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...episodes of Public Broadcasting Service's The Adams Chronicles. The lavish $5.2 million series was the most popular ever offered by the network-it was seen by close to 4 million people each week-and proved appealing to thousands of students. Says Richard Rollins, the course instructor at Michigan State: "The real key is that it has been able to interest nontraditional students [retired people, veterans, part-timers]. It represents history in a way no lecture could, that no book could. It turns people on; the reactions have been very good." Those who took the course ranged from police...
Despite these alterations of historical truth, most educators felt the course was effective. At Quincy Junior College, near the Adams family homestead, in Quincy, Mass., Instructor Robert Collins applauded WNET, New York, for its production. Says he: "What they've developed is an appreciation for the period. This cuts across age lines. TV has been an archvillain in terms of locking us into a continuous 'now.' There's a real hunger in this country for a collective past, a cherishable identity...
Died. Ben Iden Payne, 94, venerable Shakespearean actor, director and drama instructor; in Austin, Texas. Born in England, Payne managed Dublin's Abbey Players before becoming general director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford on Avon. In the U.S., he taught for nearly 20 years in the famed drama department at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and later created a Stratford of the Southwest at the University of Texas in Austin. On Broadway he directed such stars as Maude Adams, the Barrymores and Helen Hayes, who credited him with being the director "who taught me the most...
...Crimson mentor comes to Harvard after three years as head coach at Fairfield University. Previously he served eight years as freshman coach at Columbia. While leading the Lions, he was also an instructor at several fencing clubs in the New York area...
...resignation follows recent conflict between Zander and Leon Kirchner, Rosen Professor of Music and co-instructor of Music 180, Music Department sources said yesterday...