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i OffANOt STAR Student-Teacher Teams Sought I i i ft! rlano. Sentinel Sunday, Feb. 4, 1968 1 Opera Gala Costs Soar In Decade By SUMNER RAND Stntlnil Staff Staging Gounod's "Faust" here will present $500 science scholarships to the highest district science major students in its service areas, which include portions of Orange County. General Telephone Co. will give awards to its top science student-teacher team and a trip to GTC laboratories in New York.

The Winter Park Chamber of Commerce and the Winter Park Telephone Co. will sponsor events honoring Orange County winners, said Peloquin, secretary of Winter Park Telephone. DISTRICT CO-CHAIRMAN Mrs. Lois Frye of the Metropolitan South Brevard Chamber of Commerce said the chamber and others would sponsor similar affairs to honor school, county and district winners. Other members of the district STAR committee are Henri Guer-tin, vice-president and general manager of Jordan Marsh, and William Conomos, editor-publisher of the Sentinel Star Company.

By GLORIA MELTZER SMtiMl Education Writtr The search is on for an outstanding Orange or Brevard County studf nt-teacher team to compete in the Florida Chamber of Commerce's fourth annual "STAR" achievement award contest. The chamber is evaluating the academic records of students submitted by principals from two dozen high schools to determine the STAR students of each county, K. F. Peloquin, 5th District contest chairman, announced Saturday. THE STUDENT evaluation is being made on the basis of standings on the December scholastic aptitude tests and the fall Florida 12th grade test total.

The STAR student then names the STAR teacher, one he thinks made the greatest contribution to his scholastic achievement. A STAR team from each county will be announced soon and will be honored locally along with runners-up from each school private, parochial or public which enters a student. Then one student-teacher team from the two-county district will be named in March to compete for the state STAR title, to be announced at a May 11 banquet in Daytona Beach. The state STAR student will receive a tour of Latin America from Pan American World Airways, a $500 scholarship from Sears Roebuck Foundation, and a Lamp of Learning trophy from the state chamber. THE STATE STAR teacher will receive scholarships, $500 from Sears and $500 from the National Variable Annuity Co.

of Florida, as well as a trophy from the state chamber. Both will tour the state for a week starting May 12," all expenses paid. Expenses to the Daytona Beach banquet will also be paid for all district winners. Southern Bell Telephone Co. 1 I Baaateahaiaatite'lTrtm-lft i1MinaWaMWal1fWiin ift -Hi WiWWHWiWlHl nMmWWMMfeaiaaMMMaWMWMtmaa Mitchell) (Sentinel Photo by E.

I. STAR COMMITTEE MEMBERS PLAN PROGRAM Henri Guertin, Mrs. Lois Frye, K. F. Peloquin (r) Land Predicts Poe Enters Race For Commission Lab Fund Okay 4 1 Land Gunter (Sentinel Photo by Frank Russell) CHECKING OPERA GALA PRODUCTION DETAILS Mrs.

Joseph F. Culp, chairman, Hermann Herz, music director County Accepting Car Safety Test Equipment Bids Orange County Commission will take bids Monday at 10 a.m. on testing equipment for four vehicle Dr. Ralph Poe of Winter Park announced Saturday he will be a Republican candidate for the Orange County Commission, 5th District. Poe said, "To insure orderly growth and progress, county government must act immediately with energetic and imaginative planning to meet the massive demands the future will bring to our area." A NATIVE Floridian and an agricultural engineering graduate from the University of Florida, Poe was county agricultural agent until he went to veterinary school at the University of Georgia.

He graduated cum laude in 1957 and opened a veterinary hospital which he operates. He has been president of the Central Florida Veterinary Medical Association, chairman of the state ethics committee and member of the executive board of the Florida State Veterinary Medical Association. GOV. CLAUDE Kirk recently appointed him to the Florida State Board of Health, the only veterinarian ever selected for the post. Poe is a former president of the Rotary Club, chairman of the Civil Service Board of Winter Park, and chairman of the trustees of the Winter Park Police Retirement Fund.

He is a member of the Orange-Seminole-Osceola Joint Planning phony Orchestra's Youth Concert Fund, and ENRICH Central Florida culturally with the pinnacle of the musician's art. this year will cost nearly four times what Orlando's first Opera Gala cost 10 years ago. The estimated cost for the French opera being produced here by Junior League of Orlando and the Gala Guild of the Florida Symphony is $32,519. OF COURSE, the Feb. 9 and 11 presentations are fully staged, whereas the first five Opera Galas consisted of operatic excerpts, mostly done in concert version.

But the estimated cost of "Faust" is still double the $16,277 to fully stage "La Boheme" in 1963. The first Opera Gala in 1958 cost only $9,115. The major item in the rising costs has been the increase in the fees the opera stars can demand and get. OPERA TODAY has grown so popular there is feverish competition among the world's leading opera houses for the services of the top singers, and these golden voices can practically name their price. Joan Sutherland, for instance, 'asks $7,500 per performance.

Fran- co Corelli gets $6,500. Both are out of the range of the Orlando Opera Gala. Tenor Richard Tucker, who sang here the first year, got $2,500 for his services, and Robert Merrill, also was here in 1958, asked $2,000. Both now get $5,000. 1 OF THE FIRST Gala's budget of $9,115, about $8,000 was paid to the four Metropolitan Opera stars.

Out of this year's $32,519 some $12,150 is budgeted for the two Metropolitan Opera singers and three New York City Opera artists. It would cost a great deal more to produce opera here if it were not for the volunteer services of so many Junior League and Gala Guild members. In the early days of the Opera Galas, all of the staging and production was done by the Junior Leaguers. WITH THE beginning of fully staged operatic productions, it became necessary to employ professional set designers and builders, rent costumes, hire a stage director and use professional lighting. Sets, costumes, lighting, audito- rium.

decorations and the salaries of the stage directors and stage hands this year will cost an estimated $11,141. THE SYMPHONY organization here has been very successful in getting fine young singers on the way up in their careers which has contributed to the quality of operatic as well as concert performances, although sometimes at' a sacrifice in drawing power. For instance, Annaliese Rothen-berger, the petite and pretty German soprano who stole the show as Micaela in "Carmen" here in 1964, was comparatively unknown in this country at that time, although she already had a solid reputation in Europe. Her services today would command a considerably higher price. Bill Supported By Majority Of Legislators State Rep.

Henry Land Saturday predicted house passage of a $2.9 million appropriations bill which includes operating funds for the idle Apopka Foliage Laboratory. Land, Orange-Seminole Democrat, from Tangerine whose 1965 legislative efforts helped build the $100,000 facility, said the bill cleared the house education committee Friday and comes up before i the house appropriations committee which he heads, Tuesday, "I'M SURE IT will pass committee without any trouble and then the full house membership," Land said. Passage of the bill, containing the Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences appropriation passed twice in the 1965 session and vetoed twice by Gov. Claude Kirk, would mean the foliage lab could open in July, the IFAS has said. LAND SAID HE and Sen.

Bill Gunter, D-Orlando, a cointroducer of the money bill in the last session, had given the lab "full support" from the beginning when the money to build it was approved. He said the new bill has 35 senate signers and 60 in the house, a majority of both bodies. The lab built on $20,000 worth of land donated by Orange County, has sat empty since it was completed in September because of lack of operating funds, $117,000 through June 1969. Those Weren't UFOs, Just Airplane Lights Reports that unidentified flying objects were seen in the southeas United Appeal Meets Wednesday To Elect United Appeal of Orange County 'Inc. will hold its annual meeting and election of officers and directors at 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday in the Young Women's Community Club, Hillcrest at Magnolia. John M. Hollyday, chairman of the board, urged those who have never visited the YWCC to come at 3 p.m. for a special tour of the building. Irving B.

pibbs is president of United Appeal this year, and William G. Conomos and T. J. DuBose vice presidents. TERESA RATA whose melting portrayal of Mimi jn "La Boheme" launched fully staged operas for Orlando in 1963, sang for $1,000.

Today you couldn't, contact her for that, Jeannette Pilou, the Marguerite in this year's "Faust," made her debut at the Met only two months ago but she sings regularly at the Vienna Opera and La Scaia, two of the greatest opera houses in the world. She was signed for the Orlando appearance even before her auspicious Met debut in "Romeo et Juliette." DESPITE THE steadily rising prices over the past 10 years, prices of tickets have risen only slightly. Patrons tickets for the Opera Gala have gone from $12.50 to $15; $5 seats are now $5.50 and $3 seats $3.50 No one expects ticket sales today to cover the cost of opera, however. It is economically impossible. There are too many elements involved.

So ticket prices aren't likely to go any higher. "We have to depend on our patrons culturally minded people who see the value to the community of what we do," says Mrs. Joseph F. Culp, chairman for the 1968 Opera Gala. But, then, most of the great works of art the public enjoys today were created at the behest of patrons, a breed which is fast disappearing.

DESPITE THE somewhat discouraging cost outlook, though, the dedicated and hard-working Opera Gala Committee has managed to make enough extra money each year so far to accomplish the two-fold purpose of the project: BENEFIT the Florida Sym- safety inspection stations to go into operation June 1. The commission also will take bids on paving Meadows Avenue. Three zoning appeals have been scheduled. NEIGHBORS WILL appeal granting a special exception to Everett Realty in an M-l zone for winter quarters of an' amusement concession troupe on 2.5 acres northeast of Overland Road, two-fifths of a mile north of U.S. 441.

Irving Berger will ask for a change from R-1AA to R1A on 23.7 acres 500 feet south of Holden Avenue and three-tenths of a mile west of Orange Avenue on the north shore of Lake Jessamine. WINTER PARK Pines Development Co. will ask for a change from R-1A to R-3 on 5.32 acres on the east side of Balfour Drive, beginning 400 feet south of Aloma Avenue and extending south 1,400 feet to the railroad. The commission has set a public hearing on a petition by John C. Prevatt to vacate a 14-foot alley in Tier 11, Block Town of Taft.

Second Reading Due On Annexation Plan An ordinance annexing the Major Realty Lake Ranch Inc. tract southwest of Orlando comes up for second reading Monday before city coun-. cil. The council could waive the rules and hold a third and final reading at the same session. However, city attorneys are continuing their examination of the legal aspects of bonds outstanding on the Orange County Southwest Sewer District and a final reading probably will be held up.

Tabulation of bids, is scheduled on motorcycle radios. 1 If YMCA Slates Annual Meeting Tuesday Jack Bowen, president of the Orange County YMCA board, said Saturday 300 people are expected to attend the 22nd annual meeting and report dinner at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Central Branch. Fran Tarkenton, quarterback of the New York Giants, will be the speaker. The meeting will include reports on 1967 activities, election of new directors and 19G8 officers and recognition of outstanding laymen.

tern section of Orlando Saturday night were discounted by police who said the six blinking red lights were airplanes landing and taking off at McCoy Jetport. DR. RALPH POE Seeks commission seat Commission, Central Florida Development Commission and the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce. POE SAID, "I believe in fiscal responsibility for government on all levels and the development of policies that will preserve our free enterprise system. Orange County is faced with the prospect of severe growing pains if our future problems are not anticipated and properly dealt with now." A member of the Winter Park Methodist Church, Poe, his wife and three children live at 1068 McKean Circle, Winter Park.

$32,519 01EKGLV Doctor's Home Looted About $1,100 in household goods, 10 credit cards and keys to two cars were stolen from the home of Dr. and Mrs. Padro Hiribarne, 5209 Haverill Drive, Saturday as they slept, they told Deputy Sheriff Frank Wells. COST OF PRODUCTIONS 1958 to 1968 hi 1 i $28,605 $23,309 $19,665 $16,277 Winner Announced William C. Lingelbach, 5716 Perrine Drive, won a $1,000 savings bond in the final drawing at the Parkwood Plaza Auto Show Saturday night.

$11,980 School Board To Review Legislative Proposals The Orange County School Board Monday will review the special legislative session so its representative, can go back to Tallahassee with its reaction to proposed bills. The board has opposed tying new taxes for education to a referendum on an overall reform, Cross Burned On Lawn At Longwood City Hall A makeshift cross was burned on the Longwood city hall lawn early Saturday morning, apparently by disgruntled citizens still protesting the dismissal last month of Police Chief H. R. Shinn. New Police Chief Gerald Pierce said it was small, amateurishly constructed and burned only a short time.

UJA Speaker Capt. Joshua L. Goldberg, USN dean of American Jewish military chaplains, will speak at United Jewish. Appeal 30th anniversary dinner at 8 p.m. Feb.

17 at Park Plaza Hotel. Program with cocktails at 7 p.m. includes Southeastern film premiere of "Children of the Exodus." iqm I960 1941 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1958 Vandals Flip Small Car Kenneth C. Harnish, 1724 27th told the sheriff's office Saturday vandals flipped his small foreign car onto its side. Damage was minor.

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