Saints Herald, Volume 1, Issue 4

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Ohlone Chorus Appears In Debute Performance

OHLONE'S CHORUS having last-minute rehearsal before their debut performance at Richmond Memo·rial Auditorium,

Board of Trustees Gives OK To Earthquake Fault Survey BOAIRjl) OF TRUS11E:E S-Page 1 .. ,P ossibility of an earthquake haz-

ard existing on the ·p roposed Huddleson &mch site for Ohlone College's new campus will be settled by a six-point study approved by the college ·B oard of Trustees at their Jan. 10 meeting. The study will take from eight to ten weeks, according to Dr. James

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New ·Staff The Saint's Herald has new editors for this quarter. The new editors are: Ida Lou Mez.retti, editor; Yvonne Higby, news editor; Averil Jenny, feature editor, and Bob Neumann, sports editor. TWO new members have joined the staff. Gloria Villasana, who will be ,business and eocchange manager and ,a ssist the advertising manager, Perry Sanehez. Randell Tamarra has also joined the staff as .a reporter. Jim Azevedo a n d photographer Fred Lambert were ele'Cted editors for the literary magazine and the year-end magazine, respectively. The year-end magazine ·will be a pictorial account of the year's events at Ohlone. The literary magazine will consist of student w o r k s such as poems, essay's and short stories. Azeved·o will be asisted by Mrs. Frances Di Pippo, Mrs. Barbara Hofacker, Mis,s Karen Rosebaum, English instructors, and Miss Sherry Brown. A proposed budget for both the publications has been submitted to the student council for approval. 'The literary magazine has requested $300 for each quarterly issue, to be approximately 32 pages. The year-end magazine has requested $900 for e'a ch yearly issue which will be approximately 60 pages.

Evening School Enrollment ' Up Ohlone College evening Winter Quarter enrollment exceeded the registration figure of the Fall Quarter. Students enrolled in the even· ing .p rogram number 848 as compared to 803 last quarter. Day registration has dropped from 901 to 820. This figure is more than the usual 10 per cent drop between the ·F all and Winter Quarters experienced by most colleges.

Duke, vice president. Its cost is estimated !between $13,500 and $18,300, with the possibility of the cost being lower if definite negative results are found shortly .a fter the study is begun. The earthquake possibility study .is the first of its kind to be required, and is necessary before state apIJTOVal of :the site can be given, said Dr. Duke. It wiU uPd.ate the only prior study which was done in 1907, and was compiled from the memories of local residents about an earthquake in the region in question in 1868. The study will be conducted under the direction of Lloyd S. Cluff, chief engineering geologist of Woodward, Clyde, Sherard, and Associates, consu1ting soil engineers and geologists of Oakland, California.

Int'erested coeds may obtain Miss Fremont, .Maid of 1Fremont, applications and .a list of requirements in Dean William Blums' office. Entries m u s t rbe submitted no later than March 8, according :to A. Scott Hathaway, Jaycee represen· tative. The :F remont Jaycees are sponsoring the contest, with preliminary judging 1M arch 10. Finalists will either ibe assigned a sponsor by Fremont Jaycees, or thiery may obtain their own sponsor if they wish. Any girl attending Ohlone College may enter the contest. Every entrant must be between 18 .and 2.8 years of age and be a high school graduate 1b y September, 1968. Each entrant, either amatem.: or professional, must give .a 3-minute presentation of some form of talent. ·Grand prize for the event will be a $500 college scholarship, a trip to the Miss .California Pageant in Santa Cruz and a complete w~rd­ robe.

AIFS Hootenanny To Feature Local Bands "Because Of The Rain" And "The Morning Dew" The American Institute for Foreign Study Club (A.I.F.S.) will be sponsoring a hootenanny this Sunday from · 2-4 p.m. at the Newark High School gym. "Because of the Rain," "The Morning Dew," and, various folk groups of the community will provide the music. There will also be a group sing-along between the au-

dience and the folk groups. Admissfon will be $1.25 for adults, $1.00 fur associated . student body -card holders, and$ .75 for children. A concession booth will be at the affair. "It's going to •be a real hapJ)ening," said Yvonne Moy, -chairman of the event. Everyone is welcomed to come.

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ThL1rsday, January 18, 1968

Fremont 1 California

Three New Student Officers Appointed by Student Council The student council appointed new officers to three vacant student -council positions in a meeting Tuesday, Jan. 16. Linda Warrick w a s ·appointed secr·e tary. She is a .business major. to commissioner-0f-J.nternal affairs. He is the president <>f American Institute of Foreign Study on campus. Dan Evans was appointed ito commissioner~f-athletics. During high school, he was comm.issioner-of-a.thletics at !lrvington. Interviews for t h e s e positions were held earlier this year. Five people came for :their interviews, but only three .of these were present at the student council meeting where t h e appointments we1re made. The positions still vacant are

-commissioner of public relations and Tepresentative-at-large. Any interested person may contact Miss Pat .Pallister, Student Activities Adviser, in B-27; Gary Woods, A.S.0.C. president, or any student council member. I ney can aiso attend the next student council .meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 23. Hlostettler, along with Woods, will ibe co-chairman for the election committee, which will be in charge of the upcoming elections for new student body officers. He will also be ,a ssisted by Dianne Healey, treasurer. Various c o m m i t t e e s will be formed to organize the elections. Procedures for elections followed by. last quarter's elections adopted by the Student Advisory Board will probably .be used for .this election. According to the by-laws used by 1

the -council, the election must be held before the fiJ.'lst five weeks for the new quarter have passed. This will place the election during the week of Feb. 5-12. Hostettler has set tentative election days foi- 1F'eb. 8 and ·9. This will include at least one night available for voting for night students. Budgets from various organizations on ·campus must 1b e signed by Miss Hea'ley before ·the 1budget can be approved and the ·money allocated t<> these organizations. Miss Pallister suggested at the meeting that a program of some sort be started to use the "college hour" (12-1 p.m., Thursday), to the best advantage. Suggestions for films, bands and speakers are currently being investigated.

Awards To Theatre Arts Dept. To Give· Two Coeds Short Stories-One-Act Play A four part presentation under the .show dtle "Strangers In Love" will be1 staged by the Theater Arts Dept. MaTc:h 7 and 8, at the Mission San Jose High School auditorium. Two short stories by Dorothy

CSEA . Sees Attention! Installation

Enrollment D e t a i 1 Cards (green) for day students were due in the Admissions Office Wednesday, Jan 17, 4 p.m. Students are not officially enrolled unless these cards have been turned in completed with the B-2 (white form.) available at the Admissions Office.

group, although small in number certainly did their part in the sue: cess of the Symphony. The applause from the audience echoed this success as the last note of the piece faded and broUght to a close months of rehearsals to perfect the moving melody and unfamiliar Latin lyrics that Stravinsky wrote into this magnificent psalm. The chorus will be working on madrigals this quarter. A madrigal is a 16th Century musical piece that is idyllic and free in structUl'e, highbrow in text and musical direction, hasically, vocal cham~ music to be sung by cultivate amateurs around a table, with the voice parts laid out before them. Arrangements ar.e presently being made by Ohlone's music department head, Gary Smith, for an Easter concert with California State College at Hayward, in which Handel's famous Messiah will be performed.

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By RANDALL TAMARRA To say "for the first time" is~ well-worn phrase at Ohlone, where every activity takes place for tlie first time during this first year. And so it was with the chorus' first appearance. Headed by Kennedy High School's music instructor, Mr. Samuel Es- · peseth, the 15-lnember choral group joined with the Contra Costa College Choru8 and the Rkhmond Symphony Chonis 1 a s t Thursday night at t h e Richmond Memorial .Auditorium for a presentation of Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. More than 100 voices were on stage, as -choruses ·b lended in harmonious \SOng to the musical accompa·i liment of t he Richmond Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William Jackson. Mr. Espeseth commented that he was well pleased with the performance and that Ohlone's choral

California Schools Employees Association is forming at Ohlone College. The organization betters relationships between employees and ,s tate government. One example of this is drawing up and presenting protective legislation for better wages, working ·conditions, and job benefits. · The organization will install new officers at the :scheduled meeting Jan. ?.6, in the Board Room, according to Paul Thompson, president.,,.elect. Newly elected officers to be installed are Paul Thompson, president; Sherry Brown, vice president; Marian Steurcke, secretary; Lorraine Silva, treasurer; and Mary Azevedo, reporter. All school employees are urged to join and attend the meetings scheduled for e v e r y Monday of each month, 12 noon, in the Board Room, on campus. ·

Parker entitled "The Sexus" and "Here We Are" are being adapted for the stage. A .short story by J. D. Salinger, author of "The Catchier in the Rye," entitled "Just Before the War with the Eskimos,'' and a one-act play by William Sar. oyan, "Hello Out There," will also be presented. According to Craig Jackson, ·s peech and drama instructor, the stories 'by Parker and Salinger are humorous, and all four of the productions are about the problems of young love. Jackson s·ays that the idea of the shows is to, present "an evening with the arts." In addition to .the productions by the Theater Arts Dept., there will .be a presentation by th~ Music Dept., and an exhibit by · the Art Dept., also dealing with the subject of young love. Cast for Parker's · "The Sexus" are Gayle Tanner as the young girl, and Bruce Marder as the young man. The cast for "Here We Are" is: Willis Edens and Craig Seavers, double cast as the young husband; and Pat Franco as the young wife. Ellen Benjamin will play Selina in Salinger's story; Nancy West will play Jenny; David Smith will have the part of Franklin, and Doug i,Moore will play Eric. Saroyan's play will feature Craig Seavers and Tom Waterman, double cast as the young man, and Nancy West as the young girl.

TwQ Ohlone coeds have been awarded scholarships for training in the field of business. Counselor Don Wolfe, who is in charge of financial aids, announced that Gloria Villasana and Carmen Potro were chosen to receive $150 scholarships offered by the Fremont Chapter of the American Business Women's Club. The recipients, w h o applied through their business instructor, Joan C. LeClercq, were screened along with other .prospective candidates 1by the scholarship committee of the ABWC. Miss Villasana and Miss Potro will receive these awards at an awards dinner yiet to be scheduled by the club.

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CALENDAR

Saturday, January 20: Basketball; Merritt; Kennedy High; 8 p.m. Sunday, January 21: "What's Happening on Campus?" 'KFMR Broadcast; 12:'40 p.m. AIFS Hootenanny; Newark Hi Gym; 2 p.m . Wednesday, January 24: Basketball: Chabot: Kennedy High; 8 p.m. Saturday, January 27: Basketball; GavilMI; Newark High; 8 p.m. Tuesday, January 30: Basketball; SF Naval Shipping Yard; Kennedy High; 8 p.m.


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