Health center now offers
student dental facilities
By Tonnie Dakin
Of the Emerald
The Student Health Center will open its doors for the first
time today to students seeking dental care
The dental facilities will be staffed part-time by a dentist,
and full time by a dental hygienist and a dental assistant.
Students who wish to be seen for a dental problem must
first make an appointment for a comprehensive examination,
said Debra George, staff dental hygienist
This allows the staff to familiarize themselves with She stu
dent's dental ntjeds as well as give students a chance to ask
questions, she said.
Although the ASUO does not provide students with a den
tal insurance plan, fees generally run from one-third to one
fifth of the cost of similar treatments in the community.
George said
However, students with difficult dental needs may be refer
red to a dentist in the community. George said.
"Because there's only one hygienist and 17,000 students,
we'll have to make decisions about how to treat students with
(time-consuming) problems," she said.
The health center's dental facilities are similar to those
available in the community, George said. Students will find
the campus dental facilities convenient because of the loca
tion and the focus of the treatment, she said.
The dental facilities will operate from 8:30 a m. to 3:30
p.m.. Monday through Friday. Appointments can be made at
680-4432, and emergencies will be scheduled based on the
need of the student.
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Jeanette Frame, owner and director of the Musical Feet School of Tap. has been teaching tap
dancing in Eugene for 14 years.
Eugene woman makes sure
tap is not lost in the shuffle
By |ane! Paulson
Of I hr Kmrrald
What was once a dying form
of dance has experienced a
revitalisation, at least in
Eugene, thanks to the Musical
Feet School of Tap. the state's
only dance school specializing
in tap dance.
leanette Frame, owner and
director of Musical Feet, began
teaching tap 14 years ago at a
time when tap dance had been
experiencing a decline in
popularity. Frame revived her
own interest in this uniquely
American dance form and
began teaching friends.
in 1979. she began the
Musical Feet School of Tap.
where she now teaches all
levels of tap from beginning to
performance levels.
Frame began tapping in 1947
at age 5 Before that time, tap
dancing had been the mainstay
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of (he big Hollywood musicals.
"The Hollywood musicals
had a lap number every seven
minutes on the average. By the
1950s. the public had seen tap
for 30 years," Frame says.
The popularity of tap dance
began to die out in the '50s. The
musical "Oklahoma" featured a
ballet scene choreographed by
Agnes DeMille. “Oklahoma"
marked the first time ballet
steps were used in a Broadway
production, not merely as enter
tainment, but to tell the story
through dance, Frame says. A
new era in dance entertainment
began, she adds.
As the national interest in tap
began to fade, so did Frame's.
She stopped tapping at 15.
Fifteen years later, while tak
ing classes in dance and theater
at Lane Community College,
Frame’s interest in tap was
revived. Her husband Scott en
couraged her interest in perfor
ming and teaching, she says.
"One day Scott said to me,
‘We're going to Portland to get
you some tap shoes.' ” she
says.
At that time Frame couldn’t
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even find tap shoes in Eugene,
and in Portland there were no
women’s tap shoes available, so
she had to be fitted with men's
shoes, she says.
She taught in her home for
two or three years, then began
teaching at the WOW Hall as
part of IX’C’s Adult Education
Program. She began running
her own program at the WOW
Hall, acting as the hall’s dance
coordinator.
Frame taught for a short time
at the now-defunct Danceworks
before moving to her present
location in the knights of
Pythias Hall at 420 W. 12th
Avenue in 1979.
Since beginning the school,
Frame has studied with the
"King of Tap,” Charles “Honi"
Coles.
Tap is a dance form concern
ed with rhythm and sound that
essentially turns the body into a
musical instrument, she says.
"I can dance off the rh\Jhin of
any kind of music. I used to
carry a board around to dance
on to the musicians at the Coun
try Fair." she says.
The school’s 50-plus
students, ranging in age from
four to 60. have an annual pro
duction at the Hult Center.
Frame and her assistant. Nancy
Uetiaas. choreograph and ar
range all the numbers as well as
dance in several. Frame's hus
band, Scott, who is a theater
designer/technician, provides
the technical expertise for the
production.
“Without him. I don't think 1
could have gone as far as 1 have
with the shows. I've had the
security of knowing he could
take care of anything that goes
wrong." she says.
Learning tap dancing doesn't
require extraordinary coordina
tion or flexibility. Frame says.
Unlike most dance forms, if is
possible to start tap later in life
and still excel, she says.
But for more than any other
reason. Frame enjoys tap danc
ing because it's fun. she says.
"It's happy," she says. "It's
expression with your feet,
besides that, it's a gas to do!"
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