The Buckley Center art gallery will show the work of Sarah Allen, a 15-year-old sophomore student at Metro East Web Academy in Gresham, Oregon, through Saturday, June 13. For more information contact Elaine Powell-Ascroft, performing and fine arts, at 7228 or cmstudios@gmail.com.
06-09-2014
“Iolanthe” Plays Through June 28
Mock’s Crest Productions will present Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sunday from June 6 to June 28, at 7:30 p.m. (2 p.m Sundays), in Mago Hunt Center Theater. Tickets are available through the Hunt Center box office at 7287 or magohuntboxoffice@up.edu.
This year’s production promises an evening of fairies, love, and politics set in the mod-swinging early 1960s of London’s SoHo District, an all-new setting for Gilbert and Sullivan’s “fairy” comedic opera, which satirizes the House of Peers and the English political system. Iolanthe revolves around the love of Strephon, who is half a mortal and half a fairy, and Phyllis, a lovely shepherdess, who is a ward of the Lord Chancellor of England. Strephon’s mother, Iolanthe, is a fairy and favorite of the Queen of the Fairies but has been banished because of her relationship with a mortal. Strephon and Phyllis want to get married but her request is refused by the Lord Chancellor and the peers, both because Strephon’s reputable “fairyness” and because they all want to marry Phyllis. When Phyllis sees Strephon speaking with his immortal and never-aging mother, she believes him to be unfaithful and sides with the peers. Will the House of Parliament and the Lord Chancellor allow the lovers to reconcile? Or will laws get in the way between Phyllis and Strephon?
For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.
Engineering Building 65th Anniversary, June 12
June 12 marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of the dedication of the 45,000 square foot, three-story Engineering Building (now Shiley Hall) in 1949. In what was perhaps the ultimate cost-saving measure in all of UP history, the new building’s basement was dug after its completion—by hand—by Brother Godfrey Vassallo, C.S.C., and a team of industrious faculty and students. The University archives and museum have a new post about the Engineering Building dedication on their WordPress blog at http://tinyurl.com/kyhadh4. Contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, at 8038 or piatz@up.edu for more information.
From Our Past: University Archives
The University archives were officially established by Rev. Paul Waldschmidt, C.S.C., on June 1, 1966, under the direction of Bro. David Martin, C.S.C. (pictured), the newly retired director of the Clark Memorial Library and the University’s first archivist. In the ensuing 48 years, the archives have been maintained by only four archivists: Bro. Martin served from 1966 to 1983; Rev. Barry Hagan, C.S.C., served from 1983 to 1999; Rev. Bob Antonelli, C.S.C., was archivist from 1999 to 2012; and the affable and able Rev. Jeffrey Schneibel, C.S.C., took the helm in 2012. One would be remiss not to mention Martha Wachsmuth, who spent 29 of her 41 years as a University employee in the University archives, serving as assistant archivist under Fr. Hagan and Fr. Antonelli.
Bro. Martin and Fr. Hagan collected many thousands (millions, most likely) of documents and photographs from University offices, colleges, schools, departments, and individuals as well as copies of many different University publications over the years. The cavernous archives space in the basement of Shipstad filled steadily, and despite their best efforts it proved difficult to keep up with the steady flow of new materials. Finding Fr. Hagan or Martha within the stacks of papers and boxes often involved negotiating a labyrinth of pathways without so much as a skein of thread to find one’s way out.
Until 1999, the University archivist reported directly to the academic vice president. Beginning with the tenure of Fr. Antonelli, the archives became a part of the University library. Mountains of documents were catalogued and neatly shelved; computers were added, compact shelving and climate control were installed, online database finding aids were compiled, and two digital collections were made available via the library web page.
For more University history visit the University Almanac at www.up.edu/almanac.