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Campus Review
November 6, 2012
This action-driven tragedy is enthusiasti-
cally endorsed by the entire Clayton State
student cast. Thespians from Atlanta,
Conyers, Morrow, Stockbridge, and
Fayetteville will, “entertain and make it
easy to follow as we make Shakespeare’s
work effortless to understand,” says
Chicago native and performer Jessica
Horne.
Actress Amanda Wilson reveals that, “the
play gives way to human nature; jealousy,
pride, spitefulness and courage; all char-
acteristics that make up a human each per-
son deals with their own inner demons
differently.”
Darius Booker, from Hinesville, Ga.,
shares that he is a lot like his character,
Macbeth. Booker says, “I am valiant and I
want to honor what’s right. Sometimes I
have a desire for status and when I get it I
want to ensure that I keep it.”
Come join the Clayton State Theater in an
exciting evening of witch’s spells, hand-
to-hand combat and amazing acting in the
dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s
“Macbeth,” directed by Patricia Henritze,
Clayton State assistant professor of
Theater.
In addition to the performances of
“Macbeth,” the Clayton State Theatre has
also issued a “Macbeth Challenge” to
Clayton State students, holding a contest
to see who can think outside the box when
it comes to “Macbeth.” The Theatre is
looking for the best sonnet, monologue
and/or video based off of the themes of
“Macbeth” including, but not limited to
“power, lust, betrayal, and of course, mur-
der.”
team will open its regular season in a non-
conference game against Tennessee
Temple at 7:30 p.m. The naming ceremo-
ny is planned in between the two games,
beginning at 7 p.m.
“Mason took a vision and turned it into a
reality. Very few people get the opportuni-
ty to embark on taking a program from its
inception and bringing it to the level
Mason has. It is truly a remarkable
accomplishment,” says Athletic Director
Carl McAloose. “Through his hard work
and commitment to Clayton State, Mason
turned a fledgling program into one of the
top athletic programs in NCAA II. In the
process, he has touched the lives of thou-
sands and has helped bring national
recognition to Clayton State. He certainly
deserves this honor and his legacy will
now be remembered in perpetuity with the
naming of the Mason Barfield Court.”
A native of Hahira, Ga., Barfield was
hired as the athletic director and men’s
head basketball coach at Clayton State in
the fall of 1989 after serving one year as
an instructor and men’s assistant basket-
ball coach at Kennesaw State University,
three years of teaching and serving as
boy’s head basketball coach at Lassiter
High School in Marietta, Ga., and three
years of teaching and coaching at
Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Ga.
Over the first five seasons as an NAIA
program, he built the Laker men’s basket-
ball program into a highly-competitive
team in the Georgia Athletic Conference,
winning consecutive regular season con-
ference championships in 1994 and 1995,
and winning more games than all but one
four year intercollegiate program in the
state over his last three seasons.
In addition, he also helped institute both
women’s basketball (1991) and men’s
soccer (1992) at Clayton State.
However, Barfield’s biggest challenge
came in the winter of 1995 when the
Clayton State administration announced
the intention to move the athletic program
to NCAA Division II status and join the
Peach Belt Conference. To make that hap-
pen, Barfield oversaw the unprecedented
move of starting up five new sports –
women’s soccer, men’s golf, women’s
tennis and men’s and women’s cross
country – with competition in those five
sports beginning in the fall of 1995, just
six months after the announcement of the
additions.
After the first few years of transition into
the Peach Belt Conference, Laker
Athletics began to take shape at the
Division II level under Barfield’s leader-
ship. Since 2000, Clayton State has won
15 Peach Belt Conference regular season
championships and finished conference
runner-up on 12 occasions. In addition,
Laker teams have also won eight Peach
the Henry County Board of Education’s
representative to the Henry County Public
Library’s Board of Trustees.
Baker is enthusiastic about being the pres-
ident of SELA.
“I look forward to working with the folks
who make SELA tick,” he says. “SELA is
an organization of hard-working individu-
als from many states.”
Baker, cont’d. from p. 3
Barfield, cont’d. from p. 1
Theatre, cont’d. from p. 6
Barfield, cont’d., p. 16