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Highly Decorated NEWSLETTER # 7 9 HIGHLY DECORATED n honor of Georgetown University's Isixth annual Jesuit Heritage Week (January 29 - February 5, 2006), the Library presented the exhibit Highly Decorated: The Work of Brother Francis C. Schroen, S.j in the Kerbs Exhibit Area in Lauinger Library. Celebrating the artwork of Brother Francis C. Schroen, S.]. (1857- > Professor Diane 1924), the exhibit featured photographs Apostolos-Cappadona and documents from the University gave an Associates > Painting Renovations in the Healy Hall Parlor lecture in conjunction Archives and the Virginia M. Keeler Corridor, July 1987. See article. with Reunion Weekend Papers, and illustrated Brother Schroen's on June 3 entitled The Da decorative artwork in Healy Hall. Photographs, old and new, of Gaston Hall, Carroll Vinci Code: Is There a Parlor, and Hirst Reading Room were included. Woman in That Painting? In the illustration photograph (above) included in the exhibit, an expert artisan works to restore the original paintings of Brother Schroen. In addition to the More Associates Events to Come ceiling and borders of the entrance hall, Brother Schroen decorated adjacent rooms, this Fall! including Carroll Parlor and the offices now used for Campus Ministry. According to Virginia M. Keeler, whose thesis topic was an in -depth study of Brother Schoen's IN THIS ISSUE work, he carved the leaves freehand into the plaster. In her thesis she quotes Father Patrick Cormican, S.]., who explains that the decoration of the hall was an "introduction Collect Calling 2 of the foliage of the most predominant species of trees which are the pride of the renowned college walks - the beech, the oak, the sycamore, the chestnut." The From the Vault 3 walls of the hallway are now painted white, a change from the original blue, but the Exhibits 3 decorative paintings have all been preserved and restored. Associates Events 4 Born in Bavaria, Francis C . Schroen, S.]. was brought to Baltimore as an infant by his parents. His father was a tailor and wished Francis to enter the same field. Voting 4 However, after Francis left school, he worked as a house painter, earning a Library Happenings 5 reputation as a skilled decorator who specialized in the use of plastics. Mter a series of tragedies - the death of two of his children and then of his wife in childbirth - John DePol Exhibit 6 and financial setbacks, he applied for admission as a Jesuit lay-brother. Continuing Library Staff Awards 7 his decorating work as a member of the Jesuit order, he became one of the most New Board Members 8 noted church decorators and painters of his time. Continued on page 7 This Newsletter is issued four times a year. It is distributed to all Library Associates, members of ARL, the Georgetown University Board of Directors, Board of Regents, Board of Governors, and selected others. urrently on display in the Lauinger Library's Gunlocke Room is the exhibit, CRadicalism: A Work in Progress, featuring books, pamphlets, broadsides and other UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN Artemis G. Kirk items collected by Professor Maurice Jackson and generously donated to Georgetown. With an emphasis on American workers' movements, human rights, EDITOR Stephanie Hughes and labor organizations, the materials are a dazzling display of philosophy, politics, propaganda and prose, comprehensively but carefully amassed over many years by DESIGN EDITOR someone whose understanding of history grew as Caroline W . Griswold his collection did. The exhibit does dazzle; in ./ .: ARTS EDITOR addition to the content, the items represent David C. Alan fascinating graphics and typography, startling CONTRIBUTORS colors and provocative titles. It takes a collector's David C. Alan mind to acquire items that form an intellectual Mirco Haag F'09 David Hagen corpus, and a curator's eye to assemble them into Stephanie Hughes a visually appealing presentation. Artemis G. Kirk The impact on the viewer is also profound Matthew Kohlstedt Jennifer Louchheim C'06 and, just as books open people's minds to new Heidi Rubenstein thoughts agreeable or disagreeable, an exhibit LuLen Walker '1' hy? can expand one's appreciation of a subject when SOCIa Ism. carefully represented by a collection. President EDITOR By Albert Einstein John J. De Gioia spoke to the collection's impact 202.687-7833 at the exhibit opening: "The title of this [email protected] exhibition, Radicalism: A Work in Progress, is BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT > Einstein. Why Socialism? New York: one in which someone in my role would have a DONATIONS Young Communist League, 1990 Artemis G. Kirk little bit of trepidation in offering comment in (reprint of 1949 article). University Librarian a moment like this. But I take encouragement 202. 687.7425 [email protected] from the words ofJohn F. Kennedy who said, 'We are not afraid to entrust the ART DONATIONS American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and LuLen Walker competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and Assistant Curator ­ University Art Collection falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.' The materials 202. 687.1469 that Maurice has given us, that he has collected over the course of his lifetime, will [email protected] remind us of some unpleasant facts, and will present some foreign ideals, different MONETARY DONATIONS types of philosophies, and competing values for how we should be ordering our AND BEQUESTS Aurilla Fusco public lives. But in knowing Maurice over the course of these last many years, I Director of Development know that what he has always sought here has been an open forum, where all of 20 2. 687.5666 amf49 @georgetown.edu us can judge the truth and falsehood of our beliefs." An alumnus visitor from California, and former chair of the San Francisco GIFTS VIA THE WEB ----. http://www.georgetown.edu/ Republican Party, similarly wrote to me with his reactions: "I thought the exhibit oaurlindex.html highly worthwhile. Tracts such as those on display edged, if not defined, the major o Printed on recycled paper Continued on back page 2 Library Associates he Art Collection received a visually the Virginia Shore depicts a distant Tstunning donation in February: "hilltop" at dawn framed by towering Georgetown from the Virginia Shore, by trees on the Virginia side of the Bradley Stevens Potomac River, (b. 1954), a gift of soft sunlight > An important but rarely James H ayes, C'56. dappling the seen painting from the Art Painted in trunks as a Collection will be on view at 1987, the impressive double-sculler is the Smithsonian American four-by-six-foo t rowed against the Art Museum from July 4 Georgetown from current in the through September 17: Eastman Johnson's Hannah the Virginia Shore foreground. The Amidst The Vines (1859) is joins the Library's artist has said of part of the exhibition distinguished his paintings, "It American ABC: Childhood in collection of views is simply the 19th-Century America, of Georgetown beauty of nature which began in February at from the 1830s to that humbles, the Cantor Arts Center at the present. The sustains, and Stanford University, and will conclude at the Portland artist has been, in reminds us just Museum of Art in Maine. fact, an adjunct how good it is to professor at >Installation view of Georgetown from be alive." Georgetown; most the Virginia Shore across from the Georgetown from CURRENT AND of his academic entrance to Riggs Library. the Virginia Shore UPCOMING EXHIBITS career was spent as a professor of was donated to the University on the Gunlocke Room: drawing and painting at his alma occasion of Mr. Hayes' fiftieth reunion February - July mater, George Washington University. year. The painting now hangs across Professor and Collector: A follower of the prominent local from the entrance to Riggs Library; Items from the Collections of "realist" the previous Professor Maurice Jackson landscape occupant of July - October painter William that wall, The Ord Family Exhibit Woodward, Boar Hunt by Stevens reflects Roelant Saverij Fairchild Gallery: his mentor's care (see Summer July - September in capturing the 2003 Summertime Selections from varieties of Newsletter) , Historic Harper's Weekly delicate light in was returned October - December his paintings. to The Vault. John DePol (1913-2004): Georgetown from A Memorial Exhibition > Detail of Bradley Stevens' painting, Kerbs Exhibit Area: with Healy Hall and Lauinger Library. May - June British Council Books Spring 2006 3 INTELLIGENCE REFORM THE NOT SO SIMPLE ACT OF VOTING rawing on his career in the Central Intelligence Agency Dand other government agencies, Frederick P. Hitz spoke to Associates in February about The Deceptive Allure of Intelligence Reform. Hitz entered the CIA as an operations officer in 1967, before THE GREAT GAME serving in various capacities at the Departments of State, Defense, The Myth uf Rulllt)' of EsplolllU and Energy and finally returning to the CIA rUOU1C-' r. alll as legislative counsel to the Director of Central Intelligence and Deputy Chief of Operations for The Spring 2006 Europe; for his efforts he received medals for Government Document distinguished service both from the Department and Microforms Speaker of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Series featured Professor Hitz served as the first statutory inspector general c Michael Hanmer speaking ~ J. '"a for the CIA from 1990-1998, when he retired to :r: on The Not So Simple Act of -0 ' ~ Voting. Professor Hanmer, begin a teaching career at the Woodrow Wilson o assistant professor in the School at Princeton University. Department of Government The event was co-sponsored by at Georgetown, discussed Georgetown's Center for Peace and Security Studies. A book-signing of Hitz's the results of an interdisci­ The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage followed the event.
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