Volume Axe No. 16
Veterans at Work
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It's veterans like these that are willing to lend a helping
hand to any other vet whenever he has a problem. Pictured
above, from left to right, are Michael Katie, Robert Con
nolly, Jim Lundy, Dan Dolan, and Ken Heberle.
Veterans Lend Helping Hands
Veterans at work helping one
another. This is the basic
philosophy behind the Veteran's
Affairs Office and the five
students who staff it.
The five - Ken Heberle, Jim
Lundy, Robert Connolly, Michael
Katie, and Dan Dolan—may be
found in the Veteran's Office
whenever classes are in session.
They are there to help any
veteran with any type of problem
imaginable. Their major goal is
to get the veteran in school and,
once there, to stay there.
After having spent four years in
the Air Force, Heberle, 25, is
presently majoring in
psychology. His hobbies include
skiing, playing tennis and
photography.
Lundy, 23, has spent 18 months
in the Army Infantry and is now
Dance, Film Festivals
Highlight Spring Arts
Spring will soon be coming to
Behrend and along with the
change of seasons will be the
fourth annual spring arts festival,
"Focus IV Spotlight on the Arts."
Plans have been underway since
winter term establishing a ten
tative schedule of events for the
week of May 6-12.
An interesting event to be at
Behrend this year will be the
showing of four top rated horror
films. The planning of the films is
being handled by Willard Youger.
A few other mini film festivals
will be held. One will be featuring
silent flicks of Charlie Chaplin
and Laurel. and Hardy. JRC is
also sponsoring the all night flick
program.
The craft demonstration and
display is looking great with Gail
Shepard in charge_ A number of
individuals have been contacted
as to the possibility of their
displaying craft exhibits. Those
definitely corning to Behrend are
a woodcutter of children's ob
jects, pottery and ceramic
creators along with candle
making.
An art display featuring the
works of students, faculty, and
staff is being organized by Barry
Yacabucci. Any exhibits of
photography, painting, charcoal
drawings, or sculptures can be
Published by the students of the Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University
planning to become a doctor of
optometry. He and his wife
Pandelee, reside in Erie.
A senior planning to enter into
the field of social work, Connolly,
25, served with the Army in
Company C 2-12 Ist Air Cavalry
Division. He and his wife,
Maureen, have one daughter.
Earle, 24, is presently enrolled
in the pre-med program. He has
spent four years in the Navy and
now resides with his wife Lou Ann
in the Erie area.
After having been stationed in
California for four years, Dolan,
26, moved to Erie so that he could
attend Behrend and major in
accounting. He hopes to become a
certified public accountant in the
future. He has been married to
the former Lois Reed for four
years.
shown in this category. It is
important that Behrend in
dividuals participate to make this
art display a success. Contact
Yacabucci at 319 Lawrence Hall
if interested.
The Erie Art Center is per
mitting Behrend to use an exhibit
from an eighty piece collection
found in the center. Dr. Philip
lobst is the resource person for
this display.
Another attraction will be the
production of "The House of Blue
Leaves" by the Behrend Players
under the direction of Arno Selco.
Rehearsals will soon be un
derway for this performance.
Interpretive dance and ballet
will be another exhibit. The
possibility .gf having the black
ballerina, Charon Battles' return
to Behrend is being looked into.
Folk and ethnic dancing will also
be featured. Darla Berkey is in
charge of the dance presen
tations.
Rounding out the week will be
the poet Don McQuaid, formerly
of WQLN radio. Jazz and country
bluegrass performers are being
planned along with the Erie
Philharmonic String Quartet. The
outdoor music festival to be held
on the ski slope Sunday afternoon
will be the grand finale of Focus
IV if. . .it doesn't rain.
Guare's Savage
Coming Festival
On May 2 to 4 and May 8
through 11 at 8 p.m. in The
Behrend College Studio Theatre,
The Behrend Players will present
John Guare's award-winning
savage farce, "The House of Blue
Leaves." Tickets cost $2.50 for
the public and $1.50 for Behrend
College students, faculty and
staff.
"The House of Blue Leaves"
opened at the off-Broadway
Truck and Warehouse Theatre on
February 10, 1971. Critics ac
claimed the play a hit and Mr.
Guare a new force in con
temporary American theatre.
Clive Barnes of the New York
Times wrote: "Mr. Guare's play
is mad, funny, at times very
funny and sprawling. I laughed a
great deal, and I recommend the
play."
In 1971, "The House of Blue
Leaves" earned Mr. Guare both
the "Obie" Award and the New
With students like these staf
fing the Veterans office it would
seem that the Veterans on
campus are very fortunate.
Smash Hit Coming Soon
The show all Erie has been
waiting for opens at The
Playhouse on Friday, March 29
for ten glorious performances. If
audiences. were asked to vote on
their ten favorite shows, one can
be sure that "The King and I"
would appear near the top of
everyone's list. This timeless tale
has been thrilling audiences all
around the world ever since it
premiered in 1951. Written by
that highly successful team of
Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein, "The King and I"
will never age. It will always
have universal appeal to all ages.
The perfect family en
tertainment, "The King and I"
features a cast of 60. Featured as
the King is Thomas Colbridge
who impressed audiences
recently as Allan in "The Boys in
the Band".
Portraying- the lovely Anna
Leonowens, the school-mistress
from England, is Marilyn Smith,
making her debut with The
Playhouse and possessing one of
the most beautiful voices ever to
grace the Erie stage.
Lun Tha and Tuptim, the young
lovers who sing "We Kiss In a
Shadow" and "I Have Dreamed"
is played by Erie's newest and
most exciting stage personalities,
each with voices that can excite
any audience, Chris Groenendaal
and Beth Way.
Sally DeMichael sings the
magnificient "Something
Wonderful" as Lady Thiang, the
King's first wife.
The production is directed by
David Matthews who is rapidly
proving he is one of Erie's most
exciting directors. He is assisted
by Christy Sloan. Choreography
is being created by Charlie
Corritore who won a "Bravo"
award last year for his work in
"Company".
Phillip Louise Rodzen has
designed scenery that will leave
the audience gasping and the
costumes are being assembled in
New York by the world's largest
costumer Brooks Van Horn. "The
King and I" is the most costly
York Drama Critics Circle
Award. Carlo Ponti will produce
the film version of Guare's play.
The main character in "The
House of Blue Leaves" is Artie
Shaughnessy, a middle-aged
animal keeper at the Central
Park Zoo. Artie has a knack for
inadvertently imitating cheap
Tin Pan Alley tunes. The action of
the play takes pike in the living
room of Artie's Sunnyside,
Queens apartment on October 4,
1965—the day the Pope flew to
New York to address the United
Nations General Assembly. The
Pope hoped to encourage the
delegates from the world powers
to carry his message of peace
back to their peoples.
Artie's "pretty, pink, slightly
plump, electric" girlfirend,
Bunny Flingus, who lives below
Artie and his wife, hopes to speed
Artie and herself off to Hollywood
by getting the Pope to bless
Artie's sheet music. Artie is
married to a • woman recently
gone mad; she is accurately
named Bananas.
Among the other characters
who appear are a movie actress
who was deafened in an explosion
during the making of her latest
vehicle, "Warmonger," and the
son of the Shaughnessys, Ronnie,
production ever mounted at the
Playhouse and capacity
audiences are expected for each
and every performance. Per
formances are scheduled
evenings Friday, March 29
through Sunday, March 31 and
Wednesday, April 3 through
Sunday, April 7. Also, two
matinees are scheduled on each
of the Sundays, making ten
performances available to the
public. Reservations should be
made early to assure the best
seating. Student tickets are
available.
SUB Deadlines
by Gary Schonthaler
Applications are now being
accepted for positions on next
year's Student Union Board.
Application deadline is April 5
and the forms are available at the
RUB Desk.
Friday, March 22, is the date
for another deadline—that of the
chess and pinochle tournaments.
Applications for these events are
also available at the RUB Desk.
"What's Up, Doc?" is this
week's featured SUB movie.
Barbra Streisand and Ryan
O'Neil star in the film which will
have a midnight showing on
Saturday, March 23, and two
showings on Sunday, March 24, at
7 and 9 p.m. in the RUB Lecture
Hall. Prices for the movies
remain at fifty cents with an
activity card and $1.25 without a
card.
Finally, another registration
period begins on Monday, March
25, and runs through until Friday,
March 29, for the chance of a
lifetime to participate in a sucker
sunday, or the backroom
olympics (call it what you like).
This catastrophe features
tournaments in pinball, air
hockey, mixed. eight-ball, and
ping-pong, all of which will take
place on Sunday (naturally),
March 31, in the RUB Back
Room.
Thursday, Marh 21, 1974
Farce
Week
who constructs a bomb to blow up
the Pope. There are also three
larky nuns who have been wat
ching the Pope's motorcade from
the roof of the Shaughnessy's
apartment building. And there is
Billie Einhorn, the movie
director, who is in great
emotional distress because
Ronnie's bomb takes its toll on
(among others) his girlfriend, the
deaf actress, rather than on the
Pope.
Through this wildness runs a
thread of serious meaning that
strikes at the heart of many
contemporary mores. As Harold
Clurman said: "Guare is not
simply a prankster. What
motivates him is scorn for the
fraudulence of our way of life."
The cast and crews of "The
House of Blue Leaves" consist
entirley of Behrend College
students. The production is under
the direction of Instructor in
Theatre and Film, Arno Selco.
Mr. Selco gained experience in
theatre by performing
professionally in Broadway and
stock productions, in feature
films, and on network television
shows.
Due to the success of the
Behrend Players winter
production of the old time
melodrama, "The Drunkard,"
the seating capacity of the Studio
Theatre will be increased. Yet
there will still be only 80 tickets
available for each performance.
Tickets go on sale in the Reed
Building on Thursday, April 25.
Finley Named to
Food Committee
at SGA Meeting
by Georgean Gaydosh
Managing Editor
The food services committee
was the main topic of discussion
Monday night at the first SGA
meeting for the spring term. Mr.
Finley was appointed the ad
ministrator of the committee by
Director Kochel because of his
qualifications as manager of
housing and food services. Dr.
Richard A. Mester, chairman of
faculty, informed SGA that the
faculty named Dr. Barry Weller
and Dr. Richard Tomsic to be
their representatives on the
committee. SGA chose three
students to serve on the com
mittee. They were: Tom Ruff,
Darla Berkey, and Jeff Lang.
President Mike Chiricuzio stated
that SGA will steer the Food
Service Committee and that he
has - talked with the PSU Branch
Campus Co-ordinator of Housing
and Food Services to inspire
other campuses with housing
facilities to set up similar
committees.
It was stated that student loans
will not be made available until
March 22. Also a reminder to
those students who have loans out
to please attempt to pay them.
The Inter Campus Tourney
held at Sharon saw 11 Behrend
students participating. They did
well in the table tennis singles
and doubles although they lost in
bowling and chess. The table
tennis team will go on to play at
University Park.
Another reminder was made
about submitting applications for
spring elections which will be
held during the sixth week of this
term. The open positions are on
the SGA executive Board:
President, vice president,
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