'Therapy' earns national award for playwright by Laura Jacobson Martin Kimeldorf ('79) is a person who tends to fill his need for self-expression by writlng plays. "Mv theraw." he calls ~t An.unusuaiaspect of one of his more recent plays. Take A Card. Any Card." IS that half the cast is dtsabled Martin explains that he wanted to write a olav which not onlv dramattzedthe ol~bht'otthe dtsabled but qave them chance to amear on siage just as they are. ' ' The scrlpt was Grand Prize winner in the 1979 Kansas Association for Retarded Citizens Nattonal Play Wr~tinoContest A oanel of profegionals In theater and special education chose Mart~n'splay over 50 entries from the Unlted States and Canada, and as part of the honor. Kansas State Unlverslty produced the play. NOW 33. Martin exvlained that although he started wrtttng plays wh~iestill a student at Oregon State Universrty, the lnsptratton for ',Take A Card" was lnsplred by two professors who taught during his first term at Portland State In 1977. Award-winnlng I IS. prO(IuCae 11 thing to do with um MartlnKlnuldort,highlightedHandluppd Ararene M Grave. at rlghl) breaks news to mother (Renee Plane hu*rtr) 0s to sommll her to a state Inst#tutlon. play, Take WM. A 1st May. In thtl me8 her h.ndlEdpped d ny M, by PSU .I me the nu- (Darle IsuahCr(Laurie X 16 Week at PSU wi I) mat the only I-: . . - . nd pmdut everything essruu.t tu ~nv~r~y a educatton. And tt was all first-hand experience." "SOthis was a brand new awareness on my part, working with the hand~capped."he continued. "Her cou!se work was the basts of my play At the same time. Pauline Peotter. Assoc~ateProfessor in Theater Arts. chose to produce one of Martln's :ed It for a house of 600 methods for lncorporartng alsabled people It also played at Evergreen people into theater. It covers State Colleoe in Olvmola. Wash. evervth~nofrom how to rernlct 3ter, to ludes for e "Jean Edwards (Professorof Specla1 Education) had thls immense vts1on of an integrated soctety," said Marttn. "She ts a person comrnined to the wncept of normalizat~on.a larger concept that ,nclodes malnstreaming (putting handicapped students in a learnlng situation that IS as ciose to normal as poss~ble) beyond schools and into every aspect of life," he emphasized. "She had an lncredtble curnculum." he recalled. 'It was probably years ahead of its time in the sense that she brought In hand~cappedpeople to speak, as well as parents. We ran around and saw lnstltutlons and group homes. We got ~nvolvedIn sex educatton wtth severely handicapped Indlv!duals.and tn tralnlng people to ride buses. You name it. we did and at the F~rehoudetheater In ' people, tcwhat tt 1s like ['be Portland Then. durlng "Handtcapped dlsabled and partictpate In the; Awareness Week 1981," the play publtc relations. "The book 1nc1 was produced by Paullne Peotter at several scrlpts that are wrlnen PSU. different types of programs." h "So we've wme full ctrcle," said explatned. 'Some scrlpts are written Marttn, drawtngthe thought In the alr for persons with speclf~cdisabilities. with eneroettc oestures, obv~ouslv whik others are In a stvle that can pleased that "his story'' seemed io accommodate anvone. have a p 01 an0 a lfoy en0 ng how vlnq In Tumwater Wash. bVe ve stancd nere w~tn,ean Mall n words 6n the 0 ympfa Scnool Eaxards ann Pa- ne Peotter D strlct as a sppc at ea~cal~on nsutr no tne oro0.a an0 I ooes out teacner dl Caotla dmn SI no01 playwrttt~g,and the tnsptratlon of Jean Edwards regarding the world of the handlcapoed Martin satd wh~ch and t r a h around to come'back to Mart~nsaldhe 4s l6okbno forward tc Portland State " mavlnu back to Portland &me dav. led him to wrlte "Take a Card." The play traveled from Kansas to the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara. Calif. where dtreclor Rod One ol the sptn-ofls of Take A He plais to contlnue lo teacn ' Card 0s lnat Manin and Rod -atham vocatonal.speclal adc cat on and have teamea JP to wrtle a lext abo~t Ihealer wor6snop classes ana tneatcr and the d~sableo.entallen then nrte awul t a I. 11 the recent "Ooen Am t.ons The text IS a vast 0s anv ou .. Latham of the Santa Barbara de. Theater of the Handtcapped, production-ortented manual on ," Ulwk Psaae ('71 BAI s an En llsh t e h r st n* ?M!O "noon ttch SCW, R rmm. Ore he asr l at nuoa It nn ard Citemam oelore rm%nt!~nlsmm ..,".,.= ,.-,,...,-, ." "-, ,- - ,=, Leutenant with the U.S. Manne Cwp assigned to Manne Anack Squadmn ! Manne C o p Alr Smhon, Yurna. Am. Frank Dez Young ('71BS) 8s the am Creallve Company, hc.. a pubtlc reial m Salem. Ore. Evle Zalc l'n Bs) 8s lhe teacher at a pnvafe grade schd atheChe~ Gn Center near Gasl, Pst Schnk 1'70 BS) is a teacher at Ilwm Hlgh School. Ilraca, Wash. He s also a dlaner bat owrator there. Sham C. Sllnmsl('70 BS) a an anin mm IMAGE. a graphic an tirm in Neu Yoh. New Y0ik Robert kilaon (70 9s) anended me Julllisrd Schwl 01 MUI~C m New Yoh's bncoln Center after gradualang Corn PSU, and earned a Master of MUSC m Plan0 Perlomancs Lsst wlnter he peoomed ~n the Oregon Symphony s Famly Concen sene$. Netem is a150 a cenl!ied sk8 tnstrunor lor me Mounl Hod Skr Schwt smal. ove Bob Shiprm 12 851 1s a m-an em f 4,s vng m Beavsnrea Ow ne led m OrlcOel a5 a can0 late lor me CO~O(PI\ 1n.3 nral lr.9, \tale douse OBM on. OR. S1 1 sthe Aqmc the Multnomah Amlr IL Club mp ' p ,I Steve Zah r75 B Admn6rtrator lor I m Portland 23 This 1 5 the fimt elected past8onhe has SWght Msrgarn Shlr*y (71 MST) mothnelEd and SUpewlJed an an pr ram IN chlldren at Marylh~rstCollege. 2arylhurst Ole dunng the summer of 1981 Klm Oaclu '3 BSI 4 a tUor wnh the Dnmn a . 7 FICI I* a A\\risrnenl Cmo! m Pot* J ~ C '~r( a ' 1: n teacnmng -re L \ a r ry Mlck W m ~ n ('70 BS) 1s an innrunor a n the mmpuler systems engtnsenng technology depanment at the Oregon lnstnute01
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