Picnic turnout higher than expected
In what Provost Ruth
Leventhal called a "super
turnout,',' approximately
1,400 people attended the
first Provost Picnic here last
week, which featured a free
lunch, entertainment, and a
series of lectures by faculty
members.
"I thought we had a super
turnout for the picnic,"
Leventhal said. She added
that the administration is
currently considering making
the picnic an annual event to
"bring students together
with faculty."
Seating for approximate
ly 600 people was provided,
according to a spokesperson
from the Campus Relations
office, but the large turnout
was well received.
"We are extremely pleas
ed [with the turnout]," said
Sherry Walker, Assistant to
the Director for Campus
Relations, "and we are very
pleased with how much
everybody in the campus
faculty pitched in and work-
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ed together to make the
event a success.
Between 700 and 800 peo
ple were expected to attend
the event, according to
JoAnn Coleman, Supervisor
of Food Services who
prepared and served all the
food for the picnic. But the
attendence that broke all
previous estimates was serv
ed a lot of food in a short
amount of time.
300 people were served
picnic lunches of ham
burgers, hot dogs, brownies
and potato salad in the first
20 minutes, Coleman said.
She estimated that "a little
bit more that 1,000 ham
burgers" were served during
the two hour afternoon
meal.
What does one eat with
1,000 hamburgers? About 20
gallons of fruit salad, "15
sheets of brownies and up to
1300 servings of potato salad
made from 300 pounds of
potatoes, Coleman said.
During the meal, a varie-
ty of entertainment was
showcased. Charlie Van
Horn and Company, a con
temporary jazz-pop band,
led the afternoon off with a
diverse set of tunes, covering
everything from latin
flavored swing music to Van
Halen's "Jump."
Included in the set were
covers of hits made famous
by such performers as Sam
and Dave, Donna Summer,
and Stevie Wonder. The
band also performed a two
song medley featuring the
Temptations' "Ain't Too
Proud To Beg" and the Isley
Brothers' "Shout."
The band's line-up con
sists of Ron Smith, Sandy
Billitt, Dominic lacavone,
Charles Smith, and leader
Charlie Van Horn. Smith
and Billitt provided vocals
for the band that Van Horn
described as "a party band
with a lot of jazz influence."
The band has been in ex
istence for 10 years, with the
current lineup together for
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two and a half years.
Following the band was a
performance of "P.D.Q.
Bach," a parody of baroque
music performed by Capitol
alumni, staff and family.
The performance, which
was organized by Sherry
Walker and her husband Ty,
was described by Ty Walker
as being "as outrageous as
you want it to be."
"The provost saw a similar
performance during Univer
sity Park's July Arts
Festival, and wanted us to
have one for the picnic," he
said. "We began putting this
together about seven weeks
ago, and were pleased with
it."
After "P.D.Q. Bach,"
Pam and Simon, an in
strumental swing and blues
duo, took to the stage under
the tent. Using an electric
guitar and violin, they per
formed traditional folk tunes
and ragtime blues.
Following a closing set
from Charlie Van Horn and
Company, picnic-ers were
given a choice of four lec
tures to attend as part of the
Provost's Lecture Series.
The lecturing faculty
members were: Associate
Professor of Public Policy
Robert Bresler, Assistant
Professor of Computer Ap
plications Gayle Yaverbaum,
Humanities Division Head
William Mahar and Pro
fessor Emeritus of American
Studies and History George
Wolf.
Wolf's lecture on
"American Sports History"
emphasized the "significant
role" that sports plays in
American culture. Wolf said
that professionalism chang
ed attitudes about sports in
the 20th century and that
much of the "core of
patriotism" that is evident
during Olympic games is
related to Americans' at
titudes toward sports.
"Sports can be seen in our
art, literature, music and
sculpture," Wolf said. "The
experience of sports -- direct
ly as a participant or
vicariously as a spectator --
continues to have a strong-
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hold on American pop
culture."
Mahar's presentation on
"Women in Music" con
sisted of excerpts from
famous women composers
like Fanny Mendelssohn-
Hensel, Clara Wieck
Shumann and Sara
Aderholt.
About 65,000 women have
composed music from 3500
B.C. when their names were
first recorded on clay tablets
in Samyria up to 1983 when
their names appeared besides
the names of men as full
fledged members of the
American Federation of
Musicians, Mahar said.
In his lecture about the up
coming presidential election,
Bresler said he felt President
Reagan would have a
smooth road to reelection
and said the prevailing ques
tion in November should be
"What will Reagan's margin
of victory be?"
Bresler also said he
believes Gary 1-lart would
have been a much stronger
challenge to Preiident
Reagan and that the
Democratic Party must be
more presise about who they
desire to vote for them. The
Democrats must stress the
future in attempting to show
Voters' how Reagan's large
federal deficit could be
damaging to our long-term
economic well being, he said.
Dr. Yaverbaum, in her
speech "Computers and
You", described some uses
of computers for non
programers. She described
word processing, graphics,
spreadsheet and filing
capabilities available on the
Penn State system.
"We don't all have to
learn how to program a com
puter. We don't all have to
learn to fly an airplane to be
a passenger," she noted.
Yaverbaum said com
puters would become in
creasingly prevalent in
education in the coming
years, both at Penn State
and public schools.
--Contributing to this report
were: Neil Myers, Tony
Perry, Ken Stiggers and
Angelo Vecchio.
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