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Children's Literature Festival: 1972

Children's Literature Festival 1972


Children's Literature Festival 1972


March 24-25, 1972


4th Annual Children's Literature Festival

Central Missouri State College
Warrensburg, Mo

Honors

Mary Calhoun
Harold Keith
Madeleine L'Engle

For

Significant Contributions
To

Children's Literature

 

Friday, March 24, 1972
Children's Festival
Room 206, College Union
9:00-11:30 a.m.           12:30-3:30 a.m.

Meet the Authors

Pippi Longstocking, A Play
Presented by actors from College High School
PUNCH AND JUDY SHOW
Stories told by Miss Mary Calhoun
New Films from Western Woods Studio

 

Special Guests
Evelyn Trent Bachman              Gertrude Bell
    Wilma Yeo                Alberta Wilson Constant   
   Robert C. Lee                     Rhoda Wooldridge  

Saturday, March 25, 1972

Autograph Reception
South Dining Room, College Union

Pippi Longstocking, a Play
Punch and Judy Show

Storytelling Demonstration, Miss Calhoun

The Glacier Children--Alaskan Indian Story
Odin's Search for Wisdom--Norse Myth
The Goblin Under the Stairs--Miss Calhoun's
own story using motifs of English lore
The Traveling Ball of String--Miss Calhoun's
own story showing American (Missouri) lore influence

Awards Luncheon
12:30 p.m.

Luncheon Program

Invocation........................................Dr. Roy E. Jorgensen, Dean, Teacher Education

Welcome................................................ Dr. Lee Barrows, Dean, School of Education

Introduction of Guests..... Philip Sadler, Assistant Professor, Children's Literature;
                        Coordinator of Children's Literature Festival

Presentation of Certificates............ Dr. Warren G. Lovinger, President of the College

Acceptances

Selections from The King and I presented by the leading player
in the recent College High musical:
Robin Flood                     Ellizabeth Gallihugh, accompanist

"Those Things Which Never Were But Always Are" ..............Miss Madeleine L'Engle

 

Coordinators

     Mr. Philip Sadler,Assistant Professor, Children's Literature

     Mrs. Ophelia Gilbert, Librarian, College Laboratory Schools