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Show Sense of Wonder Is Athenaeum Fealure standing slice presentations is so graphic that a blind person would be able to "see" the great variety of wildlife, ships and shore lines and other beauties of nature of our great land. This commentary plus appropriate ap-propriate background music made an unusually lovely complement com-plement for slides entitled "A Sense of Wonder" shown last Monday night at Athenaeum. Combining his own words with carefully chosen segments from Longfellow, John Masefield and Rachael Carson, Mr. Cooper conveyed vividly the sense of wonder as experienced by a child. A child's world is fresh and new and a sense of interest inter-est is shown in simple things a leaf, a flower. Adults tend to lose this clear-eyed vision and experience a sense of boredom and disenchantment. A particularly beautiful segment seg-ment was highlighted by a poem by Corrine Roosevelt Robinson. Robin-son. Mr. Cooper's presentation was short but showed well the finer things of our lives--a rainbow, beaches, deer at water's edge; there was a fiery sunset and a big full moon; with a background of Masefield' s "I Must Go Down To the Sea Again", tall-masted ships came to life. This was open night at Athenaeum Athen-aeum and was well attended. Mrs. John Strand, Mrs. Louis Arko and Ms. Betsy Reichen-bach Reichen-bach were invited guests. November 27 Athenaeum will again have a meeting open to interested ladies. The speaker will be Kent Ellerton of Heberr Albert Cooper is indeed an extraordinary person. Photographer Photog-rapher par excellence, author, artist and raconteur. His commentary delivered during the showing of his out- |
