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The Office of International Studies To Achieve 'Living Theatre' is seeking host families to accommo­ date members of the Bulmershe Choir By Kathy Tinney from Bulmershe College, Reading, "I really am into people. I celebrate people in my work." England, for the nights of July 20 and Marshall Mason, who was nominated this year for a Tony 21. The 40-member choir will arrive in Award for his first directorial work on Broadway - Jules Feiffer's Ypsilanti on July 20 and will present a hit comedy "Knock Knock" - is the guest director-in-residence concert July 21. This summer's visit for EMU's Bicentennial Spring Repertory Theatre Festival. He is will mark the third time the group has directing ' "Summer and Smoke" and assisting visited the University. On their pre­ James Gousseff, director of EMU Theatre, with "THE HOT L vious visits, choir members stayed with BALTIMORE." Mason directed the original version of the families of faculty and the com- award-winning play, which opened in January, ' munity. Anyone interested in accom­ 1973, and ran for 1200 performances. It was the longest running modating one or two students for the American play in the history of off off Broadway. two nights should call 487-2424. "I have an abiding interest in what I call 'lyrical realism,' " he *** explains. "To me, it's the kind of realism which does not drag its feet in the mud but rather tries to suggest, through the direct human experience, larger elements. 'THE ' Ten members of the first graduating is a very real play, a very naturalistic play which has at its center a class in the Coordinated Program in dying, crumbling hotel which is, of course, a symbol for all Dietetics in the Department of Home society. 'Summer and Smoke' is a kind of story about desire Economics were recently honored in a versus repression, the soul versus the body, religion versus worldly ceremony in Roosevelt Auditorium. A things. program titled "Dietetics: Past, "Both are about very real people. They both are trying to reach Present and Future" was presented by from the specific to the more universal. I like plays that do that." the graduating students. The program The very first play Mason ever directed was also by Tennessee integrates academic studies with clin­ Williams - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." He was 19 and a theatre ical experiences during the junior and major at Northwestern University. senior years. Each student spends "I started doing plays as early as I can remember," he recalls. more than 1,000 hours in supervised "At the age of four or five I was doing little backyard type things. clinical experiences m community I was in the school plays from the second grade on. In the nutrition, therapeutic nutrition and primary grades, I used to write plays and I would direct them. I food systems management. The pro­ would put them on but I didn't know what directing was as such. gram is organized according to the I thought that what I was doing was acting and I thought that's guidelines of the American Dietetic what I wanted to do. Association. "Later, after I discovered there was a director, I discovered I *** had been directing all my life. MarshallMason "At the end of my sophomore year (at Northwestern), I decided I wasn't going to be a great actor so I thought about most of Wil:o:r's -najor plays, more than 20 in all. Season football tickets are now on switching over to law. Dr. Gousseff (then an assistant professor at In 1969, ka:on along with Wilson, Rob Thirkield and Tanya sale at the Athletic Department. All Northwestern) talked me into staying the summer and working Berezin, foLnc.ed the now renowned . seats in Rynearson Stadium will be on the Northwestern Festival. We did four plays - 'Oedipus,' Productions: n��d by the Company, including "THE HOT L • reserved for the 1976 games. EMU 'The Rivals,' 'St. Joan' and Dr. Gousseff directed 'A Mid-Summer BALTIMOEE." 'When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?,'' "The students also will be required to have Night's Dream.' I was in all four plays and had a really good time. Sea Horse,' ·".Ba:tle of Angels," "The Mound Builders,'' "Harry reserved seats. Adult season tickets for "Dr. Gousseff talked me into trying directing and that fall Outside" aLd "=<.nock Knock" have garnered numerous honors, faculty and staff are $12; individual (1959) I directed 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' The play received a including 16 ORIEAwards. Mason has earned three OBIE Awards adult reserved seats are $3. For every standing ovation opening night and over night I became a director for distingu:srud :tirection. pair of adult season tickets purchased, whether I wanted to or not. It took me years to make that This spr.nf, Mason is commuting between New York and the Athletic Department is offering a transition in my head, but everyone else knew right away I was a Ypsilanti. 3� :::pened a new Lanford Wilson play entitled Huron stadium seat cushion as a free director." "Serenadinf Loc.ie" May 5 and is going into rehearsal on a gift. Mid-American Conference action Mason graduated from Northwestern in 1961. Other notables bicentennia:W'iPJ pla!' 1 which he hopes to open by mid-June. ,.ii begins Sept. 4 when the Hurons meet in his theatre class included Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, "The orector works," he explains, "especially in the the Ohio University Bobcats at Penny Fuller, Larry Pressman, Tony Roberts, Marcia Rodd and professional fr ea-re, is once the play opens, you only go back to Rynearson at 7:30 p.m. For further Stuart Hagman. He went to New York that fall and directed his see it ever? ;o often and try to supervise any replacements. ticket information, call Ticket Man­ first play there in 1962. In 1965 he directed his first play by Normally, yo·.1 d.cn't really do any more after the play opens." ager Ron Nemeth at 487-0351. *** Lanford Wilson, "," and since then has directed (Continued on page 3)

The Department of Speech and Ralph Steffek To Retire from Field Services iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii • Dramatic Arts is sponsoring a summer high school workshop in theatre Aug. 1 - 13 on the EMU campus. The program, directed by Associate Pro­ Ralph Steffek is an educator, an Dr. Steffek says he spends most of his fessor M.R. McElya, is designed to expert on federal educational legislation, time setting up course programs off "stimulate creative endeavor in the an educational/congressional liaison, a campus or setting up workshops for the theatre arts through classes, lectures, golfer, a gardener, an avid traveler, a University. demonstrations and productions." For nature-Jover, a backpacking enthusiast "I get off campus as much as I can," further information or an application, and last - but not least - director of he says. "I listen to what people need out special programs for the University's there and come back here (to the :i. call the Division of Field Services at 487-0407. Division of Field Services. University) and pool all the resources *** But the 65-year-old Dr. Steffek will be within the University." giving up only one of his titles when he A recent example of a special work­ retires July 1 - that of EMU special shop that was created to meet a particular The Intramural Department is programs director. need is a "Communication Sampler offering rental camping gear to stu­ "Most of the notions that I had about Seminar,'' a program Dr. Steffek organ­ dents, faculty and staff. Backpacks, being 65 are for the birds," he admits. ized. Coordinated by the EMU Depart­ sleeping bags, tents, cooking utensils, "I'm beginning to realize that 'old age' is ment of Speech and Dramatic Arts, the gas stoves, compasses, saws, water really a state of mind .. .I plan to program was designed to solve a problem bottles and tent tarps may be rented continue to do the same things in within a division of one of the auto for a fee of three to five dollars. A retirement I did before." manufacturers - a problem that resulted deposit, ranging from $20 to $40, will Dr. Steffek's Jong career began shortly in restricted mobility (promotability) of be required for the rentals. According after he graduated from Michigan State about 250 management personnel. to IM Director Bob England, the Normal School (now EMU) as a teacher "We came to the conclusion that equipment was purchased to allow in 1934. He taught in St. Joseph and communication was the key to making EMU employees and students to enjoy Pontiac before hiring into the Grosse in East . He later administer:ed the them more mobile," he explains. "Com­ the activity for a nominal fee without Pointe Public Schools where he was a off-campus programs for the ext::n�ic• munication helps you understand and having to invest $150 - $200 in new teacher and a principal for 12 years. service of the University of Michigan. share each other's ideas." equipment. To reserve the equipment, Dr. Steffek earned his doctorate in He joined the EMU staff in 19E4 n a Another program, titled "Management individuals are required to complete a guidance and counseling and school "special services role," a role whi::h he Sampler Seminar" will be held as a requisition form at the IM Office, 216 administration from Wayne State Uni­ says, "is a nice name for doing wha:ev�: followup to the communication program Warner. versity in 1952. Shortly thereafter, he needs to be done at the time it need; -o for the same organization. Coordinated was appointed superintendent of schools be done." (Continued on page 4) The copy deadline for the June 1 issue of Focus EMU is noon Friday, May 21. FOCUS ON facul�: CENTEROF EouCAnONAL RESOURCES Science and Technology Reference Books Beagen Coaches Champion Orators Computer directory and buyer's gu.ide. By Brad Simmons The following alphabetically arranged Traveling across America in two list of recently receivedScience andreference Technology books Computers and People, 1975. Ref. spacious motor homes might sound like Division'sshelved on the QA 76.C562xTrade 1975 names dictionary: a fun to many people. reference shelves (first floor of Crowley,gu.ide E. toT. trade names, brand names, 3ut to the 25 members of the EMU Library) may be of interest to members product names, coined names, forensics team, the 5,000 mile journey to of our faculty. model names, and design names, Los Angeles and back meant work - NewMimeographed Reference Books copies of the CER's with addresses of their manufactur· rehearsing every day for the National list covering all ers, importers, marketers, or distri­ Individual Events Championship they divisions in call number order are butors. were to compete in. available for pickup at the Library Gale Research Co. Detroit, "The reason I went to motor homes," Assistance Center (Information Desk) in 1974. Ref.The F new 223.V4 dog A22encyclopedia. 1974 says Head Forensics Coach Dennis the lobby of the CER. Davis, H. P. Beagen, was that I perceived them as American AssociationDirectory ofof members, Mental Defic­1973. Galahad Books. New York, 1970. moving classrooms that they could iency. DirectoryRef. ofoversize medical SF 426.D38specialists 1974 holding rehearse in.. . On the way out (to Los Willimantic, Conn.: 1973. Ref. RC certification by American Boards, Angeles), I was a real ogre - we rehearsed 326.A427 Cancer: facts 1975/76. all the way there." Americanand Cancerfigu.res, Society. 1976. Marquis-Who's Who. Chi­ A couple of mechanical breakdowns, a Dennis Beagen, pictured in his trophy­ Ref. RC 261 cago, 1975. Ref. R 712.Al D5 flat tire, dozens of peanut butter and jelly filled office. A213 Nutrients Directory1975/76 of professional electologists.' sandwiches and a lot of rehearsing later, Americanin processed Medical Association. foods. the team had done it - they had earned play basketball as an undergraduate and Publishing sci­ NY: Gordon Blackwell, 197 5. Sci the national forensics championship. has remained an avid basketball fan. He ences group, Inc. Acton, Mass., Elsevier'sTech MedicalRef. RL 115.D5dictionary 1975 in five "The biggest thing I got out of the quietly says he'd even like to trade places 1974. Ref.Illustrated TX 551.N77 encyclopedia (3 vols.) dic­ languages: English/American, trip," Beagen says, "was the satisfaction with a basketball coach for a season and Brooks,tionary H. of building and con­ French, Italian, Spanish and Ger­ of 28 people (25 teammates and three compare win-loss records afterwards. struction terms. man. coaches) pulling together and enjoying it. Shortly after he became a member of Prentice-Hall, Inc. Compiled by A. Sliosberg. The squad is very cohesive now." the speech and dramatic arts faculty in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1976. Ref. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Com­ About three hours after the group left J 968, he was given the responsibility of ComprehensiveTH 9.B76 bibliography on health pany, Amsterdam. 1975. Ref. R Ypsilanti, one of the vehicles had a the forensics program. "Once I got some maintenance organizations: 121.E5 A1975 bibliography of noise for blowout - a big problem to anyone who input into the program," he says, "the 1970-73. Floyd,1973. M. K. doesn't know how to change a "dual biggest thing was finding good stu­ Rockville, U.S. Depart­ Troy, NY: Whitston Pub!., tire." Beagen finally got another tire in dents... Recruiting is the name of the ment of Health, Education and 1975. Sci Tech Ref. Z 5862.2.N6 Ft. Wayne, Indiana, just before panic set game." Welfare, 1974. Sci Tech Ref. Z F58 suppl. 1973Glossary of geology. in. Once he began recruiting, Beagen says, 6675.G7 C65 Gary, Margaret. It began to rain when the team things started to happen. Jerry Bluhm, American Geological Institute. checked out of the Buckaroo Motel in now an assistant forensics coach, was Washington, 1974.Alternative Ref. QEsources 5 G37 of Tucumcari, New Mexico, but the wind­ persuaded to join the squad and wound Harrah,energy: B. and a D.bibliography of solar, shield wipers on one of the motor homes up with two national championship geothermal, wind and tidal energy, didn't work. Another small problem was awards. Several other students were and environmental architecture. created when the team encountered six recruited - students such as Greg fresh inches of snow near Flagstaff, Hopkins, who also is an assistant coach The scarecrow press, Inc. Metu­ Arizona. now. chen, NJ, 1975. Sci Tech Ref. Z One of the rented motor homes began "I had exceptional students on the 5853.P83 H37Official methods of to smoke after some time on the road, team," Beagen says. "They were the Horwitz,analysis W. ed.of the Association of creating cause for great concern, Beagen reason this all came about; they won the Official Analytical Chemists. says. nationals (national championship), made Assoc­ "The group in that motor home some notoriety and attracted other good The following op­ iation of Official Analytical Chem­ named it 'The Billie Bus'," he says. "They students." portunities for program ists. Washington, 1975. Ref. S became known as 'The Dirty Dozen' in Dan Bernard, an EMU freshman from development currently 587.Z73 1975 Index of human, 'The Billie Bus'. They were playing Detroit, is another student with whom are available: Jones,ecology. J. 0. and E. A. country and western music on the tape Beagen is particularly pleased. Dan, who London: Europa Publica­ deck and every time we stopped at a was Eastern's top entry in the national National Institute of EducationBasic (NIE) Skills tions, 1974. Sci Tech Ref. Z truck stop, they'd buy a new tape of tournament, placed second in Informative ResearchNIE hasGrants announced Program a 5861.J65The dictionary of calories and Tammy Wynette or someone like that." Speaking, fourth in Rhetorical Criticism which will Kraus,carbohydrates. B. But despite the mechanical problems and ninth in the Pentathlon event support research in five identified areas in (a new revised ver­ and other complications, the group made (competing in fiveor more events). which further knowledge must be pro­ sion of calories and carbohydrates) · excellent time, Beagen says. They arrived "Every year," Beagen says, "I need duced to enhance the quality of Grosset & Dunlap. New York, at their destination in time for two more about six new people I can really count American education in the basic cognitive Lockwood's1973. Ref.directory TX 551 of K72 the paper and. days of rehearsals before the long-awaited on. Sometimes it's hard for a high school skills, particularly reading and math­ allied trades. national contest. student who was a star in high school to ematics. These areas are (1) Teaching NY: Vance, 1975. "The joke going around was that the come into our program and just 'ride in Effectiveness, (2) Learning (reading com­ Metal Ref.finishing TS 1088.L82 gu.idebook 1975 -directory. other schools were doing fun things like the wings' for awhile." prehension), (3) Issues in the validity of visiting Disneyland before the tourna­ The first semester a new freshman Educational Measurement, (4) Design and Metals and Plastics Publications, ment," Beagen says, "but we were Jocked participates in the program, Beagen urges Analysis problems of educational research Inc., Hackensack, NJ 1976. Ref. TS in two rooms rehearsing. The kids had an him or her to observe and get a feel for and evaluation and (5) Law and Edu­ 670.A47 1976 cation. Data on public hour-and-a-half for recreation every day." collegiate competition. Rather than assign Michiganwater Dept. supplies of Health in Michigan. In that short period, Beagen says, two them speech topics they are very Approximately $2.2 million will be Mich­ of his students gave him a scare when enthusiastic about, he suggests they work available for the first year for projects igan Department of Public Health, they got into some minor "trouble." on others, saving their favorites. "I don't selected for funding in this program. Lansing, 1960. Ref. TD 224.M5" They got jaywalking tickets and were try to get them to peak right away," he Based on past awards for field initiated A4x 1960 research submitted to the NIE, it is subsequently summoned to appear in says. National Research Council.U.S. directoryOcean Sci­ of court on one of the days of the "In terms of coaching, we help them anticipated that some 2,000 proposals encemarine Committee. scientists 1975. tournament. re-write their speeches (the participants will be received and it is projected that Washington: But after an explanation to the circuit write their own first drafts) and coach five to seven proposals will be selected for National Academy of Sciences, judge, the twosome was allowed to them on delivery. Then we get them in funding for each of the five research areas 1975 1975.International Ref. GC 10.N37directory 1975 of the simply send in their fines by mail, front of an audience - into classrooms or in this funding cycle. TheJune deadline 24, 1976. for nonwoven fabrics industry. allowing them to compete after all. into actual tournaments." receipt of proposals is Inter-• The tournament, which was sponsored Beagen, who was an orator in the Funding decisions will be announced on national Nonwovens and Dispos­ by the National Forensics Association, forensics program when he was an or about September 1, 1976. ables Association. New York, 1974. began Thursday, April 22, and wound up undergraduate, originally had planned to A very comprehensive set of guidelines Sci Tech Ref. HD 9869.N64 15 7 the following Saturday. go into business. But he enjoyed the field giving examples of types of studies that 1974 1975marketing gu.ide: consumer spend­ "We could sense during the whole a great deal and the opportunity was will be supported and topics to be ing patterns for over 300 product tournament that we were picking up there. He went on to earn a master's addressed in each of the selected areas of lines sold in drugstores. momentum," Beagen says. "Ohio Uni­ degree in speech from the University of research is available at the SPARD Office. Medical versity Oast year's first place team by Michigan. Once he completes his dis­ NIE has requested that prospective Economics Company, Oradell, NJ. one-half point over EMU) took 17 sertation, he will have a doctorate in applicants forward an Intent-to-Submit 1974. Sci Tech Ref. HD. students and entered them in (all nine) card as soon as possible. The card is Speech Communication from Wayne Science9666.5.M37 faculty directory. 1974 events. The most anyone at Eastern was State University. printed on the back cover of the competing in was seven and the average guidelines booklet. Central States "I have no doubt about the educa­ Universities, Inc. Argonne, Ill, was about three. tional value of the forensics program," he LawEnforcement Assistance "On Saturday, we began to see the Administration (LEAA) 1975. Ref. Q 183.3.Al S354 says. "... Educationally it's wise. The 1974/75History of the life sciences. An results of our efforts - in the first public speaker does (his or her) best The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration announced it will award a Smit, annotatedP. bibliography. posting, we had (won) 11 events; OU had through humor. If you can play with and NY: Haf­ seven. deal with an audience through humor, total of $10 million in grants for innovative programs designed to divert ner, 1974. Sci Tech Ref. Z " .. .When we left (the EMU campus), you can deal with it with a more serious 5320.S55 we said that if we attained our goal of 26 topic." juvenile offenders from the juvenile justice system. The unusual program was Texas, A & M University, College Station,� quarter-finals, 18 semi-finals and nine Thermodynamics Research Center. finals, we'd have no problem." authorized under the Juvenile Justice and Comprehensive index of APT And with figures of 33, 18 and six Vehicle Sale Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. The 44-TRC selected data on thermo· assistant LEAA administrator who directs dynamics and spectroscopy respectively in the three rounds, Beagen 's pre­ predictions turned out to be close. The The EMU Credit Union is offering for the program said LEAA will continue to provide funds for juvenile programs pared by' the Thermodynamic Re­ team sweepstakes total was enough to sale to the highest bidder a 1973 search Center, Bruno J. Zwolinski, beat second-place OU by almost 50 Volkswagen. Sealed bids will be accepted throughout the country, but the diversion program "will be concentrated in urban et al. The Center. College Station, J points. at the office at 1172 Cornell St., where Texas, 1974. Ref. QD 291.T5 1974 Beagen, who says he loves all sports, the car is available for inspection. Bids areas where the most extensive juvenile Health care teams: an delinquency problems exist." The dead­ Tichy,annotated M. K. bibliography. describes coaching a forensics team as will be opened at noon on Monday, June preliminary Praeger similar to coaching sports. An EMU 7, 1976. The Credit Union reserves the line forJune submitting 4, 1976. applica­ graduate himself, he came to Eastern to right to refuse any and all bids. tions is (Continued on page 4) 2 ason Has 'Interesting Quirks' FOCUS ON stall: Continued from page 1) purpose of all this is to help the actors Mason says that directing for the EMU achieve that rare goal of living the role on Hildinger Is EMU's Piano Technician Repertory Festival is not a lot different stage rather than acting it, of really than directing in New York. "I'm trying experiencing it. The secondary goal, to do here pretty much what I always do, which is especially important in repertory By Jeanne B. Jordan keeping in mind that my techniques are a theatre, is to help them achieve that "A piano tuner ignorespitch." little strange for anybody, even a feeling of ensemble, to know that That flat statement, made by George professional actor in New York. My everybody is equally important to the Hildinger, piano technician at EMU, method of directing is my own and play, that there are no small roles. Every could really rock your faith in such everybody does it differently. As a matter role is really important for what it practitioners unless you heard him of fact, I'm not sure I even have a contributes to the atmosphere and in continue with: "Tuning is based on the method. I'm not sure that I don't really interlocking with the other roles we physics of beat rates." devise each thing as I go into it. create a living play. While being interviewed, Hildinger had "I have several interesting quirks as a "I put a lot of emphasis on the here the action from one of the concert grand director. For instance, I insist on having and now in theatre-going. I think that's pianos from the Pease stage in his lines learned before I rehearse each scene. what makes the difference in films or workroom upstairs in back of the Most directors start with allowing the television. It's the Jive event and it must auditorium. He was performing all the actors to read the book. I don't do that be happening now. If it has the odor of steps necessary to bring it back to top because for me, the actor's work all rehearsal about it, to me, it isn't working order. depends on his involving his imagination "First I will file all these felt hammers satisfying theatre." down," he explained, "to take the in the circumstances of the play. Holding The 16 actors in the Company were a book, unless the character is supposed selected by audition from among about flatness off the tops and get them back to ,to be holding a book, completely negates 60 applicants. Each applicant prepared their original oval shape. After the felt the attempt to create a believable his own audition. "Theoretically," Mason has been hit so many thousands of times situation. So I try to start working with explains, "they were bringing us work by the strings, its suppleness is gone and the actor's imagination right from the they were happy with, comfortable with. this hard flat surface is left. first rehearsal. I looked to see if I believed the work they "The second operation will be voicing "I also work very slowly and I 'build were doing. I looked for relaxation, the them with needles to soften the felt and on.' Instead of going through a whole big ability to concentrate, the ability to take out the hard, overly-brilliant quality of tone which the key produces after the chunk I take very very small sections and believe what they were doing. I watched George Hildinger demonstrates the art of I repeat and repeat and repeat and add on out for people who were trying to show felt becomes hard and packed. This will make a more mellow and musical tone. piano tuning on an action fr om a concert and repeat and add on a little more and the audience something because I'm not grand. l repeat and add on a little more and so into that kind of demonstrative theatre. I Voicing is a very exact operation and forth. really want the actor to experience it. must be done slowly. When I think I am "I call it rehearsing movie style. I "I was just delighted to see as much getting along pretty well on it, I will "Whatever else is required in the new rehearse each scene as though we were talent as there was available. I think we've replace the action in the instrument, play music building, I can say that humidity going to shoot it. We get to a result and got a really prime company. They are the some notes, then bring it back here for control is a must - and not only for then we go on to something else." best of the best." more work. pianos. This same problem exists for all During the first rehearsal period for Members of the company are working "The next step is probably correcting the stringed and reed instruments as "Summer and Smoke," Mason talked to from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. daily to get some of the felts which I will get too soft. well." the Company about acting, did an ready for the Festival's opening May 28 This can be done with a specially shaped Hildinger explained that the actual improvisation and never touched the with the Presidential Premiere of "The electrical iron heated to harden the tuning follows his work on the felt script. The second rehearsal consisted of Philadelphia Story," which is directed by surface a bit to make it slightly more hammers after the action has been an improvisation and the opening Parker Zellers. Mason's "Summer and firm." replaced in the piano. moment of the play. Smoke" will premiere Saturday, May 29, Hildinger, whose father for many years "Tuning consists of pulling the string "It will take about a week and a half and Dr. Gousseffs "The Matchmaker" on had the contract to service pianos in the to change the tension. I start by setting to get through the first act," he notes. Tuesday, June 1, and "THE HOT L University of Michigan School of Music, middle C using a tuning fork or bar. This "What we will have then is not just a BALTIMORE" on Wednesday, June 2. decided to continue the family tradition. means I strike the fork, then pull the technical blocking. The actors will al­ The four plays will be performed in Using his GI education grant, he grad­ string until both are vibrating in the same ready have learned their lines. The nightly rotation through June 19 at 8 uated from a technical school in Chicago number of cycles per second. I continue p.m. in Quirk Auditorium. General in 1951 and was self employed until to do the notes either side of C until I admission is $3 and EMU students with joining the EMU staff in July, 1973. have the octave from F below middle C an I.D. will be admitted for $2.50. "The problems for a piano technician to F above all precisely tuned. This is Mason, who is negotiating to direct a here at Eastern are such that I practically called 'setting the temperament.' I use Marlo Thomas television special for the run from building to building just trying thirds and sixths to check and see if the fall, says that more and more "I'm to catch up. Since there is no air fourth and fifth intervals are right and beginning to feel that a director's work conditioning and no kind of heat control, once that is really set, then starting in the ought to be appreciated in very much the the pianos are constantly out of tune - bass, I can tune the rest of the strings, same fashion as a painter or a sculptor. sharp or flat depending on the season. In always in octaves. The playwright is the musician, the actors the winter, the sounding boards shrink "Occasionally an instrument gets so (Editor's note: The following copy was are the performing instruments and when the humidity almost disappears and out of tune that it takes more than one submitted by Ruth B. Alford, secretary direction is the way all the elements come the uncontrolled radiator heat and session to get it back to standard pitch. tof the EMU Bicentennial Committee and together. dryness cause the instruments to become Also, an old instrument sometimes can secretary of the Instructional Museum "Good direction usually you can't see. flat. never be brought to absolute pitch since Committee.) Great direction you can sense." "Come spring, the windows are the strain of pulling the strings as tightly opened and damp heat and humidity as necessary would cause the whole If you do not ordinarily enter the cause the strings to pull up since the mechanism to explode and collapse. It Mark Jefferson Science building on sounding boards absorb all that moisture really does happen and is pretty startling. campus (or even if you do), you are Publications and swell. Then suddenly, all the You have to realize that there is 40,000 cordially invited to make a small detour instruments are sharp. The fluctuating pounds of total stress on the framework in this direction to view the exhibit of pitch is annoying but, more important, of every piano." Edward Sheriff Curtis photographs of the effect is really hard on the instru­ Hildinger, born and raised in this area, ,,American Indians on display in the first CER Sound Archivist PatriciaRecorded Freed­ ments. lives in Ypsilanti Township. The floor main lobby, a Bicentennial exhibit Sound:man will Its haveDocumentation a book titled and Presenta­ "One nice thing is that the faculty is Hildingers have a married daughter, a son prepared by Dr. Bert Johnson of the tion all so understanding. When a piano is now on his own, and a 13-year old at Biology Department. published by McMillan next fall on really sour you might expect faculty home. Curtis set out, about 1900, to the Audible Document. It was erron­ members to be upset but they are accomplish the grandiose ideal of photo­ eously reported in the May 3 "Focus invariably patient because they realize graphing all of the American Indian tribes EMU" that the work was an article. that I am limited as to how many west of the Mississippi, from New Mexico instruments I can tune in a day. When the , to Alaska, to record the beauty and Victoria Fox, affirmative action direc­ you stop and think that there are 200 strangeness of Indian life, fast dis­ tor at EMU, has had an article titled strings on each instrument, I can appearing. "Student Employment and AffirmativeWork physically do only three or four a day." The vigorous work of 30 years, adviser andAction" the includedCollege Studein a booknt, titled Hildinger mentioned what is probably undertaken before the advent of the published in a little-known fact to the campm, in automobile, through flood and storm, 1975 by Southern Illinois University general - that there are 13 pianos in a heartbreak and frustration, resulted in 20 Press. classroom on the seventh floor of Departmental Tutoring - Spring Session volumes of text and 2,500 images, as well Department Head Samuel Karson and Pray-Harrold. However, they are not the Various departments are offering as recordings of over 10,000 songs. Of Associate Professor Jerry O'Dell of the usual run-of-the-mill pianos - they are tutoring during the Spring Session. ,.this large number of photographs, a PsychologyA Guide Department to the Clinical recently Use ofpub­ the Baldwin Electropianos which have key­ Students should contact individual de­ smaller number have been selected for 16lishedPF. boards and strings but no sounding partments between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. display in Mark Jefferson building. Published by the Institute for boards. Monday through Friday. TI1e artistic quality of his pictures is Personality and Ability Testing, the guide "These are played electronically and LRC Services and Schedule - Spring superb; compositionally, they have a is designed to be used as an introduction each student hears his own work through Session classic purity and strength which seems to the "16 Personality Factor Question­ the headset which he wears. The sound is The Learning Resource Center, 1068 ageless. All were taken on glass plates. naire" for those unfamiliar with the test slightly more like an electric guitar than a Library, offers tutoring in English and The luminous "gold-tone" or "Curt-tone" and as a supplement to the existing piano. Since the pianos have no wooden Speech 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through was achieved by tinting the reverse side of technical Handbook and Manual for those sounding boards, they are not affected by Thursday. Tutoring is available in other t the glass negative with a gold finish. already using the test in individual humidity but the strings are under subject areas from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., The most striking aspect of the exhibit assessment. Drs. Karson and O'Dell utilize tension so they all do require tuning. Monday through Thursday. is the immediacy of the portraits. One their many combined years of clinical "In all, I take care of about 100 Tutoring is free of charge. For studies these faces, turning away finally experience with the test to explain the instruments, including three harpsichords. additional information, contact the with a feeling of recognition, of deep ideas and technical development behind it One big headache is the two floors of Academic Services Center,*** 487-2170. sympathy with these companions in the using simple, straightforward language practice pianos in the King Building. Just human struggle. and the case-study method. keeping up mechanically there is a big job New Student Advising for Fall, 1976 An article by Marshall Tyron, assistant as those instruments really do take a Staff from the Academic Services i. EmergencyCampus? on professor of English, appears in a recent beating. Someone is practicing, the room Center will begin advising groups of new issue of "Extrapolation.'' The article is gets too warm so he throws open a students at the end of June for the fall titled "A Checklist of American Critical window. Now the piano gets chilled and semester. Information on courses and Works on Science Fiction: 1972 - 1973." probably stays damp and cold until a changed curricula should be forwarded to [CALL= 1 ·2·3] He also had reviews of four books on janitor comes in and closes the window, Ben Weiss of the Academic Services science fiction in "Choice." when the heat can start to build up again. Center. 3 Events of the We ek

May 17 - 30 Tuesday, May 18 MEETING - TI1c Women's Commission will meet at 2 p.m. in the Reception Room, McKenny Union. Wednesday, May 19 WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY - Goodies will be given away around noon on the Mall. Sponsored by :he Office of Student Life. YIEETING - The Board of Regents will hold its regular monthly meeting at l:15 p.m. in the Regents Room, McKenny Union. l BASEBALL - The Hurons will play a doubleheader against Michigan at p.m. at Fischer Stadium in Ann Arbor. FILM - MUD Cinema will show "Slaughterhouse Five" at 7 and 9 p.m. in Strong Auditorium. Admission is $1. Thursday, May 20 GOLF - The Hurons will participate in the MAC Championships at Miami, which continue through .\1ay 22 in Oxford, Ohio. �EN'S TENNIS - EMU will participate in the MAC Championships at Miami through May 22 in Oxford, Ohio. v!EN'S TRACK - The Hurons will compete in the MAC Championships at Miami through May 22 in Oxford, Ohio. FILM - MUD Cinema will show "Slaughterhouse Five" at 7 and 9 p.m. in the Strong Auditorium. Admission is $1. Sunday, May 23 TRIP - The Office of Student Life is sponsoring a trip to the Greek Ethnic Festival on Detroit's riverfront. Bus leaves McKenny Union at 11 a.m. Cost is $2. BASEBALL - The Hurons will play a doubleheader at Southern lllinois at l p.m. in Carbondale, m. Tuesday, May 25 MEN'S TENNIS - The Hurons will compete in the NCAA Championships through May 26 in Corpus Christi, Tex. Wednesday, May 26 WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY - Goodies will be given away around noon on the Mall. Sponsored by the Office of Student Life. Photo bv Dick Schwarze FILM - MUD Cinema will show "Metropolis" at 7 and 9 p.m. in Strong Auditorium. Admission is $1. This photograph of a weathered fe nce was taken with a 55mm Micro:Nikkor lens on a Thursday, May 27 Nikon F-2, Tri-X film, 1/1000 second at fl l. FILM - MUD Cinema will show "Metropolis" at 7 and 9 p.m. in Strong Auditorium. Admission is $1. Friday, May 28 Multi1aceted Steffek To Retire THEATRE - The 1976 Bicentennial Spring Repertory Theatre Festival Company will present the Presidential Premiere of "The Philadelphia Story" at 8 p.m. in Quirk Auditorium. General admission is $3, EMU students, $2.50. ( Continued from page I) of State and · Federal Program Specialists. �N'S TRACK - The Hurons will participate in the Central Collegiate Championships at Western by the EMU Management Department, He now serves as secretary for the. Y1.ichigan through May 29 at the Kanley Track in Kalamazoo. the seminar will deal with more specific 450-member organization. Saturday, May 29 management problems and concerns. Dr. Steffek also belongs to a 21- THEATRE - The 1976 EMU Bicentennial Spring Repertory Theatre Festival Company will present Dr. Steffek designed another program the premiere of "Summer and Smoke" at 8 p.m. in Quirk Auditorium. The play director will be member Superintendents' Liaison Com- Broadway director-in-residence Marshall Mason. General admission is $3, EMU students, $2.50. to help meet the specific educational mittee which is composed of one needs of gifted children in a nearby representative from each congressional Openings schooi district. Another workshop was set district in the state. The group meets up to help curb the growing incidence of regularly with the administrative assistant cigarette smoking in youngsters. A to the congressman and attempts to "get As of May 17, 1976, the Personnel Office begins Aug. 28, 1976. Department of Music. workshop on braille was organized to lead announces the following vacancies: al:quainted with his or her professional CS-5 - $7 ,883 - 11,034 - Senior Secretary - to certification of several teachers of staff." Visiting Lecturers: Available for Summer 1976 Placement Center. Final day for acceptance blind students in West Virginia. "It's this kind of personal relationship· Session and 1976-77 academic year. Salary of application for the above position is May Dr. Steffek was a pioneer in helping with congressional offices that is an dependent on qualifications and experience. 21, 1976. his fellow educators become better Guidance and Counseling Department. appropriate means for educators to meet AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE acquainted with the educational legisla- with people who are instrumental in Part-time law instructor: 1976 Summer Session. ACTION EMPLOYER tion that affects them. In 1968, he helped appropriating monies that make our Salary dependent upon qualifications and organize the Michigan State Association programs work... If you're going to get experience. Department of Administrative your share of the tax dollar, you've got to Services and Business Education. Surplus Vehicles To Be Sold go tell your story." Temporary part-time lecturer: Fall Term 1976. Dr. Steffek says he was inspired and Salary dependent upon qualifications and Eastern Michigan University announces the following vehicleswill as surplus. They will be highly-motivated as a student at the1 experience. Department of Political Science. sold to the public by "Sealed Bid" only. Minimum bids be listed next to vehicle. now-defunct Roosevelt School, which reaching Positions: June 21 through Aug. 7, Sales tax will be paid to the Secretary of State. Only verified checks or cash accepted. used to operate as a laboratory for 1976. To teach the following: Algebra I, teachers on the EMU campus. The school, Science and Chemistry I and a Health Class. Quantity Vehicle No. Description Minimum Bid he says, offered a "John Dewey-based Project Upward Bound. Salary $497 /class. I 30 1961 International Bus $ 800.00 education," adding that "the interests of Residence Hall Supervisor: June 21 through 1 40 1970 Twin Coach Bus 4000.00 the individual were made central to the Aug. 7, 1976. Salary, $994 plus room and 1 88 1969 Ford Van 500.00 educational experience." board (six weeks). Project Upward Bound. 1 100 1971 Ford Custom 400.00 "The dynamics are there in children," 1 102 1969 Chevy Biscayne 200.00 he says. "The dynamics should be Teaching Position: Salary and rank dependent 1969 Chevy Biscayne 200.00 upon qualifications and experience. To teach 1 105 encouraged,_ reinforced and abetted., Music Therapy - Class Piano. Appointment 1 109 1971 Ford Custom 450.00 Then, you simply get out of the way. 1 114 1971 Ford Custom 400.00 "(Educators) should recognize that Reference Books I 115 1972 Olds Delta 88 1300.00 children are individuals; that they are 1 1972 Globe Star 35' Trailer 3300.00 unique beings. You should recognize their {Continued from page 2) (Mobile Class Room) uniquenessAll and respect it." Publishers. New York. 1974. Ref. R 110 1974 Mercury Montego 700.00 human beings, Dr. Steffek says, 697.H4 TS {Police Car) tend to respond to the expectation of U. S. Bureau of HealthMinorities Resources and 112 1974 Mercury Montego 700.00 other people. That, he says, is one of the womenDevelopment. in the health fi elds. {PoliceCar) single most outstanding forces in the Appli­ 92 1968 Ford Vanette 350.00 classroom. "If the teacher thinks the class .. cants, students and workers. 1974. is a dumb group, the class becomes Ref. R 693.U54 1974 Agricul­ These vehicles may be seen at Eastern Michigan University Warehouse, 1215 Huron indifferent. U.S. Departmenttural statistics, of Agriculture.1975. River Drive, Ypsilanti, Michigan. 487-4197. All bids must be mailed to the attention of "The teacher shouldn't give the Government Mr. John Langer, Released Property Manager. 'standard pabulum' to everybody," he Printing Office. Washington, 1975. All Envelopes must be marked "SEALED BID" and must be received on or before says. "He should give (the class) a diet Ref. S 21.A83x May 24, 1976, at 2 p.m. Bids will be opened at 2:30 p.m. on May 24, 1976. suited to each individual." wemu . ��o� fm program guide

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*HISTORY IN THE NEWS, WITH HISTORY PROFESSOR TED HEFLEY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: If the HURON BASEBALL TEAM qualifiesfor the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Mid-East Baseball Tournament and the College World Series of Baseball, WEMU will carry all the games in their entirety. Stay tuned to WEMU for further details.

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