The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 44

i 3 i i Sunday, September 11, 1977 The Sun-Telegram, San Bernardino, Calif. Section KVCR-TV celebrates its 15th year of broadcasting 15 years of service to the community." A third role is providing televised instructional courses. The Office of Instructional Broadcasting currently offers nine college credit courses for SBVC students. One of the courses in applicable for graduation at Crafton Hills College. The first instructional programs were aired in 1963 on such college subjects as biology, political science, economics and history.

The station also broadcast elementary and secondary level instruction for the San Bernardino County Schools. Last fall, the college produced its first all-color program, a half-hour program that is used as supplemental instruction for an SBVC economics course. Getting the station started was one of the major accomplishments of former SBVC President Herman J. Sheffield. Channel 24 as allocated to San Bernardino in 1952 by the Federal Communications Commission but it was not until 10 years later that the station was built and became operational.

Along the way, Dr. Sheffield was constantly battling for approval of the educational station. It was not until a state law was changed making it possible for a public community college to own and operate a non-commercial educational station that Sheffield finally saw his efforts bloom. With the growth of stations such as KVCR-TV in the early 1960s, National Educational Television (NET) was established. NET coordinated the exchange of programs through the mail among educational stations throughout the country.

It wasn't until 1967 that NET and the (Continued on D-2, Col. 1) structional service for college-level study, to serve as an outlet for nationally and statewide distributed programs of an educational, informational and cultural nature." KVCR-TV has a full-time staff of 15. Many of them are engineers who handle the intricate equipment. The Division of Telecommunications also has three full-time faculty instructing students in radio and television. "We really have a dual role here," Burgess said.

"On the one hand, while we try to produce quality programming that is of interest to the entire community, we also are charged with the role of instructing students in TV production. It can be a challenging task to do both well. It is one of the things that makes KVCR-TV-FM unique. It's also why we're so proud of our Former Gov. Edmund G.

Brown officially dedicated the station Sept. 11, 1962, making it the first educational TV station in Southern California, and the first in the nation to be established by a public community college. Since that first production, using black and white equipment that now seems ancient compared to the all-color units in the studio, the station has grown and developed into a major learning and production center. Fred Burgess, ho is general manager of the station and its sister FM radio station, KVCR-FM, outlined the four main goals of KVCR-TV. "We're here to provide local community service programming; professional instruction in radio and television programming and production for students at SBVC; in The director peers intently into the studio, leaning across a space-age console.

A plume of cigarette smoke curls from between his fingers. "Camera three, ready! Take three! Zoom in two, get ready for a closeup. A little more, hold it, good!" And so it goes as the director moves his cameramen around in a silent world of television production. Is this a scene from the NBC studios in Burbank? Not at all. It is in the KVCR-TV studios at San Bernardino Valley College.

The modern, all-color station celebrates its 15th birthday today, having gone into production in 1962. An open house from 5 to 7 p.m. will be held at the studios in North Hall, hich is located on College Drive. San Bernardino Mayor W.R. Holcomb has designated today as KVCR-TV Day in San Bernardino.

Alpine Slide is cummin' round the mountain use of ski slopes. The slide is basically a dry bobsled ride down the face of a mountain. It's made up of three components asbestos and concrete tracks, fiberglass sleds, and a chair lift. At Goldmine there is a double set of tracts that wiggle zig zag style under a chair lift and over areas not used for skiing in the winter. Alpine Slide engineers imported from the east coast helped plan the 150 foot course that includes a small jump in the course of the slide's 300-foot vertical drop.

The one by four foot fiberglass sled is contoured to the body. A rubber-handled speed control stick pushes forward, raising the sled onto its two rear wheels and increas- By LINDA SAWYER Special to the Sun-Telegram Thirty in the world, sixteen in the United States, and according to Joe Shuf of Goldmine Ski Area, the first and only this side of Park City, Utah. It's called the Alpine Slide, an invention created five years ago in Germany to increase the off-season Injuries are rare, say the slide promoters. Those that have occured are mostly due to fast sleds bumping into the back of slower sleds, riders touching the track when the sled is moving, and falling out of the track. One ski area had 260,000 riders without one incident of injury, Shuff says.

The idea for a slide began in the early 70's when Carl Von Wendt asked a heavy machinery company, Demag Corporation, to develop the concept of a dry bobsled for his small ski area, Ski Fort Fun, in Gevelinghauser, West Germany. Through a process of trial and error the company came up with the Alpine Slide that needs a grade not less than 19 percent and not more than 26 percent to run by gravity alone. Stig Albertsson, manager of Big Bromley ski area and now also presi- (Continued on D-2, Col. 3) ing the speed to as fast as 35 m.p.h. Pulling the stick backwards lowers the sled onto its teflon runners, slowing the speed.

At Goldmine, riders approach the chute by way of a double chair lift, followed by a short footpath to the slide's loading area. The course will be landscaped with flowers, redwood chips, and decking by next season, making the ride a combination of mountain and floral scenery. Anyone between the ages of 6 and 90 with $2.00 (adult), $1.25 (junior), and $5.00 (package of 6 rides) can ride the slide. Younger ages ride free held between the knees of a responsible adult. Shuff says other areas charge higher prices per ride and yet that hasn't stopped them from receiving public popularity.

The Big Bromley ski area of southwestern Vermont, America's first and longest slide with 4,060 feet of tract, handles 500 rides an hour with 280 sleds. A Slide installed at Mount Cascades, Quebec, had 90,000 riders in two months. Patrons at both places have been known to wait in line over two hours for a ride. The only safety hazard with the slide is that it cannot be used during snow or rainy periods. The sled tends to hydroplane and consequently cannot be controlled on Riders use sticks to control sled speeds t'K: ITT- m.

iJgt Staff Photoi by Grg Shnidr Sliders use the chair lift to get to the top of the run The sleds can attain speeds of about 35 miles per hour S.B.f Redlands symphony seasons announced It's an art sKfe' :7 iii V' "7v i if 231 I 1 By ROSEMARY HITE Sun-Telegram Staff Writer WANTED: ALIVE If you don't attend a concert or a play this year, you're not really trying. With the fall season about to open, the mail is heavy with descriptions of upcoming programs, all of which need audiences. Did you ever feel so wanted? The San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alberto Bolet, will open at 8 p.m. Oct. 1 with the Crafton Hills College Community Chorale and Martha Abbott, director, as guest artists.

Bolet, Long Beach Symphony conductor, who had a highly successful first year as guest conductor of the San Bernardino orchestra last season, returns here as "conductor and musical director." The San Bernardino season has been printed, but, now, hot off the press, comes announcement of the University-Community Symphony season in Redlands. Jim Jorgenson will serve as music director-conductor this year. Jack Wilson, who wielded the baton last year, will be devoting his time to several other musical projects, including opera theater. Jorgenson, who has been at the University of Redlands since 1957, is director of bands and professor of music there and founder of the of Summer Music Clinic. Welcome news for Inland Empire classical music fans is that James K.

"Jimmy" Guthrie will be guest conductor for the final concert of the season. AH and Shostakovich. Jan. 24 Steven de Groote, pianist in a solo recital. Feb.

28 Symphony and University Dance Company, Lenna DeMarco, choreographer. Selections will be L'Histoire du Soldat, Stravinsky, and Suite Fran-caise, Milhaud. March 15 Rosa Lamoreaux, soprano, with the symphony in Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Villa-Lobos, and other selections. April 26 Opera Night.

Guthrie will conduct selections by Verdi, Puccini, Bolto and Wagner, with the University Concert Choir and guest soloists singing. Season tickets are $17 for reserved seats and $14 for unreserved all concerts are included. This means a 43 per cent saving over buying individual tickets, which are $4 for reserved seats, $3 general admission. Season tickets for the four San Bernardino programs are $15 general admission and $12.50 for senior citizens. Individual tickets are $5.

For information about the Redlands programs write the Redlands Winter Concert Association, P. 0. Box 80, Redlands 92373. For the San Bernardino Symphony brochure, write San Bernardino Symphony Association, P. 0.

Box 2312, Uptown Station, San Bernardino, or telephone Arrowhead Allied Arts, 444 N. Mountain View San Bernardino 92401. (Continued on D-2, Col. 3) performances begin at 8:15 p.m. in Memorial Chapel of the university.

Stan Kenton, recently hospitalized with a skull fracture, is recuperating at home and won't be back on the road until February, so the November date planned for his appearance with his jazz band will be forwarded to mid-February. Here's the rest of the Redlands program list: Oct. 12 The orchestra presents selections by Rossini, Bizet, Hanson and the Violin Concerto No. 2 in Minor by Wieniawski, John Golz of Redlands, violin soloist. Nov.

8 Cellist Sharon Robinson will be soloist in Concerto for Viooncello and Orchestra by Saint-Saens. The orchestra will also be heard in works by Berlioz Alberto Bolet to conduct.