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The Oberlin Connection rlin College 8, NUMBER 15 w THURSDAY 9 OmAPRIL 1987 Fulbright to Dobbins James Dobbins, assistant professor of religion and East Asian studies, has won a Fulbright Scholar Award to do research in Japan in 1988-89 and also awards from the Japan Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. Using these grants, together with one announced ear¬ lier from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dobbins will take a two-year leave from teaching at Oberlin to finish a Kathleen Gilnuurtin Mina Takthashi manuscript on letters written in Japan's medieval period {Observer 15 January 1987,27 March 1986), and to begin work James Dobbins on a history of Pure Land Buddhism. He Mellons, Watson to three plans to stay in Oberlin in 1987-88. India, is now one of the largest forms of Senior Kathleen Gilmartin and Gregory interested in modernism and will probably The two topics are related. Dobbins has Buddhism in East Asia; it has many more Levine '85 will begin graduate studies in attend Yale University. translated 10 relatively short letters—the adherents in Japan than, for example, the fall of 1987 as Mellon fellows in the Levine, who was an East Asian studies translations cover about 25 pages—written Zen. No single work in English, however, humanities. Senior Mina Takahashi will major as an undergraduate, plans to pur¬ by a woman named Eshinni (1182-1268?) surveys its entire development. Dobbins pursue an independent project abroad sue graduate studies in Japanese art his¬ who practiced Pure Land Buddhism. His will use the extensive research of Japanese supported by the Thomas J. Watson tory either at Princeton University or the monograph examines the letters in the scholars to trace Pure Land from its ori¬ Foundation. University of Michigan. He participated light of daily life in medieval Japan and gins through its diversification in China Gilmartin, an English major, is writing in the Associated Kyoto Program his the religious mind-set fostered by it; the and Japan. her honors thesis on gender roles in the senior year and stayed in Kyoto the fol¬ experience of women in medieval times; The Japan Foundation, established in works of Virgina Woolf. She has tutored lowing year to continue language study and the attraction of Pure Land Bud¬ the late 1960s by the Japanese govern¬ writing as a Dana teaching assistant since and general research in art history. A long dhism for Eshinni. ment, encourages research in Japan on the beginning of 1985-86. Gilmartin is (CONTINUED ON PAGES) Pure Land Buddhism, which began in Japanese topics. Yellowstone National Park: The Oberlin Connection A joint exhibition of late-19th-century Amer¬ scheduled in conjunction with the exhibi¬ ican watercolors by Thomas Moran, pho¬ tion, which will run until 15 June. tographs by William Henry Jackson, and The curators of the joint exhibition are diaries, field notes, and early published Dina Schoonmaker, curator of special col¬ accounts of the Yellowstone expedition lections in the library; Marlene Merrill, opens Wednesday in both the Allen affiliate scholar; and Larry Feinberg, chief Memorial Art Museum and the main curator of the museum. library. The museum and library are pre¬ Art that moved Congress senting the exhibition—"Yellowstone Na¬ "Jackson's dramatic photographs and tional Park: The Oberlin Connection"— Moran's colorful watercolors revealed for to observe the centenary of the death of the first time the spectacular scenery and Oberlin graduate and pioneering geologist natural phenomena of the area," says Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, class of Merrill. "Their pictorial renderings and 1850, who headed the US Geographical Hayden's pleading convinced Congress to and Geological Survey of the West. Hay¬ pass a bill in 1872 creating Yellowstone den (1829-1887) led a congressionally National Park. The first and largest national funded expedition that explored the Yel¬ park in this country, Yellowstone served lowstone territory in 1871 and included as a model for future parks in the US and Jackson and Moran among its members; abroad." the works in the exhibition depict scenery Displayed in the museum's Goblet and phenomena discovered during that Room will be " 13 highly finished watercol¬ historic exploration. Two lectures are ors created by Thomas Moran in the stu¬ dio from sketches made during the 1871 expedition," Feinberg says. "One of the Mammoth Hot Springs, photographed by William Henry Jackson on the 1871 Yellow¬ rough sketches that Moran executed on stone expedition. The figure is the painter Thomas Moran. the spot also will be included in the show, the 'View of Lower Madison Canyon.' early published accounts, and other re¬ lithographs, which are of Yellowstone and That study, realized in bold, summarizing lated materials. "Jackson took hundreds other marvels of the West, were a gift to brushstrokes, perhaps best captures the of photographs in Yellowstone in 1871, Oberlin by Hayden, who wrote the text sense of primordial power of the Yellow¬ often shooting a scene from the same accompanying each plate," she says. stone landscape," he says. All of the exhi¬ perspective that Moran was painting," Lectures bited watercolors will be on loan from the Schoonmaker says. "Moran appears in "From Oberlin to Yellowstone: F. V. Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American some of the pictures observing the won¬ Hayden's Path to Glory—and Oblivion," History and Arts in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ders of the area, thus becoming a part of the title of the first exhibition-related lec¬ Yellowstone campaigner the spectacular scenery Jackson perma¬ ture, will be delivered by Mike Foster, "Although Moran was rather frail and nently recorded. Other numbers of the author, historian, and president of Daly had never before ridden a horse, he jour¬ survey also were photographed, giving an Associates, at 8 pm Wednesday in Mudd neyed through the difficult terrain, record¬ idea of the rugged conditions under which 050. It is sponsored by the history and ing his impressions in countless pencil and they worked. The numerous photographs geology departments and the Friends of watercolor sketches," Feinberg says. "His we will exhibit are thanks to the US Geo¬ the Library. majestic portrayals of Yellowstone and his logical Survey and the Smithsonian Insti¬ "Thomas Moran and the Yellowstone" political campaigning for it led to Moran's tution, both of which have archives of is the title of the second talk, an illustrated acquisition of the nickname T. Yellow¬ Jackson negatives and Yellowstone lecture that will be presented at 3 pm 10 stone Moran'; he occasionally placed the prints," Schoonmaker says. May by Carol Clark, Prendergast execu¬ monogram TYM at the bottom of his Also on display in Mudd will be works tive fellow at the Williams College Mu¬ Ferdinand V. Hayden, Oberlin class of pictures." from a set of Prang lithographs made in seum of Art. Sponsored by the museum, 1850, who led the 1871 Yellowstone expe¬ Jackson's photographs will be shown 1876 and based on the Moran paintings. Clark's talk will take place in the Art Aud¬ dition. This photograph was taken at concurrently on the main floor of the The college owns one of the few remaining itorium and will be followed by a recep¬ about that time. Mudd, with letters, field notes, journals, sets, according to Schoonmaker. "The tion in the museum. Page 2 THE OBSERVER Thursday 9 April 1987 uMjangwisiKMi Artists to perform, teach in summer Over 400 professional actors, dancers, of percussion, is on the faculty of the per¬ of violin; Andor Toth, Jr., professor of This column, an arbitrary selection of musicians, music and theater teachers, cussion institute 12 to 18 July, and profes¬ violoncello; and Schwartz. events on campus scheduled for the and high-school and college students from sor of physics Robert Warner will give a Concurrent programs coming fortnight, appears from time to throughout the US and abroad will come lecture/demonstration on the acoustics of Several programs and conferences will time in the Observer. For a more com¬ to Oberlin this summer to take part in the percussion. Joseph Schwartz, professor of run concurrently with the performing arts plete calendar, see Oberlin College second year of Performing Arts at Ober¬ pianoforte, is directing the piano institute; program. Among those presenting them Events, published weekly by the office lin, the college's comprehensive perform¬ its faculty includes professors of piano¬ are the Oberlin Teachers Academy, the of communications. ing arts program. The 1987 program runs forte Sanford Margolis, Sedmara Rut- alumni association, which will host an from 7 June to 1 August. stein, and Peter Tak&cs and also professor alumni college, and the Allen Memorial MONDAY 13 The Oberlin theater institute, adminis¬ of music history James Hepokoski and Art Museum. The museum's "Young at 4:30 pm, lecture, Czech music histo¬ tered by the theater and dance program; associate professor of piano pedagogy Art" program for children ages 6 to 11 rian Lubomir Doruzka, Jazz in East- Ohio Ballet at Oberlin, cosponsored by Martha Stacy. includes a spring after-school series and a em Europe, Kulas. Sponsored by the the college and Ohio Ballet; and 11 music Michael Daugherty, assistant professor six-week summer session. The museum is conservatory. institutes and workshops offered by the of composition and music theory, is teach¬ also offering a program for high-school 7:30 pm, lecture, Lubomir Doruzka, conservatory are included in this year's ing three week-long workshops on elec¬ students called the humanities youth proj¬ The Place of Jazz within the Cultural program. Oberlin College credit will be tronic and computer music, 12 July to 1 ect. During a 10-day residency 17 to 27 Life of Czechoslovakia, King 106. offered for several of the institutes and August.
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