Very Special Arts Festival Opens at Iowa Memorial Union
The first Grant Wood Very Special Arts Festival runs Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm at the University of Iowa Memorial Union. It features displays and workshops for educators and parents, with sessions on developmental art therapy creative poetry and Dr Alphabet among others. Grants from the National Council of Arts for the Handicapped and the Iowa Arts Council support the event. For details contact Jan Lown or John Bullard.
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Grant Wood
University of Iowa Memorial Union
Doug Genschmer
University Hospital School
Sara Mast
Cornell College
Dave Morice
Dr. Alphabet
Iowa City
Marilyn Levin
Iowa City Parks and Recreation Department
Judy
Melissa Lupetin
University of Iowa Drama Department
Lewin Goff
Music Therapy
National Council of Arts For the Handicapped
Iowa Arts Council
Jan Lown
John Bullard
Lowe City
Prairie Intermediate
Film promotes police image for Cedar Rapids fourth graders
The Junior League of Cedar Rapids shows Why Are You A Cop to fourth-graders to foster a positive police image and ease fear. Cedar Rapids officers appear in the film with help from WMT-TV, followed by a Q and A session. Contact Greer Fry at 398-2125 to add it to curricula. Plans aim to hand the project to Grant Wood Area Education Agency for Area 10’s 39 districts.
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Cedar Rapids
Junior League of
Leah Nelson
Greer Fry
Grant Wood Area
Area 10
Close Encounters of the Art Kind Workshop for Teachers
Art teachers gather Saturday at Grant Wood Area Education Agency for an 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. workshop coordinated by Virginia Abney of Taft Junior High. Attendees will share experiences, swap books and techniques, and view student weaving. Connie Fox and Waterloo teachers present a multidisciplinary unit, with copper enameling demonstrated by Abney. Fee is 1.50 with pre-registration, sponsored by the Art Educators of Iowa.
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Grant Wood Area
Virginia Abney
Taft Junior High
Connie Fox
Arthur
Waterloo
Jack Whitchell
Carol Hickins
Abney
Kimm Stastny
GWAEA
The
Art Educators of Iowa
Carretta Wins Grant to Publish His Dissertation
Dr. Vincent A. Carretta of Mount Mercy College earned a publish grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. The 65 English PhD recipients will publish dissertations with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Carretta earned his doctorate at Iowa in 1975 and will study at the Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles this summer.
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Vincent A. Carretta
Mount Mercy College
American Council of Learned Societies
Carretta
University of Iowa
England
National Endowment For the Humanities
Doctorate Earned by Bonnie Folkerts in Education
Bonnie Jean Folkerts of 4642 Aspen Lane NE earned a doctoral degree in elementary and early childhood education from the University of Iowa. Her dissertation titled A Study of the Reactions of Young Children to a Selected Group of Television Commercials and the Associated Products. Dr Folkerts directs the Early Childhood Education Department at Mount Mercy College.
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Bonnie Jean Folkerts
Aspen Lane
University of Iowa
Kennedy High students win honors at UW Eau Claire Jazz Festival
Kennedy High School and its jazz band earned second place in both their categories at the l1th annual UW Eau Claire Jazz Festival. Trombone soloist and student arranger Kim Scharnberg won outstanding awards. over 1,800 peers from similar schools competed in April. Lisa Ann Leary of LaSalle High School received one of Clarke College’s 25 Presidential Totino Scholarships worth 1,000 dollars. Jeff Strang of Iowa State University earned a 50 dollar Putnam math prize. a higher ranked St Joseph senior declined the award.
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Kennedy High School
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Kim Scharnberg
William Scharnberg
Miami Drive
Lisa Ann Leary
Daniel Leary
Walford
LaSalle High School
Clarke College
Jeff Strang
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State University
William Lowell Putnam
ISU
Pi Mu Epsilon
St. Joseph
Strang
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Candy Zierath
Swisher
Terry Weeks
29Th Ave
Julie Strachen
Lisbon
Marvin Virkovsky
Mount Vernon
Christopher Columbus
Jamaica
Bonnie Folkerts
Kennedy
Clarke
Polk Elementary
Smulekoffs Drapery Dept
Eden Valley
Mohawk
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