News Release (February 27, 1968)

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AEws RELEASE NEW COLLEGE SARASOTA, FLORIDA 33578 1-123 -2/27/68 813 / 355-7131 Ref.: Furman C. Arthur FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SARASOTA--A group of New College students will present a dramatization of the life of Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, over Radio Station WSPB Thursday, February 29 at 8:30 p.m. Seventeen students, including four from Venice, Sarasota and Bradenton, will perform in the radio drama that won a Carnegie Foundation Award when it was originally written for the Columbia Broadcasting System by Jonathan Slott, director of the New College Capital Campaign. All the students are members of Slott's cinematography class, an extracurricular activity on the New College campus that stresses work with all the phases of acting and producing for various media. Sarasota student John Thompson will narrate the role of Lewis Carroll, the Oxford don whose works on mathematical subjects are extinct but whose tale of Alice in Wonderland has been translated into more languages than any other book except the Bible. Others who will do the narration include Gretchen Beidermann, Tenafly, Marian Bussey, Boulder, Colo.; Robert Scott Cook, Venice, Fla.; Roger Dickey, Port Huron, Mich.; William Gooderham, Bradenton, Fla.; Barbara Sieborowska, Philadelphia, Pa.; Patrick Kelly, Newtown, more

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PAGE 2 -NEW COLLEGE Iowa; Jon Shaughnessy, Westburg, N.Y.; Ann Chandler, East Point, Ga.; David Adams, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Forrest Beyers, Bloomington, Minn.; and Marguerite Bryan, New Orleans, La. On the production staff are Richard Foster, St. Petersburg, Fla.; George Duffee-Braun, Sarasota, Fla.; Nancy Redick, McLean, Va.; and William Whipple, Wichita Falls, Tex. Mrs. John Morrill, wife of a faculty member, also is working with the production staff. 30 -