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Show Orcm-Gcncva Times Wednesday, May 10, 1989 Page 7 "Sharing The Vision" women helping women The annual Women's Conference, Con-ference, sponsored by the Center for Personal and career Development Develop-ment and Utah Valley Community College (UVCC), will be held May 20, 1989, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Excelsior Hotel. The keynote speaker will be Carol Shelton, author of the book How to Succeed in Business Without Being a Man. Shelton tells a story of how she overcame the heartache and despair of divorce, debt, and rearing her children alone. It's a story for anyone who wants control of her life, written by a woman who decided she could become anything she wanted to be...and has! The conference will highlight excellent speakers, beautiful music, and special spe-cial awards presented by Dr. Dynix supports Utah Valley Community College Col-lege (UVCC) has received a donation dona-tion of $22,000 from Dynix Automated Library Systems to support sup-port administrative excellence at the college. Paul Sybrowsky, president of Dynix, the world's leading supplier of automated library systems, has established a perpetual matching endowment with the UVCC Foundation. Foun-dation. The gift has been matched by the Foundation, and under terms of the agreement Dynix will continue to make gifts to the endowment en-dowment which, in turn, will be matched by the Foundation yearly. "Utah Valley is not only home to the Dynix family, but it is the home of the Sybrowsky's as well," he said. "Both families plan to be here for a long time and we not only want to participate and enjoy the fruits of this great valley, but we want to make our contribution as well." "This gift and others will assist Free legal offered at Utah Legal Services and the Utah Valley Community College (UVCC) Legal Assistant Program will sponsor a free seminar to inform in-form students and the public of the new LandlordTenant Laws. Bruce Plenk, one of Utah's foremost authorities on LandlordTenant Law, will speak to students and the public from 12 noon to 2 p.m. in the Student Center Cen-ter Ballroom, May 15, 1989. According to Sheila Underwood, Under-wood, student adviser of legal assisting as-sisting at UVCC, the seminar will answer questions concerning landlord promises, discrimination, and how to understand leases. "This is an excellent opportunity oppor-tunity for both tenants and landlords to obtain free legal advice about the recent changes made in Lucille Stoddard, vice president for Academic Affairs at UVCC. The Center for Personal and Career Development (CPCD) assists as-sists women who are moving into the work force. The services offered include career and personal counseling, coun-seling, successful life management and life skills courses, resume writing, writ-ing, job exploration, and job seeking skills. These services are part of a network of support in the community com-munity offered to men and women who are in transition. "This conference is a celebration celebra-tion of women who have successfully successful-ly entered the work force, and an invitation to all women in need of encouragement and support as they confront personal and financial finan-cial challenges in their lives," said Linda Barlow, CPCD director. U VCC library in building UVCC as we prepare for the great growth in students who will come here in the future," said Kerry D. Romesburg, president of UVCC. "This is Utah Valley's Community Com-munity College and we need the support of area citizens. Mr. Sybrowsky has set a fine example." Dynix Automated Library Systems Sys-tems began in 1983 when four Brigham Young University Alumni combined their talents and efforts to automate libraries across the nation. na-tion. In nearly six years, Dynix has grown to become the world's leading lead-ing installer of library automation equipment. For the past two years, the prestigious library industry publication, Library Journal, has named Dynix the clear leader in system installations. Dynix systems can be found in academic, public, educational, or special libraries, not only in the United States, but in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, and New Zealand. advice UVCC the laws, as well as pose questions concerning their personal legal problems," she said. Underwood said, "We're very excited to have Utah Legal Services visit our campus..it's the first time they will conduct a seminar at UVCC, so we hope it will continue on a regular basis on a variety of subjects. Jazz Band to perform at Shell On Friday, May 12, the Orem High Jazz Band will put on a pillow pil-low concert at the Scera Shell. The performance will begin at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free and dress is casual. Art museum to feature wtenptorist The well-known Utah water- colorist, Miriam Brooks Jenkins (1885-1944) is being honored by her daughters, Marian Freeman of Lahaina, Hawaii and Martha Powers of Seal Beach, California with a retrospective exhibit at Springville Art Museum from April 22-May 21. The exhibit will be held in the Museum's second floor Works on Paper Gallery and will include paintings which represent rep-resent the period from 1909 to 1941 all painted in Utah and California locations. Museum hours are Tuesday-Saturday Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday 2-5 p.m., Wednesday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Closed Mondays. UVCC to bring award-winning Quitters" to Family City USA When the musical "Quilters" premiered Off-Broadway, it probably wasn't the sort of production common to the New York stage. If focused on the lives of several women from pioneer stock whose joys and hardships were shared onstage. Yet the production was exceptionally excep-tionally successful and won an Obie for best Off-Broadway show. Later, after moving to Broadway, "Quilters" received several Tony Award nominations. Utah Valley Community College Col-lege will bring the winning play to its ballroom in May with a dinner din-ner theater show Thursday (May 11) and three regular performances performan-ces Friday, Saturday and Monday (May 12, 13, and 15). For the dinner din-ner show, the evening will begin at 6:30 p.m. Cost will be $10. The other performances will begin at 8 p.m. and be $3.50 for general public and $2.50 for students. Kim Brewster, head of the theater program at UVCC has selected eight veteran valley performers per-formers to star in his ensemble show. Featured will be Shauna Weight, Sally Hopkinson, Lori England, Kathleen Reed, Tayva Patch, Janelle Raynes and Tia Brewster. Each will sing and dance and create a wide variety of roles. Much of the actions takes place while the women are quilting. quilt-ing. They re-enact significant milestones in their lives, and the stories they tell are then trans-latedvia trans-latedvia cotton and thread-on to the patterns of the quilt blocks. In this way, the quilts become their lives. "Quilters" uses an interesting mix of musical styles that range from lively music to haunting ballads. bal-lads. Emotions in the play move quickly from happiness to pathos. "I think this is a production that our audiences will especially enjoy," says Brewster. MVHS Drama takes 2nd at State 4-A The Mountain View High School Drama Department under the direction of Charles Lynn Frost captured the 2nd place silver sil-ver trophy at the recent Utah State 4-A Drama Tournament. Mountain View's competition play "Baby With the Bathwater" tied with straight superiors as the top play at the tournament, with Alta High School. Mountain View's team took 233 points, and was second to Cottonwood High School with 235 points. Named as Outstanding Supporting Sup-porting Actress at the 4-A Tournament Tour-nament was Martha Patten, a senior at Mountain View, with Tia Brewster, another senior drama student, being awarded Outstanding Character Actress. Christopher Wixom placed 1st in Humorous Interpretation, and Melanie Morrow 1st in Dramatic Interpretation. Mountain View had the largest number of students stu-dents make it to the finals round at the State Tournament, and had students in the top three finalists in all competition event categories. Neal Johnson, Tia Brewster and Heather Brown placed 3rd in Scenes from Plays, Rachelle Abegg placed 3rd in Monocacting, and Greg Porter placed 2nd in PantomimeMime. Barbara Layden new pres. of Utah Chapter of the Prevention of Child Abuse Barbara Layden has been elected President of the Utah ; Chapter for the Prevention of Child Abuse (UCPCA). Incorporated and chartered in 1984, the Utah organization is part of the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse. This volunteer-based organization organiza-tion works closely with community, com-munity, state and national groups to expand and distribute information about child abuse and prevention and helps enact programs that will end child abuse in all its forms. Barbara Layden.wife of Utah Jazz President Frank Layden, has always been active in community com-munity causes. She has worked at the University of Utah in the Counseling Center and has been on the Board of Directors for both the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Salt Lake Boys Club. In her new capacity as UCPCA President, Presi-dent, a two year term, she will oversee the efforts of 30 active board members from both the business and private sectors of Utah. The UCPCA assist the local Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Teams throughout Utah. These teams pool prevention resources and implement prevention programs at the community level. UCPCA's board and membership member-ship were instrumental in passing pass-ing the 1986 legislative bill which established the Children's Trust Members of the 2nd Place State 4-A Team were Greg Porter, Jennifer Carr, Thayne Harbaugh, and Charles Knudsen in PantomimeMime. Rachelle Abegg, Michael Weatherred and John Savage in Monoacting. Chris Wixom, Angie Roberts, and Karl Mueller in Humorous Inter- Sretation. Melanie Morrow, leirdre Robins, and Heath Pillar in Dramatic Interpretation. Tia Brewster, Heather Brown, Neal Johnson, Kevin Yocum, Tera Wilde, Martha Patten, and Teris-sa Teris-sa Kemp in Scenes from Plays. Chris Wixom, Angie Roberts, Tia Brewster, Martha Patten, Michael Weatherred, Cami Burr, Neal Johnson, and Jill Chappell in the Competition Play category. The Competition Play was assistant assis-tant directed by Greg Porter, with Becky Harris as Props director, Tiffany Haag as Costumer, and Craig Wilson as Stagemanager. Mountain View Drama has placed in the top three positions at the State Drama Tournament for the last seven years, having taken four 1st places, two 2nd places, and one 3rd place, giving the school the most consistent drama competition track record in the State 4-A Division. t funding to maintain statewide child abuse prevention activities. 1 he monies - provided by a surcharge on all newly issued or copied birth certificates cer-tificates -are administered by the Department of Social Services. Ser-vices. Womens Club enjoys group Dance instructor Don Zimmerman, Zim-merman, two of his children and a dance pupil presented a spirited dance program for the Orem Women's Club May 3 at the City Center. Zimmerman's son and daughter gave several dance numbers together in attractive costumes. Christa Blackburn, a pupil of Zimmerman's, also danced individually. She also sang several songs with her mother. Mr. Zimmerman concluded the program singing "Let There Be Peace on Earth," "God Bless the USA," and "Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand." The program was presented by Verda Anderson. President Marilyn Stevens presided and hostesses were Lucy Owen, Jean Jensen and Edith Pederson. The flag salute was by Ruby Nicol and Litany was by Blanch Moore. |