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COMING ATTRACTION RICHARD SAMROV, FASHION BUYING AND MERCHANDISING ’63 Richard Samrov, executive director of the Glove Performing Arts Center in Gloversville, NY, talks about the theater’s past and future. This was quite a theater in its time. It was originally a vaudeville and movie theater, and stars flocked here. Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert came for the premiere for he was in The Beverly Hillbillies, Buddy Ebsen brought five vaudeville acts. Cynthia Nickloy,
Old Elegance, oil, 11 by 14 inches.
paints still lifes, landscapes, and commissioned portraits in oil. She loves Grand Central Terminal as a subject, because the dramatic lighting reminds her of the Old Masters. Her work is frequently on view at galleries in New York State, New Jersey, Connecticut, and South Carolina. PATT LACHKY BALDINO, ADVERTISING DESIGN,
one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz, came to introduce the movie when it played. George Burns, Tony Randall, Jack Lemmon, Zippy the Chimp...the list goes on. The Glove opened on October 9, 1914. It was one of 160 theaters owned by the Schine brothers. It was their headquarters, the jewel Samrov shows off a vintage projector at the Glove Theater. in their crown. My grandfather had given them their first lease, on another theater in Gloversville, and worked for them as a projec-
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tionist and booking agent his whole life. He died in 1965, the year they sold their theaters. SIBYLLE-MARIA PFAFFENBICHLER, PRODUCT DESIGN: TEXTILES, is
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Philadelphia-based artist who loves creating the illusion of movement in her drawings and paintings. Her charcoal drawings of boogie-woogie dancers have shown in Vienna. She also uses the backs of Charcoal Lines 1, long sheets of wallpaper as charcoal and pastel on paper, 30 by 22 inches. a canvas to paint a dancer’s gradual movements, frame by frame. “I so enjoy watching people dance,” she says. “Maybe it’s because I’m too shy to dance myself.”
1985 KAREN GLOEGGLER, FASHION
The Glove suffered because of television in the late ’60s, and it closed in 1976. When a committee of concerned citizens reopened the building in the mid-’90s, there was a 16-foot hole in the ceiling, and a piano was floating in water that came up to the stage. Animals were swimming around, and mushrooms were growing out of the seats. Gloversville used to be a performing arts hub, with four theaters, and this was all that remained. I was so saddened, I left and didn’t want to come back. But I had fond memories of the Glove—I was an usher for ten years; it was a connection to my grandfather—so I came back to volunteer. In 2009, when I suggested going to an all-volunteer staff to save money for the restoration, the board made me executive director. I feel I’m carrying on the legacy of my grandfather and the Schines. We need between two and three million dollars to complete the restoration. We installed an energy-efficient heating system, we’re working on the marquee, and we’re hoping to put in new permanent seats. We bring in monthly productions—this year we’ll have had Next to Normal, Avenue Q, and Gypsy—but ticket sales only keep the productions coming in. We raise money from the community, and get matching donations from Renee Schine Crown, daughter of J. Myer Schine. We know we can make a successful theater in this depressed area. We just keep plugging away, waiting for the big donations to come in.
BUYING AND MERCHANDISING,
is senior technical designer for ladies’ swimwear at Sears/Kmart. Also an avid quilter and quilting teacher, she wrote a how-to book, Jane Austen Quilts Inspired by Her Novels, after designing an Austen- Gloeggler’s book features quilt patterns loosely inspired by inspired quilt as a high Jane Austen novels. school graduation gift for her niece. Gloeggler says that, in addition to being one of the most important novelists of the 19th century, Austen had a knack for sewing.
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1989 LORRAINE REYNOLDS, ADVERTISING AND COMMUNICATIONS, creates
spooky assemblages of found objects in the vein of Joseph Cornell’s boxes. Her recent work involves torn-up garments cocooning doll parts and other objects. “Originally I repurposed found objects because I didn’t have any money for art materials,” she says. By day she is senior technical designer at Lands’ End, and she previously worked for Burton Snowboards, where she fitted uniforms for the past three Olympic Winter Games.
Everthine, mixed-media assemblage, 12 by 8 by 4 inches.
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