Buena Vista University - Log Yearbook (Storm Lake, IA)

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Waals Pwg John Bendell and Patricia Pepper, performed four A numbers, including a novelty number, Pop Goes the Weasel. HandeI's Water Music Suite was 5 performed by the entire band, as well as such lp numbers as Begin the Beguine, Suite for Band, I and Procession of the Sardar from Caucasian Sketches. A favorite of the group, La Roquina, a Spanish march composed by Director VV. B. Green, was included in the program. Special mention was made ot the three gradu- ating seniors, Carolyn Andersen, Jerrold Jimmer- son, and Jim Mackay, and of the eight band members chosen to play with the Mid-America Band at Decorah. Mr. C. VV. Carpenter, professor of German at Buena Vista College and an ardent march enthusiast, presented a large bouquet to the group. ...wnftfS?W1f:ttWtg2. t -,Q , ex ll' Mr. Dwight Kirsch was pictured ABOVE as he illustrated his AT THE TOP was pictured Professor Dorothy Skewis as she received recognition at the Fine gallery talk. IN THE BOTTOM PICTURE, members of the cast Arts Banquet. IN THE MIDDLE PICTURE Professors Jack Hobbs and Dorothy Skewis discussed and crew of Hedda Gabler prepared for the first entrances plans for the Fine Arts Festival. Bonnie Mefterd and Jim Struck, playing Hedda Gabler and on stage of opening night. Eilert Lovborg, were shown ABOVE arguing over their former love affair.

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ABOVE, Mary Smith and Darrell Libke, Miss Juliana Tesman and her nephew in Hedda Gabler, were ' FiMPfAfvf8 Festival i,4,g,f0JTw0J The traditional Fine Arts Week was expanded into a two week festival in l966. Beginning on May Hrst, a full program of activities in drama, music and art was held. The Choir Con- cert, under the direction of R. D. Pfaltzgraff, was one of the first events of the schedule. It was the first campus appear- ance of the sixty voice choir since its two week tour, which in- cluded nearly twenty concerts in Illinois, Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The highly praised group won equal acclaim at home for its skillful performance of works by composers from several periods, both contemporary and less modern. The concert was religious in nature, its high points in- cluding Seek Not Afar for Beauty by Sateren and Psalm l5O in an arrangement by Morton. Buena Vista College brought the Metropolitan Opera Studio to the campus early in the first week of the Festival to perform La Cenerentola, by Giacchino Rossini. The opera, an adapta- tion of the fairy tale of Cinderella, persuaded many in the au- dience that opera could be both understandable and enter- taining. An English translation was used, with Nancy Williams in the leading role. Rossini's treatment of the familiar fairy tale avoided the fantastic elements usual in the story, and in- stead produced a more humanized romantic comedy. The fairy godmother was replaced by the philosopher, Alidoro, who was a friend of the Prince. Early in the opera the Prince himself came to the home of Cinderella disguised as a beggar, and the two fell in love. Matched bracelets were used to allow the two to identify each other later, and in spite of opposition by the step-sisters, Clorinda and Thisbe, Cinderella and the Prince were reunited. Eventually all was forgiven, and the opera ended happily. The Drama Department of Buena Vista College presented its version of Hedda Gabler, a classical Norwegian drama by Henrik Ibsen. The story covered the span of two days during shown as he received news of his aunt's death. which Hedda Gabler, feeling herself caged and impotent, tried to exert her will on those around her and ended by de- stroying two lives. The father of modern drama, Henrik Ibsen wrote the play at the beginning of the realistic movement. Bonnie Mefferd appeared as Hedda, and Mary Smith played Miss Juliana Tesman. Also appearing were Art Beaulieu as Judge Brack, Jim Struck as Eilert Lovborg, and Alice Madsen as Bertha, the maid. Darrell Libke received the Best Actor Award for his performance as Tesman and Anita Gustafson won the Best Supporting Actress Award in a major production for her portrayal of Thea Elvsted. Alice Madsen was assistant director, and Professor Longman served as set designer. A Joint Junior-Senior Recital by James MacKay and Douglas Patten was also presented by the Fine Arts Department of the College. James Mackay, a senior, played the oboe, and Doug- las Patten, a iunior, performed on the baritone. Mr. Dwight Kirsch, formerly an ,artist in residence at Iowa State Uni- versity, spoke at the Fine Arts Ban- quet, which was followed by a tour of the art exhibit in Ballou Library and a gallery talk by Mr. Kirsch. The Buena Vista Band, under the direction of W. B. Green, presented concerts in the morning and the evening of May 5. James Mackay performed Misty on the saxo- phone, and Gary Clark, a trom- bonist, also soloed. A small group, a mixed clarinet quartet composed of a bass clarinetist, Jerrold Jim- merson, an alto clarinetist, Correen Mett, and two B flat clarinetists, Anita Gustafson and Jim Struck, who played Thea Elvsted and Eilert Lovborg, were shown ABOVE in a tense scene from Hedda Gabler.

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On Thursdoy, Moy l9, the Student Council brought Tre Bock Porch Moiority, o sporlcling young folk singing group, to the Buenci Visto College compus. The enthusiostic oudience of students ond townspeople gove the group o stonding ovotion ot the end of the show, the first such ovation in Scholler Memoriol Chopel. Such o reception wos no surpriseito The Bock Porchivloiority, which held cz record ot 66 stondinglovo- tions in their lost seventy-nine pertormcinces. l Although the seven member group specicilized in trciditionol music, it hcid o unique ond exciting sound of its own. The two ond one-holt hour show included something tor everyone, from slop-stick comedy ond rock ond roll music to troditionol folk music ond slow, sweet selections such os Ellen Whcilen's Win- ken, Blinlcen, ond Nod. The seven members of the group provided ol coristont show within o show since ecrch hod cz vibront personolity oll his own. There were four guys, cull tolented in theirzlown right ond all odept of comedy, ond three girls. One, o tiny brunette whose dimples ond chorm won mony tons omong Bueno Visto Col- lege students, ,vvos Brooklyneborn ond educoted for rnusicol comedy ond light operd in Cdlitornio. Borelyistoll enough to singiinto the mikes, Ellen Whole-n become o 'giont when the group performed, She possessed ci clear soprono voice ond hdcl developed into on expert on most of the group's twenty instruments, including such novelties os the woshboord ond the kozoo. ,g For those who preterred blondes, Lindo Coreyiwcis the cenf ter of ottention. Thot gorgeous blonde mode the short iump- rt it ii, tw 11