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The U.S.I.T.T. Award for lifetime contribution to the
American Theatre was given to Prof. A. S. Gillette of the
University of Iowa, author of two long-established texts
on scenery-An Introduction to Scenic Design and Stage
Senery: Its Construction and Rigging.
The annual Publication Award of the Institute, which
comprises over 1,800 administrative and tech nical people
of the Professional and educational theatre, was given to
Prof. Frank Silberstein of the University of Indiana for his
article in the December, 1972 issue of Theatre Design and
Technology, entitled, "Field Constructed Long Radius
Tubing Bender," and a Special Award was given to Jarka
Burian for his book, The Scenography of Josef Svoboda.
Jo Mielziner was the keynote speaker of the conference.
His topic was, "Can the Artist Be Independent of the
Technician and Vice Versa?" In his speech, Mielziner
stressed the theme that scene and lighting design and other
backstage technologies must be the servants of the arts.
"The other artists of the theatre," he said, "cannot
succeed without technicians, and the technicians have

Ned A. Bowman of the University of Pittsburgh was reelected President of U.S.I.T.T. and Richard Arnold of
Northern Illinois University the First Vice-President;
Mert Cramer of Los Angeles the Third Vice President; Ed
Peterson, Jr. of New York, Treasurer. Robert Teitelbaum
of Swarthmore College was elected to fill a vacancy as
Secretary until June 30, and Thomas W. Lemons of
Marblehead, Mass., was elected Secretary to serve begin*

NEW SERIES OF MASTER CLASSES
HELMUT GROSSER, Technical Director of the
Cologne Opera, and Editor of the Buhnentechnische
Rundschau has agreed to conduct a series of Master
Classes in the U. S. during November of this year.
US ITT's International Liaison Committee plans to continue the successful format established in the Josef
Svoboda lectures of last November. Thus, each regional
section of USITT is being offered first opportunity to put
together a collective of participating colleges and un iversities in their region. Following this, individual institutions
or collectives outside of the regional sections will be
eligible for the Grosser classes.
As with the Svoboda classes, leading students from the
participating institutions will join in the intensive three
day series of master classes in each region. Grosser will
work with a maximu m of perhaps 25-30 students in each
regional seminar, although he will deliver a public lecture
for a wider audience as well.
It has been sa id of Grosser that he not on Iy understands but commands the problems of true repertory
production. Although only in his mid-forties, he has
worked and lectured extensively throughout Europe. His

appeal to not only technical and design students in opera
and theatre and to students in theatre administration and
management but to a larger music and theatre group as
well. Grosser speaks good English.
If your institution desires to participate in the Grosser
Master Classes please direct a letter to your regional
USITT section chairman with a copy to the International
Liaison Committee at the USITT National Office. If you
are not in a regional section of USITT and your institution desires to participate in the Master Class program
please direct your inquiry to International Liaison Committee c/o USITT National Office. Further information
can also be obtained directly from Joel E. Rubin, Committee Chairman at (212)-786-7474.

HOLOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS
ARE YOU "INTO" HOLOGRAPHY? If not, Lake

nothing to work on without artists."

ning July 1.

position at Cologne is one of the three or tour most
demanding in the German technical theatre. His background in repertory theatre and opera is expected to

Forest College is offering two intensive Hologram Workshops during the month of June, 1973, with the purpose
of providing persons in non-technical fields a "hands-on"
experience in hologram-making. As is similar in most
photography courses, the student is not required to have
specialized knowledge in technology.
The Workshops are under the direction of Dr. Tung H.
Jeong, Associate Professor of Physics at Lake Forest
College and internationally known authority in the field
of laser photography. Dr. Jeong, who holds a bachelor of
science degree from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the
University of Minnesota, has received grants from Research Corporation, the National Science Foundation, the
Veterans Administration, and the Sonntag Foundation for
Cancer Research to pursue various applications of holography.
Each workshop will last five days and will meet from
8:30 to 11 :30 a.m. and from 1 :30 to 4:30 p.m. daily,
ten three-hour sessions in all.
SCHEDULE:
WORKSHOP I

June 18 through June 22

WORKSHOP II

June 25 through June 29

The ten sessions of each workshop are dedicated as
follows:
SESSION 1 - Introduction. The subject of holography
is presented with the actual physical demonstrations of
lasers and various types of holograms. The simple theory
of the process is explained without the use of mathematics, but rather through movies, sl ides, and video tapes.
SESSION 2 -

Techniques.

Includes physical demonstra-

tions of each piece of equipment used in the hologrammaking process. Each component of a holographic system
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