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11-20-1959 The oD wner Dial, Number 3, November 20, 1959 Milwaukee-Downer College

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RAC To Visit Jazz Santa's Workshop to Open Tomorrow Zen Buddhists Afternoon Tomorrow arternoon at two ~·clock Santa's Workshop will A Zen Buddhist Church is swing open its doors as an­ the destination of Religious ~ther annual edition of Activities Committee's 1959 M.D.C.'s Christmas Bazaar un­ field trip to be held Sunday, folds in the gym.~ After the November 22. A special Zen first snow everyone starts Buddhist service will be held thinking about Christmas, and at 2:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon Bazaar is the best place to for the visiting Downerites. get presents for everyone you Upon returning to Milwaukee, know. the group has been invited by There are lots of new Sandy Montgomery to a pot-luck things this year to interest supper and informal discussion even the few to whom this is at her home located at 2918 just another Downer bazaar. North Summit Avenue. Ahmad Jamal The crafts booth will offer beautiful crocheted rugs. The In response to the inquiry Attention jazz fansl Social Committee is sponsoring a con­ candy booth features homebaked by Religious Activities Com­ pastries with a real "old mittee as to the possibilities cert featuring Ahmad Jamal on Friday, February 12, at 8:15 country" flavor, and the apron of arranging an interesting booth has cute children's and informative visit to the in Merrill auditorium. Ahmad is, to quote, John Tracy, edi­ aprons for your litt le sister, Zen Buddhist Church, Rev. s. The Freshmen will be inter­ Matsuoka said, "I will have a tor of Downbeat magazine, one f Chicago's most celebrated ested to know that the needle­ special service for you and work booth sells knitted your students on November 22 and talented pianists. He is a sincere and industrious things in class colors. at 2:00 p.m. This service Another new feature this year will be held for the purpose young man, wise and mature for his twenty-six years." is the playroom, which is of studying Japanese Buddhism. another way of saying that the I hope that you will find it President's Dining Room will to be worthwhile." Jamal first achieved suc­ cess at the Blue Note in 1950. be converted into a nursery where mothers can leave their The trip to the Zen Budd­ Keeping Chicago as his home base, he has played in New children to be cared for while hist Church will mark the they go to the bazaar upstaira third annual trip sponsored by ork, Pittsburgh, and St. Religious Activities Committea Louis. The co-chairmen of Bazaar Two years ago Downer students this year are Judy Davis and visited the Bahai Temple in His artistry, talent, and Judy Kuenstler. Willie Baldwin Wilmette, Illinois. Last year creative abilities have been is in charge of financial a visit was made to the Con­ hrilled to and broadly pro­ affairs, and Mrs. Baehr vent of Saint Francis of Assi­ laimed by music lovers. The advises the whole workshop. se located in Milwaukee. An mad Jamal Trio was the big­ Santa's Workshop is full of inquiry into Zen Buddhism was gest selling jazz group on surprises this year because of felt to be timely this year records in 1958. A few of his the following chairmen:Aprons­ because of the popularity giv­ L.P.'s are "Portfolio of Ah­ Linette Schoder, Marilyn mand Jamal," "Chamber Music of t~n certain aspects of it by Austerman; Crafts - Mary Ellen the "Beat Generation•. he New Jazz," "Count 'em 88," Swanty, Nancy Holmes; Needle­ and "But Not for Me". Ahmad's work Malle Vaarsi, Mary The Zen Buddhist Church is wit and imagination are in Schipper; Candy June located at 1)16 North Clark constant play, which is shown Goldschmid; Flowers - Eleanor Street, Chicago 10, Illinois. in his unique improvisational talent. Jamal is a true orig­ Yamashita; Toys - Helen Bystol; Transportation will be provi­ Lynne Sprague, Bonnie Maas; ded for those interested in inal, one of a handful pro­ duced by American jazz. Jewelry Barbara Brandt; attending. Cars will be leav­ Books - Carolyn King; Station­ ing the Horseshoe Drive in Special note: Albert will ery - Ann Mary Murray; White front of Holton Hall promptly be open to outside guests for Elephant Barbara Diffay; Playroom Sue Eppler; Tea at 11:)0 a.m. Brunch will be this gala weeken~. Be sure to served at 11:00 to dorm stu­ underline this date on your Room Loretta Hahn, Connie dents. calendar. Meek; Donations Holly Con•t Page 4 Page 2 '!'he Downer Dial November 20, 1959

Mead of the Matter In a few short days we will all be taking a "brea~ to cel­ ebrate Thanksgiving. It is Zen Buddhism trite, perhaps, to stress the Thanksgiving is a good "meaning" of such a holiday in 5melline day--it's the best ~ile not altogether naive, a publication of this kind, kind of a day for smelling! I still retained some weak but perhaps a good look at hopes of expressing the sense ourselves and our culture I wake up on Thanksgiving of Zen in a compa~t way in would not be unseemly. ~orning and (as soon as I re­ this article, until I came alize that it is Thanksgiving across this statement by The super-organized w·orld morning) I try to smell Than~ Alan Watts in "The Spirit in which we live is becoming giving in the air--but I carlt. of Zen". more grotesquely inhuman every Thanksgiving does not smell year. Nothing in it is to eG rly in the morning! I get "Anyone who attempts to human scale - our schools, our up and I smell an ordinary write about Zen has to en­ public buildings, our large Sunday morning type smell, counter unusual difficulties; industrial cities, our govern­ even though it's Thursday. he can never explain, he can mental agencies and political only indicate; he can only go organizations. At the same I put on my patent leather on setting problems and giving time, the split between the smelling clothes and go out­ hints which at best can bring world of action and the world !>ide, an"d then I smell '!'hanks­ the reader tantalizingly near­ of thought, and the crushing giving! I have smelled this er to the truth, but the mo­ of imagination by mass media Eame spirit of Thanksgiving ment he attempts any fixed are making us accept the gulf pther times in the year, but definition the thing slips between our public and private 9n Thanksgiving Day it smells away". lives with a minimum of moral the most, On Thanksgiving Day nausea. We begin to feel that ~t•s a clear, cold, sunny Zen appeals to the facts of public morality has nothing to smell, having a lot to do with personal experience, not to "do with our private lives and, the sky. I can't smell a book knowledge. At a cer~ain that private morality is use­ ~hole lot because my nose point the individual may, by less before public events. We freezes--that's part of it. looking into his own mind, begin to be guilty of a crime have a sudden intuition of the which is doubly terrible, I go back inside, and now inexpressible principle under­ because it is not intentional the house is smelling like lying the universe (enlighten­ and can never be proved - in­ Thanksgiving, EXPECIALLY IN ment). difference sanctioned by habit fHE KITCHEN! I stick my nose ln the Oven and a gush of hot In accordance with this do~ Still, I cannot help won­ air steams my glasses and trine the monasteries of Zen dering about complaints of fills my lungs and heart with monks offered no didactic in­ helplessness before a world so ironderfulness. Mom says I struction but sought to awak­ cruel it gives us no chance to nave to shut the oven, so then en in their pupils, by means prove our virtues. Pleading ( peep in a pot on the stove. of riddles and derision, the lack of issues and helpless­ OGGI The giblets for the gra­ awareness that the real is ir­ ness is perhaps the safest yeyl (And they look about as rational and can be found in excuse there is to avoid actu­ oad as they smell.) I smell simple experience. ~lly being put to test. I the casserole of creamed on­ When a monk asked master can't bring myself to believe lens, but it smells like Chao-Chou, " tflha~ is the Tao that there is a large element creamed onions always smell. (the way)?" he replied, "Usu­ of our population that has a I don't like creamed onions. al life is the very Tao." The full blossom of virtue hidden aut the pumpkin pie smell Con' t Page 4• in its heart withering away ~akes up for it, and Mom has for lack of opportunities to me put evergreen sprig~s a­ display itself. It is true round it, and the cedar woodsy that our public actions are smell with the pie smell is limited today, but using this the best smell ever! Our cou­ as the reason for inaction sins arrive and I hug their implies that given the chance coats because they are filled one would take up causes and with the exciting outdoor fight for them. smell I mentioned before. Is our problem lack of The kitchen gets smelling issues? Lack of opportunitie~ better, and better, and bet~ ter until it smells the best Soren Kierkegaard once ad­ it can, and then we eat up all vised all who feel life is the smells! It's kind of sad getting dull to try to go when they are all gone--but through one day as perfect the next morning at breakfast Christians and see if their they come back, with the tur­ boredom diminishes. key slices and cranberry sauce. Judy.King 1 6} U\e Editor I November 20, i959 The Downer Dial Page J I Work Camps "December Violets" Chosen Interpreted The weekend work camp pro­ gram was started in Philadel­ Theme For Junior Prom phia about ten years ago by the Quakers. It was based on the Quaker belief that there is "that of God" in e~ery in­ dividual, and that every per­ On Saturday evening, Decem­ son has a tremendous potential ber 5, Downerites will be at­ which can be uncovered and a~­ tending an extra-special eved, tivated by the appeal of love ---Junior Prom, 1959. "Decem­ and good will. ber Violets" has been chosen the theme for this annual ex­ The American Friends Ser­ travaganza. Much speculation vice Committee, a group of has resulted from the choice Quakers and like minded people of this theme, since it is of all religions, races, and really a combination of three nationali~ies, and Neighbor­ ideas--December, Christmas, hood House, a Milwaukee Commu­ and violets. The Jewish Com­ nity Center, originated the munity Center will be the site weekend work camps in Milwau­ of the prom, which will be kee a number of years ago. held from 8:00 to 12:00 p.m. The program has since been ta­ Johnny Walters' Orchestra, an kin over by the Milwaukee excellent, local five-piece Weekend Work Camp Committee, group will play. which is an autonomous group made up of interested ind~vid­ A lovely sextet will repre­ uals, but which works closely sent the purple class as their with AFSC and other religious court. They are: Sheri Bie­ and college groups. gelaar, Jan Braatz, Ann Dyer, Studio Club Holly Habhegger , Carol Neibel 1 The headquarters for this and Nancy Van Schelven. Co­ year's work camps is St. James chairmen of the event are Kay Methodist Church, which is lo­ This year, in an attempt to Dobson and Joan Tomarkin. The create more interest in art on price per couple is $4.00. In cated at the eastern end of 4 our project area, one of the campus, S udio Club is renew­ Holton, pay Ann Dyer; City oldest and most neglected sec­ ing one of its activities, students--Ann Kuetemeyer; Mc­ tions of the city. the Marjorie Logan Picture Laren--Joan Tomarkin. Library. Started in 1959, the rental service grew from an Each work camp lasts from from Antioch College Record Friday night dinner through initial gift of Lucia R. Briggs upon her retirement as Sunday morning church. Camp­ October 9, 1959 ers prepare the evening meal president of the college. She with the aid of the directors. designated that it should be Fat girls have a better Later an orientation session established in honor of chance of getting married than is held in which the directors Marjorie S. Logan, director of skinny girls, a British physi­ try to interpret the special the Art department for thirty cian reported recently, problems of the people living years. The Studio Club helped in the area. set up the collection, which Dr. R. W. Parnell, Oxford includes color reproductions~ University researcher, put the On Saturday the campers new and old masters, and some fat girl's odds at J-2 over work in groups of two and original paintings by members the lean willowy type. three with families who have of the art faculty, been previously selected be­ According to the results of cause of need and interest. For the purpose of inven­ his study, the fat, fairly The campers help to improve tory, Studio Club is request­ muscular and short girl rates the physical environment of ing that all pictures now in a 90 per cent chance for mar­ the home by painting, wall pa­ circulation be turned in at riage. pering, plastering, etc. and, the end of this semester, by perhaps even more importantL January 8th. Members of the A very tall thin girl with establish a rapport between club will then ciean and re­ little muscle stands only a 60 members of different racial pair the prints and put them per cent chance, Parnell re­ and economic groups. on display at the b eginning ported. of the second ~emester, when Evaluation on Saturday eve­ students and faculty mP.mbers ning can be one of the most may select the prints of their Editor ....•...••••• Jan Schmidt meaningful periods of the choice, They will be rented Assistant Editor , •••• Jane Hoar whole weekend. During this for fifty cents a semester ¥.anA~ing Editor .•• Sue Fletcher session, participants express and must be turned in at the Beadline Editor,. , Diana DeVita their own reactions to the end of the year . The pictures Art Editor ••••• ••... Judy Smith day's work and its value. may also be purchased at cost. Business Manage r •.•• Ba rb Sharp I Page 4 The Downer Dial November 20, 1959. Mead of the Matter FOLK FAIR Con't from Page 2 Santa's Workshop monk asked again, "How can we be in accord with it?" Chao­ SPOTLIGHTED Chou answered, "If you try to Con't from Paee 1 So your plans were unex­ accord with it, you will get pectedly changed at the last away from it." ~oment and you didn't get to Hab~egger; Publicity - Sue Fletcher; Art Coordinator - see the Brussels World's Fair Bakuju (Mu-Chou),,who lived Judy Smith; Decoration - Corki after all? Well, don't feel in the latter part of the Parmentier; Entertainment - badly, for the Holiday Folk ninth century, was once asked, Ann Dyer. Fair at the Milwaukee Audi­ "W~ have to dress and eat torium and Arena tomorrow and every day, and how can we es­ Santa's Workshop will have Sunday will bring you up to cape frGm all that?" Th~ mas­ three of its members, Lynne date on the various cultures ter replied, "We dress, we Sprague, Bonnie Maas, and Mary in the world. eat." "I do not understand Ellen Swanty, featured on you," said the questioner. "If Thirty-five nationality Beulah Donahue's Chanel 4 te~ you don't understand, put your vision show this afternoon at groups will be exhibitin~ dress on and eat your food," 2:00. Lynne will show how she their customs through their came his reply. is making puppet mittens and arts ann crafts, foods, and Bonnie will show some very dances. An example of a koan or active monkeys, both of these riddle which clearly shows being for the toy booth. Mary There will be exhibit halls limitations of logical thought where you will see demonstra­ Ellen will demonstrate the d~ is the illustration of Wutsu, oration and filling of whiskey tions of Norwegian rosmaling, "A cow passes through a window bottles with bath salts for and Chinese and Japanese Its head, horns, and the four the crafts booth. Miss Donahue origami, the ancient oriental legs pass over easily, but was particularly receptive to art of folding paper into cup~ only the tail cannot pass the publicizing of Bazaar on swans, pinwheels, and other through. Why can't it?" her show as she is a Downer forms. You will also see the alumna. weaving of an oriental rug and ~uzuki gives the following the making of silver and amber instruction for the use of the jewelry by the Latvians. Also new this year and gua~ koan, "Now devote yourselves anteed to be a wonderful addi­ to this koan and ~ry to find tion is Reader's Theater, "For Imports will be for sale at its meanin~ Devote yourselves the Love of Music", given by the World Market. Here you to it day and night, whether Joanne Madsen. This will be might want to pick up an sitting or lying, whether wa~ held in the Auditorium at ):15 Arabian inlaid jewel box or a ing or standing; devote your­ and will cost thirty-fivw Mexican serape for someone on selves to its solution during cents. your Christmas list. the entire course of the twelve periods. Even when For those with the peren­ For your entertainment, dressing or taking meals, or nial problem of many gifts to there will be floor shows, attending to your natural buy and little money availabl~ three on Saturday and four on wants, have your every thought there will be a credit booth Sunday, giving you the oppor­ fixed on the koan. Make res­ run by Carolyn Meci where stu­ tunity to see a Spanis~ olute efforts to keep it al­ dents may borrow up to ten flamenco dance, an Austrian ways before your mind. Days dollars. The loan must be zaelenthaler laendler folk pass, years roll on, but in paid back within the following dance, the Russian Kavkaz the fulness of time when your week. dancers interpreting the plan~ mind is so attuned and recol­ ing of the early crops, or the lected there will be a sudden This year the proceeds will Polish commemoration of the awakening within yourselves ••• again go to the Adolescent expulsion of the Tartars from an awakening into the mentali­ Girl's Home of the Wisconsin Krakow in the thirteenth cen­ ty of the Buddha and the pa­ Child Center, Sparta, Wiscon­ tury. triarchs. You will then, for sin. The project started last the first time, and whenever year of fixing up a recreation Those of you who are four­ you may go, never again be be­ room for the girls was not c~ mets will certainly want to guiled by a Zen master." pleted. Therefore, we'd like stop at the International Ann Mead •61 to complete the project with Sidewalk Caf~ to sample the this year's proceeds. This is fifty complete foreign meals The theme of this year's an institution which is not and the more than one hundred fair, the sixteenth annual, is cared for by a public charity, foreign pastries. There will a salute to the St. Lawrence and so Bazaar is glad to con­ be Czechoslovakian trena Seaway, and all the groups tribute to so worthy a cause. babovka, Austrian apfelstrudei will somehow employ the lore Hungarian linzer, and Norwe~ and lure of the sea, which was And, last of all, let's not gian fatteman bakels (poor instrumental in their coming forget dear old Santa himself, man's cookies). Or perhaps to the New World. jolly and cheery as ever, all you'd like to try the Armenian set to meet the kids who come ~· which is meat and rice The Fair is open from to visit his Workshop tomorrow rolled in grape leaves, or the 11 A.M. to 10 P.M. both Sat­ Anyone want to guess who he Russian peroshki, a roll urday and Sunday. is? Sue Fletcher 1 62 stuffed with meat. Toni Marone •60