Cowley College - Tiger Daze Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

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We get 20 or 30 requests a semester wanting us to do things. Doug Hunter 10 F a 1 1 ' 87

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e Waltons. Jnlike other celebreties, Gillman ' s best luence was not with a brilliant starlet closer to home. [ think probably my grandmother was a at influence. Yes, my grandmother, said. Because she started teaching me gs, poems and recitations which were iular in those days. iillman ' s interest in the performing arts not fade with the Depression. ' My interest in the theatre just never led, she said. vlarriage for Gillman also came at an yage. [ was 20 years old when I married him r first husband) and working on adway. He was an orthopedic surgeon the county hospital. We had four dren and I would take time off when y were born to spend the time with n, but then right back to the theatre embered Gillman. .gain finances were the reason Gillman irned to the theatre. ' He (her first husband) was earning .50 a month as a resident at the county pital, so it was a good thing I was an ess and could support a family, she L jillman ' s first husband died later, after ing a heart attack. She eventually larried, only to loose another spouse. I married again and acquired four more dren, step-children, she recalled. And i my husband died. At this point, I had two kids in school so I went back work again. I went back to Los eles and it was there I met Gordon ' is. avis, writer and director of Eleanor: Celebration, has had a colorful jer that includes acting, producing, cting and writing a novel. He (Gordon Davis) started the first 24 ur, all-news station in Los Angeles, I used to listen to him doing editorials I thought he was very bright, very resting. He used to also watch me on vison and then finally a mutual friend oduced us and we became very good rids, recalled Gillman. ' he bond of this good friendship later ame a basis for matrimony. We really had not intended to marry, l our friendship became so great and we found that we had similar tastes in music, theatre, philosophy, life, children so we married, Gillman said. It was this marriage that convinced Gillman of Davis ' bravery. Gordon is the bravest man in the world, said Gillman. Any women who has had two husbands die of heart attacks - why would any man want to marry her? Most actresses divorce their husbands, I love mine to death, she said. Gillman ' s marriage to Davis enlarged her family even more. When I married Gordon I aquired two more children so I have 10 children. Six of them are step-children but they don ' t treat me like that because I ' m their real mother, said Gillman. Talent is often passed down through generations, but this is not always the case. No (none of my children are involved in the theatre.) I ' ve been asked that question before and people have said ' why aren ' t any of your four children in the theatre? ' and I ' ve given them a very fast answer: no talent, she said with a laugh. And that ' s an excellent reason for not being in the theatre if you have no talent. They have talents in their own way, they have children and other jobs that they do. Many times career choices can come between a couple but not with Gillman and Davis. Our careers meld together, we are both directors and actors, (Gordon was an actor). We understand the business. Neither of us ever thought we would ever marry someone in the business, said Gillman. Most actors and actresses retire to get away from the constant moving around and establish a home where they can live the rest of their lives. This would have been the case for Gillman and Davis, who had already retired to Minnesota, but the temptation of putting on Eleanor: A Celebration was new and strong. This is a whole new theatre to us. It ' s more than just doing this play, that ' s like the cherry on top of the sundae, it ' s the opportunity to do seminars and classes with students and community projects, Gillman said. It ' s also the opportunity to give young women in college a role model that isn ' t (Please continue to page 37) ALL OF THE NEWS WHEN YOU WANT IT! When and where- to be found here and now— in the pages of The Winfield Daily Courier. Keep up on the news of your town, on the state of the nation, on the events happening all around the world... right in the pages of The Winfield Daily Courier For Special Student Subscription Discounts .Call 221-1050. Pulse

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1UCK TALK-Freshman art student Greg nz describes his ideas for painting the sment truck to fellow art student Rob aines and art instructor Doug Hunter. le art students were asked to paint the ucks by Haynes Construction Co. hoto by John Bernhardt) HAT DO YOU THINK GUYS?-Art istructor Doug Hunter checks his udent ' s reaction to a design proposal itended for the cement truck. The truck one of several major projects Hunter ' s tudents are undertaking this semester, ' hoto John Bernhardt) Department Paints the town Members of the Art department, along with help from the gen- eral public, painted a cement truck in early October. Greg Hinz, Robbie Haynes, and Greg Atkinson were the art students who worked on the project. We were contacted by the concrete company to do the painting, said Doug Hunter, art instructor. They have done this before up in Nebraska and it ' s very popular up there. Clay Fisher, the new owner of Haynes Concrete, called up the College at the beginning of the semester, asking if the art department would be interested in decorating one of the cement trucks. Hunter agreed. If he had not, Fisher had planned to ask the high school and middle school art departments to do the honors. The new paint job is not only an eye-catching illustration, but also is quite an advertisement for Cowley County Community College and Area Vocational Technical School. The design depicts a raging tiger leaping over the barrel of the cement mixer. The artists were free to paint on any part of the back half of the truck, which they did during a party thrown by Hunter and the art department. The paint for the colossal task is not your ordinary run-of-the-mill enamel by any means. It is a special acid-resistant, rust-preventative paint used on this type of machine because of the acid cleaners used to remove excess cement after a job. This particular extracurricular art exercise is not unusual for Cowley ' s art students. Some of my students are working on a thing for the Kansas Lions. The Lions Club of Kansas wants a new logo for their letterheads and envelopes and such, Hunter said. Also in the works are a sign for the Dexter Senior Citizens Center, designs for a Knights of Columbus Fun Run tee-shirt, and a mural for the wall of the Arkansas City Memorial Hospital ' s maternity ward. We ' re working with the hospital, and they ' re wanting us to go in and do some cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck, up in the maternity ward, and do them in baby style. The busy artists also are planning to paint the dugouts for Ark City High School ' s baseball team, as well as creating a sign for the new 5th Avenue Bike Shop. We get 20 or 30 requests a semester wanting us to do things, says Hunter. Right now we ' ve got 11 things going. In the past, Cowley students have been involved in such p rojects as the Lotus Blossom mural uptown near the Munson- Austin Agency, and as far as can be seen now, Hunter and his students ' involvement with community art will not end. BY MICHAEL CARMODY Pulse 11