The Shreveport Journal from Shreveport, Louisiana • 9

SHREVE PORT-BOSSIER CITY LA FEB 13 197B Centenary Homecoming: A New Day HallquLst 1973 Mrs Charles Beard 1968 Mrsftobert Sorcnsen "A New Day Out of Our Past" has been adopted as the theme for Centenary College's Homecoming 78 Scheduled for Feb 25 the event will contrast the old with the new look of the local Methodist institution The day's activities will be under the direction of Mrs Ronald Mears general chairman Mrs Paul Cooke her co-chairman and Bill Causey Jr alumni director of the college Registration will be held from The day will culminate with the "after party" to be held at Barksdale Officers' Club beginning at 10 pm Mrs John Kleine Ls serving as publicity chairman for homecoming and Mrs Richard Speairs of the college math department is this year's faculty-alumni chairman Homecoming tickets are 1850 per person and may be obtained from any of the above mentioned chairmen or by contacting Causey at the alumni office 869-5151 11:30 am to 12 noon in Bynum Commoas Mrs Mac Griffith and Mrs Tim Looney are in charge of the brunch to follow Afternoon events will include open houses for fraternities sororities Magale Library and Meadows Museum 1:30 to 3 pm Centenary Choir reunion with Dr Will Andress as chairman 3 to 4 pm and class reunions in James Dorm Chairman of reunion classes are Rick Ryba 1977 Mr and Mrs Rob 1963 Oscar Cke'd 1958 and the Rev Bob Potte 1953 Highlighting me dav wul the reunion banquet to be held in Haynes Gm at 5:30 pm Jewel Morse is tiairman Homemers will proceed to the Gold ome for the 7:30 pm basketball game between the Gents and Illinois State Ron Viskozki is in charge of getting the "old timers" together for their traditional game at jalftime Hall of Fame Nominations I "8 i iirtiiriMtin tinttiiimiiMiiiiiHiiirinTiimii mi riinii -'ri 4 Centenary College Alumni Association is accepting nominations for its Hall of Fame and Honorary Alumnus awards which will be presented at the annual homecoming banquet Feb 25 Nominations can be sent to the Alumni Association Centenary College Shreveport 71104 To be considered for the Hall of Fame a person must have attended Centenary College at least 10 years ago and must have made a distinctive contribution to his or her profession business or vocation while continuing to have an interest in Centenary College The criteria for the Honorary Alumnus award: must be someone who has never attended Centenary College yet has shown a continuing interest in the college Rev Bob Potter (left) and Ron Viskozki show trophies from the past to Mrs Robert Sorensen Potter holds the football from Cen- tenary's 6-0 win over LSU in 1932 Viskozki holds the Louisiana In- vitational Basketball Tourney trophy won in December 1957 when the Gents were playing in Hirsch Coliseum (Journal Photos by Larry Hilton) Looking forward to Centenary Homecoming '78 with plans to contrast the old with the new are these six committee chairmen for the Feb 25 event Above left Mrs John Kleine Jewel Arrington and Mrs Richard Speairs pose in the college's modern library beside the bell which rang on the original campus in Jackson from 1825 to 1908 Above in front of the Gold Dome the I Deserve the Nomination Kathleen Quinlan She's got her fingers crossed Small wonder Although she is only 23 and still largely unknown' as an actress this is the season for Kathleen Quinlan to be hopeful Oscar time is drawing near and Kathleen just happens to have turned in one of the most compelling performances of 1977 She played Deborah the 16-year-! old schizophrenic in "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" It's a role Natalie Wood once wanted so desperately that she even optioned The property with her own money and held onto it until she was too old for the part Now the question is: Will this extraordinary year for "And being a gymnast paid off too Since I knew how to work with my body I also knew how to make it not work It's taken me all this time to get that character out of my system For three months after the movie was finished I still felt haunted The whole world looked funny to me because I had spent so much time looking at it from an insane point of view But I think the Deborah character will always stay in my mind somewhere I learned so much playing her" Of Bibi Andersson the Ingmar Bergman star who played the role of her psychiatrist Kathleen talks with the warmth of an admirer "I wish I could see her again We became friendly although I wouldn't say we were friends because it's kind of hard to become friends in the short time you make a movie especially when there's so much work to be done in that time I think we shared a mutual investment in bringing across the truth of a film that we believed in One of the best ways Bibi taught me was not to teach me She just allowed me to observe her acting I don't learn when people say 'Do it this way' She was great so subtle yet so strong" After "Rose Garden" there was the inevitable dilemma of what to do next "I rented a beach house in Malibu and spent the summer at the ocean reading resting and swimming I did this for one whole year A lot of scripts came in things I'll just call stuff I guess some of it was OK but none of it was what I Rex Reed wanted Then "The Promise" came along and I jumped at it "The Promise" which has been completed and will be released in the spring is about a young couple in love The boy's mother (Beatrice Straight) is opposed to the affair and after a serious automobile accident that leaves the boy in a coma and the girl with a horribly disfigured face the boy's mother makes the girl promise never to see her son again Anyone for mush? The boy lives is told by the mother that his girlfriend died although she actually goes on to become beautiful again through cor-receive plastic surgery But transformation does not diminish love and the boy and girl somehow manage to find each other again in the true spirit of '40s matinee romances An unlikely choice for an actress with such range and ability but Kathleen has her reasons "At first I just kind of laughed and told a friend about the script Then as I started to explain it I thought wait a minute this could be something And one of the reasons I really liked it was because it was a healthy love story There's so much violence and junk being sold to the American public I wanted to do something that was not only healthy but which would also give me a contrast to the schizophrenic I played in 'Rose Garden' She's got enough recognition now to start talking the Hollywood lingo about "image" One hopes it doesn't wreck her "All actresses go through the business of having self-images shattered People used to say 'Kathy Quinlan for such-and-such a role? You've got to be kidding She's too Or 'She's too strange-looking'' And I guess part of me wanted to prove it wasn't true I wanted to play a girl next door I was afraid too many people would identify me too much with this whacked-out mental patient So the girl in 'The Promise' is more glamorous and more sophisticated than anyting I had ever played before I was insecure in that area and I worked hard to conquer my fear of being desirable as well Look I never saw myself in real life as glamorous I grew up in Mill Valley Calif where if you wore makeup to high school you were really a freak" The makeup in "The Promise" for a girl before the accident took three hours for one application "It made kissing a little difficult" she confides "I had gymnastics mats put in my contract because otherwise I'd get no other chance to work out was too exhausted at the end of the day to do anything My call was for 5:30 am so I'd get there at five to work out In 'Rose Garden' I didn't get to work out at all because I wasn't smart enough to know I could ask for certain things in my contract and get them So what happened was that another actress in the film gave me a basketball for my birthday because there were some basketball courts near where we were filming so I plaved basketball during lunch" Is this girl for real? You may well ask Back to the subject of the potential Oscar nomination she becomes serious "I can't help but think about it" She looks at the ceiling "I haven't seen all of the competition yet but Diane Keaton in 'Looking For Mr Goodbar' didn't hook me I just didn't feel any compassion for the woman she played I saw and loved 'Julia' though I thought Jane Fonda was incredible If I can just be in competition with that kind of actress you know I'd feel pretty good" Even if she doesn't pull the rabbit out of the proverbial hat Kathleen Quinlan has a formidable career ahead if she wants it With so much innocence she could also be in store 'for hard knocks But if "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" is an example of the kind of sincerity and open-hearted honesty she uses to win the sympathy of an audience she just might make it "I'm going to look at my watch" she says "And if it's near eight o'clock I have to run" It's later than that and she's gathering her things in a hurry on her way to a mysterious date "Goodbye take care" she says then halfway across the room she stops and returns "My hat" She tugs the newsboy's cap on pulls it low over her forehead plasters a wave into place and looks like Mickey Rooney in "Boys Town" The flash of a smile one more wave and she's out of the door into the calamitous night Something else is forgotten in the confusion but like love the words "Good Luck" are never too late The New York News Inc side the wet gutters are littered with the black broken bodies of discarded umbrellas Kathleen is wearing a scarf gloves and a newsboy's cap pulled down low on her forehead She is as tan as cashew butter her smile Is toothpaste white She looks fresh and as out of place in these dreary New York surroundings as a ballerina in the Bowery "I'm the origional California girl" she says with green eyes twinkling "Total health nut exercise the whole trip" She's also an accomplished gymnast whose physical awareness and strong sense of presence have proved to be valuable assets as an actress In preparation for her role in "Rose Garden" she got special permission to visit several mental hospitals and watched videotaped interviews with the patients and psychiatrists "I noticed the body behavior of the patients One man's shoulder was turned in as though he constantly expected someone to hit him There was a lot of disconnection in the pelvis in the women They all walked as if they didn't quite feel the earth They don't feel themselves as physical beings The girl I played in 'Rose Garden walked like that as if she was disowning her own feet" She tucks her feet into a Buddhalike lotus position on the wooden seat and talks about the visits she had to various asylums "I was much more scared of the patients than they were of me I got so nervous they had to approach me because I was afraid to start a conversation They asked me what I was doing there and I told them I was watching them come along and take the assignments for various chores and one of the girls was really violent She didn't want to have anything to do with me or anyone else I noticed a couch on the floor that was busted I asked what happened and they said she just got mad and destroyed it Phew So we steered clear of each other "But later on in the day we all w'ent out and played basketball That was really fun My team lost and they cheered because it made them feel important The sense of competition even among mental patients is amazing Then I also did a lot of studying Laing and others One of the books called 'Bioenergetics' was especially useful IV women in movies produce so many big-name contenders for Oscars that Kathleen Quinlan might get lost in the shuffle? Will the Oscar voters remember the unexpected praise "Rose Garden" garnered way back in July? Or will the fanfare for Diane Keaton Vanessa Redgrave Jane Fonda Anne Bancroft Shirley MacLaine Sissy Spacek and Shelly Duvall drown out any voices still sounding for Kathleen Quinlan? One thing is certain Kathleen is her own best friend "Logically it seems that I will be nominated" she says with determination "I feel confident that I'll be nominated" Her eyes grow wide "It'll be exciting as hell" "Will you go to the awards ceremonies?" "Definitely It's a once-in-a-lifetime happening It's not quite real to me and it probably won't be real to me until six weeks after I read it in the papers But I deserve it" Such self-confidence is refreshing in a profession built on the bricks of insecurity-Kathleen's was a bitterly real performance in a very moving skillfully directed film the kind of surprise Hollywood serves up only rarely It was an occurrence that left audiences and critics somewhat confused but happy Confused as to how it happened happy simply that it did Kathleen is sitting in a Greenwich Village coffeehouse on a cold rainy night with her feet tucked under her It's a gloomy setting and out ft if! 1 1 la 'buuA- Kathleen Quinlan.