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Show THE THUNDERBIRD MONDAY MARCH 2, 1987 PACE 11 Top engineering student named Lance Houser was honored as the outstanding engineering student at SUSC at the annual engineering week banquet Wednesday night. He was born in Cedar City, but graduated from Dobson High School in Mesa, Arizona in 1985. While there he was the recipient of the Presidential Academic Fitness Award, United States Academic Achievement Awards in Agriculture, history and government (two years in a row), and was Academic in 1985. Since coming to SUSC he has maintained a GPA of 3.93. He stands first among some 65 majors at SUSC. After he completes his studies in Cedar City this spring, he plans to complete his BS degree in Agricultural Engineering at Utah State University. "Lance has the talent and potential for a high level of achievement in the engineering profession. He has many outstanding qualities of character and personality in addition to his academic ability. The science faculty are pleased to extend this honor to him, as one who best exemplifies the high caliber of students enrolled in the the SUSC program," said Richard N. Kimball, who is professor of and Lance's adviser. The guest speaker at the banquet was Greg Thorpe, who is the project manager for the Great Salt Lake pumping project and recently selected Utah Engineer of the Year. He gave a thorough and interesting insight into the lake to the students, professionals and partners who were in attendance, beginning with ancient Lake Bonneville and ending with the effects of the most recent storms. All-Am- erican MaunmManw iwgsuaraM ramTmanrsnrrrvtiTr. CATCH THE ELECTION RESULTS I UP CLOSE a PERSONAL) AT THE ASSUSC floor Ralph Puke, played by actor Mark Sieve, performed in an show during the "Shakespeare For Transients" dance which brought a crowd of some 400 to the Great Flail on Jan. 24. Sieve and acting partner Joe Kudla (Snot) live in Minneapolis, where they act and direct in Twin Cities Theatres. hour-lon- g 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' to open (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10) Rebecca White, who is also doing lights for the show, the set contains a great staircase that leads from the downstairs living areas to the bedrooms above. The SUSC theatre technician has constructed the modular set for use in both Brighton Beach Memoirs and the spring quarter farce Noises Off! Michael Don Bahr is Eugene. His older brother, Stanley, is played by Patrick Sterling and his parents Kate and Jack by Lisa Berger and James W. Loder. Other members of Eugene's household are his Aunt Blanche, played by Jeneane Gallo and his cousins Nora and Laurie, played by Wendy R. Johnson and Rayne Stanley. "Brighton Beach is some of the best writing that Simon has ever done. It's a very funny play about growing up, and it's a poignant piece about family relationships," Adams says. "I want people to leave the theatre knowing what it was like during the Depression, but also want them to leave with the warmness and hope that come from close family ties." The Jerome family is typical of most families: there is a lot of love, a lot of pain and a lot of passion. It follows, then, that the best way for actors to play roles in the show is for them to feel a "sense of family" with other members of the cast. I "From the very beginning, Mr. Adams has emphasized that he wanted us to feel like family around each other," says Berger. "So, when we're rehearsing, we feel very close to one another, almost as if we really are a family." Bahr agrees: "In the play we're a family, and we feel like a real family. There's a certain closeness and unity in the cast, which you really need in a play like this, when he's directing, Mr. Adams relates the things he says to our own families." Adams has even invited the entire cast to his home on several occasions, "which helped us begin to create that family feeling and feel comfortable with each other," Berger said. successful as a contemporary playwright, the SUSC director says, because he gives the public plays it can relate to and because he so easily moves into television and motion pictures. "Some say Neil Simon is the best one liner in the world, and others discount his worth as a serious playwright. Whatever the case, Brighton Beach is a delightful play," says Adams. Tickets are available by contacting the SUSC Box Office, 586-787from 1 to 5 p.m. weekdays and from 1 p.m. to curtain on days of performance. Admission is included in season "A" and "B" passes. Simon is 6, MARCH 4TH 9 P.M. 12 A.M. E GREAT HALL $1.50 PER PERSON Sponsored by the ASSUSC THE ASSUSC PRESENTS DANCE STARTS AT 8:00 P.M. $1.00 ENTRANCE FEE LIP SYNCH COMPETITION STARTS AT 9:00 P.M. $50.00 CASH PRIZE TO THE WINNER! LIP SYNCH ENTRIES SIGN UP |