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NEWSLETTER THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS DECEMBER 1982 VOL. XXVI NO. 6 SAH NOTICES tour. There we will visit outstanding buildings, museums, 1983 Annual Meeting-Phoenix, Arizona (April 6-10). Carol adjacent towns, and crafts workrooms and factories. The H. Krinsky, New York University, is serving as general itinerary includes Turku with its medieval and m ulti-cul chairman of the meeting. Bernard Michael Boyle, Arizona tural heritage, the sites where the works of Saarinen, Aalto, State University and Robert C. Giebner, University of Sonck, and other architectural leaders are located, towns on Arizona-Tucson, are working on the meeting as local the coasts and inland, and workshops for furniture, ceram chairmen. Headquarters for the meeting will be the Phoenix ics, glass, and fabrics. We will meet Finnish historians, Hilton Hotel. The Preliminary Program will be sent to all architects, curators, and preservationists. members early in January. Members abroad who wish to The tour will use first class hotels, not much more costly at have the program sent airmail should notify the SAH office that season than budget hotels and large enough to handle as soon as possible. groups. Our arrangements are being made by an intelligent Finnish-born travel agent, who is married to an architect, and who has contacts of her own to assist us. She will be able 1984 Annual Meeting-Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 25- to arrange optional pre- or post-tour individual travel, e.g., 29). General chairman of the 1984 meeting will be Carol H. to the U.S.S.R. or Scandinavia. Krinsky, of New York University. Local co-chairmen will Watch for the tour announcement mailing! be Eileen Michels, College of St. Thomas and Tom Martin son of Ellerbe and Associates, Inc. SAH Reception. You are cordially invited to the reception to be held at the Union League in Philadelphia on February 1983 Domestic Tour-Buffalo and Rochester, New York 18, 1983. Sandra Tatman, President of the SAH Philadel (August 24-28). Co-chairmen, Francis R. Kowsky, State phia Chapter, has prepared the registration form included University College at Buffalo, and Jean France of Pittsford, with this Newsletter. Please return the bottom portion with New York, are finalizing plans for the tour. Announcements your remittance by February 7, 1983. will reach the membership in March. SAH Membership Pins. Beautiful !OK Gold Filled lapel To enable an outstanding student to participate in this pins, carrying the SAH Logo, are now available from the tour, the Society will hold a competition for a student SAH office. Cost is $10.00, which includes postage and scholarship. A surcharge on non-student participants' reg handling. istrations will be applied toward the tour scholarship, which will defray wholly or in large part the cost of the tour itself, SAH Placement Service Bulletin. The Bulletin will be carried hotel accommodations and air fare. as a part of the Newsletter whenever positions are available. To be eligible, a student must be engaged in graduate SAH members will have current deadline information work in architecture or architectural history, city planning which should allow for greater consideration. Available or urban history, landscape or the history of landscape positions should be sent to Professor Geraldine Fowle, design. Qualified students- who must be SAH members Editor, in care of the SAH office. should write the SAH office (1700 Walnut Street, Suite 716, Philadelphia, PA 19103) for an application. Completed applications, with required vitae and a minimum of two American Friends of Attingham Summer School-1983 departmental recommendations, should be returned to the Scholarship. The American Friends of Attingham will SAH office by March 1, 1983. award a scholarship to a member of the national SAH to attend the 32nd annual course of the school (July 4-23rd, 1983). The School has three main purposes: To examine the 1983 Foreign Tour-Finland (July 23-August 14). Finland architectural and social history of the English country house this summer- buildings, new towns and old towns, the and its landscape setting, to study the contents of the houses decorative arts-at a time when the experts we want to meet and to stimulate discussion on problems involved in con will be back from their vacations, and before the rainy serving and preserving the English country house and its season. contents. An itinerary has been developed with the advice of our leader, Paul David Pearson (School of Architecture, City University of New York, author of Alvar Aalto and the Applications and information are available by writing Miss International Style) and the help of SAH members David Helen Hamilton, Executive Secretary, American Friends of DeLong, Judith Hull, and Marc Treib. There will be plenty Attingham Summer School, Inc., 126 Jefferson Rd., Prince of time in and around Helsinki at the start and end of the ton, NJ 08540. CHAPTERS followed by an analysis of the architecture of the church by Turpin Bannister. Seven regular meet-the-speaker dinners architect John Caulk. Carolyn Tate, chairman of the were held this fall. In addition, the chapter mounted two church's Building Assessment Committee described to the tours: one to Geneva (Gem on the Finger Lakes) and one to group some of the questions facing that Committee and the the two great estates of K ykuit (home of the Rockefellers) future of the church. The November meeting featured and Lyndhurst. The chapter with the Albany Institute of Damie Stillman whose talk was "The First Flash of Neo History and Art and the RPI School of Architecture Classicism in England: Stuart, Chambers, and Adam, sponsored nine tours and lectures on architectural history. 1755-1765." The Decorative Arts Society. The chapter now has a home at Saarinen. At the September meeting, members heard lec the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. It is tures by Kingsbury Marzolf (University of Michigan) on in the Shirley Goodman Resource Center and telephone "The Historic Architecture of Ann Arbor" and David Evans messages can be left with FIT at 2121760-7970. The chapter (Old West Side Association) on "The Old West Side is hoping funds can be raised to provide for telephone and Historic District." After a gourmet lunch at the Movable left-message answering equipment. The annual meeting Feast Restaurant, a converted Victorian mansion, the was held in Philadelphia to focus on the Pennsylvania participants enjoyed a bus tour of historic houses on Ann German exhibition there. Arbor's Old West Side. Latrobe. Chapter activities included a tour to Waterford, an Southern California. The current SAH/SCC Review is de 18th and 19th century mill town, led by Eugene M. Scheel voted in full to an article by Alson Clark, "The 'Californian' and a lecture by Khosrow Moradian on the Arabic archi Architecture of Gordon B. Kaufmann." tecture of Zanzibar. The Annual Christmas Party is set for December 12. Herewith is the annual printing of the names of Chapter officers, together with an address for each Chapter. Harley McKee. The fall meeting took place in Geneva, NY, American Landscape and Garden Latrobe in cooperation with the Geneva Historical Society and History Society Antoinette J. Lee (Pres.) Historic Ithaca. Mary Raddant Tomlan was program chair Deborah Nevins (Pres.) 4851 N. 28th Street man. At the business meeting, chapter members voted to 225 W. I06th St. Arlington, VA 22207 New York, NY 10025 Paul Goeldner (Vice Pres.) amend the by-laws to extend the president's term to two Leslie Close (Vice Pres.) Candace Reed (Sec.) years and to permit the president to be re-elected. Catherine Howell (Sec.) Jerry Maronek (Treas.) William Beiswanger (Treas.) Sheila Folliott (Pres. Off.) New England. In September the chapter paid a VISit to Beverly Seaton (Newsletter Ed.) Harley McKee Royalston, Mass., to see its buildings, largely Federal and Turpin Bannister Ellen Lamb Linnamaa (Pres.) Greek Revival in style. A number of the buildings on the A. Donald Emerich (Pres.) Art History, 330 Muller Faculty Center common were open to the tour, and the group also viewed P.O. Box 5214 Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850 South Royalston, once the home of the Royalston Cotton & Albany, NY 12205 Eva Maria Hardin (Second Vice Pres.) Wool Manufacturing Company. Lunch was served at the Barbara Rotundo (Vice Pres.) Patricia J. Sullivan (Sec.-Treas.) Susan Moyle Lynch (Sec.) Paul Malo (Pres. Off.) Town Hall. Paul Bray (Treas.) John G. Waite (Pres. Off.) Minnesota New York. In October the chapter joined with the New Charles Nelson (Pres.) Jersey Chapter to co-sponsor the Preservation Alumni of Chicago 1514 Dupont Ave., N Columbia University tour of planned communities in New Kim Clawson (Pres.) Minneapolis, MN 55411 2738 North Racine Robert Frame (Vice Pres.) Jersey. They toured from Radburn in Bergen County to Chicago, IL 60614 Patricia Murphy (Sec.) Short Hills, Cranbury, Roosevelt and over to Ocean Grove Kevin Harrington (Vice Pres.) Eileen Michels (Treas.) in Monmouth County. In November, Heleny Zachariou Jane Clarke (Sec.) Brooks Cavin (Pres. Off.) spoke to the chapter on the state of the ruins at the Acropolis Jannette Heller (Treas.) and other sites in Greece. Mary Ellen Sigmond (Pres. Off.) Missouri Valley Eugene Young (Pres.) Decorative Arts Society 5622 Chadwick Road Philadelphia. The October meeting concentrated on T. P. Patricia Kane (Pres.) Shawnee Mission, KS 66205 Chandler and his design for the Tabernacle Presbyterian 98 Norton Street Larry Hancks (Vice Pres.) Church, 37th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. Dr. Sato New Haven, CT 06511 Elaine Ryder (Sec.-Treas.) Phillip H. Curtis (Vice Pres.) George Ehrlich (Pres. Off.) ko I. Parker gave an illustrated lecture, "Theophilus Parsons Margaret Caldwell (Sec.) Chandler, Philadelphia Architect and Educator" which was Katherine Howe (Treas.) December 1982 VOL. XXVI NO.