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THE SUN, Thursday, August 1171 Year-old affiliation with Hopkins is aiding Peabody PAGE8 can be used to cover deficits. Dr. Galkin said the Hopkins affiliation has led to "increased efficiency" as it "caused us to look at the operations of the conservatory with new eyes. It's like getting married or at least going steady." While the administration may be going steady, relations at the student level have been slower to develop. About half a dozen students from each school took courses at the other last year.

Peabody students spend a minimum of five hours a day practicing with their major instrument, Tinka Knopf, Peabody dean, said. This makes it difficult to fit in classes at Homewood, she continued. Similarly, she said, the professional-level demands of Peabody's music offerings make it difficult for Hopkins students to take them casually. Hopkins students who want to take conservatory courses must go through a full audition and other procedures Peabody uses to select its own students. Hopkins students now get a reduced rate at Peabody's preparatory department, which offers beginning-to-intermediate musical instruction, but they have been taking Peabody prep courses for years.

Officials on both campuses foresee expanded exchanges as the affiliation management skills to the conservatory. "We are probably now looking at the first realistic budget Peabody has had in a long time," he said. "Recent budgets were not very good documents; there was no way to tell from the budget what they were actually spending." For example, he said, although Peabody staged an annual opera, the opera was never included in the budget Both Peabody and the Hopkins are institutions of international reputation that-were founded in the mid-Nineteenth Century with large bequests from the local businessmen for whom they were named. The affiliation agreement was an-nounced in 1976, at the end of a year which had seen a request for financial aid from the city, consideration of the conservatory selling off its art collection and even volunteers standing on Howard street attempting to collect money for Peabody. Endowment had dropped from $6 million in 1968 to about $3 million, as the 7 school dipped in to cover a series of deficits, ranging from 1100,000 to $500,000 in each of the last 12 years.

When the agreement took effect last July, Peabody officially became the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. In many ways, Peabody's relationship with the university is equivalent to that of the Medical School or the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and Pea-body's director (president) is analogous to that of the deans of the other schools. Those schools, however, have traditionally maintained considerable autonomy, and, in addition, Peabody retained its board of trustees. "We're still independent," Elliot W. Galkin, Peabody's director, said.

Peabody also retained the responsibility for its own finances, including its own deficits. The Hopkins provides advice and services but no cash. That advice, however, was reflected dramatically in Peabody's annual fund-raising campaign this year. Peabody had never raised more than $135,000 in a single year, but (his time, it raised $300,000. Still, Peabody had a $310,000 deficit for the year.

This year's fund campaign concentrated on alumni and on Baltimore area contributors. That will soon change. As Peabody directs its sights beyond the city for funds, Dr. Muller said: "There are going to have to be some non-Baltimore people on their, board." Further, he said: "Peabody is not going to resolve its problems by increasing annual giving. We're going to have to have a capital campaign to increase Peabody's endowment" The endowment is currently about $2.5 million, but less than $1 million of that In one year of "affiliation" with the Johns Hopkins University, the Peabody Institute raised more than twice as much money as it ever had in a year, but was still faced with a sizable deficit The Hopkins assumed some day-to-day functions, such as payroll, for Peabody, but Peabody did not reduce its own staff.

Small numbers of Peabody students took courses at the Hopkins's Homewood campus. Small numbers of Hopkins students studied music at Peabody. "There's a tendency to make a bigger deal of this than it is," Steven Muller, president of the Hopkins, said in a recent interview. "People are looking for something that never is and never was there." The affiliation, which came as the music conservatory faced deep financial problems, was never intended to make dramatic changes in either institution, Dr. Muller said.

The test of the affiliation is whether we can help Peabody to attain permanent solvency without changing the character of the conservatory or spending Hopkins resources," he said. He also said he is extremely confident this test can be passed, although "permanent solvency" for Peabody will take "probably a decade, certainly a minimum of five years" to attain. Dr. Muller said his confidence stems from the application of the Hopkins's BUSINESS SCHOOL When you're a good career-oriented, liberal arts college, you don't have to pay for a big ad. Vor Ir College of Pennsylvania (717)846-7788 SECRETARIAL Shorthand Typing IBM KEYPUNCH COMPUTER PROGRAMMING Filing Office Practkes Dictaphones Medical Legal Transcriptions DATA PROCESSING fC Founded 1782 Oldest Chartered College In Maryland Tenth Oldest College in the nation Liberal Arts and Sciences Enrollment limited to 800 men and women "An ideal Rural environment on Maryland' Eastern Shore Easy accessibility to Baltimore and other major cultural centers.

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