-The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Oct. 22,’ 1986
sports briefs
Gladman gets starting job
PITTSBURGH (AP) Charles Gladman, a 1,000-yard back last
year but a missing man in the University of Pittsburgh’s offense
this season, has regained his starting job, Pitt Coach Mike
Gottfried said yesterday.
Gladman’s promotion doesn’t mean a demotion for former
starting tailback Craig “Ironhead” Heyward because both Glad
man and the 250-pound Heyward will often be on the field at the
same time, Gottfried said.
Pitt, 3-2-1, plays Navy, 3-3, at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Pitt Stadium.
The Panthers had a week off after winning at Notre Dame 10-9 on
Oct. 11.
Gladman, often criticized by Gottfried for fumbling, has played
little since gaining 140 yards in Pitt’s 13-13 tie at North Carolina
State on Sept. 13. He has rushed for 278 yards in six games after
gaining 1,032 yards as a sophomore.
Hextall signs contract
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Rookie Philadelphia Flyers goaltend
er Ron Hextall has signed a multi-year contract with the NHL club,
a team official safd yesterday.
“Ron has given every indication so far that he is going to be a
quality goaltender in this league for many years,” said Bob Clarke,
team vice president. “With him, Bob Froese and Glenn Resch, we
feel very confident about our goaltending for now and for the
future.”
Hextall, 6-3, 170 pounds, was named the American Hockey
League rookie of the year in 1985 with a 30-19-12 record. His team,
the Hershey Bears, reached the AHL finals. He was drafted by the
Flyers in the sixth round in 1982.
Equestrian team finishes strong
The Penn State equestrian team got off to a slow start in
competition last weekend, but finished strong in the end.
The team competed in two shows, both at Eastwood Farms in
Bellefonte. Penn State finished third in the first show, but came
back to tie with Rutgers for the championship in the second.
Karla McJilton and Karen Vargo grabbed second-place honors
for Penn State in the first competition competing in the interme
diate stockseat class.
In the second show, Kim Brightbill placed first in intermediate
stockseat, E.J. Nagle finished first in beginner stockseat and
McJilton had a second-place finish.
Matt Schnader rode to a first-place finish in the first show and a
second-place finish in the second show as an alumni rider.
Next weekend, the team travels to a competition at Lehigh
University.
Etc., etc., etc.
John Luther, a 6-foot-2 sophomore guard from Rochester, Beaver
County, and Scott Colombo, a 5-8 sophomore guard from Altoona,
have made the University of Pittsburgh’s basketball team, Panther
Coach Paul Evans announced. They were two of 12 walk-ons who
reported to practice Oct. 15.
Pittsburgh Penguins center Mario Lemieux, who scored eight
goals and 17 points in helping the Penguins to a 6-0 start, Monday
was named the NHL’s Player of the Week for the Oct. 9-19 period.
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honor in the American League. John
Candelaria of California will be
comeback player of the year in the
AL, and Ray Knight of the Mets will
be the comeback player of the year in
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Designer's creations express iifestyles
By ADRIENNE LINDH
Collegian Staff Writer
On Beaver Avenue, there is a
small shop called Something Old
Something New; and just by open
ing the door, you can leave State
College behind. Suddenly your sur
roundings have become a little old
fashioned and very homey, but at
the same time, modern and stylish.
In the middle of the store stands
“Susi,” a wire dress form that was
used to custom-fit women’s attire
many years ago. Now 83-year-old
Susi is used to show off cotton
materials for furniture. Behind her,
there are rolls of brightly colored
cloth and a modern sculpture of a
woman’s body carved by a local
artist.
All this may seem bizarre until
you learn that the shop is owned by
an interior designer. Her name is
Sherry E. Dershimer, and the di
verse atmosphere of her store re
flects her personality and tells us
about herself.
Dershimer was born in Virginia,
near the Chesapeake Bay, where
her family has been living since
1620. Most of her early years were
spent on the Bay and in New York
City, where she lived with her
grandmothers. These two different
atmospheres exposed her to oppos
ing cultures and taught her to ap
preciate the qualities of each one.
Perhaps this appreciation
sparked her interest in expressing
these lifestyles in some way.
Dershimer said that ever since she
was 3 years old she has found it
exciting to decorate homes. When
she gave tea parties at her grand
mother’s house, Dershimer re
called, she used the good china to do
an elaborate job of setting the table.
She came to State College after
marrying J. Stephen Dershimer.
Together they took a survey in the
Crystalline musicianship distinguishes quartet
By BETH BRESTENSKY
Collegian Arts Writer
American universities could be called the melting pot
for the younger generation, as students from many
different cultures come together to learn. Exposure to
every way of life, from Chinese to African, broadens the
perspective of students and makes them more willing to
accept traditions other than their own.
It is in this light that the University will be able to
provide a warm atmosphere for the Tokyo String Quartet,
performing at 8 p.m. Saturday in Schwab Auditorium.
Despite its record of excellence, the quartet has not
always been well received. Audiences in New York and
Japan have closed their ears to the ensemble’s crystalline
musicianship because in 1981, the group added a new
violinist who is not Japanese.
Toronto-born Peter Oundjian was a surprising choice to
fill the gap left by the quartet’s original first violinist,
Koichiro Harada. Oundjian, 25, fits in physically with the
group because of his small build and dark features; but he
contrasts by being 10 years younger than the other
members and the only bachelor in the group. He has
never visited the Far East or spoken Japanese.
The original ensemble was started by four Japanese
students at the Toho Music Academy in Tokyo. While
touring Japan in 1966, members of the Juilliard String
Quartet heard the group and helped get them to the
United States. Seventeen years later, the group moved its
headquarters to New York. Up until the loss of Harada in
1981, the quartet has always been composed of Japanese
performers.
“When our original first violinist left,” said cellist
Sadao Harada in an interview for Musical America, “we
didn’t want to pick a replacement strictly on the basis of
his being Japanese. We wanted someone who was compa
tible.
“In some ways it was a difficult decision to pick Peter.
You don’t really have an audition when you select a new
member of a quartet. You play together in almost a
casual way. But you can kind of tell who it is going to be,
Danger of improvisational comedy fuels troupe
simply,” said Gelman, “the reason
that you workshop, that you train is
so that that doesn’t happen. An im-
Picture this: as a member of an prov is trained not to die onstage.”
By LYNN WAGNER
Collegian Arts Writer
improvisational comedy troupe per- Gelman has experienced . plenty
forming in a night club you return to a since becoming an original member
darkened stage after a half-hour in- of CCL around 1978. The company
termission, having spent the time grew out of workshops held by anoth
backstage brainstorming ideas for a er Chicago improv group that SFPA
song based on suggestions from the has brought to the University in the
audience. You step onstage and the past two years Second City,
lights go on. In front of you, someone City Limits founder George Todisco
has placed a three-foot ceramic pen- “sort of liked what Second City did
is. What do you do? but wanted to do more,” Gelman
“We all stared at it,” said Linda said. So Chicago City Limits was
Gelman, a past member of Chicago born. _ .
City Limits. “Then we all started After touring Las Vegas, Los An
doing (song) verses using it and the geles and other towns, the troupe
(audience’s) suggestion.” finally settled in New York, working
People like Gelman, now director its way around the club circuit until
of Chicago City Limits, learn to ex- earning a place of its own on 42nd
pect the unexpected. Their art is Street in 1984. CCL has since moved
improvisational comedy. Andanyth- up to East 74th and added on a touring
ing may happen when the troupe company.
performs at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Ei- The group consists of five improv
senhower Auditorium. The show is members and a musician. “We try to
free and sponsored by the Student use the moment, the spontaneity,
Foundation for the Performing Arts, combined with audience suggestions.
Can improvisation ever fail? “Very what’s on the audience’s mind, and
area, asking what type of business
es needed to be provided. The re
sults showed a lack of dealers in
antiques, particularly furniture.
Eventually, after many visits to
customer’s homes, the work turned
toward interior design.
Today Dershimer is running
Something Old Something New on
her own, but she gives credit for her
sales ability to her husband. Before
he taught her how to sell, she “nev
er (even) sold a girl scout cookie.”
you have a feeling. And with Peter we immediately knew.
We enjoyed playing with him.”
The quartet of Oundjian, Sadao Harada, Kikuei Ikeda,
violinist, and Kazuhide Isomura, violist, seems to have
accepted the merging of Eastern and Western cultures
with the greatest of ease. As musical ensembles
unconsciously resemble the cultural traits of their mem
bers, the Tokyo Quartet was once characterized by a
Japanese sense of reserve and formality and a tendency
to play subtly.
But the addition of Oundjian has added a Western
quality of strength and vitality to the group’s playing. The
members of the ensemble have claimed that Oundjian
has relaxed the strict, note-perfect Japanese way of
performing and allowed the group to express themselves
more freely.
The quartet’s impeccable music is created with four
17th-century instruments made by Niccolo Amati. Con
structed over a period of 21 years, the two violins, viola
and cello belong to the Corcoran Gallery of Washington,
D.C. The gallery is not allowed to lend instruments
directly to the musicians, so American University in
Washington borrows the instruments from the Corcoran
to lend to the group.
Performing over 100 concerts annually, the ensemble
has appeared in such series as Lincoln Center’s “Great
Performers,” the Mostly Mozart Festival and Carnegie
Hall’s “Great Quartets.”
The group’s many recordings have earned three Gram
my nominations, the Best Chamber Music Recording of
the Year Award from Stereo Review and Gramophone
and the Grand Prix du Disque du Montreux.
Saturday’s performance, sponsored by the Penn State
Artists Series, Center for the Performing Arts as part of
its Schwab Concert Series, will include Wolfgang Am
adeus Mozart’s Quartet No. 17 in Bb major or The Hunt
and Dmitry Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 7. Quartet No. 13
in Bb major. Op.l3owith “G rosse Fuge," the Op. 133, the
last composition of Ludwig von Beethoven, will conclude
the show.
Sherry Dershimer
She claims that there are as
many v different styles of interior
designers as there are people. De
signers express personal tastes
through an interpretation of what
they see. When an interior designer
walks into an empty room “you
bring something with you,” an emo
tion or feeling, which hopefully
turns an idea into the creation of a
beautiful room.
Dershimer takes her job as se
riously as a doctor or nurse does.
try to create not only something fun
ny, but meaningful theater,” Gelman
said.
Tomorrow’s show will consist of
both comedy routines that the compa
ny has already orchestrated and im
provisations based on audience
suggestions. “The 18- to 23-year-old
crowd have a lot of sex on their minds
and a lot of sex in their suggestions,”
Gelman contended.
The routine part of the show will
feature a political music medley.
“We try to make social and political
comments in a lot of what we do,”
Gelman said. “To me comedy gets
people’s attention. It makes them
laugh, it makes them think, it gets to
their minds and hearts.”
It is the spontaneity of pure perfor
mance, however, that keeps Chicago
City Limits on its feet. “It’s danger
ous and that’s the exhilaration of
improv I think. Some of the best
moments are when you’re doing a
scene and it’s working out so beauti
fully that even you can’t believe it’s
improv.”
“In order for us to be emotionally
healthy,” she said, “we have to
surround ourselves with comfort
able things.”
To make clients feel at ease in
their new surroundings, the interior
designer gets to know their peculia
rities. To redesign the room, the
designer tailors it to the customers’
needs. Dershimer does this by
spending some social hours with
her customers. By becoming
friends with them, she gets a better
feeling for their expectations.
She finds this time “enriching”
because she learns so much about
people. For example, Dershimer
found it thrilling to work on the
home of Isobelle Harm, one of her
older customers. The designer was
able to take Harm’s lifetime of
experiences and incorporate it into
the final environment. In.apprecia
tion of Dershimer’s dedication,
Harm not only paid in cash but in
love as well, by frequently visiting
the designer and bringing her home
grown tomatoes.
Dershimer’s advice to the stu
dents of the University is to spend
some time away from the campus,
especially in town. "There is an
education down here too,” she said.
After being president of the Down
town Business Association in 1980,
she knows that shopkeepers can
educate young people through their
own experiences.
Students should be aware of their
surroundings so they can gain a
better understanding of what will
be important to them later in life,
Dersheimer added. She sees early
adulthood as the beginning of an
eventful life, and she is willing to
take the time to help students build
their futures.
“There is a lot more going on at
Something Old Something New than
interior design,” Dershimer said.
She likes to call the store a “clear
ing house for good people.”
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on this week’s WPSU Top 20 survey, but they can be seen in concert at 8 p.m. on Friday in the HUB Ballroom. Catch
them before they hit the road for a two-week East Coast tour with R.E.M. Tickets are $5 and are available at Arboria
Used Books and Records, 151 S. Allen Street; and City Lights Records, 316 E. College Ave. The performance is
sponsored by WPSU.
Mr. T. Experience leads
WPSU's new music Top
The following records make up
WPSU’s Top 20 for the week ending
Oct. 22. Tonight at 8, 91.1 FM will
present the Top 20 Countdown.
1. “Scientific” Mr. T. Experience
2. “Broken Promise” New Order
3. “Floating” 86
4. “Like An Angel”
Drops
5. “Call Me” Throwing Muses
6. “Full of Wonder” -30-
7. “Death and the Maiden”
laines
8. “Greetings to the New Brunette”
Last year’s model of The Press Club is pictured. The group may have changed,
but Mark McCollom (second from left) and Rob Emery (second from right)
remain.
Press Club will rock Asylum
with originals and dance tunes
By DEBBIE GOLINI
Collegian Arts Writer
Making a return appearance at The home town of Lancaster.
Asylum tonight, The Press Club will “Our big goal now ig writing
try to captivate its audience with songs,” Emery said. “We are trying
many original tunes, plus rocking to put a demo tape together. We’ve
covers of U 2, the Psychedelic Furs, been writing material for the past
The Cure and similar groups: year-and-a-half.”
The Press Club, a four-man Lan- McCollom agreed, saying, “Last
caster-based band, sports the talents year our goal was play, play, play. It
of Mark McCollom (senior-account- still is important to us to play clubs
ing) on guitar and vocals, Rob Emery and colleges to keep up the exposure,
(senior-electrical engineering), also yet we want to put down some origi
on guitar and backup vocals, John nal songs on tape in December.”
Leister on bass and Mike Long on The Press Club has put out a four
drums. song mini-album, It’s No Game, and
Since its last appearance on cam
pus, which was at the opening of The
Asylum in March, the band has un
dergone a few changes. The lead
singer and keyboard player has left;
and the group has been concentrating
on writing songs for a tentative al
bum to be recorded sometime in
December, McCollom said.
As a foursome, the band has played
“about 15 jobs and the feedback is
better than ever. The band is happier
we had a lot of internal conflict
before,” McCollom said.
Before playing The Asylum, the
group worked in five states Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Maryland,
Delaware and North Carolina per
forming mostly at high schools and
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9. “Tears” Chameleons
10. “I Against I” Bad Brains
11. “Blue Sky Day” Died Pretty
12. “Panic” The Smiths
13. “Satellite” Sorry
14. “Happy Hour” Housemartins
15. “Love Me” Love and Rockets
16. “Carnivore” Gargoyle Sox
17. “On the Screen” Government
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18. “Tsavo” DaS Damen
19. “Jesus Shootin’ Heroin” Flam
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20. “Mr. Pharmacist” The Fall
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colleges, McCollom said. More re
cently the band members have
played The Village, a club in their
will be playing some of those songs
during tonight's performance.
“Our stuff now is a little different.
We are still new wave and modern
dance, but our music now is more
guitar-oriented,” McCollom said.
“The music has more of an edge to it.
“We feel Penn State is a great
market to play for. People from all
over the state are here and it is
especially nice to play at a under-21
club. The Asylum is not a typical
under-21 club because the people are
18 or 19 instead of 16 or 17 like at other
places. It is a great place to spread
the word.”
“I hope people come out and see us
and have a good time,” Emery con
cluded.