The Kokomo Tribune from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 9

Thursday May 24, 1V90 Thursday Style Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune 9 Model plane fly-in June 10, the Kokomo Blue Angels radio-controlled model airplane club will have a model airplane fly-in at 700 E. Road 250 South. Flying will begin at 9 a.m. Concessions will be available and special prizes will be given. Jhe public is invited.

Admission is free and membership applications to the host club wfll be available. Information is available at Van's Hobby Shop and at the Victory Bicycle and Hobby Shop. Fitness festival INDIANAPOLIS-Hook's Drug Stores are distributing entry forms for the Lugar Fitness Festival June 15 and 16. June 15, a special health fair, featuring nearly 100 groups promoting health and fitness awareness, will be set up in City Market Plaza in downtown Indianapolis from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

June 16, a kiddie romp and the traditional 5k and 10k races will be run on the campus of Butler University, in addition to a 5k walk. This is the 12th year Sen. Richard Lugar has had the fitness festival, sponsored with assistance of Hook's Drugs, Preston- Safeway, Diet Pepsi, WRTV-6 and Butler University. Entry forms are available at Hook's and Preston-Safeway Stores. Registration deadline is June 8.

Downtown party INDIANAPOLIS The Midsummer Festival, "everybody's downtown party," will be at Monument Circle and on spoke streets June 23 from 5 p.m. until midnight. There will be continuous entertainment on three stages. Featured group will be The Bo- Deans. Forty restaurants and caterers will provide their signature dishes.

Advance tickets, available at participating Hook's Drug Stores after June 1, will cost $4. Admission at the gate is $6. Children 10 and under will be admitted free. Advance sale ticketholders are eligible to win one of three pairs of roundtrip tickets on Southwest Airlines. Cathedral Arts, a non-profit group, and Southwest Airlines are sponsors.

Profits benefit the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Riverboat race ST. LOUIS St. Louis Mayor Vincent C. Schoemehl Jr.

will pilot the Becky Thatcher in the ninth Memorial Day Riverboat Race here Monday. County Executive H.C. Milford will be at the helm of the Tom Sawyer. Other race-related festivities will include entertainment by the Black Knights Drum and Bugle Corps. The paddlewheelers will align at the Poplar Street Bridge at 9:45 a.m., with the race to begin at 10 a.m.

The captains must pilot their boats upriver past the historic Eads Bridge and the Martin Luther King Bridge before turning south to head for the Poplar Street Bridge finish line. Appellate Judge Carl R. Gaertner will officiate the race from a helicopter over the Mississippi. Gospel festival NASHVILLE, Tenn. A two- day gospel music festival at the Opryland musical theme park Saturday and Sunday marks the park's shift from spring weekends to daily summer operation.

The festival will feature 10 of the top groups in the gospel field. The event is included in the Opryland park admission. Groups will include the Cathedrals, the Kingsmen and the Nelpns. Also the Florida Boys, the Dixie Melody Boys, the Wilburns, the Greenes, J.D. Sumner the Stamps and the Bishops.

The Cumberland Boys will host the program. Opryland admission is $19.95 for everyone 4 and older. A ticket for two consecutive days is $24.95. Opryland opens at 9a.m. For information, call (615) 889-6700.

Speaker's bureau INDIANAPOLIS A speaker's bureau is available to give presentations on the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art. Speakers are prepared to give talks on the museum and the current exhibition, "Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska." Presentations may be tailored to fit the organization. A video or slide show usually is included. Speakers are willing to travel within an hour's driving radius. Speakers should be scheduled at least two weeks in advance.

There is no fee. For information, or to reserve a speaker, contact Judy Clayton at 636-9378. KHS soars in national art contest Kokomo High School's perennially successful art program this year had three National Scholastic Art winners including, for the first time, two national portfolio winners in the same year. Winning the coveted National Gold Medal in graphic design, the Scholastic Art competition's highest award in that division, was Matt Indrutz. National Scholastic Portfolio scholarships were awarded to Spencer LeBouef and Aaron Wilson.

Indrutz' winning piece is an advertisement for the Indianapolis Zoo. His entry was selected from 200,000 high school artists who began regional competition last fall His winning entry will be included in the National Student Exhibition which will be held in Chicago at the State Center of Illinois on Wacker Drive from June 10 through June 22. LeBouef's scholarship is for the prestigious Corcoran Gallery and School of Art in Washington, D.C., and Wilson's scholarship is for the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. An announcement was made earlier that Indrutz also received a scholarship to the Columbus College of Art and Design. The sludents are enrolled in Jim Sondgeroth's portfolio development class.

Sondgeroth said this is the first time in many years that the Washington, D.C., school has selected an art student from the Midwest. Indrutz was a Gold Key finalist in mixed media and graphic design and a gold key winner in mixed media, and pencil drawing. LeBouef was a portfolio award winner and Gold Key finalist in acrylic painting. He also won a Gold Key in mixed media, pencil drawing, acrylic painting and pastel drawing. Wilson was a Gold Key winner in acrylic painting and ink drawing in addition to earning the portfolio award in the Scholastic Art competition.

Sondgeroth says Corcoran Gallery and School of Art specializes in producing serious artists, those known as "fine ar- National Scholastic Art winners from Kokomo High School are Aaron Wilson, left- right, Matt Indrutz and Spencer LeBouef (Tribune photo by Brian Reyn0 ds) tists." The Columbus College of Art and Design is an internationally- recognized leader in the visual arts, with major areas of study including illustration, advertising design, photography, industrial design, interior design, the fine arts and retail advertising. Wilson plans to major in illustration. Kokomo High School's south campus art department again received the coveted National Citation of Merit for Artistic Excellence. This is the fourth time since the consolidation of the Kokomo schools in 1984 that KHS has been awarded the national citation. To qualify for the citation, a school must have a stu- dent's work in the national show.

Members of the art department are Nancy Williams, Kathy Cofield, Richard Evans and Sondgeroth. More than 25,000 entries representing work by students in all 50 states plus Canada and Puerto Rico were submitted in this year's national competition. Arts update Scholarships given The Kokomo Symphonic Society has given music clinic scholarships to four young musicians for summer study. Youth orchestra members receiving stipends are: Julie Canady, daughter of Harold Canady and Sandra Canady; Amanda Galley, daughter of Jerry and Vicky Galley; Jodi Goble, whose parents are Morton and Rose Goble of Star City; and Michelle Settlemoir, daughter of Marion and Becky Settlemoir. Julie, Jodi and Amanda plan to attend Ball State's Orchestra Clinic and Michelle has applied to the double reed camp at Hope College, Holland, Mich.

I AC to award grants INDIANAPOLIS The Indiana Arts Commission will announce recipients of state arts grants from Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Howard, Jasper, Montgomery, Pulaski, Tippecanoe and White counties at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Lafayette. The press conference will be conducted at the Tippecanoe Arts Federation, 638 North St. The commission will award more than $2 million in state and federal appropriations to artists, art organizations and other not- for-profit organizations at 10 press conference statewide. The Indiana General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts are the sources of the grant funds.

Stae legislators, IAC commissioners, artists, representatives of arts organizations and IAC staff will attend the grants announcements. Quakenbush wins Shirley Quakenbush was the Paul Sweany Class award winner in the Student Show '90 of the Indianapolis Art League. The Kokomo artist won for "Majestic Crown." The scholarship will assist in next year's tuition. The show of the adult students of the Indianapolis Art League is on exhibit through June 24. Gerald Boyce, prominent artist and juror, said, "I found the works Artistic choices Members of Howard Elementary School's fifth-grade class were shown how to select a color of mat board for their art work during a recent field trip to Ar- trageous, 210 N.

Main St. Here, gallery owner Marty Johnson gives some pointers to Corey Franklin, left- right, Beth Edison and Barbra Henry. The 11-year- olds recently staged their own art show at their school. (Tribune photo by Brian Reynolds) to be of high quality overall for a student show, especially the technical expertise shown in the watercolors." About 50 percent of the work will be on sale to the public. For information, call 255-2464.

Benefit concert INDIANAPOLIS A benefit concert featuring the three 1989 Beethoven Fellows of the American Pianists Association will be performed at 3 p.m. June 3 in Clowes Memorial Hall. Proceeds will support the program and help send Jonathan Bass and Stephen Prutsman to the International Tschaikovsky Competition in Moscow June 13 to July 9. Appearing in concert with them is Brian Ganz, the third 1989 Beethoven Fellow, recent winner of the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Piano Competition in Paris and recipient of the Keyboard (piano) fellowship of the Tanglewood Music Festival in July and August. General admission tickets for the concert will be $5 for adults and $2 for students and senior citizens.

Patron tickets for reserved seats and a reception following the concert will be $25. For ticket information, call the American Pianists Association office at 283-9945 or 283-9947. Fredericks exhibit LAFAYETTE, Ind. Civic Theater of Greater Lafayette announces the opening of an ex- clusive showing of Grant Fredericks' work June 3. The public is invited to meet the artist at a reception from 2 to 5 at the Monon Gallery, 326 N.

5th St. The exhibit will include oil landscapes, wildlife drawings, portraits and limited edition prints. Fredericks is well known to the Lafayette community for his Columbian Park Zoo poster, "The Mother Goose." He has shown his work at the 'Hound the Fountain Art Fair and recently was commissioned by Wabash Valley Hospital to create a protrait of their former administrator, Donald Kinzer. The exhibit will remain at the Monon Gallery through June 25, and can be seen Mondays through Fridays between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

or by phoning 743-0192 for an appointment. A seniors-only art exhibit is scheduled Tuesday through June 5 at the Art Awareness Center at Kokomo High School's south campus. The exhibit will be open to the public from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night. LeBouef plans to have a one- man show at the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library in June.

Indiana Beach is flying high in new season MONTICELLO, Ind. Soaring 70 feet above the midway, Indiana Beach's "Falling Star" is one of the attractions added this season in expanding the fun and thrill ride selection at the park. Flying high, then falling to Earth again, the "Falling Star's" electronically controlled motion is programmed to move the ride, stop it in mid-air, or send it backward or forward, thrilling its passengers as the centrifugal force throws them side to side. "Boat Tag," one of the other new attractions, is a participatory combination ride and game in which two-person boats compete against each other by maneuvering boats and firing racquetballs. Towering upward more than 100 feet above the midway, Indiana Beach's Giant Gondola Wheel, which opened last July, provides guests with a panoramic view of the boardwalk, beach area and Lake Shafer.

Each gondola carries up to six adults. At night more than 6,000 colored lights cover the "Giant Gondola Wheel." "Convoy Race," a new seven- car ride designed for smaller children, travels in convoy for more than 960 square feet. Indiana Beach is open daily through Labor Day. Gates open at 8 a.m. Admission is 50 cents per person with children 3 and younger free.

The Sand Beach swim area is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $1.50 per person. Clothing check is $1 extra. The Water Park also is open 10 a.m.

to 6 p.m. Admission is $7.50 per person and includes use of the three water slides. Indiana Beach offers two ride sessions each day, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 4 to 11 p.m.

Unlimited pay-one-price ride pass includes use of all listed rides for one ride session. Ride passes sell for $9.50 per person age 7 and older and $5.50 per person age 6 younger on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Weekday prices are $8.50 per person, ages 7 and older, or $4.50 per person, ages 6 and younger. Individual ride tickets and special book tickets are available. For group rates, call (219) 583 4141..