Posted on Oct 6, 1995

In response to what Yulman Theater Director Bill Finlay calls “an
unbelievable groundswell of 'let's do it again,'” Proctor's Too, a cutting edge
theater experience, is back with the College's Yulman Theater as its new home.

The season is to have three artists — once each term — starting with the Canadian
“clowns of horror” known as Mump & Smoot on Oct. 20 and 21. Of
e.e. i sing, a musical work based on the works of poet e.e. cummings (and directed by
Finlay) will be Jan. 12 and 13. The Idiot Variations, an exploration by performer
Rinde Eckert of the fine line between genius and lunacy, is set for April 12 and 13.

The artists are expected to meet with students in seminar settings, Finlay said.

Proctor's Too, begun nine years ago by Proctor's Theater as a way to cultivate younger
audiences interested in performance art, has been on hiatus for several years while its
previous home — the Nott Memorial — was undergoing restoration.

Tickets are $15 ($10 for students) or $40 for all three shows ($25 for students). For
more information, call the Yulman Box Office at ext. 6545.

Posted on Oct 6, 1995

Mary Catherine Bateson, cultural anthropologist and linguist, best-selling
author and noted scholar, will deliver an address titled “Women in Society: Going
from College Life Into the Real World” on Saturday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m. in Memorial
Chapel.

Her talk is part of “Composing a Union,” a celebration of 25 years of
coeducation at the College. More information on events in “Composing a Union”
(including a series of panel discussions on Saturday), is available in the Reamer Campus
Center.

Bateson, the daughter of anthropologist Margaret Mead is the author of such well-known
books as Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way, Composing a Life, Within a
Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson and Thinking Aids. Bateson
is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason
University.

Her thought is rooted in the study of communication. Because anthropologists are
accustomed to thinking of whole human communities and their environments, they are trained
to search out the relationships between different aspects of human society, from nutrition
to leadership to ritual. This means that anthropologists, looking at our own society in
comparison to others, often bring a distinctive point of view, recognizing patterns
invisible to narrowly defined experts. Her recent emphasis has been on adapting to changes
in the life cycle and gender roles.

Posted on Oct 6, 1995

The College's Geology Department is hosting a combined meeting of the New York
State Geological Association and the Eastern Section of the American Association of
Petroleum Geologists Oct. 13 through 17 on campus. The meeting, titled “The Day is
Short; the Task is Great — Geology, Energy and the Environment” (derived from the
inscription on the Nott), will include 21 field trips to the Adirondacks, Catskills and
Mohawk Valley, 66 technical presentations on environmental and petroleum geology, and
participation by grade K-12 earth science teachers.

Posted on Oct 6, 1995

A team of consultants working for Dining Services has come up with some
interesting meal recommendations: Peter Zeigler's Sausage Jambalaya, Mrs. Flynn's Summer
Squash Casserole, Gramma Gorski's Swedish Meatballs and Chicken Schram, to name a few.

If the recipe names sound familiar, they should, especially to students. They're from
moms and dads, the real experts in student dining.

Through a summer mailing, Dining Services solicited family recipes to make College
dining seem more like eating at home. A few weeks into the term, they had received some 50
responses, with still more coming in, according to Mo Schifley, director of resident
dining.

The program has been popular, not only with the students and their families, but with
employees of Dining Services, who enjoy the chance to “make it just like mom
does,” Schifley said.

Plans are to offer 22 family recipes this term, and families are invited to join their
children as guests of Dining Services when the dinner is served, Schifley said. Dining
Services also is planning to solicit recipes from faculty and staff to be served at lunch.

Recipes have run the spectrum from salads to desserts. Surprisingly, there were lots of
vegetable dishes, Schifley said.

Perhaps best of all, the family recipes program gives students a comforting reminder
that mom still cares. Sarah Flynn of Newtonville, Mass., mother of Peter '99, wrote of her
son and her summer squash casserole, “this is a good way to get veggies into
him.”

Posted on Oct 6, 1995

Hermann Haus '49, a pioneer in the field of quantum optics and professor of
electrical engineering at MIT, is to receive the Medal of Science from President Clinton
at a White House ceremony on Oct. 18.

Haus received an honorary doctor of science degree from the College on 1989.

Haus' teaching and research have ranged from fundamental investigations of quantum
uncertainty as manifested in optical communications to the practical generation of
ultrashort laser pulses (10,000 times shorter than a billionth of a second) which have
found important applications in fiber optic communications, eye surgery and scientific
instrumentation.

He is the author of five books and more than 300 articles. He has served the College as
member of the Trustee Board of Advisors and the Visiting Committee for Engineering.