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B University Art Events Scheduled Eugene - The University of Oregon's annual Festival of the Arts will open February 10 and continue through r March 1. Theme of the 1963 festival is "Dance in the Arts," ac cording to Dr. M. Frances Dougherty, professor of phys ical education and chairman of the festival committee, Among the offerings will be art exhibits, lectures, dance recitals, music con certs, films, plays, and Browsing room events. Students, faculty members, and visiting artists will partic ipate, The festival will lead off February 10 with the presen tation of the famous British ballet film, "The Red Shoes," in the ballroom of the Erb Memorial Student union There will be two showings at 2:30 and 3 p.m. As part of the festival, the Museum of Art will feature a special loan . exhibition, "The Dance in Art," from Feb. 19 lo April 7, under the sponsorship of the Friends of the Museum The show will be composed of sculptures, painting?, draw. lngs, prints, photographs, and other objects borrowed for the occasion from a large number of museums and pri vate collections, as well as from the Museum of Art's permanent collections. In addition to Dr. Dough erty, members of the faculty committee include Dr. W. S. Baldinger, director of the Museum of Art; Sylvan N. Karchmer, associate professor of English; and Homer T. Keller, associate professor of music theory and composi tion. Other committee members are Robert R. McCollough, head humanities librarian at the university library; Adell McMillan, program director of the Student union; Jean V. Cutler, instructor in speech; Jay V. Soeder, assistant pro fessor of arts, and Jan Zach, associate professor of art. THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Veni-Vidi ' By MARGARET SCHULER Lewis and Clark college Allen B. Skei, instructor of music, will conduct the Lewis and Clark concert band in program of music ranging in a variety of styles ai 7:30 p.m.., Sunday, January 27, in ihe First Presbyterian church. The 41 musicians will make Medford their third stop in a tour of western Oregon. Dinner. Cards on Weatonka Program A covered dish dinner will precede the business meeting and card party for members of Weatonka council, Degree of Pocahontas Friday, Janu ary 25 in the Redman hall on Apple street. Friends of the group are invited for the evening. The dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. Past Chiefs of the council will preside for the business meeting which will open at 8 p.m., with Mrs. Leo Mitchell as Pocahontas. Oth ers will be Mrs. Carrie Milncs Wononah, Mrs. Lewis Thompson, prophetess and Mr. Thomas, Powhatan. No fees will be charged for the events. Dinner Meeting Held Oak Grove Garden club members met January 22 for a covered dish dinner and eve ning of games. Twenty-five persons attended. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Hamilton and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Foy made up the dinner commit tee. A business meeting was held. Gold Hill Group Plans Year Book Gold Hill - A year book for 1963 was planned by mem bers of Gold Hill Garden club at the January meeting in the home of Mrs. Albert Gascon. Mrs. S. M. Christcnscn, presi dent conducted the business session following a potluck luncheon. Cohostcsses were Mrs. Cassie Johnson, and Mrs. Carol Yule., The president appointed chairmen for the new year. They are Mrs. Paul Holder- ness, program; Mrs. Ford Jones, chaplain and Mrs. Walter McLean, year book Mrs. Gascon was named sun shine chairman. Mrs. L. G. Kofahl will be hostess for- the February 15 meeting at her home on Old Highway 99 north at 1 p.m. Sicily Taormina - The Greeks appreciated that Taor mina was precious and rare. They came 300 years before Christ to build on the slopes and to give it its name -Tauro-menian. The early Romans must have appreciated it also, They chose it as a summer re sort for their rich citizens So, today, here it is, a mar vclous garden in one of the most beautiful spots of the world Combining the best of the self conscious beauty resorts of Europe - Cannes, Monte Carlo, Mallorca and Elba -they lack "the something" which sets Taormina apart: an ineffable, subtle, soul satis fying delight. High on the hillside, Taor mina slopes in cascading gar dens and terraces down to the blue hue of the Mediterran ean, and up and over towards white Etna against more blue. In seemingly haphazard fash ion, villas dot the countryside. One long narrow street -Corso Umbcrlo - runs the length of the little village. From this street old stone steps lead up and down to other ways of winding charm. Low, long-used stone build ings - stage settings certainly - trail in profusion, flowers and vines through hand wrought iron and decorative Sicilian urns and pots. tie and merchandise Is dis played outside of them as well as in. Bright red, yellow and blue are in, and on, every thing one buys; toys, Sicilian carts and gaily bedecked horses and burros, mandarins in clusters and festoons on walls which is artistic, but not practical. Coffee tables are on ter races, and in front of bars, and customers sit long times contemplating the sea - and passers-by. Street lights are old and quaint. Old stone arches create vistas and frame distant cypresses - or Etna. Automobiles potter down the one way street along with strolling Sicilians and tour ists. Occasionally, a bus pushes every one to the walls, Shopkeepers leave their little domains to visit with a com petitor, or perhaps to change a thousand lire note. There is a friendly unsophistication pleasant, unhurried sensation of going nowhere fast - a per ception of drifting time. The highlight, the apogee of it all, is the great and grand Greek theater which the re markable race built in such manner that two thousand years later, people like me may sit, seeing the old open stage, and over and above that like a back drop - Etna. At sunrise, it is an experience, Reading Group Advocates Phonetics Shops in Taormina are lit-'and at sunset, it is another. New Frontiers Topic For Women Educators Italian Designers Show Bared Necklines, Capes Florence, Italy -UIPH- There was nowhere for necklines to go today except up. After the plunge they took in the Potti Palace fashion shows Tuesday night, it was either that or the Follies Ber gere. Designer Germana Maru celll bared necklines to the waist in her spring-summer collection. The result was the kind of anatomical moment of truth that once made Minsky a household name. Four Designers The four designers on to day's program for the Haliun high fashion collections Schuberth, Valentino, Gurnett and Giollca voted for ac centing the feminine with a more lavish expenditure of material. Marucelll startled the most sophisticated of fashion ex perts with her nothing to hide bodies. The plunge on all her dresses ended exactly at the waist. She kept the dccolle tage wide and open-occasionally adding a modernistic sil ver pendant in a futile at tempt to offer sonic degree oi cover, Since dresses were as bare in back as in front, Marucel- il's collection also supplied capes of a military cut to pro tect milady from the chill air. Marucelll's elbow length capes, completely beaded in glistening white and banded in electric blue, were almost theatrical as her more re vealing costumes. For contrast, she topped most of her day clothes with demure little girl sailor straws, complete with stream ers. The Roman house of Min golinl Gugenheim shared Tuesday night's program with Mnrucclli and presented a col lection wilh a different fash ion philosophy. They presented a line that never under-estimated a sin gle feminine curve but let the clothes tell the story. Suits hud well marked hips, bosom and waists but were kept sleek and slim at the same time. The waistline was New frontiers for women were discussed at a meeting of Epsilon chaptor of Delta Kappa Gamma society, an international honorary organi zation for women educators, held at Girls' Community club in Medford. The business meeting was conducted by the president, Mrs. Keith Woodward, Grants Pass, and the program chair man, Mrs. Elsie Turner, pre sented Mrs. Walter Foote who moderated a panel discussion. New frontiers for women in religious, political, industrial and artistic areas were dis cussed by key women of the Rogue valley. Mrs. Tom Ginn spoke of floristry opportunities based upon her 14 years of exper ience In that area In this com munity. She stressed the artis tic aspects of this vocation through joy attained in creat ing some thing which gives pleasure to others. Floristry also contributes in practical ways to the community, soci ety and industry, she said. Mrs. Gretchen Wade of The Red Mitten touched on women's experiences and opportunities in the industrial world as well as stressing the importance of the career of wife and mother. Much of industrial success Is due to women's Influence in keeping corporations running smooth ly, she said. Opportunities for women lie wherever one has the interest in giving all of oneself and payments should be in rewards of satisfaction as well as monetary. Mrs. Ogden Kcllog, Gold Hill, president of Jackson County League of Women Voters, spoke of frontiers in the political area. Not only are more women becoming active in national and stale legislatures but there are Im portant roles In political part ies as well as non-partison political activities, she de clared. Mrs. Everett Faber, Central Point, talked of religious activities engaged in by lay women and showed the need the world will be Christian. The striving for . common goals, though there be diver sity, and the desire for mis sions to receive our training, but not our way of life, shows the future trend in religious thinking, Mrs. Faber said. Mrs. Foote summarized the discussion and said each area carries a potential that should be tapped and used. Miss Folorence Allen led group singing with Mrs. Mel- vin Otis at the piano. Hostess es for the meeting were Mrs. D. R. Sloan, Mrs. Alice Wil lits, Miss Eugenia Carson, Dorothy Stolp. SAVORY Braised rutabagas arc sav ory. Place two pounds of rut abagas, peeled and sliced, in a saucepan with 1-inch of chicken stock and one tea spoon salt. Cover. Cook 20 minutes or Until almost ten der, lifting cover two to three times. Remove cover and cook until stock evaporates. Add two tablespoons of butter or margarine and saute three minutes, being careful not to break slices. Sprinkle with one-eighth teaspoon of ground black pepper and chopped fresh parsley. Serves 6. marked by parallel lines and sometimes wandered a scant of making God real lo others. inch above or below the na- She said it is predicted that tural" waistline. by 1970 only 25 percent of By PATRICIA McCORMACK New York -dipt- The fast growing reading reform foun dation wants to restore the alphabet-pho netics - to its proper pedes tal as the ba sts of elemen tary reading i n it ruction When this ob- j e c 1 1 ve is reached, the Patrlrla . . Mccormick promises w e can stop asking - "why can't Johnny read? We can stop asking it, the foundation says, because John, ny and all of his classmates will be able to read In phonetics, the little stu dents learn the sounds of the 26 letters in the alphabet. Very simply, soon after they can look an unfamiliar word in the eye without trembling. That's because once they master phonetics as a basis they should be able to sound out unfamiliar words - even jawbreakers such as discom- bobulate and thrombosis. The old-fashioned phonetics system somehow got pushed to the rear of the class several decades ago, Substituted was what the foundation refers to as "a dog ma of configurationism and guess-work, Caught On The dogma, in practice, caught on. Two years ago, for example, 98 per cent of public school children were intro duced to reading the configur ationism way. The reading crisis continued. For the first six months of reading instruction, they were taught only word-shapes. This is the way look-say method. Learning to read this way, according to the promoters of phonetics, puts reading on a footing with the learning of Chinese - a system in which each word has its special con figuration and the student must memorize the way a word looks. This is the system that Wat son Washburn and reading ex perts at the foundation weighed and found far short of effective results in reading instruction. During its first year of op eration the foundation, com posed of 180 educators and other experts, established units in 31 states and the Dis trict of Columbia. It hopes to grow even more in 1963-supplementing and co ordinating local reform move ments. In addition, a national public education program has been launched to bring to all the nature and extent of the reading crisis, its cause and cure. Could Eradicate Washburn says the "cancer of configuratipnism" could be eradicated completely by 1965 if enlightened teachers and aroused parents enthusiasti cally back the reform movement. The situation in private and parochial schools Is not so sad as in the public schools, he noted. The thirty-first state to be organized by the foundation is Alabama. I wo recent addi tions to the National Advisory Council are Dr. Howard Thur- man, dean of religion at Bos ton University, and Dr. John A. Valentine, director of ex aminations, college entrance board, New York City. Washburn said several re cent developments bear out the sound judgment behind the foundation s' program Cited was the election of Dr. Max Rafferty as stale su perintendent of public instruc tion last November in Cali fornia. He campaigned for a return to alphabetic-phonetic instruction. , "There is no reason to be lieve that California voters differ from other Americans in their concern for what their children are learning," the foundation reported. If it were possible to hold a national referendum on the issue that was fought to a finish in California, the foun dation suspects that the out come would be the same. Washburn also said chil dren In the nation's capital, Washington, D. C, now are learning reading via the alphabetic-phonetic system. Join Parade "Arizona . is largely con verted," he said. "Thirty-three Maine school systems have reformed. 1 n Massachusetts, Weston last fall joined the pa rade which Lincoln school started four years ago. Hawaii has taken a step In the right direction. In Flor ida, Illinois, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Vir ginia and Wisconsin, individ ual localities have successfully asserted their independence of the dogma of configuration ism and guess-work." The foundation is working to persuade school boards and public officials across the na tion to take prompt action. "It is shocking to think that millions of children are being daily threatened with perma nent mental stagnation due to discredited configuration! s t teaching, Washburn said. The foundation, through its national advisory council members, also is supporting a movement to supply more text dooki ot better literary qual ity to schools to "replace ex isting picture-books of strictly limited and repetitive vocab ulary and incredible banal ity." "In short," Washburn said, "the foundation seeks to give every child the opportunity to appreciate as early In life as possible the richness of the English language and the beauties of English literature, and to progress in a logical way to the other departments of education, of which reading ability is indispensable." For that aim, at least, the foundation's bound to get a pat on the back from the Na tional Council of Teachers of English. After all, if the reading cri sis continues, how will they ever teach 'em Shakespeare's sonnets up in the high school? Don't Overlook These Economy Cuts of Beef Are there cuts of beef in your meat dealer's display case that you cannot identify and, as a result, never pur chase? For both mealtime va riety and economy's sake, in clude these less familiar beef cuts in your menus. According to Reba Staggs, home economist, the less ten der cuts of beef that are often overlooked include the shank, plate, brisket, tongue, heart and boneless beef for stew. Correctly cooked, all of these cuts are tender and juicy. And in addition to being served in hot dishes such as stew, they will be popular in meat pies and sandwich fillings. The proper method of cook ing these less tender cuts is in liquid. This differs from braising in that more liquid is used. The meat is complete ly covered and is usually not browned. With the meat cov ered with water, seasonings are added, the utensil tightly covered and the meat sim mered until tender. Slow cooking is the secret to tender and juicy meat. If the temperature is too high the meat will be dry and the fibers will not hold together. On the average, fresh beef cooked In liquid will require 40 to 50 minutes per pound cooking time. , I Nicaragua Topic For Ashland Club Ahland-"N 1 c a r a g u a Through the Eyes of an Amer ican-Woman" furnished So roptlmist members a new pic ture of this country on the Caribbean sea. The Friday luncheon speaker was Mrs. V. R. Christy, whp has spent more than ten yea-s in Nica ragua with her husband, whose lumber interests took him to distant parts of the land. Primitive ways and unusual customs exist air---g the peo ple. Especially backward are their ideas and treatment of women. Animals are quartered un der the native thatched cot tages built upon high supports and insects of every sort abound in the humid climate of Nicaragua. The speaker was introduced by Mrs. Velma Jones and the meeting was conducted by Mrs. Mabel Winston. Prospect Woman Honored at Shower Prospect Mrs. Thomas Schriven was honored at a layette shower recently in the home of Mrs. Dean Boyer. Mrs. William Barnes was cohostess and Mrs. Halavar Garden furnished the decorations. DO GLASSES ON CREDIT! Green Stomps COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. 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