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THE BELLES
NOVEMBER, 1981
COURT SPORTS
by Lynn Jones
After two weeks of
practice, the 1981-82
basketball team has settled
down for the season. This
year’s players are: Anne
Bailey, Kim Butler, Ann
Campbell; Judy Douglas,
Laura Edwards, Kiki
Glendenning, Ann Grace,
June Gunter, Lynn Jones,
Amy Lancaster, Mary Leigh
Lewis, and Gigi Wallace.
Managers are Karen Mulligan
and Ann Whitaker. The team
includes members of each
class at St. Mary’s and will
play against two colleges and
nine high schools.
A talk with Coach
Alexander brings promise of a
good season. Six of the twelve
members are returning SMC
girls, adding valuable
experience. Miss Alexander
feels that this team has a
good, positive attitude and the
potential for a winning season.
Potential to work well
together is there too, but will
only come with time and
practice. Though short for a
college team, there is good
height for a high school team,
and there should be some
rebounders and shooters this
year. Hopefully there will be
no injuries or illnesses. This
caused problems last year.
The official season opened
on Thursday, November 19.
The St. Mary’s Sprites played
Meredith College at SMC.
We’re looking for a big turnout
to support the team. The
season will end in mid-
February.
Chorale and Ensemble Take a Road Trip
by Anne Latham
On Monday November 3,
the Chorale and Ensemble
took a trip to Greensboro,
viliere plans had been made
for them to sing at a women’s
luncheon. The women’s
luncheon was at a local
Episcopalian Church in
Greensboro. Before the girls
sang they were served lunch,
which consisted of homemade
vegetable soup, a sandwich
and a tart. After the girls
enjoyed their delicious meal,
they were then ready to begin
their performance. The
Chorale and Ensemble sang a
variety of songs sung on
Broadway, such as “Walk
Him Up The Stairs” and two
songs from the musical “West
Side Story”. These songs were
“Tonight” and “One Hand,
One Heart”. Frances Ellerby
performed a solo from the
musical “Porgy and Bess”.
The name of this tune was
called “Summertime”. The
Chorale and Ensemble
appeared to have enjoyed
themselves and were
delighted that they had this
opportunity to perform.
Whales And MSA Challenge
For Rock Promoter
He was at the top of his profes- There is as yet no known cure
sion, promoting shows for groups fo*" MS, despite massive research
like the Rolling Stones, the Who, efforts led by the National Mul-
the Moody Blues. Now he’s tiple Sclerosis Society, based in
devoting himself to a larger—if New York,
less personally profitable—ven- But Lipsitz remains optimistic,
ture: a huge benefit concert to ’’Medical science is in its infan-
raise money to save the lives of cy. I’m sure it’s only a matter of
dolphins and whales. time until MS, like polio, is
cured.”
So Ken Lipsitz is no ordinary “What good is being depressed
promoter. But something else going to do? I just have to keep
sets him apart, too, for he does doing the best I can.”
all his woilc from a wheelchair. His best efforts at the moment
Lipsitz, 33, is a victim of multiple are aimed at staging his dream
sclerosis. benefit concert, for which he
“I was 25 when I found out hopes to sign friends like John
that I had MS,” he recalls. Denver, Olivia Newton-John,
Gordon Lightfoot, Jackson
He likens the disease to Browne, Fleetwood Mac, and
“guerilla warfare. Everytime it others,
hit, it left me a little worse. First I Humans kill whales, he says,
had double vision, then I walked “at a rate of one every 14 min-
V ith a limp, then with a slow gait utes, 24 hours a day. Why do we
After a while my legs went out have to keep killing them? TTiere
completely.” just isn’t any reason to it”
^^Bowzer’’ Bauman And
Sha-Na-Na Bop On
Some people know John
Bauman as a mild-marmered
graduate of Columbia University,
Hiring A Whole Graduating Class?
Hospitals Hunt For Grads^=""L*
To Fill New Profession
hair, and working under the
assumed name of Bowzer for the
1950s rock revival group, Sha-
“If 50 registered respiratory The profession is only a dozen
therapists flew into Shreveport years old, yet the RT is already
Airport at 8 a.m., by noon they indispensable in the emergency
would all be hired!” according to room, intensive care unit,
Sam Fletcher, Assistant Director neonatal (newborn) department
of Respiratory Therapy at and on emergency transport
Schumbert Hospital, Louisiana, teams.
Woiidng closely with doctors
There’s a severe shortage of and nurses, RTs struggle to save
respiratory therapists (RTs) or improve the lives of heart
throughout the U.S. The 400 attack victims, asthmatic children
schools that train RTs simply and people suffering from chronic
carmot produce graduates fest lung disease,
enough.
When the “LifeFlight” emer-
studied at the Julliard School of “Bowzer was created from my
Music. closet in 1970,” Bauman said in
But, since 1970, Bauman has an interview for “Erlangefs
been wearing black chino pants. Rock Classics to Come” radio
a black T-shirt, greased-back series, sponsored by Jos. Schlitz
Brewing Company.
Children
and Disability
A generation ago, many disabled
children never reached adulthood.
Today, thanks to advances in
medical science, most children with
limiting handicaps survive. What’s
more they are able, with improved
social understanding, to lead pro
ductive, contributing lives. Ac
cording to the Office of versity Kingsmen, because
Education, 9.5 percent of aU anything but the
’50s. Face it, sit-ins during the
“I approached my character
as an entertainer would, and
figured I had to be funny because
I was furmy looking to start with
at 6'2" and 127 pounds. So I
wore all black to look as men
acing as I could, but I actually
looked urunenacing. To top it
off, I sang bass.”
The group itself started as an
outgrowth of the Columbia Uni-
you
children now receive some sort of
You can’t beat the salary or gency medical copter rushes to a s^j^i^o^omprehei^e Phmnhig not that funny. When
the opportunity for only two
years of school,” says George
West, Director of Respiratory
Care at Massachussetts Generd
Hospital, and president of the
American Association for Respi
ratory Therapy.
Entry level positions for ac
credited RTs run at the $16-
20,000 level. Rapid advance
ment and unlimited mobility are
guaranteed.
distant accident, or a child with
third degree bums arrives at the
hospital, or a toxic gas leak
causes a community disaster,
the RT is there, a proud member
of the professional health care
teaiti.
To learn more about an RT
career, write the American Asso
ciation for Respiratory Therapy,
Box A, 1720 Regal Row, Dallas,
Texas 75235.
says that over 6 percent
children have disabilities.
of all
About Disability
TRUE
OR FALSE
Hiring disabled employees •
The RT specialties.
you were in college in the ’60s
your hair was long, the campus
had just been overthrown and
you were mnning in and out of
buildings not knowing what
would happen next It had been a
turbulent decade with tremen
dous progress but tremendous,
and sometimes frightening
changes. There was also tremen-
Disabled workers have a good social consciousness,
safety record on the job. “The ’50s were very funny
True. In fact, 93 percent of socially. I mean, you couldn’t
disabled employees were rated even believe you were alive,” he
“average or better” at job sajj hjs Bowzer voice. “You
safety in a survey done by the ^ „jgg a crew cut
DuPont Corporation. trying to get into college so
you could become a physicist
rates to go up. because that’s what eveiybody
False, Hiring disabled needed in order to fight the
employees has no effect on the Russians. There was humor in
cost of insurance, nor does it the posturing, boredom and sup-
cause Workers’ Compensa- posed simplicity of the ’50s.”
tion to increase, says the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce. While Sha-Na-Na had a great
The attendance of disabled time poking fun at the ’50s and
employees is just as good as recreating the music of that dec-
that of nondisabled em-^jg (j,g gj-^yp j.g^jjy
^oyees. g^j television
True. Actually, it is far better . ®
according to Professor Copal ^ .
Pati of Indiana University. There was no reason for any-
His study showed 3.4 percent to buy one of our records
annual absenteeism for disa- because they could just as well
bled employees, compared to buy the originals,” Bauman said.
13.9 percent for nondisabled “We just try to do faithful repro-
employees. ductions of great songs while
entertaining people.”
Sha-Na-Na revived not only
the sound of the ’50s, but the
idea that performers should
entertain.
“About 10 years ago, most
recording artists really could not
perform at all,” Bauman said.
“There was no performance
value to live shows. When we
started our act, most of the other
groups were just standing around
on stage playing their hits to
audiences that were very stoned
and casual.
“That’s why Sha-Na-Na was
so successful, because our first
and foremost consideration was
putting on a dynamic stage show,
which was unheard of at the
time.”
“We were innovative in that
even though we were looking
back musically, we were among
the first of what then became a
revival of stage shows like Alice
Cooper and David Bowie.”
What does a person famous
for playing old songs think about
music now and in the future?
“I don’t have a prediction, but
I’m net that fond of what’s going
on right this second,” Bauman
said. “I’ve kind of lost track of
what’s happening in the music
world, but it seems to me that
there is somewhat of a recycling
of the simplicity, and some varia
tions on the energy of early rock
and roll.”
“Today’s rock seems to be
more of a bourgeois recreation of
rock and roll. There is no more
working-class element What’s
going on now somehow lacks the
energy and intensity of the begin
ning of rock in the ’50s. There’s
less to rebel against now. Back
then, you had a tremendously
repressive society, but noW
there’s lots of freedom, a lot less
to complain about and a lot more
outlets for energy.”