Nanook News, Vol. 16, No. 28 (April 27, 1973) Item Type Journal Publisher Office of University Relations, Department of News Service, University of Alaska Download date 30/09/2021 16:50:51 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/4024 Michener to speak at commencement James A. Michener, author of 21 books Kerr will be awarded an honorary doctor Next he took a job editing textbooks for a and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, will be the of laws degree at that time for his New York publisher, then, although a speaker and ree eive an honorary Doctor of "exem plary scholarship, and for astute and Quaker, joined the U.S. N avy which Laws degree at the 51st Commencement inspiring leadership in the development of introduced him to the Pacific, which was to May 20 on the University of Alaska’s American higher education." be central to much of his subsequent Fairbanks campus. Kerr has written six books, and has been a writing. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 Honorary degrees will also be conferred contributor to many others as well as to for his first novel, "Tales of the South on U.S. Senator Warren G. Magnuson of professional journals and national Pacific." He went on to write such books as Washington, longtime Alaska legislator magazines. "The Bridges at Toko-Ri," "Sayonara," and native leader Frank Peratrovich of Michener was born in New York City but "Hawaii," "The Source," "Iberia," and Klawock, and Dr. Paul Maurer, for many grew up in Bucks County, PA, near where "The Drifters." years chaplain for the Distant Early he and his Japanese-American wife Mari Magnuson graduated from the University Warning Line in the Arctic. now make their home. He graduated with of Washington law school in 1929 and Dr. Terris Moore, president of the honors from Swarthmore College, went on entered the practice of law. He University of Alaska from 1949-53, is to to St. Andrew's University in Scotland, then subsequently served in the Washington become president emeritus at the returned to Bucks County to teach school. legislature and was a county prosecutor commencement. Following additional study at Colorado and assistant U.S. district attorney before Some 470 students, a record number, will State Teachers College, he was appointed being elected to the U.S. House of receive degrees on the Fairbanks campus an assistant visiting professor of history at Representatives. Following war service in this year. Harvard. (cont. on P a g e 2) Dr. Clark Kerr, chairman of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and Volume XVI, No. 28 former president of the University of California, will be the keynote speaker at the University of Alaska, Anchorage commencement Friday, May 11 at 8 p.m. at the West High Auditorium. Machetanz exhibit opens here Saturday April 27, 1973 An exhibit of oil paintings by Alaskan artist Fred Machetanz will open Saturday at the university, as the third and final part of the Festival of the Arts. The exhibit of 14 paintings is to hang in the Gov. Egan here May 5 Wood Center Pub on campus from April 28 to May 5, and will be open daily from 10 a.m. Gov. William A. Egan will be at the evening to honor 11 cadets who will receive to 6 p.m. university here Saturday, May 5, to join in awards. Guest speaker will be Dr. Sarkis Machetanz, a distinguished associate in Governor’s Day activities on campus. Atamian, associate professor of sociology. art at the university, is to arrive here Governor’s Day is an annual event which A concert by "Windflower" is scheduled Friday to supervise the hanging of the includes special ceremonies nonoring ior 8 p.m. in the Patty Gym. Tickets are $2 exhibit. outstanding athletes, students and Reserve for students and m ilitary and $3 for others, A public reception is planned for Sunday, Officer Training Corps cadets. Social events and may be purchased at the door. The April 29, from 2 to 6 p.m. in the pub. The and entertainment complete the program. concert is sponsored by the university artist will be on hand to talk with viewers, Special events planned for the day Baha'i Club. and light refreshments will be served. include an awards luncheon honoring Other events during the day include a The paintings included in the exhibit are outstanding athletes and students. Gov. reception for award recipients, guests, "Heritage of Alaska," "The Tender Arctic," Egan will deliver the keynote address, parents, deans and department heads at "Tending the Lamp," "Heading Out," speaking on "Alaska's Youth: 10:30 a.m. in the Wood Center Pub; live "Rock Hound," "Mama’s Boy," ' Land of Opportunities and Challenges," and he will music in the Wood Center mall at 11:30 a.m. the Totems," "Trail Through the Spruce," award the Governor's ROTC Medal to an and again at 2 p.m.; and special exhibits "Back on the Ice Field," "Sunny Day," outstanding ROTC cadet. and demonstrations in Wood Center all day. "Summer Comes to Southeastern," "Under Other awards to be presented will be for From 9 p.m. to midnight Wood Center will Towering Peaks," "Lady in Gold," and "Sea outstanding participation and leadership of oiler recreation specials. Visitors to of Jade." the Associated Students of the University of campus may also want to visit the The exhibition is being sponsored jointly Alaska; outstanding athletes, and university museum, which will be open by the university’s College of Arts and outstanding students in each department. lrom 1 to 5 p.m., and an exhibit of oil Letters and Division of Statewide Services. The no-host luncheon will be helo in Wood paintings by Alaskan Artist Fred It is the third part of the Festival of the Arts, Center on campus at noon. Tickets are Machetanz in the Wood Center Pub from 10 which earlier this spring featured poets available from Student Activities ior $3.25 a.m. to 6 p.m. William Stafford and John Haines in part and must be purchased by May 2. Governor's Day has been a tradition at one, and poet Peter Wild in part two. An ROTC awards dinner will be held that the university since 1961. NANOOK NEWS April 27. 1973 PAGE 2 Scholarshipconcert set ...Michener The university’s Music Department will extremely high cost of college-level study, present a Music Scholarship Concert the large geographical size of the state and (cont. from Page 1) Sunday, May 6 in the Fine Arts Theater on the high cost of living in the Fairbanks area, the U.S. Navy, he was appointed to a campus, with an afternoon and evening find it difficult to obtain higher-level music vacancy in the U.S. Senate where he performance. study on the Fairbanks campus. continues to serve his state. Magnuson was The concert, which is to become an The department hopes to be able to an ardent supporter of statehood for annual event, will consist of solo actively encourage higher-level music Alaska. performances by Music Department study in Fairbanks by providing financial Peratrovich was a commitercial faculty members performing with the support to as many promising young fisherman and fish tender captain before University-Fairbanks Symphony musicians as possible. he established a mercantile business in Orchestra, and a performance of the Many of the soloists to appear on the Klawock, the village where he was bom. Mozart "Requiem" by the combined Music Scholarship Concert are already His career in public service began with his University Chorus, Choir of the North, familiar to Alaskans. Paul Rosenthal, election to the Territorial House of orchestra, and faculty and guest soloists. lecturer in violin, will perform as soloist in Representatives in 1945. He served in the Assistant Professor Gordon Wright will the Suite for Violin and Orchestra,Op. 10 by Territorial Senate in 1947, was elected a conduct the symphony orchestra, and Prof. Christian Sinding, the contemporary delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Charles Davis will direct the combined Norwegian pianist and composer who died Convention of 1955-56 and chosen by that groups. in 1941. body as its first vice president, and The Music Department is offering the Larry Farr, instructor of brass and returned to the Senate for the 1957 session, scholarship concert in order to assist conductor of bands, will perform the the last session of the Territorial talented young musicians who, due to the Concerto No. 3 for Trombone and String Legislature before Alaska was admitted to O rh estra by Alan Hovhaness, a the Union as the 49th state. contemporary American composer of Armenian descent. Kurt Pasch, instructor Peratrovich was a member of the Senate Consumer of Woodwinds, will perform the Concertino in the First State Legislature and served in for Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 11 by the the upper chamber for eight years. For four early nineteenth-century German of those years he presided over the Senate. composer Carl Maria von Weber. Pianist He returned to the legislature again in 1969, business Jean-Paul Billaud, professor of music, will this time to the House of Representatives in perform the last two movements of the which he sered two terms. He has been state Concerto No. 1 in E minor for Piano and chairman of the Democratic party and Orchestra by Frederic Chopin. Dr. Greeta grand president of the Alaska Native conference set Brown, associate professor of music Brotherhood, the first organization devoted education and voice, will perform as to bettering the lives of Alaska’s native The Cooperative Extension Service is contralto soloist in the Mozart Requiem.