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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 26.1967
Students to 'play' church
The first of a five-part series of artistic church services will start Wednesday night at the Trinity Methodist Church.
KU drama students are scheduled to perform a scene from Edward Albee's "American Dream" and one from Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana" during this first "experimental worship service."
Leslie Marshall will portray Grandma and Don Johnson, Gardenena, Calif., graduate student, will play the young man in the scene from "American Dream."
'Iguana' among films
"Night of the Iguana" will feature Bob Thullenscheinder, as Shannon, and Cheryl Burnett, as Hanna.
Wayne Shahan, Owasso, Okla. graduate student in drama, will direct the scenes.
Wednesday's service, entitled "In the Midst of Life We Are in Death," will begin at 7:30 p.m.
"Through these services we are trying to show how various art forms can be used in worship to communicate the basic aspects of Christianity", said the Rev. Tom Emswiler Jr., pastor of Trinity Methodist Church.
Church can communicate "We want to show people today the church can communicate creatively in modern art forms."
The remaining services in the series are scheduled for the next four Wednesdays.
The service Oct. 4, "Rugged Christianity," will feature modern painting.
A film strip, "Modern Art and the Gospel," accompanied by a modern jazz score, will be shown.
The strip contains paintings by artists as Pollock, Klee, Levine and Picasso.
A modern dance presented by Tau Sigma honorary dance fraternity headlines the Oct. 11 service, "Leaping for Joy." Their dance will be an interpretation of poems by E. E. Cummings and Gerald Manley Hopkins.
Special folk music also will be provided.
"Lines of Your Life," a presentation through the art of film, is scheduled for Oct. 18. The feature is a short experimental film, "Boundary Lines."
The last service in the series will be Oct. 25. It will be an experimental communion service entitled "This Sustaining Bread."
To use new forms
"We will use a new liturgy at
this service, which, I'm sure, will be very meaningful to the congregation," Emswiller said.
The church hopes to have another similar series later, depending on the reaction of students and others in the congregation, Emswiler said.
"Even if we don't have another such series, we may integrate some of these various art forms into our regular services periodically," he said.
"However, we plan to retain the 'basic rhythm' to our worship services. By this I mean praise, prayer, Scripture reading and other things fundamental to the Christian faith."
People needing transportation should call VI 2-3548 or VI 2-2724 by Tuesday of each week, Emswiler said.
ASC forms corps group
In an effort to make KU's Peace Corps committee as nationally prominent as it was three years ago, the All Student Council (ASC) will appoint and temporarily sponsor a new committee this fall.
Kyle Craig, student body president, and Al Martin, last year's student body president, think the Peace Corps is something KU students should be better informed about. Therefore, they recommended funds to start the committee.
"It will start out temporarily as an ASC committee to see if it should become an independent organization or remain an ASC committee," Craig said.
The committee will be appointed in mid-October.
Clark Coan, dean of foreign students and faculty adviser of the committee when it started three years ago, said, "The Peace Corps has had very good luck here the last two years. Quite a few students took the placement exams."
The committee will provide written material, films and speakers for groups and individuals. It will also sponsor Peace Corps Week Dec. 4-9.
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