The Oshkosh Northwestern from Oshkosh, Wisconsin • Page 4

Doily Northwestern 4 Wed, Aug 3, 1977 Debbie Gary one of few women aerobatic pilofs Was she scared the first time she performed? Ms. Gary said she wasn't. "The reason I wasn't scared was because before I do anything, I think about everything I must do," she said. "I alsg become very realistic and confront everything that could come up and then dear with it. I'd be scared if I didn't do all that though." After performing with Holland for a few years she moved to the Canadian Carling Aerobatic team until 1975 when she joined the Bede Jet team.

Soon after she bought her own plane and started performing by herself. As a woman, Ms. Gary said it doesn't matter what sex a person is when it comes to aerobatic flying. She said she wouldn't let being a woman get her down or up when she first started out. "Fortunatley, when I first started out I wouldn't let the people who said, 'Oh my look at that, she's a woman doing all those tricks," get to me.

The reason I say I'm fortunate is because too many women take the credit too early and they won't develop further." I rjgp pT By ROB SCHLLTZ Northwestern Staff Writer One would think that after years of spinning around in the sky, doing low level outside loops, head snapping snap rolls and anything else an aerobatic pilot does, that it would get to them after a while. But not for Debbie Gary, she said she loves aerobatic flying and wouldn't trade it for any other career in the world. Being one of the only full-time women aerobatic pilots in. the world, Ms. Gary flies around 20,000 miles a year going to numerous air shows in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

This week the slim 30 year old brunette who hails from Monterey, Calif, is performing at the Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-in for the first time at Oshjcosh. She had previously performed here with the Bede Jet team. She now represents the Bellanca Aircraft Corp. For Ms. Gary, success as an aerobatic pilot means lots of discipline while performing.

"One of the things I have going for me is that I'm well disciplined when I fly. I may not be in other areas but I am dead serious when it comes to flying. "I want to grow veryold in my life and I will never do that unless I do what I have to and more while I fly," Ms. Gary said. Besides being well-disciplined, Ms.

Gary said the plane she flies must be well-tuned at all times. In the aerobatic business, she said, there is a necessity to know everything about the plane's engine and that means nobody else flies the plane besides herself. "I watch my airplane very closely," Ms. Gary said. "I become very sensitive to every change in the engine.

I use my ears to find how the engine is performing and listen for every little noise that could mean something might be going wrong." Ms. Gary learned how to fly in the Virgin Islands when she was 19 years old. Her father was in the construction business so that meant her family had to go wherever he did, even if it meant the Virgin Islands. She got her commercial license just a little less than six months after she received her private license. Soon after she received her license she became interested in gliders and that is how she got her first job in flying, as a glider instructor and tow pilot.

Then, during the summer months, she worked in Vermont as an instructor also. Since she was in gliders, which is involved in sport aviation, that very naturally led to aerobatics because that too, is sport aviation, she said. An air show pilot by the name of Jim Holland saw her perform in a glider show in the Virgin Islands in 1971. Later, he cameip to Vermont where she was working and asked her to perform in aerobatics. He told her that he wanted something different, he wanted a formation act.

So the two made an agreement that she would learn, from him, the art of aerobatic flying if she would consent to join his aerobatic team. Debbie Gary and plane Jff v. Si uvjJ I lCounf Dracula' Audience under spell it to shaking hands with the dead. While Sybil attempts to be inconspicuous about her love of sherry throughout the play, Dracula, played by Tarn Magnuson, tosses subtle indications of his bloodthirsty drinking habits to the. audience.

In the meantime, Mina, played by Barbara Carroll, suffers from too much sleep, a loss of memory and has two strange bite marks on her neck that no one can quite explain. It takes the mindwork of Heinrich Van Helsing, played by Don Burdick, to realize Mina's confused state is related to Dracula's need to quench his thirst. Van Helsing comes across as a brilliant schemer with all the necessary equipment crucifixes and flower garlands to ward off Dracula's intent of making Mina his bride. Mina's mortal finance' is Jonathan Harker, played by Nick Nebel, who becomes in creasingly confused during the play when Mina displays a convincing schitz'ophrenic number on him. Also drawing laughter from the audience is Renfield, played by Richard Nebel, an asylum patient who is also drawn into oblivion by Dracula.

The cast is rounded out by the performances of Kathy Hibbard and James August Pabian as Nurse Wesley and Hennessey, who are Sewarofs aides. Throughout the performance, the audience realizes the logic in Van Helsing's statement that "once you invite a vampire into the house, he comes and goes as he pleases." About the only weaknesses within Count Dracula are the London accents which are at times difficult to understand and the lack of a well-deserved curtain call at the play's end. Count Dracula will be presented at 8 p.m. in the Fredric March Theater through Saturday. keeping a sparsely scattered audience under his spell at the Fredric March Theater on the University of Wiscon-sin-Oshkosh campus.

Count Dracula isn't an ordinary UW-0 performance, receptive due to fine acting only. The scenic and lighting design by Thomas L. Hanson gave the play as much support as the supporting actors. It is performed amidst a foggy, eerie London setting of 1897 in the living quarters of Dr. Arthur Seward's Asylum for the Insane.

Seward is played by Connie Waterman. The audience gets its first impression of Count Dracula as a lady's man from a conversation between Seward and his sister, Sybil, played by Dorothy Delk. Sybil comes across well as a middle-aged, giddy character who appears a bit senile herself as she claims "shaking hands with him (Dracula) makes her tingle." Her brother ironically compares By MARY BERGIN Northwestern Staff Writer Count Dracula arrived in Oshkosh Tuesday night, 'Joke1 has 'unfunny' ending "Flicking ynr Bic" might be the greatest an television, but in real life the same action Tuesday got an Oshkosh man a stay in the Winnebago Connty Jail. The man, a 19-year-old Nebraska Street resident, was arrested by city police after an incident at the Oshkosh police office. A report said the man, who was being questioned Tuesday about another incident, osed a cigarette lighter to burn paper on a bulletin board.

After seeing the incident, which took place in the shift commander's office, police asked the man "what the heck" he was doing. The arrested man replied, "All I did was reach over to flick my Bic and the paper caught on fire." Again, police asked what he was doing. To which the man replied, "Okay, I did it just for a joke." Police were net joking when the man was booked for disorderly conduct and jailed in lieu of a $59 bond. 441 'Send roses i It Audrey Poberezny rides the wing for good measure in a 'Litre of Love9 99 velocity of the wind. The ride by the wife of EAA founder and president, Paul Poberezny, was an air show surprise.

Northwestern photos by Irving Stone and JeF i' rcy Audrey Poberezny waves to the crowd while rid- ing the wing of a Stearman biplane piloted by I Joe C. Hughes during Tuesday's air show at the Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-in. Then she shows Hughes how her slacks were ripped by the Oshkosh man given jail term I I 'i I i A sparkling carafe filled to. overflowing with Summer roses to woo or delight someone you love or just like a lot. (After you have enjoyed the roses, use it for a heady wine how romantic!) Just pour out your feelings with a "litre of A SUMMER ROSE SPECIAL 10 ROSES $95 5 ROSES $595 An Oshkosh man convicted of second degree srxual assualt was sentenced to spend six months in the county jail Tuesday in Winnebago County Circuit Court.

Randall D. Syvrud, 25, of 937 N. Sawyer was given the term in a Branch 2 appearance before Judge Edmund P. Arpin. Syvrud, who will have work release privileges, was found guilty at the end of a two-day jury trial on June 26.

A jury convicted him of forcing a 19-year-old Oshkosh woman to have sexual intercourse on Aug. 8, 1976. Syvrud took the woman to his apartment after the pair became acquainted at a North Main Street tavern. In another matter, Kenneth M. Wood, 43, of 613 Chestnut Neenah, was charged with aiding and abetting a theft and then released on a signature bond in an appearance before Judge William H.

Carver in County Court. Wood, who will stand trial Sept. 15 after pleading innocent, is charged with helping to steal snowmobile covers, battery chargers and headlights from Arctic Distributors, 1414 W. Larsen Soad. Town el Neenah.

The alleged thefts took place December 1071 and January Neenah resident on July 15. The alleged incident took place on Maple Lane in the Town of Neenah. Criminal damage to property proceedings against Robert J. Burroughs, 20, of 1128 Grove Menasha, were adjourned until Aug. 27 by Carver in County Court.

Burroughs is accused of using his fist to punch out a store-front window at Tuk Cher Shoe Store, 201 Main Menasha. Kevin T. Labby, 18, of 1520 Breezewood Lane, Neenah, was charged with battery in a Tuesday appearance before Carver. Proceedings against Labby were adjourned until Aug. 23.

Labby is accused of twice punching a Neenah boy while both were at the Firemen's Picnic in Larsen on June 25. Labby's blows knocked out one of the boy's teeth, according to the complaint. In a final matter before Carver, Michael H. Piette. 18, of 66 Lawson Menasha, pleaded no contest to a charge of posessing a weapon.

Sentencing was adjourned until Sept. 23 on the conviction, which came about when an additional charge, carrying a concealed wepaon, was dismissed. Piette did not dispute having a switchblade knife on his person when searched May 16 by a Neenah police officer. A Sept. 15 jury trial was ordered for Charles Mueller, 20, of 330A W.

Eighth Oshkosh, after Mueller pleaded innocent in County Court to obstructing police. Mueller, who is free on his own recognizance, is accused of filing a false hit and run report with Oshkosh police on July 1. Kenneth L. Culver, 23, of 318 Fourth Neenah, pleaded innocent to criminal trespassing in County Court and was scheduled to stand trial Sept. 15.

Culver, who is free on a signature bond, is accused of forcing his way into the home of Randy Rempel, 3665 Green Bay Road, Oshkosh, on March 19. Carver set another Sept. 15 trial for a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh student who pleaded innocent Tuesday to criminal damage to property. Michael D. Michaelis, Manitowish, denied the charge and was released on his signature.

He is accused of causing $273 in damages to a dryer at UW-0 Nelson Hall. A final Sept. 15 jury trial was set by Carver after Michael S. McAllister, 19. of 142 Plummer Neenah, pleaded innocent to battery in a Branch 3 appearance.

McAllister, who was released on his own recognizance, is accused of punching, three times, the face of a Town of i 1307W. 9th Ave. Phone 231-6460 Ih'IIBiXiAMICS 'Plwentcuul YOUR EXTRA TOOCH FlOfl'SI fE5MM.