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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1960-1961 Student Newspapers 1-12-1961 ConnCensus Vol. 46 No. 11 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1960_1961 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "ConnCensus Vol. 46 No. 11" (1961). 1960-1961. 1. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1960_1961/1 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1960-1961 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. Appearance of Opera Soprano Tuesday Night Roberta Peters, coloratura so- prano star of the Metropolitan (onn Census Opera, will appear in Palmer Auditorium on Tuesday, January 17, at 8:00 p.m. American-born and completely trained in Amer- Vol. 46--No. II New London, Connecticut, Thursday, January 12, 1961 Price 10 Cents ica, Miss Peters has been widely hailed both here and abroad, as the foremost coloratura soprano Foote, Pomeroy of our time. Robert Fulton Logan Etchings Born in New York City, the so- And McGilvra prano was privately educated Featured in Show at Library from her thirteenth year in order On Quiz Show that her voice be properly train- A display of etchings by Mr. tions of the British Museum, ed and her background in music, languages, and allied fields might Connecticut College has been Robert Fulton Logan will be Cambridge University, and sev- invited to participate in the pro- eral European museums. enhance it. While in her shown in the library for the next teens, she won a Metropolitan gram "International Quiz," to be month. He was elected director of the Opera contract, and when barely televised on Wednesday, January twenty she was confronted with Being a member of the Con- School of Art Society of Hart- 18, on WCBS at 10:00 p.m. Spon- ford. He published many etch- one of those opportunities that necticut College faculty for twen- sored by WeBS, this quiz show ings and painted portraits of come rarely in any lifetime. A ty years and head of the Art De- features U. S. college girls and many outstanding persons. Met prima donna fell ill only a partment for eighteen of these, few hours before curtain time. In British students in this country. Mr. Logan was curator of the desperation the director turned Mr. Logan is remembered by Lyman Allyn Museum from 1950 The three Connecticut College to Miss Peters, who had never many of his friends in the New to 1954 and served on its council. before appeared professionally, participants will be: Sally Foote London area and present mem- He was an incorporator, founder, and was to make her debut in an- '61, of Haddonfield, New Jersey; bers of the faculty as being a and trustee of the Pequot-sepos other role later in the season. Leslie Pomeroy '61 of Stamford, great story-teller, as well as re- Wildlife Sanctuary of Mystic, a Filling the role of Zerlina in trustee of the Mitchell Woods Connecticut; and Melanie McGil- nowned artist. As a hobby he en- "Don Giovanni," she was given Foundation, and member of the vra '61 of Princeton, New Jersey. joyed bird-watching and other as- an ovation by the audience and pects of ornithology, assisting following organizations: College proclaimed a star by the critics. A brief description of each col- Art Association; Society of for several years in the Chr-ist- lege will be given. The American American Etchers; Paris Salon mas census. He made sketches of (Nationale Des Beaux Arts), Par- students will be questioned by birds, although he is best known the BBC master of ceremonies, for his painting and etchings of is; Societe Gravure Original En architecture. He made etchings Nair, Paris; Mystic Art Associa- and the British girls by the tion; Connecticut Academy of of several of the buildings on American master of ceremonies. Fine Arts; American Artists Pro- campus for Connecticut College The Program Director, Gene plates. fessional League; American Or- King, describes the questions as nithologists Union; and the standing committee on artists' oil of 'a high academic level stressing Born in Manitoba, Canada, March 25, 1889, Mr. Logan first paints, Bureau of Standards, De- the humanities. came to Connecticu t in 1934 as partment of Commerce, Wash- ington. Apparently it is not possible in an assistant professor of art. Two years later he was made this area to see the televised pro- During his lifetime he had head of the department, the posi- work displayed in more than gram, but it may be heard over tion which he held until his re- twenty art museums, Including radio, WCBS, 880, at the same tirement in 1954. Luxembourg, Paris; British Mu- time. Before com i n g to Connect- seum; FitzWilliam Memorial Art ------ icut Mr. Logan attended the Mu- Museum, Cambridge; Metropoli- Nelson White to seum of Fine Arts in Boston, tan Museum, New York; Nation- studying under Frank W. Ben· al Gallery, Washington; Chicago Open New Exhibit son, Edward C. Tarbell, Philip Art Institute; New York Public ROBERTA PE'j.'ERS Hale,and Bela Pratt. After this Library; Brooklyn Museum; Bos- Of Abbott Thayer he attended. the Chicago Art In- ton Museum of Fine Arts; Yale stitute. In 1909 he worked in Art Gallery; Avery Memorial, The soprano has consolidated A lecture by Nelson C. White France as the assistant director Hartford; Lyman Allyn Museum; her success in the operas "Lu- at Lyman Allyn Museum, Janu- of the Bellevue Art Training Detroit Art Institute; Boston cia," "Rigoletto," "Romea and ary 15, at 3 p.m., will mark the Center of the A.E.F. in the Ate- Public Library; Library of Con- Juliet," "The Barber of Seville," opening of an exhibition of the lier of Painting. In 1922 he lec- gress; Smithsonian Institution; "Don Giovanni," and "Fleder- and the Rockland, Maine, Muse- maus." She has learned the col- works of Abbot Thayer. Mr. tured at the Musee de Louvre in Paris. While abroad his work um of Art. oratura roles in such rarely per- White is an artist, writer, and was placed in permanent collee- formed operas as "Puritani," collector who resides in Water- He won the Logan Medal for "Fra Diavalo," "Somnambula," ford. He is the author of Abbott Etching, Chicago Art Institute, "Dtnorah," and "Hamlet"-all of Thayer, Painter and Naturalist. and the Josephine Hancock Med- which contain coloratura parts VESPERS al for Etching. He also painted a of extreme difficulty, created for Abbott Thayer, an American portrait of Ambassador Eustis the fabled coloraturas of the painter of figures, landscapes The Vespers speaker this for the American Embassy in Sunday evening, January 15, past. Several new productions at and animals, was a prominent Paris. will be Father Gerard Roo- the Met have been built around artist at the turn of the century. ney of Union City, New Jer- her, and among her most import- Although his works are display- Mr. Logan died December 9, sey. He is Associate Editor ant operatic roles are "Lucia di ed at museums throughout the 1959. of The Sign, a national Cath- Lammermoor," Rosina, in "Bar- country, this is the first major olic magazine. The St. The etchings that will be on ber of Seville," Susanna, in exhibition of his works since Mary's Church choir will display in the library are from "The Marriage of Figaro," 1922. This exhibition includes sing under the direction of the Boston Public Library. Sophie in "Der Rosenkavalier." paintings and drawings, and will John J. McCarthy. Twenty of them will be shown, Sir Thomas Beecham took her to be at the Museum from January of which prints may be purchas- London to star in his Festival of 15 through February 15. ed. See 4'Roberta Peters"-Page 6 Thursday, January 12, 1961 Page Two ConnCensus not go away? Why suffer in an you go separately and bow your been assailed, I have been sub- December 14 alien environment? The life of regret at your rudeness to the jected to rules I did not make. Dear Editor: Anyone who leaves his universi- the mind is not everyone's dish, I have found 'Free Speech' this Head of House at the high table; ty accustomed to think that only and need not be. Those eagerly autumn thoroughly shocking and 'adult freedom' chiefly means those necessities need be met waiting for the vacated places disillusioning. that you've been allowed to ma- whose validity he is convinced of might take fire from the kind of One comes back home expec- triculate as a Member of the Uni- because he has shared in setting fiame we are supposed to gener- tantly, from places where stu- versity, and [if you are in your them, will receive rude surprises ate in a collegium. dents are wont to express their gown) are allowed to sit and from the nature of life itself. Yours faithfully, concern with public affairs of read in its cold library [books do This is known, in some compart- Rosemond Tuve moment. intellectual dilemmas, not circulate, and there are no ment of the same mind that feels or artistic experiment, to (or so duplicates) and may attend its To the Editor: denigrated, just as in some com- it seems) a community of 'stu- lectures without a beadle turning The House Committee on Un- partment there is a knowledge of dents' whose mental temperature you away-Leo you are Free to American Activities was created child psychology.