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Remember when Rodeheaver was all purple?

A prominent three-tiered structure, towering above all other campus buildings and fronting on the beautiful fountain and bridge landscaping, Rodeheaver Auditorium captures the first glance of the visitors entering the arched gateway of Bob Jones University. And like a magnet, it constantly draws the university family and friends through its portals during the entire school year.

Its exterior design of cream-colored brick and reinforced concrete with trim of Bedford limestone contrasts effectively with royal purples, golds, and other harmoniously geared color schemes of its interior decor.

Versatile, flexible and multi-functional, this air-conditioned building has a carpeted house with a seating capacity of 3,000 and contains in addition, efficient box offices, comfortable lounges, attractive dressing and make-up rooms for performers, costume workrooms and storage, well-lighted and well-ventilated scenery construction areas, a traditional green room, and last but by no means least, it shares with the Unusual Films Production Studios which adjoins it, the title of the busiest beehive of activity on the Bob Jones University campus.

Rodeheaver Auditorium, named after the songwriter and evangelistic song-leader for Billy Sunday, Homer Rodeheaver, stands as a symbol of the spiritual and cultural emphases which are part of the very fiber of the foundation of the university. This building, more than any other one spot, underscores the famous saying of the university founder, "There is no difference between the sacred and the secular. To a Christian, all ground is Holy ground."

In the myriad of activities which are constantly reverberating its walls throughout the year -- daily Chapel programs, Sunday church services and vespers, and various artist series productions of dramas and concerts -- this place telescopes the spiritual emphasis, as well as cultural motto, Ars ad gloriam Deus, (Art for the glory of God).

STAGES MOVE

Rodeheaver Auditorium stage is the hub of action for the mammoth building. It is one of the largest screw lift stages in America. And perhaps only Radio City Music Hall in New York and the Civic Opera House of Chicago with their hydraulic lift stages are comparable in versatility.

The stage measures 150 feet from wall to wall and 65 feet from the stage floor to the grid the flying area for the storing and scene changing maneuvers of the curtains, drops, and scenic units. It is equipped with a central revolving stage 27 feet in diameter.

Two elevator lifts, each handling a section of stage floor 9 feet deep and the entire width of the proscenium opening, interlock to form a portion of the revolving stage. They contain six 4½-inch screws 27 feet long, and support the center and up. stage sections of the turntable. These elevators, each operated by 50 h. p. motors, have a lifting range of 24 feet, i.e., each section may be lowered 12 feet below the level of the stage floor into the scene dock under the stage for production changes, or raised 12 feet above the stage floor level. A third elevator, which is set on 14-foot screws, forms an orchestra pit by lowering the forestage and may descend 12 feet below the eye level of the audience.

Two beautiful motor driven contour curtains plus numerous travelers, drops, and teasers offer excellent enhancement and variety and almost limitless adjustments of the stage opening for the vast number of dramatic productions staged throughout the school year. The side stages, with concealed openings through the folds of the walls, provide for many special effects involving the handling of stage crowds and choruses.

SUNDAY PROGRAMS

Especially indigenous to the university since the first year it was founded in 1927 is the unique vesper program. Every Sunday afternoon throughout the school year, the university presents an hour program of sacred music, dramatic readings, instrumental and vocal solos, trios, group ensembles, and concert band and orchestra as a regular feature of its schedule, In addition, several sacred dramas are produced as unusual highlights.

Hundreds from the Greenville area as well as nearby states attend these programs each Sunday at 4 p. m.

The University specializes in Shakespearean and other classic productions. The Classic Players, organized in 1930, is listed by International Shakespeare Survey as one of the most "noteworthy classic repertoire companies in the United States." Its repertoire includes Shakespeare's great tragedies. "Hamlet." "Macbeth," "King Lear," "Othello" such histories as "Julius Caesar," "Henry IV,"  "Henry V," and "Henry VII, "Richard II,"  "Richard III"; the delightful comedies, "The Merchant of Venice," "The Tempest," "Twelfth Night," "Winter's Tale," "Comedy of Errors," "As You Like It," "Taming of the Shrew,"  "Love's Labour's Lost," "Mid-summer Night's Dream"; as well as such classic productions as Sophocles' "Antigone," Rostand's spectacular "Cyrano De Bergerac."

OPERA PRODUCTIONS

The university is also outstanding for its productions of opera. Grand opera productions for which the leading singers of the world are engaged to appear with the University Opera Association chorus and orchestra have included "Rigoletto,' "Aida," "Norma," "Il Trovatore." "La Tosca," "La Juive," "Ernani," "Samson and Delilah"; and such buffo or comic operas as "The Barber of Seville," "L'Elisir D'Amour," "The Merry Wives of Windsor," featuring the university faculty and students, have also been deftly and smoothly managed with the up-to-date facilities of the auditorium.

Noteworthy artists, musicians, and lecturers are presented in Concert and Drama Series throughout the year. These visiting artists find Rodeheaver Auditorium an acoustically apt place in which to perform, as well as more than adequately meeting their professional needs.

Behind the scenes of every onstage occurrence are many, many hours of rehearsing and preparation and building. The scene shop and scene dock hum with activity from the first day of September until the last graduate has marched across the stage at commencement to receive his diploma. Facilities for constructing and mounting the most elaborate, complex, and multi-scened designs are available for each production need down to the last hand prop of vase or spear.

$300,000 IN COSTUMES

The building houses the university's outstanding collection of properties, armor, jewels, and costumes. The costume collection alone is valued at $300,000 and contains some 5,000 costumes complete with accessories, including several. hundred Biblical costumes.

The items in the collection cover every period from ancient times to the present day and are of historical interest as well as of historical accuracy, having been carefully researched and period styled down to the shoe lacings and jeweled adornments, yet reflecting artistic creativity and serving the performer's most active needs. Included in the collection are items once the property of such famous actors in the classical repertoire as Walter Hampden, Jane Cowl, and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.

Almost every conceivable lighting effect is made possible not only by the careful positioning of lighting installations, but also by the numerous mountings available for such settings -- all controlled by the five-scene pre-set electronic master switchboard by Kliegl. This features a highly flexible push button sub-master system by which any dimmer may be assigned to any sub-master.

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Hymn Story: An Evening Prayer

The hymn “An Evening Prayer” was written by C. Maud Battersby. I’ve been unable to find any additional information on Battersby. The hymn is sometimes referred to by the first line “If I have wounded any soul today.” Charles Gabirel wrote the tune around 1911. Gabriel wrote the music for numerous hymns and often worked with Fannie Crosby. In 1912, he began working with Homer Rodeheaver’s…

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Towards Tomorrow (multi-image slide presentation)

Here's a 6-on-1 multi image slideshow created by New York producer Spotlight Presents / The Image Bank, and programmed by Tom Rodeheaver on January 16, 1987.

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Mama's Book: Eggshell Powder

Hi all!  I am currently kicking up my practice again now that the baby is a little more independent and I have time...she also likes to watch me in the kitchen, which is super cute and very convenient.  Part of my new efforts includes planning and researching for my Book of Wisdom (final name still pending), which I hope to make as a reference book and work of art.  If my little one gets into witchcraft and/or Paganism, I would love to hand it down to her and start a family line.  Her choice, of course!

One of the simple ‘recipes’ or ‘ingredients’, however you look at it, is eggshell powder.  I’ll go over its origins, how to make it safely, its uses in magic, and its other uses.  At the end, I’ll also mention how I personally use this in my practice!

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🗺 History & Origin 🗺

In terms of non-magical uses, my guess is that eggshells and eggshell powder have been used in gardening and medicine for as long as people have had eggs.  There is no clear origin that I’ve discovered for these uses.

In terms of magical use, Cascarilla Powder originated in West African practices.  Its origins are well-summarized below:

...the people of this region brought to the New World the concept of sacred white earth they called efun. ...Cut off from their ancestral lands, they sought an alternative that could achieve the same effects. This came in the form of an herbal powder called cascarilla. The finely ground outer bark of this large, tropical shrub was already known among the Caribbean natives for its medicinal properties ... In fact, the word cascarilla refers to any kind of outer skin or husk. ... Santeria practitioners transitioned from using this herbal powder to using crushed egg shells...

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You can find this already made in those little white ketchup cups for relatively cheap, but I prefer to make my own over time anyway.  I also personally don’t call what I make cascarilla powder, as I am not connected to or practicing Hoodoo, Voodoo, or Santeria.

🍳 How to Safely Make your Eggshell Powder 🍳

Make or bake something (yum!!!)

Wash the insides and outside of the eggs, removing the membrane

Store in the fridge if you still have more to collect before you process it (lessens the growth of yuck like salmonella) 

Place washed, de-membraned eggs on a cookie sheet to bake at 150f for 10 minutes (I did 170f, my oven doesn’t go so low in this place)

Let cool

Use a mortar & pestle or food processor/coffee grinder to grind the eggs

Store in a jar (food-grade if you intend to use it as a supplement or medicine: see below)

What I love is that many households already use eggs a lot, and this is something I can truly make.  For me, this fits perfectly into my goals regarding herbalism and my magical practice.

🕯 Magical Uses 🕯

The powder typically serves two main purposes:

Acting as a barrier, usually between the spiritual and physical realms.

Expulsion of negative energy.

Here are some specific ideas:

Press the powder into chalk and use it to draw circles, sigils, et cetera.

Add the powder to a ritual bath to be rid of negative energy.

Add it to a house cleaner, most efficient is a floor cleaner, to keep negativity and spirits away.

Dust your windowsills and doorways to create a barrier.

Put the powder in other spell-related things like soaps, incense, or candles.

🌿 Non-Magical Uses 🌿

Some of these can, of course, be made magical...but that isn’t how most people do these, which is why they’re included here.

Food supplement: the powder can be added to foods for anyone in need of increased calcium, instead of buying expensive supplements already. (Please talk to a doctor before doing anything like this; this is not medical advice).  I personally recommend the coffee grinder/food processor preparation for a finer powder.

Gardening: nutrients for the soil (put some in the holes before planting, and then around the plants every couple of weeks).  Broken shells can also deter common garden pests like snails and slugs since they dislike the texture.  

Also, eggshells are a great seed starter: rinse empty eggs (try to keep at least half of the shell as a little pot), poke a small hole in the bottom to drain, fill with soil, plant a couple of seeds, and store the starters in the empty carton until they’re ready for their home.  You can plant the entire thing, shell and all!

Cleaning: eggshells are abrasive but soft (being calcium) so you can mix the powder into cleaning agents for your floors...or even your skin! Make sure the powder is an appropriate grit for the use.

🌱 My Use 🌱

Green and garden witchcraft are my favorites . I also incorporate kitchen and cottage witchcraft. For all of them, I want to grow some of my own herbs and, if possible, veggies.

This spring, I'll be using the seed starter idea as well as sprinkling the shells onto the soil to try and grow plants such as basil, rosemary, bay, and mint. I'll plant the seeds in the starters during the next new moon.

I can see the possibilities of incorporating lunar cycles with banishing and the powder, too.

Do you use it? If so, how?

Thanks for reading!

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Short Name:            Ida M. Budd

                                                   Full Name:            Budd, Ida M.

                                                   Birth Year:            1859

                                                   Death Year (est.):            1959

Ida M. Budd was born in 1859 in a log cabin in Saginaw County, Michigan. When she was three years old her parents moved to Milford, Michigan. She loved nature and books. She decided to be a school teacher, receiving her teaching certificate when she was fifteen. Her first poem was published in 1881. She is known for her poems for children.

Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Texts by Ida M. Budd (72)

1 A downy little duckling Went waddling off one day; He didn’t like the other ducks; With them he would not play; He was too independent, too, To stay with them, he said; He thought it vastly pleasanter To go alone instead.

Refrain: O silly little duckling! To pout will never pay; I wonder if small boys and girls Would ever act that way?

2 The other little ducklings Looked at him ruefully, And felt quite grieved to see him walk Away so scornfully. “Quack! quack!” they said, as if to make Amends for all their lack; But he had grown so dignified He wouldn’t even quack. [Refrain]

3 The water in the duck-pond Looked cool and nice to him; The morning was so very fine, He thought he’d take a swim; So, in he plunged, but to himself Soon said that he must own That it was very tame indeed To swim around alone. [Refrain]

4 He caught great big June-bug, As fat as fat could be; But then it wasn’t any fun With no one there to see; He wished the other ducks would come, As oft they had in play, And chase him round, and round, and round, To get the bug away. [Refrain]

5 And then this lonely duckling, What did he, do you think? He took that bug and waddled back Most quick as you could wink; And when the ducks came up and tried To take that bug away, He thought it was the greatest fun He’d had for many a day. [Refrain]

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Kristen Rodeheaver/McDow, aka the girl who was in JB’s ‘One Time’ music video, made a recent Q&A video where she described meeting Selena at Justin’s Sweet 16. She said Selena is really sweet and nice, and what you see with her public persona is basically what you get. I couldn’t help but think this girl has definitely not been reading ESMG 😂 If only she knew what "sweet and nice" 2010 Selena has become over the years.

Lmfaooolo that girl met Selena for 0.5 seconds and she acting like she can do a life summary on the girl puhlease

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The Live Wire collection of prohibition songs compiled by Dr. JB Herbert for the Rodeheaver Company of Chicago- Available at https://www.etsy.com/shop/ProvoquerlaCuriosite