Rapid City Journal from Rapid City, South Dakota • 11

Section Monday, April 24, 1989 the Rapid City Journal Local Index: Obituaries B2 Classified B6-10 BIA educator views cultural pride as vital to education Christine Jackson Staff Correspondent PINE RIDGE Basil Brave Heart believes teaching by example is the schools' most important responsibility, a responsibility shared by everyone who wants children to succeed. School board members, teachers, staff and coaches, all are adults 'Cabaret' captivates audience Vicky Wicks Staff Writer Clifford Bradshaw, the protagonist in "Cabaret," explained his love of Berlin by saying it was "so tacky and terrible." That same contradictory philosophy might also explain an audience's love for the musical. The dancing was sleazy, the lyrics were bawdy, and the scenery was abstract and gritty. But a full-house audience at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center Theater appeared to be captivated during the Sunday night performance. Scott Thompson as master of ceremonies was fascinating.

Wearing whiteface and strange costumes, he gave the show a burlesque surrealism. He was never serious, yet he was humorless. His presence, along with the swastikas painted into the backdrop, was a constant reminder that Review that children consider important and look to as role models, said Brave Heart, agency superintendent for education for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. "Too often, Brave Heart trained to provide alcohol and drug information to athletes and their parents. Students can't even participate in school sports programs until they and their parents learn the rules and consequences concerning drug use.

We all must recognize problems that affect education on Pine Ridge and find ways to deal with them." Brave Heart, father to seven and grandfather to 14 children, was born and raised north of Pine Ridge. He attended Pine Ridge and Red Cloud Indian schools. After dropping out in the 11th grade, he joined the Army and served as paratrooper during the Korean War. Upon discharge, he entered Chadron State Teacher's College and earned a bachelor of science degree. Brave Heart taught in BIA and private sector schools for 25 years and then received a master's degree in educational administration from the University of Minnesota and a master's degree in psychology and counseling from St.

Mary's. He worked as a high school principal for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana, an school administrator in Minneapolis, and as superintendent of schools for the Arapahoe and Shoshone tribes at Fort Washakie, Wyo. He then worked in an alcohol and drug training program in Minnesota before returning to Pine Ridge to work for the employees assistance program at Little Wound School for seven years and then assuming his current BIA position. "My new position is challenging and exciting and I want to be instrumental in bringing about schools which offer a good safe learning environment geared toward teaching the whole child," Brave Heart said. "To do this, we must all work together.

There is nc other way." culture. I respect and follow the ways of the culture as a way of life. I want to see the culture survive and prosper. Education can play a big part." Some schools already have begun language and culture programs that promote Lakota ways. Other schools plan to apply for grants under the Title program to develop cultural and language awareness curricula.

Brave Heart said, "The children should be proua it their heritage, and our educational programs help do this and will continue to do this." He also said reservation schools, like any other schools, must deal with discipline and attendance problems. He said strategies were being developed to get children to school and to keep them in good learning environments. Brave Heart said a survey showed 95 percent of eighth graders at the BIA and contract schools wanted a firm and fair classroom environment and respected teachers who provided it. Nearly all the students surveyed wanted tribal councils to be more involved in education. They wanted council members to visit schools to get a better idea of how to address school problems.

"We're listening to what the kids are saying," Brave Heart said. "They make important points and we will continue to look at addressing these points. And we continue to address areas that we, as adults and educators, see as threatening to education drug and alcohol abuse, for example." Brave Heart said policies and procedures were being developed to have drug free schools. "One student program we are especially proud of deals with athletes and chemical health and works toward eliminating chemical substance abuse. The coaches are adults only talk about being good role models.

But we can't only talk it," he said. "We have to walk it, too. We have to set good examples by being good examples and addressing educational issues which will make a difference." Brave Heart and his staff provide direction for the Pine Ridge and American Horse BIA schools and technical assistance to the Crazy Horse, Porcupine, Loneman and Little Wound contract schools. Jointly the schools provide kindergarten through twelfth-grade education for the Pine Ridge reservation. One area on which school officials are concentrating is the cultural aspect of education.

This includes Lakota language instruction. "We found that only 10 percent to 20 percent of our students know how to speak or understand Lakota. This really worries me. If we don't do something about it, the language will be lost," Brave Heart said. "The same holds true for Lakota Tables Beautiful fund-raiser A "Harvest Table" designed by Joan Hunter, left, and Carol Herman was one of 12 beautiful table settings on display Saturday at the 4th annual Tables Beautiful program at the Dahl Fine Arts Center.

The table featured placemats and napkins in a stars and stripes pattern and graniteware that originally was available in the early 1900s, as well as American folk art and collectibles. The event, sponsored by the the Dahl Company, is an annual fund-raiser for the art center. (Staff photo by Steve McEnroe) Trip to abortion clinic evokes uncertainty the forced gaiety on stage was occurring simultaneously in time with one of the most frightening and abhorrent chapters of human history. The story centered around Bradshaw, played by Dan Sharkey, and showgirl Sally Bowles (Carolyn Wesley) falling into unlikely love in pre-World War II Germany. Bradshaw was the perfect idealistic love interest.

He came across as sincere, and his deep baritone voice was beautiful to hear. Wesley's voice was also strong after some difficulty with the low tones in her first number, "Don't Tell Mama." Neither Bradshaw nor Wesley were as likeable as the "other" couple, Herr Schultz (Tim Hover) and Fraulein Schneider (Judy Far-rell). This September romance featured two of the musical's prettiest songs, "It Couldn't Please Me More" and "Married." Schultz sang in a clear tenor and Schneider's voice was powerful and true. When the two voices joined in duet, each perfectly complemented the other. One of the most clever uses of sets occurred during the couple's courtship.

In the foreground, the audience saw the gray-haired Schultz and Schneider dressed in everyday attire. In the background, reflected in a mirrored surface, the audience saw a young couple, elegantly dressed in evening attire, dancing gracefully. Providing a comedy subplot was Fraulein Kost (Malerie Rose), a big-hearted woman with a penchant for sailors. There was comedy and music and humor, but throughout the story was an undertone of impending tragedy. The play, as written, was an effective exploration of abandonment as a coping device.

The play, as performed Sunday night, remained true to that intent. PIERRE There were three of us in my '62 Impala early that morning in 1973, heading west to an abortion clinic in Rapid City. My girlfriend was sleeping on the passenger's side as the sun rose in my rear view mirror. In the back seat, Dee was stretched out on her back humming to the heavy bass of Grand Funk Railroad. "Hey, Woster," she said.

"We really got you into one this time, huh?" She laughed, and went back to singing. She was what we called a i 1 I a Woster The Honda Co. has given the Stealth mock-up it used in its advertising to the South Dakota Air and Space Museum at Ellsworth Air Force Base. Honda advertisement gets jump on Air Force unveiling cult to embrace. Dee sang and made jokes all the way to Rapid City.

She appeared calm and well-prepared in the waiting room. The nurse was kind and understanding. So was the doctor. The procedure went well, and we were headed home a few hours later. Dee came unraveled when we stopped at a truck stop at Kadoka.

She felt empty, suddenly, less alive. She said everything happened faster than she had imagined. She wondered if it was a boy or girl. She wondered, finally, if she hadn't made a terrible mistake. I guess that visit to the clinic and experience with Dee's painful personal aftermath moved me from firmly pro-choice to near complete confusion on legalized abortion.

I've struggled in that personal quicksand now for 16 years. In that, I'm not so very different from most Americans. I can't understand how some pro-choice people can say it is simply a matter of a woman's personal decision concerning her own body, not when another life or potential life is involved. But neither can I tolerate the horrid tactics and narrow-minded insensitivity of some of the so-called Right-to-Life groups. They profess to love the unborn child but show little compassion for the woman who carries it or, frequently, for the child itself after birth.

I believe that life begins at conception. But I also consider it possible that I'm wrong. That possibility tempers my fervor. It never seems to occur to either the radical right or the radical left on the abortion issue that they might be wrong, that maybe there is an answer that doesn't belong to them, or maybe no answer at all. They both seem so sure.

Dee was sure when we headed for Rapid City that day so long ago. She wasn't quite so sure on the way home. I'm not so sure either. On this, how can anyone be? Gordon Hanson Staff Writer Honda's stealthy car advertisement got a jump on the U.S. Air Force with the national unveiling of its $250,000 mock-up of the real B-2 Stealth bomber.

And in the end, the beneficiary is the South Dakota Air and Space Museum. The 10-ton Honda Stealth mockup three-fifths the size of space cadet back in the days of bell bottoms and the ubiquitous exaltation "far out." She was also pregnant. I never knew who the father was. And it didn't seem to matter. She was my girlfriend's best friend, and she didn't want to have the baby.

That made a lot of sense to me at the time. Dee was about as far from being mother material as anyone I knew. She was 18 or 19, but seemed younger. She drank, smoked pot and would pop just about any pill she found in her hand. She stood out as being an emotional mess, even in a peer group that was on the whole generally addled.

Dee pregnant? Abortion seemed the only reasonable answer. During those days I didn't strug gle much with the rights or wrongs of the operation. It was Dee's body, her life, her decision. And, knowing her, it seemed the logical one. A day at the clinic, and an evening listening to Dee weep over the loss of her unborn child, made that simple philosophy more diffi A It an actual B-2 but much less expensive recently was hauled from the Florida Everglades to Ellsworth Air Force a (In feelers to find a home for the mock-up.

Ellsworth's Lt. Col. Bob Klawon read of the situation in the Air Force Times and swept into action. He knew a perfect home for the mock-up: the Air and Space Museum at Ellsworth. Klawon got approval from base commander Col.

Robbie Roberts to see if Honda would give the mock-up to the museum. Then, on Friday, Klawon contacted Honda Motor Co. The following Monday he made travel arrangements and on Tuesday he was in the Everglades looking at the mock-up. "It had sat there for three months," Klawon said. "Honda was concerned that somebody else might use it in a movie, or 'Miami Vice' on TV." American Honda not only donated the mock-up to the museum, "but paid $10,000 to get it shipped up here," Klawon said.

The model "is terribly tail heavy, so to balance it up we put 3,600 pounds of steel ballast in the nose." Honda executives are to be at Ellsworth and donate the Stealth mock-up at 2 p.m. Friday, May 5. "It will be on permanent display at the museum," Klawon said. the public. For the record, we introduced ours first." Ad copywriter Bob Coburn had said: "It's a very fun-oriented car, a little hot rod, a little bomber." Jon Ward, who builds mechanical props for the film industry, and others assembled the Stealth mock-up in the yard of his home near Los Angeles, according to Air Space magazine.

Because the real B-2 design was still mostly a secret, "We dug up the old Northrop Flying Wing design, took part of that and part of the drawings (of the real B-2) that leaked out," Ward said. "We got real close." It took workers a month to assemble the mock-up, using 16-gauge sheet steel, tubular steel, an old Corvette rear window for the cockpit window, and landing gear from a Convair 440. The seven-piece model was disassembled and hauled on three trailers to Dade-Collier airport near Miami where the ad was filmed. Afterward, "We had no idea of what we were going to do with this prop," Ron MacMillan, a Postaer account supervisor, said in the magazine story. "We kind of fell in love with it.

I hated the idea of it becoming an alligator nest." Honda and Postaer put out Cleanup day landfill loads break record The numbers of loads of trash hauled to the landfill during this year's Rapid City cleanup day "shattered last year's records," Mayor Keith Carlyle said. "As expected, demand exceeded the supply for both volunteers and trucks (to pick up pick up trash) although we did have a record number of people and trucks," the mayor said following Saturday's clean up. The mayor's office received 880 requests from people who had trash they wanted picked up and hauled away, Carlyle said. "We averaged 200 loads per hour at the landfill, and that shattered last year's records," said Carlyle, who called community participation "tremendous." During the 19th annual clean up day, city officials and volunteers cooperated to haul trash to the landfill. Carlyle said there was so much trash, it couldn't all be picked up Saturday.

People who see bags of trash or other items that did not get picked up Saturday should call the mayor's office at 394-4110. City crews will Rick the trash up this week. May 5 it will Klawon be formally presented to the museum. American Honda Motor Co. first had used the model, with its 100-foot wingspan, in television and national media ads last September, weeks before the Air Force publicly revealed its secrecy-shrouded B-2.

The ads were created by Rubin Postaer and Associates for Honda's 1989 CRX Si sports car. The ad copy said: "Shrouded in secrecy for years, the Stealth bomber will soon be introduced to Housing board member to be named Another member of the Pennington County Housing and Redevelopment Commission is scheduled to be appointed Tuesday by the county commission. The new housing commission member will replace Mark Brave, who resigned last month. The appointment is scheduled for the county commission meeting Tuesday afternoon. The meeting begins at 1 p.m.

Tuesday at the Pennington County Courthouse. Also scheduled for Tuesday's meeting is discussion of the county's 1990 budget. 1 I.