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HC Presents Jesus
Irea Deaton
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Dnce again the theater and music
artment of MHC are combining their
Its for the production oi Jesus Christ
erstar. This rock opera wiii be per
iled in Owen Theater from Wednes-
, Dec. 5, until Tuesday, Dec. 11.
Mars Hill, North Carolina
Friday, November 16, 1990
Christ Superstar Student Assists Alumnus in
Events in the musical are portrayed
closely to Biblical references. Stories
such as the marketplace in the temple
when Jesus becomes angry and
frustrated at the people for their
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:an participate. SP^se there is no spoken dialogue. All
softball, football, Wersation is sung. The Jazz Band,
, tennis, basketbal®*' direction of Dr. Pete LaRue,
I, and table te Provide musical accompaniment,
re underway to inf difficult music includes contem-
r. ^ry orchestration for electric and
) Julie Crilley, guitars, electric keyboards and
ramural Program,^''''■nds, brass and percussion,
is year has been Christ Superstar allows the
sen no significai'*®'^^® to view the life of Jesus from
participation ovei Plotting of His death until the
sifixion. “The production is unrealis-
ramural football theologically conservative and is
May. Water polo °ri the New Testament. Jesus is
trayed as human," says director Jim
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eation, you can
als by contacting' ® difficult to portray someone who
i SO perfect yet human. I can only try
best to reenact the life of Jesus,” ex-
hs Christian Ramsey, who plays
us Christ.
semane, the Last Supper and the trip up
Golgotha appear in this interpretation by
actors Christian Ramsey (Jesus) and
Larissa Brown (Mary Magdalene).
Additional members of the cast are
Kerrie Beechler as Judas, Travis Green
as Herod, Stephen Smith as Caiaphas,
Heidi Long as Pilate, Lisa Atkinson as
Annas and Michael Lester as Peter. In
addition, Leigh Angel, Tomeka Forrest,
Mollie Freeman, James McGraw and
Michelle Medlin each appear in two or
more roles including townspeople,
mobs, and the apostles.
Basic grey sweats and tennis shoes
make up the costumes designed by
Sara Stewart. Additionally, the use of
scarves will aid symbolically. Theatrical
devices such as strobe lights will also be
used. The simple set of scaffolds was
creatively designed by John Oertling.
There is no effort for a set in Jerusalem;
it is a non-realistic work.
Additional assistance for music is
given Dr. Julie Fortney (music director)
and Dr. John Adams and Charlie Davis
(rehearsal pianists). Lisa Edwards is
stage manager. Candy Oertling beauti
fully choreographs this dramatic show.
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Translating Document
From Staff Reports
Not many Americans know that the
Japanese made a second attack on
Pearl Harbor. Steve Horn, a retired Air
Force officer who lives in Horse Shoe,
discovered this fact while researching
another subject and became fascinated
by his discovery.
“The raid was made on March 3,
1942, by two Japanese flying boats," he
said.
The original research project laid
aside, Horn began investigating the raid
only to find that there was very little in
formation available.
“There was very little damage done
during the raid," said Horn, “but the
Americans didn’t want to admit to
anyone that the Japanese could slip
through undetected again.”
Horn wrote a letter to the Shin Meiwa
Company in Japan, successor to the
wartime Kawanishi Company, which
manufactured the flying boat used in the
raid. A Shin Meiwa official provided in
formation about the boat—one example
still exists—and gave Horn the address
of a man in Japarr who was preparing
material for a book on the subject.
The man turned out to be retired
Rear Admiral Tsuneo Hitsuji, who com
manded the unit which made the raid.
He provided Horn with a wealth of per
sonal and technical information about
himself, the Emily flying boat and the
raids made on Hawaii and Midway. Un
fortunately, most of the important infor
mation was written in Japanese.
“I tried to find someone to help trans
late the material, but there didn’t seem
to be anyone in the area who could
help,” Horn recalls. Stymied for several
years, he put the information in a file.
Horn is also a member of the French
Broad Modelers, a regional club whose
members have a wide range of interests,
from cars to aircraft ships and armor,
and who express this interest in plastic
models.
John Campbell, MHC news director,
is a member of the club and overheard
Horn, who is an alumnus of the college,
talking about the raid. He knew that cur
rent MHC student Yumiko Suzuki had
recently assisted Dr. Harley Jolley,
professor of history and historian of the
Blue Ridge Parkway, in translating some
English documents into Japanese for
some landscape architects from that
country who visited the Parkway recent
ly-
Campbell agreed to contact
Suzuki to see if translation of this docu
ment was feasible. Suzuki is a
sophomore psychology student from
Tochigi, Japan. She agreed to look at
the document to see if she could trans
late it.
Suzuki is a student-in the Internation
al Education Program. She met Dr. Jon
Crawford, director of the program, in
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