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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1978)
r Art gallery sets photo memorial exhibition \_ A memorial exhibition of photographs by Bernard “Bemie” Freemesser will be presented Sunday through Jan. 15 in the Photography at Oregon Gallery at the University’s Museum of Art. Freemesser, professor of fine arts, died Dec. 18 at the age of 51, following a long illness. Robert James, head of the fine and applied arts dept., describes Freemes ser as "a photographer with a national reputation. ‘Bemie made Oregon visible. He es tablished Oregon as a place to study photography in a serious way,” James says. According to James, Hal Halberstadt of San Francisco will continue the department’s photography program for the rest of the year. James describes Halberstadt as “an established artist:’ James says the department is recruit ing a permanent replacement for Freemessfir By PAUL WALDSCHMIDT of the Emerald The memorial exhibition will include about 25 color and black and white prints as a representative sampling of Freemesser's extensive work. Freemesser served as adviser to the gal lery, which was started in 1966 through his encouragement. Freemesser, who was designated as the University’s official photographer, taught photography at the School of Journalism before the program was transferred to the Department of Fine and Applied Arts. Freemesser also served on the board of directors of Friends of Photography and was a former chairer of the board of the Society for Photographic Education. The exhibition may be viewed during the museum's regular hours, noon to 5 p.m. daily except Monday. There is no admission charge. A show of works by documentary photographer Bill Owens, originally scheduled to open Sunday, will begin Jan. 17 instead. Local hemophiliac puts out call for blood donations Eugene resident Ken Baker needs blood. He is presently 467 units in debt due to an operation on his knee earlier this year. Unless volunteer blood donors come through. Jobs for older women topic of speech by expert on displaced housewives Tish Sommers, the woman who coined the phrase “displaced homemaker,” will be in Eugene Friday at noon to talk about "Emp loyment Opportunities for the Older Woman.” The Oregon Center for Dis Parks program seeks volunteers The Specialized Recreation program of the Eugene Parks and Recreation Department needs volunteers for it's Citizen Advo cacy program. Community volun teers will help provide a more norma! life for disabled adults by developing friendly one-to-one re lationships. Anyone age 18 or older who is interested in the well-being of dis abled persons can provide recrea tional and practical activities as a "friend" and companion. The Citizen Advocacy program is part of an effort by the Specialized Recreation Program to integrate disabled persons into community activities and to alert the community of the needs and special concerns of disabled per sons. Interested persons should phone Chris Carroll, Advocacy Coordinator, at 687-5311 or 687-5322. On Franklin Boulevard across from Williams* Bakery. Open 7:30 A.M. until 10:00 P.M. placed Homemakers is sponsor ing Sommers’ appearance at a brown bag lunch at the Emerald Baptist Church, 19th Avenue and Patterson Street. The public is welcome at no charge. Coffee and tea will be fur nished. Sommers, a national authority on employment of older persons is vice-chairer of the California Commission on Aging and chairer of the Older Women’s Rights Committee of the National Or ganization for Women (NOW). She initiated the first displaced homemaker legislation in Califor nia in 1976 and then became the founder and co-coordinator for the National Alliance for Displaced Homemakers. . Displaced Homemaker legisla tion, which is designed to help those who have lost a spouse cope with the unanticipated prob lems of life alone, has now been introduced in 30 state legislatures and approved by 14. Sommers will also discuss the status of na tional displaced homemaker legis lation. . A note from... Bring this ad and get ■ / . ■ 40th & Donald Eugene, Oregon 345-8289 33 Vs % OFF LIST PRICE of any new GUITAR in our store when purchased with its case at the regular price. Limit one coupon per customer. No trades on this offer. Expires January 13, 1978 Baker will be charged $6,705 for the refills he received during his operation. Baker is one of a small group of Americans afflicted with hemophilia, a deficiency that pre vents his biood from clotting. Also known as the Kings Dis ease' because it tends to occur in families which intermarry, hemophilia is an abnormal condi tion in males. It usually is inherited among anglo saxons. Baker, however, is an American Indian, and the discovery of his disease five years ago came as a shock to him, he says. ‘‘We never kept track of our fam ily lineage, so I don't know how it happened," he says. "I played football in high school, joined the service and never expected any thing — until I had my teeth fixed. Afterwards, they wouldn't stop bleeding. I went through a lot of tests, and finally it was diagnosed as 10 per cent hemophilia.” Baker, who recently graduated from the University, says he will be unable to pay for his blood without outside help. "I'm hurtina. really," he explains. Baker hopes students and members of the community will donate blood in his name, to help ease the crunch. 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