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Art classes paint graphics bp M ike Martus Betty Bursheim and her Art I, advanced arts, and drawing classes have put up some unusual graphics on the two walls near the A u d io Visual room . It was Bursheim’s idea to put up the graphics. T h e pictures are o f students doing different ac tivities. Under the supervision of Bursheim and professional artist Faylinda Kodis, these students traced the silhouettes of students and teachers. T h e “ m odels” had to pose in front of bright lights while the students traced their silhouettes on the walls. This did pose a problem for the person w h o had to pose for the picture of the back-bend. Th e students had to realign the shadow several times with the lines already traced before the figure was com pleted. According to Bursheim the project was budgeted for last year. “ W e had it budgeted for in the art budget,” said Bursheim. “ It costs $245 for one week to have the artist com e out. “ She (Kodis) was very easy going. She got along great with the kids,” she com m ented. “ The main reason Bursheim had her classes d o this was to let the students have a chance to work with a professional artist. “ I wanted the students to have Senior Kathryn Bourn wins French exam by Richard Bloom Fourth year French student Kathryn Bourn won the Oregon division o f the National French Exam recently by racking up a score o f 67 out of a possible 80. Bourn, a senior, was very sur prised at her score because of the system of grouping on the test. “ I didn’t think I would do well because'in fourth year and third year they d on ’t separate the peop le who took (French) in grade school or who went to France,” she said. This means peop le of different proficiencies would all take the test together. photo by Greg Wahl-Stevens According to Bourn, much o f the credit for her score should go to Cindy Mannering, French IV teacher. “ She was so excited and proud! She is dedicated. She puts in so much time trying to get us to work harder.” Bourn added, “ She pushes us, but we can do it.” O ne of the things that helped Bourn on the test was going to France in the summer of 1982. She went on a foreign exchange program and stayed in V e r sailles, a city near Paris. Although the program made her stay in one place, with one host family, she got to see Paris and speak French constantly for one month. Bourn, w ho is taking Spanish along with French, plans to g o to the University o f Oregon next year where she will take business courses and Japanese. “ I like to work with languages and for west coast business that’s a good language to h ave,” she said. Senior Missy Abraham paints the silhouette of herself. contact with other artists,” ex plained Bursheim.” A profes sional artist can answer all of their questions.” Th e project only took them a w eek to put up. “ It went up quickly,” said Bursheim, “ and there was a lot of action going o n .” S o far she has had a lot of g o o d comments. “ Th e students are very positive,” said Bur sheim. “ T h ey like the idea that the pictures are of students and they try to figure out which students are in the pictures.” This will not be the end of this type of art. “ W e plan on putting up figures outside the art rooms at the end of M ay D ay,” Bursheim smiled. DY JEFF SÎM/YI0NS THE BARGAR1AM MEXT: CAPTIVE/ Mitchell, Obrien present three spring comedies by S te v e K e lly “ I wanted to do The Odd Couple with fem ale leads, because w e have a lot of talented Appearing on the nights o p posite Feiffer’s People are two one-act plays, Black Comedy, and the Twelve Pound Look. girls, but Neil Sim on is also plan G ary O brien, director at the N e w ning on doing the play with fem ale leads. H e ’s making a new script and he didn’t want to give permission to the schools until the new script was finished. I could have done it with guys but I wasn’t excited about it so I chose Feiffer’s People instead,” Karen Mitchell explained of the spring play choice. Feiffer’s People is a series of short sketches that blasts everything from business men in three-piece suits to the liberated woman, superman to country singer, m odern dance to modern p a ren ts. The h u m or is sophisticated, and the play takes p la ce am ong w ell-d re s s ed s o p h is tic a ted p a rty -g o e rs gathered for an elegant evening soiree. Except for Bernard (Dale H og g ), no actor in the play is given a name. Bernard is the ultimate nerd. Other characters are the young romatic (Brad Scoggins); the status seeker (D ave H endrick), the stud (Chris Sallquist); the country boy (Terry Narain); the new wave type (D ave T h om p son ); the debutante (Dena Fairchild); the sweet young things (Michelle Eliott and Kristen Sm ith); society matron (Leta Buswell); sexy type (Krystal Kroker); liberated wom an (Bobbie Virckler); tough type (Jill Taylor); pregnant wom an (Kim H att); dancer Rose Theatre, directs both plays. “ Guest directors are nice because the students can work with som eone besides me, which is important. It also gives them a chance to work with profes sionals,” com m ented Karen Mit chell. (A m b er M ish ler); and the piano p layer (Tess V igela n d ). (W H E W !) “ I’m very excited,” Mitchell said. “ The adaptation is very unusual. Th e cast understands the humor, which is very sophisticated, so not everyone might understand it. N ot to say that th e a u d ie n c e w on ’t understand it.” The Black Comedy takes place in the dark. Bizzare things begin to happen when a girl brings her wealthy father to m eet her fiance, who is a sculptor. T o im press the girl’s father, the sculptor invites a wealthy art patron and has also stolen the furniture from the apartment next door to furnish his bare apartment. The neighbors return too soon, the art patron is mistaken for an electrician, and a form er flame pixies the pro ceedings from the bedroom . Cast and characters are Ken Whittaker (Brinsdley M iller), Cyndi Patton (Carol M elkett), M eg Bird (Miss Furnival), Scott Messman (C olonel Melkett), Bill Fehrs (Harold G orren ge), R oyce Coston (Schuppanzigh), Donna W herry (C le a ), and Keith Casper (G eorge B am berger). Th e Twelve Pound Look deals with Sir Harry Simms. Simms is on tne eve of his knighthood. A typist has been hired to answer the messages of congratulation. She turns out to be his former wife, Kate, who was much o p pressed by his grandeur, hard ness and pettiness, that she learned to type and left him as soon as she earned enough m oney, 12 pounds, to buy a typewriter. Cast and characters are Sean Hatt (Sir Harry Simms), Lady Simms (Laura Kelly), Kat (Julie Siggins), and Tom bes (Mike Sheehy).