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EIG lIT TIlE MICIJIGiN I)AI~Y WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1961
Forgotten Wall'Keeps Hold
IIn Long-Relocated Actors
YEARS OF JUGGLING:
I .S., Russian Firepower Set To Go Off over Berlin
By HARRIS L1ECHTI
Across a bridge, at the far end
of a dimly-lit corridor in the
"Temporary" Classroom Building
is a forgotten wall.
And tere, lining te wal from
floor to ceiling, stretching half the
width and length of the building,
are some thirty years of Ann Ar-
bor theatre history.
Almost 150 posters, neglected and
nearly forgotten, announce Speech
Department and Drama Season
productions in Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre, dating back to the early
1930's. Prof. William P. Halstead
of the speech department placed
them there when theatre classes
first moved into TOB in 1947.
During the decade which fol..
lowed, every ~theatre student on
campus became intimately f amiliar
with that wall. "It was always
there," recalls Singer Buchanan,
a teaching fellow in Spanish who
was a stud'ent here during the
TCB days.
.I remember how we use t
wander up and down the hall be-
tween classes and during rehear-
sal breaks, reading those old post-
ers til we knew them by heart. 1t
gave us a sense of identification
and tradition that drew us all
closer together. That wall was as
much a part of our lives as the
Diag, midsemesters, or the Green
Room at 'Lydia.'"'
The wall begins with a 1932 pro-
duction of "The Adding Machine"
by Elmer Rice (who later, as a vis-
iting lecturer, directed a Speech
Department production of anoth-
er of his plays, "Dream Girl").
The posters bear the names of
dramatists from Aristophanes to
Tennessee Williams, and the names
of stars: Madge Evans, Lillian
Gish, Katherine Cornell, Burgess
Meredith, Jose Ferrer, and many
others.
Windt Directed
Many of these productions were
directed by the late, beloved Val-
entine Windt of the Speech De-
partment, whose name now ap-
pears on a memorial plaque in the
lobby of Lydia Mendelssohn The-
atre.
"TCB is an odd building, really,"
says Dr. Halstead. "It was origin-
ally ani Army warehouse; and
when we moved into it, the parti-
tions between the rooms were
nothing hut cardboard. I can re-
member rehearsals during which
props and actors went right
through the walls, until we finally
got plywood partitions."
'They were happy years," adds
Dr. Hugh Z. Norton, director of
the Seech Department's forth-
comin production of "School for
Hubands.
Educator Says
Team teaching has made the
children in Madison Heights, a
suburb of Detroit, glad when the
school doors open in the morn-
ing, and gloomy when it's time
to go home. .
Herbert Humbert, superintend-
ent of Lamphere Public Schools
in Madison Heights, told the Uni-
versity's 32nd annual Summer
Education Conference yesterday
how this had been accomplished.
"The first teaching teams went
into operation in the Lamphere
School District during the fall of
1960, housed in what are prob-
ably the first elemientary school
units specifically designed to make
team teaching work," he said.
Seek Individual Program
He said the goal of team teach-
ing is to design individual work
programs for all children.
"This was impossible when you
put one little red school house
next to another little red school
house with teachers working in
"We wanted flexibility built into
our school system," Humbert said.
"We wanted equipment accessible
to the teacher.Ae ns
"Team members are selected be-
cause of specific abilities in lan-
guages, social studies, science, fine
arts and competance in group
management. We try to have both
men and women on each team as
well as beginning, experienced and
career teachers. There is no one
supervisor.
Humbert explained that each
team is housed in a flexible clus-
ter of four classroom spaces group-
ed around a central workroom
and teaching area, especially de-
signed to these new educational
Groups of as many as 120 child-
ren may be gathered together for
lectures, films or demonstrations,
he added.
Associated Press Newsfeatures Writer
erlin is a timebomb wit a
long, long fuse.
Just when it appears about to
explode into the showdown East-
West war, the Communists snuff
iout only to rekindle it when it
suits their purposes.
Russia's threat to sign a peace
treaty with East Germany has this
hot spot* sputtering again.
Push the Button
If it decided to push the button,
Russia can launch 20 Soviet divi-
sions in East Germany into battle.
East Germany itself has six divi-
sions of undetermined quality
while Poland and Czechoslovakia
have 28 more.
While ou'tmanne d, the Allied
forces probably can match fire-
power, the five United States divi-
sions in West Germany being
equipped with all the latest tacti-
cal nuclear weapons.
In addition are highly regarded
divisions of West Germany (7),
France (3) and Great Britain (3)
as well as forces from the Benelux
nations.
SAllies Count 11,000
In West Berlin itself the Allied
garrison numbers 11,000 men,
3,000 of them GIs.
Should East Germany reimpose
a blockade on the air and land
corridors into West Berlin (see
map), the Allies would probably
either reinstate the airlift they
used in 1948 to supply the city or
make a test of arms at the road-
blocks.
Tanks would push through not
firing unless fired on. If that
should happen, they could be the
first shots of World War III.
Volatile Outpost
Both sides are aware of the vol-
atile nature of Berlin. It is a spot
vital to the prestige and military
position of both the Communist
and free worlds. Unlike such areas
as Laos there is little room for
bargaining.
Every diplomatic word ex-
changed has significance.
Here's a rundown of the key
East-West interchanges in recent
years:
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