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BACKSTAGE CREW ESSENTIAL
'Shrike' concludes with final weekend run By Tom Anderson Many times the people who work back stage during a play are overlooked . These people are essential, and without them there could never be a production such as"The Shrike" which is currently running in the drama lab. The last two performances of "The Shrike" will be held tonight and Saturday night. "Real " was the word used to describe "The Shrike'' in a recent review in the Telescope. During "The Shrike" Ruth Herman acts as sta11:e director. She is the person who makes sure the actors are on stage at the proper time. There are a number of functions besides giving the actors their cues. The stage manager makes sure that the lights are controled properly, giving the
light men their cues. As well as giving everyone their cues she acts as the person which makes general sound effects. At the proper time during the play she rings the door bell, makes the telephone ring and makes the sound of a door being locked. Adding all of this up, you might say she is the person that keeps things running smoothly. If a ny of the cues were missed of if sound effects weren't made at the right time t he whole play would be thrown off. Through an intercom in the drama lab the stage director gives cues to the people controling the lights from the lighting loft. The loft is located above the audience.
Peter DuPre and Jeff ChamberWorking m a maze of electrical cords these tow ~ain operate all of the lights.
operate twelve dimmer switches which give lighting effects. Since there is no actual curtain in the drama lab the lights are made to act as one. When the lights are out the stage is not visible. The lights are slowly turned on giving the effect of the curtain going up. Jon Sophos acts a house manager. He is in charge of selling tickets, serving punch and the ushers. Sylvia Olcott takes care of the costumes needed for the play. Many times the costumes have to be made from scratch for a play. Changing all hand props is Belita Felgen. She is responsible for the placement of all the small props such as medicine bottles which are used in "The Shrike". When the set crew is through moving everything she makes sure that
everything is in its proper place. The set for "The Shrike" was designed by Mr. Norman Gaskins, techanica1 director of the Speech- Theater Arts department. Assisted by John Rabe, he and a student production staff have built all of the sets. The set is constructed in two sepparate parts. One part is a hospital ward with bars on the windows and the other is a doctor's office. The two sets are spread across a corner of the rectangular drama lab. Since the play centers around the ward in a mental hospital, bars cover the windows and regular hospital beds are used, giving the set a very realistic look. "The Shrike" centers on a frustrated theater · director who is plagued by
an overpowering wife. failing at directing, he tries to commit suicide and once again he fails. He is then placed in a mental hospital, which is the opening of the play. The frustrated director finds himself imprisoned in the ,hospital ward. Believing to himself that he is sane, this situation .p.oes not bother him until his wife enters the picture, darkening his mood considerably. The play has three acts with the curtain going up a 8 p.m. Price of admission is $.50 for those with an ASB card and $1.50 for others. Reservations can be made at the theater -in P-33. "The Shrike" opened October 31st. It is the first production of Buddy Ashbrook's since coming to Palomar.
T HE TELESCOPE Palomar College · Volume
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Number 14 · A Publication of the Associated Students ·
NCN. 8, 1968
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/News Briefs! Focus, Telescope editors ap~roved; dTh~
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F_igure exhibition of pamtmgs and sculpture w1ll open at Palomar College on November 19 and run through December 7. The paintings and sculpture in the exibition were selected by Mr. Donald M. Halley, Jr., Director of the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York and circulated throughout the United States underthe auspices of the American Federation of Arts. The artists whose work will be presented are John Battenburg, A.B. Jackson, David Hostetler, Roy Schnakenburg, John Wesley, Allen Jones, Phillip Pearlstein, Niki de Saint-Phalle, James Strombotne and Tom Wesselman.
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"Citizen Kane", starringOrsonWelles and Joseph Cotton, will be shown Tuesday night at 7 p.m. in ES-19, as the third entry in the college's Community Film Series. There is no admission charge.
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Red signs will soon be blossoming on Mission Rd. in front of Palomar College when San Marcos Ordinance 68-129 goes into effect. In a four-to-one vote on October 22, the San Marcos City Council passed a measure to prohibit parking on Mission between Pacific St. and the eastern boundary of the junior high school property. The mile-long taboo section takes in all of the frontage of Palomar. In a letter to Dr. John Schettler, city administrator R. T. Hunt confirmed the action.
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is pictured on the intercom of the drama lab carrying out her duties.
During the run of"The Shrike", Ruth Herman is acting as stage manager. She
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Unknown to many students, the campus telescopes and planetarium make it possible for people to see sights never sj:len before. All of the planets except Pluto can ;,re seen from t he campus observatory. Although there are two observatories on campus only one is equipped with telescopes . The other awaits mounting of a 16 inch mirror. The mirror was donated to Palomar and will cost $500 to mount according to Mr. Willis. Two telescopes are mounted in the other observatory. One is a Questar telescope designed to watch rockets bla:st off. It cost approximately $1,300 and has a fuse quartz mirror. The other telescope is a Unitron four inch refractor. A ten inch reflector is on the same mounts. The telescopes are equipped with timing and photo equipment. This equipment is sometimes used to measure the time and brightness of occultions, which are when stars are eclipsed. A short wave radio is available so the time of occultions can be checked with Navy Observatory. The rings around Saturn and the moons of Jupiter are clearly visible through the telescopes. Mr. Willis commented the scopes are used by astronomy and celestial navigation classes. Astronomy majors learn to handle the telescopes. Every Wednesday night the observatory is open to the public during or after the planetarium lecture. Dave Williams, assistant, operates the observatory for people Wednesday night. According to Mr. Willis, peopl e can come in and view most any thing they want. Officially opened in April 1965 , the planetarium has been viewed by 50,000
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people to date. Dean Coutts and Mr. Willis run the planetarium, giving lectures and demonstrations to people ranging from elementary school to a class in celestial navigation. According to Dean Coutts, a person can never see as many stars in the sky as he can in the planetarium. This is because of obstructions in the earth's atmosphere such as smog or clouds which limit your vision. The planetarium can take you back in time to 3000 B. C. or in the future 3000 years by creating a sky for any place on earth any time within this span. The star sphere, the machine that creates the image of the stars, has some 3000 holes in it in the same position as the stars in the sky. The star sphere projects the images of stars and planets onto the concave ceiling creating the sk:y. Mr. Barlow ofthe art department ma:de a horizon for the planetarium which is exactly the same as the horizon as viewed from the planetarium roof. With the use of auxilar y projectors, eclipses, the aurora, lightning and cloud forms can be projected onto the sky making the planetarium quite realistic. The planetarium is used extensively in astronomy as well as in physics, physical science, and celestial navigation classes. A Wednesday night lecture series is offered at the planetarium. The lectures are held weekly with the topic changing the first Wednesday of every month. Some of the topics include: "Pagent of Light" for November; "The Christmas Star" for December; "Are We Alone?" for January and "Man in Space" for February. The lectures are open to the public with the sky the limit.
The fascinating story of Iceland and its people will be the subject of a presentation by Dr. John D. Schettler at 11 a.m. , Wednesday, in Room F-22. Alpha Gamma Sigma is sponsoring this first of a two-part program. The second and concluding presentation, "The Literature oficeland" will be given by Dr. Schettler on November 27th.
Vets Club honors war dead today Today at 11 a.m . at the flag pole the names of two former Palomar students killed in the line of duty in Vietnam will be added to a plaque, which already includes the names of seven other fatalities . The names of Sgt. Michael W. Melvin and Sgt. 4 Harry Kim, both formerly of Vista, will be added. Dr. Frederick Huber, president of Palomar College, will give a short memorial talk. Invocation will be by Rev. Geoffrey Bridger, OFM, of San Luis Rey. The college band will play in honor of the war dead, under the direction of Burrill Monk. The names of the other war dead are: Lt. James M. Mitchell, U.S.M.C., killed in action 1965; LCDR. John W. Tunnell, U.S.N., 1966; PFC Thomas Durbin, U.S.A., 1967; Capt. D. H. Butterfield, U.S.A.F., 1967; Lt. John Paul Marken, U.S.M.C.; Sgt. Eugene Tactay, Jr., U.S.A. 1966; and PFC Stanley Behm, U.S.A., 1968. The inscription above the names reads simply: "In honored and loving memory of Palomar students and alumni who gave their lives in defense of our country." The names of Lt. Marken, Sgt. Tactay, and PFC Behm, as well as the two names to be added today, are included on a second plaque at the flag pole. It was added due to the number of names which were added to the honor roll of Vietnam casualties.
Bravura to have student editor Approval of the appointments of Steve Schneider and Cece McPherson, editors of the Telescope and Focus magazine, respectively, were made at last Tuesday's meeting of the Student Publications Committee. Action was not taken on a third point which would specify the editorial responsibilities of the Telescope. The Publications Committee, a seven member board consisting of four faculty members and three students, was originally adopted to deal with the affairs of the campus publications. Three students on committee
Headed by Dean Virgil Bergman, the current committee consists of Mr. Gene Jackson of the English Department, and Mr. Fred Wilhelm and Mr. James McNutt of the Communications Department. The three students are Mary Chimarusti, Frank Mott, and Steve Schneider. The students are appointed semesterly by the ASB council. Mott did not attend the meeting. It was pointed out that the late date of the meeting would make any appointment changes for either of the two staffs extremely difficult, since both publications have been operating since the opening of schooL It was recommended that, in the future, approval of the editors of the two publications would take place as soon as their appointments have been made. Wilhelm, advisor to both the Telescope and Focus, is responsible for making these appointments. Clark questions a rticles
Alleged "misinformation" in certain Telescope articles brought a number of written questions from ASB president, Kim Clark. The questions, presented by Bill White, ASB judicial chairman, included one that asked the administrative committee whether the "misinformation" would be allowed.
generally agreed that the "misinformation" is not allowed in any publication but sometimes slipped through. No formal action was taken and Clark was advised to re-write the question and provide examples of such "misinformation".
Summer 1968 Focus distributed today Combining the efforts of Palomar's Graphics and Communications departments, the Summer issue of the campus feature and pictorial magazine, Focus, is being released today. Under the editorship of Penny Hill, a 1967 Palomar graduate, the magazine was produced as a project mainly of the Summer session, but due to the small size of the staff and a lack of printing facilities, it was printed and assembled by the fall semester's staff. Completion of the belated issue was accomplished under the supervision of Cece McPherson, Focus' new editor. Miss Me Pherson worked on the issue herself and wrote much of the copy for it. Featured in the magazine are stories on last year's ASB president. Bob Thoreson, this year's president Kim Clark, as well as photo stories of various campus activities from a semester ago. The magazine is free to holders of ASB cards and copies may be obtained in the student union area. Because it's a limited edition, it will be circulated on a first-come, first- served basis.
Men students sponsor dance tomorrow night Students will rock out to the beat of the ''Corduroy Cloud'' and the "Shreaded Wheat" Saturday night in the student union. The dance is being sponsored by the Associated Mens Students. All Palomar College students are invited.
The question, as written, boiled down to a problem of semantics and raised explanation and comment from ex- officio members Dean Theodore Kilman, Scott Boyles, Schneider and Wilhelm. It was
Starting at 8:30 p.m. the dance will last until 12:30 a.m. Admission price will be $1.50 per person.
Joe Stanford, director, is shown leading the Chamber singers during the
Concert Hour Program. The Program featured student recitals.