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Paragraph U-18 Oloominglon-Moimal, III. Doc. 12, 1971 Commemorative stamp be available 1 -TrV J--- 5 I lfcT 5 ort to teach children tverything from health caro to communicating with adult. The project, with a $500,000 federal government grant, it aimed at te.ichmg five million children. Hollywood, Calif.

(AP) John Sutherland, left, head of Sutherland Teaching Attociatci, ditcutiei plan with hit pioducer, Dan Z. Wcivburd, to wt cartoon figure at well at live c- Iran (A 5 fLlA i i Cv'' -glw Cartoons used ISU exhi gra bit on duafe to art ave Ervin L. Cie, left, officer ln-charg of Bloomington pot offio, pretented 1971 commemorative ilamp folder to Jamei R. Goben for Corn Belt Philatelic Society. (Pantograph Photo) Recipient ISU's Treble Choir its to Four Central Illinois post offices will Ik- among the first in (hp United States to sell commemorative stamp kits.

Emu Gic.m'. o(ficcr-in charge of the Itlnomington post office and the man resMinsiblc for local distribution, said the kits were sold in the past at Philatelic Society agencies. The kits, filled with, all I'J7I commemorative stamp Issues plus two Christinas stamps issued Nov. 10, will go on sale Miulay at post offices in Hlooin-ington. Normal, I'ontiac and Clinton.

The kits contain 24 stamps and mini-allium with a description of each stamp. Mr. Gicse said only 600 kits are available for the four local post offices. More may In obtained if the demand warrants it, he said. "The stamp folders make it possible for young adults and collectors to purchase a full year's Issue of commemorative stamps at one time," Mr.

Giese said. Ho said Hltximington was selected to distribute the folders because it Is a sectional center for distribution of mail to 52 cities. "It is contemplated," Mr. Giese added, "that mini-albums will be made available annually." To encourage stamp collecting among younger persons, three of four complimentary albums have been given to Rloomington High School, Bloomington Junior High School and Central Catholic High School. Mr.

Giese said the albums will be posted on school bulletin boards reminding students where they may purchase similar albums. Another complimentary album was presented to James R. Goben for. the Corn Belt Philatelic Society. Mr.

Goben, 304 W. Lincoln, is a member of the society board and vice-president of the Illinois Federation of Stamp Clubs. Choral concert tonight More than 100 Illinois Wesleyan University students and faculty will present the annual School of Music Christmas Choral Concert in Westbook Auditorium of Pressor Hall at 8:15 tonight. The program will be open free to the public. The audience will be Invited to join the students In singing several of the popular carols of the season such as "The First Nowell," "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen," "Joy to the World," "Adeste Fidefcs," and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." Musical groups which will appear are the Collegiate Choir and Chamber Singers, directed by David assistant professor of voice and choral music; the Women's Chorus, directed by Sammy Scifres, assistant professor of voice; the Singing Titans, directed by Donald Gray, instructor in voice; and the Brass Choir, directed by Thomas Streeter, instructor of brass instruments and theory.

Soloists will be Peggy Mammcn, Oregon; Clarence Semmes, Lafayette, and Christine Anderson, Naper-ville. Instrumentalists will be David Gehrenbeck, assistant professor of organ and sacred music; Margaret Wilson, Table Grove, piano; Robert Small, Blue Island, violin; and Daniell Huff, Fairfield, Iowa, and Scott McCormick, Mount Carroll, percussion. Kemp guest pianist Benny B. Kemp, assistant professor of music at Illinois Stale University, will appear as guest piano soloist with the Rend Lake Community Symphony Orchestra in Mount Vernon Monday. The orchestra personnel includes a number of music faculty members from Rend Lake College and Southern Illinois University.

While in Mount Vernon for the orchestra performance, Mr. Kemp will conduct a piano workshop for students at Rend Lake College. Sortie know him as Hunter Stow its. Others know him as Rukl. Still others will remember him as a fellow who ed the piano at Rloomington Countrr Club.

He's really Lewis Hunter Siowcrs 111 of Jackson, an Illinois State University graduate whose art will be shown on Madison Avenue in New York City Monday through Jan. 8. He was the first graduate art student to produce a whole exhibit of 39 paintings as his thesis requirements at ISl The show in 19C7 was entitled "The Alienation of Jeremy Wind." After traveling in Europe and teaching school in New York for two years. Mr. Stowers is having his first New York City showing.

He was a student of C. Louis Stein-burg's at ISU, a close friend of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Abels of 503 E. Emerson and is remembered as a person with much natural talent, not only for painting, but for writing, music and photography.

The Shepherd Gallery featuring his work is one of the oldest on Madison Avenue, established in late 18th or early 19th Century. His show will be reviewed in the New Yorker, New York Magazine and Art News. They're taking a chance on me," writes Mr. Stowers to the Abels family. An additional note of interest in his letter is his recommendation to read "Witches USA" by Susan Roberts, a book "about a man I've been living with and apprenticing with for 3' 2 years." The gallery is located at 21 E.

81th in New York. Madi ison 'L S. 4 An 4 Sfowers af ISU This year, 17 dinners are being held with an average of 325 persons allmding each performance. The Madrigal Dinner-Concerts feature a typical English dinner served in the University Union ballroom in the style of Ki'h Century England. The costumed singers and their traditional Madrigals are a featured part of each program.

The Madrigal Brass Choir playing fanfares, a Court Jester and Pages carrying the Boar's Head and Wassail Bowl all add to the festive occasion. Most, but not all of the singr rs are majoring in music at Illinois State. They are directed by Dr. John W. Ferreli, professor in the department of music.

1 1 i church in The fifth annual Christmas Concert by Illinois State University's Treble Choir will be presented at 8:15 p.m. Thursday at St. John's Lutheran Church 1617 E. Emerson. The recital Is designed to present the choir in the setting of St.

John's Church to best acoustical advantage, Dr. Donald J. Armstrong, ISU choral director explains. One portion of the program will be performed from the rear elevated choir loft, and other selections will be sung from the altar area to afford the listener two different choral perspectives. The Christmas Choral Recital is traditionally centered around one major choral work.

The central work for the 1971 performance is "Cantares de Pas-cua" (Songs of Christmas), by Domingo Santa Cruz, contemporary Chilean composer. Other program selections are Regem Coeli," a renaissance motet for 'Cowboys' are coming with John Wayne NEW YORK (AP) John Williams has been signed to compose and conduct the musical score for "The Cowboys," starring John Wayne for Warner Brothers. The film will have its world premiere at New York's Radio City Music Hall early next year. Williams scored "Fiddler on the Roof." concert equal voices by Thomas Luis de Victoria; four Christmas Madrigals by American composer David Kraehen-buehl; and popular Christmas carols by Alfred Burt. Featured soloists in the performance of Richard Cumming's "The Cherry-Tree Carol," will be soprano Judith Hansen, sophomore music major of 701 W.

Monroe, and alto Vicki Davis, sophomore in music, of Oregon, HI. Percussion groups in joint concert The Illinois State University department of music will present two percussion groups in a joint concert at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Recital Hall of Centennial Building East. The performing groups are the Contemporary Percussion Quintet and the Repertory Percussion Ensemble. It will be the first public appearance of the Repertory Ensemble, a group comprised primarily of freshmen students.

Roger R. Faulmann, a member of the music faculty, is the conductor. Ensemble numbers to open the concert include "Symphony No. 1," by Anthony Cirone, and "Ocotber Mountain," by Alan Hovhaness. The second portion of the program will feature the Quintet in the performance of "Triptych," by Anthony Cirone; "Canticle No.

1," by Lou Harrison; and an arrangement of "Greensleeves," by Thomas L. Davis. INC Floor Bloomington I Jr 5,500 to hear ISU's Madrigal Singers Avenue 'If-tvSi Lewis Hunter Stowers III is shown in June of 1967 at his graduate art show at ISU. The show was entitled "The Alienation of Jeremy Wind." Pantograph Photo) Decoupage workshop set for Clinton CLINTON iPNSi For the first time a decoupage workshop will be held at the Fine Arts Center of Clinton beginning the week of Feb. 14.

The workshop will be taught by Mrs. Eugenia Lynch, Mount Pulaski. Decoupage is the art of cutting out paper designs which are transferred to boxes, trays, furniture, handbags, etc. Depending upon the student's skill and practice, decoupage can be a successful and satisfying art form. The classes will be held Monday evening, Feb.

II, or Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 15. Tuition will be $18 for six classes and a minimum of eight students is required in earn class. Students will be responsible for their own materials which may be purchased from Mrs. Lynch.

The University of Illinois group, directed by Roman Tymchyshyn, is returning for the second year to the Peoria MATS series, having presented the play "Aesop's Fallibles" during the 70-71 season. Admission is by season ticket or by single admission tickets that may be purchased at the door. The Sunday 1 tn. performance is sold out to season ticket holders, but single admission is available for all the other performances, with most, seals available at the Saturday performances. Mi United p.m.

I ARE OPEN FREE TO THE PUBLIC OTHERWISE INDICATED i For Every Member of the Family The Illinois State University Madrigal Singers will have entertained more than 5.51)0 guests when the last of the university's 16th annual Madrigal Dinner-Concerts is presented next Sunday. The Dinner Concerts were introduced by ISU in December, 1956, by Bruce T. Kaiser, director of the University Union, Only one dinner was held that first year. Danvers student in college play Darrel E. Miller, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Orlyn Miller, R.R. 1, Danvers, is in the cast of the Goshen College (Ind.) production of the drama, "The Day the Sky Went to School." Produced in cooperation with the Family Counseling Service of Elkhart County, Elkhart, the play portrays the need for parent-teacher understanding and will be presented 15 times this year to church, civic and parent-teacher groups. Miller is a Goshen College freshman and a 1971 graduate of Normal Community High School. Supplies Musical adapfion of four fairy tales to be presented PEORIA A musical adaptation of four favorite fairy tales will be presented by The Fairy Tale Players of the University of Illinois Saturday and Sunday, Dec.

and 19, at the Scottish Bile Cathedral, 400 N.E. Perry Avenue. Performances will be at I and m. both days. Appealing to all ages, the drama is the third MATS Community Children's Theatre production of the '71-72 season.

The fairy tales woven together with original music using a mixture of the old and new in theatre are "The Goose Girl," "RapiinzeJ," "Rumpclstiltskin," and "Aladdin." fa iWN.mainlt. 1st mm mm m. to see (y es rp THIS WEEK AT Fl ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY DRAWINGS PAINTINGS COLLAGES by Bloomington High School Art Teachen and their talented adult education artists and students. Mr. Gary Woifh Mrs.

Gail Guilfoilo Mrs. Betty Aamoft Mrs. Carolyn Inman Choral Concert, Preiser Hall, Sunday 1212 Tucday 1214 Christmas 8:15 Chapel, dist A GREAT GIFT! Acrylic, Oil and Water Colors Starter Sets Easels How-To Books Sketch Books and Canvas ALL DRAFTING SUPPLIES Copy Shop Your Xerox Copy Centerl 519 N. Main St. p.m.

Christmas Covenant Servic Conference Office Chapel, Mr. Herbert Curtis Mrs. Pran Scott Mrs. Eleanor Baxter These ort work may be porcfiaiec FAIRWAY GALLERY of ART MclEAN COUNTY BANK towanda at empire ALL EVENTS UNLESS.