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Show !..L. V-."' ' u ! 4i'1 min., - 1 I The Viewmont High School Musical Theatre Company will present "The King and I" beginning Wednesday, March 13 and running nightly through Saturday, March 16. Tickets are available by advance ad-vance reservation by calling 299-2065 during business hours. The box office will be open Saturday, March 1 6, from noon until 5 p.m. Tickets are $4 for adults and $3 for students and children. Tickets not reserved in advance will be $5 at the door. Curtain time for all performances is 7:30 p.m. Children's author visits school Ivy Ruckman, who has written many children's books, will be at Reading Elementary March 13. She will be conducting two assemblies, and one writing workshop. 4,We brought in Ivy Ruckman to encourage and get the children excited about writing," said teacher Lorraine Raymond. Ruckman was bom, raised and educated in the farm community of Hastings, Neb.-the heartland to her, Willa Cather Country to t, . the literary world. Her high regard for books and education, she says, comes from i the ministers and teachers i among her forebears who valued 'the word' '-written, spoken, memorized, recited or sung-1 sung-1 long before she was born. Unable to deny the tradition of her genes, she became a teacher and writer, too. "Today," she says, 4'I come to the business of writing fiction by way of hundreds of students and thousands of books, all of which have been teaching me. When I found my audience to be children and young adults, readers who crave extended experience ex-perience through books as much as I did growing up, I wasn't surprised, ' Having taught high school English and creative writing in Wyoming and Utah, she now lives in Salt Lake City with a rowdy yellow cat, an arrogant new word processor, and her son Stuart. She began writing full-time in 1974 and finds the novel her most comfortable genre. Her most recent books for young readers include "This Is Your Captain Speaking" (Walker & Co., for ages 9-13), "No Way Out," another survivalsuspense story from Harper Junior Books for junior high age and up, and "Who Invited the Undertaker?" (Harper Junior Books, for ages 8-12). "Melba the Bran" (Dell Yearling paperback, for ages 8-12) and a sequel, "Melba the Mummy," are both scheduled for the spring of 1991. Ruckman has been guest speaker at a number of literature and library conferences. She conducts a zestful workshop and enjoys meeting her readers in schools and at young author festivals. fes-tivals. She is particularly well known to readers throughout the Midwest, where "Night of the Twisters" has won five childrens choice state awards. In 1984 she was recognized by Hastings College with an Outstanding Alumni Award and was the 1985 recipient of the Mountain Plains Library Association's Literary Contribution Contribu-tion Award. Her titles may be found on a number of state children's book lists, as well as on the IRA Children's Choices List for 1985 and several ALA Notable Trade Book Lists. |