THE KENTONIAN SECTION - DECEMBER 27 - 30, 1971 Page 3-A

O p e n letter to

the President Weaves hobby into a job

by Mary Jean Malkewitz

HAVING LOOM

Jochen Ditterich shows his wife his new 6o inch one ^our to weave three scarves. A hobby fly shutter loom on which he will do production Ditterich, weaving is fast becoming an en-weaving. The new loom will take Jochen only joy able full time business.

" T h i s yea r has been f a b u l o u s / ' said Jochen Dit ter ich of Rock-ford, and in the las t decade he has seen his l i fe change c o m -pletely. A U.S. ci t izen s ince 1966, Ditterich emigra ted to A m -e r i c a in 1962, m a r r i e d , and now is the fa ther o f two. He owns a weaving shop on Sunflsh Lake and is turning a hobby Into a vo-cation.

A native of Hamburg, Ge rmany , Jochen Dit ter ich spent h is ea r ly days of employment in the food bus iness . His pa ren t s were f a r m produce r e t a i l e r s , a n d w i t h a B . S . f rom a t r ade school in this l ine , Dit ter ich helped his fami ly . The s u m m e r of 1962 he managed a thousand bed youth hostel in Eng-land, fell in love with an A m e r i -can g i r l , Nancy Slocum of Ionia, who was hostel ing a lso . Jochen came to the United States that autumn to manage a ho r se ranch , but the job fell through, so he found employments a s a produce manager with M e i j e r s . At Chr i s tmas t ime he m a r r i e d Nancy. Di t ter ich s t i l l works at Mei je rs nights , a s a hilo o p e r a -tor at the warehouse .

Jochen has one absorbing hob-by which he en joys . Fif teen y e a r s ago when Dit ter ich was an e x -change student in Finland, his f b s t e r mother had a loom. Weav-ing became a hobby, and he took all the c l a s se s and read all the books he could on that i n t e r e s t -ing c r a f t . Because of the low wage sca le in Ge rmany , he never dared to hope that some day he could own his own loom. Today Jochen Dit ter ich has eight looms , th ree table models , four 3 6 " to 4 8 " width looms , and the l a rge 60" f lyshut ter loom.

One of the f i r s t things D i t t e r -ich did in Amar lca was to p u r -chase a loom and take a t h r ee s e m e s t e r weaving extension course through the Universi ty of Michigan taught by Bob Sa i l -e r s of Belmont, whom Dit ter ich ca l ls " f a s c i n a t i n g . " Until t h r e e yea r s ago weaving was just a hobby with Di t ter ich , but then he received f i r s t p r i ze f r o m the Michigan League of Handweavers at the Ionia F r e e F a i r . His r i b -bon came by way of an a c c i -dent , He had woven a s to le of mohair and gold cotton thread f o r the occasion and being in a h u r r y , had tossed i t in the d r y -e r a f t e r shrinking it in cold w a -t e r . The gold thread stood out in a wavy pa t te rn in the d r ied s to le , and his weaving was a s u c c e s s . He also won Bes t Weav-e r ' s Award at the Ber l in F a i r the s a m e y e a r .

Jochen Dit ter ich has d e m o n -s t ra ted his weaving sk i l l s at the Sparta Cen temnia l Exhibition and

P ionee r s Days at the Grand R a -pids Publ ic Museum, The l a t t e r le f t him exhausted a s he worked nights , demons t ra ted days and caught a few winks of s l eep in between. He was exhausted when Saturday night c a m e ,

Di t te r ich began teaching in the Rockford Adult Education P r o -g r a m a f t e r see ing an ad f o r t each -e r s in the pape r and applying. All c l a s s e s a r e in h i s home. The f i r s t s e m e s t e r he had one s tudent , the second s e m e s t e r two. In h i s second yea r of teaching th ree s t u -dents c a m e , and this school season he h a s eight s tudents and a wait ing l i s t . Because of this he i s thinking of adding a third s e m -e s t e r of ten weeks , and t each -ing a one week s u m m e r cour se to adults f r o m out of town.

In teaching his s tudents , Jochen f i r s t has them do plain weaving. In the f i r s t l esson cornhusks , milkweed s t a l k s , twigs, and b a m -boo a r e u sed . The s tudents l ea rn to tie the 36 th reads in two h o u r s . The second lesson the s tudents weave moha i r s c a r v e s and l e a r n to do double o r tubular weav-ing, Second s e m e s t e r adults weave In pa t t e rns , and tliird s e m -e s t e r s tudents will do f l o s sa rug weaving and t apes t ry , s t u -dents a r e allowed to go at the i r own pace , s lee t thei r own p r o -j ec t , and finish the i r weaving on the i r own t i em. The c l a s s e s a r e on Mondays f r o m 6:30 p .m. to 9 p .m.

Because Di t ter ich loves to weave he is m o r e en thus ias t ic about the c r a f t than he was when he f i r s t began. He demons t r a t e s to school groups f r e e of cha rge if the c l a s s comes to his home. He is an agent fo r the Lec l e r c Loom Company out of Quebec, and he f inds the schools good c u s t o m e r s , A C a n n o n s b u r g c l a s s vis i ted recent ly , and the t each -e r bought two sma l l table looms , Dit ter ich saves his yarn s c r a p s for the c l a s s .

Di t ter ich finds weaving a r e -laxing hobby, one that t akes c a r e of the tension Immedia te ly . He works at h is loom th r ee to four hours a day . Using all d i f f e r -ent y a r n s , wool, or lon , cotton, l inen, metal l ic and blends , Di t -t e r i ch s e l l s the i t e m s he weaves to the Shaker C r a f t s Company in Spring Lake . He makes s c a r v e s , wool tablecloths , pillow c o v e r s , table r u n n e r s , r u g s , bedsp reads , d r a p e s , a fghans , wall hangings, and f a b r i c s . Recently he d e -l ivered 50 y a r d s of s c a r v e s to the company, and within a half hour they w e r e sold out.

So f a r all the weaving money

Jochen Di t te r ich has earned h a s gone back into h is hobby for looms and m a t e r i a l s . Bes ides se l l ing looms , the i r p a r t s and s e r v i c -ing the looms he s e l l s , Di t ter ich a l so s e l l s ya rns in the bulk and books on weaving. His y a r n s come f r o m the s t a t e s of Connec-t icut , Washington, T e x a s , a n d N . Caro l ina . He a l so s e l l s y a r n s f o r crochet ing and knitt ing and many of them a r e novelty y a r n s , one of a kind. Each a r t i c l e D i t t e r -ich weaves is one of a kind, too, each comin g out a l i t t le d i f f e r -ent f r o m the f i r s t pa t t e rn , J o c h -en plans all h is weaving and w r i t e s down the p r o c e s s . M i s -takes a r e cos t ly . With a r e g u -l a r 36" loom, Di t ter ich can weave a 7 5 " by 14" sca r f in about an hour .

Mr , Di t te r ich is looking f o r -ward to 1972 a s he s a y s , " e v e r y -thing is s t a r t i n g now." He will be moving his studio and shop which is now housed in h is b a s e -ment on Sunflsh Lake Avenue to the ba rn a c r o s s f r o m the Old Mill, Rockford , This will become a c r a f t c en t e r next fa l l , and he will a l so se l l Shaker C r a f t s f u r -n i ture and i t ems in the s t o r e .

Jochen has found h i s wife, Nancy, to be " a good a s s e t " in the i r nine y e a r s of m a r r i a g e . While she is not a w e a v e r , she jo ins him at guild meet ings and a r t s and c r a f t s shows. A f o r m e r band and o r c h e s t r a i n s t ruc to r at Har r i son P a r k School, she t each-e s all the mus ica l i n s t rumen t s , except the h a r p , gu i ta r , and a c -cordion. At p re sen t she has s ix p r iva te pupi ls , but las t s u m m e r 20 s tudents w e r e keeping he r busy .

The Di t t e r ichs spend tlielr f r e e t ime family bicycling and c a n -oeing. Both have cycled the E u r -opean continent, Nancy and the chi ldren sk i , but Jochen s ays he was born at the w a t e r ' s edge where the re were no hi l ls and l i t t le snow. His youth was spent in a kayak club. The season end-ed b e f o r e the C h r i s t m a s hol idays and s t a r t ed again in F e b r u a r y ,

To complete the Di t ter ich household a r e two dogs, a lovable wl reha i red dachhound, and Bl i tz , a black German Sheherd watch-dog. No one prowls the p r o p e r -ty when Blitz i s loose . The Di t -te r ich a l so have a wild, mixed-up male Card ina l who spends his waking hour s flying at the windows of the house . While not music to the i r e a r s , tho thump, thump, thump as he bangs against the window would be so re ly missed if he should p e r i s h . At l eas t they know someone c a r e s .

The Domest ic Economy

The p r i ce and wage f r e e z e v/as a needed brake on the heated up economy. However, the lid s e e m s to be coming off , a s some a s -tonishingly high wage boosts have been OK'd by the Wage & P r i c e Board . One recent wage hike that received approval provided fo r a be t te r than 40% inc rea se over a four yea r per iod . This i s completely r idiculous when held agalns the p ro fessed ta rge t of cooling the inf lat ionary s p i r a l .

If one such se t t lement i s made , you can be s u r e the door has been opened to o t h e r s .

You a r e to be congratulated f o r taking the Phase I s t ep .

It i s unfor tunate that the Wage and P r i c e Board you appointed has seen fit to begin undermining the gains made in Phase I, by the beginning pa t t e rns being se t in P h a s e n .

Our International P o s t u r e Your s iding with Pakis tan

against India in the i r recent con-f lec t is beyond my comprehension except if the reason of raw, a -mora l pol i t ics i s used . In a war both p a r t i e s a r e usual ly at fault to one deg ree o r another ; how-e v e r , you threw in your lot , and mind a s an Amer ican whom you r e p r e s e n t , with the Pakis tan mi l i t a ry d ic ta to rsh ip against the Indian d e m o c r a c y . Le t ' s ag r ee that the fo rm of government i s not the sole c r i t e r ion for judg-ing a nat ion 's ac t ions .

The f a r m o r e important e l e -ment in this t e r r i b l e a f f a i r i s the f ac t that the Pak i s tan i s had t r e a t -ed the E. Pakis tan ci t izens s o badly (actions border ing on geno-cide , we a r e told) that near ly 10 million of them fled into India,

India, it s e e m s to me , had two p r e s s i n g r easons fo r w a r r i n g on h e r neighbor . 1) Her compas -sion fo r those within the E, P a k -is tan i boundar ies who were being s laughtered by the Pakis tan t roops , and 2) more down-to-e a r t h , the t remendous economic p r e s s u r e brought to bear on In-dia by the tidal wave of E. P a k -is tan r e fugees .

Moral Leadersh ip

I r ea l i ze you a r e in a s t a t e of de l ica te negotiations with c o m -munist China, and that they a r e siding with the West P a k i s -tan mi l i ta ry 1 government , but , p l ease , give us some mora l l e a d -e r s h i p .

I am s u r e that if any of us were s i t t ing in your s e a t , with your g r ea t p r o b l e m s , we would

be hard put to come up with ideal decis ions all of the t ime. How-e v e r , Mr . P res iden t , the United States , which we both love with a profoundness that non-Amer i -cans can probably never under -s tand , used to stand a s a p i l la r in the eyes of the world. Not a p i l l a r of mi l i ta ry or econom-ic s t reng th , but a s a p i l la r of mora l s t r eng th . As a place of f r e e d o m , f a i r play, and mora l r igh tness in a world of nations where so much is done to men instead of fo r them.

The pres idency is one office in the land that s e t s the mora l tone and s t a tu r e of our nation.

Your winding down of the war i s laudable.

Your incursion into Cambodia; the special c a r e given to Lt. Calley; the position taken on the India /Pakis tan conflict a r e deplorable .

Your e f fo r t s to br ing about a l lne of communication with main-land China is a move In the right d i rec t ion .

Your lack of init iative to work f o r a United Nations Cha r t e r Re-view and fo r genuine changes in that body toward making it a t rue world peace-keeper i s r e -gre t tab le .

Your lack of e f for t to make a m a j o r revis ion in U.S. govern-ment s t r u c t u r e aimed toward very signif icant reduct ions in the s i ze of the employee l i s t , your lack of e f fo r t to halt the in -credible mi l i t a ry spending when we have 10 o r 15 t imes o v e r -kill in our a r s e n a l a l ready - all these a r e grave faults in your ad-min is t ra t ion .

P e r h a p s what has happened to too many of us is that we see nat ions , we see s t a t e s , and we s e e c i t i es , but we fail to s ee people. I believe the average human being, no ma t t e r where he l ives in the world, wants to be lef t alone by his government; he wants to be able to go to work, earn food, clothing, s h e l -t e r , and a l i t t le l e i s u r e t ime for himself and his family.

I have writ ten to you a few t imes over the past three y e a r s and have a lmost always r e f e r r e d to your very fine inaugu-ra l speech. P lease re read it and apply the pr inciples you e x -p re s sed the re , it would br ing on a great change in the way your adminis t ra t ion is being handled.

Sincerely, Niels T. Andersen, Publ isher

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LEGAL NOTICE B 66972 LHG 257516 AV 1348 MORTGAGE SALE - Default has been made in the condi-tions of a mor tgage made by TERRY L E E CORSON AND SALLY L. CORSON,HIS W I F E , MORTGAGORS, to JAMES T. BARNES & COM-PANY , A MICHIGAN C O R -PORATION, Mor tgagee , d a -ted Nov 29, 1961, and r e -corded on Nov 30, 1961, in L ibe r 1548, on page 976 Kent, County Records , Mich-igan, and ass igned by said Mortgagee t o OLD KENT BANK AND TRUST COM-PANY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, by an a s s i g n -ment dated March 1, 1962, and r eco rded on Miirch 13, 1962, In L ibe r 1554, on page 574, Kent County R e c -o r d s , Michigan, on which mor tgage the re i s claimed to be du e at the date h e r e -of the sum of NINE THOU^ SAND TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY AND 86/100 ($9,280.86) DOLLARS in-cluding In te res t at 5 1/4% P e r Annum.

Under the power of sa le contained in said mor tgage and the s ta tu te in such case made and provided , notice Is hereby given that said mor tgage will be forec losed by a s a l e of the mortgaged p r e m i s e s , o r some par t of them, at public vendue, at the Eas t door of the Lobby of the Hall of Jus t i ce in Grand Rapids , at 10:00 o ' clock A.M., on Thur sday , March 30th, 1972.

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bum), " I ' m Losing You" Is his cu r ren t s ingle , and a g rea t and deep talent speaks to all of us when i t ' s played. Van Mor r i son has emerged f r o m the underground with "Wild Night" f rom the "Tupe lo Honey" LP. Even (even!) Ann A r b o r ' s Commander Cody and his Lost P lane t A i rmen have appeared to have a r r ived with the i r ro l l icking " L o s t in the Ozone A g a i n , "

But, outshining them all i s another FM favor i te , Don McLean ' s " A m e r i c a n P i e " f r o m the album of the s a m e n a m e . It i s apparent ly the m o n s t e r s ingle of the s ea son . As ye t , the AM D J ' s don ' t s e e m quite s u r e how to handle i t . The full length vers ion is eight minutes long. Some of the s ta t ions play two v e r s e s f r o m the album cut, s o m e play f ive , s o m e play the beginning half of the song, some play the las t p a r t , and some espec ia l ly good (and hard to find) s ta t ions pla y the whole eight minutes a s a pu re t r ea t fo r the i r audience . And, it i s Indeed a t r ea t .

Through a fine use of e f f o r t l e s s metaphor , Don McLean weaves a ta le of the way In which our music has changed, and in the p r o c e s s changed us (and vice ve r sa ) . F rom the s imple beginnings where the J e s t e r " s a n g with a voice that came f r o m you and m e " to "Sa tan laughing with delight , the day the music d i e d , " M c l e a n comments with with and p rec i s ion on jus t what the events of the l a s t 15 o r so y e a r s have wrought on this "genera t ion lost in s p a c e . "

His use of language Is control led and skil lfully evoca -t ive . " D r o v e my Chevy to the levee , but the levee was d r y " Is one of the most s imp le and beauUftilly concise exp re s s ions of the e s s e n c e of growing up in this country that I 've heard f r o m any song. Don McLean himself speaks with a " v o i c e that c a m e f r o m you and m e , " and the p r e s e n t d imens ions of h is fame a r e fully just if ied by h i s ta len t .

As " A m e r i c a n P i e " fades out , the t r ip ends in Ann A r b o r , The mus i c , m o r e than any highway, is the link that c a r r i e s the t r a v e l e r f rom point to point, supporting him on a soundswell of cu l - t cha .