St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 42

id is ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Todays Women She Illustrates Nature Scenes With Colorful Stitching .1 t. i i G2S I 1 'I i I A i nrsi I aa? at. Multiple Sclerosis Campaign Chairmen Mrs. Alfonso J.

Cervantes (leff) has been named city residential chairman for the 1968 Multiple Sclerosis Hope Chest campaign. Mrs. John T. Murphy Jr. is county chair man.

Volunteers are needed for a house-to-house solicita tion March 16 to 18 in which funds will be raised for research and for equipment, drugs and counseling for the 5000 persons in the St. Louis area stricken with the disabling disease. Joseph D. Brumm is campaign chairman. Latin Is Alive, Even 'Juicy They Say i ,1 2 davs across the AIds toned suit, fche is far from th also the head nf the clastic; Ily Ellen Schlafly p.l with Hannibal and his elephams will be heartened by the status of the classics at the college and graduate levels, which is far from "quo." Twenty-five years ago, the University of Chicago was the only midwestern university which offered a Ph.D.

in classics. John G. Hawthorne, president of the conference which met here last week, and associate professor in classics at the university, said Iowa, Michigan, Indiana and ail the major universities now offer doctorates in classics. He attributes part of this revitalization to the current popularity of archeology. College preparatories have traditionally been bastions of conjugations, declensions and Ciceronian orations.

Although most colleges have dropped Latin per se as an entrance requirement, it can be used as a language prerequisite. Mary Institute, St. Louis Country Day land John Burroughs, independent private schools in St. Louis county, offer four or five yesrs of Latin. Mary Institute and Country Day give two years of Greek, also.

Archdiocesan and private Catholic high schools offer Latin, but only at St. Louis University High School is It a required course. The attitude of the administration is a major factor in the strength or weakness of a Latin program. "Classics have a hesdstart at the Priory." the Rev. Timothy Horner O.

S. B. said. "I'm the headmaster end battle-ax image that some former Latin students have of their Latin teachers. Many schools have Latin days or weeks.

Students dress in togas, present plays, have de-bates and Bacchanalian banquets. "This was THE social event, said a former student recalling her halcyon high school days, "Being a slave was a great status symbol." The teachers were una voce that students who take Latin are respected by their peers, who consider them smart To those who argue that classical literature can be studied in English with Just as many 1 1 and without the ar. duous translation process, Mrs, Ochs has a ready reply. "I tell them what Ben-Gurion said: 'It's like kissing someone thiough a Teaching the classics is relevant In 1968, says Hawthorne. "Studying the classics teaches people to be civilized.

They learn Greek philosophy, Roman law and the idea of running the world which the Romans did, the British did and the Americans are now doing, although they seem to have some competition from the Russians and the Chinese," he said. One woman found Latin relevant for a less-lofty reason. "I loved it," she recalled, "because we had a young mala teacher and read a Ciceronian oration, "Murder at Larinum," which seemed very juicy and sexy at the time." department." Virgil, Cicero and Homer are very much alive at the boys' school in St. Louis county. Every student is required to take five years of Latin.

One half of the freshmen class is enrolled in a Greek class; three years are offered. Modern languages are not slighted. Every graduate must complete five years of French. One purpose of the Illinois Classical Conference is to bring out new techniques of learning and teaching Latin. In this area, Latin has kept apace of the modern foreign languages.

Textbooks are colorful and there are records and tapes. Many Latin teachers admit, however, that they are traditionalists and do not use technological gadgets. Dedicated teachers rely instead on a wide range of pedagogical gimmicks to enliven Latin classes. Miss Helen r. who a at East Alton-Wood River Community High School, takes Latin students on field trips to the Old Courthouse and Old Cathedral to see examples of Roman and Greek columns.

Budding classicists see Latin names on flowers and plants in the Climatron. Teachers cite the names of spaceships Apollo and Gemini to prove Latin's longevity. "I tell my students that Latin is not dead, just the Romans," aays Mrs. Robert M. Ochs, who teaches in Belleville.

Wilh her chic coiffure and ailver-but- Of ine Ptnl-lhtpatch Stall Members of the Illinois Classical Conference sound a reassuring note in an educational era of modern math and post-Sputnik science. "Omnis Gallia" is still being divided into "tres partes." "Latin will never die," insists Miss Dorothy Bandy, who teaches Latin in a Jerseyville high school. But 1 1 in secondary 1 1 today are "a mo, amas, a a -I in much fewer numbers. "We've lost more than 100 students from our Latin classes Just since last year," said Miss Mary Jane Bandina, consultant for foreign languages in the St. Louis public school aystem.

A private school administrator dates the decline of Latin from World War II. The Army started in 1 1 language training i for soldiers going to France, Germany and Japan, initiating a laboratory approach to language as well as a push for modern sjeken languages. Latin competes with Chinese, Japanese and Russian in some St. Louis area high school curricula, but the classicists do not think they are going the way of the passenger train and lettered telephone exchanges. "We're holding our own," says Miss Nancy Steel, a teacher at Belleville Township High School West.

Those who in their student ninqt to learn her tewing machine techniques ere ((rem leftj: Mrt. Jack K. Arthur, Miss Karen Jonet, Mr. Arthur and Miss Sheron Jones. Even Grandma BEDDING! Zl0, J50 OFF TnninhMThp onpninrrof tVipnpw Will Rivi About Foes' Values el Tiir ICA Jlori COEN'S SOODMUOW UNITUI IS'I WOOOION HA.

I.7MO MADISON SQUARE GARDEN! jig iv. Chrysler presents THE BOB HOPE SHOW a starring Special Guest it TTX Tl HP 7t Pit Tl 77 TiT. 7f Ti 7t Practice Makes Mperfect BING BAILEY EDEN i CROSBY A Lesson in Stifchery Mn. JoKn H. Caitant (cenfer) alwtyt hi intritd udienc when ih ttitchei picturi Stix.

Baer Fuller. Four who have ringside eH on Thunday eve- FROM PACE ONE wa moved in Slix, Mr. Castcns moved the department wore. When thinps are not husy. he starts sewing one of hrr pictures.

Quickly she draws an interested crowd. It is an effective way to demonstrate the versatility of the machine. MRS. CASTENS locks her work into an inverted embroidery hoop, removes the presser-foot from the machine, dioses the color she wants, then sets the dial for lig-rag. There are many lengths of stitches, and she has become so adroit that she can dial a stitch length without stopping the machine.

Men. too. are interested in her stitchery. A customer brought her husband with her when she purchased her ma- chine. He became so interested in stitching pictures that he comes every Thursday evening to learn more about It.

His wife is learning conventional sewing. "Last summer the man who heads Necthi in Kurope came to St. Louis. He noticed my pictures on the wall and said 'They are beautiful, you're an artist a real artist. Then he kissed my hand.

I nearly fainted. I told him I be happy to make one for him. and he selected the Stars and Stripes." Her pictures are to be reproduced in Necchi Zig Zag migazine which goes to dealers all oyer the world. Her instructions will be translated into every language of the countries where the machines are sold. Mrs.

Castens was featured on KSD-TV's Noon Show and aince that time has had many letters from viewers hundreds of miles away asking questions about her pictures. LAST SUMMER, she and a friend went to Silver Dollar City, Mo. They itopped near an old mill which still grinds corn the way it was done more than 100 years ago. "There was nothing else there but an old general store. It was early in the morning and there was an old dog lying out in front with the sun shining on his glossy coal.

It just seemed that he too sensed the beauty of that morning. I was so inspired that I drew the picture right there and then. Later I stitched it and sent it to the people in the general store. They have it hanging there for all to see. I just wanted to do it and it gave me pleasure and them too." Mrs.

Castens was born in St. James, one of 11 children. She learned to sew on her mother's treadle machine, under very close supervision. "Mother wouldn't let me touch that machine unless she was right there to watch me it was too precious. She made all our clothes.

The prettiest dress I ever had was a yellow one doited in white that she made for me." Mrs. Castens lives with her husband at 3717 Risen avenue, Lemay. Their favorite recreation, not surprisingly, is gelling out in the country. They own a lot on Werner Lake about AO miles out Highway 67 in Jefferson county, where they spenJ many days in the summer wilh Rebel, their German shepherd. "I'm not too much on the materialistic side," she said.

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