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Focus EMU, February 11, 1986 \ Produced by Volume 32, Number 25 Public Information February 11, 1986 FOCUS EMU and Publications WEMU presents special programs 'Flnian•s Rainbow· to celebrate Black History Month offers fantasy, romance WEMU, Eastern's National Bea Benjamin, who originally is Public Radio affiliate, will pre­ from South America and has ap­ The 1947 Broadway musical sent a variety of special programs peared at the Newport Jazz "Finian's Rainbow" will be this month to celebrate Black Festival. Women Instrumentalists presented by the Department of History Month. will be featured on the final pro­ Communication and Theater Arts Electric jazz performances and gram of the series with interviews Thursday, Feb. 13, through Fri­ spellbinding documentaries will and rare recordings of unique day, Feb. 21, in Quirk Theater. feature a part of American music. "American Woman in Written by Burton Lane, E.Y. history and the unique art form Jazz" will be broadcast at noon Harburg and Fred Saidy, the of jazz. on Sundays during February. musical offers a bit of fantasy, "Twenty-five Years Later" will "The Basie Dozen" is a reality, Irish folklore and be the topic of four Horizons delightful collection of five­ romance as it tells the story of programs on significant contribu­ minute "moments with the musi­ Finian McLonergan, who steals tions of men and women in cians" who made up Count some gold from a leprechaun politics, business and the Basie's fabled band. The inter­ with plans to plant it and yield a Hollywood film industry. The views were obtained from the ar­ fortune. half-hour program, broadcast on chives of the Jazz Oral History Finian, the gold and his Friday evenings at 8:30 p.m., will Project at the Institute of Jazz daughter are pursued by the feature academy award-winner Studies at Rutgers University. leprechaun to the mythical state Lou Gossett, Georgia State They will be broadcast during of Missitucky, where they meet ' Senator Julian Bond, former "Morning Edition" and on "Big up with a not-so-nice Sen. Congresswoman Shirley Band Spectacular" which is aired Billboard Rawkins. To save the Chisholm and Robert Guillaume, on Saturdays in February be­ day, Finian must call upon the star of TV's "Benson." tween 9 a.m. and noon. three wishes entitled him as a "American Women in Jazz" is "Profiles in Jazz," another holder of leprechaun gold. a four-part series of programs series aired during February, will Songs which were first in­ featuring music and interviews feature hour-long portraits of tr0duced and included in the with some of America's most jazz trumpeters Clifford Brown musical are "How Are Things in outstanding women musicians. and Jona Jones, and jazz singer Glocca Morra?," "Look to the The program will feature Abby Betty Carter. "Profiles in Jazz" Rainbow," "Old Devil Moon," Lincoln, actress, musician, and is broadcast on Thursday nights and "If This Isn't Love." composer; Melba Liston, at 9 p.m. EMU's production of "Finian's trombonist/arranger and Satima Rainbow" is directed by Dr. Parker Zellers, professor of communica­ tion and theater ans. Curtain times for the play are corporate vice chairman 8 p.m. Wednesday through Fri­ day, 5 and 9 p.m. Saturday, and to speak on mergers 2 p.m. Sunday. John F. Daly, vice chairman stallation of sophisticated con­ Ticket prices, which vary of the board of Johnson Con­ trols for non-residential buildings "HOW ARE THINGS IN GLOCCA MORRA?" Mary Jo Licata depending on the time and day trols Inc., will speak at EMU worldwide. It also provides lead­ and Mark O'Brien star in the EMU Theater production of of the performance, range from tonight at 7 p.m. in Room 216 acid storage batteries for the "l?inian's Rainbow" Thursday, Feb. 13 through Friday, Feb. 21 $2.50 to $5.50, and are available of the Pray-Harrold Classroom automotive market, other in Quirk Theater. at the Quirk-Sponberg Theater Building. automotive parts and plastic soft Box Office. Daly's lecture, which will focus drink bottles. on the factors that lead to suc­ In total, Johnson Controls cessful corporate mergers, is part employs approximately 30,000 of the Executive-in-Residence people in more than 60 plants in seminar series presented by the United States and abroad. C C Eastern's College of Business. Daly's lecture is free and open a111pus apsules _____ Daly, 63, joined Hoover Ball to the public. and Bearing Co. in 1960 when Dress For Success Fashion Ypsilanti City Manager 'Salute to Nigeria' the company acquired Universal Show For Women at EMU To Speak On Black History To Be Presented Wire Spring Co., where he was Interested in creating a Ypsilanti City Manager Matt A "Salute to Nigeria" will be executive vice president. After business wardrobe or updating a Hennessee will speak at a Black presented by the Discover the the merger, he was appointed current one? A "Dress for Suc­ History Month program sched­ World film discussion series corporate vice president of cess Fashion Show" will be held uleded for 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. tomorrow, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Hoover Universal Wire Spring tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in 18, at the Ypsilanti District the lounge at Walton Putnam. In Division and became director of McKenny Union's Guild Hall. Library, 229 W. Michigan Ave. addition, Nigerian Food will be Hoover Universal in 1966. The fashion show, sponsored Ypsilanti's first black city featured in Dining Commons II Daly served as chairman of the by EMU's Women in Com­ manager, Hennessee was ap­ that afternoon. Guests may pur­ board of directors of Hoover munications, will present the pointed to his position with the chase the meal for $4.50. For Universal from 1976 to 1985 and latest in proper business attire city in May of 1984. Admission more information, contact the chief executive officer from 1972 and ensembles for everyday of­ to the program is free, and Foreign Student Affairs Office at to 1985. Under his leadership, fice wear and interviews. refreshments will be served. 7-3116. Hoover Universal became a $850 Fashions for the show are from million diversified manufacturing Hit or Miss. Baseball Clinic corporation, with 52 plants here Tickets are $2 in advance and Tax Forms Available To Be Offered and abroad employing more than $2.50 at the door. For more in­ At Library The baseball coaches and 8,000 people. formation call 7-1777 after 6 In cooperation with the Inter­ players at EMU will present a In May 1985, Hoover Univer­ p.m. nal Revenue Service and the clinic Saturday, Feb. 15 from 8 sal Inc. was acquired by Johnson Michigan Treasury Department, a.m. to 5 p.m. in Bowen Field Controls Inc. and Daly was the University Library is again House. The clinic will include elected vice chairman of the William P. Milne making available supplies of tax sessions on hitting, pitching and Johnson board. John Daly Memorial Fund Established forms and information materials. catching, and will feature former Johnson Controls is a $1.8 A memorial fund recognizing Supplies of tax forms 1040, Huron Bob Welch of the Los billion corporation specializing in William P. Milne has been 1040A, 1040EZ, and Michigan Angeles Dodgers. The deadline the manufacture, design and in- established by his colleagues, 1040, as well as some specialized for pre-registration is Wednes­ .1 forms and schedules, are day, Feb. 12. Contact Roger I students and friends. Contribu­ I tions in Milne's name may be available on the third floor of Coryell at 7-0315 for more made to the William P. Milne the Library. Other forms are information. Memorial Fund, Office of available in the sets of Development, 212 McKenny Reproducible Tax Forms, which Union. may be photocopied in the Library. 7 2 FOCUS EMU Prize-winning harpsichordist Research ____ to perform Economic Development Research and Evaluation Program Harpsichordist Bradley-Vincent The U.S. Department of Commerce will award $2 million for Brookshire, first prize winner of research and development projects dealing with (I) employment and the prestigious Magnum Opus unemploymt:nt; (2) income and poverty; (3) rural and Harpsichord competition in 1984, nonmetropolitan economic development; (4) regional and local will perform here Thursday, Feb. growth; (5) industrial location; (6) job creation methods; (7) state and 13, at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall local government economic development efforts; (8) private sector of EMU's Alexander Music economic development efforts; (9) developmental effects of public Building. works and other infrastructures; (10) capital markets and development Brookshire, 26, studied music finance; (11) export development; (12) minority business and minority history and harpsichord at the jobs; and (13) productivity and technology. University of Michigan under the Proposals are due Friday, March 14. Contact Cheryl Kozell at direction of Edward Parmentier. 7-3090 for application information. He has performed in the Lincoln Health Promotion Research Center for the Performing Arts The Michigan Department of Public Health announces the and New York's Cathedral of St. availability of grants for research or demonstration projects which ad­ John the Divine. He also has dress health promotion for mothers and children. Proposals are performed regionally and has sought in the following areas: received excellent reviews from a) Pedestrian safety and accident prevention for children. arts editors at the Fort Wayne b) Improvement of collection and recording of morbidity and News-Sentinel, Ann Arbor News, mortality data for childhood injuries. and Indianapolis and Buffalo c) Factors preventing women from obtaining prenatal care in the News. first trimester of pregnancy. His repertoire usually includes d) Identification of the effects of working outside the home on the works by J.
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