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Charleston | skilled craftsman
Local artist continues ancient tradition By Dominic Campo Staff Reporter Inside a studio without enough room to park a car, Gary Worby works on his latest project, stained g l a s s w i n d ow s f o r t h e K a n s a s Christian Church, which burned down in 2011. The studio is lined with sketches of old and new projects. Inside, Worby works with tools to cut, join and frame the glass. He has been creating stained glass pieces for more than 35 years, decorating buildings across the state. Worby’s stained glass creations can be seen across Eastern’s campus. Above the south entrance of Booth Library is a stained class piece he created depicting an open book surrounded by ivy leaves, corn and wheat. His work can also be seen at the Thomas and Taylor residence halls. After graduating from Chicago’s Loyola University in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in history, Worby moved to San Francisco with his wife to work with children. It was in San Fransico that he saw stained glass for the first time and decided to make it his passion, Worby said. “I really wanted to find something that I could do with my hands and I could see the final result in it,” he said. While living in California, Worby apprenticed under a local stained glass artist for two years before moving with his wife to Alaska. Worby started Glass Creations by Worby in 1975 while living in Alaska. After moving to Charleston to be closer to his family, Worby set up a shop on his property to create his pieces, he said.
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A partially finished stained glass project for a church in Kansas, Ill., lies on Gary Worby’s work bench in his stained glass production shop at his home. Worby is a stained glass artist in Charleston.
A pile of nails lie on the table. The nails are used to hold the lead railing in place, which separates the pieces of stained glass as Worby creates his pieces.
“It amazes people that a person with a history degree is doing something like this,” he said. “I never took an art class in college because at the time I never thought I would be doing this type of work.”
He s a i d o n e o f h i s f a v o r i t e things about creating stained glass is that time passes quickly when he is working on a project. “It’s amazing to me how I can be working on a project and look at the clock and three hours have
Gary Worby, a stained glass artist, works on a piece for a church in Kansas, Ill., Monday in his shop. Worby has created numerous pieces that are displayed on campus and in many of the surrounding churches.
gone by,” he said. Worby said the art of stained glass is time consuming. For Worby, one project usually takes between two to three weeks, depending on the size and detail of the piece.
Worby first draws a scale model of what he would like the project to look like then starts to carefully cut every glass piece by hand using extreme precision and accuracy, he said. ARTIST, page 5
Eastern | budget effects
Federal work study jobs, grants cut by sequester Eastern students directly affected by national budget By Stephanie Markham Administration Editor The number of Eastern students receiving federal financial aid, including Federal Work Study and other grants, will decrease next year because of the sequester. Because Congress did not reach a budgetary agreement by its deadline set in the Budget Control Act in Aug. 2011, a series of automatic spending cuts to various government services took effect on March 1.
Budget cuts resulting from the sequester will reduce funding for the FWS and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity grants by $86 million. C o n s e q u e n t l y, t h e re w i l l b e about 2,650 fewer FWS jobs available in Illinois. Jerry Donna, the director of financial aid, said Eastern employs 319 students through FWS, each receiving about $2,000. He said Eastern’s funds would be cut $12,147, meaning about six fewer people will be able to work through FWS next year. Donna said Eastern’s funds for FSEO grants would be reduced by $15,520, and about 15 fewer students would be able to receive the
$1,000 award. “What we will do since we know we have less money to spend, we will be able to award less money to students,” he said. He said reductions would not be made to either program until the campus-based funding is approved for the 2013-14 academic year. He also said there would be no reductions to Pell grants, which are the largest source of federal financial aid. Pell grants are exempt from the effects of the sequester by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, according to a report from the Information for Financial Aid Professionals. Donna said schools were ad-
vised to wait to disperse payments of Iraq-Afghanistan Service grants and Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education grants because they are also subject to funding cuts. The IAS grants are given to students with a parent who died in the military in Iraq or Afghanistan, and TEACH grants are given to students who agree to teach high-need or low-income students for four years. Another effect of the sequester could be an increase in the fee for direct subsidized and unsubsidized loans from 1 percent to 1.05 percent, according to the Department of Education’s website. With this increase, a student re-
ceiving a $3,500 subsidized loan would pay a fee of $36.75 instead of $35. The department also predicted an increase in fees from 4 to 4.2 percent on the Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students, which would increase the fee on a $10,000 loan from $400 to $420. These increases would only affect loans in which the first payment date is after March 1, so students receiving the grants before then would not have to pay the higher percentage. Stephanie Markham can be reached at 581-2812 or samarkham@eiu.edu.