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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1961
THE THRESHER
Three
Library Shows Paintings
On Religion By Bohrod
By HELENE COHEN
Exhibits Librarian at the
Fondren Library
A special exhibit of full-color
reproductions of the fourteen
famous paintings which Aaron
Bohrod has executed to depict
"The Story of America's Re-
ligions" is being shown on the
second floor of Fondren Library
until Tuesday, October 3.
To portray her religious herit-
age on canvas, Mr. Bohrod, one
of America's leading artists, has
chosen many priceless objects to
paint "still life," including the
saddle bags of Presbyterian mis-
sionary Dr. Marcus Whitman, and
the title page of "The Bay
Psalm Book," first book printed
in the colonies.
THUS THE EXHIBIT is of
interest from an historical stand-
point as well as the religious
standpoint, particularly since
Aaron Bohrod's painting^ are so
realistic as to seem almost photo-
graphic in nature. To achieve the
highest possible degree of authen-
ticity in his work, Mr. Bohrod
prefers always to work from
original objects.
All of the Bohrod paintings
were commissioned by Look
Magazine for its award-winning
series of articles on "The Story
of America's Religions," which
has run in the magazine over the
past three years.
EACH OF THE fourteen re-
productions in the exhibit sym-
bolizes one of the following re-
ligious groups: Quaker, Mormon,
Judaism, Baptist, Lutheran, Meth-
odist, Presbyterian, Roman
Catholic;
Eastern Orthodox, Congrega-
tionalism Disciples of Christ,
Christian Scientist, Protestant
Episcopal, and Seventh Day Ad-
ventist.
The "Look" series for which
The Alter storm
Sxvift bird dartings,
Tvind on water.
Racing movements,
rippling echoes,
Fluid strolfings,
air and sunlight
Dimmed by greyness.
Sudden groupings
inscct markings,
Polished risings
waves and ripples,
Soft reflections
bounded motion,
Surging, sighing.
Cosmic searching,
microcosmos
Ordered, formless,
silent patterns.
Pulsing, lapping
"waves escaping:
Finite structure.
'By ROBERT ZELENKA, '65
these paintings were executed has
received numerous awards, in-
cluding the 1959 and 1960 Na-
tional Brotherhood Award of the
National Conference of Christ-
ians and Jews; the Freedoms
Foundation's 1959 and 1960 Dis-
tinguished Service Award; the
National Religious Publicity
Council's magazine award for
1959; and the Periodical Dis-
tributor's Maggie Award for
family service in 1959.
MR. BOHROD HAS received
a number of major art awards,
and his work may be seen at
many leading American museums,
including th Metropolitan Mu-
seus of Art, the Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York City;
the Art Institute, Chicago; the
Library of Congress; the Brook-
lyn Museum; and the Boston
Museum of Art.
"The Story of America's Re-
ligions" has recently been pub-
lished in book form by Holt,
Rinehart and Winston.
H-Bomb Architect
Coming For Series
Dr. Edward Teller, interna-
nationally known physicist and
one of the chief architects of
the hydrogen bomb, will come
to Rice in November to conduct
a series of classes and lectures,
sponsored by the Forum Com-
mittee.
The classes will be held each
Monday, Wednesday, and Fri-
day afternoon from 4:30 to
5:30 in Hamman Hall. Subject
of the month-long course will
be "Basic Ideas in the Physical
Sciences."
LECTURES open to the gen-
eral public will take place each
Thursday evening. The morn-
ing classes are limited to Rice
students and faculty, previous-
ly invited Rice alumni, inter-
ested high school science teach-
ers, and 100 specially-selected
advanced physics students
from the Houston area.
Dr. Teller will visit Rice un-
der a visiting scholar grant
from Houston's Welch Founda-
tion, which seeks to encourage
education and research in
chemistry in Texas.
AT C.A.A. THIS YEAR
Barthelme New Director,-
Membership Price Raised
Houston's Contemporary Arts
Museum has announced the ap-
pointment of Donald Barthelme,
formerly of the architecture de-
partment at Rice, as director for
the coming year.
The Museum also has an-
nounced a hike in the basic mini-
mum museum membership fee
from $10 to $12, due to an in-
creased budget and an expanded
program.
MR. BARTHELME, who will
be the museum's first full-fleged
director since 1960, has outlined
plans for the season as follows:
Beginning this month, the mu-
seum will present a series of
month-long music, film, drama,
and poetry festivals. Called "In-
troductions,'' these will alternate
month by month with major ex-
hibitions of painting and sculp-
ture.
LEFT OX THE program this
SEMINARS REPLACE TRIG
New Freshman Week A Boon To Frosh
By GRIFFIN SMITH
Rice's revamped Freshman
Week program ended Sunday with
high praise from students and
faculty alike.
Academic work during the
week, drastically reduced from
that of previous years, was limit-
ed to daily lectures by distin-
guished professors and small dis-
New Anthology
Has Alum's Story
"A Tale of Inheritance,® by
William Goyen, a Rice alumnus,
appears in "The Best American
Short Stories 1961," published
last month.
Mr. Goyen received his B. A.
from Rice in 1937 and his M.A.
in 1939.
FIRST PUBLISHED in "South-
west Review," the story has as
its setting Houston in the twen-
ties and thirties, and deals with
a woman who is simply unable to
make the transition from coun-
try to city. She lives her life in
the heart of the city as she al-
ways had in the country until she
finally returns, mentally unbal-
anced, to her birthplace to die.
Mr. Goyen has written a novel,
"The House of Breath," .pub-
lished in 1950. He has published
two collections of short stories,
"Ghost and Flesh," in 1952, and
"The Faces of Blood Kindred,"
in 1960.
At present he teaches fiction
writing and conducts a play-
wright's workshop at The New
School in New York City.
CAMPUS
CLEANERS & COLD
STORAGE
6117 K1RBY
IN THE VILLAGE
cussion groups in the colleges led
by faculty associates.
LECTURERS included Rice
President Kenneth Pitzer, Trustee
Professor!? Radoslav Tsanoff,
Hubert Bray, and James Chill-
man; and Professor Franz Brot-
zen.
The "seminars" at Baker and
Jones Colleges discussed a series
of books which the freshmen had
read durinjf the summer, and
which corresponde d to the
lecturers' topics. At Wiess Col-
lege discussions centered on Wil-
liam Golding's "Lord of the
Flies," C .P. Snow's "Two Cul-
tures and the Scientific Revolu-
tion," and a series of three
essays.
HAXSZEX GROUPS took on
Alfred North Whitehead's "The
Aims of Education," while Will
Rice programmed a freer type of
discussion with no specific text.
The remaining time each day
was left free for the colleges to
plan activities as they chose. Each
conducted tours of the campus
and of Houston. Wiess escorted
Jones North to "John Brown's
Body" at the Alley Theater and
Hanszen escorted freshmen from
the South wing to "West Side
Story"—both on Thursday night..
Baker and Will Rice went to the
Alley theater earlier.
WILL RICE HELD a get-
acquainted dance for the Jones
Freshmen on Friday night follow-
ing and all-school pep rally.
Wiess featured a talk on Rice's
financial situation by Chancellor
Carey Croneis Tuesday night; Dr.
Jack Conner, spoke Wednesday on
"Grades at Rice." The Week's
finale was a pre-hurricane street
dance for the freshmen Saturday
night, with music provided by
Lightjiin' Hopkins.
Vital to the success of the
new program was that group of
upperclassmen in each college—
known variously as Mentors, Sen-
iors Advisers, or Fellows—who
planned and executed the activi-
ties.
The Rice Wesley Founda-
tion begins its year Sunday
evening with a banquet at
Youngblood's. It will be at 7
p.m.
The Rev. Fred Holt, min-
ister to Methodist students at
Rice, will be the speaker.
Dress is casual and tickets
are $1.
month is a concert devoted to
the work of a major American
composer, with the composer in
attendance, Sunday, September
17.
September 24, the museum will
present a concert of contempor-
ary jazz works for large orches-
tra, with jazz composer Johnny
Richards as guest conductor.
A concert of experimental mu-
sic (including a quartet written
by an electronic computer), with
the music critic Peter Yates as
moderator, will be presented Sep-
tember 30.
SUBSEQUEXTL V the museum
will present "New Poems by
New Poets," four leading Ameri-
can poets reading their own
works, in Xovember; ail exam-
ination of the avant-garde thea-
ter, with four plays under dif-
ferent directors, in January; and
a course of "new American cine-
ma'' (films by John Cassavetes,
Shirley Clarke, and others) in
March.
Major painting and sculpture
exhibitions will include "Ways
and Means, 1961," a study of the
current warring tendencies in
vanguard painting, in October;
"After Surrealism," a survey of
work by young painters who are
exploiting the surrealist legacy,
in December; "The Desire to See
God," an examination of con-
temporary religious art, in Feb-
ruary; and "Discoveries Texas,"
an exhibition of new work by
Texas painters, in April.
LOAN EXHIBITIONS sched-
uled include a showing of Jean
Dubuffet's "Phenomena," 40 lith-
ographs in color and black and
white, circulated by the Museum
of Modern Art; Robert Rauschen-
berg's illustrations for the "In-
ferno,'' called one of the most
beautiful and profound sets of
illustrations in modern times;
and exhibitions of -12 illustra-
tions of poems, by contemporary
artists, chosen by Dore Ashton,
called "Poets and Prints."
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