CONCERT TO HELP ENDOW SCHOLARSHIP

A concert Friday night by the Jerry Ford Orchestra will help endow a scholarship for Southeast students interested in a career in technical theater design.

Dennis C. Seyer, technical director for the University Theater for the past 23 years, has donated most of the $10,000 necessary to endow the scholarship. More money is being raised through the sale of ads in the concert program. Seyer hopes ticket sales to the concert will bring in the final amount needed.

The concert will begin at 8 p.m. at Rose Theatre on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The box office will open at 7 p.m. and doors to the auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door only.

The three-part program Friday will include Sounds of the Big Band Era, featuring tunes such as "Take the A Train," and Broadway Melodies (the title of the KRCU radio program Seyer hosts) with tunes from "My Fair Lady" and "Oklahoma." For an encore, the band will play a version of "Lili Marlene" by Ford Orchestra arranger John Quinn and "Beer Barrel Polka."

"We tried to get as many different genres as we can to please every appetite," Seyer said.

Southeast currently does not offer a scholarship for technical theater design students. Among the Southeast graduates who are working in the field are Carla D. Richters, costume shop foreman at Dartmouth College, and Michael Sullivan, technical director/lighting designer at Fontbonne College in St. Louis.

The criteria for the scholarship will be:

* Theater major.

* A 3.0 GPA.

* Interest in a career in some aspect of technical theater: scenic design, lighting design, costume, sound, technical production.

* Assist a technical theater design faculty member in a production.

* Provide a portfolio or resume to the theater department.

The scholarship will be intended for a student who is a junior or senior, Seyer said. "By that time they for the most part have committed to a major."

A number of technical theater students are staying on campus beyond the end of the semester to help produce Friday's performance, Seyer said.

For more information, phone 651-2265 or 651-2490.