February 21, 1974
On December 8, 1973, an
idea was germinated. This idea
grew into a dream. The dream
has become a reality.
Kids Instead is a corporatin
formed by parents and
concerned people in the
Harrisburg inner city. The
corporation was formed for the
purpose of establishing a
recreation center for pre-teenage
children living in the vicinity of
Boas Elementary School, 909
Green Street. The corporation
does exist and an active search is
under way to secure a suitable
building to fulfill its purpose.
The dream will be fully realized.
A building will be found.
The time has come for
everyone to know who is
responsible for the creation of
the corporation. The Chi
Gamma lota Fraternity is solely
responsible for providing the
financial backing enabling the
parents to incorporate. This
group of individuals not only
A Friend to All
Have you ever felt so alone,
Without a friend, that you wanted to scream
To the whole world to be your friend?
Because I have felt that way so many times.
But one day in the sky I found a friend,
He smiled and talked to me and said you are my friend
And in that friend I found joy, the joy to be just you & me.
Why Girls Shouldn’t Go to
How I was discriminated against
at my own Graduation
Things couldn’t have been
finer. My parents couldn’t find
my place in the morning so it
was spotless by the time they
got there. This was the first, very
first, interest they had shown in
my entire educational career.
(And after all, girls shouldn’t go
to college.) They didn’t even
make it to high school
graduation five miles from
home.
I was wearing a beautifully
taylored red, black, and yellow
printed dress; and feeling rather
radical compared to everyone
else in their caps and gowns or
conservative colors. My hair was
down, my shoes were
comfortable, my earrings
glistened. My face wore a smile
that would make the world
wonder what I had been up to.
The speaker proceeded to
laud every wife who had helped
put her husband through school,
then every parent who helped
put their sons through school.
Period. “Hey, wait!” myself
cried. I almost stopped the
show. “What about the husbands
of wives and parents of
daughters and us poor
hard-working suckers who put
ourselves through? Where’s our
word?”
When I walked up on the
stage to get my diploma I
tactfully avoided clouting the
speaker and didn’t throw-up
when the provost said,
“Congratulations, Dearie.”
(Now, where does he get off?)
Thank heavens for one of the
few good things Williamsport
gave me, my buddy, Dr. Wolf,
who exclaimed as he patted me
on the back, “Phoeb, ol’ buddy,
I see you made it!” I did, but
only after keeping my cool.
Afterwards, my parents
walked up to me and the first
thing the old man comes up with
“You look like an old maid in
that dress.”
Shit compared to the rest I
looked like Jesse James at the
Met (The opera, baseball fans).
My mother, bless her heart,
knowing how much it bothers
him to have his oldest daughter,
now 24, the only female over
the age of 18 on either side of
Kids instead
donated the needed money at
the critical moment, but also
encouraged the dream to survive
when many other ears were
turning deaf. The veterans of
Capitol Campus care and they
do more than just talk about it.
Talk is cheap, but XGl’s know
that blood, sweat and honest
committment is what gets things
done in this world.
The advice and moral support
that came from the faculty at
Capitol is by no means
forgotten. Many individuals
spent their valuable time helping
to solve logistical problems long
before concrete work began.
Their dedication is openly
displayed every work day in
their classes and offices.
The following poem is a
statement of one of the KIDS
who will be able to make use of
the center. The girl who wrote
this is a student in the sixth
grade, and her feelings convey a
common message eminating
from the inner city.
College or
by Phoebe E. Sechler
the family stag laughingly stated,
“Well, she is.” I really
laughed, seeing his chagrin, and
added
“Yes, why do you think I’m
smiling.”
When I went home to
solitude I wondered, “For many
years I saved and scrimped for
school to learn that I shouldn’t
be discriminated against. And
then today? For THIS I went to
college?
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A guided tour of Philadelphia
is being conducted by Dr. Irwin
Richman, So. Sc. program and
Prof. Ambrose Klain, R. PI.
program. Dr. Richman will guide
the participants through
landmarks of “old,” “late,” and
“new” Philadelphia. After the
tour, luncheon and theatre show
arrangements are being provided
if desired (Dutch Treat).
The field trip is planned for
Saturday, March 2, 1974. The
bus will leave at 7:30 a.m. from
the parking lot' of the main
building, Capitol Campus. The
bus will leave Philadelphia at 5
p.m. Faculty, staff, students,
their family and friends are
invited.
The cost of the trip is $7.20.
Fifteen seats are still available.
Make your reservations at
787-7953, student representative
is Alan Frame 825 B Nelson
Ave., Middletown.
Tickets will be sold in
Vendorville 4th Period.
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ToBeA Cloud
by Romeo Trajanus
Pure white, cotton soft
Lazily you just float aloft,
Drifting smoothly thru the air.
Showing the world you just don't care.
How I wish that I could float.
Thru the skies in my own air boat.
Lord, I know it would be great fun
To do naught but bask in a friendly sun
But now I must to life return.
And store my dreams in an emerald urn,
Yet, of life I would be ever so proud.
If I could just live it as a cloud.
C.C. Reader
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Nostalgia Week descends
upon Capitol Campus on Friday,
February 22, with the start of
the Marathon Dance and the
Greaser Hop. The celebration of
the excitement of days gone by
is a relatively new occurence at
Capitol. Long before this a
musical was playing at the
Kingston Mines Theatre. Today,
this musical, "Grease" is
enjoying a record run on
Broadway.
The setting is Rydell High
during the heydey of rock n’
roll, in the 1950’5. The scene
shifts from the 1959 class
reunion to the first day of class
in the senior year. Here we meet
The Burger Palace Boys and The
Pink Ladies; Talk about summer
vacation dominates their
conversations. The boys brag of
the their conquests, the girls of
that special summer love.
The show’s memorable song,
“Summer Nights,’’isfrom this scene.
It deals with fleeting summer
love: the casual encounters at
the pool, the summer nights of
romance till 10 o’clock, and the
inevitable end when September
comes around.
Among the dozen students
there are various romances. One
girl is engaged to a Marine, and a
case of reunited lovers. Danny
'Zuko discovers a new girl at
Rydell, Sandy Dumbrowski,
replete with a gray flannel skirt
with a pink French poodle
design, white anklets, and a
figure that fills out her white
sweater. They had met away
from school and when Zucko
sees her he acts aloof and cool in
front of his friends.
Reminiscent scenes revolve
around the Burger Palace, a
pajama party with wine,
cigarettes, and ear piercing, and
the drive-in. The school prom is
depicted with the color and vivid
imagination that most prom
committes have, which is none.
The M.C. is a disc jockey from
the local station, Johnny Casino,
who is overcome by one of the
girls at the dance that he awards
first prize in the hand-jive
contest to Cha-Cha Di Gregorio
and her date. Cha-Cha and her
date were seen leaving the prom
hand in paw; yes, she was really
that bad!
The elements that make
"Grease" so memorable are
numerous. The sets consist of a
photo montage of people and
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objects of the 50’s. James Dean
is next to a tube of Chlorodent
toothpaste, blown-up as big as
the Wrigleys gum package of
today. Costumes are chino pants
and loafers for the guys and long
colorless slacks or pedal-pushers
for the girls with a blouse and
their black and pink satin Pink
Lady jackets. Enormous
quantities of vaseline are
probably used to achieve the
ducktail look so popular then.
The musical score captures
the feeling of the fifties with its
beat and background vocals, but
more importantly, it gets across
the uncertainty of the time.
Love and mischief predominate
the lyrics with such songs as
“There are Worse Things I could
Do,” a reflection on promiscuity
and new morality. “Greased
Lightin, ” presents youths’ love
affair with fast-customized cars.
Dancing is present in the style of
the day, at the prom and their
parties, as a main form of
expression.
The strengths of the play are
verbal and physical in nature.
Slang is used throughout as the
main form of dialogue. You
name it, and it was said.
Admiration was given to those
with a quick wit and graphic
vocabulary. Physical contact
predominated the action as
attempts to cop a feel were
numerous with necking at every
imaginable chance and bumping
and grinding while slow dancing.
An original cast member of
"Grease" might be familiar to
the reader. Adrienne Barbeau,
the daughter in TV series,
Maude, portrayed the character
of Betty Rizzo. Saturday Review
stated that she “sings and dances
up a storm as the most stoic of
the girls.”
"Grease" is a collection of
incidents bound together with a
great score and book done by
Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. It
recently celebrated its second
anniversary on Broadway
making it the longest running
show now on the boards. The
performance viewed on a
Saturday night was S.R.O. which
attests to its popularity. Save
your old Mickey Mouse Club
Ears and Howdy Doody
dolls,the nostalgia boom has yet
to reach its peak, so resist that
temptation to sell. Annette
Funicello and Buffalo Bob will
rise again.
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