Page Four The History of Henry Wilhelm and PnrtOne ByMarkSabieman Five years ago, both Henry Wilhelm and Krystyna Neuman were students at Grillnell College who pursued their studies and other interests not too differently trom other students, Henry was a second semester freshman when he went to Selma, Alabama in March of 1965 to cover Dr. Martin Luther King’s civil rights march to Montgomery tor the Scarlet and Black. Krystyna, then in her sccond year at Grin nell, shared with Henry an in ' latest in publications and a devo- tion to liberal and radical causes; in fact, she was to take the next year off from school in order to work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Chica~ go, Yet all was not really so calm in that spring term of 1965 as it might have seemed then. For when the FacultyStudent Board of Publications selected John Phillips and Henry Wilhelm as the editors for the 1966 Cyclone, the stage was set for a serious conflict between Wilhelm and the College, a conflict that would last much longer than either would have expected or hoped for, That 1966 yearbook, as most Grinnell students and faculty know, was never published, ale though Wilhelm put in a year and a half of work into it, and flunked out of school in the process. The college refused to publish it, because it was afraid some of the pictures and copy in the book 7 for example, pictures at a pot~ party a might leave the college open to libel suits. Wilhelm did not leave Grinnell after he flunkecl out of school and after the college gave him back the proof pages of the yearbook, he stayed and opened up the East Street Gallery of Photography in his father's old house at 1408 East Street. in 1957 Krystyna Neuman joined him and they have been living together there since then. In the past lew years, Henry and Krys, along with various friends — Susie Kaeser, Richard Schneirov, Steve Raitt, John Phillips, Bob Hodierne, Larry Frank, Kit Leder, and Ken Shai- ness 7 who have lived at me East Street Gallery with them, have been involved in various ways with the college and the community. Either Henry or Krys or both has been a party to a civil suit against the state or lowa, a civil suit against Grinnell College. a criminal Case involvin Iowa Come Fast With Us Chandlebaum's Deli Free Delivery 6-3074 obscenity laws, and one involving a Grinnell zoning ordinance. in . addition, they have filed com- plaints when townspeople have harassed them. For two indir viduals who are often looked on as “hippies” of “radicals," or as Krys Neuman would say, “freaks," they have an una expected tamiliarityavith, and in manfizways, a tali'th in, the Amcrican judicial system. Both of them — Wilhelm especially a are very good ar~ listic photographers, although recently they have tried to de- emphasize their photography except as a creative process which gives them individual en- joymentanosatislaction They have a patent on a special kind of photographic print washer and another for a film washer, designed especially forl prolessionals who are interested in print and negative per» manence. Henry and Krys‘ produce these film and print washers in their basement at the East Street Gallery, and all of the money from sales goes to run the Gallery, which may describe as a “noncompetitive cooperative community.” With respect to Henry and Krys, the town of Grinnell might be described a “non-cooperative community.” Many townspeople — and this includes a good number of college professors 7 feel that Henry and Krys and the East Street Gallery are a bad influence on the community. Many would like to see them leave. . Not all townspeople or college laculty members feel this way, of course Some, like Professor Bernard Mergen (History), see them as a positive influence on the community and on students and think it would be very un- fortunate it the college and town harassed them into leaving. it seems fairly certain, however, that Professor Mn Sumner or Sumner Photog- ruphy is willing to run a clinic (dealing with llghtlng primarllvl‘ it enough people are interested. Contact John Brody. “ELEANOR ROOSEVELT is alive and well and writing 'The Talk at the Town’ in the New Yorker. Anenr the Chicago conspiracy trill: ‘1! is important to remem- ber, when the etiects at bed con- duct by the judge are weighed against the :fiects cl bad conduct by the delendontr, that the trial could not parsiny have resulted in the delend- Fa: la Ire- cenr at only poriingrhe NAHONAL DRE. - - ~ VIEW, writn: o it "'5‘” '" I“ r, we r. is sntfi, N. v. loom. SCARLET AND BLACK ‘Kryslyna ’6 Henry Wilhelm and Krystyna Neuman enjoy celery, mayonnaise, and life together Mergen’s view is not the majority one. Mergen may be right in seeing a “blind anger and hatred” on the part oi many laculty members, and pre- sumably, townspeople, towards Henry and Krys. But not every- one would agree to this, Pro- fessor H, George Apostle (Math- ematics) asks, “HOW is it blind?” There may be, Apostle says, some anger; not all of it is “blind” Questions of anger and blind ness aside, there are undoubtedly strong ieelings in the town and the college community about Henry Wilhelm and Krystyna LEO’S STANDARD CAR STARTS TUNE-UP 8r LUBRICATION “DR.” BATTEY WILL GURE YOUR GAR’S SPRING FEVER “Bo" Bailey Texaco 6th & West Street Grinnell, Iowa 50112 MANY. MANY. MANY Pairs of Pierced Earrings 249 and up KRAMER JEWELRY N 2‘ E. Street. Neuman. Whatever these feelings are, they must be trace- able eiuier to die past a what Henry and Krys have done here before, or to the present~ what they are doing now and the way they live now. The past began, for most practical purposes, in the school year 1965766, when Wilhelm and his co-editor, John Phillips, be» Friday, April 3. I970 in the photographic commune at 1408 East gan making their yearbook. They had an idea that their yearbook 7 “Grinnell College 1966” # would be something much better than the ordinary. It would dis- pense with the usfial portraits of graduating seniors and faculty, and make use of candid shots en- tirely. Wilhelm and Phillips WlLHELM__ Continued on page 6 ConForm Parity Hose comes in its own wrinkly little shape Ptit it on and it becomes whatever size and shape you are, Why? Simple. ConForin has maybe 50% more stretch and recovery because it's not coaxed into a shape at the mill. ConForln hugs where it needs to, expands where it needs to. 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