The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 34, Ed. 1, Friday, January 25, 1985 Page: 1 of 12
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forensic tourney
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Features:
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Bruce Hurley professor of music directs student Christmas cam- choruswas matte up of students who participated in a two week cam-
paign chorus at the Mission Outreach devotional Jan. 17. The paign to Cordoba Argentina Jan 2-13.
Stenholm
Congressman to cover current issues
Congressman Charles Stenholm (D-
Texaj) will conduct a Town Hall
meeting Saturday from M p.m. In
fiWullen Auditorium said Dr. William
Teague ACU president
Stenholm specifically requested
ACU as host for the first of the
quarterly meetings in which local
citizens and students will be given a
chance to question the 17th District
representative said Teague. During
the past two years both Hardin Sim-
mons University and McMuny Col-
lege have hosted the event.
Teague said ACU was "pleased to
provide this type of forum for the com
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Swordfights galore soldiers and fair
maidens chasing each other from bat-
tlefields to boudoirs and back again
and chicanery of the most devious sort:
these are the chief ingredients of ACU
Dinner Theatre's "The Three
Musketeers" production which open-
ed Thursday night in Scwell Theatre
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ping action arc "the idealism of youth
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Hester instructor of communication.
Opening production of ACU's 1985
dinner theatre season the drama was
adapted by playwright Peter Raby
from the classic novel of 17th-century
France by Alexander Dumas.
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Friday and Saturday again the
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munity" and commended Stenholm
or Ids desire to communicate with the
voters in this method.
Robert Pitman president of tho
Students' Association invited area col-
lege and high scool students to attend
and said the event would provide a
"significant learning opjMJrtunty."
"Many government Issues at the na-
tional level have a long-term impact on
college students such as economic and
foreign policy decisions" he said.
One such economic issue concerning
higher education will be the Reagan
Administration's changes in tax laws
as they relate to tax deductible con
Feb. 7-9. Dinner tickets arc $17 and
dessert tickets are $7. Hester said a few
seats are lefl for the next two
weekends although this Friday and
Saturday arc booked up.
The theatre's box office hours dre 10
a.m.-noon and 2-5 p.m. Monday
through Friday. Those with dinner
tickets should arrive at the theatre by
6:45 p.m. the night of their perfor-
mance and those with dessert tickets
should arrive by 8 p.m.
In the main roles of a new musketeer
and his three new friends In the
musketeer regiment the play features
Greg Holt as the young but rapidly
maturing D'Artagnan; Kevin Weems
as the hard-fighting hard-drinking
Athosj Barry Smoot as the deceptively
foppish Porthosj and Steven Pounders
as the would-be seminarian Aramis.
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tributions said Teague.
"The number of donors to private
education is growing as more people
are supporting the idea of a dual
system" of public and private educa-
tion Teague said.
Dozens of SA volunteers will serve
as ushers and Dr. Robert Hunter vice
president of the university will
moderate the event. ' Members of
Stenholm's staff will be helping
answer questions in a forum-type
situation with a roving microphone
said Pitman.
"I hope students even if they arc
relatively unaware of the issues will
are veterans of the ACU stage but the
large cast also includes several new
performers said Hester.
"It's the most challenging show I've
worked on" Hester said because it's
"so epic in nature." With more than
40 scenes the play is very "episodic"
and "filmic" in style Hester said. The
scene changes move the action all over
France to England and back again
from various taverns and cathedrals to
palaces and battlefields. But the
Utilization of a front projection system
helps the audience stay "clued in" on
where the scenes are taking place the
director said.
Another evidence of the drama's
epic scope is that more than 66 parts
are written into the script. What makes
ACU's production unique is that these
66 roles are played by approximately
12 women and 19 men. This means
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take advantage of this opportunity and
not feel intimidated by it" Pitman
said. "It will just be a laid-back hands-
on discussion period."
A native of Jones County Stenholm
has represented the 35 counties of the
17th District since 1978. His member-
ship in the "Boll Weevils" a coalition
of conservative southern Democrat
Congressmen has won him national
attention. Once a farmer and also an
agriculture teacher in the public
school system he has become well-
known in the Congress for his
knowledge on issues facing American
farmers.
for all
extensive doubling' tripling and even
quadrupling of parts is done by some
of the actors One actor portrays at
least five different characters Hester
said.
Eleven major swordfights give the
show lots of action the director said
but several kissing scenes also make it
a romantic show appropos to the
Romantic period from which it came.
Between and during some scenes ap-
propriate "period" music is played
and the show's costumes are also very
accurate to the "period" of the drama
Hester said. At Sunday night's rehear-
sal a lot of glitter lace and velvet
brocade was visible on both male and
female actors with the women also
wearing the large hoop skirts of King
Louis' France. Hester said the com-
pleted costumes would be "breath-
taking" and "real eye-poppers."
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Campaign founds
Cordoba church
By ALWHA GOLDMAN
Friday Copy Editor
"Wc entered a city where there were
no Christians and we left a city with a
church" said Dodc Roberts one of 28
students who participated in a two-
week campaign to Cordoba Argen-"
tins Jan. 2-13.
Roberts was speaking to more than
100 students who gathered for the
Mission Outreach devotional Jan. 17.
He and four other campaigners shared
several personal experiences from the
campaigns.
Roberts junior accounting major"
from Midlothian also said "I ha
never been in a situatioi
where.. .everyone we passed on tl
street we realized was lost. They have
no Idea of the joy or happiness we have
in Christ."
"Being there where there wasn't a
church was an eye-opener; it made me
think about God and my relationship
with Him" said Jackie Tubbs senior
elementary education major from
Magnolia. "It was exciting but scary to
come to the realization that something
that I believed in was something that I
took for granted. Christianity can't be
a. hand-me-down faith; it's .got to be
real.'' ..
Brad Small graduate Bible major
from Big Spring said "A cam-
paign...will change your life. You will
never be the same when you come
back."
One realization for Small was the
role of women in personal evangelism.
"Biblically men are basically the ones
in charge of the worship service but I
learned that women can be just as in-
volved in personal ministry as any
man." He explained his comment with
a' story about how five of the women
on the campaign had helped teach a
young man and his sister the gospel
and then saw the young man be baptiz-
ed into Christ.
The campaigners also learned about
another culture and people. Roberts
said he found the Argentine people to
be inquisitive. "Everywhere we went
people would stop us and ask 'Where
ate you from? What are you doing
here?'...The questions gave us an op-
portunity to tell them about the con-
ferences we were having every night.
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Musketeers" is a senior secondary education major from Odessa.
The fallen Porthos is Barry Smoot senior music malor from
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It also meant that they were searching
for something." 4
The campaign was a result of the
combined efforts of Southern Hills
Church of Christ university class
University Church of Christ elders
and mission committee and Global
Campaigns of Minter Lane Church of
Christ.
Last spring Mark Edge graduate
human communication major and
others of the university class approach-
ed Les Bennett coordinator of Global
Campaigns with their hopes of going
on a campaign to a foreign country
said Edge.
"We wanted to do something that
would unite the college group and
something everyone could participate
in and we thought what better effort
than taking the gospel to a foreign
country?" said Edge.
The members of the class and a few
other students from other churches
formed a chorus under Bruce Hurley
professor of music. The chorus per-
formed on the streets and in plazas and
parks in Cordoba. It also distributed
literature to the crowds and invited
them to nightly lectures by Dr. Dan
Coker said Bennett.
Besides the chorus .missionaries
frc-m Bolivia Paraguay and Uruguay
Buenos Aires and Rosario Argentina;
nationals from Chile Uruguay
Buenos Aires and Rosario combined
together to help the missionaries in
Cordoba with the campaign said
Bennett.
An average of 225 people attended
the lectures nightly and 14 were bap
tized said Bennett.
Recruiting and fund-raising began in
September for the campaign. The
Southern Hills university class began
to organize as well. Some members
committed themselves to the task of
going; those who could not go became
Prayer Warriors to pray for those who
were going and also pledged contribu-
tions said Edge. Several thousand
dollars were raised through the Prayer
Warriors he said.
The University Church of Christ
recently sent Jerry and Ann Hill
formerly missionaries in Guatemala to
Cordoba to begin a work. They re-
quested a campaign efibrt at Christmas
break through Global Campaigns.
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