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).