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Class of '86 kicks offseason
Formats highlight year
By GIGI SHAMSY
Reporter
The Spring semester at A&M is
traditionally the time for the class
balls, and the Class of ’86 will kick
off the season with its Masquerade
Ball tonight in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom from 9 p.m. to 1
a.m.
“We scheduled the ball for early
in the semester so guys in the Corps
will not be thinking of boot dance
yet,” Bonnie Varano said.
Though the theme is a masquer
ade, Varano, Class of ’86 social sec
retary, said it is not a costume ball.
The Executives, a progressive
country band, will provide the mu
sic. Also MSC Hospitality committee
will serve refreshments and Omega
Phi Alpha service sorority will oper
ate a hat-and-coat checkstand.
Dance tickets are $10 per couple.
Portrait packages at $6 and $8 will
also be available. The budget for the
ball is about $2,400. Varano said any
profits from the ball will go toward
purchasing the class gift.
The Class of ’87 council is plan
ning a dance on March 1 with the
theme “A Knight to Remember.”
The Debonaires will provide the
music and the council plans to rent a
dry-ice machine to blow ‘clouds’ on
the dance floor, said Tracy Bort-
nem, ball co-chairperson.
Tickets are $12 per couple, and
Bortnem said she expects 300 to 600
people to attend.
“Last year our class had a great
turn out,” she said. “We had an ex
tremely high attendance — more
people than have attended a fresh
man ball in a long time.”
The theme for the Class of ’88 ball
will be “Hooray for Hollywood.”
The ball will be March 2.
The event is in its planning stages,
but class officer Andrea Beshara
says the council has signed The High
Riders.
“The ballroom will be decorated
with movie posters, spotlights and
black-and-silver decorations to cre
ate a Hollywood touch,” Beshara
says.
Tickets are $ 12.50 per couple. Be
shara says she expects about 700
people to attend the ball.
Both the Class of’87 and the Class
of’88 dances will be held in the MSC
Ballroom from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m.
The Class of '85 council began
preparing for the annual Ring
Dance last May, because the time
and money required to plan Ring
Dance is greater than the planning
for the class balls, said Donna
Gansky, Ring Dance co-chairperson.
Ring Dance, planned for April 27,
is one of three Senior Weekend
events. The others are the Senior
Bash scheduled for April 26 and the
Senior Banquet set for April 27 at
the Aggieland Inn. The price is $60
per couple and includes all three
events.
“We want to make Ring Dance
1985 extra special for all seniors and
this means having quality bands, dec
orations and supplies,” Gansky said.
The budget for the dance is
$20,000 — the largest amount for
any class dance.
“Ring Dance is formal — mainly
long evening gowns for women,”
Gansky said. “This dance is the cul
mination of four years as a student
here and people will go all out this
night.”
The Drifters will play progressive
country music in the MSC Ballroom
while the Ed Gurlach Orchestra will
provide ballroom dancing music in
Rudder Exhibit Hall.
Unlike the first Ring Dance held
in Sbisa Dining Half, this year’s
dance will have the added luxury of
valet parking provided by MSC Hos
pitality.
The last of the spring festivities is
Boot Dance on May 4 after Final Re
view.
Varano said: “Boot Dance hap
pens after the juniors assume a se
nior position for the first time. I
guess you could say it’s the first time
they can legally wear their boots.”
She said the formal ball is more
regimented and traditional than the
class balls because its audience is pri
marily Corps members.
“We expect a majority of the 400
juniors in the Corps and their dates
to attend the ball,” she said. “The
publicity is simpler than any of the
class balls because we have a guar
anteed customer.”
Artist portrays
realism in era
of idealism
By WENDY JOHNSON
Reporter
William Hogarth’s struggle be
tween the idealistic artistic tradition
of his day and his desire to portray
realism can be traced throughout his
life, said two A&M professors in a
lecture Thursday.
Dr. David R. Anderson, assistant
English professor, briefly high
lighted the artist’s career. Hogarth
was an 18th century English painter,
engraver and social satirist. Appren
ticed as an engraver, Hogarth went
from artisan to artist by marrying
into it, wedding himself to academic
tradition. He eloped with the daugh
ter of Sir fames Thornhill, a well-
known traditional artist.
“This was an example of Ho
garth’s insistence on doing it his own
way,” Anderson said, “He wanted to
treat modern subjects in a traditional
manner, he had a new, direct, rude,
original approach to nature. Ho
garth makes no effort to gloss over
realism.”
Dr. Margaret J.M. Ezell, also an
assistant English professor, detailed
one of Hogartn’s most famous
works- “A Rake’s Progress”, a series
of eight paintings that tell the story
of a young heir who squanders his
inheritance and eventually goes
mad. She said Hogarth used tech
niques similar to satiric poetry and
prose, using setting and costume to
create the scene.
In Hogarth’s last endeavor “The
Bathos” or “Tailpiece” he illustrates
the end of the world, with all of
man’s institutions in ruin. Art, na
ture and literature have expired and
Father Time leaves Chaos as his ex
ecutor. Ezell said this was a type of
finishing statement that Hogarth left
us with. He died a few months after
finishing the painting.
The Hogarth engravings will be
on display in the Benz Gallery in the
Horticulture Forestry Sciences
Building and the CAED Gallery in
Langford Architecture Center 8
a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday
and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays until
Feb. 22.
Tours are available at the CAED
Gallery from noon-1 p.m. daily (ex
cept Satrudays). Group tours are
available.at either gallery by appoint
ment at 845-8501.
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