Word: mercerizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shaker Heights, each of Mercer School's 28 classrooms has a 16-mm. projector and a screen in a corner, which often pulls down in front of the room's television receiver. The firstfloor film center contains 600 wellcatalogued movies and 1,100 filmstrips (movie film to be projected one frame at a time, like slides...
Messing with Creation. Mercer's teachers are free to use the movies any way they see fit; the fifth grade's Mrs. Blanche Brack says film producers have been "horrified" at the way teachers have been "messing about with their creation." She prefers to show fragments of many films, repeatedly stopping the action to quiz the kids on what they just saw, what they expect next. She had her pupils draw up their own narration to a filmstrip on the "Causes of the Revolution" to replace the high-school level commentary that came with it. Her fifth-grade...
...Mercer School's bright students (average IQ is 118) jam the tiny film center after school to view films on their own. They have also been permitted to take projectors and films home on weekends, leading entire families-even neighborhoods-to turn off Gunsmoke and watch movies on the operation of jet aircraft, modern life of Eskimos, human anatomy, basic principles of electricity. Despite all the accent on viewing, students are not bored when they turn to books. The films arouse the children's interests, say the teachers, and broaden their vocabulary. Circulation in the school...
...must be admitted that the Loeb Experimental Theatre did an excellent job of production. The cast, headed by Peter Rousmaniere, Peter Morin, and John Mercer, all performed well, and occasionally with excellence. The minor flashback characters were good in spite of the brevity of their parts, with Farrell Page becomingly wistful in her short stint as The Banker's Beautiful (but now pregnant) Daughter. All the heroes were first-rate, with Doug Kenny particularly funny as gay Wild Bill. Other physical aspects of the production deserve credit, and certainly the direction can only be hailed as superb. The fault, then...
Thomas C. King '68, John S. Mercer '68, and Peter F. Rousmaniere '68, leaders of the organization, said yesterday that they have formed the group because "new dramatic concepts need to be discussed and tested here in a coordinated series of productions...