Show Will Feature Home-Sewn Fashions

Style shows are a fun way to find out what is new in the world of fashion, or in some cases, what is “new” again. Even if one’s clothing budget doesn’t allow for a new wardrobe, it is fun to see the featured colors for the season and to get some ideas on accessorizing.

A little different angle is featured in the annual Poor Clare Tea and Fashion Show. All the fashions are home-sewn and are modeled by their designers. It is a wonderful opportunity to find ideas for the latest fashions which can be produced at home.

“Celebrate with Style,” is the theme for this year’s 35th annual event which is scheduled for Sunday, April 2, in the Sheraton-Spokane Grand Ballroom. The musical program will be presented by the Ferris High School Canterbury Belles. Doors will open at 11 a.m. Before the tea at 1 p.m., guests can enjoy browsing and buying at the “Home and hearth,” “What-Not Shoppe” and baked goods booths. The style show will begin at 2 p.m. Patron tickets are $25; regular tickets, $5; and senior citizen tickets, $3. For further ticket information call Dorothea Collins, 328-2104. All proceeds from the event will go toward the Poor Clare Building Fund to build monastery guest quarters.

Tiger booster banquet

“Spirit Alive in ‘95” is the theme for Lewis and Clark High School Booster Club’s annual dinner and auction to be held next Saturday at the Playfair Paddock Room. Theme parties and dinners, gift certificates, a back-country fly-fishing trip, student artwork and tiger spirit clothing and jewelry are just a few of the items up for bid. In addition, the one-of-a-kind handmade tiger quilt made by LC Spanish teacher, Peggy Herbert, will be raffled off.

The no-host social hour and preview of auction items will begin at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will be served at 7, followed by the loud auction. Tickets are $16 per person. Reservations may be made by calling Lois Swanbeck, 747-6441; Carol Johansson, 747-5228 or Peggy Stickle, 624-4888.

Music program at Whitworth

The Friday Musical Guest Day program on March 24 will feature Tamara Schupman, vocalist, and Kendall Feeney, pianist. The programs will be presented at 1:30 p.m. in the recital hall of the Whitworth College music building. Hostesses for the meeting will be Betty Tomlinson, Beverly Rhondes, Doris Swanson, Marie Rodkey, Mary Alice Conlin, Carol Graef and Mary Frances Stearns.

Lectures at Gonzaga

Bob Waterman, associate professor of political science at Gonzaga University will be the guest speaker at the Greater Gonzaga Guild meeting March 28. The meeting will be held in the Schoenberg Conference Center on the GU campus. Coffee will be at 10 a.m. followed by the program at 10:30 a.m. For further information call 327-4558 or 466-9453.

Parker Palmer, national writer, teacher, speaker and activist, will present “The Courage to Teach” on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the COG on the GU campus. He will discuss his work on changing the approach to learning and teaching in today’s society. “Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique - good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher,” he explains. The event is sponsored by the Gonzaga School of Education and is open to the public free of charge. For further information, call Dennis Conners, assistant education professor, 328-4220, ext. 3650.

Also on Wednesday, Robert Bartlett, assistant dean of students at GU, will speak on “A Conversation with Passion,” for the Arnold Lecture at Gonzaga at 7:30 p.m. in the Jepson Center Auditorium. Bartlett will discuss passion in the literal and spiritual sense. He is the director of cultural affairs and special student populations. He also directs disabled student services and codirects GU’s learning support center. The Arnold Lecture in liberal arts was established through a trust from the late Alphonse A. and Geraldine F. Arnold. The lecture is open to the public free of charge. For more information, call John Firkins, Arnold professor of the humanities, 328-4220, ext. 3915, or Bartlett at ext. 4108.

Happy birthday, Cougs

In celebration of Crimson and Gray Day, Washington State University’s birthday, the Crimson Company will perform at 7:30 p.m., Friday at The Met. The Crimson Company is a troupe of 33 WSU student singer-dancers, musicians and technicians, including Spokane students Brad Benton, Jeff Causey and Neil Newlun. Directed by Roger Kelley, the group will perform a musical revue of songs from the wild west, top-40 hits, love ballads and Broadway favorites. Tickets are $5 and are available at the door on the night of the performance. For more information, contact Eric Sodorff, 358-7527.

Spokane Art School workshops

We parents need all the help we can get, and the Spokane Art School is coming to our rescue with special spring break workshops to help fill the week off from school. Workshops will be offered for children ages four through high school from April 3 through 7.

In keeping with the SAS’s season-long observance of Earth Day, the workshops will explore both art and nature following themes such as local folklore, regional plants and wildlife, ecosystems, environmental preservation and recycling.

“ArtStart” will be offered for children ages four to six. For children in grades one through three, there will be classes in “Birdhouse and Birdbaths,” “Clay Techniques” and “Art from Nature.”

“Design for Survival,” “Beading” and “Paper Making and Plant Life” will be offered for students in grades four through six. Junior and senior high students will be offered “Photographing from Nature” and “Recycled Sculpture.” Registration for any daily two-hour class is $10. A full day, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., costs $25. Four days of one two-hour class costs $35. For further information or to register, call SAS, 328-0900.

Children’s camp receives grant

Camp Mak-A-Dream, a camp for children with cancer, recently received a $100,000 grant from First Interstate BancSystem Foundation. The only oncology camp in the Western United States, Mak-A-Dream is located in Gold Creek, Mont. Operated by the Children’s Oncology Camp Foundation, funding for Camp Mak-A-Dream is provided entirely through donations made to the foundation, and the camp is free of charge to all children. The camp is currently accepting applications for volunteer staff positions for the 1995 camp session. There are a variety of positions ranging from camp cooks to cabin counselors.

For further information or to make a donation to the camp, write Camp Mak-ADream, P.O. Box 3598, Missoula, MT 59806, or call 406-549-5987.

The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Betsy Carosella The Spokesman-Review