November 2000

UW-Green Bay Kwanzaa celebration set for Saturday

GREEN BAY - Music, dance, stories, food and activities for children are on the schedule for Kwanzaa from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, in the Phoenix Rooms of the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The event is free and open to the public.

Kwanzaa is a family-oriented celebration based on the African tradition of the harvest festival, says Sheila Carter, of the Office of Student Life, who is coordinating the event. Kwanzaa is typically celebrated the last week of December; the program at UW-Green Bay is scheduled early because the weeklong observance falls during the University's holiday break.

Featured performers include the Green Bay African-American Community Choir, coordinated by Yarvelle Draper-King, and a hand drumming ensemble led by Steve Negasi Willis, Milwaukee. Willis, who was lead drummer for Ko-Thi Dance Company for 16 years, teaches African drumming in Green Bay, and the ensemble consists of area students.

Juliet Cole is the storyteller. Cole is assistant to the director of UW-Green Bay's Institute for Learning Partnership and is active in diversity issues on campus and in the Green Bay community. She was recognized for her contributions by the University of Wisconsin System in October.

Children ages 8 to 12 can learn African dance in a pre-Kwanzaa workshop from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2, in the UW-Green Bay dance studio located in Theatre Hall Room 132. The teacher is UW-Green Bay freshman Candace Watson, Milwaukee, who trained with Ko-Thi Dance Company for seven years and danced with the group for two. She also has studied ballet and jazz dance.

The dance workshop is free and open to all, but students need to pre-register by calling (920) 465-2200, extension 40. Workshop participants will be invited to dance at the Kwanzaa celebration in the afternoon.

UW-Green Bay is near to achieving ambitious goals for revitalizing the campus, its academic approach and facilities. Community leaders and students stand firmly behind that progress. And supporters both on campus and off are deserving of thanks.

Those were principle messages shared during an all-University assembly on the UW-Green Bay Learning Experience Initiative that took place Wednesday morning, Nov. 22, on campus.

An audience estimated at nearly 500 turned out for the combination celebration/information session at the Weidner Center.

The brief 35-minute program, hosted by the University's Leadership Team, included video and slide presentations and remarks by guest speakers.

Among those who addressed the assembly was Ginny Riopelle, vice chair of the Chancellor's Council of Trustees. A member of UW-Green Bay's first graduating class, the Class of 1970, she said she was proud of the institution's progress and she observed that others are, too.

"I'd like to share one very important message with you, on behalf of the Council of Trustees," Riopelle said. "That message: We are with you all the way.

"The Trustees are excited about the work you've done with the Learning Experience plan. We were delighted that the Board of Regents and the UW System did more than just accept your report... they embraced it. When we meet with people from the community, or people from across Wisconsin, we are proud to share the news about the excitement here at UW-Green Bay."

Also speaking was student Michelle Cullen, a senior who has followed closely the development of UW-Green Bay's academic and facilities initiatives.

"Don't ever forget that students know value," Cullen told the assembly. "People talk a lot about the cost of going to college, but maybe we don't talk enough about value. I was part of the Compelling Idea committee, and I looked at the CL 21 plans, and I saw great value in both of these initiatives. Don't underestimate the fact that students are looking for return on their investment, and a valuable experience. I think they're going to continue to be very pleased with UW-Green Bay."

In August the UW System Board of Regents endorsed $3.7 million to start and $6 million annually to support the UW-Green Bay Learning Experience Initiative. Students have also pledged additional tuition support for the plan.

UW-Green Bay says it would use the new resources to hire additional faculty, with a goal of bringing the student-faculty ratio from the highest in the System to a more learning-friendly 17:1. The University is also targeting resources toward smaller classes and "high-impact first contact" for new students, and more personalized learning, internships and citizenship experience, and competency-based general education.

On the facilities side, students have pledged additional segregated fees to support additions to the University Union and Phoenix Sports Center. The new multipurpose space will respond to campus growth, offer new recreation and student life opportunities, bring UW-Green Bay current with peer institutions, and add more classroom space.

The proposed UW System budget which includes funding for elements of the Green Bay Initiative is awaiting action by Gov. Tommy Thompson and the state Legislature.

Emceed by Howard Cohen, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, the rare all-campus gathering - the first of its kind since 1993 when UW-Green Bay celebrated its silver anniversary - was described as an event "celebrating our hopes for the next 25 years."

Said Cohen: "We are celebrating now because we do not want the importance of all we have achieved together so far to be lost in the hard work that still lies before us, both on campus and in the political process."

Cohen said a turning point in UW-Green Bay's efforts to reclaim its history and solidify its position as an institution with a distinctive academic approach came two years ago.

That is when the Board of Regents visited the campus for its October meeting. Regents left impressed by the energy of faculty, staff and students. They also left with a better understanding of the Green Bay Idea and the University's mission of providing interdisciplinary, problem-focused education

Cohen introduced for the assembly a showing of an eight-minute video, "The Green Bay Idea," which was shown to the Regents to illustrate the essence of a UW-Green Bay education.

A more recent presentation, a PowerPoint show by Chancellor Mark Perkins, closed the assembly program. It was the same slide show, it was noted, that was enthusiastically received at last month's dinner of nearly 100 community leaders who serve on our various University advisory boards.

The presentation emphasized that "this is our moment," with UW-Green Bay poised to capitalize on its remarkable recent success. Written copies of the presentation, which are still available from Special Assistant to the Chancellor Jeanne Stangel, were available as handouts after the program.

In closing the program, Perkins credited involvement of the campus community for UW-Green Bay's success.

"About 18 months ago, as a Leadership Team, we asked you to grab hold of an opportunity to help plan our future," Perkins said, "And you did!"

"We asked you to create an artist's rendition... And you did! We asked you to get started on the blueprint... And you did! We asked you to get involved with your legislators, and in your community... And you did! Well, today, we are asking you... simply... to accept our thanks.... And to celebrate!"

The assembly concluded with a reception in the Weidner Center's Grand Foyer.

GREEN BAY - For UW-Green Bay students, having a crown-jewel performing arts center located on their own campus is an amenity unmatched by most colleges and universities nationwide. And to have an opportunity to perform in such a venue, alongside touring professionals, is a privilege experienced by a select few.

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay senior Sara Salentine is one of those select few. The talented musician has been the lead pianist for UW-Green Bay musicals Godspell, Pirates of Penzance and Pippin. And perhaps even more prestigious is the opportunity she has had to play for the hit Broadway musicals Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Titanic and Fosse.

Playing at the Weidner has been a wonderful experience," says the collected and focused young woman. "I love the spontaneity of it all."

UW-Green Bay Professor Emeritus Lovell Ives, who is in charge of arranging for local talent and bridging pit-orchestra gaps when touring productions play the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, says it takes a special performer to fill the role. Sara fits the bill.

"These are New York-quality performances and I search all over the state for the quality player that can meet those very high expectations," Ives says. "It is wonderful to have a person locally who has the ability of Sara to read the keyboard charts.

"Often times she doesn't have the opportunity to practice with the ensemble before she is expected to fill in," he continued. "She may have the opportunity to watch a performance and then has to sit in and play in the next show. That is very difficult. Her site reading is incredible. She plays pops as well as legit. She has that feel, that tremendous rhythm."

The hard part, says Salentine, is knowing for months that she is going to get the opportunity to play, but being unable to prepare since she only receives the music a couple of weeks in advance.

"That's crunch time," she says. "I get really nervous."

Salentine started studying piano at the age of 7. She developed a love for jazz as a Luxemburg-Casco High School junior when she began studying with UW-Green Bay instructors Chris and John Salerno.

She performs with Bay City Swing, probably the most well known jazz band in the area, and is always "looking for more gigs." The band performs at weddings, special receptions and in the summertime, at a popular locale — the rooftop of Gallagher's restaurant.

She also enjoys composition, and has arranged some pieces for the UW-Green Bay Jazz Band, under the direction of Associate Professor John Salerno.

She'll have at least two more collegiate opportunities to showcase her talent, at the Jazz Fest XXXI at 7:30 p.m. January 20 in the Weidner Center, and at a jazz concert in May. Then it's off to graduate school with keyboard, talent and world-class confidence — the kind you gain from playing for 2,000 paying customers who are expecting a Broadway-caliber show — in tow.

"To have a Weidner Center on a campus is an opportunity unmatched in many places, certainly in the Midwest," said Ives. "To have the opportunity to play these shows is a great opportunity, and she's the only student I know of that has been able to do it."

GREEN BAY - The Ashwaubenon High School Marching Band joins with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band in a Monday, Dec. 4 concert to benefit both institutions. The event at 7:30 p.m. in the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive, will help raise funds for the Ashwaubenon band's trip to the Rose Bowl and will benefit UW-Green Bay music scholarships.

The 291-member Ashwaubenon band will march from the back of Cofrin Family Hall to the stage of the Weidner Center to perform selections they've prepared for the Rose Bowl parade. "On Wisconsin," "Everything's Coming Up Roses," "California, Here I Come," some Beach Boys tunes, and "standard half-time songs" such as the theme from Rocky are on the program, says director Greg Sauve. Emily Schneider will be the featured twirler and the 20-member flag line will perform in the main aisle. For their finale, the band will perform John Philip Sousa's "Semper Fidelis," along with the UW-Green Bay Wind Ensemble which will be heard from the balcony. All three Ashwaubenon band directors are UW-Green Bay graduates. They are Sauve, '71; Scott Konop, '90; and Marc Jimos, '91.

Director of Bands Kevin Collins will direct the UW-Green Bay Wind Ensemble in two works by contemporary American composers. Wisconsin native Michael Torke is represented by "Javelin," which recently was performed by the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. Also on the program is "Morning Star," by David Maslanka, whose Mass was presented at UW-Green Bay in fall 1998 by a special wind ensemble, a 70-voice chorus, guest soloists and the Green Bay Boy and Girl Choirs.

Tenor John Plier, who joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in September, will be featured in "Che Gelida Mannina," from La Boheme. Plier studied the role with a coach from La Scala Opera House. An Oshkosh native, Plier earned his bachelor's degree in music at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music. His master's and Ph.D. degrees are from Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. He has more than ten years of professional experience in the U.S. and Europe singing lead roles with opera companies and major solos in the oratorio repertoire.

The Symphonic Band, directed by Assistant Director of Bands Scott Wright, will feature two classic transcriptions, a rarely-heard Sousa march, and a song of the season. Their program includes Mozart's Impresario overture and excerpts from Wagner's Die Meistersinger. The seasonal selection is a new arrangement of "The Christmas Song." They'll close with a 1915 Sousa march, "The Pathfinder of Panama," dedicated to the Panama Canal which revolutionized commercial shipping and pleasure travel when it opened early in the 20th century.

Tickets are $6 for adults, $3 for students. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - Theater-goers will be transported to a warmer season when Bleacher Bums opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 7 - 9 in Studio Two of the Weidner Center at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive. Admission to the UW-Green Bay Student Studio Production is free.

Senior Christopher Hibbard directs the baseball comedy set in the bleachers of Chicago's Wrigley Field. Originally written in 1977 as a group project by the Organic Theater in Chicago, this version has been updated to the 1998 Cubs season. The characters are bleacher regulars whose hopes for a great season are eternal.

"The game drives the play," says Hibbard, adding that although the play is about baseball, "it's about sports fans in general."

Hibbard is a theater major who has performed in ten UW-Green Bay productions. He was an intern in summer 2000 at the Barn Theatre, in Augusta, Mich., and the previous summer was an intern with Peninsula Players, Fish Creek. Hibbard plans to graduate in May 2001.

Set and sound designer is Neil Roehrborn. He did the lighting design for the University's productions of The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Two Rooms and was sound designer for Lysistrata.

Zachariah E. Viviano is the lighting designer. Viviano has had technical responsibilities in several UW-Green Bay productions and was assistant lighting designer for Pippin.

The number for information is (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - African and Afro-Cuban drums, marimbas, gongs and wash tubs are among instruments from all over the world to be featured when the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Contemporary Percussion Quartet and the Hand Drumming Ensemble perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, in University Theatre on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Music faculty member Prof. Cheryl Grosso directs both groups.

Two selections on the Contemporary Percussion Quartet program are drumming pieces. Peter Terry's "Dance Music Two for Percussion Quartet" and Christopher Rouse's "Ku-Ka-Ilimoku," named for the Hawaiian war god, each use 16 tom toms and multiple bass drums. "Fugue for Percussion," is "an exact rhythmic interpretation of the intervals used in Bach's Fugue in C from his Preludes and Fugues for Clavier," says Grosso. But this piece by Lou Harrison uses non-Bach-like instruments such as flex-a-tone, gongs, meditation bells and brake drums.

Grosso, along with Quartet members Roxanne Elsner and Andrew Martin will perform three movements of "5 Aspekte fŸr 3 Schlagzeuger," by Bertold Hummel. A duet with vibraphone and marimba, Daniel Levitan's "The Redwood Box," features students Tim Patterson and Ellen Simon.

The Hand Drumming Ensemble will perform a traditional piece from the Ewe people of Ghana, Africa, and a traditional Afro-Cuban selection. Two compositions by Grosso, "Rhythm Chant SM/FB," and "Rhythm Chant 16." are on the program. Ensemble members Gerrit Roessler, vibraphone, and Becky Fleming, soprano saxophone, are featured on the latter.

The group closes its program with "Fury," composed by alumnus Paul Massey, who returned this semester to perform with the Ensemble.

Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for students. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - The 28th annual student art exhibit opens at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 28 in the Lawton Gallery. Awards will be announced at 5 p.m.

Work was selected for the display from student submissions by jurors J. Shimon and J. Lindemann, Manitowoc-based photographers.

The exhibit continues through Saturday, Dec. 16. The Lawton Gallery is located in Theater Hall directly east of the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

GREEN BAY - The UW-Green Bay Vocal Jazz Ensemble and a student Jazz Combo will share a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 21 in University Theater, located in Theater Hall on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive. Admission is free.

Chris Salerno will direct the 11-member Vocal Jazz Ensemble in "Just Kidding," "Cherry," "Soon and Very Soon," and "A Child is Born," accompanied by Tim Sheldon on bass and Andrew Martin on drums. On "Just Kidding," the rhythm section will be joined by Sara Salentine on synthesizer and Tim Patterson on percussion. Vocal soloists include alto Sarah Perry on "Cherry," soprano Sara deFelice on "Soon and Very Soon," and alto Betsy Fannin on "A Child is Born."

Perry, sopranos Katie Scovell and Kelly Shoemaker, and bass Luke Thomas will perform solo numbers. DeFelice and tenor Caskey Hunsader round out the program with a duet.

The program for the six-member Jazz Combo includes an original composition, "Hey, Perfect," by pianist and combo member Gerritt Roessler. Saxophonist Becky Fleming arranged two of the numbers, "If I'd Only," and "Star Eyes." The combo completes its program with Benny Golson's "Hassan's Dream."

Other members of the combo are Andy Thiele on tenor sax, Luke Thomas and Aaron Zepplin on guitar/bass, and Solomon Ayres on drums. Thomas Pfotenhauer directs.

GREEN BAY -Juliet Cole, assistant to the director of the Institute for Learning Partnership, was recently recognized by the University of Wisconsin System for her contributions to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus, the Green Bay community, and in particular, to women of color.

Cole was nominated for the recognition by UW-Green Bay Chancellor Mark Perkins, and recognized by the UW System Women's Studies Consortium and Office of Multicultural Affairs at the statewide Women's Studies Conference, Oct. 27-28. Her commitment to diversity issues and initiatives is reflected in a list of activities that include the following:

• On campus she serves on the Retention and Graduation Committee, a subcommittee for UW-Green Bay's Campus Diversity Plan 2008, and on the Chancellor's Advisory Council on Diversity. She is called upon regularly as a University resource to serve the community as a guest speaker on diversity issues and cross-cultural perspectives. She also works with UW-Green Bay faculty members to supervise UW-Green Bay student mentors at Green Bay East High School.

• Off campus she is a member of the steering committee for the Green Bay Area Public School System's Diversity Committee; is a member of the Minority Student Achievement Committee, charged with helping to bridge the achievement gap; and is a member of the Subcommittee on Curriculum and Staff Development, charged with transforming the Green Bay schools' curriculum to accommodate the increasing number of culturally diverse learners.

• Citywide she is a member of "The Coalition to Promote Respect," an organization promoting harmony and mutual respect among all groups, and she was a delegate for the All-American City competition.

• Cole has participated as keynote speaker, storyteller and/or choreographer for many on- and off-campus diversity initiatives including Black History Month and Kwanzaa celebrations.

UW-Green Bay faculty, friends and students from the UW-Green Bay Women's Studies Program, joined Cole and award-winning women from other UW System campuses at a celebration brunch, Oct. 28, at the Pyle Center on the UW-Madison campus.

GREEN BAY-The new University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chamber music series brings Trio del Sol, of Tempe, Ariz., to Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17. The Weidner Center is on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Trio members Katie McLin, violin, Robert Spring, clarinet, and Andrew Campbell, piano, are based at Arizona State University. The group is known for virtuoso performances and innovative programming.

Darius Milhaud's Suite, op 157b for violin, clarinet and piano, opens the program, followed by Invocation for violin and piano, by Amy Beach. They'll perform a Jascha Heifetz arrangement of Gershwin's "Prelude #1," followed by Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat. The second half of the program includes Contrasts for piano, violin and clarinet by Bela Bartok and two compositions, The Round of the Goblins and Csardas, both arranged by Spring.

McLin teaches at Arizona State University School of Music and is on the faculty at the Brevard Music Center. She has performance degrees from Indiana University, Oberlin College Conservatory, and the University of Michigan where she earned a doctorate. McLin made her debut at 15 with the Oregon Symphony and has since appeared as a soloist with many ensembles. She performs throughout the U.S. as part of the McLin/Campbell Duo and across the Southwest with the Papago Chamber Ensemble. She has recorded numerous chamber works. McLin is assistant concertmaster of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Columbus, Ohio.

Spring's performances and recordings have been described with superlatives by reviewers in the U.S. and abroad. He earned three degrees at the University of Michigan and has performed as a recitalist or soloist with symphony orchestras and wind bands in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America. He is ending a term as president of the International Clarinet Association and has performed at eight of its international conventions. Spring has published articles on contemporary clarinet techniques and teaches on the faculties of several summer music festivals. He is principal clarinet of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Columbus, Ohio.

Campbell is director of the Collaborative Piano Program at the Brevard Music Center and principal pianist for the San Diego Opera. He has degrees from Oberlin College Conservatory, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan. Performance opportunities as a soloist and collaborator have taken him across the U.S. and to Hong Kong, Taipei and Japan. In one year, he was pianist for both the International Double Reed Society Conference and the National Flute Association Convention. Campbell is half of the McLin/Campbell duo and performs with the Papago Chamber Ensemble.

The new chamber music sponsored by UW-Green Bay continues with the Fine Arts String Quartet, in residence at UW-Milwaukee, on February 10, 2001, and by the Wisconsin Brass Quintet from UW-Madison, on April 7, 2001. It began with a performance by Duo Pegasus on October 14.

Tickets for Trio del Sol are $6 for adults and $3 for students. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - A composer/musician and member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is the author and composer of two new books for learning and performing hand drumming. Cheryl Grosso is a professor of Communication and the Arts and Music who began teaching fulltime at UW-Green Bay in 1985.

Hand Drumming Essentials: The Instruments, Techniques, and Compositions for Ensemble Performance, is aimed at university, high school and middle school percussion instructors. It is a methods book that includes seven of Grosso's original compositions. Hand Drumming Ensembles: Rhythm Chants for Group Performance is a collection of 12 of Grosso's compositions. Both books were published by Alfred Publishing Company, the foremost U.S. publisher of academic and scholarly music.

John Bergamo, internationally renowned as a world percussion performer and composer of modern music, wrote the forward used in both books. Grosso studied with Bergamo while earning her Master of Fine Arts Degree at California Institute of the Arts.

Grosso received her bachelor's degree at UW-Green Bay and completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Iowa. She presently serves as chair of the Communication and the Arts program at UW-Green Bay.

GREEN BAY - Guest artist Christopher Moore will appear in a trumpet recital with University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty member Thomas Pfotenhauer at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, November 19 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive. Admission is free.

Moore, who is a professor of trumpet at the University of Kansas, will be guest soloist with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, Nov. 18 in the Weidner Center. Moore's performance experience includes membership in the Chestnut Brass Company, which won a Grammy award last spring. He is a member of the Kansas Brass Quintet, a frequent performer with the Kansas City Symphony, and is on the touring roster of the Kansas Arts Commission. Pfotenhauer studied with Moore while completing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Kansas.

Linda Klein-Cook and Mary Thornton will perform in two ensemble pieces on the program. Both are members of the trumpet section of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. Klein-Cook is professor of trumpet at St. Norbert College and Thornton, of Oshkosh, is completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in trumpet performance at UW-Madison.

Pfotenhauer joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1997. He performs regularly with the Premiere Brass Quintet and Bay City Swing and in many professional shows at the Weidner Center. Pfotenhauer's teaching responsibilities at UW-Green Bay include directing the Jazz Ensemble II and the student jazz combos. Pfotenhauer earned his bachelor's degree at UW-Green Bay.

The program represents composers from Francesco Manfredini, who lived in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, to Joseph Turrin and Thomas Stevens, who are working today. Compositions by Bellini, Bloch, and Britten round out the program.

GREEN BAY - More than 650 students representing their University of Wisconsin System campuses are expected to attend the Building Unity Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Nov. 10-12.

The goal of the conference is to increase the understanding of multi-cultural issues. Throughout the weekend there will be a variety of events including workshops, caucus sessions, entertainment, and other activities.

"The conference will begin to give students a sense of belonging and motivation to want to continue to fight racism, homophobia and sexism," said Joanelle Jackson, vice president of UW-Green Bay's Student Government Association.

Leroy Moore, an African American poet, writer and activist against racial and disability prejudice, will be the keynote speaker during a banquet beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, in the Phoenix Room of the University Union. Moore's presentation is expected to begin at about 6:45 p.m. The keynote is free and open to the public.

The Building Unity Conference is the ninth annual multi-cultural affairs conference sponsored by United Council, a statewide student organization that represents 140,000 UW System students. Students representing all two dozen UW-System universities and colleges will be attending.

For more information call Angie Kluth at 920-265-2287.

GREEN BAY - Mystery melodrama, theater critics, and our own sense of what's real and what's not get a send-up in The Real Inspector Hound presented by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Theatre program on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10-11 and Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 16-18 in Studio Two of the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Performances on November 10, 11, 16, and 17 are at 7:30 p.m. Two performances are scheduled on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 7 and 9 p.m. The November 17 performance will be signed for the hearing impaired.

The farce by British playwright Tom Stoppard "blends the theatrical with the real," says director and UW-Green Bay Theater chair Laura Riddle. She says the play is unusual on a couple of counts: It's a play within a play and it's a good play with intentionally "bad" acting.

"It's set in a theater that is presenting what we'd call a second-rate play," says Riddle, adding that students are using a 40-year-old book, The Art of Coarse Acting, originally written as a joke, to prepare for their roles. "Stoppard also has fun with the misbehavior of audience members, particularly theater critics, which he once was," she adds.

The UW-Green Bay production of the long one-act play also is unusual in taking a farce, usually staged on a traditional proscenium stage, into the intimate space of the Weidner Center's Studio Two. Popular farces usually play in bigger houses for economy's sake, and to accommodate the "running around" actors often do in such plays, explains Riddle. Smaller settings typically accommodate dramatic pieces.

Riddle says the venue has "created some challenges" for the cast, but audiences will get to see a witty farce up close.

Playwright Stoppard gained critical acclaim before he was 30 with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. His list of published plays dates to the mid-1960s and his film credits include a shared Oscar in 1999 for the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love. Earlier this year he received England's highest honor, The Order of Merit.

Faculty credits for The Real Inspector Hound include Jeffrey Entwistle, scenic design, R. Michael Ingraham, sound design, and Kaoime Malloy, costume design. Student Robert J. Schnettler III did the lighting design.

Tickets for The Real Inspector Hound are $10 in advance and $12 at the door for adults, $8 in advance and $10 at the door for seniors and students, and $5 for UW-Green Bay students. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - Diana Borrero-Lowe is the new coordinator of the American Intercultural Center at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She replaces James Felton, who left to pursue studies toward a Ph.D. degree.

Borrero-Lowe comes to Green Bay from Central College, Pella, Iowa, where she was assistant dean of student life and director of multicultural student life. She previously had been a residence hall director at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Borrero-Lowe has a master's degree in student affairs in higher education from Colorado State, and a bachelor's degree in communication from Boise State University, Idaho.

The American Intercultural Center is a resource for African-American, American Indian, Hispanic, and Southeast Asian students on campus and its staff works to develop awareness and appreciation of different cultures within the University community at-large.

GREEN BAY - University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Jazz Ensembles I and II will give a joint concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, in the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

The 21-member Jazz Ensemble I, directed by John Salerno, will reprise the concert it performed before the Wisconsin State Music Association conference held Oct. 26 and 27 in Madison. Jazz Ensemble II, directed by Thomas Pfotenhauer, will perform two numbers by jazz great, pianist/composer Horace Silver, whose music they've explored this semester.

The program for Ensemble I includes a Cole Porter number, "They Can't Take That Away From Me," arranged by UW-Green Bay founding director of jazz studies Lovell Ives and featuring Pfotenhauer on trumpet. Salerno arranged their rendition of "Hannibal," featuring Andy Thiele on saxophone and Tyler Terrell on trumpet, and John and Chris Salerno were the arrangers for "Waterwings."

The group also will perform Jerome Kern's "Yesterdays," featuring Sara Salentine on piano, Andrew Lautenbach on saxophone, Andrew Martin on drums, and Terrell on trumpet, and Frank Zappa's "The Little House We Used to Live In," featuring Luke Thomas on guitar.

Horace Silver numbers on the program for the 15-member Ensemble II include "Sister Sadie" and "Nica's Dream." They'll also perform the familiar, "There Will Never Be Another You," Frank Mantooth's "Remembrance," and Fred Stride's "Missing You."

Ives organized the UW-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble in 1969 and the following year began the series of Jazz Fests that have brought outstanding jazz soloists to Green Bay every January since for a public performance with Jazz Ensemble I. Jazz Fest XXXI on January 20, 2001, will feature saxophonist Billy Drewes.

Tickets for the November 14 concert are $6 for adults and $3 for students. The numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - A University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty member heads a new study that will help predict areas of high priority for bird conservation in the northern forested regions of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan.

Robert W. Howe, a professor of Natural and Applied Sciences, has received a two-year, $138,760 grant from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes National Program Office for the project. It will develop distribution models of most of the breeding bird species in the western Great Lakes, using more than 15 years of bird census results, vegetation cover information from satellite imagery and climate data.

"We'll use the models to generate distribution maps," explains Howe, "These will be incorporated into an interactive World Wide Web site to help the conservation/species protection efforts of landowners, government agencies, and developers."

Howe is working with researchers from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the Nature Conservancy's Great Lakes Regional Office, UW-Green Bay student field assistants, and a Web coordinator, who will be based at UW-Green Bay.

GREEN BAY - Promoting healthy aging will be the focus of a workshop for health care and human service providers from 8:30 a.m. to noon Friday, Nov. 10, in Sturgeon Bay.

The workshop, "Promoting Healthy Aging for Older Adults in Door County," will examine the communication and advocacy skills needed to ensure effective health care for an ever-increasing elderly population. The workshop will explore quality of life issues, empowerment of elders and their families, the destructive power of paternalism, self-responsibility, assertiveness versus passivity, pain and how to deal with it, and the reality of death and disability.

The event is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Office of Outreach and Extension and the UW-Green Bay Nursing Program, in collaboration with UW-Parkside and UW-Whitewater.

Ruth Feldhaus, gerontological nurse practitioner, will lead the workshop designed for health and human service professionals, including registered nurses, nurse practitioners, LPNs, social workers and case managers.

The $30 program fee includes instructional costs, print materials, refreshments, and a certificate of attendance for .3 CEUs. Seating is limited and early registration is encouraged.

Location for the program is Room 103 of Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Sturgeon Bay.

To register contact the Office of Outreach and Extension, UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 or call 920-465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118. If there is still room available, registration will also be held from 8:30 to 9 a.m. on the day of the event.