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Show THE SUMMERBIRD JUNE 20, 1988 PAGE 3 Summer School is rapidly expanding (continued from page 1) In the past, some 160 students attend SUSC each summer. Teachers attending workshops or master's classes in elementary and secondary education make up the largest percentage of students taking courses for college credit. educators and new freshmen are the largest groups. "We are noticing a significant trend among our students," said Barton. "The more serious students are coming to SUSC all year around. During summer school, we get a mix of skills students returning to and traditional students getting a head start on college or gaining general education credits. This mix allows both types of students to gain that real educational experience," said Barton. Carter said a huge, cooperative effort leads to the success of SUSC's summer school and its programs. "Everything classes, workshops, conferences, festivals and special events is coordinated with department heads, deans, the administration, event planners and the president's office to complement SUSC's year around purpose." More than before, SUSC's many courses, workshops and activities seem to lead to excitement and variety, said Carter. out-of-sta- te housing to privately owned, local apartment complexes. Mollenkopf also said, "We have very little room for Utah Shakespearean Festival visitors." Instead of competing for boarders with the downtown motel owners, the college will send USF visitors to them, he said. Students and campus visitors can gain more information about course offerings and special events in a detailed, colorful summer catalog available free at the Division of Continuing Education in Braithwaite Center 203 or at the Admissions or Registrar's Offices in the Administration Building. It also provides information about the many attrations and events in and around Cedar City, such as the national parks and festivals. Carter attributes many of the early requests for registration and admission to the catalog. "The catalog came out earlier this year and the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce sent copies to Las Vegas, the Wasatch Front, Arizona and California to identify the city and the college," he said. Carter said students can take advantage of a summer tuition waiver. "These students can take classes at the rate." out-of-sta- te in-sta- te al up-da- te 44 Associate Provost Phillip Carter is the man behind SUSC's Summer School program. Festival Greenshow is one of summer's great attractions here First time visitors to the Utah Shakespearean festival are often surprised to find there is more to the experience than plays every evening. There is, in fact, a lot more, and the nightly Greenshow is a big part of the Festival's charm. About an hour before the play begins each evening, hundreds of people gather on the geen behind the theatre and in the courtyard surrounding it. They are there specifically for the Greenshow, which through the years has grown in popularity and has earned an audience all its own. The Greenshow features bawdy Elizabethan wenches, witty jesters, jugglers, minstrels, dancers, a Punch and Judy show and much more. There are games for the youngsters, appearences by royalty, and a different form of entertainment on each of the Greenshow's three stages. This year's Greenshow features all new Greenshow one night won'J likely witness the performances, stories, songs and games, as well. same program if they come again later. Baker said "Every season we write new material. We seldom use the same bits twice, because we have there are more than 50 different "entertainments," as much pride in the quality of the Greenshow as ranging from comic dances and story tellers to we do in the quality of the plays on stage, said wandering madrigal singers and recorder players. "The Greenshow is very participation-oriented,- " Douglas Baker, the Greenshow's director, who also writes most of the material. Baker said. "People don't just watch, they get It's a festive atmosphere, designed to relieve involved, and this helps create a transition from people of their 20th Century burdens and get them the world of today to the 16th Century. Jugglers in the mood for the play. demonstate their talent, then teach people how it "We like to think of is as a sort of time is done. Even the Maypole Dance, which is a favorite Greenshow attraction, couldn't be done machine," said Baker. "The Festival does its best to present its plays the way they would have been without help from the audience. done in Shakespeare's time, as nearly as possible. "I feel that it makes the audience feel a part of So it is the Greenshow's job to help people slip the Festival. I think that is very important to this into an Elizabethan frame of mind." festival," said Baker. There are different Greenshows for each of the For more information about the Greenshow, or three plays, so people who come to the other festival activities, call 586-788- 0. Centennial Campaign moves ahead Ballet West set for July concerts some immediate revenue sources The million Centennial $17.5 Campaign, a private fundat has finished SUSC, raising project its first year well ahead of its established milestone goal. "Our goal for the first year of the campaign was $500,000 in private giving," Vaughn McDonald, SUSC director of development, explains. "Our second-yea- r goal was $750,000, and we have already exceeded in the first year the goals for the first two years combined." Since the campaign began March 11, 1987, the college has received $1,453,129 in private gifts. The goal for the first two years combined was 10-ye- ar $1,250,000. "We are very pleased with the success of the campaign to date," McDonald says. "However a great deal remains to be accomplished. Our annual goals are graduated, so we will need to build on the momentum we have established in our highly successful first year." The Centennial Campaign includes six major areas of emphasis. Endowment funds in addition to are to be established for the areas of scholarships, college advancement, library, and athletics. The other two areas in the campaign are the Utah Shakespearean Festival and capital development and improvements. SUSC adopted "Spirit of the Founders" as the theme for the campaign. "We want to help ensure that SUSC enters its second century, beginning in 1997, with the same potential for success that existed at the college's founding in 1897," McDonald says. "In these times of restrictive state budgets and rapidly growing enrollment, the challenge of maintaining and improving programs requires the highest level of support from the private sector. "Our current successes indicate that the patterns of pride, dedication, and support, which were built into SUSC through the example of its founders, continue in the hearts and minds of today's SUSC contributors," according to McDonald. Ballet West will begin performances at SUSC with presentations of Arcadia and Dvorak Variations July 13 through 16. The company will continue July 19 through 22 with the critically acclaimed Giselle. Choreographers for the two new productions are Peter Anastos and Ronald Hynd, while Giselle is choreographed after Perrot, Corelli and Petipa to the music of Adolphe Adam. Formerly known as thp Utah Civic Ballet, the company was chosen in 1968 to represent the western United States and was later renamed to reflect this change. Wiliam F. Christensen created the company and was its first Artistic Director. Christensen, the first American to choreograph versions of Nutcracker, Coppelfa, and Cinderella, also cofounded the first ballet company in the United States in 1937 the San Francisco Ballet. Known as Utah's full-leng- th ' "First Lady of the Arts," Glenn Walker Wallace founded the ballet company and was named its first president. Ballet West produces more than 135 performances each year. Using Salt Lake City as its operational headquarters, the company is then able to reach out to Boise, Albuquerque, Phoenix, and Spokane. Ballet West recently performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, and in New York City and Philadelphia. Ballet West will perform each evening at 8 p.m. and will present matinee performances at 2 p.m. July 14, 15, 21 and 22. Tickets for evening performances are available at the Centrum Box Office window for $13 or $15, depending on seating section, while matinee tickets cost either $10 or $12, said Box Office employee Pam Garfield. For more information call 586-787- 2. |
