Alton Tobey, Renowned Artist, to Lecture Here

• ~ht VOL. LVI I TRIN ITY COLLEGE, HA RTFORD, CO NN., JANUARY 15, 1959 No. 12 Alton Tobey, Renowned Sunday Riot Artist, To Lecture Here Ensues From The story of human civilization will be the subject of a slide WPOP Farce illustrated lecture to be given Thursday evening at 8:15 in the unday, January 11th,\ ill be Chemistry Auditorium. The speaker is Alton S. Tobey, the artist a day long remembered by fre who executed LIFE Magazine's "Epic of Man" series and graphic quent r of th Long Walk. portrayals of the· Russian Revolution. Term papers and final exams This lecture, "8000 Years with Life", was arranged by the at· u uall y th topic of conver ation at this time of y ar, but L cture ommitt e and will climax a fou1· day exhibition of Mr. this o\·crworked ubject njoyed Tobey's work. The di play in the a brief l'<'Spit on unday as a result Library Conferenc Room will hang of the unconv nlionul antics conjur d until January 15. The publi<l is cordi- Plans for New up by on Bob colt, a di sc jockey at ally invit d to attend the exhibition, radio station WPOP. lecture and a r ception to b gh·en c II B This now famous (some might say for the arti·t at 3:30 Thursday after- 0 ege egun notorious) announc r started a mara noon. thon which had all of Ha1'tford, and Tobey's professions include teach A proposal for a fifth coll ege Tl'inity oil ge in particular, buzzing. ing and "Amateur Archaeology" as in W stern Massachusetts has tarting at 12:00 noon, he continu well as commercial art. A r sid nt of been made jointly by Smith, ously played "lh best in r corded Larchmont, N.Y., he works in a large Mo unt Holyoke, Amherst, and music." His cone ption of the b st cellar studio which is crammed full the University of Ma s. The music cliff r d from that of th sta of non-commercial canvasses done ew Coll ege, as it is called, tion mana ,., though for to spite the strictly for enjoyment. In his spare would be co-ed ucational, resi latt r, Scott played "The hilclren's time he cr ates pi c s out of nails, dential, and have abou t one-thousand Marching 'ong" for tw lve hours. haw ers, tring, upholstery tacks, students. One of t he college's pur wire, studs, rubber balls, sink mats, pos s would be to achieve major steps 'Why?" forward in the n ld of liberal edu strainers, baking pans and rope. He In ferenc s w r mad at various cation. also ser es as president of th Ma tim s dul'ing omm r ials that he marone<;k ( .Y.) Artist's Guild. The faculty of the colleg , about would let th public lmow why h was fifty in number, would leav the bulk cutting this cap ,., but ach lim he "Epic of Man" of the work and organizational prob subtly I ft th li t ners hanging in Mr. Tobey received the ll njamin lems up to the individual students, mid-ait·, still wond ring. This ques F'ranklin Award for Out tanding Work hoping to show them how to study, as tion "why?" was the main reason for in the Field of Joumalism for "The versus what to study. Small study th stir. groups would be th basic means of Epic of !\Ian" . His work is chara ter colt fini sh d th day's broad ·ast ized by a " tri\'ing for authenticity." education. ing at midnight with the foil wing He recalls that (luring the creation of Feeling of nit y comm nts : " l hope you have nj yed the Ru ian Re,·olution Series, "one After each Christmas vacation, and appreciated our music for th adviser was lhe man who shot Ra pu whole stu lent body would spend one day. My fll'l'So nal thanks ar xtend tin-another a former commander of month studying the ame two com· es, NI lo verybody who has stay d with th Czar's guard." This summer he the idea being to give the college nw. I only ask foi· your pati nc and returned from Guatemala where he a feeling of unity and a chance for sympathy. Many of you cl serv a was working on a two page spread stat m nt, and you will receiv one 'mutual education.' T he student would obser ve for LIFE on the ancient Mayan city ordinarily take three courses at a as such.'' of Tikal. time, as compared to the usual five or Th prank's ff ct on th Trinity 1\Ir. Tob y was born in :Vliddletown, six taken by most college students. campus, and sp ially on the quad Conn. He grew up in Hartford where This proposal for a fifth col leg , Concert, Seminars Highlight mngl , didn't rnak its If vid nt un he attended Bulkcl y High • chool founded to teach in a liberal manner, til about 10 :00 Sunday night. lt was with Mi tchell . Pappas, now a pro "'ives rise to the qu stion of why Touring Italian Exhibition at this lim • that. two nt rprising fessor of Fine Arls at Trinity, who these so-called "advanced and superi carillonell!·s seal d th hap I tow rs describes his fl'iend as "one of Amer or" methods of education coul d not be Trinity will be the first college in the nation io present th to bring the r ·orded sound of ica's cont mporary masters." Mr. incorporated into the already xisting touring exhibition of contemporary Jtalian music imm diai ly "Kni k-knack paddy-whack" to r al Tobey hold B.A. and M.A. degrees colleges and universities. The most ity. R ·ounding across the quad, the after the exhibit's in it ial and CUlT ni showing in Am rica at the from Yal where he taught until 1949. obvious answer to this is that the col sound of Bob colt's new "th me leges and universities now existing ew York P ublic Library. song" coming from th statuesque are not convinced that the new method The coll ege wi ll hold a two-day " ymposiu m on 'oni mporary Chapel, br·ought th sull n night to of teaching is better than, or as good Italian Mu ic", F bruary G and 7, life. as their own. A second reason is that Friday and Saturday, in various class FI·om Goodwin, all th way around it 'is often less costly to start a new rooms and lecture halls on campus to to .Tat-viR, lights began fl ashing on. co ll ege to handle the overnow, than it honor this noteworthy vent. ROTC Offers Windows WCI'e open d. Radios, with is to try and ex pand an already over- The symposium will start February their di·1ls set to WPOP, and volume 6 at 3 p.m. in the Library Conference (Continued on page 4) Flight Course up full blast, w rc faced toward Room with the showing of a collection Bishop Brown ll's d s rted domain. of comp sers' manuscl'ipts, sc nic de lor c flight instruction, aimed cv n Northam's thr e best hi-fi s tups were signs for contemporary operas, photo tually at saving the laxpay •r's dollar, also put into use. is b ing off r d at 'rrinity Coli ge for Dr. Gwynn Publishes graphs, scores and r cordings. Re (Continu d on page 4) fre hm nls will be . erved; th ex hibit th first lim to stud ent8 participat Booklet on Salinger will run through February 1 L. ing in the eoll •g 's Air Force Reserve At 8:15 that evening, Ricardo Mali Officers Training Corps. Dr. Frederick L. Gwynn, chainnan piero, composer oJ the opera " La don Lt. Col. G org l\1. Manning, pro Four Trin Debaters of the English Department, is co na e mobile," will I ctur in the col f ssor of air sci<•nce and commander author of a recently published book lege auditorium, using recording mu of th AFROTC detachment at Trin Give Debate Exhibit let, "The Fiction of J. D. Salinger." sical illustrations. Saturday's vents ity, said that this instruction is part For St. Joseph Girls Th booklet, written by Dr. Gwynn will b gin at 2 p.m. in the Music of a "nalionwid program sponsored and Joseph L. Blotner of the Univer Room, o. 18, of Seabury Hall, with by th federal government at a com Last Wednesday four Atheneum sity of Virginia, was published by the a seminar on th "Programming of paratively low cost to select now those Varsity memb rs presented an xhibi University of Pittsburgh Pt·ess as Italian Music.'' Professor Watters of men who would venlually enter the tion debate with St. Joseph's College the Trinity music dC'partment will Air Force's high-cost flight schools. pa1t of a series of :•critic.al Essay, to help th latter set up a debating in English and Amencan Ltlerature. moderate. "The program will help d lrrminc activity of its own. Forty students Dr. Gwynn, appointed last y ar as Thi seminar, composed of two in advance those men unsuitable for saw Thomas Musante and Herbert parts, will open with a discussion of flying and thus saYc the enormous Moorin on the negativ and David p 1·ofessor of English ,~~d .chairman of that department at Inmty, came t "The Contemporary Repertoire" led costs of orienting a man inlo ba ic Leof and Talbot Spivak on the affir the college from the University of by Mr.

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