Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 6

Instrument Tuner Tree School' a Hit Call Her 'Piano Technician' It will be called Lurgenstin Si Associate. "I'm the associate. Isn't that great?" she laughed. Rita lives in suburban Allen Park with her mother, Margaret May, who is head librarian of the Allen Park Public lous sort with lots of trial and error and a woman seems better suited for these fine details." In one day of house calls, Rita reports she retrieved marshmallows, popsi-cles, dead fish and a toy duck from sick pianos. She admits to being a "talky piano tuner," declaring, "I give short but sweet 'music lit lectures and history lessons when I'm tuning." She feels she has an advantage over male piano tuners because "The job is a meticu and talking and mechanical memorization of information.

"Our present educational system ruins minds," Miss Rothstein said. "It stifles creativity." Their alternative is the Free School. They began organizing about two months ago, distributing 7,000 leaflets, and enlisting volunteer help to coordinate, offer ideas and teach. "We soon realized," the girls explained, "that everyone has a gripe with the school system. We got a universal response athletes, adults, children, academics, everyone called." They found a place for the Free School to meet at three Trooper Finds Wife Dead BLOOMFIELD HILLS (AP) A new kind of institution, divorced from education's traditional structure and based on a laugh and learn philosophy, seems to be flourishing in Detroit's northern suburbs.

It's called the Free School. The brainchild of two 18-year-old girls, the Free School is tuition free and restriction free. Classes, taught by volunteers range from Appreciation of Nature to Shakespeare, Cruising on Woodward, Sex and Junkshop Tripping. The students may talk about Tolstoy one day, Tolkein the next. They meet when it's convenient.

2 SENIORS The gals behind the Free School are Jane Rothstein and Dedra Buchwald, both seniors at Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills. They see the school as a vehicle to "true meaning the sharing of human epxerience, continual self -disco very and joyful exploration of the unknown." They say they are against a student being confined within four walls six hours a day, rules prohibiting gum-chewing Birmingham churches and put out a catalogue for some 70 (lasses offered. The churches lending their facilities to the school are the Birmingham Unitarian Church, Congrega-t i a 1 Church and United Churc of Christ. The numbers attending the range of classes vary from day to day. Some of the most popular sessions, like Sensitivity, Iloga and Revolution of Consciousness, attract 75-100 persons.

And the project has already caught the interest of Detroit area eudcators, among them Bloomfield Andover High School's Principal Richard J. Speiss. When the Free School's first session meanders to an end, the two organizers plan to present their educational theories and their program to the Bloomfield Hills Board of Education. Of the 70 proposed classes, at least half have been successful. The corps of teachers includes some professionals working without pay.

As classes devise their own programs, leaders and participants are often hard to tell apart. DETROIT (AD When pretty Rita May shows up in blue jeans and shirt, customers often ask, "Are you it?" They're looking for the piano tuner. "People just aren't used to the idea of a woman piano tuner," says the 23-year-old University of Michigan graduate whose official title is "piano technician." "I know of only two other women in the whole state who do this for a living. And I'm for sure the only young one," she said. A pianist who's now doing graduate work in humanities at Wayne State University in Detroit, Rita chose her profession almost by accident.

While leafing through a U-M catalogue, course in "Piano Technology" caught her attention. "I was the only girl in the class of five men," she recalled. This month, Rita and Herberto Lurgenstin, a music instructor she met in Ann Arbor, plan to open a shop in nearby Redf 3rd. LEAVING John T. Osborne, 3750 Cedar, Fowler-ville, consultant and work placement coordinator for the Livingston Intermediate School District the past two years, has accepted a position with the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs.

He will be stationed in South Dakota. Active in community affairs, he has been a member of the Howell Lions Club, American Legion and FowlerviMe Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 6464. He has also been a Cubmaster and den leader with the Cub scouts. "He's at home now making funeral arrangements," Steinhurst said of Betts.

He said the trooper has three children aged 12, 9 and 7. Steinhurst said the accident occurred when the car driven by Mrs. Betts collided headon with a vehicle driven by Paul D. Banning, 22, West Branch. Banning was hospitalized in serious condition with a broken jaw, arm and leg.

Police and a wrecking truck had to cut him out of the wreckage, Steinhurst said. on M-55 at M-76 about nine miles west of here. Steinhurst sent Trooper Donald Betts to the scene. A few minutes later, Steinhurst said, Betts radioed back, telling him who the victims were and asking for another car. Steinhurst said he dispatched another patrol car immediately.

The only other conversation he had with Betts was another call from him, asking if the other car was on the way, Steinhurst said. WEST BRANCH (UPI) A State Policeman sent to investigate a serious accident today radioed i dispatcher and said, "Send another car out here. My wife and Lois Chris-tiensen are both dead." The women, both wives of State Police troopers at the West Branch post near this central Michigan town, were identified as Bonnie Kay Betts, 28, and Mrs. Christiansen, 22, wife of Peter Christiansen. Trooper Robert Steinhurst, the dispatcher, said he received a report of an accident Hem THE STATE JOURNAL Lansing East Lansing, Michigan A-6 June 6, 1970 Wi m-asP Cftto GMM fiteo Why Stop Woncfi GWhv fXtoncfl HM Wrnlft CRFF C3 PRICES IN THIS AD GOOD JUNE 7 JUNE 8.

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