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We also reserve the right to edit according to style and space requirements. For paid advertising, contact the advertising Phyllis P. grade, it was an A+++------but it wasn't who belonged. This must have been the manager at advertising@collegearlorg. the kind of grade any Wellesley fall of 1941. That's why I'm one of the Our aim is,to provide worthwhile resources for and to professor gave you. There were jocular oldest members." celebrate the achievements of CANs 16,000 members. Your Bober comments all the way through in the Juggling commitments to raising a questions and/ or comments about the newsletter or website margins, too. Very puzzling. He family, teaching, and various scholarly (www.collegeart.org) are always welc9me. MeetingAttendees Can Enjoy Up ToA 10% Savings' OIfAny Applicable Fare OnAmerlcan. explained he had been at the CAA pursuits, Bober became an active Note: For address changes or other inquiries, contact: Plus, Receive AnAdditional 5% Discount When onCAA annual meeting, and some friends had member only in the late 1970s. While [email protected] or [email protected]. You Purchase YourTlckets 60 Days In Advance. come to his room for a little gathering. dean of the Graduate School of Arts and For .[1 i , Now I understand that they had Sciences at Bryn Mawr College, she was Deadlinefor March 1998 CAA News: January 30,1998. probably been drinking. But he didn't asked to serve on the Morey Prize change the grade; it stayed on my Committee. "For the first time, College hyllis Bober is a wonderful record. So I thought CAA was some­ Art was asking something of me. Then I raconteur, whose stories reveal thing pretty good, a chowder and was elected to the board. In those days her archaeologist's eye for marching society for the professors." we didn't have long position state­ P Shortly after entering graduate ments; if we had, I probably wouldn't detail, her art historian's preoccupation with the role of the arts in culture, and a school at the Institute for Fine Arts in have gotten on the board because I had s humanitit's appreciation of the value of New York, Bober became a member of no agenda. No ideas for the CAA at all. education. Combine thetie with her CAA herself. "Walter W. W. s. Cook, Then I began to find out how important profound sense of fair play, her compas­ who was the director, made all the new it was or could be for its membership, January 1998 sion for living things, and a gently self­ graduate students each year join CAA, not only the art historians but the artists effacing sense of humor, and you have as well and also the junior people; all of College Art Association us had common interests." 275 Seventh Avenue the recipe for a complete mensch. When New York, New York 10001 I was asked to interview my former Her activity on the board in the adviser Professor Bober about her 1980s, first as a member, then as chair of experiences as a fifty-six-year member the Art Historians' Committee, and Board of Directors and past president of CAA for the finally as president from 1988 to 1990, coincided with a period of remarkable Leslie King~Hammond, President History Project, I was delighted to have growth and change. "The truly activist John R. Clarke, Vice~President an excuse to hmch with her. What Nancy Macko, Secretary follows are some morsels from our CAA we have now dates from 1985 or John W. Hyland, Jr., Treasurer conversation together. 1986, the change from a Mom and Pop Susan Ball, Executive Director Bober first encmmtered CAA while organization with a New York office of an undergraduate at Wellesley. "I used two people and an honorary counsel to the Art Bulletin and Parnassus, which an organization that really is structured Ellen T. Baird Christine Kondoleon for a vast new inclusive and more Marilyn R. Brown Patricia Leighten was then one of the publications, but I diverse membership than was the case Diane BUfko Joe Lewis didn't know CAA was something that Whitney Davis Arhtro Lindsay individuals belonged to at all. I thought in the past. I was part of choosing the Joe Deal Yang Soon Min colleges and universities all got together new executive director when we Vishakha Desai John Hallmark Neff and published in art history, which was selected Susan Ball. That was the be­ Bailey Doogan Beatrice Rehl still a relatively new discipline." She girming of a real transformation. The Jonathan Fineberg Rita Robillard ubsequently learned of the annual whole board was changing; people were Node Sato' Shifra M. Goldman meetings when her professor, Sandy much more politically engaged, and we Linda C. Hults Roger Shimomura Campbell, took student papers with Susan L. Huntington Jeffrey Chipps Smith Phyllis Pray Bober, former CAA President (1988-90j and CAA member since 1941 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Michi Itami Alan Wallach him to a CAA meeting: "I got back this Phyllis P. Bober on CAA must do for our junior membership, Museum of Art; Peter Walsh, Davis Art will take place 2:30-5:00 P.M.:in room (i0on 'ten 'ts CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 especially to help minorities and Annual Museum, Wellesley College. For many 716B of the Convention Centre. Contact women, although it wasn't limited. That institutions and individuals involved in Katie Hollander with questions or were getting more political questions to was the idea behind the support Volume 23, Numher J the study of art, advances in image suggestions: [email protected]. For deal with, such as what to do about our fellowships that I'm happy to say are teclmology-including digital imaging, information about the luncheon (limited Jail/wI)' 199X Conference investments in South Africa. We ultim­ still continuing. campus intranets, and the Web-have to 20-25 participants), contact Lori ately divested." U All the things that were said about only led to confusion and anxiety. Such Gross, director of the Museum Loan Bober on eAA 1 Phyllis P. Other international issues arose CAA being led by an East Coast group Update vexing issues as electronic rights, data Network: 617/252-1888; [email protected]. during Bober's presidency. "I received of good old guys were fairly true when I standards, fair use, and the digitization 3 Annual Conference Update hate mail from Cypress authorities, first first joined it in the 1940s. It was a men's of slide libraries and other types of Post-Convocation Reception the Ambassador of Cypress, then the club. It was also the club of the Ivy visual collections have blunted the The Art Gallery of Ontario will be Notice of Allnual Business Meeting President of the Turkish Republic of League .... I prefer the diversity now, benefits teclmology was supposed to hosting a post-convocation reception CAA in the News Northern Cypress," she recalled with a the fact that specialized interests have 4 herald. In 1997 AMICO, a nonprofit for conference attendees on Friday, chuckle, "because I had written a letter now become affiliated societies that have Session Updates consortium of twenty-three leading February 27, 7:30-9:00 P.M. Shuttle of protest on behalf of CAA and our joined with us so that we're sort of a UNational Support Structures: How 5 1998-2002 New Board Slate North American art museums, began service will be available from the members to the European Parliament flagship for things that go on all over the Best to Administer Public Funding for work on a solution that promises new Convention Centre's South Building. Art Jounwl Editorial Board about the kind of scavenging that was country .... It was an interesting time, I the Arts and Humanities," Friday, Member Sought pathways around the technological 6 February 27, 12:30-2:00 P.M. Panelists going on in Christian churches, for must say, to be there when CAA was impasse. The panel will show how AMICO will address themes relevant to the Audio Taping mosaics and so forth that were just then changing so profOlUldly. We were the is tackling the complexities of standards, future of national funding for the arts Selected sessions will be available for 7 Legal Update surfacing all over in art dealers' hands. first learned society to think about long­ hardware, intellectual rights, electronic and humanities in the United States and sale on audio tape at the conference and The great Indianapolis Mosaic, remem­ range planning and go out after raising distribution systems, and confus:ing Canada. Audience members will gain by mail after the conference. Durillg the ber that case? There was also the case of an endowment.