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Show Pago 8 Wednesday, November 17, 1976 -4 Fire -. $ . "It seems to me that women are very badly treated in America. A few of them know it. More of them dimly suspect it, and most of them... do not feel as happy in their hearts as they wish they did. The reason for this feeling of unhappiness is a secret sense of failure, and this sense of failure comes from a feeling of inferiority, and the feeling of inferiority comes from a realization that actually women are not much respected in America." The author of this quote is not a radical feminist of 1970's. The author is Pearl S. Buck, and the quote is taken from an article entitled "America's Medieval Woman", written in 1928, after her return to America from China. She talks about how girls and boys, in America, are educated equally, but are not expected to perform equally in society. The men are the bread earners and the women are the home keepers and children raisers. Women in this country have everything they were programed to desire: loving, successful husbands; children; nice homes. So why the unrest, the unhappiness? Pearl S. Buck posed the theory that women are educated and trained the same as men, but there the equality ends. She is not considered really serious in the job marketplace, nor is she respected if she does go ahead and make it. It is assumed that her home and husbands suffer. So she is bound by four walls, partly her construction, her domain, her little part of the world and told this is her place. And after some years she and her husband wonder why she is so unhappy, why she is restless and not able to concentrate. She feels that she isn't using her full potential or capabilities. Any person that has had the opportunity to explore various alternatives and choices can realize the frustration of not having that option. Buck wrote that the women in China and Japan were not treated badly; they were treated as higher class servents; but, they were trained not to expect more from life. They were taught their role, and were told that that was what was expected from them. The women in those countries were not restless or disconted as they were in America. So education was a problem. Traditionalists were also a problem, not just the men; but also the women cemented in their roles. Any woman who dared to step out of line was ridiculed, feared, and not taken very seriously. She was considered a threat. Still today in the 1970's the space age, and the age of the "liberated woman" things are starting to change, though some men still don't take women seriously in the job marketplace. And some women still don't trust or like women; But things are slowly changing from the days of 1928. Today more men and women are able to step outside of the binding traditional roles. Many are switching roles. Many are trying out new lifestyles, and, maybe the best part is that unlike in the 1920's it is 'alright' to want something more out of life than a home and husband and children. There is a choice. It is alright to be an individual, to have a place in the community and in society outside the home. . It will take time, and women still have to struggle for the recognition they deserve, but more minds are opening up to the new ways of thinking. Not all women are changing. But the changes that a few women fight for, as a group or as an individual, affect all women. The questions posed by Pearl S. Buck in this article are still valid today. Are women taken seriously? Are they allowed to become themselves, individuals? individ-uals? In the following articles we will discuss some of these issues with women living in Park City. REAL ESTATE MIKE DONOVAN 654-2231 HEBER LOVELY 5 acre; building site in Francis with Irrigation & cufciary water. Good owner terms, $18,250. 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Park City Highers represented the citizenry of River City, Iowa, in numbers that filled the stage, the careful and colorful construction of Mark Lindsay, Mark Jolley, David Chaplin and the Graphics Class. The youthful cast sparkled with enthusiasm in their portrayal of a small town seized by its own imagination. Geneo Pirraglio played the Mayor Shinn, an It's the thought that counts" captivating man of persuasion with a charm that warmed the hearts of the capacity crowd and finally won the favor of Marion Paroo. Patti Prince, also a senior, was the skeptical librarian who, coached by her cupid-like mother Mrs. Paroo (played with a lilting brogue by Shelley Flinders ) reaches out at last for a moment's romance with the beguilling but fraudulent professor. It was a full scale, finely done production. Help in choreography and musical direction came from Alene Jensen, Brenda Bensch, Sydney Ramsaur, A J -1 $ i p I ' 1 immmmJBkmar ( Geneo Pirraglio as Mayor Shinn and Carol Santv. giving a Dolish and timing to exasperated bundle of energy, whose attempts to scenes such as Madam Librarian. The stage Shinn, the mayor's daughter in frisky puppy love Da"1lL.tne JLLSSfAT hummed and buzzed witlHhe dance antics of youngnthto terror Tommy Kijilas, played by Mike upjermmed even by tag own pppcious, His, sharing cooks-and -pirouettes, and MarkJSrmlTnta Boy1Wetf a delightful Amaryllis, wife, Eulahe MacKecknie Shinn, played by an , , r ? . effusive Paula Putman, is flattered by the suave Lindsay's voice, a quality coo, melted even the Much as the town of River City depicted in the tale professor into accepting the lead of the Ladies Dance staunch resolve of the proper Madam Marion, waS transformed by the dream of a boys band and Committee, as the whole town is taken by a musical played Thursday night by Laurie Chantry. me magjc 0f music, so was Park City High School inspiration. Ken Durrant, who masterfully directed the transformed by the' dedication of cast and crew in As the local vocal biddies played by Shelley Boyle, production was ardent in his own performance as the the energy that built towards three performances Heather Silver, Stephanie Weaver and Laurie Reed rascally professor's loyal partner Marcellus this weekend of The Music Man. The entire Friday are given definition by the committee's creation Washburn. night audience was held in the spell cast by the .similarly are a quarrelsome school board,; tasked Ren was carried same u h emotion ag ne young people who brought the play to life, with the with the extraction of the imposters credi tntials, acknowledged the huge aooreciation of the cast, encouragement and support of parents and families. changed into an narmonious inseparame oaroer voiced by-Mark Lindsay at the play's misty close shop quartet, intoned by Robert Burns Jr., Ray J M Hilton, Hal Smith and Jim Santy under the wand of . y B the evasive Music Man. other bright spots in the lively musical were 7th Mark Lindsay decidedly steals the show as the grade Trey EPPley as the tongue tied Winthroo Professor Harold Hill. Mark, a Park High senior who Paroo who blossomed into confidence and song in his and to tne boisterous booming bands of Marsac lives music everyday of his life, played the solo, Gary Indiana. Kerri Gunderson was Zaneeta School and Park High. It was indeed a parallel instance of the magic that each of us holds inside and the will to be captive of our own imaginations. Thank you to all who gave their time and energy ':T-. I 4' 1 ? Trr ' fv ' ' - t l rv-u. v f "It ' i ' t Jns The hscpsrabte barber shop quartat Ji Ken Durrant "at the misty close Friday nSaht'! jX it 4 ' I J .Yl a . . ft . . flowers for those who helped |