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PAGE 4—THE NOjSTh TEXAS DAILY
Candidates Write
Original Dramas
Most master's candidates submit a
thesis which is a documented essay. This
summer, however, two candidates sub-
mitted an original drama as a thesis in-
stead.
"Helen, Later," by Ms. Cheryl
Throop, Fort Worth graduate student, is
an account of Helen of Troy after the
Trojan war.
"The Remembering," by Merle D.
Ford, Tyler graduate student, is about
the maturing of a young ex-slave during
the Civil War.
Ms. Throop holds a degree in theater
arts from UT-Austin. She has done sum-
mer stock in New York and helped to
found a theater in California.
She holds a union card and is in-
terested in writing for the theater as well
as in performing. She has written two
one-act plays which have been
produced, one at UT and the other, a
children's play, in California.
IMS. THROOP SAID she did research
on Helen, Troy and the Greek
mythology surrounding the Trojan War
before she began writing.
"I worked on it for about four years,
in all," she said. "It has been a
fascinating learning experience."
In her research, Ms. Throop found
that Greece had at one time been a
matriarchy, and that Helen, before her
marriage to Menclaus, had been a queen
in her own right. The play is about
Helen as a middle-aged woman facing
drastic changes in her life.
"Although the subject is ancient, the
theme is timely," Ms. Throop said.
"Helen had to cope with a great loss of
power and freedom. Many middle-aged
women today are forced to face changes
of equal, in their own eyes > magnitude."
Ms. Throop hopes to be able to sell
her play and see it produced.
"I WROTE IT mainly to be produced
on the stage, but I think it could be
adapted to a movie very easily," she
said. Although she hasn't done any
script writing, she hopes to do some in
the future.
Ford received his B.S. in education
from NT in 1973.
Ford's play, "The Remembering," is
set in Georgia during Sherman's Civil
War march to the sea. The action takei
place in an abandoned church, at night.
The main characters are three ex-
slaves; Jed, 18, and innocent; Columbus,
30, a cynic; and an old woman, about 80,
a practical and spiritual being who
ultimately serves as a guide to Jed in his
growth toward responsibility and
maturity.
THESE THREE are contrasted by
two young northern soldiers who are
trying to think of a way to get out of the
war, its death and destruction. They re-
ject desertion because it is dishonorable,
and finally come to the realization of the
futility of fighting a war to free others
when they themselves, having been
drafted, are not free. Having no choice,
they continue in their roles.
Columbus had taught Jed that the war
was the only route to freedom, but the
old woman, through her spiritualism
and her remembrances, teaches him that
there are other, better ways.
"The Civil War was not a liberating
war. It lead to years of other sorts of
repression," Ford said. "My play has a
lot of darkness and death in it, and aside
from its historical and literary themes, it
is something of a comment on war."
"The Remembering" is based on slave
narratives, he said. Much of the
literature written since the war has had
an unrealistic view of slaves and slavery,
he added.
He had written a one-act play with
most of the same characters in 1974, and
had been researching the subject and
refining the play until he submitted it as
his thesis.
Ford said he hopes to sell it and have
it produced.
Friday, September 2, 1977
Zoo Honors Ham,
Ex-Space Chimp
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Photo by JON WITSELl
Better Late Than Never
Bob Gudnundsen, Denton graduate student in accounting, adds a
class after successfully making his way through a crowded line leading
to the registrar's window in the Administration Building. Late registra-
tion is scheduled to end Saturday.
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and set Tuesday that will bring John
Chancellor and David Brinkley out from
behind their desks in an effort to
abandon the anchorman's role as "priest
of the news," preaching from on high.
The changes, which include a news
format divided into four segments, are
intended to engage the audience more
and add both depth and more stories at
the same time.
Observing a tendency of network
news anchors "to be sort of priests of the
news," anchorman John Chancellor says
that's going to change when he emerges
from behind his desk in New York and
Brinkley leaves his in Washington.
"What I think we do is share our
knowledge, rather than imparting the
knowledge to them," Chancellor said,
who will lounge in a swivel chair and
perch in front of three small, visible TV
monitors and a 32-inch color set for
talking with correspondents or Brinkley.
Adds NBC News President Richard
C. Wald, the anchorman should no
longer speak as "the voice of truth."
Although NBC denies it, the changes
seem designed to counter the faster pace
initiated by ABC News chief Roonc
Arledge on the one hand and, on the
other, the credibility image of CBS
anchorman Walter Cronkite. At stake
are ratings, which represent millions of
dollars in advertising revenues.
The ratings last week were 7.6 for
ABC, 10.5 for NBC, and 11.6 for CBS.
Each rating point represents 712,000
homes and perhaps a million dollars.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Better things
are in store for Ham, an aging space
chimp who now knocks about his nar-
row cage at the National Zoo without
even a glimpse of the moon to which he
helped blaze a pathway in 1961.
Zoo keepers are planning larger
quarters and more recognition for Ham,
who 16 years ago last Jan. 31 whooshed
155 miles skyward aboard a Redstone
rocket, pressed levers when lights
flashed, and splashed in the Atlantic and
on front pages over the world.
Ham's transfer to the zoo in 1963
made the Huntley-Brinkley report, and
the space agency was to say of his space
feat: "It verified the feasibility of man-
ned space flight through operational
tests of the Mercury life-support
system."
But then along came those manned
spaceflights, moon walks, linkups in
space, a joint U.S.-Soviet venture, "Star
Wars" and the Voyager planetary ex-
plorations.
"People don't ask about him much,"
said a zoo spokeswoman, ranking Ham
No. 5 in popularity behind such lesser-
accomplished Chinese pandas, Smoky
Bear, five white tigers and even the col-
lection of plain monkeys.
When Ham turned 20 in July, hardly
anyone noticed.
But the zoo has a belated birthday
promise for the 150-pounder from the
Cameroons who served his adopted
country in space and who is looking
forward to the 35-40-year life expectancy
for chimps.
Construction of a new great apes
house, starting in October 1978, will al-
low remodeling of the zoo building that
houses Ham, the gorillas and the
orangutangs. All or most of the present
structure then will be turned over to
Ham, whose new quarter will include:
• A cage three times larger than his
present pad. He might have two rubber
tires to swing on instead of one.
• The rocket he rode into space and
photo exhibit depicting his flight. This
should lure visitors; the National Air
and Space Museum is now the city's No.
I tourist attraction.
• A bigger and better backyard with a
natural setting for a realistic jungle gym
complete with tree branches.
"They'll be regal quarters," said the
spokeswoman, Billie Hamlet.
A lot of trouble for a chimp, you say?
Well, in 1961, standing by for his
recovery from the ocean were eight
Navy ships, squads of amphibious trac-
tors and tanks, flights of helicopters and
Navy patrol planes.
Ham seems content nowadays. He
lounges about on the floor with his feet
up, does a little climbing, raises a racket
at times, scratches himself, and enjoys
being tickled by his keepers.
Still, he has the zoo's highest I.Q.
Department
To Broaden
Curriculum
Two courses have been added to the
business curriculum at the graduate
level.
Statistical Techniques in Simulation
(MSCI 621) will be offered in the fall of
1978 and Forecasting (MSCI 620) will
be offered in the fall of 1979.
The catalog describes the course in
statistics as, "the study of quantitative
models from design through verification
and implementation."
The course in forecasting is offered
with the objective of making recent
developments in applied time series
analysis accessible to students in
business, economics and political
science.
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Winingham, Ralph. The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, September 2, 1977, newspaper, September 2, 1977; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth332446/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.