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PRIZES AWARDED IN FRESH AIR FUND'S HIGH SCHOOL ART CONTEST; WINNING MURAL DESIGNS EXHIBITED AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM

Winners in the New York Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund's $5,000 High School

Art Competition were announced yesterday (Monday, April 30) at The Metropolitan

Museum of Art.

First prize of $400 was awarded to Robin Allen, 18, a student at the New

York City High School of Music and Art, for his design for a seventeen-foot mural

to be installed in the Fresh Air Fund's new Camp Bliss at East Fishkill, New York.

Young Allen will execute his prize-winning mural at Camp Bliss, while there as a

guest for a week at the opening of the season.

Second prize, $300, went to Kevin Costello, 17, of Sea Cliff High School in

Long Island. Sheldon Goldberg, 17, of the High School of Music and Art in

Manhattan^won the $200 third prize, and Vincent Dimino, 17, of the School of

Industrial Design in New York City, the $100 fourth prize. Fifty entrants whose

works received Honorable Mention received $25 each. The remainder of the award

money will be distributed as art scholarships to talented high school students. These

students will be recommended by members of the jury for the competition in con­

sultation with teachers of art classes attended by the prize-winners. Winners of

scholarships will be announced at a later date.

Whitelaw Reid, president of the Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund, presented the

awards at a special preview for the prize-winners and invited guests at The

Metropolitan Museum. The awards, totaling $5,000, were a gift of Harry S. Pearlman,

president of the Swanee Paper Corporation and the Pearlman Family Foundation.

All the prize-winning mural designs are being exhibited at The Metropolitan

Museum of Art from May 1 through May 13.

The competition was open to a quarter-million students in art classes in

public, parochial and private high schools in New York City, Long Island, West­

chester, Connecticut and New Jersey. After an initial screening in many individual

schools, more than 1,000 entries were submitted to the jury. Judges were Ben

Shahn and Joe Jones, well-known painters and muralists; Robert Beverly Hale, Curator

of American Painting and Sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum; Olive Riley, Art

Director of the New York City Board of Education; Mr. Reid; Emily Genauer, art

critic of the Herald Tribune; and Edward Larrabee Barnes, architect for Camp Bliss.

(more) PR-29 Fresh Air Fund High School Art Contest--2

The contest was organized by Miss Genauer "on the principle that it would

offer a unique opportunity to gifted young students of high school age to translate

their native talents and schoolroom training into an actual mural to be installed

in a permanent building." Themes of the designs were to be either "the flora and

fauna of New York State" or "any phase of Indian life and culture in New York State",

to be interpreted in realistic, symbolic or abstract style.

Winners of Honorable Mentions in the contest are:

Denis Adams, Age 15, of 1054 Dean Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., Prospect Heights High School; Prise ilia Alexander, of 140-15 - 180th Street, Springfield Gardens, L.I., N.Y., High School of Music and Art.

Donald Barnett, age 17, of 25 Eliot Place, Brooklyn, N.Y., High School of Music and Art; Helene Berland, Age 17, of 250 E. Gun Hill Road, New York, Washington Irving High School; Diane Bruce, Age 16, of 36 Brixton Road, Garden City, L.I., N.Y., Garden City High School; Eileen Bush, of Lakeside Avenue, Pompton Lakes, N.J., Pompton Lakes High School; Patricia Anne Byrne, Age 16, of 35-11 - 200th Street, Bayside, L.I., N.Y., Bayside High School.

Florence Cassen, Age 16, of 160 Riverside Drive, New York City, High School of Music and Art; Peter Cox, Age 14, of 2 Park Avenue, Larchmont, N.Y., Stepinac High School.

Peter Dillon, Age 15, of 90 Midland Avenue, Montclair, N.J., Montclair High School; Joan Dunseath, Age 15, of 326 East 65th Street, New York, Cathedral School.

Ellen Eisenberg, Age 15, of 234 East 5th Street, New York, High School of Music and Art; S andra E isens to in, Age 17, of 2368 - 84th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., Lafayette High School.

Nick Fasciano, of 39-40 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, L.I., N.Y., Bayside High School.

Jonathan Garlook, of 12 East 86th Street, New York, High School of Music and Art; Doris Goldberg, Age 16, of 151-41 Willets Point Road, Whitestone, L.I., N.Y., High School of Music and Art.

Bob Hagel, Age 17, of 1665 Townsend Avenue, New York, High School of Music and Art; Jeffrey Halpern, Age 16, of 4550 Kings Highway, Brooklyn, N.Y., Midwood High School; Kate Harris, of Lakeside Avenue, Pompton Lakes, N.J., Pompton Lakes High School; Loretta Himes, Age 15, of 188 South Middletown Road, Pearl River, N.Y., Washington Irving High School.

Jon Katz, of 81 Jane Street, New York, High School of Music and Art; Ruth Kaufman, Age 17, of 309 West 99th Street, New York, High School of Music and Art; Henry Kaye, Age 16, of 3600 Fieldston Road, New York, High School of Music and Art; John Kenny, Age 18, of 743 Lincoln Avenue, Maywood, N.J., Bogota High School; Allen Klein, Age 15, of 1439-52 Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., High School of Music and Art; Jane Kogan, Age 16, of 1501 Undercliff Avenue, New York, High School of Music and Art; Martin Kornheiser, Age 15, of 139-45 - 87th Road, Jamaica, L.I., N.Y., Stuyvesant High School; Olga Korniakoff, Age 15, of 400 East 20th Street, New York, High School of Music and Art; Patti Kretsman, Age 15, of 973 Walton Avenue, New York, High School of Music and Art.

Claudine Lang, Age 17, of 230 West 79th Street, New York, High School of Music and Art; Szari P. Lewis, Age 16, of 289 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, N .Y., High School of Music and Art; Sstelle Logan, Age 18, of 1707 Nelson Avenue, New York, Washington Irving High School; Marion Lucas, Age 16, of 1 East 104th Street, New York, Washington Irving High School.

Helene Miller, of 1955 Sedgwick Avenue, New York, High School of Music and Art; Ingrid Moeller, Age 15, of 500 East 163rd Street, New York, Walton High School.

(more) Fresh Air Fund High School Art Contest--3

Honorable Mentions, Continued:

Margaret Ong, Age 16, of 370 Riverside Drive, New York, High School of Music and Art; Janet Ostroff, Age 15, of 308 West 104th Street, New York, High School of Music and Art.

Maria Rodriguez, Age 17, of 16 East 116th Street, New York, Washington Irving High School.

Vera Soavelli, of 431 East 4th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., Prospect Heights High School; Ronald Sheotman, Age 14, of 221 West 82nd Street, New York, Stuyvesant High School; Amy Snider, of 4135 - 45th Street, Long Island City, New York, High School of Music and Art; Ila Solomon, Age 17, of 3436 Corsa Avenue, New York, High School of Music and Art.

Leonora Tarantino, Age 17, of 2025 - 71st Street, Brooklyn, New York, Washington Irving High School; Nancy Thiemann, Age 16, of 96 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, N.Y., Prospect Heights High School; Valerie Thompson, Age 16, of 740 East Gun Hill Road, New York, High School of Music and Art.

Clover Vail, Age 17, of 188 Highland Avenue, Rowayton, Conn., Cherry Lawn School.

Ellen Weiner, Age 17, of 73-67 - 193rd Street, Flushing L.I., N.Y., Bayside High School; Barbara Weitz, Age 15, of 3045 Godwin Terrace, New York, High School of Music and Art; Julie Werner, Age 16, of 1130 Sherman Avenue, New York, High School of Music and Art; David Wiseltier, Age 14, of 14 Monroe Street, New York, High School of Music and Art.

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