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It is important that you understand the terms and conditions on which we are making our agreement. Please read these terms and conditions carefully. These terms include important details on how we use the personal information that you provide to us.
How these terms and conditions apply to our contract. We consider these terms and conditions (the "Terms") and our price list to set out the entire agreement between you and us for the supply of our services to you. Only these terms shall apply to our contract with you.
Please check that the details in these terms and conditions and your Booking Request are complete and accurate before you commit yourself to the contract.
If you think that there is a mistake, please make sure that you ask us to confirm any changes in writing, as we can only accept responsibility for statements and representations made in writing by our authorised employees and agents.
Please ensure that you read and understand these Terms before you submit your Booking Request. You may only request a booking if you agree to these Terms. By submitting a Booking Request you are deemed to have accepted these terms. This does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer.
Camp Kátur sells Glamping holidays via www.campkatur.com (the "Website"), via telephone, via email requests, via postal requests. Any person wishing to make a booking via any of these methods (referred to as "you/your") acknowledges that such booking is made subject to these Terms.
We reserve the right to change these Terms at any time. Any such changes will take effect immediately when posted on the Website, in the brochure, at the Sites, or otherwise brought to your attention. It is your responsibility to read the Terms each time you submit a Booking Request and any such request shall signify that you have accepted to be bound by the latest set of Terms. A copy of the latest set of Terms is available on the Website and upon request.
In addition to these Terms, there may be specific rules and regulations that apply to the site. Please contact the relevant Site Manager in advance of your arrival if you require further details of any site specific rules and regulations.
You can either book online, via telephone or via email. Please have details of all party members when making a booking. Please check your confirmation as Camp Kátur cannot be held responsible for errors in information provided at the time of booking.
Bookings are not transferable to another party.
When making a booking you agree that you or at least one member of your party is eighteen years or over, you have the authority of all persons in your party to book on their behalf, you accept these Terms & Conditions and you agree to be responsible for any loss or damage caused by any member of your party or animal accompanying you.
Subject to availability, one night bookings may be taken during any season when made directly on arrival onsite and not booked in advance.
A security bond of £250 per accommodation is required for groups of 10 members or more, which will need to be paid before the commencement date of the booking. Refusal to pay the bond may mean the booking is cancelled and no refund offered.
For groups, the names of all the guests in the party need to be provided at the time of booking. Failure to provide all the names may lead to the booking being cancelled or the Site Manager refusing entry to the site.
The maximum stay allowed is 28 days, after which time your accommodation or pitch must be vacated for at least three days before you return. You may only extend your stay up to a maximum of two 28-day periods within one year.
The site is only to be used for recreational glamping and camping only.
The prices are based on a daily rate unless otherwise stated. Prices include VAT at the current prevailing rate.
Whilst we will make every effort to ensure that our prices remain unchanged, they may be amended at any time prior to payment of the final balance.
Prices do not include any additional services, features and facilities unless expressly stated.
Group bookings of over 8 guests may be accepted at the discretion of Camp Kátur, please call for details.
Promotions, deals or discounted offers are provided at the discretion of Camp Kátur. All offers are subject to availability, cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount and may be withdrawn at any time. Retrospective refunds are not permitted against any offer or promotion advertised after such time a booking is made.
Booking Extras – These include use of the Eco Spa area, BBQ Pod, onsite activities and other offerings which are offered at the time of booking.
Access and use of the Eco Spa area and BBQ Pod is only available to guests booking accommodation and is not available to visitors to the site.
All booking extras are subject at an additional charge and all prices stated for booking extras is inclusive of VAT at the current prevailing rate.
Gazebos – Gazebos up to 3m x 3m are classed as a pitch extra and are charged at a rate of £10 per night. Gazebos must be pre-booked on all occasions.
Visitors – Camp Kátur are happy to accommodate day visitors but you need to make sure the Site Manager is aware of any visitors prior to their arrival.
It is essential, for security and health and safety, that visitors report to the reception on arrival to be booked onto the site at reception where they will be issued with a visitor's wrist band.
Entry to the site and parking onsite will be at the site manager's discretion. Visitors are required to leave the site by 10:00pm or whenever the site barriers are closed for the night, whichever is the earlier.
Payment for bookings can be made by Credit or Debit Card. Payment by this method confirms that you accept this additional charge. Unfortunately we cannot accept payment by cheque in advance or onsite.
For all standard bookings the full cost of the holiday is payable at the time of booking.
For large group bookings of 10 or more a 30% non-refundable deposit is required at the time of booking followed by the remaining balance which needs to be paid in full 8 weeks before the commencement of your stay.
For all group bookings of 10 or more guests a security deposit will be required of £250.00 per accommodation e.g. if the group booking takes 3 separate glamping accommodations a security deposit equal to £750.00 will be required. This security deposit will be fully refunded at the end of your stay subject to no breaches of the conditions set out in the group agreement form which you must sign and return before you're booking commencement date.
The site accepts cash, Credit and Debit Cards (with the exception of American Express Cards).
Site services, activities and facilities referred to in the Brochure, Site Leaflet or on the Website (e.g. bike hire, high wire course and other activities) are subject to availability and may be supplied by third parties. You use these services, activities and facilities at your own risk and Camp Kátur shall have no responsibility for loss, damage or injury in relation to any services features or facilities provided or supplied by third parties.
Information about features, activities and services at our site, is, to the best of our knowledge and belief, accurate at the time of publication of the brochure and Website; however Camp Kátur cannot guarantee that these services, activities and facilities will be available during your stay.
Detailed price lists for individual services, activities and facilities can be provided on request or on our website. All information on the website regarding prices is accurate as at the time of publication, but may be subject to change.
Camp Kátur's primary product is Glamping, from time to time and during large events Camping, Campervans and Motorhomes will be accepted onsite at the discretion of Camp Kátur Management, please email [email protected] for details.
We currently have no facilities for electrical hook up.
The price of your accommodation is as detailed on our booking system. The prices for additional extras and services are also contained either in our price list or on our online booking system.
Standard Camping Pitch 2 guest – A standard unit is a tent which is a maximum size of 3m x 3m and includes parking for 1 car.
Standard Camping Pitch 4 guest – A standard unit is a tent which is a maximum size of 5m x 5m and includes parking for 1 car.
Family Camping Pitch – A standard unit is a tent which is a maximum size of 7m x 7m and includes parking for 1 car.
Each additional car per booking is subject a fee of £5.00 per car per night.
We currently have no facilities for electrical hook up.
Only fully converted Campervans and Motorhomes are accepted for overnight stays.
Sleeping in cars or vans is not permitted unless otherwise agreed and permitted in advance by the Site Manager.
Sign written towing vehicles are permitted on site provided campers are not trading or working from site, however you may be asked to park your vehicle away from the pitch.
We do not allow horse boxes or ladders to be present on your pitch.
Loss of Deposit – In the event of a no show or cancellation on the commencement date of your stay there will be no refund offered.
If you cancel your holiday at any point after booking and up to 6 weeks before your arrival at Camp Kátur you will lose your deposit already paid. This will be either:
30% of the total cost of the booking with a minimum payment of £30 being due, whichever is the greater amount OR if less than £30 was paid at the time of the booking, you will not be entitled to receive a refund of the money already paid.
For a booking which includes a Bank Holiday season date you will forfeit all money paid.
For all other bookings which do not include a Bank Holiday you will forfeit 60% of the total cost of the booking with a minimum payment of £30 being due, whichever is the greater amount. If less than £30 was paid at the time of booking, you will not be entitled to receive a refund of the money paid.
For all cancellations made within 3 weeks prior to arrival date 100% of the total sum paid will not be refunded.
All cancellations are subject to an additional £15.00 administration charge.
If you leave site early for any reason Camp Kátur will not issue any refund for unused nights.
Unfortunately, in some circumstances Camp Kátur may have to cancel your booking. In these circumstances we will offer you a full refund of any fees paid or the option of an alternative date (with you paying any additional cost or receiving a refund in respect of a price difference). No other compensation is available.
If you want to amend your booking, you must notify Camp Kátur as soon as possible. Subject to availability, amendments to your booking can be made up to 3 weeks before your arrival at the Site. Amendments to bookings are subject to availability and a £15 per booking administration fee. Your admin fee will also be waived if the overall cost of your booking increases due to the amendment made. If you wish to transfer your booking to another date, we will use our reasonable endeavours to satisfy your request wherever possible subject to availability and payment of the correct fees. Transferred dates must be within the same booking season.
For cancellations on bookings during large National and Regional events such as The Tour De France 2014 no refunds will be given and all monies will be for forfeited.
It is important that you report to the Site Reception on arrival, before going to your accommodation and pay any outstanding balance on your booking and any additional fees.
On arrival and registering on site all guests will be issued with an identity wrist band, this must be worn at all times for the duration of your stay at Camp Kátur. This will easily identify you to our site operatives and security staff, failure to wear your identity wrist band and show to our site operatives if requested will result in the offending person/s to be asked to leave the site immediately.
Check in is from 3pm, arrivals after 6pm will be left self check in details outside of Reception.
If you wish to arrive earlier, please contact Camp Kátur prior to your arrival and they will do their best to accommodate your request, but this cannot be guaranteed.
For advance bookings, if not notified otherwise, your accommodation will be held until midnight on the day of your arrival, after which it will be put up for re-sale and your booking treated as a cancellation with your monies retained.
Accommodation must be vacated by 10.30am on the day of departure unless otherwise agreed with the Site Team. Departures after 11am are subject to availability.
Subject to availability, we accept bookings on all our Site up to dusk on the day of your arrival.
Our Site Managers and their teams are fully empowered in all aspects of Site operation and management. Camp Kátur fully supports its Site Managers and teams in dealing with matters of policy at their sole discretion when the need arises. In placing a Booking Request you agree that you and your party will at all times comply with the requests of the Site Managers and their teams.
As the person booking the holiday, you are responsible for the behaviour of all members of the party whilst on the Site.
Any wilful damage to the Site or any other Camp Kátur property will result in you being asked to immediately leave the Site. If you are asked to leave under these circumstances, no monies will be refunded.
Our customers visit our Site to enjoy the peace and tranquillity. If anyone does not respect this, the Site Manager and their team reserve the right to refuse them admission or ask them to leave the site at any time. If you are asked to leave under these circumstances, no monies will be refunded.
All guests will are required to leave card payment details on record for the duration of their stay at Camp Kátur as form of a security bond. Any wilful damage to property of Camp Kátur, The Camp Hill estate deemed to have been caused by any of your booking party will be deducted from the card and an appropriate invoice supplied.
The Site Manager reserves the discretion to ask any customer for a security bond regardless of party size. This will be refunded in full at the end of your stay unless, in the opinion of the Site Manager, you have displayed unreasonable behaviour (this includes but is not limited to, excessive noise, wilful damage to the Site or other people's property and abuse of our staff).
To respect the enjoyment of others, we ask that noise levels are kept to a minimum after 10:00pm. There is to be NO amplified music in open public areas and No music is allowed on site after 10.30pm.
To protect our woodlands, the burning of foraged wood is strictly prohibited. Charcoal only BBQs are allowed and you must utilise the provided BBQ baskets. All open air BBQ's must be extinguished by 10.30pm. Open fires and rope swings unless set up in designated areas by Camp Kátur are also prohibited. No structures can be tied or secured to trees or vegetation. Any structures that are or are judged to be causing damage to the site will be taken down or removed. The site team reserve the right to do so without prior consent and wholly at the site teams' discretion.
Dogs are welcome on our sites but all Dogs must be kept on leads at all times and any fouling must be collected and disposed of. A maximum of 2 dogs per accommodation are permitted onsite. If there is an incident onsite involving your dog please note that you may be asked to leave the site immediately and no monies refunded.
We want you to have an enjoyable holiday. Should you have cause for complaint, please contact our Site Manager immediately who will try to resolve your complaint and advise you of our complaints procedure.
We ask you to note that if you do not give us the opportunity to resolve the problem by reporting it onsite, we may not be able to deal with any complaint on your return and your rights to claim may have been reduced or forfeited.
If, at the end of your stay with us, you feel we have not dealt with your complaint satisfactorily, we ask that the main booker submits a written complaint within 28 days of your return home to:
Camp Kátur
The Camp Hill Estate
North Yorkshire
Email: [email protected]
At times we may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information. Generally this information is requested when you request information and/or services from us. We may gather and use information about you in the following ways:
We will use your personal information and information we obtain from other sources for administration and customer services, for marketing, to deliver our services to you, to analyse your purchasing preferences and to ensure that the content, services and advertising that we offer are tailored to your needs and interests. We may need to share your information with our service providers and agents for these purposes.
We intend to continue improving the content and function of our Website. For this reason, we monitor customer traffic patterns and Website usage to help us improve the design and layout of our website and provide content that is of interest to you.
By providing us with your personal information you consent to our processing your personal data for the above purposes. We will only use the information that you provide to us for the purposes contemplated in these Terms, informing you about similar services which we provide (unless you tell us that you do not want to receive this information) and improving the services which we offer to customers.
We may share your information with our affiliates and/or business partners for marketing purposes or we may send you information about other organisations' goods and services. We may contact you by post, telephone, fax, email or other electronic messaging service with offers of products, services or information that may be of interest to you. By giving us your contact details you consent to being contacted by these methods for these purposes. If you do not wish to receive marketing information from us or our affiliates and/or business partners other than the information you have requested, please indicate this on registration or contact us using the details below.
If we (or any part of us) enter into a joint venture or are sold, transferred to or merged with another business entity, or if our business structure changes, the information that we hold about you may be disclosed to the new business partners or owners, although your personal information will still only be used in accordance with these Terms.
We employ security measures to protect your personal information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage. We may retain your personal information after we have ceased using it for the purposes set out in these Terms, or for as long as the law requires.
You are entitled to obtain details of the information that we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee). You may also ask us to make changes to the information we hold about you or your marketing preferences to ensure that it is accurate and kept up to date. If you wish to do this, please send an email to [email protected] or by post to Camp Kátur, The Camp Hill Estate, Kirklington, North Yorkshire, DL8 2LS.
We may use information obtained about you from cookies (files which are sent to us by your computer or other access device) which we can access when you visit our website in the future. We do this to allow us to identify users and personalise the Website wherever possible. The cookies store small pieces of information about our users, such as names and email addresses. This means that on future visits too our website, we can identify past users. We may access cookies stored on your computer when you visit our website in future or when you open an email from us.
If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Any cookie whose name starts with UTM is a Google Analytics first party cookie. If you want to stop cookies being stored on your computer in future, please refer to your browser manufacturer's instructions by clicking "Help" in your browser menu. Further information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.aboutcookies.org. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our Website.
Please read this section as it is important that you understand what you are agreeing to.
Nothing in this section limits or attempts to limit our liability for:
Death or personal injury caused by our negligence; or
Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
Any breach of the obligations implied by Section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982; or
Losses for which it is prohibited in Section 7 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 to limit liability; or
Any other matter for which it would be illegal or unlawful for us to exclude or attempt to exclude our liability.
Subject to the matters detailed above, if we fail to comply with these Terms, we shall not be responsible for any losses that you suffer as a result, except for those losses which we could reasonably foresee would result from our failure to comply with these Terms.
In addition to the above, we shall not be responsible for any:
Loss of income or revenue;
Loss of business
Loss of anticipated savings
Loss of data
Our maximum liability shall be no more than to refund the amount paid by you for the holiday.
As our Site is located in a woodland environment, we do not accept responsibility for any damage, injury or inconvenience caused by plants or wildlife.
Camp Kátur does not accept responsibility for anything that adversely affects your holiday that is outside of our control. These circumstances are known as 'Force Majeure' events and are circumstances that Camp Kátur could not, even with due care, have foreseen or avoided. Such circumstances include (but are not limited to) war, civil unrest, industrial action, terrorist activity, natural disaster, fire, adverse weather conditions, foot and mouth disease and all other similar events outside of our control. Camp Kátur will endeavour to manage any problems caused as a result of a Force Majeure event but shall be under no obligation to do so and shall not be liable to you for any losses caused by a Force Majeure event.
Reference to any products, services or other information belonging to third parties does not imply or constitute an endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation by Camp Kátur. Links to other services not operated by Camp Kátur are provided solely for your convenience. Camp Kátur accepts no liability for any products services or other information provided by third parties.
Any photographs, descriptions or advertising we issue, and any descriptions or illustrations contained in our catalogue, or brochures or on our Website, are issued or published solely to provide you with an approximate idea of our Site and services. They do not form part of the contract between you and us.
If any court or competent authority decides that any of the provisions of these Terms are invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, the Term will, to that extent only, be severed from the remaining Terms, which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
If we fail at any time while these Terms are in force, to insist that you perform any of your obligations under these Terms, or if we do not exercise any of our rights or remedies under these Terms, that will not mean that we have waived such rights or remedies and will not mean that you do not have to comply with those obligations. Any waiver of a default by us does not mean that we will automatically waive any subsequent waive by you. No waiver by us of any of these Terms shall be effective unless we expressly say that it is a waiver and we tell you so in writing.
A person who is not party to these Terms shall not have any rights under or in connection with them under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
You may not transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms to another person without our prior written consent, which we will not withhold unreasonably. We can transfer all or any of our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organisation, but this will not affect your rights under these Terms.
These Terms and any non-contractual obligations relating to these Terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law. You and we both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. This contract shall be concluded in the English language.
If you wish to contact Camp Kátur please use the following address:Camp Kátur


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This is a great opportunity to knit in a relaxed sociable atmosphere.
Gallery of Costume
Saturday 31 October 2015, 2pm–4pm
Beginners and more experienced knitters welcome. Each month Lucy Burscough leads a session inspired by the Gallery of Costume collection.
All materials provided.
To find out more see the Close Knit Manchester blog.

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By Patrick Cronin
Hampton Union, Tuesday, April 28, 2009
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast Online.]
HAMPTON -- Parents and teachers are pleased that the School Board reversed its decision last week and voted to reinstate the five teachers who were slated to be eliminated. However, they said the battle is not over yet.
"We are not done and we are not going away," said parent Robin Day. "We are stronger than ever. We reveled in our small victory, but recognized there is still work to be done."
Day was one of 200 parents and teachers who blasted school officials during a special School Board meeting that took place on April 23 over the board's plan to restructure Hampton Academy.
The result of the meeting was that the board reversed its April 10 decision to reduce the hours of three teachers and to eliminate five others.
Day, who founded the "Hampton School Board Watch Dog Group" in response to the board's cutbacks, said that while they are happy those positions were restored, they still have concerns about the other behind-closed-door decisions made by the board that have yet to be addressed.
Chief among those concerns are the two teaching positions that are still slated to be eliminated at the Academy next year. One is a seventh-grade math position that will be vacant due to retirement and the other is an eighth-grade science position that will be left vacant due to the promotion of Andrea Shepard to vice principal of the school.
Day said teachers at the Academy were given a directive on Friday to develop a new schedule without those two positions.
"There is no way a new schedule can be developed with the current teaming concept without those positions," Day said. "By asking (teachers) to develop a new schedule without those positions, it is setting them up to fail."
Other parents said they are concerned about the elimination of two of the three Target Assist teachers at Marston, who help students attain required levels in reading, and the decision to rotate the school nurses every three years.
The parents also expressed concerns about the shuffling of the administration within the school district.
Marston Principal Dave O'Connor is still moving to Hampton Academy, while Marston Assistant Principal Lois Costa is being promoted as principal.
Other changes to administration still in effect include Centre School Vice Principal Karen Reynolds moving to become the new part-time assistant principal of Marston.
"The School Board still thinks they have done nothing wrong," Day said. "Our contention is that we want open communication. We want to be part of decisions, and we want our teachers to be part of the decisions as well.
"We want everything back to the way it was," she said.
Previously, School Board officials explained the staff reductions at the Academy were the result of the need to eliminate excessive teacher planning periods. When those planning periods were cut out of the schedule it showed the Academy to be overstaffed.
The change from a "teaming" model to a "vertical" schedule was done to improve student performance. Parents and teachers decried the decision because they were not consulted during the decision making process.
Adding to the controversy was the resignation of Hampton Academy Principal Chris Sousa. While the board restored all five of the teachers that were given pink slips, they didn't comment on what the schedule will look like next year.
What is known is that consumer science and technology education will now be back in the schedule because the teachers who taught those subject have been rehired.
The board didn't address other changes to the schedule that were put in place as part of the restructuring. Those changes include making reading a core subject in Grade 6, and adding computer and library as unified arts.
At the special meeting, Assistant SAU 21 Superintendent Maureen Ward said the additional teachers will just make class size smaller. Currently, there is an average of 18 to 20 students per class.


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Pam clocks were used from the 1940s through the 1960s by large companies to advertise all types of products. These clocks advertised everything from soft drinks to motor oil brands. Clock collectors often find value in displaying these old electric clocks, but some Pam clock motors become noisy as they age. Cleaning the clock's electric motor may make the clock quieter, but if the motor is worn, you must replace it.
Unplug the clock from the power outlet, and place it with its back in an upward position.
Unfasten the screws from the back cover of the clock. Remove the cover to access the synchron motor. Brush out any dust and dirt from around the motor with the sable brush, the type artists often use. Add 2 to 3 drops of clock oil or another metal lubricant to the motor clock gears, if the synchron motor used on the clock has small slits where oil can seep into the small motor metal parts.
Replace the motor and the clock back cover. Connect the clock to the power outlet again to see if the noise lessens.
Disconnect the clock, and remove the back cover again. Remove the motor by unfastening the tiny screws that hold it in place. Use a Phillips precision screwdriver to unfasten these.
Look for the manufacturer name of the clock motor. The name is usually inscribed on the motor casing. In most cases it should be a synchron motor.
Replace the motor with a new one, as these are still made. Replace the cover, and connect the clock to the power outlet.
Things You'll Need
- Precision screwdriver set
- Clock oil
- Sable brush
- New clock motor
Photo Credits
- clock image by Elena Nabokova from Fotolia.com


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Federal Direct Loans are a form of financial aid that must be repaid, usually after you graduate, withdraw from college or drop below half-time enrollment status. Federal Direct Loans provide low fixed interest rates with attractive repayment options and deferment/ cancellation opportunities.
If you are a first-time borrower on or after July 1, 2013, please familiarize yourself with the new federal regulations regarding a limit on the maximum period of time (measured in academic years) that you can receive Direct Subsidized Loans. In general, you may not receive Direct Subsidized Loans for more than 150% of the published length of your program of study. For more information, please review the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid announcement concerning this time limitation.
If you have ACCEPTED your loans by logging in to your myNSCC account you must complete the Master Promissory Note and Entrance Counseling Exam.
The MPN is a promissory note that can be used to make Federal Direct student loans for multiple academic years (up to 10 years). Because NSCC is authorized and chooses to make multiple loans under the same MPN for more than one academic year, you will only sign one MPN. It will be used for all of your Direct Loans at NSCC. For example, if you enroll in college as a freshman and borrow under the Direct Loan Program for all years of study, you are able to borrow under this MPN for all years.
The online Entrance Counseling was designed to help you understand your Direct Loan. Any undergraduate, graduate, or transfer student attending NSCC that has not previously borrowed funds from the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program must complete this process before their loan can be disbursed. Please contact the Financial Aid Office at any time if you have additional questions about the entrance counseling process.


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It's the year of the women's college.
Reported by Inside Higher Ed, more and more students are intentionally choosing women's-only colleges. For instance, Bryn Mawr College has experienced a 8% increase in applications since 2016, and Barnard College, a 10% increase.
Theories include the strength of the #MeToo movement, and a greater cultural focus on sexism, privilege, and equality. And many students who may not have considered an all-women's college in the past seem to be embracing the positives within this current cultural moment.
The takeaway? While it is impossible to change your institution's long-term mission to leverage short-term trends, it's important for your institution to be aware of these cultural zeitgeist moments in order to better serve an evolving student base.
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The Countess of PulpFest
If you were lucky enough to attend Martin Grams's Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in September, you may have picked up a copy of our PulpFest 2020 postcard. On that card, we announced that a "very special guest" would be appearing at our 2020 convention.
We're pleased to announce that our PulpFest 2020 guest of honor will be men's adventure magazine supermodel, Eva Lynd. A frequent collaborator with Doc Savage model Steve Holland, our guest was born Eva Inga Margareta von Fielitz to Countess and Count Asti von Fielitz in 1937. She took the name Eva Lynd to further her acting career after emigrating to the United States in 1950.
In 1956, Eva began modeling for many of the top glamour girl photographers of the era — Peter Basch, Wil Blanche, Herb Flatow, Leo Fuchs, Emil Herman, Morris Kaplan, Charles Kell, Lester Krauss, Earl Leaf, Ed Lettau, Jerry Yulesman and others. Alluring photos of her appeared in dozens of men's pinup magazines, bachelor magazines and men's adventure magazines. She also modeled for cover and interior photos published by "true crime" and detective magazines.
Eva was additionally — and still is — an actress. During the 1950s and 60s, she appeared in episodes of THE GARRY MOORE SHOW, PETER GUNN, THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW, THE TEXAN, and THE THIN MAN. In later years, she appeared in HOGAN'S HEROES and CAGNEY & LACEY, as well as the cult movies, THE HYPNOTIC EYE and THAT LADY FROM PEKING. She has also been featured in various print ads and television commercials. Her latest was a commercial for Campbell's Soup with her real life husband, actor Warren Munson. However, Eva's most remembered television role was as the "The Girl in the Tube" — the gorgeous babe who emerges seductively from a tube of Brylcreem in the classic and award-winning commercial.
If you're a fan of vintage men's adventure magazines, you may know that Eva Lynd was also a favorite model of artists Norm Eastman and Al Rossi, two of the top illustration artists who worked for the MAM market.
Eastman used the model for dozens of the notorious "sweat magazine" cover paintings he created for the MAMs published by the Reese and Emtee companies. Most frequently in the artist's paintings, Eva is one of the scantily-clad, distressed damsels being tormented by sadistic Nazis, evil Japanese, communists, bikers, or aboriginals. In some, she is a brave, gun-toting freedom fighter.
Rossi used Eva to model for both men's adventure magazine interior illustrations and for paperback covers. The most famous paperback with a cover painting by Al Rossi is the 1953 Ace Double paperback edition of William Burroughs' early novel JUNKIE, published under the pseudonym William Lee. The artist also did the cover painting for NARCOTIC AGENT, the novel on the flip side of this highly-valuable Ace double.
Both artists often had Eva pose with the famed male artist's model Steve Holland, whose face and image appeared in hundreds of paperback and magazine cover paintings, as well as interior illustrations. Holland is best known as the model that artist James Bama used for Doc Savage on the covers of the Bantam paperback series.
Please join us at PulpFest 2020 on Saturday, August 8, for "An Evening with Eva Lynd." The men's adventure magazine supermodel will be joined on the PulpFest stage by Bob Deis and Wyatt Doyle — publishers of the MEN'S ADVENTURE LIBRARY book series. They'll be discussing the process of modeling for cover illustrations and interior illustrations for the men's adventure magazines and other publications. This should be of great interest to pop culture enthusiasts as the process would have been similar to the experiences of the models who posed for the pulp fiction magazines. They'll also be discussing Eva's working relationships with artists Norm Eastman and Al Rossi, as well as fellow model Steve Holland.
(At PulpFest 2019, Bob Deis and Wyatt Doyle debuted an advance edition of EVA: MEN'S ADVENTURE SUPERMODEL, specifically produced for the convention. A pictorial autobiography of Eva Lynd, the book features a cover painting by Norm Eastman. It was originally created for the December 1968 issue of NEW MAN. The painting is reproduced here, courtesy of The Rich Oberg Collection. NEW MAN was published by Reese Publishing from 1963 through 1965 and Emtee Publications from 1965 through 1972.
Many thanks to Bob Deis. His article, "(Re)Discovering Eva Lynd," at the IDOL FEATURES website, was an invaluable resource for this post.)