Story Tips for Local Media - 01/10/97

                       STORY TIPS

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LEARN HOW THE EXPERTS DESIGN GARDENS--Jan. 10-11.  A group of 
nationally acclaimed landscape architects and artists will join 
faculty and local landscape architects to offer design ideas for 
areas of the OSU Chadwick Arboretum Gardens. Students and faculty 
will also attend An Invitational Design Charette, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 
p.m. Friday, Jan. 10 at the Agricultural Administration Building 
Auditorium, 2120 Fyffe Road.  On Saturday, Jan. 11, a number of 
the participants including William Johnson, Rosalind Creasy, 
Robert Dash, and Stephen Drown, a former Ohio State faculty 
member who helped design the Chadwick Gardens will present their 
existing work at a The Art of Gardening Symposium at the Columbus 
Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St., 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
CONTACT: Janet Oberliesen, Chadwick Arboretum, 292-4678.

DRESS OF 1980s EXAMINED AT WORKSHOP-- Jan. 14.  Regress and 
Excess: Historicism in the 1980s will be presented by Richard 
Martin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 4:30 p.m. in the 
Geraldine Schottenstein Wing of Campbell Hall, 1787 Neil Avenue.  
Martin, director of the museum's Costume Institute, curated The 
Historical Mode: Fashion and Art in the 1980s while dean of the 
Graduate School of the Fashion Institute of Technology.  The 
lecture is the third in the Fashioning the Future lecture series, 
which looks at how we fashion our future based on revivals of 
styles from our past.  
CONTACT: Historic Costume Collection, 292-3090.

CAMPUS OFFERS TRIBUTE TO MARTIN LUTHER KING--Jan. 16.  Ohio State 
will celebrate the dream of Martin Luther King with a program at 
7 p.m. at the Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center, 153 W. 
12th Avenue.  The keynote address for the 25th annual tribute to 
Dr. King will be given by Reverend Timothy Clarke, leader of the 
First Church of God in Columbus.  The tribute is sponsored by the 
Office of Minority Affairs and the Hale Center.
CONTACT:  Michelle Cushnie, Hale Center, 292-0074.

JAZZ FEST ON TAP AT WEXNER CENTER--Jan. 21.  The Verve Jazz Fest 
makes a one-night stop at Mershon Auditorium on Tuesday, January 
21, at 7:30.  The festival features jazz giants from the Charlie 
Haden Quartet West, the Joe Henderson Trio, and the Kansas City 
All-Stars Band featuring James Carter, Christian McBride, and 
Nicholas Payton.  
CONTACT: Darnell Lautt, Wexner Center for the Arts, 292-0330. 

GOOD HEALTH IS GOAL AT NEW WELLNESS CENTER--The Ohio State 
University Medical Center has opened a health and exercise center 
that sets itself apart from other fitness centers by taking a 
proactive approach to helping people with chronic health 
ailments--and addressing health problems that can eventually 
cause chronic health problems.  The OSU Center for Wellness and 
Prevention, located at 2050 Kenny Road, features a big indoor 
exercise and fitness area that is designed and supervised by 
health and fitness professionals.  The center also offers 
programs in weight management, nutrition, smoking cessation, 
heart screenings and basic exercise.  The center is open to the 
public, physician referrals, and businesses and companies 
interested in employee health.  
CONTACT: Dr. David Frid, director, Center for Wellness and 
Prevention, 293-2800. 

NEW YEAR-NEW YOU IS TOPIC OF WEIGHT LOSS TALK--Jan. 18.  Deborah 
Waterhouse, author and dietitian, will present the keynote 
address at the program New Year-New You, 8: 30 a.m.-1 p.m., Jan. 
18 at the Center for Wellness and Prevention, 2050 Kenny Rd.  
Waterhouse, author of Outsmarting the Female Fat Cell and Why 
Women Need Chocolate, will discuss how men and women differ in 
their ability to lose weight and she will suggest a healthier 
weight loss approach.  She will present at 9 a.m. and again at 
11:30 a.m.  The program, which is free and open to the public, 
features sessions on fitness, cancer-prevention nutrition, 
psychology of eating, and a discussion with OSU and CompuServe 
employees who have followed Waterhouse's six-step plan for the 
last 12 weeks.
CONTACT: Jennifer Reimer, University Medical Center 
Communications, 293-3737.

NORTHWEST OHIO REPORTERS TAKE NOTE: LIMA-AREA CHILDREN OFFERED 
THEATRE, PUPPET WORKSHOPS--Jan. 11-Mar. 15.  The Ohio State 
University at Lima Theatre Department offers two Children's 
Theatre Workshops each Saturday through March 15 in Reed Hall 
Auditorium.  Theatre Professor Maria Ignatieva will direct a 
workshop on marionette puppets for 7-9 year olds from 9 a.m.-
10:15 a.m.  From 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., she will and direct Lima 
Town, an original production to be written and produced by high 
school age students and performed March 15 in Reed Hall 
auditorium.
CONTACT: Maria Ignatieva, (419) 995-8382.

POETRY IN THE WINTER--Jan. 25.  The Frank W. Hale Jr. Black 
Cultural Center will host Poetry in the Winter, the third 
performance in the series Seasons of Poetry, from 2-5 p.m., at 
the center, 153 W. 12th Ave.  Seasons of Poetry was started by 
the renowned poet IS Said in the spring of 1994 to give 
established and upcoming poets the opportunity to perform their 
works. 
CONTACT: Michele Cushnie, Hale Center, 292-0074.

The person listed as the contact for each item will have the best 
information about the story.  However, feel free to call on our 
news services staff for assistance with these or other Ohio State 
news stories.  Amy Murray, 292-8385; Ruth Gerstner, 292-8424; and 
Tracy Turner, 688-3682.
-Compiled by Amy Murray, University Communications, (Murray-
Goedde.1@osu.edu).


[Submitted by: Ruth Gerstner  (gerstner.2@osu.edu)
               
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 16:29:38 -0500]
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