The Anchor, European Edition: August 1959
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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 1959 The Anchor: 1950-1959 8-1-1959 The Anchor, European Edition: August 1959 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1959 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, European Edition: August 1959" (1959). The Anchor: 1959. Paper 17. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1959/17 Published in: The Anchor, August 1, 1959. Copyright © 1959 Hope College, Holland, Michigan. This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Anchor: 1950-1959 at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Anchor: 1959 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Distiguished Faculty, Enlarged Curriculum • \ ^ Mark Academic Emphasis of Vienna Summer School Nine different courses offered during the current , session of the Hope College Vienna Summer School provided students enrolled in the program with a rich variety of interesting and stimulating educational ex- periences. Courses taught this year include Art History, European Literature and Viennese Drama, Europe Since 1900, Elementary and Intermediate German, German Conversation, History of Africa, and Music History of the Baroque and Classical Period. These courses are being taught by the folowing pelople: Art History HOPE COLLEGE VIENNA SUMMER SCHOOL faculty and staff. (Left to right) First row, Professor Gearhart, Mrs. Sammern, Dr. Michael Fink is a native of Vienna who has Dozent Dr. Macku, Dr. Fried, Mrs. Hinga, Professor Italiaander, Dean Hinga. Second Row, Mr. Sammern, Mr. Recknagcl, Dr. Lehmann, become enchanted by Art and Architecture and is Dr. Fink, Dr. Nemeth, Dr. Fassbinder, Mr. Schmalfuss. enjoying his first experience as a college teacher. Dr. Fink has been associated with the Institute of European Studies as director of travel and finance for a number of years. He is largely responsible for arranging the well planned study-tours which have been part of the Hope program for the past three years. He also plans to take a smaller group of students on an Art tour of Italy after the Vienna Summer Session concludes. Dozent Dr. Anton Macku is considered the most HOPE COLLEGE prominent art historian in Austrian. He received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1926 and has been associated with the institution ever since. He has written more than a dozen books on architecture and many more articles in professional journals. For the past several months his recent book on Vienna has ANCHOR held its place on the bestseller list in Austria. HOPE COLLEGE VIENNA SUMMER SCHOOL European Literature and Viennese Drama EUROPEAN EDITION VIENNA, AUSTRIA, AUGUST. 1959 Dr. Friedrich Fassbinder, a native of Vienna, teaches the course in Viennese Drama and also the Survey Course in European Literature. Dr. Fassbinder has written two plays and a large number of essays, articles, and reviews. During the past summer he taught the course in German Civilization at the Hope College Sfudenfs Meet New Foreign Minister Summer School. Invite Austrian Diplomat to Hope Europe Since 1900 Dr. Hartmut Lehmann received his doctorate in Little more than a week after taking office as Dr. Kreisky, who had also met the Hope group last history only a few weeks before the opening of Summer Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Bruno Kreisky year when he was still State Secretary and had just School. He is a native of Wuertcmberg, Germany, and received the Hope College Vienna Summer School returned from an extensive visit to the Soviet Union, spent a year in the United States attending Virgil High group in the office of the Federal Chancellor for an plans to travel to the United States next month. School in Courtland, New York on an exchangei hour-long discussion of world affairs. When asked by Dr. Fried if he would be able to scholarship before entering Tuebingen University in include a stop at Holland in his American travel Germany. He also attended the University of Bristol, plans. Dr. Kreisky indicated that he would be happy in England, before coming to Vienna. Following the to visit Hope College, if time permitted. A formal close of the Vienna Summer School, Dr. Lehmann will invitation has just been extended to the Austrian return to Germany to take up his new position as statesman by Dr. Lubbers, President of Hope College. Assistant in History at the University of Cologne. Dr. Kreisky served as Austrian State Secretary from 1953 until his appointment to the Foreign Ministry last month. He is regarded as one of the leading ex- African History ponents of European unity and played a major part in the formation of the European Free Trade Asso- Professor Rolf Italiaander is a Dutch explorer, socio- ciation, established in July of this year. logist, writer and African expert. During the past While taking a strict view of Austria's neutrality twenty-five years he .has visited Africa ten times and obligations. Dr. Kreisky advocates close ties to the has written more than a dozen books about the „Dark Western world and sees Austria's future in a pro- Continent". His latest work, a seven hundred page Western foreign policy. Appointed to one of the most History of Africa, clearly establishes him as one of important posts in the Austrian government at the age Europe's leading African scholars. He hopes to come of forty-eight. Dr. Kreisky easily qualifies as one of to the United States next year to spend a semester at Austria's most brilliant and promising statesmen. Hope College as visiting professor for African history. History of Music US State Departement Appoints Tysse To Attend NATO Meeting In Norway Dr. Carl Nemeth is a native of Hungary, but a Viennese by adoption. He received his doctorate from John Paul Tysse, Hope College student enrolled in the University of Vienna ten years ago and has been the history program of the Vienna Summer School, extremely active as a practicing musician and as a will represent the United States at a two week long music historian ever since. For some time he served NATO seminar to be held at Tranberg Gaard, Norway, as assistant conductor of the Vienna Tonkuenstkr August 15 to August 29. The formal appointment, Orchestra and has conducted concerts and operas in confirmed by the State Department in Washington as Germany, Austria, Italy, and Yugoslavia. For his book the Anchor goes to press, came after Dr. Fried had Franz Schmidt, A Master After Brahms and Bruckncr, submitted Tysse's nomination to the Association of he received the Austrian National Music Prize in 1957. International Relations Clubs and the Young Adult Dr. Nemeth has participated in the Hope College Council. Two other US delegates as well as students Vienna Summer School since 1957 and last year from all other fourteen NATO countries are scheduled published a brief report on the Hope College Vienna HIS EXCELLENCY DR. BRUNO KREISKY, Austrian Minister of to attend the seminar as guests of the Norwegian music program in an Austrian periodical. Foreign Affairs. government. continued on page two PAGE TWO HOPE COLLEGE ANCHOR — EUROPEAN EDITION AUGUST 1959 Studenfs learn Language on Location HOPE COLLEGE ANCHOR In Intensive Six Week German Program The European edition of the Hope College Vienna is noted for its leisurely way of life and the The students meet three hours each morning for Viennese have been credited with coining the saying intensive drill in the language. Supervised drill and ANCHOR is written, edited, and printed in that „what doesn't get done today can be taken care of private tutoring are provided during two hours in the Vienna, Austria by the students enrolled in the tomorrow". Local citizens enjoy lingering over a cup afternoon. A second native speaker is available to each Hope College Vienna Summer School study- of coffee in a local cafe while reading the latest news- class during part of this period. Homework assignments papers and magazines. They enjoy „taking it easy". for the next day complete the formal classroom work, tour program. The students studying German this summer at the hut instruction in the language does not cease when This international summer edition of the Hope College Summer School in Vienna have discovered the students leave the classroom. that they do not have much time for such activities. All students are housed with private families. I hey ANCHOR is designed to acquaint the reader- They are too occupied attempting to compress a year's thus have an opportunity to talk to the landlady and with the purpose and scope of the Hope course of German into six busy weeks of study. to experience how a typical Austrian family lives. College Vienna Summer School program by Further conversational partners are the policeman on The first and second year courses of the Hope the corner, the streetcar conductor and the waiter in providing information on the activities, im- College Summer School program in German fulfill the restaurant. The theater and opera, movies, and pressions, and adventures of its students. most of the dreams of a language teacher. There is newspapers provide other good sources of stimulation intensive training over a relatively short period of time and practice in the language. The students must con- with the opportunity of putting theory immediately tinually utilize what they are formally learning. into'' practice. Both courses are being taught by Conversation students are required to meet with ISSUE NUMBER TWO Austrians who have spent at least one year of study tutors each week and are evaluated on the basis ol the at a college in the United States.