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News-Review 1 aople Tuesday, December 5, 1989 PAGE 6 Family displays art at RicCune denerFroud i i I I A graduated from the Art School of the Society of Arts 'and Crafts in Detroit, and later was a senior in-' structor of the painting department and served as head of children's instruction for many years. Her work has been widely exhibited in the Midwest and honored in many competitions. It is part of the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art as well as private collections including those of Walter B. Ford and Wendell Anderson of Detroit. Following their marriage in 1947, the Mideners summered in East Jordan for many years.

Peggy Midener's grandfather, W. Asa Loveday, started an opera house in East Jordan in the early 1900s. The Mideners retired in East Jordan in 1979 where they now have a residence and studio overlooking Lake Charlevoix and a sculpture garden. WENDY MIDENER FROUD, an Interlochen Academy graduate, studied fabric design and ceramics at the Center for Creative' Studies in Detroit where her parents were faculty members. A lifetime interest in making dolls to fit the images in stories she read, led to a professional career as a doll artist and sculptor for film and television.

Muppet creator Jim Hensen hired her to help make creatures for his film "The Dark Crystal." She also sculpted prototypes for the Star Wars films. Her dolls are included in collections throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. BRIAN FROUD, a noted English book illustrator and film designer, met Wendy while they were both working on "The Dark Crystal," where he was a conceptual designer. They also 'both worked on the film "Labyrinth." exhibition opens Dec. 19 The works of four members of a prominent Michigan art family will be featured in a one-month display of 'sculpture, painting, dolls, fantasy boxes and collages at the McCune Arts Center in Pe-toskey.

The MidenerFroud exhibit will open Tuesday, Dec. 19, with a public reception from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 19. The public is invited to meet the artists at this time.

WALTER AND Peggy Midener of East Jordan, and their daughter and son-in-law Wendy Midener Froud and Brian Froud of Chag-ford Devon, England, will provide an international flair to this multi-faceted art show sponsored by the Crooked Tree Arts Council. The Mideners are well known leaders in the Michigan art community and their works are featured in many public and private art collections in the United States as well as overseas. SCULPTOR WALTER Midener, a practicing artist for nearly 60 years, is also widely known as a teacher and for his leading role in the development of the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit. Born in Liegnitz, Germany and a graduate of the Berlin Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, Midener fled the oppression of Hitler in 1936 to teach wood and stone carving at the Henry Street Settlement in New York City, where he also started freelance work in sculpture. He enlisted in the U.S.

Army, landing in Normandy on Day and serving in Europe throughout the war. After the war, Midener Walter Midener A new film featuring Froud's work, "Little Nemo," is soon to be released. His work is included in collections throughout the United States, England and Japan. Froud is co-author and illustrator of the recently published book titled "Faeries." The Froud's 5-year-old son, Toby, appeared in the film "Labyrinth" at the age of 1. The Midener exhibit at the McCune Arts Center will feature wood carvings, metal sculpture and terra cottas by Walter Midener; and a series of collages based on Victorian engravings titled, "A Child's Book of Admonitions," fantasy boxes and selected paintings by Peggy Midener.

Wendy Midener Froud's work will include a series of fantasy dolls, and Brian Froud will display a series of drawings and paintings. Works on display will be offered for sale. The McCune Arts Center is located at 461 E. Mitchell Peggy Midener joined the faculty of the Art School of the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit in 1946 as head of the Sculpture Department and began an association which continued more than 30 years. He eventually became president and was instrumental in the organization's development into the' Center for Creative Studies.

Meantime, his work became featured in numerous collections, not only in the Midwest but the Whitney and Metropolitan Museum in New York City. PEGGY MIDENER is a professional painter who also creates whimsical, fantasy boxes. She Tiananmen tragedy books disappointing BEIJING (UPI) Even as the rumble of tanks faded from Beijing's Tiananmen Square after the Chinese army crushed last spring's pro-democracy movement, the wheels of the publishing industry shifted into gear. Brave young keepers of the freedom flame had risen up against an evil empire. Its leaders, with a character cast from princes to ogres, had brutally vanquished them.

The world watched aghast as the foreign media recorded each minute of the exhiliration, the passion, the violence. For the journalists who covered it, and their publishers, the Chinese student movement and the Tiananmen spring of 1989 proved irresistible. There were books to be written. Could a call from Hollywood be far behind? Vet journalism remains the first draft of history. And the half-dozen volumes rushed to print since the June 3-4 Beijing massacre, all written by correspondents who reported on the spring events, redraft very little.

EXCEPT FOR A self-serving volume by the former New York Times correspondent Harrison Salisbury, all are worthy accounts. But they also share a glaring common flaw: a lack of insight, and the repetition of questions without even attempts at answers. For China-watchers, such insight is now more crucial than ever. As one of the correspondents who also covered the movement from its inception, the writer of this article faced, as did the authors, the same bafflement at China's inner workings and the same loss of innocence at the outcome. None of the books penetrates this.

In "Tiananmen Diary" (Little, Brown, 176 (10.95 pb), Salisbury admits to sleeping through the night of June 3 as a pitched battle raged outside his room at the Beijing Hotel near Tiananmen Square. His account is of surreal personal reflection, telephoning home to his wife and listening to the shortwave radio, and virtually no reporting. Most striking about this book is that Salisbury's publishers did not simply flush the manuscript. But his reputation, built in part on earlier and well-regarded writing on China, obviously preceded it with the result a stunning, uninformative disservice both to himself and the story. MORE EXTENSIVE, AND more disappointing, is "Massacre in Beijing: China's Struggle for Democracy," by reporters of Time magazine (Warner, 280 Its recreations of the June violence are the most comprehensive of the bunch.

So too are its historical chapters, a lucid primer on China's 20th century background and the past decade of economic reform and liberalization that set the stage for this year's events. But the Time reporters falter at mid-volume, emptying their notebooks in an over-length cover story on the crackdown and its ramifications. They gloss over conflicting information and repeat as near fact some rumors that, in the intervening months, have been proven false. If Time has a book, Newsweek does too. The result is "Beijing Spring" (Stewart, Tabori Chang, $35, $19.95 pb), by photographers David and Peter Turnley the latter covered the movement for Newsweek and text by Newsweek Asia editor MelindaLiu.

The Turnleys' photos are indeed striking, although the bloodier shots seem inappropriate in the coff eetable book format. Like Time's book, Liu's text is largely a cover story, but this is excusable in a picture book. OTHER BOOKS HAVE emerged without distinction, although a volume on the Chinese military by Jane's, the British publishing group, will be of use to academics and defense industry experts. Most disappointing about all the Tiananmen books is that none looks to the essential lessons of this spring that little in China is obvious, almost nothing is black and white or good and bad, and that foreigners still rarely manage to get beyond cliches when assessing the nation. None of the authors critically assesses the students themselves, why neither side seemed able to negotiate, or the impact of television in showing the real China to the rest of the world for the first time since the decade of "panda politics" opened in the late 1970s.

The Time book carries a prescient passage about China: "For more than a century, this immensely talented nation has struggled to find a way out of its bureaucratic and inward looking past. Unfortunately, it has never been able to learn from previous mistakes." Nor, apparently, have some China-watchers. Perhaps the authors of forthcoming books on Tiananmen more are indeed in the works will bear this in mind. 73 East Jordan potter featured in one-man show at Art Tree Potter David Otis will be featured in a one-man show in December in the Art Tree sales gallery at the McCune Arts Center in Petoskey. An opening reception for Otis's work will be held from p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 6, in the Art Tree sales gallery at the McCune Arts Center in Petoskey. Otis's pottery will be featured in the Art Tree for two weeks this month. Otis worked as a potter in Germany for 20 years where he pursued a career in stoneware using the surface treatment he developed as a painter in California. His stoneware features subtle and variable shades and rich colors.

Otis returned to his homeland in 1988 and now makes his home in East Jordan. Otis brought with him the skills developed in woodfiring stoneware which he first studied in England. His first wood-fired kiln was built in 1979. Since 1984, he has exhibited extensively throughout West Germany. Since his arrival in Michigan, he has won the "purchase prize" at the East Jordan Portside Art Fair.

Otis currently teaches at the Crooked Tree Arts Center. His pottery is sold in the Art Tree Sales Gallery and at his studio-shop, "Otis Pottery Wood-Fired Stoneware," in East Jordan. The public is invited to attend the Wednesday opening reception at the arts center, located at 461 E. Mitchell Petoskey. For further informtion call 347-4337.

Photo courtesy Friendship Center Swim all year Photo courtesy East Jordan nursery The Friendship Centers of Emmet County offer swimming and water aerobic programs from 9 a.m.-noon every Monday and Wednesday at the Petoskey Holiday Inn pool. Cost is $1 and those attending should bring their own towels. Seniors can sign in at the pool. For further information call the Petoskey Friendship Center at 347-3211. Self-paced exercise program for seniors offered in Petoskey The Friendship Center of Emmet County sponsors a self-paced walking and exercise program from 9-10 a.m.

Monday and Wednesday at the United Methodist Church in Petoskey. There is no charge for the program. For further information call the Petoskey Friendship Center at 3211. Health Strep throat cases reported in the area District Health Department No. 3 wants parents to be aware that strep throat cases have been reported in the area.

An individual with strep throat may have any of the following basic symptoms: fever, sore throat, enlarged and inflammed tonsils, and tender and swollen lymph nodes in the neck area. There may also be few symptoms. High fever, headache, nausea and vomiting may accompany severe strep throat infections. A rash may appear which is often mistaken for another childhood illness such as roseola or measles. Strep throat with a rash (scarlet fever) has been reported in the area.

Untreated people may develop middle ear infections, mastoiditis and throat and neck abscesses. Other important problems are heart (rheumatic fever) and kidney (glomerulonephritis) disease. Although not a problem locally, rheumatic fever outbreaks have been reported nationally. Parents should be aware of the fact that strep throat is a treatable illness. Penicillin or erythromycin will prevent most complications including rheumatic heart disease.

Therefore, the health department urges parents to contact their family doctor if they think their child may have strep throat. Individuals given an antibiotic must complete the full course of therapy, even if they feel better in a few days. Children should not return to school, day care or a nursery setting until at least 24 hours after beginning antimicrobial therapy, and until they are afebrile. Close contact with other children during this time should be avoided. For further information contact District Health Department No.

3. Nursery openings East Jordan: The East Jordan Co-op Nursery School has several openings for children between 3 and 5 years of age. Classes are held a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, and Tuesdays and Thursdays, In the Presbyterian Church Sunday school building. For further information, parents can call the membership chairman at 536-7751), or stop In at the nursery school.

Mil warn. I I Area residents celebrate 50th Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hastings of Clarion and Clearwater, Fla. celebrated a belated 50th wedding anniversay in Hong Kong on Nov.

19. Photo courtesy RSVP Quilt winner Ruth Ann Kenitz (left) of Boyne City and Glenna Arends (right) RSVP volunteer, display the quilt which was raffled by the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, sponsored by the Straits Area Community Education and United Way agencies in Charlevoix and Emmet counties. Kenitz was winner of the quilt. The hew sponsor of the RSVP organization is the Friendship Center of Emmet County with an office at the Petoskey Friendship Center. For further Information call 347-3211.

Coordinator is Kathleen Ra-ney. Cookie walk Saturday in Boyne City BOYNE CITY A holiday cookie walk will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at Christ Lutheran Church in Boyne City. Three sizes of decorated tins will be offered.

Participants can fill the tin of their choice with a selection of cookies. Christ Lutheran Church is located at the corner of Division Street and the East JordanBoyne City Road in Boyne City. 0.