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JIM 1 Valflev News UaJi TflKT IWWI Friday May 15 INI Page IS In School With Aidron Duckworth By PEGGY MEILL Valley News Correspondent up" This combined with a growing interest in philosophy si it related to art triggered Duckworth's decision to enter a PhD program at the age of 50 Ohio State Univarsity accepted him at my and provided him with best schooling I've had in my life I gave a lot of teachers a hard time but I was hungiy tor learning" With an emphasis on aesthetics and philosophy the philosophy of education and art departments designed a program specially tor him He returned to college teaching when he became chairman of the department of fine art at the University of South Dakota It was there that Ms concept tor a particular type of center soon to be founded in New Hampshire was formulated In the Midwest Duck worth noted the "absence of offerings for those older than college age There was a lot of action but it was mostly social and I felt there were those who wanted to study art Wanting to help fulfill the needs of such students Duckworth headed East and opened the Mast lands Arts Study Center an art study service tor the adult residents of the Upper Valley region But he says miscalculated For although this area had one of the highest growth population I made a psychological underestimation It requires a lot of puts tor those who hare been in any position of authority (in their careers) to start at square one to allow themselves to look foolish takes too much energy and a lot of time Certain advances can be made in six months but people think they can make them in fix weeks Many still think of art as a hobby (the center) was frankly naive for as in any business I needed time to build up a reputation locally" Unable to financially sustain the project throughout the nxessary period of (Continued on page 25) -AIDRON DUCKWORTH land of Englam Rather than attempt to bridge that tentative gap between the artist and his audience with explanations of ms paintings Duckworth spoke of places people and ideas that constituted some of the influences which molded him not (only as an artist but as an individual All his adult life has been devoted to art to teaching it designing with it or writing about it and to being an artist first as a sculptor and then as a painter Having gained a professional reputation with works owned publicly and privately in America South Africa and England Duckworth moved to New England with the hope of attaining -yet another goal: Hie establishment of an art center for adults AI- AiT)K concept never reached full fruition Duckworth has remained in his schooUiouse teaching residents elsewhere and painting Duckworth was educated at the Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art in i-mvWi England His first teaching post was at the Kingston School of Art where he taught three-dimensional design department which had only six and dispirited students In the three-year affiliation that followed Duckworth broadened the curriculum to include sculpture and appliance design and more than tripled the enrollment Later he developed a design and prototype production organization from which the British Council of Industrial Design obtained samples for international exhibition In IMS Duckworth was asked to head Syracuse University'ssculpture program and five years later received an invitation to become chairman of the department of fine art at the University of Natal in South Africa were there for two years and in a way it was a great mistake On the other hand it was a great learning experience It made me understand how hard it is to live in a near totalitarian state and still be strong You can easily be crashed "It revised my view of the Nad Germans and the Jews It's so easy to be critical of people who succumb until I became more Involved in the politics of South Africa and could have been totally so But I realized my battle was in painting I preferred the United Stales and decided to devote what energies I had to art here This was not a copout but a clear He sought a university teaching Job but found such positions were to iky Straightest Line From Concept To Cash i NY Tiaci News Service NEW YORK William Halstead's daughter dripped a front tooth while spreading the aides of a hairpin a due that coat Halstead 1270 to repair I had to do he laid So what the Columbia lid deaigner did way to Invent the Spreader" and bring it to New York Wednesday Lou Burzdak of Los Angeles hates bugs so he Invented a bilged acoop with a dear domed top called the Bug which permits its presumably soft-hearted user to catch taiga and then release than And he brought it with him to demonstrate that wouldn't hurt a fly" Goets Lang of Darmstadt West Germany who detests the idea of drinking soft drinla mm cans that might have either dust or street soot on their lids has come up with a plastic extension noale that fits into the holm left when aluminum cans are popped open "It's very popular in Gcnnaity already" he said noting that the tiny now fits in its own case and can be suspended from a key chain the beach and picnics" And aU around them in the New York Sutler Hold were such items as a variation of an ice pick called a pick" designed to make carrying fireplace logs easier a brash for cleaning broiler grills only realistic furniture made of plastic mechanical egg stirrers a folding portable motorcycle garage an automatic cake roster an "Oral Inspector" which permits self-inspection of teeth and gums with two periscoping mirrors and Mylar tapes designed to plants in greenhouses all brought into town for the World-Wide International Inventors Expo li There was something called the "Long a wand with tweezers at one end just right for reaching over to unlock interior locks on cars when you re strapped in by your safety belt and also invented by Halstead a "Folly Gobble a sett-standing self-watering plant holder an electric that opens stuck ones something called an "Egg which will hold your broken egg shells so that egg white wool ooze onto your laminatedcabinet tops and a hardcooked-egg cutter that nips off egg ends much as a cigar clipper would This is the fifth such convocation of inventors and inventions some silly some absolutely practical and 115 of them will be on exhibit through Sunday The man responsible for corralling what is truly a mixed mechanical bag is Harold Kleinian president of World-Wide Patents Ltd a licensing and patent broker who says that his show is straightest Tine from concept to cash" Which is the sort of thing inventors like to hear Igor Dmitrowsky of New York for example designer of the "Homo-Avis" a winged Jet-pack would like to see everyone strapped onto and soaring about on his aluminum wings instead of hang gliders which he considers World War II vintage in an engineering sense" And if someone decides to manufacture the Dmitrowsky thinks it can be brought in for "no more than 110000 or 115000" Abraham Levy of Israel thinks that virtually every advertiser will want to buy his folding corrugated cardboard screen that fits across car windshields and makes the plastic upholstery sittable after being in the sun "They can put their message on it and give it away he said will cost them 12 no more" And Aldo Torri of Livorno Italy has devised an inset holding 17 cigarettes for auto dashboards When a button is pressed a cigarette drops down after being lighted by a heated coil "You don't have to take your eyes off the rood he said Perhaps the longest line at the inventors show will be at Kalman Mb's booth where he is offering 11000 to anyone who can make the four magnets in Ms executive desk game spin simultaneously for 20 seconds The four magnets mounted between two plastic plates are spun by using another magnet attached to a wand Opposing magnetic fields are set up that make it virtually impossible for them all to spin together but Toth of Monsey NY maintains that it can be done with "a ft hundred hours of oricticc' And finally there is Harold Trowbridge who is 53 years old but says that he is "eight going on nine He is a pilot he raid with a wink who cuts logs Tor a living "back in the north woods up above Vancouver British Columbia" As a pilot he is responsible for "Racing Wings" small styrene gliders that are nose-weighted with either American or Canadian pennies tiny strips of cellophane tape attached to wingtips can be tailored for either right-handed or left-handed glider-throwers The planes when thrown in an upward curve circle and come back directly to the thrower like boomerangs "Everybody keeps asking me if I'm Australian" Trowbridge said Duckworth in an imposing sti lure of a for schooUiouse The sol emn gray building measuring some feet by over 30 has dual function both living ai space -for an artist settled in Meriden five years ago The entryway though now lacking rows of Children's costs and bools has like the rest of the school otherwise retained its original Meg- rity It leads to a spacious sun-filled room the gallery fjai that contains some of Duck-worth's works One wall covered with paintings of i burly cigared men and buxom sun-glassed women is a rainbow of pastels The urea remind one of a circus artist nodded and remarked 'It's changed since then These were done a '75-77" In a soft-spoken voice sprorad cally accented with enthusiasm Duckworth outlined some of the travels which took him to California South Africa Ohio and eventually Meriden New Hampshire from his native Who Are The White Youth I By The Las Aagries Times Washington Foal News Service WASHINGTON Sometimes' doing Ms daily 2 14 miles along Virginia's Highway 395 24year-old Doug Bandow thinks about some of the pleasures he left behind He remembers Jogging through a canyon in Southern California sprinting out of his house circling down to the beach digging his toes into the sand -He remembers the trees the flowers the shrubs the sunsets By contrast Highway 395 does not look so Kitical-action committee That Job evolved i a position with Reagan's presidential campaign Soon after Reagan took office Hopkins was named as special assistant to the president for policy development "It all boils down to political philosophy" said Jeanne Crispen happen to share Ronald Reagan's' A 27-year-oid graduate of the University of California Davis and the University of Santa Clara Crispen worked at Stanford's Hoover Institute as a researcher for future Reagan domestic policy chief Martin Anderson Now as an analyst and liaison in the WMte House office of legislative affairs Crispen is in a position to lobby for the political philosophy she admires so much Back at Los Angeles' posh Marlboro school for girls no one would recognize the trim brunette answering phones ana handling cor for presidential adviser Lynn Republic chief Nofziger- later tor -Martin Anderson Hopkins was a writer and issues analyst during the campaign "someone" he said "who could work very well under pressure which was the quality that was necessary for translating philosophy into campaign Hopkins rode the campaign plane' wrote statements tor "the governor" (the name by which so many of Reagan's friends and staffers still refer to the president) did research and helped brief the candidate It was tiring terribly" Hopkins groaned "but hopefully we'll see the payoff after four years when we have a healthier economy and we can achieve some of our objectives from the campaign And more important if we could change the Zeitgeist of increased spending and dependency on government if we can turn that around ami mate a permanent change then I flunk it will have teen worth every minute every hour every lost night of sleep that we incurred" For a kid who was not yet out of graduate school it was also one Mg Job a Jw loaded with heavy responsibility I certainly don't consider myself a sniffed Hopkins now 29 mean I've had aU the training of a PhD in Lite Ms friend Doug Bandow Hopkins gravitated after the election to the office of domestic-policy adviser Anderson Sharing the title of special assistant to the president for policy development Hopkins concentrates largely on economic matters working 90 to 70 hours probably on your average work He figures that on an hourly basis his $40000-pi us salary actually amortizes to about 120000 a year Hopkins also acknowledges that this kind of schedule this kind of life on a White House treadmill also totes a healthy chunk of what otherwise might be set aside for leisure time Hopkins mused that depends on your definition of fun TMs is work We're not in this to have fun We re in this to get a Job done It's kind of like being in the army and prosecuting a war We've got a political objective to accomplish we want to mate and reforms of a government It's work As tor Ms own role in that formula: Kevin Hopkins raid "is to Influence public opinion toward particular goals" And down the line? haven't really thought that tor ahead it kind of depends on what happens in the next four years toyed with the idea of politics -anybody who's in this has but I have no nine plan no blueprint no long-range goals to go back to California and run for Congress and then ran tor Senate and then for president in 1999" 'the campaign trail for Ronald Reagan "One gives up one's free time in this Bandow said gives up one's leisure" Pesonalizing the pronouncement Bandow raid "I did have a steady girlfriend That broke up when I started the campaign" It knot an event Doug Bandow celebrates this lack of a social life ever since upon finiOiing up at Stanford law school in 1979 he followed his friend Marty Anderson onto the Reagan campaign trail and then into the White House itsaf As a student senator at Stanford and as editor of the ultraconservative Stanford Arena Bandow raid he learned to take the flak that comes from bucking the tide he learned also to defend more fiercely than ever the freemiterprise philosophy that first attracted him to Reagan Bandow learned something else during his days in Stanford student government: "I learned not to take it too seriously I think that was the important That lesson served him well during the campaign where he discovered that "as the initial excitement wean off you find it's a lot of hard work and can be very tiresome Bandow has applied the him theory in the White House clearly a heady experience It's also a sobering experience I try to keep it in perspective" Bandow has toyed with the idea of a political career of his own being the candidate you're so much more in the fishbowl My feeling is that it would be great to have the authority but politics is a rough game and a tiring pme" Instead Bandow said he might like to combine his love of writing with his deep conservative commitment and Ms growing political experience say by becoming a columnist In the meantime he is wearing a kind of menial and emotional armor to ward off the infamous Washington power moths parents (nis folks live in Escondido Calif) have promised to pop the bubble If my head ever gets too cc Soon after he began volunteering tor Ronald Reagan's political-action committee four Crs ago UCLA graduate student Kevin kins realized he would have to make a choice: school or the Reagan presidential campaign He chose the campaign wanted to get involved in Hopkins explained "I Just thought it was the test way to influence public policy" So Hopkins the risk" as he puts It now He plunged into the grueling campaign that saw him working first lor Citizens far the Later Doug Bandow drives down the same highway to his big office with the 25-foot ceilings in the baroque Old Executive Office Building square in the shadow of the WMte House Doug Bandow special assistant to the president is at Ms desk Who has time to think about sunsets? They are young under 30 products of all of the fabled golden sun and sod of California Like the Georgians before them they share a king of camaraderie: a togetherness however loose that comes from being thrust Mo the strange world known as Washington and into the headier world known as the WMte Houm Stronger still is their collective loyalty to Ronald Reagan the Californian tor whom they shelved their surfboards for whom they work such long hours and in whom the place such deep trust such unquestioning faith They are the WMte House youth brigade the young Californians scattered at desks throughout the executive mansion and the neighboring Old Executive Office Building Laboring from dawn to midnight these young Californians will say they are working for a freeenterprise society for a conservative philosophy they say calls for a reduction of government influence in business and individual lives They will say that they are working tor the president's policy of supply-side economics They will say with a kind of steely idealism that they are working tor a new -America But what they are really working for is not a what but a whom They're working far Ronald Reagan 'Well said Jim Pinkerton a 23-year-old Stanford graduate who went from writing movie scripts that didn't sell to working as a domestic policy analyst in the WMte House like Reagan I always Reagan Mmself who brought me into this thing" Kevin Hopkins agreed Hopkins 29 dropped out of his PhD program at the University of California Los Angeles nearly four years ago to work with Citizens hr the Republic Reagan's nascent Nofziger Her professor at the University of Southern California would laugh seeing her working from 9:45 a to 11 pm believes 21-year-old Kimberly Borcherdt never had any direction when I was at school" Daughter of a longtime Republican family daughter in fact of Wendy Borcherdt one of Reagan's top female advisers Kimberly Borcherdt Jumped at the chance to serve as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Detroit last summer Quickly stricken with campaign fever Borcherdt dropped everything to work in the Reagan campaign's press office After the election she was equally enthusiastic about accepting Lynn Nofziger's offer to work as his receptionist "How many times can you be 21 and work in the WMte Hose?" Borcherdt reasons a once-in-a lifetime opportunity getting this kind of first-hand exposure to government" Borcherdt paused to field a bank of flashing -phones like one big jigsaw she said Settling into Washington Borcherdt found herself fighting a stereotype she hadn't known existed here they think that if you're from California you put on your bathing suit and go down to the teach and smoke dope every day" Borcherdt raid tease me here Thor say your tan? How come -your hair? so brown?" Borcterdt's father Edward is pleased with Ms daughter's new-found sense of responsibility really impressed that I've stopped bouncinc she said And Borcherdt has discovered another fringe benefit to life in the political lane "Dating Borcherdt said 10 times better than in California" A social life? Doug Bandow sighed Doting is something be all but abandoned when he Mt Anti-smoking Campaign Up In Smoke they should be aiming at are the kids in elementary school You'd be surprised how many of them smoke already I and 19-yearoids smoking and older guys giving them cigarettes oa the school ground That's where they should start" The students were asked to fill oid a survey retire the poster on a scale of one to five you really haled it you gave it a fire Mort of us rated it at three and said Marrtoa The opinions of the girls in at Richardson West Junior High were almost identical to those of the older students -I thought the poster was stupjdT said are "Most liris our ago don't tike Brooke Shields not her aMurers You'd hereto tak to fifth sixth and seventh grade girk to find anyone who looks up to her" said another growing smoking group The ads were originally offered to the American Heart Association whose national headquarters is in Dallas the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society The Lung Association which has long teen trying to find effective ways to discourage teenage smoking had accepted the offer It considered Brooke Shields an adolescent trend-setter admired by other teens In the spoils your looks" ad Shields with a cigarette in each ear says there's anything I hate it's wasMng my hair and then being with people who smote But before the campaign started the government canceled its own ad campaign this week citing Shields' role as a prostitute in the 1979 movie Pretty Baby as a reason Before the Lung Association accepted the campaign the Doltas-based American Heart Association took the paster of Shields to the two Richardson schools April 13 to test reaction to it Student response was in direct opposition to a quote Monday by Lung Association president Richard Smsheimer who said "Marketing taste of the Shields ad ia Dallas high schools showed it had a postive impact on her youthful "There's no point to it" said Laurie Mar stun 17 a student at Richanhoa High School standing there with cigarettes ia her nan It looks dumb been smoking for over three years and it didn't docourage paster won't get it" said one girl in the nuilli grade at Richardson West Junior High they're trying to reach the wrong age group We're too old The kids By The Lm Aagetes Thaes Washington Post New Service RICHARDSON Texas The federal government isn't alone in its condemnation of the Brooke Shields anti-smoking campaign featuring the 1 5-year-old actress witp cigarettes sticking eul of her ears Two groups of teenagers here at Richardson Hip School and Richardson West Junior High who participated in marketing tests of the ad campaign in April proclaimed the paster as not only ineffective but Richankoa is a suburb of Dallas The Deportment of Health and Human Services initiated the antinmaking campaign and paid 969000 to feature Shields in two television spots a print ad and a poster designed to discourage adolescents girls in particular who nuke up the nation's fastest- Arlene Crane wife of Rep Philip Dane IB peers around the comer of a wal in Washington Having graduated from a detective course she has been hired as a private eye by a Virginia investigating firm The mother of eight says she has always wanted to be a private eye I.