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Show PageS Wednesday, August 10, 1977 by Quicksilver High School Principal Prepares For Opening When one sees n "irly a movie ;i u ek. one starts to resent the cieap shots thai t ' -n try to pass themselves off as drama. Th teaser for The Sorcerer showed images thai seemed surrealistic and bold, so one would nope that viewing the film would prm to be a change trom Ha usual Dot boilers that fill the theaters. Unfortunately, Thftrcerer took almost all of the best shotsandcondensed them into a good five-minute teaser:-Had they used the other fine shots they might have had a good ten-minute film. . The director. William Friedkin, has an interesting string of critical and, probably more important, financial successes. The French Connection and The Kxoi cist are both films that would recommend Friedkin's talent, but there is none of that '"genius' in The Sorcerer. Instead, Friedkin chose to use wornout cinematic devices to build up suspense, while leaving character development nebulous. Still, there were several scenes haunting enough to merit musing about where Friedkin went wrong. Then this reviewer learned that The Sorcerer was a remake of a 1948 French film, right down to those haunting sequences. In most cases, "remake" is a synonym for "ripoff." And in the case of The Sorcerer the only conceivable reason to release the film is to recoup production costs. People have been prone to forget Friedkin's failures (The Seven L'ps was an abomination) yet the troughs in his career seem to indicate either a tendency toward inspiration or a proneness to be sloppy. The teaser was great, however. Park City High School principal Dr. Jack Dozier has been confronting a multitude of tasks in preparation prepar-ation for the opening of the 1977-78 school session scheduled sche-duled to begin August 29. First on Dozier's list is the "physical preparation" of the plant and readying classrooms "Scheduling of teachers," says Dozier. "is now locked in and we are in the process of getting extra-curricular activities football and band geared up and ready to go when school starts." This past week Dozier has been revising faculty and student handbooks. Included in the handbooks are regulations, regula-tions, disciplinary and attendance atten-dance policies. "The kids will be looking at a situation which places a great deal of responsibility on them and holds them Police Pot Plant A marijuana plant discovered disco-vered growing near Swede Alley was confiscated by the Park City Police Department Saturday. The illegal plant was arrested arres-ted by officer Alex Huggard in the 600 block of the offstreet parking area. Police have been unable establish ownership. pretty strictly accountable to themselves," explained Dozier. Do-zier. The principal feels his policies are not "unreasonable "unreason-able or unfair." "I firmlv believe," Dozier commented 'that freedom the ability to get neat things done with students and for them to have great enjoymentcomes enjoy-mentcomes only when they assume responsibility for themselves. "Both students and teach--ers need to realize what their respective roles are in relation rela-tion to each other," he added. Dozier has also been active in fund-raising activities, receiving an undisclosed amount of grants from clubs and private individuals. New Teachers Dozier reported that all five of the high school teaching vacancies have now been filled. The latest faculty additions include John Webster, band director, from California and Gayle McBride, girls' physical physi-cal education teacher from Delaware. Webster received a B.A. from Fresno State. A band instructor for three years in the Tulare, Calif, school system, Webster came to Utah a year ago to work on a Master's in Music' Education. While at the University of Utah, Webster administered a marching band and pep club band on the college level. The Webster family, wife Janet and two children, will reside in Park City. Gayle McBride, a 24-year-old educator from Delaware, will teach girls P.E. and direct the girls' athletic programs at both the Park City middle school and the high school. McBride was involved with alternative education programs pro-grams in the Jordan School District last year. She and her husband, a graduate student at the University of Utah, will also reside jj Park City. The remainder of the new faculty includes football coach Richard Groth, 34, of Idaho Falls; basketball coach Bruce Reid, 29, of Chico, Calif.; and home economics teacher Gay Straite, 23, of Spokane, Washington. Missing Links An unidentified driver smashed through a fence at 116 Sandridge Road Saturday Satur-day night, knocking down three posts and destroying a tree in the yard. 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