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d THE BATTALION Page 13 L ^ "l WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1980 Unique oiiice complex oilers eiriciency United Press International j... i NEW YORK — The average ! en %merican executive spends his w ^'writing day in an unnecessarily in- P 0 ,™ l ®cient environment, said Jim Spi- s yieli 11 niello, and he and Charles Roy of illy com^rristown, N.J., are doing some- ‘™ n 8t thing to change that. ; The Airport Park, a unique office '" l '' ' (complex located on the edge of Mor- s to SiV W own Airport is owned by Spiniel- nikan w ho runs a construction firm, and - managed by Roy. It’s a campus-like scene with a 1th club, a swimming pool, over- |ht accommodations for visitors, ference suites and dining rooms and a coffee shop, plus large parking space, a pond and other aesthetic landscaping features. Roy said there’s more to it than that. “There are lots of office build ings located on the edges of airports, and there are other campus-like complexes, but,” he said, “they are made up of what I call ‘stock build ings,’ not too comfortable and not very functionally efficient. “On the other hand,” he said, “some companies in the Fortune 500 list have buildings that are really sophisticated and functionally su perb. What Jim Spiniello decided to do when he embarked on Airport Park four years ago was to give ex ecutives of comparatively small com panies most of the advantages the fellows in the big companies get in their country-club style offices.” Spiniello’s prime concern was to relieve the business man of much travel and of attending to a lot of the chores that regularly interrupt his working day under conventional office environment conditions — running to the bank, hunting for a barber shop or a cab to take him to one, driving to the airport to pick up visting customers, going out for lunch and even of having his auto mobile gassed and serviced, or get ting in his daily exercise and swim. Spiniello brought in Roy because Roy had been manager of the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s $1 bil lion Charlestown project, which turned a depressed area into a thriv ing new community. Airport Park isn’t fully completed yet, but it has attracted a number of blue chip tenants such as the aviation department of American Telephone & Telegraph Corp., Cessna Air craft’s finance division and branches of Motorola, Inc., and Bechtel Co. In addition to things like a sauna bath, barber and hair styling shops, limousine service, an auto repair shop and other amenities, the com pleted park will have an art gallery and studio facilities for budding artists in the community. The buildings have acoustical- thermal glazing throughout and full- spectrum lighting, which transmits the ultraviolet rays you don’t get in ordinary artificial lighting. These rays kill a lot of bacteria in the ambient air and cut down on the spread of colds and other infections. Roy said physicians and psycholog ists also told him full-spectrum light ing helps workers to concentrate bet ter on the job. Roy is confident the Spiniello office concept will spread although he doesn’t expect it to be limited to sites on the fringes of airports. Plan ners and developers have come to Morristown from Baltimore, Boston and a number of other cities to look over Airport Park. Roy said the park also benefits from its proximity to suitable hous ing for workers and to some of the more affluent residential areas of New Jersey, communities with ex cellent schoools that appeal to execu tives. There is no public transportation, but Roy is hoping for a busline soon. He said a project like Airport Park ought to have public transit as well as adequate parking. * ^ Manor East 3 JNIANOR EAST MALL » usic man from Nebraska, 87, scans ads for bands to direct 5th Hit Week! CUL MINER’S MNNNTER gasoline, :ess is 4 perniiltii perceilj i better :als and M / canhww United Press International nowkytORD, Neb. — Wanted: retired optometrist to teach music classes in abilitvgrural Nebraska high school. No for- oline,' mal music education necessary, ducet: Must be willing to travel. 20peret»Not an ad you would likely see. rely,toft that doesn’t stop Dr. Glen Au- oil slate We, 87, from scanning the classi- in Atk fietls. co spolttfeAfter all, just last year he was hired ;s is intf each vocal and instrumental clas- tivevi ses at Thedford High School, a 100- m. He# mile drive through rugged Nebraska ranch country from his hometown of Ord. Auble made his living through his Ord optometry business from 1914 until he retired in 1972. In between examining eyes and fitting glasses, he organized school bands in rural towns such as Ord, Sargent, North Loup and “Lord knows where else,” earning the title of central Nebras ka’s “Music Man.” Auble has been directing bands since 1910, when he and a friend at Ord High School organized what he believes was the first high school band in Nebraska. He estimates he has directed and taught more than 1,200 students. His only official music education — “except for one private lesson on a snare drum” — was instruction in the do-re-mi system from his mother. He learned to play a num ber of instruments with his family on their farm. oxfire literary line ay scribe history ii United Press International ATLANTA — Eliot Wigginton, I the country schoolteacher who in- i'spired the famed Foxfire books about (the once self-sufficient culture of the Appalachian Mountain people, says a change may be coming for the pub lications. Since 1966, the Foxfire quarterly igazines and books documented breeds* of the 11 ,J step-by-step many nearly-forgotten skills such as blacksmithing, planting (jog/ 1 by the signs of the Zodiac, log cabin g j unbuilding, cooking on a fireplace, hide jght a; tanning and spinning and weaving. There were articles about how to make items in the home — coffins, id hi 1 shoes, banjoes, flintlock rifles, fid- i move dies, soa p anc | home-made re- :r toil-medics. famoK I Everything j n Foxfire is resear- eral f ched and written by Wigginton’s 9th ation and 10th grade students at the 250- he C pupil Nacoochee School in Rabun nofwounty, Ga. exampl Looking to the future, Wigginton rea all sees the time coming when Foxfire mg Tl'inay change. Future Foxfire articles Is Im may tell about historical events and >r bcfc'iow they affected the mountain peo ple of North Georgia, he said, parti- aiii]' jularly the Great Depression of the all) J [930s, the Civilian Conservation il)i« r(: Dorps of those days and the building is if the Tennessee Valley Authority :_V M 6 lams and lakes. ilation “There are incredible stories ab- )ut those early industrial days,” he jttk‘ f lfi T“There were no OSHA (govem- t inset 1 nent) safeguards in those days. Peo- remember some of the incredible gs that happened to them back Foxfire has been so successful that L l^jjational publishing house, Double- pfey, prints a selection of articles from Up magazine in book form. The Fox- |e book is now well on its way to ^yissing two million copies. The first Foxfire book was fol- fi'nbwed by additional volumes and /) iVigginton says the Foxfire Fund has V led several million dollars from „ sales. The money is used to sup- ,rt the teaching activities of the iMooi. Recently, says Wigginton, the Na tional Endownment for the Humani ties in Washington, D.C., offered a grant of $300,000 to Foxfire with the stipulation that it be matched by $900,000 from other sources. If the money is raised, Wigginton said it will be used to “perpetuate the teaching philosophy and teaching techniques of the school after the books stop.” Meanwhile, Foxfire Six will be published in September. It will have articles about shoemaking, the step- by-step construction of a banjo made out of a gourd, and how hand-made wooden locks were fashioned. There also will be a 70-80 page piece on a sawmill and its electric generating system that runs on water power. The biggest feature of the sixth edition of Foxfire will be an article on children’s toys and games “when people had to make their own,” Wig ginton said. “We’re not advocating that people go back to the old ways,” he said. Rather, the Foxfire books “are a vehicle for getting students into composition skills.” Wigginton says there is a lot of talk now about the desire of people to become more self-sufficient and the need to be happy with fewer material possessions. He believes a combination of aspects of the present American life style and a way of life that empha sizes conservation is workable. “We don’t have to have a total electric home to be comfortable.” Some people are returning to wood heat, said Wigginton, but “there are a lot of mountain people who never left it. I know one man, Kenny Runion, who kept telling peo ple they were crazy to be giving up their woodburning stoves. They think this whole mania (for wood heat) is really funny. ” Lots of food-raising practices of the past, according to Wigginton, are practical today, such as raising crops organically. “I know farmers in Rabun County who were able to keep their land fertile and productive without the use of commercial fertilizers and pes ticides. “People can make do with less and still be happy and comfort able. We don’t need electic hair dryers and toothbrushes, 15 pairs of shoes and 300 neckties. ” 3RD “ANNUAL LEDBEHER MARATHON” „ APRIL 26TH. 8-Mile Ffiin-10 Age Groups, 30 r Trophies; 4-Mile Run (Age 15 & Under), 6 Trophies. Entry Forms: Marathon Director, Box 253, Ledbetter, Texas. (713) 278-3559. During the 1940s, he organized what turned out to be his largest band ever at Sargent. It grew from 17 students to 70 — about 10 percent of the town’s population. At one time during those years he directed three bands at once. That turned into a problem when all three went to the same music contest one year. “I had three bands playing in three different rooms. I just ran from one room to the next.” Auble turned in his baton in 1966 after directing 27 years at Comstock High School. But in 1971, Loup County High School at Taylor, popu lation 263, ran an ad for a part-time music director with or without a cer tificate. He was hired. So much for retirement. Auble said the “first major failure” of his band career came at the Loup County school. He was disappointed because he was unable to entice enough boy students away from athletics. He ended up with a 33- piece all-girl band. Auble decided to retire again from teaching music in 1975 at the age of Accounting Society & Beta Alpha Psi PRESENT THE 82. But when Thedford High School had trouble finding a music teacher, he applied and was hired. The word spread, and he started spending one morning a week teaching in Elba, a 20-mile drive from his hometown. Both jobs have since been filled with permanent teachers, but Auble said he still looks at the classifieds, in case there is somewhere else he can help. In the meantime, he and his wife of 64 years, Lillian, spend time en tertaining at nursing homes, chur ches and clubs, taking along a harp and horn and leading groups in song. Last year, he organized another band. Called the “HasBeens,” it is made up of 19 former students from his teaching days at Comstock High School. All but two of the band mem bers are farmers and their wives, most of them in their 40s and 50s. Auble said he sometimes plays an instrument with the group but “mostly I just start ‘em and stop ‘em.” “But I always insist on fire and a lot of spirit. ” ROCKY and ROCKY Together. O Rocky 7:15 Rocky 11 See him before he sees you. McgPEEN ' TOM HORN Based on the True Story m o Chapter Two ^ ’Little ’Darling 2:50 5:10 7:30 »:45 Jpg J 2:25 4:45 7:10 7:35 J FRIDAT-SATURDAY MIDNIGHT I MANOR EAST III i THE FOG >♦■210 Univ. Dr. CAMPUS WANDERERS TP J=S PLITT Southern UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER 846-6714 8. 84 6-1151 ^ou’ve rj&ver njef College Station - Houston TRUCKING SERVICE — LET US TRANSPORT YOUR BELONGINGS HOME FOR THE SUMMER — CONVENIENT DOOR TO DOOR SERVICE TO HOUSTON! CALL: LARRY, 693-0225 WEEKDAYS BETWEEN 7 AND 9 P.M. 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