Daemen University - Summit Yearbook (Amherst, NY)

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LIFE Special Report Miss Ethel Winter Affiliate Artist, Rosary Hill College Ethel Winter, for many years a principal soloist with the Martha Graham Dance Company, has been appointed Af- filiate Artist at Rosary Hill for 1970-71. She will be on campus approximately six times, in visits of 7-10 days each, to conduct seminars, workshops and classes. The college will also make Miss Winter available as a preformer for as many outside academic and civic groups as her schedule allows. The program is made possible by Affilate Artists, Inc., un- der the sponsorship of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation in co- operation with the National Endowment for the Arts. It is the first Affiliate Artists project in Western New York. Founded in 1966, Affiliate Artists is a national non-profit organization with the purpose of strengthening the live pre- forming arts in America. It works with colleges to employ performers as “ambassadors at large” to the public, and by doing so, to provide dignified professional employment for these artists. Unbelievable as it may seem, 97% of the American population has never attended a live preformance of any kind. The Affiliate Artist program has made a significant breakthrough of this cultural curtain in other cities, and hopefully, will do the same here. Seenie Rothier. Adjunct Professor of Theatre Arts at Ro- sary Hill, sees many advantages for her dance students in Miss Winter’s appointment, as does Concentration Chair- man Sister Mary Francis Peters. The Art and Music Con- centrations will also be working closely with Miss Winter. Miss Winter brings an imposing background to her new assignment. She was the first dancer to perform the title roles in “Salem Shore,” “Herodiade” and “Frontier” made famous by Miss Graham, and has toured the United States, Europe and Asia with this famous troupe. She was guest teacher and choreographer for the Betshava Dance Com- pany in Israel, as well as for several schools in London. Her own dance company, formed in 1961. has won widespread critical acclaim. Additional experience includes solo per- formances with the New York City Opera Co., summer stock, Broadway productions and television. Her academic credentials are likewise impressive. She has a Master’s degree from Bennington College and has taught at the Juilliard School of Music and Dance and at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. 23

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Politics: Three-Quarter Century Politics at the three-quarter century sees a dissatisfaction not only with re- sults, but with power structures them- selves. As the “new left” advocate radical change, so the “silent majority” looks for simpler changes. The Black Panthers held a convention to draft a new constitution, while our na- tional legislators were looking for quicker and less complex ways to ammend our present Constitution. Voices from all quarters are decrying the bureaucratic and heavily political organization of Congress. The court system is under at- tack for its inability to provide a speedy trial, and penal institutions are being at- tacked for hardening criminals rather than rehabilitating them. The situation at Rosary Hill reflects the national scene as changes in student government are proposed, discussed and effected. These changes affect structures and are not just the results of these struc- tures. Last year a government dissolved it- self. This year it rose like the proverbial pheonix. implementing three boards and shared directorship and leadership. The open Forum was introduced in the dis- cussion of the school calendar to give the opportunities for expressing opinion with a written statement that could be kept for further consideration. Town meetings were used again to let off steam and get a sampling of opinion. New forms have been adopted at Ro- sary Hill to work, but whether these are stop-gap measures or basic answers is the problem of politics at the three-quarter century. 25