New Mexico State University - Swastika Yearbook (Las Cruces, NM)

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The Film Society created a great deal of interest in cinema, which led to demand for a course in film histor ' , significance, and technicjues. NMSU ' s first cinema course, created and taught by Professor Orville Wanzer, was offered last spring. Those students who signed up for a snap course were rather unhappily surprised, but the o erall reaction was favorable: most students were willing to do some studying to learn a great deal about film history, quality, and techniques. Mr. Wan- zer now has an actual film studio (a con- verted barracks in Mesilla Park) where stu- dents and friends experiment with acting, directing, and film-making techniques. Professor John Hadsell gives Dr. Reed ' s Survey of English Literature class a lec- ture on Yeats and Eliot. Professor and Mrs. Donnelly, Gary Thurm, Don Mason, Kathy McGaha, Michael Mayer- Kielman, and Lee Miles at an informal gathering at the Donnelly ' s house. Donnelly, and Barbara Quisse take a coffee break in the main graduate office.

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Fan mail Informal forums on anything from Boswell ' s Johnson to LBJ take place in the main hall. Here Professors Wanzer, Wichert, Stobie and Reed discuss the photographer. The Campus Film Society, founded in Fall 1960 by Professors John Hadsell and Orville Wanzer, and aided this year by Professor William Donnelly, David Denzler, and Don Mason, has grown into one of the best and least expensive cinema programs in the coun- try. Included in the 24 first-rate films offer- ed this year for $6 were a Bergman series including Torment, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Smiles of a Summer Night, Sawdust and Tinsel, and The Magician. Oth- er films included Viridiana, The Magnificent Seven, Two Women, La Dolce Vita, Ballad of a Soldier, and I ' m All Right, Jack. Dr. Newman Reed, department head, lights Dr. (Mrs.) Marion P. Hardman ' s cigarette. Penny Tschantz, Nan Loy Cham- bers, Jackie Johnson, Nancy

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