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, •• • 7 2A News ::ieptember 10, 1992 Grosse Pointe News The sound crew of Sound Castle Recording Studio was presented Emmys last month by TV actor John Aniston. From left are Bill Kopnick. Matt Thorne. Aaron King. Aniston. Mark Kealls, formerly of the Woods. Russel Brower and Jim Hodson. Former resident wins Emmy By Jerome Aholta Special Writer What began as a gofer Job for a recOldmg studio m Los Angeles evolved mto a career WIth honors for Mark Keatts, formerly of Grosse Pomte Woods Last month he earned an Emmy Award for outstandmg achIevement m film sound edItmg for the ammated series "Back to the Future .. The cartoon airs on Saturday mornmgs on Channel 38 at 11 m the Detroit area "We were there not expectmg to wm at all," said Keatts. who lecelved the honor, along With five other sound edItors from Sound Castle Re cordmg StudIOS, at the 44th $' • Annual ~ < PrIme- Keatts Time Emmy Awards held in Los Angeles last month. For Keatts, who IS 27, thIS was hIS second nomination I Travel opportunities fOl an Emmy He's also been nommated tWIce for the Golden Reel Award Sound edltmg for ammated film Involves matchmg, or "synchmg up," dialogue WIth the hp movements of the characters so It appears as though they are actually speakmg Keatts, who has a bachelor's m musIC mdustry management from Wayne State Umversity, and who also studIed at the Recordmg Institute of DetrOIt, moved to CalIfornia 2 1/2 years ago to become a musIc engineer. "I went to every studio out here," he said, eventually landmg a Job as a runner for Sound Castle The runner poSItion only lasted two weeks "They started trammg me from the ground up," he said "They could hardly pay anyone at the begmnmg It was more hke a trial basiS thmg .. But Keatts passed the test. With many sound studlOS gomg bankrupt m Holly. wood, Keatts was fortunate to get m With nght one. "It's gomg really good," he saId GirlS from 9 to 17 can explore travel opportumties at the "WIder Opportunity Extravaganza," sponsored by the Girl Scouts, on Saturday, Sept 26, from 10 a m. to 2 p.m. The tnps offer grrls chances to become an astronaut, dIg for dmosaur bones, spend the mght he Claymore Shop Consolidation Sale Begins Today On All Summer SALE Merchandise As for CalIforma, the place to be for film sound edIting, Keatts saId, "I love It " Keatts IS a 1983 graduate of Grosse Pointe North and lived m the Woods until he moved to Glendale, about 10 mmutes northeast of Los Angeles He was presented hiS Emmy on natIOnal television by John Aniston, who plays Victor In "Days of Our Lives." In additIOn to "Back to the Future," other animated series he's worked on are "Tmy Tune Adventures," "Tasmania" and "Batman." Keatts said the usual course for sound edItors is to start With cartoons and graduate to feature films, which have larger budgets. Other projects Keatts has worked on as a sound editor include REO Speedwagon's latest album "The Second Decade of Rock 'n' Roll: 1981-1991"; Ray Connifs latest album, " 'S Always Con- • mI"; prererorded mUSIC by' ~ The Party for a lIve tour the group IS making with Color Me Bad; and TV commer- CIalSfor Love Boat, a PaCIfic crUise line aboard a submarme, explore the MOjave Desert, go white water raftmg, mine for gold and learn hands-on care for exotic animals at the Bronx Zoo. Attendees do not need to be a GIrl Scout to attend. For more mformation, call Jane Johnson at 9644475, ext 217 We have consolidated the remaining Summer Mens, Womens and Boyswear from all our locations for this End Of Summer Sale The Claymore Shops 16910 KERCHEVAL. In the VIllage 886-3440 ---------.--------- NEW STORE HOURS: Now Open Sunday - Noon to 5'00 pm Monday - Saturday 10 am - 6 pm Thursday 10 am - 9 pm , 2 C sn,e, t = ? 7 I I I Discussion group to focus on gospel How do you commUnicate WIth God? Instructor Mary FranCIS Hush, 0 P , says, "The Gospel of John suggests we commul1lcate by ell.amlnmg the symbols of lIght, lIfe and love Smce God IS a spmt, he uses these symbols to help us ennch our spmtual lIves" Jom thIS diSCUSSIOngI oup on Wednesdays. from 7 to 9 pm Sept 16 through Oct 21 at the Grosse Pomte War MemOrial to better undPI stand these hfe gIvmg symbols The class IS $30 for SIX weeks; 01' $6 a sessIOn For more II1formatlOn, call 881-7511 Advertising Deadlines DIsplay advertmng deadlines are as follows Any ad ncedlng a proof must be In by 2 P m Friday Ads for tlie ~econrl ~nd third section must be In by noon Monday Ads for the first secllon must be In by 10 30 a m Tuesday Any questIOns! Call display advertiSing at 882 3500 ClaSSified real estate deadlone IS noon Fnday All other c1asslf'ed ads must be placed by noon Tuesday No exceptions Any questions! Call the claSSified department at 882 6900 ~~~~, ?o,~"aN~!,j~~~;~, I herp you publiCize your events to ensure that all Ilems gel mlo the paper In a timely manner, deadlines for recelpl of copy WIll be printed each week here All llems for Ihe Features section must be In by 3 P m followong week's paper Friday for Ihe All Ilems Entertainment for the Sporls and sections must be In by 10 a m Monday for that week's paper. All ,Iems for the News section. Including leiters to the edllor. must be In by 5 P m paper. Monday for Ihat week's The Grosse POInte News wlfllry to gel all llems Into the paper that are turned In by deadline, but sometimes space doesn't allow It Any questions! Call department at 882-0294 the news Corrections CorrectlOlls Will be prill/eel 011 tillS page every week If there IS all errOl of fact III allY stm y, call the lIew~, oom at 882-0294 Last week's front page photo of a little !,'1rl WIth her goldfish at the pet blessmg dt ChI 1St Church should have Identified her as Lam en BIayton • Gun missing J BOARD-aN-REVIEW FASHION SHOW Jacobson's 17030 .Kercheval, Grosse POlHte A Grosse Pomte Shores reSIdent repOlted he was mlssmg a 9mm semi-automatic handgun that was stored under the mattress III the master bedroom The man had last seen the gun - whIch he said he was StOlmg fOl a fllend - on July 10 There was no ammumtlOn and the clip, whIch was kept elsewhere III the house, was not taken The man dIdn't know If the gun had been Ieglstered Meet our 1992-1993 ] Board Wednesday, September 16, 7 p.m. St. Clair Room, Grosse Pointe Meet the teens who will be on board and modell1tg the hottest /ashlol1S for fall The suedes and /rl11ges, kIck-back casuals and dazzling dresses for special eVelllngs Brl1ig /r:mds alfd /amily Call 882-7000, ext 114 We welcome Jacobson's Charge and American Exprew Shop until 9 pm on Thursday and FrIday Until 6 pm on Monday, Tuesday. 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September 10, 1992 Grosse Pointe News News 3A Being Japanese for 6 weeks is the experience of a lifetime BV Ronald J. Bernas Staff Wnter Grosse Pomte South HIgh School senior Amanda Brown can't say enough about the SIX weeks she spent in Japan as part of the Youth For Under standmg InternatIOnal Student Exchange "It ~as such an mcredlble experience," she saId "It was a fascmatmg country, the people were so mce I want to go back" Brown, of Grosse Pomte CIty, spent the end of June, all of July and the begInnmg of August hVIng In an apartment above a grocery WIth the Shlmoda famIly m the Tokyo sub , urb of HachlOJI She became part of a famIly whIch Included Aya, a girl Brown's age, two boys, one ,Dlder, one younger, parents and grandparents The Shlmodas owned the store they lIved ,'above and, because It was open seven clay" II '''eek, took turrts 'j'unning It Brown and Aya got up very early every day to take an 80mmute tram rIde to school Aya was placed mto the hIgh School, whIch IS designed for . hIgher level students, based on . her scores on Japan's natIOnal : placement exam. That exam : determines what hIgh school a : student goes to and what sub- : jects he or she will study. , "Their English skills were ; real good. Learning English IS ~very Important over there," i Brown saId. "But speakmg It IS : not necessarIly as Important" : That's why Japanese stu. : dents study the verbal sectIOn : of the ScholastIC Aptitude Test ; given to Amencan students I and read WIlham Goldmg's : "Lord of the Flies." On her SIde, Brown was able : to get her point across and un- . derstand the gist of what was : saId to her because of her year : of Japanese I at Glosse Pointe , I South. The class is taught by a teacher m a remote locatIOn and IS beamed to several schools by satellIte. Students are connected perIodICally to the teacher by telephone for oral exams. "But the (Japanese) kIds my age weren't mto studymg as much as you'd thmk," Brown saId. "It all depended on the mdlvldual's motivatIOn Just lIke here." And the young people Brown met were as fascmated WIth the Umted States as she was WIth Japan. "I dIdn't notice any antl- Amencan feelmgs at all," she saId In fact, when she vIsited her Japanese brother's slxth-gI'ade class, she was the talk of the whole school and younger stu. dents peeked mto the room to see an AmerIcan "Among people my age, MTV IS bIg over there - so IS danc. mg And ~deslgner Ralph Law. en's brand) Polo They loved Polo" The famIly had defined roles' the grandmothel" did most of the cookmg, the mother did most of the housework and the father ran the business He kept the books on an abacus, whIch he tned teachmg to Brown. The concept, coupled WIth the language barrIer, proved too difficult for both of them In additIOn to domg the day. to-day thmgs like going to school, Brown packed a lot of slghtseemg into her sIx-week stay. The Impenal Palace was one of her favonte stops. She wasn't allowed m because VISI. tors are given access only tWIce a year, on the new year and the emperor's bIrthday But the gardens and the grounds were, she saId, something to see The Asaksa Temple, the larg. Amanda Brown took a tour of Tokyo Bay while on a sixweek stay in Japan as part of Youth For Understanding's International Student Exchange. .Author to open ;children's center , Best-sellmg author and noted 'chIld advocate Jonathan Kozol WIll dISCUSS"Savage InequalitIes" at 4 pm. Monday, Sept '21, In the Community Arts Audltonum as the keynote speaker to mark the opening of Wayne State Umversity's Skill. man Center for ChIldren. Are. ception WIll follow. The Skl1lman Center for ChIldren, funded by a $25 mIlhon endowment from the SkIllman FoundatIOn, wlll serve as -a central resource for informa tion and program models for local agencIes and cItizen organi. zatlOns that work to Improve condItIOns for children and fam- IlIes throughout metropohtan DetrOIt Kozol, a former Boston mner. cIty grade school teacher and Harvard Umverslty graduate, is the author of eight books HIS books focus on educatIOn, the poor and the homeless The first book, "Rachel and Her Children," receIved the Robert F Kennedy Book Award m ,1989 His most recent book, ('Savage InequalItIes," exam. Ines schools across the country and descrIbes what IS happen. mg to chIldren from poor faml' ,lIes In the mner cItIes and the Ie"" affiuent suburbs The entIre event IS free and . open to the publIc Further m : formatIOn may be obtamed by : calhng JudIth Waterman at the : Skillman Center at 9934130. , 777-3844 - - MICROGRAPHIC& ELECTRONICIMAGECONV~;SI~~--'r -\ It": SERVICES• SYSTEMS. CONSULTATION I est temple in the world, was also a stop on her trip "On the top of each of these temples IS supposed to be the Buddha's ashes, but there are hundreds of temples m Japan and even more m China and Tibet, so you have to wonder how big that guy was," she saId Brown saId some of the mcest thmgs that happened to her weren't planned For example, the street festIval in front of her famIly's store In a tradl tIOnaI kimono, she particIpated III a centurIes.old dance She was pleasantly surpnsed by the food, she said. "Gomg over I was afraid be Cduse I don't really lIke fish, but everythmg was great," she saId "Well, except for when we went to a sushi bar and I had to stare at a plate of raw octo pus all durmg dmner." And she couldn't qUIte get used to the seaweed that was a staple at most meals Brown's trip was sponsored by Youth For Understanding, one of the world's oldest and largest non-profit mternatlOnal exchange programs It IS dedIcated to global understandmg and world peace The entIre trip - which be- Amanda Brown, second from left. joined in a traditional street festival in HachiojL Japan. gan With a four.day Japanese cultural educatIOn class m San FranCISco - was paId for by YFU The tnp to San FranCISco was paId for by the Grosse Pomte Rotary "I'd love to go back," Brown saId "I plan on studymg mter. natIOnal somethmg m college, but I haven't deCided what or what school I want to go to. But thIS expenence wIll help me WIth whatever I do" Youth For Understandmg can be reached at 1-800-USA- 0200 grosse pte. artists assoc, FALL ART , , , "'):~ ~JC11: 5 £l''\:' 10 A.M. • 5 P.M. Grosse Pointe War Memorial 32 LAKESHORE ROAD • grosse pointe. HOME DESIGN CENTER' COME IN AND 22621 VISIT OUR BEAUTIFUL NEW SHOWROOM HARPER - lUST Sl ~FNINE MILE • • AT Three Great Companies Allin One Location! We are dedicated to you, the Grosse Pointe Consumer. • Additions • Windows • All types of • Dormers • Garages Exterior • Kitchens • Recreation Siding • Bathrooms Rooms ~- . MOTOR CITY ~ . MODERNIZATION 777.4160 References Available Extraordrnary rooms begrn With superior custom cabinets from Quaker Maid Pointe Windows Inc. 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RACE WEEK IN THE J 'SPECIAL EVENTS I "A TASTE OF GROSSE POINTE" Saturday, September 12 - 11am to 4pm EnJOy the culmary delights from some of your favorite area restaurants mcludmg Tom's Oyster Bar, Cafe Pavel (formcrly Cafe Ie Chat), One 23, Stiver Spoon and Dream CUlsme Located on the Plaza at St Clair and Kercheval Joel Mabus - Instrumental Extraordmalre Saturday, Scptember 12 - 2.00 to 3 OOpm Balduck Mountain Ramblers - Stnngband MU~lc & Sea Chanties Thursday, September 17 - 6 00 to 8 OOpm The unique shops along Kercheval, between Cadieux and Neff I VILLAGE I [ GROSSE POINTE I .... sA . ............ _ e is on. \
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