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CAMPUS UPDATE Alpena Community College, Alpena, MI February 6, 1980 Volume 2, Issue 9 Cathy Mason , Editor Two, and possibly four, local octogenarians will be immortalized by the AGC Oral History Project which is made possible by a grant from the Besser Foundation. } The concept of oral history is a relatively new one with California leading the rest of the country in this field. During the process, a nar- rator relates his views on tape which are then transcribed. For each in- terview, a tape and a transcription preserve the account. Interviews are now being con- f ducted with older persons in North- eastern Michigan. Their narrations are taped to preserve an eyewitness | account of history with a local and personal flavour. Advanced age is a prequisite to the project as these persons will be questioned about their observations of the major e- vents of the twentieth century. f Research assistants, Elizabeth Littler and Sandra Hall are current- ly beginning their field work. They 4 ACC records live history events on his personal life, and his spiritual views, i.e. religion and phi- losophy. After standing many hours tap- ing, the interviews will be edited by the Research Assistants and tran- scribed by students under Brenda Buchner’s direction. Because a sin- gle interview demands about 50 hours of work, two or possibly four interviews will be conducted in this pilot project. Project Co-ordinator, Dr. Law- rence Aufderheide has been work- ing on this: pilot since last July. He emphasized that “It is based on an egalitarian bias. It is not directed at prominent people.” Ordinary, everyday people are the history makers in the ACC project.” Part of Co-ordinator Aufder- heide’s job involves scrutinizing the project for the ACC curriculum. The posstbility of a joint depart- mental course offering in the meth- ods of oral history will be explored. The tapes and transcriptions Contest writers win honors The envelope, please....! earth mag- ‘azine is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Short Story - and Essay: Contest. In the short story category, first place was awarded to Ken Lech- tanski’s “Evolution” while “Silver Fingers’ by John Gosselin earned second. _ The Essay winners were James O. Williams with “The Day John Wayne Died” in first place, an untitled essay by’ Dan Vore second, and Bar- bara J.iieliszewski’s “Looking Back at the Future of Man” third. Not only will: the winners have their literary work published in this year’s issue of earth, but their ‘wallets will be replenished as well. First prize earned $25, second $15 and third $10. searth extends sincere thanks to all those who took the time to submit eB entries to the contest.” This year, earth will mark its tznth anniversary. It promises to have quite a variety of fiction, art, and informative articles for its readers. The earth staff welcomes contribu- tions from anyone, whether it bea ke poem, story, photograph, or an ‘idea. Drop it off at VLH, Room 13, or mail it to earth magazine, 666 Johnson, ACC, Alpena, MI, 49707. Save gas--cancel class Friday classes: were dropped alto- gether at U. of South Carolina branch at Lancaster. The move is an attempt by the commuter campus to save students money on gasoline. Sight of dormitories and classrooms at the Song of the Morning Ranch, located in the Pigeon River area. Campers — get back to the “naturals” by attending yoga, meditation, or exercise classes. Lovers ride Shari Ratz , Staff Reporter “Carousel” is the touching story. of a young couple who struggle to make a living in a small village. They find that it takes a separation ti combination of adventure, humor, warmth, sadness, and joy. Feat- ured songs include” If | Loved You” “You'll Never Walk Alone”, “June Is Bustin’ Out All: Over‘’and ot- hers. The cast of thirty-seven includes Vicki Somers as Julie Jordan, Pat Jacques as Billy Bigelow, Carol Witherbee as Carrie Pipperidge, Char Washburn as Nettie Fowler, Marty Druckman as Enoch Snow, Pat Stretchko as Mrs. Mullin, and Larry Photo by Rex Eecleston a “Carousel” Helms as Jigger Craigin, Piano ac- companiment is provided by Loret- ta Byer. A limited number of free tickets: d Feb. 13 are available at VLH to ACC students. To attend any other performance, students must call the Civic Theatre at 354-3624 for reser- vations (these are not free of charge) All performances begin at 8:00p.m. at the Civic Theatre on River St. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ‘’Carousel’’ will be perform- ed under the direction of Barb El- liot on Thursday, Feb. 14-Saturday Feb, 16 and Wednesday; Feb. 20 Saturday, Feb. 23. Locate sources for financial aid funds A new, non-profit service for students was announced recently. Designed to fund all of the scholar- ships, loans, grants, and workstudy opportunities for students at the high school, undergraduate, and gra: duate levels, the new service guar- antees that-each applicant will re- ceive at least $100 in aid. According to Steve Danz, Dir- ector of the Scholarship Bank, the average student applicant receives thirty two “‘leads’’ on scholarship information, with a combined val- ued of $17,000, and that figure does not even include *»ose aid sources that are renewable for future years of study. Students are given scholar- ship information on those sources for which they are jally elig- out. Requested information con- cerns age, sex, marital status, year in school, schools attending, major, ible. The student then decides which sources to actually apply for. An analysis of the more than 15,000 individual éntries in the da- ta bank indicates that about 30% are based on need, about 30% on merit and the-remainder on a com- bination or other factors. The Scho- larship Bank is the .only source for all aid sources, including graduate grants. The key of the data bank is the questionnaire that each student fills goals, jobs held, relig- ion, parents union, employment and military information, and a variety of other factors. Cost of the - service is only $25. Interested students should send a self-addressed, stamped envelope é (and save themselves approximately 100 hours of research) to The ~ Scholarship Bank, 10100 Santa Mo- nica Blvd., 750 Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, 90067, or call the toll-free number 800-327-9191, ext. 397.