with any University productions. Belles and Beaux. Noland is from Tinton Falls, N.J. anc;l has appeared in several productions, including Oklahoma and The Runner Stumbles. on many school productions. Tevye's three daughters are being played by Marcia Matlock, Lorie Bailey and Jo.Ellen Noland. Matlock, agradua te student, is a former Belles and Beaux member, Spring Sing hostess and was in the A C::appella chorus. A sophomore from Searcy, Bailey is a]so a member of the A Cappella chorus and The daughter's suitors are played by Todd Thompson, Kevin Bay and Kevin Kline. Thompson is a sophomore from Hamonton, N.J ., who performed last year in The Pride of the Britt~ns. Also a sophomore, Bay played the part of Jud in the Homecoming play Oklahoma,. Kline, a junior and member of Chorale, has been involved with the technical crew Playing the part of Yente the mat– chmaker, is one of last ~ear's Spring Sing hostesses y eropica W1lliams, who is a music education 'major. Assisting as technical director for the show will be Morris Ellis, assistant professor of speech. Jan Miller will be working as music director and Lynn Dupaul will assist witb choreography. Miller said the cast is large ~Vtd talented, but the choruses and dance numbe1·s will make the show a difficult one to present. '- ''l • 'Jn._ fee] as _ .. mAIIksgj · rf an ~eneficiaJ1;g bl'eak wo extended ~me a laraecause ot thUld be very uave to be-l!ie ])ercent e lengtb of J:om the a~ay from ~tudents I ovember s rt of scb bollles lllean a j A longer b Ool until falllilies, siness l"llsbe<t r~~ WOUJd SPent on thceso llluc]J of VISlt With longer T'l. e road 1 , the t'ttne . uallks . . . .rn an lS :g;vlll~ br~_ " for a Choral groups add new members, plan tours New members were added last week to this year's A Cappella Chorus, Chorale and Belles and Beaux . Selected for the A Cappella, directed by Dr. Ken Davis, were Denise Alexander, Lisa Brown and Liz Cottrell, first soprano ; Regina Rasnick, Mary Helen immons, I Tara SuiJins and C.W~ Th~nsoR. second !Of)rano ; Ramona a as · t a to; Julie ~- . .. Campbell, Kari Folkerts, Michelle For– sythe, Sharon Johnson. Karen Keeth, Kathy McKinnon, ,Michelle Means and Michelle Sutherlagd, second alto · Tim Eddings, Colin Geiger, St.eve Powers and Daniel Rogers, fi.rst tenor· James Baird Michael Henkel and Allen Sheldon, second tenor; J:immy Berkley Brent Craft, PauJ Maynard, Jef( McGee and Academic honor society asks 55 to bec.ome·new members Fifty-five students have been selected for membership in Alpha Chi, the national academic honor society. A student must have earned a minimum of 24 semester hours at the University, and have either a 3.75 GPA on 80 to 103 hours or a 3.50 GPA on 104 or more hours to be eligible for membership in the Arkansas Eta Chapter of Alpha Chi. The purpose 1>f Alpha Chi is to promote and recognize scholarship and those qualities of character that make scholarship effective for good, according to Dr. Joseph Pryor, chapter director. The followin_.g were invited to join: Billie Gay Albany, Stanley R. Allen, Robert Sidney Bain, Rebecca C. Ball Yua£u Paul Bao, Kimberly E, Barker, Jack D. Billingsley, Michael A. Brumley, Susan Bryan, Cynthia H. Burns, Kim C. Clark. . Tamara G. Combs, Iona Lucille Console, Marci J. Crump, Shannon V. Davidson, Mark Wayne Davis, Neil John DeCarlo, Sarah Leigh Fel~, J~yn S. Frandolig, KarenJ. Garrett, Linda.Jean Gibson, Rita Elizabeth G~. KennethL. Graves Clinton G. Helmuth, Ramona S. Hintze, MaryK. Hudson, Susan Elizabeth Kemp, Sharon Lee Layne, Anne Michelle Leech, Tanna J o Lentz, Susan Kay Mattox, Dawn Lynett.e MCKamey, Anne M8Jiie McPike. DWight A. Melson, Edmund C. Metcalfe, Jerry Alan Neill, Venita Lynn Ninemire, Cary AnnRandle, Kimberly A. Reynolds, Jolul M. Sansom, Eddie Wayne Shields, Nancy B. Smith, Steve G. Stack,, Jeffrey Stevenson. Rachel Lynn Sullins, Richard 0 SUp– plee, Anne Elizabeth Taylor, Jeffrey G. Tennyson, Gail Elizabeth Tillery, Carla Jo Treat, Kimberlee Van Tassel, Philip Lloyd Wade, William K. Webb, Debra Young Wilkins and Teresa Woodroof. ·I Stuart Peacock, first bass; Kirk Bradford, Dennis Brown, Greg Maupin, Alan Pryor, Jonathan White and Rich White, second bass. Last May the A Cappella visited Ann Arbor, Mich., where it placed third in the Great American Choral Festival and received a $2,500 award. Plans for the fall include several weekend trips. The group will make two tours in tl\e spring, one in January and the other during spring break. The Chorale's new members are Judy Chandler, Kristl Cottrill, Tina Hawk, Jennifer Loftin, Terry McClure, ....I2illw McKame~ and Lisa Thompso~ soprano; Laura Addison, Suzanne Frandolig, Susan Gray, Leslie Hooper, J2sanna Howe Connie Manley, Janet RichardS, Lane~ Roby and Geannetta Walker alto ; Michael Boustead, Tony Davis, Roger ffi>lroyd Ste've Jones, Ronald Miller and Scott Tubbs, tenor; Parker Allen Douglas I DeHanas, Jim Doederlein, Matt Flanigan, James Gentry, James Kis ner , Jeff Robinson Mark Rowland, Scott Smith and Toby Tay lor, bass. Both choruses will participate in the Christian College Choral Festival hosted in mid-January by Abilene Christian . 'Universi ty in Abilene, Texas. They will both give chapel programs and local concerts throughout the year. New Belles and Beaux entertainers laclude Lori Bailey, Ramona Dallas, Michelle F orsythe, ~eanna Howe, Dawg McJ{ame¥, P aul LOCkllii't, Steve Pearce and Tony Davis. _
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