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rttuc. is • r LrtiixutALtn • r niu/i i, WAi 2, ltNM) J i * \ Thousands Aim For Science Fair p Adopt Soil Conservation Plan Thousands of Illinois junior and senior high school students have begun en­ tering projects and papers in local science fairs with the hope of reaching the Illinois Junior Academy of jScience State exposition <IJAS) May 9-10 at University of Illinois Assembly hall in Urbana. In communities as small as Camp Point to the metropolitan areas of Chicago, RocHford and Peojia, Students with, a common intiw-est - science id math -- work long and hard on projects from basic refrigeration to a com­ petitive electric car, two examples from a recent exposition. This year, students will enter projects in aeronautics, anthropology, astronomy, behavioral science, biochemistry, botany, chemistry, con­ servation, earth science, electronics, mathematics, microbiology, physics and zoology. » Winners at the regional level are sent on to the state exposition. Only 1,000 student projects N reach Assembly Hall where they could capture scholarships, cash awards and other College Honors Local Girl Heads Honorary Society A McHenry student has been installed as the president of the new Evangel college, Springfield, Mo., chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, national Spanish language honorary society. A charter member, Calinda Ellen Leonard is the first person to serve as president for the new chapter. Miss Leonard is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Deaa Leonard, 2402 W. Manor lane, McHenry. A 1976 graduate of McHenry Community high school, Miss Leonard is presently a senior speech pathology and Spanish major at Evangel. Members of the Southwest Missouri State university chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, which sponsored the for­ mation of the Evangel unit, were present for the first official meeting, being the formation of the new chapter; the initiation of the charter members and the installation of the first of­ ficers of the newly formed chapter. Joins Phi Beta Kappa Maryann Smith, daughter of Mrs. Jacquelyn Smith, 3013 Oakwood, McHenry, has been elected to the Theta of Illinois chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Lake Forest college. Phi Beta Kappa, a national honorary scholastic society, is open to mw and women with superior achievement records. Selection is based upon faculty recom­ mendations, grade records, and the breadth of the student's overall program. Ms. Smith, an English major, tutors students at the college writing center. Top Students Cited Spring semester final examinations at Southern Illinois uM«*Pr.&ity- Carbondale are several weeks away, biit for some 1,800 SIUC undergraduates the early returns already look promising. They are the members of SIUC's scholastic honors circle, a group of select students singled out for exceptional academic achievement during the course of their undergraduate careers. Honors citations go to Miss Humann Joins History Honor Society Fourteen students at Northern Illinois university were initiated in April into NIU's Eta-Eta chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, in- students who have compiled overall grade-point averages of 3.5 or better on the university's 4.0 scale. The students were recognized recently at Honors day ceremonies on the SIUC campus. *They included James W. Jacox, 1208 W. Sunset, McHenry, and'Robert F. Kruger, 3922 W. Lake Shore drive, Wonder Lake, both recognized for overall averages of 3.9 or above. ternational honor society in history. Among them was Margaret Humann, 5003 W. Willow, McHenry. Eligibility for un­ dergraduate students in­ cluded completion of at least 12 hours in history courses with an average of 3.01 or better and an overall grade point average of 2.75 on a 4.0 grading scale. Free Address Change Kits If you're one of the estimated 36 million persons who plan to move their residence this year, you should begin notifying everyone who regularly sends you mail at least a full month before you move. That's the advice from McHenry Postmaster LeRoy Smith who suggests you file change of address forms with your postoffice and send them to correspondents and publishers The Postal Service offers free change of address kits to make it easier to notify everyone. Available in postoffices and from letter carriers, the kits include convenient postcards to alert the postmaster and for„ mailing to department stores, friends and relatives, utility companies, banks, newspaper and magazine publishers and others who do business with the family planning a move prizes. Winners are also singled out for recognition by various professional organizations. Also announced at the state exposition is the winner of the IJAS'. yearbook cover design and essay contest. The designs and essays this year will revolve around this year's topic: "Meteorology: A New Look At An Old Science." The IJAS, oldest and largest junior academy in the United States, was organized in 1927 by the late Dr. Lyell J. Thomas of the University of Illinois. The academy brings together students, teachers, businessmen and others interested in the future of science and mathematics. In its 53 years, IJAS has grown from an annual meeting to eleven regional science fairs and the state exposition. Supported by business, education and labor, the IJAS seeks to encourage and recognize students in­ terested in careers in science and math. The academy has inspired similar groups in more than 40 states, according to Manly Tory, IJAS president. . The Illinois Department of Agriculture has adopted final rules and regulations for the state's sedimentation and erosion control program. Each of the state's 98 local soil and water conservation districts will now have two years to adopt comparable local soil-saving guidelines. The Illinois Department of Agriculture was required by a 1977 amendment to the Soil and Water Conservation District act to set the basic soil-saving standards. However the act permits local districts to customize those standards to local areas-if the guidelines are as stringent as the state guidelines. The guidelines adopted by the state on April 18 require that conservation systems and practices applied to agricultural land reduce soil losses to the following levels: -Effective January 1983 to January 1988, soil losses be reduced to 8 to 20 tons of soil per acre per year, depending on soil type. -Effective January 1988 to 1994, soil losses be reduced to 4 to 10 tons per acre per year, except on land having less than a five percent slope. On Refugees From Hitler Enrich Arts-Sciences In This Country "Too often people who are moving wait until the last minute to notify their correspondents," said Smith. "The result is they add up to several days to their first class mail delivery because it must be forwarded to the new ad­ dress", he added. Those who fail to give publishers at least a month advance notice must either pay additional postage for forwarding, if desired, or wait several weeks before the publisher changes the address. This means customers may miss one or more issues of their favorite magazine. "Customers should also remember to incude their account .pumber when notifying stores and banks and to send their old address labels to publishers. Postmaster Smith advises, " and for all correspondence, remember to include their new zip code". For many, the traumatic, dangerous journey began in Marseilles. From a secret address, where they had been handed travel direc­ tions and visas by an un­ derground international rescue operation, more than 1,500 European artists and intellectuals fleeing Hitler made their way in 1940-42 to Casablanca or over the Pyrenees to Lisbon and then on to safety in the United States. These refugees, together with 300,000 or so others who reached America during the 1933-45 Hitler era, profoundly transformed American culture. Their saga is little told now, but from psychoanalysis to chemistry, from literature to film to architecture, the 1933-45 Hitler era, profoundly transformed American culture. Their saga is little told now, but from psychoanalysis to chemistry, from literature to film to architecture, the impact of the exiles on both the arts and sciences in the United States was significant. American cities, for example, owe much of their contemporary look to the glass-and-steel concepts advanced by one of the refugees, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Hans Bethe and others played crucial roles in the development of American atomic physics. And artists such as Ua And artists such as Us)ps were a Die to continue Hofmann, Josef Albers afjjdj^caree)» 'in exile. E Marcel Duchamp helped Korngold, for example, make New York the , art capital of the world. Yet the Jews and other "enemies of the Third Reich" who sought sanc­ tuary in the States were a small fraction of the millions of Europeans who were uprotted and persecuted during the Nazi regime. "To discuss the talent of those who made it is to discuss the many who did not survive; we will never know the full story of the Hitler horror," the author and critic, Alfred Kazin, recently told a Smithsonian Institution colloquium as part of its centennial observance of the birth of Einstein, himself a refugee from Germany, "Many governments failed to see the threat in time," according to Herbert A. Strauss, a City University of New York historian, "Numerous intellectuals perished because govern­ ments did too little too late." It was not until 1948, for example, that the United States enacted the first piece of legislation dealing specifically with refugee policy as distinct from immigration law. For many of those who did escape, adjustment to American life with its focus on the contemporary, compared to the European penchant for continuity, proved formidable. In a word, they had to "acquire a taste for America," Kazin noted. The pain of adjustment for the German intellectual elite was no more true than in southern California where large numbers of exiles settled. This scene provided a classic encounter between the Old World and New, according to another colloquium participant, historian Jarrell C. Jack- man. Finding themselves 6,000 miles from their homeland in a land of sun­ shine and palm trees, many of them were intellectually and emotionally unprepared for the popular and leisure world of southern California. The Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Thomas Mann, remained aloof from the setting, never writing about America ("A work must have long roots in my life," he once said) developing, instead, his Germanic themes for Dr. Faustus and other works of fiction. Mann even ignored California's sport-shirt informality, always wearing a tie and suit coat in public. The noted composer Ar­ nold Schoenberg, who found the region's "amusement arcade appalling," could never bring himself to write for Hollywood films. But other exiles did adjust and were abie to continue their Erich won two Oscars for his movie compositions,, and Billy Wilder became famous as a result of his studio work, writing and directing "Sunset Boulevard" and "The Lost Weekend." Language, of course, proved a major barrier for many of the arrivals, with different professions presenting different ob­ stacles and requirements. A large number of the refugee- intellectuals were initially shocked over the realization that they did not have the linguistic background to pursue their careers, ac­ cording to Helmut f. Pfan- ner, professor of German at Purdue university. While musicians seemed to have the easier time adjusting, physicians often stumbled over portions of medical examinations testing their • English proficiency, and one jour­ nalist remembered himself changing his philosophy in mid-sentence, a result of his language difficulties. To overcome what Pfanner sees as the refugees' "most serious problem," the immigrants went to American movies, seeing the same film over and over, and listened to religious broadcasts because the ministers pronounced the language distinctly. Although one writer remarked that he "could live here 200 years, God forbid, and still not learn the language," Pfanner believes that for those who were unable to make the ad­ justment, new meaning and depth were added to their lives and work. Still, Thomas Mann, among others, never abandoned his native language, considering that his "true home;" he had the prestige to submit his work to publishers in German for translation. In many cases, the flight from Europe and the process of adaptation itself provided the themes for an artist's accomplishments in America. According to Kazin, Hannah Arendt blossomed into a political philosopher with The Origins of Totalitafiahism,"a Book that could not have been written without a background of pain." She was not just a gifted scholar HAWAII on SALE! 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Farmers constructing terraces, grass waterways, grade establishment structures, and other soil- saving devices would be eligible for state cost sharing funds totaling up to 75 percent of the cost of the initial structure. The act also provides for the establishment of local advisory committees to assist local Soil iqid Water Conservation Districts establish local programs. For more information contact Jim Frank at the Illinois Department of Agriculture, 217-782-6297. in exile, he said, but "an entirely fearless mind." It was her brilliant phrase, "the banality of evil," that described the mind-set of Adolph Eichman, a petty bureaucrat who became the architect of Hitler's ex­ termination campaign against the Jews. "The ordeals of these great writers brought them nearer horizons they had only dreamed of exploring before Hitler made it im­ perative for them to go all the way," Kazin concluded. The look of America itself was altered with the arrival of designers, artists and architects from the Berman Bauhaus, the pioneering industrial design establish­ ment whose associates had re-examined everything from the coffee cup to city planning. It was at the Bauhaus during the 1920s that the skyscraper as a glass tower evolved~a tower sheathed in a skin of glass, criss-crossed by metal frames, devoid of ornamentation and ap­ pearing to have been produced by a machine. The concept was transplanted to the States with the arrival of Mies van der Rohe. America was ready for the Bauhaus-influenced in­ dustrial styles, according to architectural critic Wolf Von Eckhardt, because the nation shared the romance for technology, for an in­ ternational design style and for such elements as glass and polished steel. While Mies went on to design the Chicago Illinois Institute of Technology and to head its architectural department, a Bauhaus colleague, Walter Gropius, settled at Harvard, where he influenced a new generation of architects, among them I.M. Pei, the designer of the National Gallery's new East building in Washington and the John F. Kennedy memorial in Boston. In the art world, mean­ while, Hans Hofmann, a teacher and painter. whose career had spanned the major modern art movements of the 20th century in Europe, arrived in the United States in 1933, opening schools in New York and Provincetown. nThe importance of the link he established with the major figures of art history (such as Cezanne) cannot be overestimated," said* cyn- thia Goodman, adjunct curator of the fine Arts Museum of Long Island. "His role was significant in establishing New York's supremacy in the world of art, his principles were intrinsic to the development of Abstract Expressionism." Also arriving at this time were the musicians, among them the pianist Arthur Rubinstein, composers Kurt Weill and Igor Stravinsky and conductor Antal Dorati. On these shores, Weill wrote the scores for "Knicker­ bocker Holiday" and "Lady in the Dark," Stravinsky completed his "Symphony in C" here and refugee con­ ductors helped build the reputations of symphony orchestras in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Kansas City, Cincinnati and other U.S. cities. One Jewish musician, Boris Schwarz, who left Germany in 1936 to begin an American career as a violinist and teacher, recently recalled the events leading up to that decision. "My own musical career in Germany came to a halt with the coming to power of Hitler in 1933," he said. 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