Volume 9, Issue 2: Full Issue

Full issue of the January 1942 issue of Manuscripts. Includes work by: Joan Fuller, Jack Kilgore, Fred W. Michel, Betty Murnan, Isadore Camhi, Mary Wiley, Jeanne Gass, Alfred Brown, Ione Colligan, Jack Retherford, Catherine Cunningham, R. Gordon Moores, Alice J. Fisher, Norma Jackson, Thelma De Boer, Betty Lee Snyder, John Gumerson, Richard Jowitt, William Hickson, Bob Harris, Rachel Whelan, Edward N. Redfield, Anshelm Schultzberg, Willard L. Metcalf, and John Bundy

Unsound minds: a short novel

Unsound Minds is a short novel about a young girl, Clara, who has suffered emotional trauma. She arrived in Hindpark Township from a place that she never discloses. She has been living in the loft of a block of flats for a while, isolated from the community, only corning out at night to scrounge for food in the rubbish bins belonging to a restaurant situated opposite the flats. The community believes her to be mentally disturbed and want nothing to do with her. One night, while looking through her window, she witnesses the murder of the restaurateur, Samson. A young police officer, Wanda, is assigned the duty of protecting her from the murderers before they find out that she is a witness. He places her under the care of Matrida, a formidable spinster, who lives a short distance away from the scene of the crime. It is, however, this precautionary act that actually exposes Clara to the killers as a witness. As part of the novel's tapestry, the story explores the workings of the township's corrupt and incompetent police force which is headed by an authoritarian bully, Inspector Bedson. Hindpark's social dynamics, beliefs and superstitions, and sense of community, despite some conflict between residents, play an integral role in creating the sort of environment that Clara finds herself in. Wanda, the only policeman with any notable integrity, starts off as her reluctant protector; Matrida assumes the role of a reluctant mother figure; Anabel is the obnoxious neighbour; and limbo is the neighbourhood's aggressive hell-raiser. Like Clara, they have each experienced some form of trauma in their lives. They become a more dependable unit of protection to Clara than the entire Hindpark police force. Without being scientific or philosophical, Unsound Minds looks at the question of sanity. It is a story about how no one human being is exempt from some form of madness and how that madness drives each individual differently. The supposedly insane Clara is placed in the care of Matrida whom the community believes is herself not completely sane. But even in her madness, she is instrumental in bringing back some stability into Clara's life. At the other extreme, Bedson's madness is destructive. Because of his inept leadership skills, he drives the entire police force into disrepute. Given this human dynamic. the story seeks to reveal how everyone uses their madness in the way that suits them best - for good or for bad. The theme of madness was not planned at the time of beginning this short novel, but developed as the narrative progressed. However, just as writing is subjective, so is reading. I expect each reader to read into Unsound Minds what s/he sees in it. The story is entirely my own, influenced partly by my perceptions of the different environments that I have lived in throughout my life, although it is purely imaginative. Pointers which I received from my supervisor, Professor Geoffrey Haresnape, helped in moulding it into a narrative that will hopefully be a worthwhile read

Volume 63, Number 02 (February 1945)

Music and a Loftier Race New Keys to Practice Music America Wants: The Amazing Story of How Two Banjos, a Drum, and a Piano Developed into a Vast Musical Enterprise (interview with Fred Waring) Warming-Up Exercises Make Better Public Performances There\u27s No Substitute for Knowledge!: How Motion Picture Music is Written (interview with Victor Young) Victor Young and Victor Young Our Future Musical Theater (interview with Richard Rodgers) Music Student Awards Make Better Pupils: War Stamps Make Splendid Prizes Making Bach Interesting (interview with Alexander Borovsky) Use of the Palato-Pharyngeal Muscles in Singing Letter from London: Music, During Britain\u27s Darkest Hour, is Employed to Help the Workers on the Home Front Treatment of Repeated Notes Brahms Intermezzo, Opus 117, No. 1 (Master Lesson)https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/1208/thumbnail.jp

Practice Bold as Love: ‘Professing’ Community Work

Community work is a values driven occupation committed to social transformation, human rights, equality, anti-discrimination, social and environmental justice through the processes of collective empowerment, and participation (Ledwith 2005; AIEB 2016). The story of community work in Ireland sees a shift from a once relatively independent practice towards a situation where it is increasingly becoming part of the State’s apparatus of service delivery (Harvey 2012, 2015). These two stories are at odds with each other. I was curious to find out if this situation was impacting on community workers’ ‘professing’, that is their way of being in and seeing the world. Story is an essential aspect of community work (Ledwith 2005; Born 2014; Kelly and Westoby 2018). I chose narrative inquiry as a way of researching community workers stories. Narrative inquiry accepts that the world is storied and that through collecting and analysing stories it is possible to gain an understanding of how another ‘professes’ their world to be (Andrews, et al., 2013; Clandinin 2013). I gathered the stories of six leading community workers and from these I fashioned a collective narrative of ‘professing’. This illustrates community workers’ ‘profession’ as an intermeshing of three commitments to, social justice, community, and reflexive practice

Practice Bold as Love: ‘Professing’ Community Work

Community work is a values driven occupation committed to social transformation, human rights, equality, anti-discrimination, social and environmental justice through the processes of collective empowerment, and participation (Ledwith 2005; AIEB 2016). The story of community work in Ireland sees a shift from a once relatively independent practice towards a situation where it is increasingly becoming part of the State’s apparatus of service delivery (Harvey 2012, 2015). These two stories are at odds with each other. I was curious to find out if this situation was impacting on community workers’ ‘professing’, that is their way of being in and seeing the world. Story is an essential aspect of community work (Ledwith 2005; Born 2014; Kelly and Westoby 2018). I chose narrative inquiry as a way of researching community workers stories. Narrative inquiry accepts that the world is storied and that through collecting and analysing stories it is possible to gain an understanding of how another ‘professes’ their world to be (Andrews, et al., 2013; Clandinin 2013). I gathered the stories of six leading community workers and from these I fashioned a collective narrative of ‘professing’. This illustrates community workers’ ‘profession’ as an intermeshing of three commitments to, social justice, community, and reflexive practice

Volume 49 (2017)

The 2017 edition of The Broad River Review was edited by C. V. Davis. The publication contains fiction, non-fiction, art, poetry, and photography. The cover, Autumn is Calling, was photographed by Ashley Koch. The winner of the J. Calvin Koontz Poetry Award, given annually for a portfolio of poetry to a senior English major, is Elizabeth Erhartic. The Broad River Review Editor\u27s Prize in Poetry is chosen among all submissions from Gardner-Webb University students. The winner of the poetry award is Ilari Pass for the poem titled, Death Sentence at Birth. The Rash Awards, named in honor of Ron Rash, a 1976 graduate of Gardner-Webb University, are awarded annually for outstanding works in poetry and fiction. The 2016 award recipients are Lind Heuring for her fiction work titled Red Light, Green Light and Priscilla Webster-Williams for her poem titled Occupational Therapy at a TB Sanitarium, 1952. Alan Michael Parker and Lee Smith served as judges for the fiction and poetry contests, respectively.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/brreview/1017/thumbnail.jp

Ivan Smirnov: A Problem In Americanization (A Novel)

This thesis is a novella about a family of Russians who settled with the Volga-German people in Colorado and Kansas

1956 Firebrand

1956 yearbook for Dominican Collegehttps://scholar.dominican.edu/yearbooks-1950-1959/1006/thumbnail.jp