Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, September 12, 1980 Page: 4 of 8
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UNIVERSITY PRESS September 12,1980*4
Photog strips male 9 egos
Dallas freelancer finds opposition to nude calendar
DALLAS (UPI) — Freelance photographer Kathy
Metcalf says the double standard has made it tough for
her to produce her calendar of male nudes, but there’s
still hope the project will be a success.
She lost her job, had to fight to get a printer and then
found that some normally fearless men became very
shy once their clothes were off.
"It was a hard task,” she said. "I came to discover
that men are vain and very shy. That macho
masculinity disappears when there’s a woman behind
the camera.”
The dozen photos in her calendar, scheduled for Oc-
tober release, are less revealing than most magazine
underwear ads, but Metcalf said getting the pictures in
her cramped, East Dallas studio took a great deal of
time and effort.
"My models were all friends, so I could joke with
them and hold conversations while we were working. I
was working with nothing but the model against a
black background so positioning the body and lighting
was very time-consuming.”
She said even wth friends, many models showed
marked personality changes once they were facing the
camera with nothing on.
“Some of my friends are the urban cowboy type, with
jeans, hat and boots, and they are very masculine,”
she said. “But once they took their clothes off and were
faced with looking into a camera, they became shy,
timid and even withdrawn. The air of being the
dominant male disappeared.”
Metcalf speculated that part of the personality
change came bt cause the nude photo sessions were
something new, but she also blamed the double stan-
dard.
"I had one model who was extremely self-conscious
of a scar on his leg — a Vietnam war injury. If I had
been a man, I don't think he would have minded,” she
said.
While Metcalf had to deal with the loss of normal
male aggressiveness, she was also careful not to do
anything that might bring it back.
"In the positioning of the model and the lighting you
want shadows to fall in certain areas, especially to
cover the genitals,” she said. “But you have to be
careful in touching the model. I would move an arm or
a shoulder, but I never touched anyone from the waist
down, so if I wanted a leg or hip moved, I just had to tell
them.”
The 32-year-old lost her job last month in the produc-
tion control department of Glitsch Inc., a manufac-
turer of oil and chemical refining equipment, because,
she said, of her photography.
“It’s probably the best thing that could have hap-
pened," she said. "Basically, I was a paper-pusher,
and that’s not what I really wanted to do, anyway.”
She also had a printer reject her work before he saw
it just because of the subject material. But since a
Dallas newspaper did an article on her, she’s been on
the phone constantly.
"I’ve had a lot of men call, asking me to photograph
them nude, either for themselves, or their wives or
girlfriends,” she said.
After having spent more than a year on the project,
she also said she’s learned a lot about photographing
the male body.
"I have some fairly well-built men in the calendar,
but no body-builders. There are some with no hair and
smooth bodies, and some with more muscle tone. Some
have long hair and some have beards.”
She said dealing with the typical Texas beer-belly
was one of the most challenging aspects of her work.
“Usually, I will try a back shot, basically looking for
muscle structure in the upper back,” she said. “One
photo, which I like, but I didn’t put in the calendar, I
have a guy leaning on his knee, and you can see that
this gentleman is kind of heavy. But mostly I shot other
angles or cropped the upper chest.”
Metcalf said she steered away from anything that
might be considered pornographic, instead con-
centrating on the “art-type” shot. But she said she still
has to overcome a lot of resistance to her work.
“As a woman taking male nudes I’ve run into a lot of
stumbling blocks that a male Playboy photographer
wouldn’t run into.”
Classes added at LU-0
O R AN G E — Lamar
University at Orange has ad-
ded a new course and has
reinstated courses that had
not been offered for several
semesters, Dr. Joe Ben
Welch, LU-0 dean, said.
Computer science is being
offered for the first time at
LU-O, Welch said. The cam-
pus has added a computer in
order to offer the course.
Two sections of introduc- Two courses that have
tory computer science are been reinstated on the
being offered. “Both are schedule are Conversational
available on the evening Spanish and geology, Welch
schedule,” Welch said. sa'c*-
Copperfields
is taking applications
for cocktail waitresses and barbacks.
Apply in person after 3 p.m.
at 5230 Port Arthur Road
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Therapy workshop Tuesday
The Mental Health
Association in Jefferson
County will sponsor a one-
day workshop on family
therapy at the Beaumont
Civic Center Tuesday, from
9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., ac-
cording to Grace Gearinger,
executive director.
Dr. Harold A. Goolishian,
family therapist and
president of the Galveston
Family Institute, will con-
duct the workshop. Two staff
members from the institute
will accompany him in in-
troducing various modes of
family therapy.
The morning session will
feature a live family demon-
stration and a videotape
presentation illustrating
various techniques used at
the institute for family
therapy.
The afternoon session will
consist of troup and panel
discussions headed by
Goolishian and his faculty
members.
The Galveston Family In-
stitute is a non-profit
educational corporation
which provides unique
training for professional
family therapists and treat-
ment for families.
The training is provided
by both local and visiting
family therapists, a highly
experienced clinical faculty
from the Houston-Galveston
area and visiting faculty
from national and in-
ternational centers of family
therapy training.
Those interested may
register for the workshop by
calling the Mental Health
Association in Jefferson
County at 833-9636 or 727-
4020.
Registrations will also be
taken at the door as space
permits, but pre-
registration is preferred.
The cost of attending the
workshop is 325.
AAUW meet set
The Beaumont branch, American Association of
University Women, will hold its annual membership
open house Sunday, Sept. 21, according to Joanne
Scarborough, the branch’s cultural affairs represen-
tative.
The event will be held at Scarborough’s home, 2494
Hazel St.
Membership in the 100-year-old organization is
open to any woman graduate of a four-year, ac-
credited college or university.
Branch meetings are held monthly, and members
may also register for study groups, including a lun-
cheon group which meets on campus. National study
topics for the 1979-81 biennium are “Families Facing
Change” and “Managing Resources for Tomorrow.”
Further information about AAUW is available by
calling Scarborough at KVLU-FM radio, 838-8831.
Job placement seminar
scheduled for Sept. 24
A three-hour job
placement seminar will be
held Wednesday, Sept. 24,
Landes Auditorium, 101
Galloway Business Building,
according to Jack T. Martin,
director of placement.
The program will be co-
sponsored by Jeannette
Vaughn, assistant professor
of office administration, and
Dr. Bob Wooten, assistant
professor of business ad-
ministration.
Lilly Babino of Gulf States
Utilities Co. will also spon-
sor the seminar, according
to Martin.
This seminar is designed
to cover various aspects of
job search, application and
follow-up.
Students who anticipate a
need for help in writing
resumes can learn how to do
so from Vaughn. Wooten will
handle a session on how to
find employment op-
portunities and how to
prepare for and conclude a
successful interview.
The hiring process will be
discussed by Babino, Martin
said. Martin will speak on
how to fully utilize
placement office facilities. _
A question-and-answer
period will follow the
discussions, Martin said.
All interested students and
faculty are asked to sign up
in the placement office, 102
Galloway Business Building,
at least two days prior to the
Sept. 24 date.
Smoker
to initiate
rush week
A smoker from 7:30 p.m.
to 9:30 p.m. Sunday on th'e
eighth floor of Gray Library
will kick off a week of men’s
fraternity rush activities on
campus.
Deadline for freshmen to
sign up for fraternity rush
activities is 4 p.m., Friday,
in 212 Setzer Student Center,
according to Steve Guest, In-
terfraternity Council
president.
The fraternities’ “Meet
the Sorority Night” is Wed-
nesday. The gathering also
will be on the eighth floor of
Gray Library and begins at
6:30p.m.
“Preference parties” at
the various fraternity dorms
and houses will be from 8
p.m. to 11:30 p.m., Friday,
Sept. 19. Participants in the
parties will meet at 7:30
p.m. at the Setzer Student
Center Patio.
Rush activities conclude
Saturday, Sept. 20, with for-
mal bid presentations at 11
a.m. in the Setzer Student
Center Ballroom.
F A\ IF. IS
Now Open
yarns for on and off the loom
located at
The Graham Cracker
2160 North
835-0777
Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5
p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-4p.m.
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Blacky’s Liquor Store
Best Little Liquor Store in Texas
3805 Ave. A • Beaumont • 832-6755
Five Percent Discount on All Purchases
to Lamar students and faculty
through Nov. 1,1980
Drive -Through Window
Open 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
We have big values
on cold beer
wine
liquor
Peter Hamilton, Jr., owner
Lamar University graduate
one and one-half blocks
Blacky’s
South
Park
High
School
LU-Orange
adds, shifts
personnel
ORANGE—New personn-
el have been added and
some current personnel shif-
ted to new positions this year
at Lamar University at
Orange, Dr. Joe Ben Welch,
LU-0 dean, said.
New instructors include
Don Grooms, computer
science; Delores Garcia,
Conversational Spanish; Dr.
John Gardner, accounting
and history; Allen
Naughton, economics; and
Bonnie Fleming, office ad-
ministration.
Changes in current per-
sonnel include promoting
Jerry Talmadge, music in-
structor, and Butch Camp-
bell, physical education in-
structor, to full-time posi-
tions. Both were formerly
part-time, Welch said.
Also changed was the
director of technical arts
positions, now filled by Don
Earl Horton. Former direc-
tor Hyman Taylor haq
returned to teaching full-
time at his own request,
Welch said.
Seay to discuss energy
in economics club talk
Elwyn Seay, president of
Freight Masters, Chem-
tronics and Quick Car will
speak on “Coal: Bridge to
the Future” to the
Economics Association
today, 10 a.m., Landes
Auditorium, 101 Galloway
Business Building.
Various problems and op-
portunities associated with
the conversion to coal over
the next 20 years will be
discussed, according to
Seay.
“There is ample energy
available to supply the needs
of the world for the
foreseeable future, but the
type of energy may be dif-
ferent than in the past,”
Seay said. "Coal will bridge
the transition from a
petroleum energy base to
various other types.”
According to Seay, the
‘people problem”
associated with this change
is the biggest hurdle to be
overcome.
"Since eight years are
required to construct a coal-
fired electric plant, and even
longer for synthetic con-
version of coal to gas,” he
said, “it is essential that
these people problems start
to be solved.”
Freight Masters, Chem-
tronics and Quick Car are
divisions of the Halliburton
Co., where Seay has been
employed for 20 years. He
has spent 10 years in resear-
ch and operations. _
Seay is a 1958 Lamar
graduate,with a bachelor of
science degree in
mechanical engineering. He
also received a master’s
degree in mechanical
engineering from Texas
A&M University, College
Station, in 1959 and a master
of business administration
from Pepperdine Univer-
sity, Malibu, Calif., in 1974.
Newman piece to air
Jerry Newman, associate
professor of fine art, will be
featured on the syndicated
television show "The Eyes
of Texas”, Saturday, 6:30
p.m. on KBMT-TV, Channel
12.
Newman was selected by
Houston’s KPRC-TV, Chan-
nel 2, to be featured when
some of his paintings were
viewed in a Houston art
gallery.
Newman has a one-man
show coming up Oct. 2 at a
Houston art gallery.
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