European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday november 14,19s8 teacher puts a new face on learning Rye . Not at first glance it seems to be a typical morning in English class at Manhattan Ville College. Bui Ifie faces or these freshmen and sophomores arc not buried silently in Chaucer. They arc giggling behind Bushy bowed Black rimmed Groucho Man glasses. And so is lie professor Susan Kulz Sperling who brought in the glasses to urge her students Locon Sider their Awn  of a sense of humor and to help them organize those idea for in essay. An adjunct assistant professor at Manhattan Villa she is not Oul to revolutionize higher Edu cation with grand plans for curriculum changes. But she snid her Mission was to free her students of academic fear to help them enjoy rather than dread coming la class. Maybe some of them think it s the most ridiculous thims in he world what i did  she said of the Groucho glasses. But if you reach one or two. Ihal so urls the effort.". Sperling. 45, who also plans to teach a lecture series at the new school in new York next Spring bought the glasses with a $50 award from a 1963 Manhal Lanville Alumna Eli Abath Ryan who specified the donation be used for the encouragement of a sense of humor in students faculty members at Manhattan Ville in Rye were invited to submit proposals describing How they would put the Money to humorous use in their classrooms. Sperling won by proposing to encourage the class to open in Imi h is up collectively to expressing what kinds of humor they like and identify  thought the Groucho glasses would ease the for Mal classroom atmosphere particularly near Hallow Een. Perhaps in the process of song that Bol they and the teachers can loosen up and look  she said they will learn that the world gives you permission to just act silly if you fed like  group by look alike contests Hare always been popular As evidenced by this contest to Boston. Api the Effort seemed to pay off. When Sperling passed Oul he props the class came to lire. Stu dents laughed at each other and became much More talkative As they watched their teacher con ducting class in fuzzy eyebrows framed by her own red frizzy  one students med to embarrassed to put the glasses on despite pleading from his Peers. Other students in the class like Susan Shamas a freshman said they found it refreshing. You have to be Able to once in a while let Loose jus for inc Sake of releasing Energy she said. I think it s important that a teacher be Able to reach students like  picking the fake Mustache hair Oul of their Mouths scratching their new rubber noses the Stu dents went on to explore the subject of humor whether an extrovert or an introvert is More Corse dec if different cultures find each other s jokes funny which comedians hey Admire even the quiet student who would not Don the glosses piped up with Eddie Murphy. For a More technical definition of humor Sper Ling distributed an excerpt from her Book. Tender feet and lady fincers in which she says the phrase sense of humor originated in the 4th Century . As a medical theory of balancing mood alte cling body fluids. While Sperling 45, has no plans to make such masquerading a regular part of her curriculum she Hopes to cast learning in a tit Ltd different tight. You can t just goof off with a Beer can squashed against your head like John Dushi in animal House " she said referring to the popu Lar film of several years ago that satirized fraternities. Bui "17-and 18-year-Olds arc very dark in their Outlook she said. I want them to see that there is a lighter  like essayists Roy Blount or. Or Norman cousins Sperling said students should be Able to put across some wonderful writing in a humorous Way on Avery serious tonic without standing on a Soapbox and screaming this is How in must be although she does not expressly aim to entertain her students Sperling said that audience response is important to her. I Don t like the idea of lecturing to people who Aren t listening she said. I do need the reinforce ment of knowing that students Are receiving. Like mayor Koch i keep wanting to say key How am doing ". Boswell Trio s last member Dies at 77 i Eek skill , a vet bos Well the bit surviving member of the popular and influential 1930s singing Trio the  Sisters died saturday. She was 77.  Cut died in a i lilt Community Hospital where she had been admitted with pneumonia according to her Daugh Ter Chica Minnerly. Helvetia Boswell known by he nickname vet and her Sisters Martha and Connie were born and raised in new orleans.". They gained Fame in he late 20s and Early 30s for harmonies and arrange munis that filtered jazz and blues into a distinctive style that was a precursor of swing music and influenced such per formers As Ella Fitzgerald he Mills Brothers and the Andrews Sisters. It was a new sound in its time jazz violins and Small bands just before Shohig bands came in said Spencer a. Tandy who produced a 1980 musical about the Sisters called the Zeebie Jec Bies the title of one of their hits. Among the Trio s popular songs were Dinah yes sir that s my baby the music goes round and round and top  they appeared in three feature films and several shorts. Martha kept inc books connect played the horses and 1 was in charge of vet Bouttell holds old photos of her and her Sisters As a sinning Trio in the 30s. Upilo the House and bought All the clothes vet a Oscil i survived by he daughter Boswell recalled in a 1981 interview. Three. Grandchildren and five great grand she retired from performing when the children. A Wake will be held monday Intro broke up. Martha died in 1958 and Peekskill where Boswel lived arid where a Connee in 1976. Funeral service is scheduled for tuesday. Janitor stops runaway car near ing school Indianapolis a a school janitor jumped onto a Driver toss car Cir cling a parking lot and another Man helped him get inside to Stop the vehicle moments before in would have plunge through the Wall of a crowded classroom. Larry Loy 38, a janitor at Indianapolis Public school 89, hopped on the Hoodoo the car after it ran Over a 4-year-old girl and struck her i year old brother and their Mother -.-.-. -".". "1 limed it Loy recalled. So when 1saw it coming around i jumped on the Hood. I Gar on the tap and another Guy ran up and flipped inc door handle so i could get  the Accident occurred when Mihelc Footman began to drive away after pick ing up her son from kindergarten. The passenger door was not secured and her daughter Michelle fell out. Police said Footman jumped out while the. Car was still in gear. Patrolman Michael a. Taylor said Theca probably reached a Speed of 25 Mph Asil circled the school parking lot. Theca ran Over the Eirl and struck her Mother and a year old Sheldon also jumped out of the Carand was hit. Loy said he recognized the other Man As inc father of another student at the school. The girl was in intensive care at Riley Hospital for children. Her brother Ana their Mother were treated and released