Saturday, February 01, 2025
37.0°F

Warden, Ephrata students part of Wash. State University play

Herald Staff Writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 12 years, 5 months AGO
by Herald Staff WriterCHERYL SCHWEIZER
| August 8, 2012 1:00 PM

WARDEN - Students from Warden and two 2012 graduates from Ephrata will be among the performers in a play based on incidents from their lives tonight at the Wallenstein Theater at Big Bend Community College. Students from Mabton and Pateros also are part of the cast.

Los Memorias 2012 will premiere locally at 7:30 p.m.; an encore is scheduled for Sept. 13 at 11 a.m. at the theater. The play will be performed in Pullman, Yakima, Tacoma and Wenatchee as well. The Wenatchee performance will be Sept. 14 at 11 a.m. at the Stanley Civic Center.

Sophomores and juniors from the three high schools apply to attend the workshop on the WSU campus in Pullman. Students stay in the dorms and form the cast of the play, said John Fraire, who originated the project three years ago. Fraire also is the university's vice-president for student affairs and enrollment.

The students take incidents from their lives and write an essay detailing them.

Fraire helps turn them into a play, and the students work with a professional director from New York, AnaMarie Correa, to bring the play to life.

The program is designed to improve writing and public speaking skills, and show kids how to set priorities and work in teams.

It's also designed to encourage kids to think about college, and in that way it seems to be working, according to WSU officials.

"I've seen a profound change in these students," said Darin Watkins, the college's executive director of external communications. Watkins said high school students tend to be cautious on their first exposure to college campuses, but not the kids involved in Los Memorias.

Those students are very dynamic when it comes to confronting college, he said.

Participants include Daniela Ramos, Alexys Jolley, Brenda DeLeon and Victoria Martinez, Warden; Magdelena Hernandez and Yesenia Rodriquez, Ephrata; Jessi Dowers, TyRae Tisdale, Beatriz Morales and Meliza Sanchez, Pateros; and Edson Rivera, Jesenia Meza, Jose Cruz and Tracy Vargas, Mabton.

MORE ENTERTAINMENT STORIES

Warden students closer to performing life stories
Columbia Basin Herald | Updated 16 years, 5 months ago
Columbia Basin sports schedule April 20-26
Columbia Basin Herald | Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
Allied Arts brings Celtic Christmas to town
Columbia Basin Herald | Updated 12 years, 2 months ago

ARTICLES BY HERALD STAFF WRITER

Staatses plead not guilty
November 2, 2012 6 a.m.

Staatses plead not guilty

EPHRATA - The Moses Lake couple, accused of refusing to take their child to a hospital as the boy was starving, pleaded not guilty Tuesday.

Central Wash. Home Expo this weekend
May 7, 2013 6 a.m.

Central Wash. Home Expo this weekend

MOSES LAKE - Basin residents wanting to build a new home, or renovate an existing one, can turn to next weekend's Central Washington Home Expo for inspiration.

Nurse practitioner program begins in Othello
May 6, 2014 6 a.m.

Nurse practitioner program begins in Othello

Application deadline is May 15

OTHELLO - The Columbia Basin Health Association will start a training program for nurse practitioners, beginning in September. The program's application deadline is May 15.