San Francisco State University - Franciscan Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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ROY ANDERSON, BOB MULROY BILL WENTE, MYRON GREEN, BOB NUDROY, ED MCLAUGHLIN, BOB GLAESHUM, DON DULNAGE create and produce a half-hour Sunday after- noon show for television. Delighted with the opportunity, the Radio- TV staff came up with a show called People with a F uture. The program explored various departments of the College and featured among others, Industrial Arts, AFROTC and an origi- nal pantomime. The series was discontinued in December, 1956, however the student-faculty production staff felt that the lack of continuity in the theme of this show was a major fault. Of necessity, People with a Future was a show which had to present a completely new set of department activities every time it went on the air. Beaux Arts Manor, the present show, which was first presented in January this year, offers wide avenues for exploration and possesses a strong theme of continuity. Its producers now see it as a possible permanent fixture on the KRON-TV Sunday afternoon bill of fare. DAN PECK, PRISCILLA PITTENGER, JEANNE KENMORE

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heaux arts manor Every other Sunday afternoon on KRON-TV, Channel 4, the Bay Area TV audience is entertained by a show produced and directed by students and faculty of the San Francisco State College. Listed on the program as the Beaux Arts Manor - a title which means quite literally, ua gathering place of the fine arts,', Beaux Arts Manor is a loosely structured and informal performance in which student TV professionals-to-be and gifted artists of the Creative Arts Division of the College combine their talents to produce a half-hour show. F undamentally, the Beaux Arts Manor production provides valuable training experience for those who plan to make a career in TV and at the same time offers young artists study- ing at the college an opportunity to sing, to act, to dance, or to display their virtuosity on orchestral instruments before a TV audience. ln addition, through the media of this program, which is Written and produced by students and faculty of the Radio-TV department, the viewing public is given a picture of the many activities provided by the Creative Arts Division of the College. The Beaux Arts Manor is the second in a series of TV pro- grams produced at San Francisco State. Back in September of last year, KRON-TV, as a public service, invited the Radio-TV department of the College to DICK LEE and ED McLAUGHLIN

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. . . poetry center By the organization of the Poetry Center in 1953, the West Coast gained the oppor- tunity to study and hear the poetry which is being written in the Bay Area. Q The Poetry Center, under the direction of its organizer, Professor Ruth Witt-Diamalit of the Humanities Division, has two main interests: the college and the city. 'These are accomplished by the readings held on campus and those held at the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association. This year a much wider program of poetry was offered. The Rockefeller Foundation provided funds which made it possible for the Poetry Center to have a more adequate administrative staff. The Poetry Center has both special concert readings and monthly readings. Interna- tionally known poets are invited to the concert readings to read and discuss their work. The monthly readings invite younger poets of the Bay Area to read their work. This series is to provide the public with an opportunity to hear new poets that are selected and invited upon recommendation. Two poetry workshops, one titled 'LHOW to Read Poetryw and the other upoetry as Magic are given by the college and are designed for better understanding of poetry. The classes offer one unit of credit and they are conducted by Mark Linenthal and Jack Spicer. James Merrill was the first guest poet of the Fall semester and Charles Olson led off the Spring semester. Among the poets who read at the Poetry Center were: Louise Bogan, Brother Antonious tWilliam Eversonl , Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson, Karl Shapire, Robert Lowell, ,lack Spicer, Leonard Wolf, James Broughton, and Robert Duncan who is also assistant director of the Poetry Center. Although the College and the Rockefeller Foundation aid in the support of this program, the main support lies through membership fees and gifts from the community. The West Coast is considered as one of the focal points of the growing poetry revival. The Bay Area in particular, through the activities of the Poetry Center, is gaining national recognition.