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PanoramaLifestyle MJMU'IIIJIIJ'WH Brunch guests to take sentimental journey A12 Asbury Park PressMonday, October 19, 1987 fx 1 Is I -I Press Staff Report NEPTUNE The Ann May School of Nursing building at Jersey Shore Medical Center is about to be razed to make way for a new patient care center. Recognizing the nostalgia felt for the structure built in 1932, members of the school's faculty and alumni have been invited to attend a brunch in Jersey Shore Medical Center's Ford Auditorium and to take a last sentimental journey through the facility. The brunch will be held at 1 1 a.m. Nov. 1.

There is no fee, but reservations are required by tomorrow. At the reunion brunch, old dormitory keys from the building will be sold, along with some artifacts of the structure itself. "Just because the building is coming down, doesn't mean an end to Ann May School of Nursing," said Kathy Maher, director of the school. When the building project is complete, the school will be relocated to another part of the medical center. In the meantime, classes will be conducted in temporary headquarters.

Muriel Shore, a registered- nurse with a master's of science degree in nursing, will be the keynote speaker at the brunch. She is director of nursing, education and research at St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston Township. There were four graduates in Ann May School's first class. That was in 1907 and the school was located in Spring Lake.

The largest class, in 1986, had 42 graduates. Since 1907, more than 1,500 graduates have entered various phases of professional nursing. Among them is Navy Rear Admiral Faye G. Abdellah, class of '74, who is deputy surgeon general and chief nurse officer of the U.S. Public Health Service, Department of Human Services.

Two sisters in the class of '52, Nancy and Linda Christ, also entered the military and are Army lieutenant colonels. Tim Reid (left) is the star of the CBS series "Frank's Place," but Robert Harper is glad to play second banana. Former Middletown resident finds he likes life at 'Frank's Place' MICHAEL RAFFERTYAsbury Parte Press Ann May School of Nursing graduates Donna Trinkaus, Ocean Township, and Rich Hader, Jackson Township, who is critical care nurse manager at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune, admire some of the old school keys to be sold at the reunion brunch. The event will be held Nov. 1 Simple precautions take horror out of Halloween Remind children that they should never enter the home of a stranger accept rides.

Adults can help by keeping their yards well-lighted. Parents should check all "treats" before allowing children to eat them. Very young children should never be out after dark unless accompanied by an adult. Abigail Van Buren's syndicated column appears daily except Saturday. Don't tell me it's time to prepare for another Halloween again.

Well, it is, which means it's time to remind you that: Somebody's child will be seriously injured or killed in a Halloween-related traffic accident. Somebody's child will become violently ill or die after eating poisoned candy or an apple containing a razor blade. Somebody's child will be coaxed into an automobile or lured into a costumes are made at home, treat the fabric with a flame-resistant solution. Accessories, such as swords, broomsticks, hatchets, wands, should be made of cardboard rather than plastic, metal or wood. Sharp items are dangerous.

Provide youngsters with flashlights to prevent falls on sidewalks or porch steps. (Positively no lighted candles should be carried.) Decorate your child's costume and trick-or-treat bag with reflective tape to make them highly visible to motorists. HOURS I nips irui TUES ir 10-9 SAT. 10-6 SUN. 12-5 Our 7 DAY DELIVERY DEAL WITH MANUFACTURER SAVE SLIDING DOOR SPECIAL UP TO 80" 84" Aluminum '110 Biggest of the Season Vinyl 131 Fabric 1 $140 Fabric 2 M61 OPTIONAL VALANCE 22 offer flood thru 111587 ART'S WINDOWS LAKEWOOD TOMS RIVER FORKED RIVER OUT OF AREA 367-1770 288-9110 1-809-971-9398 1-800-822-8920 Robert Harper got his introduction to acting as a student at Mater Dei High School, Middletown Township, in the late '60s.

As a junior, Harper played King Arthur in the school's production of "Camclot." As a senior, he portrayed the King in "The King and "I was the king two years in a row," he said. "I tell everyone it's been downhill ever since." But that's a joke. In reality, Harper's fortunes as an actor have never been higher. On the new CBS TV series "Frank's Place," which airs at 8 p.m. Mondays, Harper has second billing to star Tim Reid, a veteran of "WKRP in Cincinnati" and "Simon Simon." Harper plays Bubba Weisberger, lawyer and friend of Reid's Frank Par-rish, a New England college professor who inherited a New Orleans restaurant, Chez Louisianc, upon his father's death.

"Bubba's a laid-back barfly," Harper said. "He's from a fourth-generation Jewish family in New Orleans and he spends a lot of time at Chez Louisianc. He enjoys and empathizes with the people who hang out there particularly the black people of the community." Together, Harper and Reid have developed a history for the friendship of Bubba and Frank. "He comes from Boston, so I tell him what black people eat in New Orleans and what kind of music they listen to. And he tells me what white people do in New England," Harper said.

Harper, 35, was born in New York. His parents, Eugene and Muriel Harper, moved to Middletown in 1963 and still reside in the New Monmouth section. At Mater Dei, Harper was editor of the school paper and a member of the football team and student council for four years. In his junior year, two professional producers were brought in to organize the school play, and Harper got turned on to acting. He still considers the two men, Theodore Kurdyla, Shrewsbury, and Peter Runfolo, Irvington, major influences on his career.

"They got to something in me that I might never have investigated on my own," Harper said. "People talk about success being 98 percent perspiration and 2 percent inspiration, but timing is also important and what people come along to affect you at what time in your life." Runfolo is now co-producer of CBS' "The Equalizer." Kurdyla's credits include two major forthcoming movies: Michael J. Fox's "Bright Lights, Big City" and Steven Spielberg's "Batteries Not Included." The two first worked with Harper on "Camelot," and returned to work with him on "The King and which co-starred Trudy Ellen Craney, a fellow Middletown resident who's now a professional opera singer. "The constant stressing of a notion of professionalism was a nice thing to have at that age," Harper said. 'The King and I' was presented at the Garden State Arts Center in June 1969, so so we got to perform before 4,000 people one night as high school students." Harper continued acting at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where another major influence was John Betten-bender, now the dean of the university's Mason Gross School of the Arts.

"I was really an English major, but for the four years I was there, I played leading roles in 10 of the 20 theater productions," Harper said. "It was the most interesting four years I've ever had. At times I'd be WflLLY Patrick studying Ibsen in the day and acting him at night." Harper graduated in 1974 and turned down a drama fellowship in California to pursue acting professionally. Initially he worked in the theater, appearing at the Arena Stage in Washington, the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, and on Broadway, where his credits included performing in Arthur Miller's "The American Clock" in a role he originated. Branching out into movies and television, Harper has had roles in the feature films "Creepshow," "Once Upon a Time in America" and "Amaz ing Grace and Chuck," and has made guest appearances on the TV series "Dallas," "Newhart" and "Matlock." Although a teen-age interest in becoming a journalist never panned out, Harper got to play one, Damon Ru-nyon, in the CBS TV movie "Demp-sey," which starred Treat Williams.

He also appeared with Williams in the original Showtime drama Edgar Hoover," playing lifelong Hoover associate Clyde Tolson and cosmetically aging 40 years in the process. Harper's other TV credits include the CBS movie "Deadly Deception," the Disney Channel movie "Not Quite Human," and the CBS miniseries "Murder Ordained," in which he portrayed the prosecutor of a real-life Kansas murder case. After visiting Kansas to research that role, Harper made similar preparations for "Frank's Place." "I went down in June and spent a month in New Orleans, just roaming about," he said. "I audited law school classes at Tulane. I went to jazz clubs.

I went to Baptist services. I also found where I thought Bubba would have his office, and where he would probably live." Harper had done an unsuccessful series pilot in 1983 and wasn't particularly eager to become a series regular, but a casting agent had recommended he read for "Frank's Place." He now considers his billing status right below Reid an honor. "It doesn't mean you're in every episode, I'm finding out, but it's some sort of statement," he said. Although Reid is the focus of the show, Harper was featured prominently in the scries'fourth episode, in which he investigated the death of a patron of Chez Louisianc. Tonight's episode is the series' sixth.

Three others have been completed, with three more on order. "I was pretty prominent in the first four," Harper said. "I'm not too prominent in this four, but I'll be picking up steam in the next five." Because the show has earned good reviews and ratings, Harper expects it to be renewed for the second half of the '87-88 TV season. But he knows the program's unusual mixture of humor and drama makes its future hard to predict. "I just hope people can get into it and get attached to it," he said.

In the meantime, Harper is keeping apartments in New York and Los Angeles, where the series is filmed. "If 'Frank's Place'-catches on, I'll probably shift to Los Angeles on a more permanent basis. But right now, I'm officially bi-coastal," he said. Wally Patrick is the Asbury Park Press Television Writer. His column appears Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

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