F R O S T B U R G S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y StateLineswww.frostburg.edu/admin/foundation/news.htm For and about FSU people A publication of the FSU Office of Advancement Volume 32, Number 19, February 4, 2002 Copy deadline: noon Wednesday, 228 Hitchins or [email protected] Cal Ripken Baseball Camp Heading to FSU This Summer Ripken Baseball is pleased to announce Lunch is provided for day campers. athletes. Given the veneration that the plans to come to the FSU campus as part Breakfast, lunch, dinner and nightly name Ripken generates in fans every- of its 2002 Ripken Baseball Camps Tour. recreational activities are provided for where, old and young, this camp is The camp will be in two sessions: July 21 overnight campers. certain to attract many talented young to 26, and July 28 to Aug. 2. The curriculum of Ripken Baseball has players from the region and beyond. We Each session of the five-day camp can been passed down directly from Cal are proud of the University’s physical accommodate up to 160 campers between Ripken Sr., who played, coached and facilities and the natural beauty of our the ages of 9 and 18. Both overnight and managed in the Baltimore Orioles location and look forward to sharing day campers are welcome. The baseball organization for 37 years. When Ripken them with the Ripken camp,” said FSU portion of the camp will run from 8:30 Sr. passed away in the spring of 1999, President Dr. Catherine R. Gira. a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. The schedule will Cal Ripken Jr. and Bill Ripken decided to The tour will also be visiting Moses consist of warm-ups, practice drills and continue the programs to carry on their Lake, Wash., and Lenexa, Kan., this stations, as well as instructional games. father’s legacy of baseball instruction. summer. All campers will receive a full uniform, “Frostburg State University is honored For more information, visit including home and away jerseys, a team to have been chosen as the site for this www.ripkenbaseball.com or call 1- 800- photo and a Ripken Baseball diploma. outstanding summer camp for young 486-0850. Cultural Events Series and for dinner-theatre menu selections and reservation purchases, contact the to Present ‘Big River’ CES Box Office Monday through Friday The award-winning musical, “Big from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at x3137 or toll- River: the Adventures of Huckleberry free at 1-(866) TIXX CES. Order requests Finn,” will be presented at FSU’s Per- can also be faxed to x7049 or e-mailed forming Arts Center in the Drama to [email protected]. Based on Theater on Monday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m. availability, tickets may also be pur- Based on Mark Twain’s literary classic, chased at the PAC Box Office one hour “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” prior to the performance. the show sweeps the audience down the mighty Mississippi as the irrepressible Music Huck and his friend, Jim, a runaway Music slave, escape to freedom. Their hilarious, suspenseful and heartwarming adven- Simple Gifts to Perform tures feature a motley crew of unforget- table characters ranging from the Live! at the Loft Feb. 8 virtuous to the villainous. Two women plus 12 instruments Time Magazine describes “Big River” equals one good time when Simple Gifts as “a classic American musical with the takes the stage at the Lane University most fetching score of the decade,” Center Loft at FSU Friday, Feb. 8, Simple Gifts: Linda composed by country songwriter Roger beginning at 8:15 p.m. At 7 p.m., prior Littleton and Karen Hirshon Miller. Miller skillfully interweaves the to the concert, the duo will also offer a distinctly American musical styles of rhythm workshop. Combining tradition with innovation, country, blues, gospel and jazz into Presented by Live! at the Loft, Center Simple Gifts creates some of the finest America’s favorite form of entertain- Stage and the FSU Department of arrangements in folk music today: swing ment, the Broadway musical. The result Student and Community Involvement, fiddle creeps into a Romanian dance, is a celebration of the American spirit. Simple Gifts draws on an impressive spoons show up in an Irish reel, and the “Big River” was the big winner of the variety of ethnic folk styles. This award- concertina ventures far beyond styles 1985 Tony awards, with a clean sweep of winning duo plays everything from considered traditional for that instru- seven awards, including “Best Musical.” lively Irish jigs and down-home Ameri- ment. Based in the hills of central Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for can reels to hard-driving Klezmer Pennsylvania, these women play an Under 17. Discounts are available for frailachs and haunting Gypsy melodies, amazing array of instruments. Linda FSU staff and students. spicing the mix with the distinctive Littleton and Karen Hirshon switch with Dinner theatre specials are available rhythms of Balkan dance music, the lush ease among two fiddles, concertina, prior to the performance at partner sounds of Scandinavian twin fiddling, mandolin, banjolin, recorders, bowed restaurants. and original compositions written in a psaltery, hammered dulcimer, baritone For information and ticket purchases, traditional style. fiddle, guitar, piano and percussion. Inside: Music ................................ 1-2 Film................................... 2-3 Internships ............................ 4 Theatre ................................ 2 Take Note ............................ 3 Jobs, Jobs, Jobs .................... 5 Art ....................................... 2 Points of Pride ................... 3-4 Calendar .............................. 6 StateLines / 2 Simple Gifts is frequently be memorized. works on a miniature scale with hand complimented on its stage presence, The production is looking to cast a embroidery, glass seed beads and acrylic which is warm, personal and accented diverse group of energetic women for paint on linen to create highly detailed, with humor. These women deliver their benefit performances on March 5 and 6. elegant abstractions of nature. She uses music with rare intensity and contagious Proceeds from the shows will go to Dove these materials to manipulate the enthusiasm. Center of Garrett County, Family Crisis surface texture and create multiple Before their concert at 7 p.m., the Resource Center (FCRC) of Cumberland, layering, luminescence and meditative performers will conduct an hour-long and The Revolutionary Association of repetition. Educated at a variety of rhythm workshop, “Learn to Play in 7/8 the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). crafts and art schools, she has published Meter.” Simple Gifts will first show Scripts can be checked out at the numerous articles in art journals. Her participants how to count and feel a 7/8 Theatre Office, 3rd floor, PAC, for 24-hour works have been exhibited throughout rhythm and then will teach the Bulgar- periods beginning Jan. 30. Maryland and as far west as Nebraska, ian tune “Minka.” Bring your instru- Call Nicole Mattis (x3212), Division of and a collection can be seen at the ments, or if you don’t have an instru- Performing Arts, Theatre, or e-mail her Renwick Gallery of the National Museum ment or don’t know how to play, come at [email protected] with any of American Art in Washington. anyway; the artists will teach you. questions. Dowell, a resident of Woodsboro, Md., Simple Gifts is partially supported by The Vagina Monologues is brought to creates large-scale paintings in oil and a grant from Pennsylvania Performing FSU courtesy of the V-DAY College pastel after years of working as an Arts on Tour, a program developed and Campaign. V-DAY is an organization installation sculptor. She uses the funded by the Vira I. Heinz Endowment; working to end violence against women human image to address social issues the William Penn Foundation; the and girls. Further information about V- such as mental illness, gender bending Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a DAY can be found at www.vday.org. This and human potential. An art education stage agency; and The Pew Charitable production is sponsored by Women’s graduate of Frostburg State, she earned Trust; and administered by Mid Atlantic Studies as part of Women’s History an M.F.A. in sculpture and Ph.D. in Arts Foundation. Month. curriculum and instruction from the For more information about any University of Maryland. Her works have Center Stage or Department of Student frequently been exhibited in Maryland, and Community Involvement activities, Art Pennsylvania and Virginia. call the FSU Information Desk at x4411. For more information, call the FSU Department of Visual Arts at x4797. Theatre Film Season Too! to Present ‘The Fantastiks’ Africana Film Series Set FSU Theatre Season Too! will present for Spring Semester the musical favorite “The Fantastiks” on The African American Studies Program Friday, Feb. 22 and Saturday, Feb. 23, at is sponsoring an Africana Film Series for 8 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center’s spring 2002. The series will feature four Drama Theatre. contemporary films on Africana history The world’s most frequently produced and culture, with one scheduled per musical, “The Fantastiks” is also the From left, Karen Birch, Andrea month from February to May. The first longest running show in American Burchette and Margaret Dowell to be presented is “Mama Flora’s Family” theatre, with a debut date of May 3, on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. in the 1960 and closed recently in New York on Burchette, Birch and Lane Center Atkinson Room, room 201. January 13. This simple work speaks of Based on the epic story by “Roots” the pain of growing up and does so with Dowell Featured at Roper author Alex Haley, this star-powered exquisite craftsmanship that is as full of A variety of artwork by Andrea miniseries is the sweeping chronicle of theatrical magic as any show in Ameri- Burchette, Karen Birch and Margaret an African American family’s unforget- can musical theatre.