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Monday, June 19, 1972
University Summer Kansan
Workers Listen to the Heart of the Organ
Craftsmen build organ at Reuters Organ Co. of Lawrence
REUTERS IS THE ONLY major builder west of the Mississippi. Though their business largely comes from the Midwest, they have shipped organs all over the United States.
"We build everything right here," he said, rather than buying parts from distributors and assembling them.
By CONNIE PARISH
Kancan Staff Welter
Reuter Organ Co. is one of the eight major buildings of pipe organs that actually fabricate from scratch, Frank said.
"We have organs in every state
Mass production will never be a key word for factories producing custom-built pipe organs—including the Reuter Organ Co. of
Organs Are Vital in City
Production methods have changed little since the 13th and 14 centuries, and nearly every machine is based on according to Herman Frank, director of public relations and advertising at Reuter Organ Co. in Stuttgart, where he produced in the same sense that automobiles are, he said, since practically two no organs are constructed to last from 50 to 70 years.
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series on local business and industry.
A small corporation, its stock is mainly held by the family or by people in the corporation. Presently the firm employs 80 persons, including the secretarial engineers, artists and 45 factories.
Rail transportation had been a problem in Trenton, so Reuter Organ Co. moved to Lawrence in 1936. He was joined by Albert Sabol and H. T. Jezey. Albert Sabol and H. T. Jezey.
Frank explained that in pipe organs the tone was produced by pipes rather than electronic calls. Pipes are consists of from one to many sets of pipes sounded by compressed air played by means of keyboards.
THE COMPANY was originally founded in Trenton, Il., in 1917. Three years later the firm will build the Masonic宫 in Lawrence. The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce was eager to promote new businesses in the city, and urged the firm to relocate in Lawrence.
"It's impossible to say how many organs it is, since the number of ranks varies ac-1000 size of the organ." Frank said.
An average size organ consists of 25 ranks of pipes, Frank said, but the size varies greatly. The organ was contracted by a Methodist Church in Ft. Worth, Tex., consisting of 110 ranks of pipes. Another large organ was constructed in Boston composed of 190 ranks.
Each rank costs approximately £1,000, so the cost of an average worker is about $25.00 of an organ is labor, Frank said, since everything is made by
EACH ORGAN is contracted and built to the specifications of the buyer. Churches constitute 80 per cent of their customers, while schools and an occasion individual comprise the rest.
Space, Longer Hours Bring Microfilms Collection Move
Business is conducted directly through their lawrence office and any other representatives throughout the firm's sell on a commission basis.
and quality, one pipe for each key.
Organs are usually contracted from twelve to fourteen months in advance, he explained, though actual construction time for an organ is often much shorter. Factory workers usually work on three or four organs at a time.
They have also sold organs in Canada and Hawaii.
The type of organ that is contracted depends on the skill of the person, said money available, Frank said, customer will send a description of the floor plans, for example, of the building. If the customer it has to work with. On the basis
"We produce approximately 1,000 ranks of pipes a year," Frank said.
The need for more space and longer hours are two of the reasons for the relocation of the microforms collection that is housed in the Library, according to Judy Castle, library assistant.
The biggest section of the microform collection is on education and space for additions averages 36 feet per year.
in the continental United States except Nevada," Frank said.
Increasing numbers of materials are filling the microforms collection. Most newspapers are on film because most publications long and is bulky, according to David Heron, director of libraries.
of this, artists prepare sketches of what the completed product will look like.
NEW HOURS have been established for the microform collection to eliminate a previous restriction with the existing main library hours. Microform section hours are 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday. 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
This sketcher plus the estimated coat is sent to the theater. Once a cotton t-shirt is prepared, the tender blue prints of the organ are prepared and actual construction begins.
The reading room, which requires relative darkness to read microforms, and the shelving room, which requires lighting. The materials, have been moved to the former smoking room, a larger room with a partition between the two areas. More electrical outlets are available in the Pay Simms, student assistant.
The relocation of the materials started May 30. The lack of sufficient amount of transporting materials from them in transferring the materials.
THE FACTORY is divided into four departments, according to Frank. In the console department, the wooden console or key desk is constructed. Another department contains windchests, which contain theanium controlled by the keys for causing individual pipes to sound.
By Yvonne Chatman
Kansan Staff Writer
What is now the smoking room in the basement of Watson will be transformed to accommodate the collection and reading machines.
The pipe shop constructs various sets of metal and wooden tree and reed pipes. These differ in size, shape and color according to their shape, size and material. In the voicing department, tuning takes place. The pipes are often made of all of whom are required to have a degree in organ, Frank said. Several production problems have been explained. All the wood must be klined and carefully checked for stability. The factory also uses own metal for pipes, and imprints in the metal must be avoided.
Tuesday's completion of the moving re-assembling and stocking of shelves which housed a collection of books. Times from 1821 to 1833, ended the hardest part of the move, the building. Schwab, student assistant.
anthropology, the human relations area files encompass any anthropological culture studied. Through the placement of numbers on a world map, it is possible to understand the world and study its culture.
A RANK IS a series or set of pipes all of the same construction
WEIGHING APPROXI-
mately 10 lbs., the volumes are
24% by 1/4 in perimeter, two inches
thick, and number 640.
"Pricing is also a problem from the sales standpoint," Frank added.
Yet to be moved are both the foreign and domestic periodicals, along with the total collection of magazines and literary publications. Castle, Schawb, three persons from circulation, and one or two persons from security and delivery are working to complete the
Of special interest are the collections of underground newspapers, black newspapers, newspapers, and human relations area files.
INFORMATION from 1965 to 1970 may be found in the 68-creel collection of underground newspapers in the collection, the newspapers originate from all over the world. Both large and small towns are in the collection including KU's ground newspaper, the Vortex.
English collections are exhausting enough to contain all the books printed in England from 1475 to 1700, "Time," "Sports Illustrated" and dissertations on order, are also available.
Dating from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, the black newspaper collection of the journals most from the 50 states.
African colonization of Brazil makes Great Britain, Raly and Portugal are just a few of the subjects that are available for study in the field.
Other topics available are African Missionary Societies Personal Narratives, Discovery and Exploration in Africa to 6D discovery and Exploration in Africa to 18D discovery and Exploration in Africa and Islam in Africa.
The contract including the final cost is signed nearly a year before the product is built and delivered. In the meantime, the labor may go up, but the contracted price remains the same.
GEORGE GRIFffen, regional
lists the materials for the
underground newspaper, the
black newspaper and black
newspaper.
Handled by the department of
Tim Johnson
Goal of Film-Making Student Is to Become Feather-Brained
By SHARRON BALLARD
Kansan Staff Writer
Hallucinations? No, just the process that Johnson. graduate
"I hear the music and then see pictures in my head," Tim Johnson said.
Lawrence High Has Work-Study
radio-television-film student, uses to set his creative powers to work.
In addition to the vocational training, the student takes the courses necessary to graduate from high school. Students one slight twist. Classes like
By PAT RUPERT
TRADES stands for Training and Related Academic Design for Economic Security. The program is offered through the public school system at no charge. Mrs. Mishra is the director of the program.
The TRADES Program is a sequence of study offered to students at Lawrence High School and with the required classes needed to graduate with a diploma from Lawrence High School and also provide him with a vocational or time job in his area of interest.
A program unique to Kansas, TRADES has been in existence at Lawrence High School for 2 years. Approximately 70 students participate yearly. They come from TRADES Program by choice.
The earliest a student may enroll in TRADES is at the sophomore level. He may continue in the program for three years.
TO BE ADMITTED into the program, the student must be in need of financial assistance to pay for their tuition. His name is referred to the TRADES staff by his teachers and counselors. A conference is held with the student's parents and teachers for TRADES is then evaluated.
English and history are taught with a vocational emphasis.
There is also an emphasis on oral and written communication. For example, students taking a course in government will read the newspaper aloud rather than study from a text book. Jehle said this program and gained greatly in reading and vocabulary.
BECAUSE OF THE LACK of space at the high school for the equipment needed by TRADES, the vocational classes were moved to the First Southern Church at 1140 W. 19th St. Ter
In food service the students prepare lunch for the TRADES student body. They learn on the job how to serve food, the church and operate on their own budget. Lunches cost 40 cents and food is bought at a local store. The cafeteria is self-sufficient. The students also assume roles in cost control and management and rotate in these jobs weekly. Food preparation is a new occupation opening up especially in industrial areas.
Three major vocational areas are covered by TRADES. food service nursing aide and carer, hospitality course may be taken as an elective. Students to go to school for three hours in the morning and the evening; students placed in part-time jobs after nine weeks of school. The program is set up with Lawrence and the TRADES staff co-ordinator
The money for the program comes from the federal government Monetary Fund, which is then used to each school. The program is under
Students work with grammar school children. They tutor, grade papers, run dumbo machines, play computer games. In the program, the student usually works about two hours a day and receives $1.60 a day for his service.
PRIDE INC. is the carpentry area of the program (PRIDE was hired by Lawrence area whose purpose was to buy a house for the carpentry team to remodel. The team built Barker streets. Students are remodeling it on a profit-sharing plan, plumbing, wiring and roofing. Those not working on the house have jobs on the market where they can work.
Nursing aide is the oldest area in the TRADES Program. It is a must for nursing students to nurse. Students learn basics in geriatrics, pediatrics, obstetrics, and also study Theory of Kinesiology outside experience at Lawrence Hospital and Valleyview Home. Students work up eight hours a day
JEHLE SAID that the TRADES Program has had its past, and will have one by the time a student must be class, and not as many students are able to participate in the training of the lack of space and money.
"Ilisten to a song over and over, and gradually. I see what goes with the music," Johnson explained.
Student's reasons for entering the program are varied. Some selected TRADES because they were more eager than those at the high school, some couldn't get along in the atmosphere at Lawrence High School and others were not as enthusiastic. Whatever their reasons for selecting TRADES, they appeared happy with the TRADES program, one they were in it. Others didn't. Students were still on the job.
BECAUSE OF ITS success during the school year and due to pressure from the state department, which wanted students to become acquainted with different subjects. THE TRADES program is being tried for the first time this summer. It is called The Career Explorer Work-Study Program and gives the student the opportunity to work in the job.
These fields include electronics, office and business occupations, construction and carpentry, mechanics and repair, commercial food service industries, economics and data processing
the direct supervision of the state.
The student may pick four of these areas and concentrate on each for two weeks. He learns no job skill but goes on field trips, meets people that work in these areas, goes to the area in the area, learns where jobs are and what education is needed to hold these jobs.
"I plan to film it as a semi-
directed movie," she commercial that depicts the long-
haired girl with the big amuse-
ble smile. "And then there's that there is no plot. It will look like something is going to happen—a big build up—yet now we're moving on."
'YOUR FATHER'S
EMPHASIS'
the rumping score that sounds like the background to a gum commercial on television, Johnson
He likes to work with this free form, as in the Manicin film, yet he is more interested in documentaries. Johnson's master's thesis in radio journalism for the job Corpse. He is now about another film for that agency.
His first film for the Job Corps took him to Utah. At this Job Corps boy's camp, Johnson filmed, recorded conversations viewed boys and staff members training in action.
THIS FILM, according to Johnson, was basically for Kansas groups that come into contact with the students, refer them to the training center. Johnson is currently editing his second Job Corps film which is presented at their parents in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri.
"I used the same basic idea as in the Utah camp, but shot the
film at the woman's center in Excelsior Springs, Mo., " Johnson said.
Johnson's interest in filmmaking was first realized when he was teaching English at Kent State University.
**AT THE ATT ANN ARBOR Film Festival** I saw several remarkable films and the film that could be done with the camera. he said,
From this introduction into the world of cinematography, Johnson has made several contributions.
. . For Patinkin . . .
As far as his future is concerned, Johnson was certain that he wanted to continue his filmmaking ventures.
As a part of a class assignment,
he shot a nine-minute film of the
traffic-control system on campus.
IN A FREE FORM, Johnson has done films for the Free School in Lawrence. By using this approach, the freedom of movement and awareness taught by the instructors. This film has been used as a public relations tool in interviews throughout the state. Johnson said
Other Johnson-made films include a line-by-line presentation to accompany the song, "I Wonder Why" and a scene on a playground. A seventeen-year-old girl romped and played on the equipment. By using various camera angles and ledges, she produced a different type of film.
"I wasn't trying to make a statement or create a plot; the film was just something pleasant to see." he said.
"I would like to teach film-
ing and also be able to make
films. It is a fascinating field, and
it will be to my life a work," he said.
"I always wondered what they did all day. I followed one man through his routine. It was a diary-type documentary." "I found out that he had very few breaks in his eight-hour
Patinkin, a chicago native, will be entering a four-year program at the Chicago department. The first three years will have 150 hours of training and in the fourth year he will join an acting company affiliated with the school and his work will begin.
Mandy Patkin, star of 7-Up commercials and KU student for the past two years, will not be the one to win. Students begin instead an intensive course of study in the drama department at the university Conservatory in Manhattan.
The Julland school is very selective. From about 800 applicants, they choose 25 students from the United States and Europe.
"I found that I wanted to make a 'total commitment to theater. I wanted to be a teacher. I needed an education. I needed a professional conservatory,' said
Betty Lou and KU Lose Uncola King
Patinkin thought that the KU theater department was one of
Beyond the commercial, in which he appears as the ghost of Mr. Brown, a teenager from the 50s, Patina is included major roles in many KU theater productions. Some of her roles are "Indians," "Lysistrata," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Roserena" and "western are dead," and "Hamlet."
"They (instructors in the school of theater) are doing all they can and still working within the system," said Patkinin.
He believed, however, that graduation from a liberal arts college was not enough to toward an active career. He said that even if he had graduated from such a program, he would be warranted to enroll in a conservatory.
the finest departments he had seen within a liberal arts program.
"I thought that KU was good for me, I just realized it wasn't the right thing for me," said Patinkin.
Kansan Photos by
Hank Young
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