Elizabeth Fall and Monica Palmiera - APA Class of 2007
Sean Seymour - APA Class of 2010
'Peter and the Wolf'
Symphonic instruments come to life
By NANCY S. SAUNDERS
Community News Editor, Kinston Free Press
A delightful experience awaits audience members at 7 p.m. Friday when "Another Opening, Another Show" graces the Grainger-Hill Performing Arts Center stage, 300 Park Ave.
The free performance is presented by L'Academie De Danse, with Nora Parker as artistic director.
Performers will present the ballet "Peter and the Wolf," which tells the story in dance and music of a young boy who lives with his grandfather in the Russian countryside and the boy's adventures in the garden when the wolf pays a visit.
The composition was written by Sergei Prokofiev for his children in 1936 after his return to the Soviet Union. It is a children's story, with music and text, spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra.
"Peter and the Wolf" is scored for fl ute, oboe, clarinet in A, bassoon, three horns, trumpet, trombone, timpani, triangle, tambourine, cymbals, castanets, snare drum, bass drum and strings.
The ballet is enjoyable for children, and the music is sophisticated enough for adults. Each character has a particular instrument and a musical theme. Children can learn the sounds of the different instruments in the orchestra while enjoying the story.
The main characters are the bird (flute), the duck (oboe), the cat (clarinet), the wolf (horns), grandfather (bassoon), hunters (Timpani/bass drum, with the hunters' theme introduced by the woodwinds), and Peter (stringed instruments).
In Friday's performance, Stephanie Meadows will play the cat; Sean Seymour will portray Peter; Monica Palmiera will be the bird; Rachel Miller will be the wolf; Parker will portray the grandfather; and Elizabeth Falls will be the duck.
The performance is free and open to the public. Contributions will be accepted to help our community's animals. In response to new legislation passed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina requiring all state and local governments to provide separate shelters for pets during a natural disaster, the Lenoir County Cooperative Extensive Center has established an official shelter, but lacks funding to equip it.
All donations will be used to supply pet needs at the shelter outside the Lenoir Community College maintenance building.
Elizabeth Clarke and Dr. Bryan Cooper - APA Class of 1989
Injured woman honors 'second' family
By NANCY S. SAUNDERS Community News Editor, Kinston Free Press
WEST JEFFERSON - Elizabeth Clarke has one goal before Sunday - to honor her "second" father.
Clarke grew up in Kinston, the daughter of Judy Pelletier, now of Jefferson, and Ira Pelletier, now of Archdale.
From a young age, she also became part of another Kinston family - Doug and Kay Smith and their daughters.
"I started school with Melissa (Smith Richter), and that's how I met her cousins, Renee and Michele," said Clarke. "We were all around 5 years old, and we've been inseparable ever since."
Renee Smith Carter and Michele Smith Neuhoff, both of Greenville, are Doug and Kay's daughters and North Lenoir High School graduates.
While paths have diverged - with marriages, professions, more family additions - their familial-type bond has remained solid.
It became stronger in 1997.
After Clarke's 1989 Arendell Parrott Academy graduation and 1993 East Carolina University graduation, she was following a career track until a severe spinal cord injury in a 1997 automobile accident.
Following initial treatment, her hopes of more recovery were looking slim. Her type of injury required therapy not available nearby and extensive in time and cost.
The "family" stepped up to the plate.
In 2005, Doug Smith got Clarke to the Miami Project in Florida for an evaluation, the only FDA approved spinal cord injury research center in the country. The therapy she needed was too costly to continue there.
"Bryan started figuring how to meet my therapy needs in Greenville," said Clarke of Dr. Bryan Cooper, Kinston native, APA classmate and an associate with Eastern Neurology in Greenville.
Through his efforts, she now spends 22 hours a week at Viquest Wellness Center in physical therapy and fitness training.
Doug Smith has been the driving force behind money raising efforts for physical therapy and medical expenses. His initial fund-raiser, "Walk Again," in May 2005 raised $56,000. His second one this May raised $40,000.
"She's just one of the girls," said Smith of his involvement. "She's like another daughter."
Clarke has graduated to a standard walker, using her trunk, not under-arm braces, for mobility - no quick or small accomplishment.
Clarke, all the Smiths and the fund-raising committee now have a new goal - making "Walk Again" a nonprofit organization to help others like her walk again.
Ali Rotondo - APA Class of 2005
Three Bulldogs Selected to
May 23, 2007
NEW HAVEN,
Yale head coach Pam Stuper and assistant coach Tamara Durante are assistant coaches for the team, which is coached by former Bulldog head coach Ainslee Lamb.
The team will represent New England against the other five regions (
The HPTC program gives the top field hockey players in each region of the country an opportunity to practice and play on a regular basis along with the chance to be seen by national team coaches and possibly be selected to train with the national team.
Thayer, who was also named to the
Rotondo, a two-time NFHCA Academic Team selection, has appeared in 29 games and started 14 over her first two seasons in
Ostruzka has worked mainly with the Bulldog defense during her two seasons on the coaching staff. A sweeper and team captain for UConn, Ostruzka earned NFHCA All-America status her senior year and was selected for the NFHCA Division I North/South All-Star Game. She was also a two-time STX/NFHCA Division I All-Mideast Region All-America selection and was named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American as a senior. She is a native of
Durante is entering her third season at Yale having worked mainly with the goalkeepers and forwards. She will coach the goalkeepers on the
Stuper has been at Yale for 10 seasons, including eight as an assistant coach and two as head coach. A member of the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame, she helped lead Yale to three ECAC Championships (1998, 2002 and 2003) as an assistant. A nine-year member of the U.S. National Team, Stuper participated in three World Cups (1990, 1994 and 1998), one Pan-American Games (1995) and two Champion's Trophy Tournaments (1995, 1997). She was an alternate for the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team. Stuper earned a silver medal in the 1995 Pan American Games and a bronze medal in the 1994 World Cup. She recently returned from the
No other Ivy League school has as many connections to this year's New England HPTC team as Yale does.
report by Sam Rubin '95 (sam.rubin@yale.edu), Yale Sports Publicity
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