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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1973 Home Eye Test for Preschoolers Available from Utah Society Utah Symphony Sets January Slate The Utah Symphony starts the new year with a full month of scheduling. This January, the orchestra will play two subscription concerts with performances in Salt Lake, Ogden and Provo as well as making a weeks tour in Idaho presenting a special choral concert. The first concert of the year will feature Andre Watts as the guest soloist with the orchestra in a January 12 concert in Ogdens Weber Fine Arts Center. The Salt Lake series will feature the program the following night in the Tabernacle. Mr. Watts, a young pianist in his twenties, first appeared with the Utah Symphony last season on the subscription series. He was such a great success Maestro Abravanel claims, he requested that he come back again this year. The concert is already heading for a sellout as were all seven concerts in the fall. The orchestra travels to Idaho the middle of the month to present six concerts in Boise, Burley, Rexurg and Idaho Falls. The tour is part of the regional program which takes the orchestra all over the Intermountain West 0 each year which adds up to 15,-00- miles. Dr. Richard W. Sonntag, president of the Utah Society for the Prevention of Blindness, introduces the new Home Eye Test to a group of community leaders and volunteers at a recent luncheon in Salt Lake City. Looking on is Mrs. Marion Palmer, USPB Preschool Vision Screening chairman, who directs volunteers from the Delta Gamma Sorority Alumnae in conducting free public preschool screening clinics. A Home Eye Test Kit enabling parents to do vision screening of their preschoolers at home is now available free of charge form the Utah Society for the Prevention of Blindness, according to the Societys president Dr. Richard W. Sonntag. Simple instructions prepare the parent to give the child the standard Snellen Symbol E Chart vision test. The situation which the Society seeks to remedy through a home eye test is this: One in age children in every the U.S. has a vision problem which, if uncorrected, can sepre-scho- ol riously interfere with his development and schooling. Present preschool vision screening programs cover less than 500,000 of the 16 million children in the said the National age group Societys Committee on Eye Health of Children, in recommending the development and nationwide distribution of the home vision test. The committee, a 12 member advisory group, is made up of 3-- 6, representatives of ophthalmol- ogy, pediatrics, nursing education, school nursing, pblic administration and medical social work. It must be emphasized that any vision screening only indi-a cates that a child may have visual defect and only limited visual skills are tested. This is organized programs with trained screeners and will be true with the home eye test. Vision screening is not diagnostic and does not take the eye exam. place of a professional We do not and cannot expect to local through screenings every child who needs eye care, and some children whose test results indicate the need for referral to an eye specialist may not need glasses or treatment. for is the What we hope chance to locate those thousands of children who have never had their vision tested, who show true for no outward obvious signs of eye or vision abnormality, but will demonstrate quiet readily in a screening that they are using only one eye effectively, for example, or that the can read the chart with each eye separately but not with both eyes together. Currently preschool vision screening programs are conducted by public health nurses or school nurses and by the thousand of volunteers who are often members of civic, womens religious or fraternal organizations. The screenings are conducted at community centers, kindergartens, day care centers, nursery schools and Head Start locations. In addition, of course, many pediatricians and family doctors do vision screening as part of the preschool age patients. The home eye test kit includes a scale version of the E chart, directions for training the child to take the test, for giving the test and for interpreting test results. A report form, to be returned to the Society asks the parent whether the child passed the test and if not, whether an appointment has been made for an eye examination, means of a parent education and hopefully an inducement to early visual care for the young children. Pilot tests of home vision screenings have been done in which children who had been tested at home were subsequently given a regular screening by trained screeners using standardized techniques. Comparison of the results of the two testing d procedures proved the results to be in close agreement with the results of the traditional method screening. . home-metho- Wet weather is particularly bad for bald tires. The flat rubber surface skims over water creating a dangerous hydroplaning effect. With water funneling through the tread grooves a normal tire will hold the road more effectively. January 24 the orchestra will present the eighth subscription concert in the Tabernacle with special guest violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Mr. Menuhin played with the orchestra twice, once in 1946 and again in 1955. His busy schedule has taken him to every country in the world except China. The Utah Symphony will present this concert with Mr. Menuhin as guest artist at the Marriott Activities Center in Provo January 25. This will be the orchestras third concert at BYU this season. The January concerts will be concluded by a special concert in the Tabernacle January 27, featuring a 400 voice choir with the full orchestra. The annual Page Five of U Offers Postgraduate Course in Theatre Curriculum U Back in the inner recesses of difficult acrobatic maneuvers or Utahs Pioneer voice inflections, etc., and the Memorial Theatre an intense actor must be able to handle it drama unfolds as Feddie the rat effortlessly. battles the terrible tarantula. We dont want to force our Thrusting and parying, Freddie people into a public performfinally triumphs' but receives a ance where they might resort to mortal wound. patterns they have found sucCuriously, todays Freddie the cessful in the past, such as excesrat may be tomorrows Hamlet sive physical movement, voice and the two persons who walked fluctuations, or just plain cornon their hands as a tarantula ing it up, he continues. might some day portray Henry First step in the MFA program Higgins or Eliza Doolittle. They says Professor Wilson, is making are all aspiring student actors, the actor aware of himself. The members of the theatre depart- semi skilled seldom ments new Master of Fine Arts knows how hethespianmoves or looks, pro- the real performance emphasis impression he makes. gram, and' the battle was part This self awareness is developed of their movement training to exercises such as watchthrough become professional actors. ing oneself in the mirror, group With the inception of the MFA observation sessions and a voice progra mthis fall, the U became study. one of only a few top theatre out who he is, After schools in the country to offer the actor finding must learn how to hana performance emphasis post- dle himself so he can take on angraduate theatre curriculum, Dr. other image, he notes. The deKeith Engar notes. partment therefore employs a Primary goal of the rigorous multi disciplinary approach with three year program is to prepare specialists from various non thestudents to become members of atre specialties such as speech professional acting companies. and ballet instructing students. Many of the first MFA troupe of Also, new voice and movement 15 actors (60 auditioned) will coaches were hired this fall to join the PMT company, predicts augment those essential facets of Dr. Engar. Others will perform for the myriad university and theatre training. In the voice students arcommunity theatre groups which ticulate tongue class, twisters, verbally are flourishing across the counsimulate of aging various try. One of our purposes is to and learn how notstages to distort the supply these groups with some natural communication process of the best trained talent availmust on when Actors learn stage. able, says Robert Hyde Wilson, to be and understood and heard professor of. theatre and MFA still resemble, a human being program director. voice coach explains talking, The program requires genuine dedication because these MFA Carol Pendergast. Movement is an irvdispensible participants will never perform vehicle of expression, explains publicly for the first two years. Bernice movement the Morris, Rather, they will spend many coach. I simply try to give an hours each day improving their voice control, body movements, actor a better awareness of his and the confidence that he interpretation and improvisa- body turn can it into virtually any tion in an apprentice like procharacter, she says. One unique gram leading to a complete act- exercise the students to the University of , requires the yare individual parts pretend Were trying to break down of a huge machine thereby learnand restructure old habits, Dr. Wilson says. There is so much ing to work together for the more to acting than meets the benefit of the whole. Students also' perform 'movement oriented average theatre goers eye sketches like Freddie the rat. "Even if a person is a natConcord Street. Telephone numtalented actor, this type ber is Childrens Center Aids For information about service urally f program is the greatest guarPre-schoby the other 49 Utah antee for the fulfillment of that Youngsters provided United Fund agencies or other talent in a professional way. 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