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Show Steve Van Dyke to instruct course in "Pioneer Skills" "It's one thing to study history, and quite another to experience firsthand the little daily chores and practices which kept heart and home together on the Western frontier," course instructor in-structor of a unique Southern Utah State College class notes. Offered as "Seminars in Pioneer Skills and Communication," Com-munication," the winter quarter course will be available for three hours college credit as communications com-munications 492. . "Pioneer skills communicate a tremendous amount of information in-formation to us about our pioneer forefathers and their way of life," Steve Van Dyke, course instructor and assistant professor of communications, said. The course will include baking pioneer breads, cheese making, butter chruning, black powder shooting, trapping, winter fishing, leather curing, a study of Indian pictographs, homesteading, communication and gossip on the frontier and other aspects of pioneer life. "Local experts in these various frontier crafts will be called upon," Van Dyke said. Class will be held Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 9 p.m. in Old Main 302. Some evening classes will be omitted to allow for two day-long meetings in February. These Saturday sessions will include a campout, shelter building, winter fishing and other activities centered on pioneer life. A session will also be held on folklore and folk music. "People communicated news and gossip through tales and songs back then. Some of our folk heros were commoners given bigger than life images through song and legend," Van Dyke said. He noted that an old fashioned community barn dance may be held as part of the course. There is no credit fee for regular, full-time SUSC students, but a $15 lab fee, to cover food and equipment, will be required of all persons taking the course. Interested persons should contact Steve Van Dyke evenings or call 58M411, ext. 220 during the day for additional information. |