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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
February 16, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 96
(USPS 650-640)
Hays applauds Seib when he returns home
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
HAYS — On the same basketball court he had played on as a schoolboy more than 13 years ago, Wall Street Journal reporter Gerald Seib heard his hometown mayor proclaim Saturday as "Gerald Seib Day."
Red and white balloons, Valentine's day hearts, a large U.S. flag, and posters saying, "Jerry, We're Glad You're Home" and "God Bless You" adorned the gym at Hays "Thomas More Prep-Marian school, where about 400 city leaders, former classmates, teachers and friends,gathered to welc Seib h
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"But you were a hero to us before all this happened," he said
Before the public reception, Seib said that for one fleeting moment during his detention in Iran, he was taken to days as Kansan editor in fall 1977.
At that time, Iranian students demonstrated several times on campus against U.S. policies and the Shah of Iran.
Seib said that those events were not covered enough by the Kansan then, and said that the newspaper should have paid closer attention
And now ladies and gentlemen . . . our national anthem
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From the top seats of Allen Field House Cinda Swinson appeared to be a woman in a red dress, with two Jayhawk mascots standing at her side on the court. She was dwarfed by the crowd, but her voice reached the rafters, actually quieting the more than 15,000 fans for a few minutes.
Story by Laura Bostrom
Swinson, Lawrence senior; sings the national anthem at all the men's home basketball games.
She has sung the anthem 14 times this year for the Jayhawks, and her nerves are getting better each time.
"The first three notes are the hardest," she said. Swinson is a soprano and the third note, an A flat, nearly takes her out of her range.
"But inside I'm saying, 'Look at all those people.' Swinson said, while sitting in a small alcove in Murphy Hall.
"It's a beautiful song," Swinson said, adding that she likes it sung traditionally.
The Jayhawk mascots usually stand on each side of Swinson as she sings. But during the KU-Miami game, Swinson said she almost got squeezed out by the birds.
But sometimes, knowing the words of a song isn't enough. She has had other obstacles.
Even worse was when the mascots bent over during the famous Rock Chalk chant.
She laughed and said, "They wouldn't move to let me in."
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Screaming friends and a squealing microphone sometimes make the anthem even more lively, but the tall Soviet players almost kept the anthem from ever beginning.
"I was getting tailed," she said.
"They were all lined up at one end of the court," she said. "I couldn't see Director (Ron) McCurdy." She stood on tiptoe as she described her efforts to see through or around the players.
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"But I still didn't think I had a good voice," she said.
It wasn't until college that she felt confident about her skills as a singer.
Although Swinson started singing for the Jayhawks just this year, her singing career started during her sophomore year of high school in Pratt. Swinson already had taken several years of piano and clarinet lessons.
"But I still didn't think I had
"It took me a long time," she said. "It's scary to realize you've really got something." In high school she played in district and state music contests before coming to the University of Kansas on a music scholarship for voice and clarinet. "She has worked swifty hard," said Larry Swinson.
He said Cindra's brother also was a musician, playing trumpet and piano. "To hear them practice was the most beaut-
"She has worked awful hard," said Larry Swinsor her father.
Swinson stands in mid-court, singing the line of anthem before a KU men's basketball game.
ful sound in the world," he said.
When her brother started piano lessons, it sparked Swinson's interest. "I was envious," she said. And even when she started playing the clarinet, she continued practicing the piano.
But Swinson's singing talent brought her onto the court. She filled in twice last season for her friend, Phyllis Pancella, taking over the anthem-singing duties this season. Pancella, who graduated last year, had sung at home basketball games for the two previous seasons.
Singing in front of 15,000 screaming KU fans"is a trip." Pancella said "I haven't had anything like it since."
Swinson sits at her grand piano practicing for an audition.
She now sings for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis
After singing on the court Pancella would join Swinson in the stands.
"Both of us were fanatical about the games," Pancella said. "We'd sit by each other." She said her replacement had a real advantage if she decided to sing professionally. "She's so attractive, and she has a really golden voice that soars on the high stuff," Pancella said.
Swinson said that she knew she wanted to sing, but that
she wasn't sure where she'd do it.
Meanwhile, she is working on an interpersonal communications degree. Swinson changed her major her junior year. She said she felt trapped in music, seeing her only option being as a teacher
Swinson said she wanted to work on family and personal counseling, possibly in combination with her singing.
"If I could be a singing counselor, I'd do it," she said.
counselor, I'd do it," she said. Swinns plans to attend graduate school in counseling after graduating in December. She does not know where she'll apply yet, but will insist on a school with good music facilities.
She now is rehearsing for what she described as a small part in the KU production, "Marriage of Figaro."
She said the pressure of an audition could be intense, and performers had to live with the judges' decision.
It is important for Swinson to concentrate on her own strengths during an audition
"I don't compete against anyone," she said. "I compete against myself.
You just have to walk in there thinking 'I'm going to sing your socks off.'
"I love singing," she said. "I love being here in Murphy Hall.
"If there is any way I can make it professionally, I want to."
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