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Wednesday Harlan's book a real eye-opener Instead of giving his “anti-advice, "columnist Harlan Cohen gives the ODE his two-cents worth on his success. PAGE 10 REBECCA NEWELL: PULSE EDITOR, rnewell@gladstone.uoregon.edu Faith and hard work gets her everywhere ■A long week of competition turns out to be an experience in itself for University student By Tonya Alanez Oregon Daily Emerald The week of Aug. 14 hit like a whirlwind for Taryn Tarver Thompson. It was a week the University graduate student had been antici pating for slightly over three months. Once she arrived in Sevierville, Tenn., as the Oregon representative for the Mrs. USA International competition, she found there was very little time for sleep. “They keep you on the loop; there’s no way to get any rest,” Tarver-Thompson said of the non stop week of publicity outings, training and rehearsals required for the 68 contestants involved in the Aug. 18-19 competition. Aside from being a pageant con testant, Tarver-Thompson is a 25 year-old married mother of three. And as if her plate isn’t full enough, she’s also in the midst of completing her master’s degree in journalism, while simultaneously working as a full-time sales execu tive and assistant to the chief oper ating officer at Chambers Commu nication Corporation. Tarver-Thompson possesses mo tivation and charisma, apparent in a brief encounter or a working rela tionship. Her former professor Clyde Bentley witnessed this when she was a student in his manage ment class. “She is a very talented person,” Bentley said. “I have a lot of respect for anyone who continues on with their busy life and earns a degree. It takes a lot of energy to do that and she obviously has a lot of energy.” Earning the title of Mrs. Eugene International in November ad vanced Tarver-Thompson into the Mrs. Oregon International 2000 competition which she secured in April. That title, in turn, secured Tarver-Thompson a position at the competition in Tennessee. The platform of the Mrs. Oregon International 2000 Pageant, “Rec ognizing the virtues of family, pro fessional and community involve ment among married women,” fits Tarver-Thompson like a glove. “I believe in getting the message out to everyone that being and re maining married is a choice and things aren’t always perfect,” Tarv er-Thompson said. “There will al ways be trials and tribulations. But in the end it will be you and your family that matters more than your jobs or anything else.” Tarver-Thompson credits her husband Jason Thompson, who accompanied het in Tennessee, and her faith in Jesus Christ as her sources of calming support. When battling backstage nerves she finds solace in hugging her husband and singing praise and worship songs. “If I’m quiet something is wrong, otherwise I’m constantly singing praise and worship songs,” Tarver Thompson said. “My husband’s presence calms me. He’s not dra matic, he’s th£ most mellow per son I’ve ever met. He basically bal ances me out. I get overly excited and he’ll be under-excited, so to gether we’ll be somewhere in the middle.” The pageant contestants spent the week being primped and fitted, learning a production number, sign ing autographs on various mall trips, visiting Dollyville and attending a Courtesy Taryn Tarver-Thompson Tarver-Thompson was Oregon’s representative in the Mrs. USA International contest. performance by Louise Mandrell. The pageant consisted of an evening gown and sportswear com petition and an individual inter view session with the five judges. Tarver-Thompson didn’t walk away from the pageant with a new title, but she did walk away with a feeling of satisfaction. “No potato, but I had a great and wonderful time in Tennessee,” Tarv er-Thompson said. “The week was very hectic, but it was also very good. I couldn’t and wouldn’t ex change it for anything. ” The title of Mrs. USA Interna tional went to Tarver-Thompson’s sorority sister and the only other black contestant, Mrs. Georgia, who is the first black woman to ever win the competition. Upon Tarver-Thompson’s Aug. 21 return to Oregon, “it’s back to life and reality.’’ “All of my energy and enthusi asm and my encouragement comes from my faith in Jesus Christ,” Tarver-Thompson said. “This is for him and he has given me a plat form to show his love.” Uniquely Eugene Photos by Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald Eugene was the site this past weekend for two body-moving, joy-inducing activites. Aaron Spalding (left) plays the hoshos at the Zimbabwe Music Festival that took place on campus. The annual S.LU.G. Queen contest, which crowned the Eugene Celebration’s unofficial representative, happened downtown. The Eugene Celebration is Sept. 15-17. CS. Price on film at UOMA ■ The University of Oregon Museum of Art hopes to shed light on the Northwest artist’s unnoted paintings By Kristy Hessman Oregon Daily Emerald As part of MusEvenings!, the free weekly program at the Uni versity of Oregon Museum of Art, a film will be shown highlighting Northwest artist C.S. Price. “The film was put together by Kathleen Vitale, one of the muse ums docents and volunteers,” Kaci Manning from the UOMA said. The film, titled “C.S. Price: Modernist Painter in Search of Spirit” was inspired by the muse um’s 1998 exhibition, “C.S. Price: Landscape, Image and Spirit.” “I had never heard of him when the exhibit was here,” Vi tale said. “As a docent I try to learn something about each ex hibit, and I was just stunned by his work.” Although the name was un known, Price’s work moved Vi tale. “He had a feeling for animals,” she said. “I have never been in terested in pictures of horses and cow, but he made them come alive. Price was a cowboy for the first 30 years of his life and a painter for the last 30 years. “He lived very frugally without a car or phone,” Vitale said. “He was very focused on his work. I think this says something to us today. ” Vitale, who had made videos of previous museum exhibits, did all of the filming when the exhibit was in Eugene. She then sought out Karl Durland who wrote and performed the back ground music for the film. “I was looking for someone who played the fiddle, because C.S. Price played the fiddle,” Vi tale said. “It was only two min utes before I realized this guy (Durland) was really talented.” Vicki Ambrose also con tributed to the him as a narrator, as well as Roger Saydack who was an adviser to the him. “A lot of people don’t know about Price’s work,” Vitale said. “I want people to wonder why we don’t hear of him.” The 21-minute film will be shown Aug. 30 at 6 p.m. at the University Museum of Art. The screening is being offered along with the museum’s current exhi bitions of Northwest art, “Her itage of Pacihc Northwest Art: The Virginia Haseltine Collec tion,” and “Community Favorites from the David McCosh Collec tion.” Both are on display until Sept. 3. The museum is accessible to people with disabilities and open from noon to 8 p.m. For more information contact 346-3027.
