Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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PORTABLE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL The Festival included such names as John Jack- son (left), Michael Cooney (above), and Pete See- ger (above right).

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Counterclockwise starting at left, speakers (his year included Joseph Heller of Catch 22; former Secretary of the Interior, Stewert Udall; William Kunstler, attorney for the Chicago 7 and arbitrator at the Attica tragedy; and this year ' s Berman lecturer. Arthur Okun, chair- man of the President ' s Council of Economic Advisors under Johnson.

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Another CPA sponsored event was the performance of Ruth Laredo, nationally acclaimed pianist. She dem- onstrated her affinity for impressionistic music with her excellent readings of Schuman, Ravel, Debussy, and the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, who has been discovered by Miss Laredo. The Mustard and Cheese had many successful pro- ductions this year, but the most popular of their per- formances was the Pulitzer-prize winning Our Town by Thornton Wilder. Grovers Corners, New Hamp- shire, was brought to life once more by a skillful group of actors in Grace Hall this year. The homey humor, the backyard philosophy and the colorfully human de- scription of small town America, which make Our Town a great play were all brought across by the tal- ented M C troupe. James Cunningham and the Acme Dance Company arrived on campus this spring as part of the Globus Series in Creative Arts. The group presented two major performances and two master classes in modern dance. The evening performances were actually a combination of performance and instruction. In the first half of the program Cunningham led more than 100 volunteers from the audience through a series of limbering exercises which culminated with the entire group dancing about the floor of Grace Hall. The per- formance was entitled The First Family . It involved the unlikely juxtaposition of Walt Disney and Isadora Duncan. Their performance, as the Village Voice wrote, resembles the course of a dream with all its sudden transformations, eccentricities, magic and seeming aimlessness. Another group that came to Lehigh with an enter- tainment-instruction program was the Portable New- port Folk Festival. For the past ten years the Newport Folk Festival has been an annual musical event, held in Rhode Island. Its purpose has been to keep the spirit of traditional American folk music alive and to edu- cate people in the origins of the sounds. This year the show took to the road to bring the music to the people. Featured performers of the Festival included some of this country ' s best folk artists— authentic traditional performers from rural America and city-bred revival singers , including Michael Cooney, Elizabeth Cotton, the Putnam County String Band, and a last minute ad-