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Plan For School Play Festival Kenneth Frankel, theater director and Affiliate Artists, visited Woodstock last month to consult on the Opera House Community center and begin plans for the county high schools' one-act Play Festival. Under Frankel's guidance, the one-act play Festival will be the first major student production to be held in the newly-restored Opera House theater, scheduled to reopen in February. The Festival will highlight the talents of students in high school dramatic arts programs throughout the county, with each school presenting a one- act play, produced cast and directed through its Drama department. Frankel talked with drama teachers concerning Festival plans and held teachers' workshops to demonstrate techniques for maximum use of school facilities through creative production work. The Festival will be open to the public, the dates to be announced. Frankel met with Douglas Rankin, director of the Woodstock Opera House Community center, during his four-day visit. According to Rankin, they discussed technical aspects of the renovated Opera House Theater including the various staging and creative effects now possible through the recent restoration work. ^ "His Observations and suggestions ^ are very enlightening," said Rankin., "He gives an important point of/ view as a professional directoif actively involved in currerjf theater productions." / Rankin said he first learned about the Affiliate Artist program last year in California when he was managing the Walnut Creek theater. Plans were then under way to bring a group of artists to the San Francisco Bay area. According to Rankin, an Affiliate Artist official there told him their most successful appointment had occurred in Woodstock. The Affiliate Artist program which brings Frankel to McHenry county is sponsored by the Woodstock Fine Arts association with grants from the Sears-Roebuck foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts council. The WFAA was chosen by the national organization as one of the many institutions across the country to sponsor a three- year appointment. Actress Niki Flacks worked throughout the county from 1973 to 1975 Frankel, the first director to be named an Af­ filiate Artists, was selected for the third year. During a series of visits totaling eight weeks during 1976 and 1977, Frankel will direct, teach and advise school, college and community theater groups; otherwise he pursues his professional career. He is currently directing "Major Barbara" in Philadelphia and begins rehearsal in December for a new play, "Kerouac." An Ohio native, Frankel is a 1963 graduate in Theater of Northwestern university. Among his many awards have been a Ford foundation intern grant at Arena stage in Washington and a Noble Foundation Production grant at Williamstown theater. For information concerning the Affiliate Artist program, contact Mrs. Harold E. (Donna) Gregg, Jr. WFAA coordinator, Woodstock. MINE RECLAMATION Illinois Director of Mines and Minerals Russell T. Dawe announced the release of $729,300 in bond funds for the reclamation of the abandoned Nokomis-Coalton mine in Montgomery County. This is the second state-funded mine SECTION? - PAGEjUPfcfttNDEALER-FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1976 ,reclamatioif prbjeet un aertaken under the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Act. The project will be used as a demonstration project for future - planning and reclamation and should be completed by the end of June, 1977. It will involve trucking mine refuse from the site to a nearby landfill and treatment of the site's soil with lime to neutralize acid conditions caused by mine refuse material. The lime to be used is a by-product of a local water treatment plant After treat­ ment, the soil will be fertilized and seeded with grasses legumes, Dawe said. * * * * and It's not good Joe. Winter didn't seem s now, after all. enough to be a cold PUBLIC PULSE (The Plaindeeler invites the public to use this co­ lumn as an expression of their views on subjects of general interest in our co­ mmunity. Our only request is that the writers give - signature, full address and phone number. We ask too, that one individual not write on the same subject more than once each month. We reserve the right to delete any material which we con­ sider libelous or in objec- tional taste.) I N TEACHER'S BEHALF "Dear Editor, "How fortunate we are to have such a fine group of teachers at our McHenry District 15 schools. To learn that they've been doing their best to provide our children with the finest educational standards even though they are doiftgjip^without the benefits of a new contract is gratifying. "I'm sure that in many other districts the teaching staff would have felt that a strike would have produced faster and better results. Thank goodness we are lucky enough to have teachers who care more about our children's educational needs than their own personal needs. "I fail to understand what it is that is holding our school board back on meeting the teachers' requests. "They ask for several present oral agreements to be added to the written contract. These include the right to use bulletin boards for in­ formation; the right to use teacher mail boxes for in­ formation and the teachers' right to legal protection in assault and battery cases. They also would like teachers to have the benefit as is presently in existence for McHenry high school teachers as well as many other teachers throughout Illinois. "Certainly it's not out of line for them to ask for extra pay for extra duty assignments such as coaching, sponsoring clubs, cheerleading, etc. Wouldn't we ask for extra pay for longer hours on the job? More than likely we'd want time and a half. I'm sure that we, as parents, can understand the need for a pay hike. "Considering the effort our teachers put forward it is a shame that they rank in the lowest paid level. Surely they deserve an increase and soon, since they are all working for last year's wages. They haven't even received a cost of living raise. How many of us can say that? The amount they seek is not even enough to raise our taxes so it certainly can't be too outrageous. The last item they would like added to the contract pertains to job security in the event of teacher cuts. This seems self explanatory as well as a necessary amendment to add to their contract. "As a tax paying citizen, I feel it my duty to urge the school board to okay these few essential needs requested by such fine teachers. "Having had experience in other school districts dealings, I consider our community extremely fortunate to have teachers who will put the students before themselves and stiy remain patient enough to continue to hold civil discussions pertaining to their SERVICE NEWS 1 Navy Hospitalman Ap­ prentice Eugene R. Nowell, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Nowell of 3111 Miller drive, McHenry, has graduated from Field Medical Service school at the Marine Corps base, Camp Lejeune, N.C. The five-week course is designed to prepare Navy hospital corpsmen and dental technicians for duty with Marine Corps combat units. During classroom instruction, practical application periods and field training exercises, he learned the fundamentals of battlefield survival and per­ sonal protective measures. Nowell studied tactics and needs. Instead of this we could find ourselves with a long and bitter strike which would only harm our community as well as our children by depriving them of the education they deserve. "I urge parents to come forward and speak up so we may keep the teachers we have who are doing their best to provide the finest teaching abilities available. Let the school board know that they are merely asking for what most of us already have in our jobs and have had for some time plus several items which could only pertain to a teacher position but are in no way out of the or­ dinary. "Valorie Hobson, "4308 Sioux Lane, "McHenry, II." I' 'fm %/'•' ; 'il i • -I * J! i REOPENING oCodt U alleu * SANDIA DINING ROOM - NOV. 23 DINE: SUN.-THURS. 11:30 A.M.-10 P.M., FRL & SAT. TIL 11 P.M. * SANDIA LOUNGE - NOV. 26 FEATURING JAY TURNER, GUITARIST. LOUNGE: SUN.-THURS. 11:30 A.M.-1:00 A.M., FRI. & SAT. 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