Ebb Tide, Vol. 29 No. 4 (May 1976)

SALVE REGINA COLLEGE I NEWPORT, R. I.

Vol. XXIX, No. 4

May 1976

Sully: A Big Fish In A Little Pond

by ANTHONY KUTSAFTIS John Francis Pershing SulUVian i·s a remarka;ble· man. He is handsome in his middle fifties, has silver gray hair and is a natty dresser. His resonant voice, commands respect and his intelligence is etched in ·h is brow. He's Newport'·s most outspoken citizen, a man loved and admired by many. Being a vital cog in his community, " a big fish in a little, pond," has led to a radio program the 'open forum' which is heard

daily on WADK, 1540, at 12:30.

His worshippers caLl him Suhly.

A high sohool dropout who made good, Sully enjoys his notoriety but readily admits he is an average guy. ''I don't like what youth has done to my country. They have split .t he gut of America wide open and we still haven't recovered from that .

I'm afraid of the intelligence of our youth."

The radica.ls of the fifties and sixties namely Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Jane Fonda, and Joan Baez have robbed the young of their mora.l.s and beliefs. Being raised in a permissive society has made us kinky and rude while our college professors bearded li\Ild in jeans lead us to the brink of ana.rchy.

Sully would back Barry Goldwater for President. He would reverse the liberllJl trends in our society and turn back the communist tide. Goldwater believes in a strong m i l i t a. r y posture which would put respect and decency back on our streets. A fiag waving conservative, Sully claims no political aspirations.

As to the future of our city, Sully sees Jai Alai as the most constructive thing to happen to Newport in years. Socially, economically, and culturally, it will

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with a diabolical enemy who has sworn to turn the world into communism and they are succeeding."

Communism is the easy way out. It stifles individualism by taking care of the peoples' every need from the cradle to the grave. If more pepple don't see the warning signs and don't heed the prophetic voices of doom, we will soon be consumed by our enemies.

Sully is not anti-education. He thinks knowledge is a marvelous tool. "Salve is an outstanding contribution to this community.

In every way it is a definite benefit to have them down here. Bless them aJl 8/t Salve." l'he world is unsafe. "I wouldn't walk in my own neighborhood at night."

His preferences in reading are strictly non-fiction. He enjoys William F . Buckley and Fitzpatrick. The news m:edia is dishonest and slanted. As for movies " J don't go to tlhe movies that often. A guy says 'hello' to a girl and before you know it, they've taken off their clothes and they've jumped into the sack."

As an additional note, during the in t e r vi e w an unidentified woman offered to shack up with Sully. Oh, you're interested in

Sully' s reply. What would any loyal, devoted, honest, happily married man say to an offer like that. N ever mind, Sully said no!

Maybe he's an anachronism, a living fossil. He's the fading image of what man used to be; clean, honest, and God fearing .

We didn't agree with a lot of what he said but when we left, we felt as if we had been in the presence of somebody speci8il. He is a rare man and it was a rare experience.

Needs Renovation

by JAMES BOULAY

Downtown on Wastungwn Square stands tne N e w p o r L County l;OUrL house. ·1·ms reu bnck and mar01e structure, buuL in the 19:.lu·s, at one tlme, must , have been a very impreSSilve building. But the stamed maroie, ch.lppect br1CK and ye.u.owed walls taKe away nom its beauty and show its age. l<'rom the time _ o.t its construction it has housed the Sheriff's office, probation and parole office, the public defender's office, _law Hbrary, Superior and District court. These offices take and fill to capacity the entire building. In 1961, along with a steady increase in criminal and civil court cases, the Rlhode Island Assemb<ly created the Family Court. At 9:10 I had an appointment with supel'ior court Judge Carrellas who is spending this term at the Newport County Court. When I al'rived he was in the process of pa.cking many of his belongings, for on the first and third Mondays of each month he must vacate his office and hold court in a small back room, to make room for the Fam-ily Court.

The problem, lack of •a dequate facilities. '1.1his problem is not just confined to Newport County, it is state wide. In fact the Judge informed me that N e w p o r t 1- County has one of the best Facilities. Some of the buiidings have no running water, lack of rest room facilities and evei).

prove a boon to the city. When I mentioned corruptioR on the betting aspect of Jai Alai, Sully emphatically replied "Hell no!"

On this particular day Sully had drawn a sizeable crowd of people to watch him do his live broadcast. During station breaks and newscasts people eagerly crowded around him exchanging greetings and pleasantries. "I try to keep my broadcasts topical.

So my broadcast usua1ly revolves around what is going on politically and philosophically."

His broadcasts are usually lively, always interesting and controversial and branded with the personal touch of the man. "Don't look llJt me as if I'm a big shot.

I'm just an ordinary guy and I've got a lousy bank balance to prove it."

Being a conservative, Sully thinks there are too many liberals running around our college campuses. Most of the people that put our country into turmoil in the sixties were college people.

There is no more dedication to a cause or patriots willing to expound fln the virtues of our country. Sully sees colleges as potential tinder boxes of trouble. "Our country win get itself into another war by stupidity, by not showing muscle. We are fooling

What will they do this time?

When asked if the people of Rhode Island once again voted down an issue if they would be cheating themselves, his reply, "I certainly do."

some left overs from the 1800's.

Why are Rhode Island courts in such a delapidated condition?

When asked if U was an indication that the people of Rhode Island were apatlhetic to criminal justice the judge an.Swered no, in fact you always hear people talking about the system. At the present there is a bill in the assembly to esta.]:>lish three new judgeships. But if this bi!ll is passed the-r e will be 18 superior court judges and ondy 12 places to put them in. New facilities are oalled for. But just a few years ago the people of Rhode Island voted down a bond issue that would have updated the system.

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Newport Poet, Auth·or, And Artist Charles Norn1an Discusses An Extensive Literary Career

by LINDA BOUCHARD porary artists as Rod McKuen. any artist and others," he said, Charles Nonnan, 71, is a poet N onnan does not regard him as "is that while everyone sees from who came to Newpoft from New a "real" poet beoa.use he fails to a certain angle which we all York City three years ago on the create any genuine feeling in us, know, the poet and artist sees it invitation of a friend, decided to but only reminds us that we al- slightly differently." He spoke of try it for a year, and has re- ready feel that way, or have felt a special quality in a poet, in conmained. Although he admits that that way. During a question-and- nection with children. "Children he misses the eonveniences CYf the answer period at URI, one stu- are the only real discoverers of city and the opportunity to "tal•k dent asked Nonnan what he the world," Nonnan feels, beshop" with fellow artists, he thought of Bob Dylan. "Not cause "they see it with fresh transferred, to me, a feeling of much," replied the poet, but add- eyes." He added that aside from contentment and satisfaction with ed that he liked the way he sang. children, nobody writes poems exWhen another student remarked cept poets. Having a high regard his life here. that Dylan wasn't much of a for the English language and for I arrived at the Norman residem::e for lunch and was a bit singer, eLther, Nonnan quipped, its precise use, he explains that "no poet exists without a poem, early, so was offered a seat off "then to hell with him." for it is the poem that brings him Following the leisurely lunch the dining room of their cottage which is secluded in a somewhat we moved into the living room, into existence."

Norman, who was a close friend oountry setting, across from the where the talk centered around of e.e. cummings and who dehis poetry and publications.

His "Kingscote" mansion off Bellevue Ave. On the walls hung several most recent publication is a book scribes the poet as "enchanting", pointed out how one can tell if a of his recent abstract paintings. · of poetry entitled, Portents of the He took up painting in 1937 and Air, published in 1973. His bi- poem is "the real thing". "The took me about to show me some ographies of e.e. cummings and first thing you feel about a real Christopher Marlowe were re- poem is the complete control of of his earlier works, which, in modesty, he says "are not much printed the same year. Norman the poet, regarding lines and to look at." In the same room are states that "no one can really structure," he comments. He conportraits by his wife, Diana, a make a living as a poet." In the siders all themes rather trite and willowy woman who possesses a early '30s he was faced with L'l1e worn out, but the poet has the ability to state them freshly. The necessity of supplementing his incharming English accent. second key is possessing an atcome from poetry and books Lunch is served. As we ate he titude which is individual; and commented on what he thought about poets, so he worked for lastly, we recognize it as genuine two years as an editor for the the duties of an editor-in-chief of "if other poems of earlier times a publishing house should include. North American Newspaper Alspring to mind, and do not clash, liance, which sold features to He thought that an editor-invarious newspapern. He worked but are a part of the stream." chief should at least read the first for the United Press before transHis advice to aspiring writers page of every manuscript which ferring to the Associated Press, was straight-forward. "Read!" he comes in, since "readers" often do the works little justice. He where he worked for five and a commands, "read all the good admits it would be a tremendous half years. He feels that journal- things which have been written." task, but thinks it only fair. He ism did not stifle his creativity. He emphasizes this point and feels that anyone wishing to pub- Although he did not publish any added that it is important to read lish a long work should work works during hi·s time in journal- prose books even if one wants to ism, he pointed out that "if become a poet. "And then, of through an agent. After taking a course, write!" His brown eyes sip of the red wine, I asked what nothing else it helped me, it made his opinion was of such contem- my sentences more concise." He danced as he spoke and he freoffered that nothing can ruin a quently looked off to one side as good talent, and if one has talent, if searching for a precise word journalism can only help, at least or phrase and then looked back, teohnicaHy. having found it.

Oharles Nonnan, a vibrant, "Avoid .t he ipea that because wiry man of medium height with you thought you were inspireu, The editors of Ebb Tide are well-trimmed white hair, lit his you needn't change anything," he sincerely grateful to everyone pipe and shifted in his chair. "The remarks. He feels that those who who in any way helped to prodifference between one poet or never revise their work must be duce each issue this year.

Special thanks are extended to our moderator, Terri Bozigian, since she had .to relive the trauma of Ebb Tide, which she thought she had left far behind her. We are also indebted to Terri's husband, Kirk, who could invariably produce a desperately-needed cartoon on short notice.

DEATH, LOOK TO YOUR DOMAIN I am sick of the horror of men, The people at Franklin Printing, especially Aaron Slom and Who hate their own kind most; Harvey Oest, are to be lauded fw The earth is three-fourths ruin their patience and self-control, One day it will be all ghost. particularly on that day last fall when we called them six times.

It will range through the sky like a skull, We are deeply indebted to them Washed by the wind and the rain; for their excellent work.

Since men can outdo death, The exceptional efforts CYf our Death, look to your domain. stat! members were also appreciated, since they always found time out of busy schedules to pursue articles, ads, ~d pictures.

CHICKADEES Occasional contributors, too, Feeders hang like hives; llave earned our gratitude, as These bees are chickadees, have all of the people who have Alighting with fat feet allowed themselves to be interviewed or have given us in.fonnaFrom bare or budding trees, tion.

Black-capped, black-bibbed, white-cheeked, Special thanks are reserved for 'Like clowns on a trapeze, our readers. Any comments 81bout And giving such a glance, or criticisms of Ebb Tlde are sti11 A spring-enchanted man appreciated, since they will enHolds out his hand to them. wble us to establish what the student body wishes the publication From Portents of the Air to be next year.

(Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.)

"extremely vain." He spoke from experience and with deep understanding when he said that young poets try too hard to be poetic, and until they achieve control of their medium they don't realize how little needs to be said, and that little should be close to ordinary speech. The aim, he feels, "is to use language in its most intense way, and , if . the right word is not used, it limps a bit."

Its intensity would set it off from regular conversation.

He s t a t e d realistically that rushing into print can be good only in the sense that one will realize how much his work lacks.

He added, almost to himself, "Curious thing how everyone wants to be famous." He concluded by volunteering a bit of inspiration. "You must never listen to anyone. The young poet will know eventually" if his work is good, or, as Charles Nonnan so appropriately put it, "the real thing."

I walked out of the room which contained . bookcases of works by distinguished authors and poets, among them his own. I walked down the brick steps and out of the beautiful driveway, out into the s p e c i a 1 world of "Yhich Charles Norman writes.

'Godspell' Resounds

by TERRI BOZIGIAN The gospel according to St. Matthew never had it so good as it did with the Salve Regina Co!lege PJayer's production of 'GodspelL' In exploring the relationship between God and man the play sweeps both cast and audience from joyous laughter to torturous sorrow. It is the best of times and the worst of times.

This dialectic tension was sustained by an ensemble of ten players under the direction of Joan David. ·Their range of expression embraced fluid stage movement, strong vocal expression, and vibrant !.yrical ability.

Eaeh player perfectly suited the varied roles he or she portrayed.

And what a joy it was to ex-

perience these portrayals as cast reached out to audience amid improvisation, John-Michael Tebelak's campy dialogue, and the alternating rock beats and tender ballads of Stephen Schwartz, un· der the musical direction of William Morris.

By the play's end a one-to-one relationship had been built between audience and a cast composed of Robert Blake, Walter Zimmerman, Marcia Britting, Valerie DeMarco, Denise Kobialka, Michael Sheehan, Melkiori Matwi, Donna McCaffrey, Michele Pascov, and Dan Thibert.

And when the audience rose to a standing ovation, it was clear that God, and brotherhood, and all that St. Matthew was saying is alive and well and going strong.

'Thanks.'

Two Poems

By Charles Norman

Charles N onnan enjoying some Club Blend.

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Jacques Penblight's Image

by CLAIRE ZISSON

Written for English 230 Creative Writing I had seen the name Penblight written, in conjunction with anatomically crude sentiments, on the ladies' room wall once at the Plough and Stal's, and I'd even - read his column a few times in the hip B o s ton underground weekly he writes for, but I never expected that I would ever know him, or even care to know him, much less become as amazed as I did with my wbiLity to dislike him so intensely. If this sounds suspiciously like .the beginning of a nineteentlh century novel I can assure you th·a t PenbLight would not have 'b een too out of place in the pages of Balzac. There is an offensively contr i ved quality about his picaresque adulthood that I didn' t catch on to at first until someone told me th!lit Penblight plants graffiti about hims~If on ladies' l'OOm walls at quite a few bars .besides the Plough and Stars. He hated for people to find out about things like that and once he suspected you didn't ·find him awe-inspiring (or graffiti inspiring) he'd cool off to you so fast you'd feel like January in June. I wish I could describe to you the glare he shot at me the time I guffawed when I overheard him telling someone he was Irish.

(Heaven knows he knew I knew he was concealing something vaguely T e u t o n i c behind his Brendan Behan manner.) But if I found him obnoxious I wasn't alone. Plenty of .p eople despised him. WJlioh is exactly the way he wanted it.

Jacques Penblight was born in Paris in 1943, the son of an army colonel, Percy Penblight of Memphis, and a spoiled and tantalizing Parisian socialite, the former Francoise Chaquefois. Jacques spent his formative years ha:ting his name and alienating fellow army brats in many European cities. His culturaLly obsessed mother pulled him through countless museums across the continent and fed him on Fielding, D i c kens, Flaubert, Yeats and Proust, thus sowing the first seeds of his intellectual superiority complex. By 't he time he was seventeen and the family had moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Jacques had learned to appreciate his name and apply it, along wit.'l his formidable height 6'3" - and broad shoulders, to the construction of his image.

It was at this point that Jacques ·l eft home to hi.tchlhi.ke to Boston riding high on the influence of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and established himself in a tacky two-room apartment on tlhe fringes of Beacon Hili. He would not return to Tuscaloosa for eight years, when he would blaze back in a secondhand Porsche with his first published collection of poems, Toenalls and County Jails, under his arm.

Jacques was very poor in his Beacon Hill phase. He never took a job unless he was totally broke because that would have meant he wasn't earning a living as a writer. He never seemed •to have

more than a handful of change each other for the sheer thrill of and he always took it straight to the subsequent apologies. Sylvia the beer taps at the Charles w a s n ' t particularly impressed Street bars. Someone who knew with Jacques' history among .t he him in those days claims thS!t literati and poets - she was a most of Pen:bLight's acquaint- math teacher - but she was deances headed in the other direc- lighted with his familiarity with tion when they saw him coming the Red Sox teammates. Jacques because they knew he'd want to was delighited with Sylvia's debum a quarter and they also light. He couldn' t bear to be knew he'd never pay it back. He apart from her. Sylvia's parents was thrown out of lounges for were not delighted wi.t h Jacques. disruptive behavior, and by the In fact .they hated him, his big time he was legally of age to mouth, and his huge beer belly. drink at the Oharles Street bars Undaunted, Jacques decided to he was banned from most of move forom Boston .to Belleport, them. The result was th8it he re- RJh.ode Island, to be nearer to located to Cambridge's artier Sylvia. This is how I met him. watering holes. He lost his right My husband had lived on Beaeye in a fighit at the Plough and con Hill in the early sixties when Stars, but .the glass eye proved J a c q u e s was there bumming appHCSible to his image because quarters up and down Charles it gave his face an unbalanced, Street. Seamus and Jacques had glowering look, and because it never been great friends, but was a handy way to revolt a bor- Jacques had enjoyed Seamus' faing drinking partner - he'd pop miliarity with Irish poetry and it out and into their drink. But Irish history, so tihey'd spent the Plough maintained a certain some time together. Shortly after respect for the eccentrics and Jacques met Sylvia, fate placed madmen in their clientele, so he them in the same bar at the same was always served there, and time the Mid-Thames Spa in they even let him think he was Belleport. Seamus kept staring Irish. at Jacques, trying to place him J a c q u e s spent most of his and his strangely familiar glass twenties in the Midwest at vari- eye when the bulky sportswriter ous writers' schools, meeting mi- suddenly jumped off his stool and nor heroes and developing his shouted 'Holy Geez, if it isn't style. He •began publishing his Seamus O'Shaughnessy! " in his often off-color poetry in obscure best fake brogue. Well, one thing literary magazines, and claims to led to another, one beer led to have written a fairly successful pornographic novel, although no one has ever seen the book or the royalty checks.

'Plenty of While s t u d y i n g in Kansas people despised Jacques met and married former governor Beltram Hedger's prethim, which ty blonde d a u g h t e r MeLinda.

Someone who attended the wedis exactly ding told me that the ever attention-seeking Penblight stole the the way show, or rather ruined the recephe wanted tion, by emptying a bottle of Canadian Club on the six-tiered it wedding cake. He was in a white tuxedo, and Melinda was in ·w hite lace, and apparently the massive white wedding cake was what another, and Seamus suggested inspired him to shout "It's all too J·a cques move into our new apartdamned pristine!" as he doused ment since it had an extra bedit in whiskey. My source de- room and we needed help with scribed Melinda's soft Midwestern the rent anyway. So he 'did. sobs as she collapsed on the govAlmost instantly Jacques .Penernor's shoulder, and the govern- blight became a thorn in our or's prompt dismissal of the To- sides, especially mine. He didn't peka Daily Sun photographers. sleep there much, 'b ut it seemed He says Penblight sulked with a he was always underfoot. He· dozen ,b ottles of beer until they never washed any dishes, but he lef.t for the honeymoon. They was constantly making them dirwere divorced fourteen months ty. Every time he charged later. through he l~ft in his wake crusIn 1973 Jacques returned to ty sauce pans, half filled glasses Boston. I guess you could have of beer, mounds of cigarette called him a relative success, butts, stacks of newspapers and compared to the fellow aspiring magazines, and a j a c k e t or writers he'd left behind while on sweater dangling from the back his Midwestern Odyssey. A week of every chair. While he was after he hit town he landed the around the house the TV was sports editor's job with the "Bos- never turned off, beginning with ton Gryphon." Suddenly Jacques the Today Show and ending with Penblight was Somebody.-:He be- the test pattern. He often fell came flaShy with hundred dollar asleep on the living room sofa in bills - using them to pay for his front of the Late Movie, surbeers, he bought new clothes, he rounded .by beer bottles and ashbegan to think of settling down. trays, my grandmotlher's wedIt was then that he met Sylvia ding-present a f g h a n casually DiNapoli, a tough-mouthed Ltali- balled up under his head. He'd an school/teacher from southern stay that way all n:ight, often Rhode Island. They were crazy too lazy to go upstairs to bed. It about each other, and they were was always a gamble ·b ringing even crazier a;bout shouting at friends home after a show be0

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cause if Jacques was camped out in the living room he not only wowldn' t leave, but he wouldn' t turn off the blaring television or even share the sofa. I'd curse him from behind my closed bedl'OOm door as the din from the TV and his shouts at Seamus' dog and the dog's replies pulied me farther and farther ·from sleep.

What I hated the most was that he did it all on purpose, he worked at being crass and offensive. I didn' t care that he might want to maintain some kind of image, however weird, but I objected to his practicing it in our house. I came to actively resent hi·s plaid wool slacks for football season, his madras shorts and golf sweaters for Red Sox games, his NFL digital watch - given to press members 111t the Superbowl, his press passes he was always leaving conspicuously on table tops, his bestial aftershaves and clogged razor on the bathroom shelf, his George Wallace button - meaningless since he never bothered to vote in any elections. But to tell you the truth, I read his column, and the articles he occasionally wrote for slick magazines, and I appreciated him as a writer. I hate to admit it now, but I did, so it was my own fault that I let him get to me.

A couple of summers ago Seamus and Jacques and a few others of us decided to organize a massive clambake. Since our collective budget was fail'ly modest, we chipped in for the cost of food and beer. The day of the clambake d a w n e d sunny and promising. The plan was that Pen.blight would go down early and dig the pit and start the fire (he claimed to be an expert at beach cuisine) and we could all show up later with the paraphernalia. I drove Jacques to the beach myself, foolishly unloading clams, lobsters, corn, potatoes, two cases of beer on ice, and a quart of whiskey to save an extra trip lwter. Delays at the house prevented us from returning to the bea.oh until shortly before the guests would arrive.

I'H never forget how Seamus, Sylvia and I shrieked when we bounded over the dunes to discover a sleeping Penblight, no clam pit, no fire, almost no beer, and a stray dog dragging and poking the lobsters through the sand. It turned out the whiskey was depleted, too. I thought I'd never forgive him and his lousy, destructive image.

But I did, because he continued to live with us. He became a vegetarian, for no apparent reason, 1b ecause he hated animals.

(He had a snarling relationship with all dogs and a backhand slap for all cats.) He filled the cupboard with Wonder bread and vegetarian baked beans, and the refrigerator with fake bacon and sausage, stacks of Am e r i c an cheese slices, and beer. He ate almost nothing else, and I'm sure he reveled in the inconvenience that caused at dinner parties. I remember I used to dump the moldy remains of his pans of beans onto the sports page of the current issues of the "Boston

Gryphon" and toss them viciously into the trash.

The curtain act in The Penblight Story finally occurred on Greek Independence Day. I was the only Greek I knew in Belleport - although Jacques loved to tell people my family ran the Acropolis Gardens, a local typical Greek greasy spoon - and I decided to invite a cousin from out of state and his girlfriend, an Aegean beauty from New York, for a Grecian feast. I told Sylvia about the grape leaves and cheese and salad and olives and moussaka and retsina I was planning and she sounded so intrigued that I invited her and Jacques. I blame my ridiculously hospitable Greek heart for that foolish blunder.

The whole day was a disaster.

Penblight spent the afternoon in nothing but madras shorts getting sunburned and drunk in the back yam. The grape leaves tasted funny when I pulled them off the stove . Seamus kept playing his tin whistle and the sound was splitting through my brain.

Sylvia arrived in gobs of makeup and a tight jersey and began screaming at Jacques for getting so drunk. She kept slipping into Italian which she only did when she was really furious or really drunk. Penblight began shouting back. He threw the contents of a bottle of beer at Sylvia and missed. Sylvia began popping open bottles and dumping beer on the grass - visions of "The African Queen." Seamus dashed in and started playing Yankee Doodle Dandy on the whistle. I tried to cover my ears and set the table at the same time. I was very hot and irritated and sick of the noise.

The doorbell rang. There stood my cousin Nick and his date Christina. I was in dungarees and sweat. Christina was in a white pantsuit and fresh make up.

Jacques and Sylvia were still roaring away in the back yard.

Nick and Christina looked nervous. I got them a drink and went to the kitchen to get my feast on its platters and found Jacques heating up a can of beans - and burning a lot of them. Murder rose in my heart for Jacques Penblight, for whom I'd added extra vegetables to the menu. Baked beans on my Greek table.

But I hung on. I seated them all, including a sulking Sylvia who was by now not speaking to anyone, and I passed the platters.

Jacques showily rejected my oil and vinegar salad dressing for his own bottled Creamy Deluxe Riviera French. He then raised his glass of retsina and shouted "Here's to the Greeks! Sophocles was a faggot!" Sylvia suddenly broke into raucous laughter, just managing to choke out "Who's Sophocles?" before Penbllght grabbed her and began kissing her passionately (I told you they loved making up), knocking over two glasses of retsina and sending olives rolling greasily across the tablecloth. Ohristina headed for the bathroom with Nick close behind. Seamus chased Jacques and Sylvia clear to the next block. I was crying.

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Campus Beauty Queen Tells All

by MARTHA WOLF Don't ever try to interview Tanya Kapla; she is very likely to waJ.k into your office, sniff with feigned haughtiness, and make snide remarks as to its decor, like, "Well, isn't this dreary!" (I myself had thought it rather tastefully furnished, in Its own quiet way.)

Worse, she will probably then get to talking so fast that you will 1b e afraid her .tongue will gather sufficient force to become unhinged, being then swiftly propelled like a missi-le into the outside world, where it will no doubt fell a passer ...by. (A lawsuit might result.)

And don't ever ask her how many prizes she's won in beauty pageants, since there are so many it tends to become confusing. I have never seen all of the trophies she's collected myself, but I don't dou·b t she has enough of the golden vessels to launch a dazzling armada.

Tanya, a sophomore Art major here, is a girl with an unusual background, and, most likely, an unusual future . Striking, confident, and slightly crazier than most, she has wavy honey-colored hair and blue eyes that seem perpetually wide.

Tanya's most recent award c8.me from the Miss Rhode Island Universe Beauty Pageant, where she narrowly missed the crown and was chosen first runner up out of eighteen girls from throughout the state.

She takes it philosophically : "The excitement and the experience you get from a pageant are just as important as winning."

Tanya has been getting this sort of ex.perience ever since she was seventeen. Originally from New Jersey, her prize as first runner up in a Junior Miss Pageant there paid for her first semester at Trenton State College.

That same year, she was chosen a grand finalist out of 500 contestants in the Miss America Teenager Pageant. Once, in one night, Tanya waJked away wtih both the Miss Center City of Philadelphia and the Model of the Year titles, ·b oth pageants being held the same night. There have been many other awards, and some pageants where she wasn't chosen as a finalist at all.

Still, T~ya feels that she profits from each one that she enters.

Acting is her real love, and she feels that any exposure and experience she can get will further her career.

Two years ago, a judge for one of the pageants Tanya was in was sufficiently impressed with her talent to become her man-

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ager. Through him, she had an opportunity to meet people like Bobby Vinton, Bob Hope, Tony Randall, Mike Douglas, Clifton Davis, Shecky Greene, Rocky Graziano, and F. Lee Bailey.

By participating in beauty pageants, Tanya sees an interesting, if at times unflattering, facet of human nature. "In the teenage pageants, the contestants were friendlier with each other, and sincerely glad .f or the winner," she observes, but in the pageants that ·carry more important prizes and prestige, she sometimes finds things different.

Once, Tanya's application was torn up, just before it was about to go to the judges, by another contestant. She has also seen pageants where evening gowns were slashed with knives, and bathing suits fiushed down a toilet, by contestants who were obsessed with winning.

The most crucial part of a pageant, Tanya feels, is the judges' interview with each contestant.

She thinks that for the most part, the judges are perceptive people who are not easily fooled by those who give them less than sincere answers to their questions.

"When I first started out in pageants, I told the judges what I thought they wanted to hear, but now I'm candid with them," she remarks.

During the interview for the Miss Rhode Island Universe Pageant, one judge, noticing on Tanya's application that she enjoys Russian foods, asked if she was a Communist. "Oh, no, I'm true-blue American! " the startled Tanya cried, starting everyone roaring with l!IJUghter.

Another girl was less fortunate; she had never sklied before in her life, 1but she had marked it down as her hobby. When a judge inquired as to where she skiied, all the flustered gii1l could think of to say was, "Downhill."

Ju~p-es for most pageants are different every year, and are usually men and women who are chosen because they are outstanding citizens within the community.

TlUlYa's sense of humor and vivacious personality have no doubt been a plus to her when talking with the judges. And if a talent competition is concerned, Tanya is also skilled at ballet.

Studying dance since she was nine, she now teaches ballet to 15 children, ages 5-8. "Lots of little Margot Fontaynes, no Rudolf Nureyevs yet," she remarks about her all-girl class.

Although her friends usually

support her when she enters a pageant, Tanya has sometimes run into a negative reaction from people who misunderstand her motives.

"Some p e o p 1 e automatically think that you believe yourself to be outstandingly beautiful", she observes, but asserts that most pageants are looking for a girl who, t h o u g h attractive, has enough intelligence, talent, and poise to !be 111ble to represent her state or her nation.

With a minor in Theatre at SRC, Tanya played the role of Maria in .t he production of Royall Turner's The Contrast here, and Salve recently had a successful Blood Drive. Students donated in the vicinity of forty-five pints of blood. Blood drives will be held in September, December, and April during the next sdlool year.

We would like to apologize to Sally Michalek for leaving her name off the roster of the Woman's Basketball T eam. M embers of the Men' s Team (6 -1 0) were: Bernard Redfield, P a t Holder , Paul Preuit, Al Hill, Rica rdo Lopes, Tony Kutsajtis a nd Milton Young.

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'Chiefs On Campu~ Pool Vast Hxperien~e

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E v e r y Wednesday afternoon this semester, voices booming with undisguised en thus i as m shook the pine-panelled walls of a classroom in Angelus Ha.H. Problems that al'l police departments share were being frankly discussed by the men who lead them; police chiefs, deputy chiefs and administrative officers from N ewport, Warwick, Johnston, New Bedford, Bristol, Tiverton, and Foster.

In an attempt to "get them to communicate with each other and to propose solutions to the problems within their departments," the seminar in law enforcement education for command officers was conducted by Charles Cook, head of the Criminal Justice Department here.

Informal discussions were held on everything from riots and gun control to budgeting and sickleave.

"The course is designed to bring the command officers together to develop new ideas' for solving problems in law enforcement by using their vast experi-

ence. The nwnber of small police departments in Rhode Island, approximately thirty-nine, demonstrated an obvious need for such a course," comments Mr. Cook.

"All the departments cope with similar problems, but find as many different solutions to these problems as their are departments," he notes.

By pooling their knowledge, more uniformity. is achieved within ¡the departments, and the command officers are able to find the best available solutions to problems that arise.

A particularly timely discussion focused on how police departments can deal with the swnmer influx of large groups of people into small, historic towns.

"One command officer experienced in handling a large, unruly Fourth of July crowd immediately outlined for the group the power needs, the technical equipment required, and the techniques of handling large numbers of people," observes Mr. Cook.

Many of the chiefs feel that they have profited greatly from Continued on Page 6

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A chUd ls born So unaware Of what ls ahead.

So innocent; But soon he win learn And understand.

He will soon be lost Just like the rest.

Life ls just a maze And we are the subjects.

Some will prosper But some will also jail What is to become of them '!

And again a child is born ..

BY LEILANI GOGGIN

Participants in "Kite Day" strive to get airbo'rne.

Penblight:S Image Continued from Page 3 The image-crazed sportswriter mind, sitting in my livingroom no longer lives here, but he's still with a sixpack, three packs of in Belleport, m a k i n g steadily Luckies, and his shoes on the more enemies. I still read his sofa, working the New York column now and then although I Times crossword in ink. You see, don't speak to him. I guess I have Jacques Penblight n ever has to too fresh a picture of him in my erase.

Dreams Catch the tide, It's time to be leaving.

Let the wind take your hand, It will take you Where you wish to go.

The c'louds have left the sky, The world is yours, Today and for ever.

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Media Club And Speakers Committee Benefit Campus

by LEILANI GOGGIN Included in the number of student oriented events on campus, the Speakers Committee and the Media Club have, in the past year, provided two activities from which the college has greatly benefited.

In a small, closely-knit college community, as is the present case here at Salve, there exist numerous advantages, but a number of obvious limitations also exist.

Salve is growing each year and the need for changes to accommodate for this growth must not be ignored . Various changes are essential and should not only involve the expansion of existing facilities but also the development of new ideas.

Student organizations, such as the Speakers Committee and the

Media Club seem to have acknowledged this need and have added activities which are in tune with the growing college population. The incorporation of events Uke the lecture and the film senes have supplied one means by which the college can be improved. This expansion produces an opportunity for students to utilize and appreciate an additional yet highly advantageous form of learning.

Lectures s p on s or e d by the Speakers Committee this year, have included interesting, informative, and thought provoking presentations on a variety of subjects. They have presented an occasion when students, and the community as well, can obtain a greater insight into contemporary events and issues.

The film series, sponsored by

the Media Club, offers yet another function for college students to assemble together. The series has 'been a means w he r e b y Salve's existence has been br6ught into perspective, for the community and other schools as well. Fresh Fruit, for example, inChjdes the series in its publications of the films being shown on various campuses in Rhode Island. Such p u b 1 i c i t y for the school is never harmful, in fact, it brings communication closer to home.

Within any college community there exists a definite need for the expression of ideas. Both the lecture series and the film series have demonstrated that improvement can come with expansion.

From Within a Squirrels' Cage

by ANTHONY KUTSAFTIS 'I1his being the last issue of the Ebb Tide for this year, I have some things I'd like to say. Cage wishes to thank Mike Borkowski for his help in getting all our ads this year. He will sorely be missed next year as he is transferring to the University of Connecticut.

Good luck Mike and don't let them get that tattoo on you.

I'd also Uke to say that 'Honors and Awards' day this year was a pleasant surprise. Under the skillful eye of Bob Kulo, it was short and sweet. It was carried out with no major snags and the commemorative pieces were beautiful.

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Howard Huglh.es was buried recently and it left me with a sad and empty feeling that one of our last great legends is goiie.

Hughes' estimated 2.5 billion dollar fortune will be bantered about the legal courts for many years to come. I read that the estate of Mr. Hughes is so complicated tha three IRS agents were puried with him. (That was a bit of dry humor but you might even call it arid.)

• • • The robber barons have hit town and if you plan on staying in Newport for the summer, I wish you luck. I surveyed seven local realtors and what was one month of rent during the year is one week or less during the summer.

These exor.bitant price increases are ridiculous. Our misinformed city fathers have also denied all requests for peddlers licenses thus denying the right of free enterprise. The city may applaud itself for drawing all .t hls so called beneficial tourism here for the summer but Who is going to benefit.

A city of this size oan not safely accommodate all those people.

• • • For those of you looking for unusuwl summer employment here is our personal <listing: • One person to ring the dinner bell at a-lla.mp for deaf mutes.

This is it.i1 outdoor job with chance for rapid advancement.

You could end up chef at a monastery for monks on a hunger strike, pay negotiable.

• A model to pose for the centerfold of the morticians monthly.

Must have an ability to make yourself look dead. $150 weekly.

• Three people to referee race riots in Boston. 'I1his is a job for an older person prefera;bly one who has a paid life insurance policy. The pay is ~285 a week, all applicants should apply at Boston City Hall.

• We have an opening for a social director. You should have a degree in sociodogy and be able to coordinate many interesting social events. Apply at KKK headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

• Want high pay! Want short hours! An aging bank robber seeks young, college graduate with mechanical abilities for apprentice. Write Box 789, Phoenix, Arizona.

• Dead Spanish ruler seeks new tailor. Apply in Guata La Hera.

• W·a nt a career in television and radio? Famous Hollywood studio seeks new star. If you resemble King Kong, Mighty Joe Young or any of their descendants apply at Paramount Studios, West Covena, California.

• • • James Boulay has also worked on his last issue of the Ebb Tide.

Jim is the man who took a.ll the excellent pho.tos you see in .thi·s and the three previous issues. Jim is running away to jain the army and someday hopes to become a CIA agent. I'd like to thank Jim and wish him .the best of luck in his· new career.

• • • Spring is a beautiful time of year dn Newport. The weather is changeable but the opportunity for outdoor activities is great.

For some unknown reason this is the ,t ime of year when I get very mellow. A walk on the cliffs or a stroll along Bellevue A venue or .the beach is .a refreshing .change of pace. I think this is the perfect time to sit down and contemplate the validity of your efforts in pur-

suing your goals and to ponder our own and mankind's fate.

People seem to always be in a hurry and it is a shame that a civilization as technologically advanced as our own is so deficient in moral leadership.

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The public march for peace in Boston last week was a quiet reminder that in -tlhe midst of our troubles men oan gather together as brothers and bow their heads in prayer to .the Lord.

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I'd just like to wish everyone a nice summer and hope that you return next year ready for the grind of homework, studies, and exams.

Chiefs On Campus Continued from Page 5 the two-semester course. Each is required to write a paper on a particular problem that exists within their department, dealing with anything from labor relations and budget matters to maintaining technical equipment and communicating with the police officers. The paper is then exchanged with a fellow command officer, who in turn writes a paper recommending a solution to the problem. Bo.th papers are then presented to the class for discussion.

The comma.n.,d Qffieers also indicated an interest in such topics as .the Privacy Act, -t he Freedom of Information Act, and recent changes in criminal law. Arrangements are underway .to invite representatives of the Federal B u r e au of Investigation Academy to offer a management program in conjunction with the college's Criminal Justice Department, and the Newport Police Department.

Participants in the s e m i n a r were Arthur Belli, Frank Brown Jr., Joseph Fricker, Frederick Newton, William Tocco, Robert Washburn, and Carroll Wilcox.

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Serenity: Chuck Trimbach conducts a leisurely class on lawn behind ' I O'Hare.

EBB TIDE Published monthly by S~lve Regina College Newport, Rhode Island 02840 Editors ... ... ... . . . . . .. .. .. Martha Wolf, Anthony Kutsaf.tis Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unda Clorite, Patrice DeVeau,

Leilani Goggin, Sherri Pendell, Diane Silvia, Kathy Stevens Business Manager . ... . . .... .. . ... ...... Michael Borkowski Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Boulay, Ed Schell Moderator .... . . ..... ,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terri Bozigian The opinions expressed herein are the opinions of the editorial board and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the administration, faculty, or the student body a.t Salve Regina College.

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