LehighWeek Volume 01, Issue 14

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SERMON IN STONE
Packer Memorial Church
An Historical Essay
By W.ROSS YATES
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-
FIRST CLASS MAIL
U.S. Postage Paid
Permit No. 230
Bethlehem, Pa. 18015
Issue Fourteen
January 27,1988
Rod Rogers
Dance Company
Here Friday
The Rod Rodgers Dance Company will present
a multi-arts tribute celebrating the accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Friday,
January 29 at 8 p.m. in Broughal Middle
School (Brodhead and Packer Aves.. Bethlehem). The program is part of the Martin
Luther King, Jr. birthday celebration at Lehigh.
Among the works to be performed will be
"The Legacy," which was inspired by the
dramatic true-life struggles and achievements
of King and the music of Coleridge Taylor
Perkinson. Created to celebrate the official
designation of King's birthday as a national
holiday, the piece features a series of dramatic
vignettes exploring the life of King and the
civil rights struggle of the 1960s.
The first section, "Currents from the
East,"was inspired by the idea of a philosophic
bond between Ghandi and King where the
"Spirit of the East" passes the mantle of nonviolence to the man from the west. This is
followed by impressionistic portraits of Rosa
Parks, freedom marchers, and a youth in jail,
leading to the climax of an exuberant ballet to
Perkinson's "Fredome! Freedom..."
Rod Rodgers is dedicated to the creation
and presentation of concert dance theatre,
training in performing arts techniques, and arts
programming as an educational vehicle. The
Company is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary season.
The program at Lehigh was made possible
through the efforts of the LVAIC dance
consortium and a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts,
and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation in
partnership with the Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts. The project is also supported by the
National Endowment for the Arts.
Admission for "The Legacy" is $6 for the
general public. $5 for students and senior
citizens, and $4 with a Lehigh ID card.
Tickets are on sale in Bethlehem at the Lehigh
Bookstore and Record City in Westgate Mall;
in Allentown at Speedy's Record Shop; and in
Easton at Utopia.
For more information, call Lehigh's
cultural affairs office at 215-758-4739.
Bland Montenecourt Dies
A memorial service was held yesterday in Packer
Memorial Church for Dr. Bland S. Montenecourt,
who died of cancer Dec. 19 in St. Luke's Hospital.
Fountain Hill.
Dr. Montenecourt, 46, a prominent researcher in
applied microbiology, came to Lehigh in 1981 and
was promoted to professor of biology in 1985.
According to Jeffrey A. Sands, with whom she Montenecourt
frequently collaborated in research projects. Dr. Montenecourt had
been forced by illness to discontinue teaching in the classroom after the
fall, 1986, term. However, she continued her association with the
Biotechnology Research Center and the Center for Molecular Bioscience and Biotechnology.
Sands said Dr. Montenecourt, in the 1970s, "had isolated a mutant
form of an enzyme-producing fungus for better biomass conversion."
Another colleague, Steven Krawiec, hailed Dr. Montenecourt as an
outstanding role model for students. "Because she truly had an
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