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i Thursday. October 23, 1DC0Th2 Dciiy Tar H"!5 I -If J.,-T l.L tr f T fT n TVT1 1? O f - " ' C LOUISE GUNTER Siafl' Writer In 1949, adult admission to the show at the Morehead Planetarium was 33 cents; today it is $2.75. Cut the price is mot ail that has changed. Anthony F. Jenzano, called a "mechanical genius' by the Morehead Planetarium's first director, has worked at the planetarium since it first opened its doors in 1949. Director of the Morehead facility since: 1950, jenzano reflected, "The role of the planetarium has changed markedly, from strictly an astronomical instrument to a multimedia space-science facility. "Oct. 20-26 is International Planetarium Week," Jenzano said. "It is to recognize the first week of planetarium demonstrations in Germany in 1923." When it opened in 1949, the Morehead Planetarium was one of six in the country and the only one affiliated with a college or university. The $3 million facility was a gift from John Motley Morehead, grandson of the former North Carolina governor of the same name. In 1945, Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley visited Chapel Hill to deliver a series of lectures, and he observed that the people of North Carolina were "astronomically ignorant." W.D. Carmichael Jr., then comptroller of the University, remembered Shapley when Morehead began to talk of building an observatory or a planetarium, and he arranged- for the two men to meet. T "Your state needs a cosmic aqakenin Shapley told Morehead. "North Carolinians are the most astronomically ignorant people in all America." A story quotes Morehead as saying, "Amend your statement, Mr. Shapley, to read 'of all the people in America, North Carolinians are the most ignorant of astronomical matters,' and we'll build a planetarium." Shapley amended his statement. ' 'Your state needs a cosmic awakening. North Carolinians are the most astronomically ignorant people in all America. ' Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley, 1945 While minister to Sweden in the early 1930s, Morehead saw the German Zeiss Model II Planetarium in Stockholm. In 1947, he purchased it for $67 ,000. The Charlotte Observer quoted Jenzano as saying that Morehead "wanted to give a 'silk hat' gift something of special value that the state legislature would never have appropriated money for." "Mr. Morehead was a man of novel vision," Jenzano said, "He liked to envision things uncommon'and with some degree of mechanical complexity. "He (Morehead) had the idea of bringing the planetarium instrument over from Sweden in 13 crates. The crates were originally sent to the fatigue lab in Woollen Gymnasium because of the high ceilings there," he said. In January 1949, construction of the Morehead building was completed, and the planetarium opened its doors on May 10. Its first show was appropriately titled "Let There Be Light." In 1965, the year of Morehead's death, the German Zeiss factory produced Planetarium Model VI, which Jenzano described as "an electronic, modular, improved optical instrument." Foundation trustees bought it for $250,000. Today Model VI planetariums are valued at $1.7 million, Jenzano said. "In 1973, the trustees of the foundation brought Mr. Morehead's original dream and scheme to full reality with the installation of the Boler-Chivenes telescope," Jenzano said. "Together with the telescope and the Zeiss Model VI Planetarium, the University of North Carolina has one of the finest astronomical laboratory systems available." In 1960, the Morehead Planetarium was selected to train and educate American astronauts in celestial navigation. "I prepared and submitted an outline of what we intended to do, and how it could benefit the space program," Jenzano said. "Ours was selected and the astronauts arrived in January 1960. We trained crews for all Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs. "We also arranged for every astronaut to be an alumnus of UNC," Jenzano continued. "I designed a certificate honoring the astronauts for 'academic diligence under the classroom dome of the Morehead Planetarium in quest for orbits of higher achievement.' " The recognition confers the status of "Alumnus and Tarheel" on all of the astronauts, "with all rights and. privileges pertaining." Jenzano said the astronaut training program was of great pride to the planetarium. "By the time Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, he had 125 planetarium hours to his credit," he said. Today the planetarium receives 50,000-60,000 schoolchildren a year. "Any grade level can come once a week and see a different program for their level," Jenzano said. "On any given day there are eight different programs. "The Christmas and Easter shows are so popular that they attract about one third of our total annual attendance," Jenzano said. "Those shows run about five weeks each." J OTK fdtt Cooper Jenzano. director of tho Planetarium ...planetarium role has changed Today, the Morehead Building not only houses the planetarium, but also an elaborate art gallery, various science exhibits, an observatory operated by the UNC Department of Physics and Astronomy and various dining and conference halls to accommodate University and Morehead Foundation functions. DATE Oct. 27 The following employers and graduate school representatives will be on campus to discuss job opportunities and academic programs on the dates indicated. Students can sign up for appointments with these representatives eight days ahead of the visit in the University Placement Services, 21 1 Hanes Hall. A resume is necessary at the time a student signs for an interview. It is to be in the folder accompanying the. sign-up sheet. Oct. 29 Coopers & Lybrand Bic Pen Corp. Federal Bureau of Investigation Scott Paper Co. Radian Corp. Cargill Inc. Washington & Lee School of Law Union Carbide Corp. Oct. 30 Union Carbide Corp. Dixon, Odom & Co. K-Mart Apparel Blue Bell Inc. Miiliken&Co. University of Virginia Law School Oct. 31 Washington College of Law Southeast Banking Corp. Fieldcrest Mills Inc. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. , .'.! v. . Harris Computer . : Systems Division Oct. 28 ORGANIZATION Georgetown Law Center A. M. Pullen & Co. Policy Management Systems Thorn McAn Control Data Corp. Indiana University Business School Caster Knott Co. Xerox Corp. Columbia University School of Business Duracell USC Graduate School of Business Sharrard, McGee & Co. Cornell University Graduate School o f Business & Public Administration University of FLichmond Law " Coopers & Lybrand APO Campus Chest Male beauts contest to APO searches for Mr. Rsmeses ...money for Campus Chest ! By TIM PRESTON Staff Writer Carolina men, get out your bikini briefs and start weight training. Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity is sponsoring a Mr. Rameses contest Nov. 13. Contestants will be judged in a three piece suit contest, then the men will change into swimsuits, and finally, there will be a talent contest. "The accent will be on the humorous," said Barbara Minderman, APO's Campus Chest chairman. Sororities, coeducational residence halls and student organizations may sponsor contestants for $25, Minderman said. APO hopes to attract between 20 and 25 contestants. "First prize will be along the lines of men's clothing," Minderman said. Mr. Rameses also will be recognized at the Homecoming game against the University of Virginia on Nov. 15. The Mr. Rameses contest will feature a female mistress of ceremonies and several female judges, she said. The judges will be chosen from sororities, faculty or staff, dorms and the town. "We anticipate raising about $1,000," Minderman said. Admission to the contest to be held in 100 Hamilton Hall, will be either 50 cents or $1. The money raised will be contribsted to about a dozen area charities through Campus Chest. Letters have been sent to various area charities advising them to submit applications for Campus Chest funds. Several campus representatives will meet Nov. 5 to decide which charities will receive contributions. The Mr. Rameses contest was the idea of a few APO brothers, Minderman said, and was created to fill the void left by the termination of the "Ugly Man on Campus" contest, a main source of revenue for the Campus Chest in the past. Fraternities and sororities sponsored men to dress up in an explicitly ugly manner to solicit donations from students. be 77 lit eld Plummeting profits and interest in the contest compelled APO to quit sponsoring the ugly man contest, APO president Warren Collier said. "Fraternities and sororities have gotten involved in their own projects and philanthropies," he said. "It was not so much that they were not participating they're putting their energies elsewhere. "The charities receiving money should benefit students because it is their money," Collier said. He explained that Campus Chest funds have been given to day school centers, retirement homes and halfway houses in the Orange County vicinity. The Campus Chest donates money to local charities that do not have the ability to solicit donations' state or nationwide, he said. n Give blood c, ? te Off M U MOUXJ Ffcsks for football games Kg km dwHvury r9rvtton XX. f "7-CT31 rr m?-i-i 3 LOWEST COST FLIGHTS Reliable Flexible Free European Stops B Duy Now For Summer And Save (212) CS3-03SO Outside New York 1-CC3-223-767S Th Cantor for Student Travel 1 140 Broadway, N YC, N Y. KX5CH ""' fib Year" RALEIGH WOMEN'S HEALTH ORGANIZATION ABORTIONS UP TO 12 WEEKS S176.CD FROM 13-16 WEEKS S3C0.C3 (All Inclusive) Pregnancy TestsBirth Control Prcbkm Prejnsncy CounscUns. 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