Franklin High School - Post Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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W s POETRY, . . Dr. Stafford, with an emphasis on interaction between himself and the Forum, spoke on the Poet in a Tech- nological World. By frequent allusions to contemporary poets and poetry, Dr. Stafford made his point emphat- ically. Perhaps the most memorable ofhis references was to a poem by e. e. cummings called How Town. This is the story of a town whose mem- bers know how to do all things, but not why they do them. The point here was, that the scientist can tell us how to do things, but we need poets and other philosophers to tell us why we do them. The poet is an integral part of a technological world. The members of the Forum were hon- ored when Dr. Stafford recited one of his recently published works for them. Thispoem The Poets' Annual Indigence Report expresses his views onthe topic of this Forum, and is re- printedhere, in part, by permission of Dr. Stafford and Harper and Row, Publishers. Dr. William Stafford Dr. William Stafford went to college in his home state at the University of Kansas. He earned his Bachelor of I-Itunanities degree there, and later earned his Ph, D. at the State Uni- versity of Ohio. He has been teach- ing the Humanities, creative writing, and nineteenth and twentieth century English literature at Lewis and Clark College for twelve years. For his lit- erary works he has been honored with the Shelley Memorial Award and a National Book Award. He has author- ed the following books: Down in My Heart, West ofYou.r City, and Travel- ing Through the Dark. The Poets' Annual Indigence Report Tonight beyond the determined moon, aloft with nothing left that is voluntary for delight, everything uttering hydrogen, your thinkers are mincing along through a hail of contingencies, While we all--floating though we are, lonesome though we are, lost in hydrogen--we live by seems things: when things just are, then something else will be doing the living. Doing is not enough, being is not enough, knowing is far from enough. So we clump around, putting feet on the dazzle floor, awaiting the real schedule by celebrating the dazzle schedule. . . . Our shadows ride over the grss, your shadows, ours:-- Rich men, wise men, be our contemporaries. From TRAVELIN G THROUGH TI-IE DARK by William Stafford. fl-Iarper 8 Row, Publishers, Incorporated, 1962j 10

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SCIENCE VS. PHILOSOPHY K. Ellsworth Payne, a science teacher at Portland State College, was the speaker at the third Franklin Forum. His topic was: The scientist in the world of philosophy. Dr. Payne noted that at the time ofAristotle, there was no difference between a scientist and a philosopher. Gradually they have moved apart, and today there is a large contrast. With Francis Bacon came the cleavage, he taught that science couldbe put to a practical use and thus transform society. Dr. Payne expressed the feeling that science pro- duces practical results, while philos- ophy is merely aesthetic in nature. He said that scientists apply their ideas and theories, while philosophers sit on their rocks with their chin on their hands. Dr. K. Ellsworth Payne Dr. Payne studied and did his under- graduate work at Brigham Young Uni- versity, and did his graduate Work at Oregon State. Presently he holds the position of assistant to the chairman of the Division of Science and is an Associate Professor of General Science at Portland State College.,

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Mr. Jacob Avshalomov This year's Forum had as its final speaker Mr. Jacob Avshalomov. He was born and reared in China, and completed all of his British and Amer- ican secondary schooling before he was fifteen, He came to America in 1937 and throughout the years has proven time and again his talents as a composer and director. Mr. Avsh- alomov has studied at Reed College, the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, andhas taught at Co- lumbia University, Reed College, and the University of Washington. He has been director of the Portland Junior Symphony since 1954. Among his many honors have been an Alice M. Ditson Fellowship in composition, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the New York Critics' Circle award in 1953 for his Tom O'Bedlam, andthe Naum- berg Recording Award for 1956. MUSIC . . . The last forum dealt with Music in a Technological World and featured actual excerpts from recent works in synthetic music. M.r. Avshalomov outlined the history of this modern, technological, technique, and em- phasized the fact that much of the standard music theory which has per- sisted for ages is now being discarded to the puff of a freight train, and the whine of a transistorized tube. Mr. Avshalomov also emphasized that music today, in our technological age, is being heard and noticed more than ever before. As we step into an elevator, or a bus, or a public build- ing we hear piped music. Ameri- cans are becoming more music con- scious and more critical of what they hear. One of the highlights of this hour was aselectionrecordedby a Mr. Hodeir, a Frenchman, entitled Jazz on Jazz This isa catchy number performed by this man's jazz combo. First they played a number and taped it, and then played it back at some varying multiples of its original speed, and improvised against it--an interesting and entertaining example of music in a technological world.