Empath, 1975 September 29

              Page 6 - The St. Mary's College EMPATH, Monday, September 29, 1975
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Jason Schoener to Be
On Camp us Oct. 16,17 BRvy/ Hazel ILafleur
An exhibition of paintings by
Jason Schoener will be on display
in the Gallery of Anne Arundel
Hall beginning September 30th.
In the words of Laurence
Schmeckebier, former dean of the
School of Art at Syracuse
University, “Schoener’s ideas are
simple, straightforward, poetic
and profound”.
The artist has spent his last
fifteen years painting on the
surf-beaten shores of Maine and
in the alternating fog and sun of
the rugged California Coast. Last
year it was the rockboundAegean
with its brilliant and trasparent
color. “ The character and
environment of these areas,”
writes Schmeckebier, “ are
c o n s is te n tly revealed in
Schoener’s work in seemingly
effortless expression with sensitive
and luminous color built into a
solid structural form.”
Schoener, in regard to his
T h e
G r e a t H o l ly
L iv e s
By Patty O'Brien
On February 26, 1975, the
Great Holly Tree in front of the
Student Union was revitalized.
This giant evergreen, officially
recognized as the champion of its
species in Maryland has been
standing since native Yaocomico
Indians occupied the area. After
four and one half centuries, the
tree was in need of considerable
“medical” attention.
Last winter, when a team of
men arrived from Guardian Tree
Experts, Inc., Rockville, Md., the
tree underwent major “surgery.”
The operation, conducted by
L a r r y W in te rm e y e r , Jim
McDonald and Robert Hollis
consisted of trimming, bracing,
cabling (branches were braced
with 14 ” cable), and feeding.
The feeding in February
involved spikes of compressed
nitrogen and phosphates dropped"
into holes drilled around the root
system. In April, the Guardian
team returned to give the holly an
additional food treatment. An
enormous hypodermic needle was
inserted into the cambium layer
and liquid food was injected to
boost growth and fight insects and
decay.
The operation a success, the
Great Holly stands proudly with a
circumference of 12 feet, 1 inch,
height of 51 feet and branch
spread of 45 feet. The tree is
healthy and under normal
conditions shouldn’t require
aother medical treatment for
three or four years.
paintings, wrote, “I want to
convey what I feel about nature
and beauty. I love beauty which
to me is a positive concept and
exists in nature. Nature patterns
itself into correct order,
arrangement and form, in the
broadest vistas and in the most
delicate detail . . . Through a
process of changing, shifting and
sorting of the visual elements, I
attempt to recreate the subject
and intensify my feelings about
it.’.
Born in Cleveland, Schoener
studied at the Cleveland Institute
o f A r t , Western Reserve
University the Art StudentsLeague,
and received his M. A. from Teachers
College. He is presently Professor
and chairman of the Fine Arts
Department of the California
College of Arts and Crafts. His
work is represented in many
public and private collections.
Jason Schoener will be on
Campus October 16th and 17th as
a visiting artist at which time he
will demonstrate his technique of
painting with gouache, an opaque
watercolor medium. He will speak
in the gallery located in Anne
Arundal Hall both evenings at
8:00 p.m.The general public is
invited.
H e a l t h F o o d
C o- o p S e rv e s
C o n sc ie n tio u s
The health food co-op exists to
serve students whoare conscientious
about their eating habits. The
Center, which is located in the
kitchen of Caroline Hall, is made
up of sixteen students, fourteen
of whom are strict vegetarians. In
the beginning of the semester,
approximately thirty students
applied for membership. However,
the existing facilities could not
handle the large number of
people. Plans are now being
formulated to start another co-op
in Queen Anne Hall. For more
information, contact Colleen
Tavenner in 116 P.G. or Mary
Woltjen in Caroline 132.
G o in g U p Jr
The per capita cost of
government has increased more
than 100-fold during this century,
says the Tax Foundation, Inc.
In 1902 expenditures for
fe d e r a l, state and local
government in the U.S. stood at
$21 for each citizen. The figure
for 1974 was $2,210.
Berko fsky
Joins SMC
Music
By Lisa Middleton
Music is a part of everyone’s
life whether an unconscious toe
ta p p e r or a d e d ic a te d
f i nger-snapper. To Martin
Berkofsky, who has joined the
Music Department faculty at SMC
this fall, music is his life.
Berkofsky began to study
music at age six from which time
his list of credits continues to
lengthen. He received his B.A. and
Master’s of Music degrees at the
P e ab o d y Conservatory in
B a ltim o r e wh e re before
graduation he had already
received several honors including
the Zaidee T. Thomas and
Alexander Sklorevski Awards.
Television recitals in Washington
and Baltimore and New York,
winning a National Music League
Young Artist Audition in New
York,where he signed a five year
management contract with the
National Music League, are only a
few of his accomplishments.
Berkofsky spent a year on the
Memphis State University music
faculty and a semester at the
University of Maryland as a
visiting lecturer. More recently he
was appointed Artist in Residence
at the Alfred University in New
York and followed this with a
season of personal performances
topped by the Town Hall Debut
Recital in New York. Berkofsky
participated in the Marlboro
Music Festival this summer and
has begun the second year of a
N a t io n a l M u s ic League
sponsorship.
His talents have taken him to
Austria where being awarded a
Fulbright Scholarship in 1966, he
studied at the Vienna Academy
with noted teacher Richard
Hauser and at the Institute fur
Neue Musik with Hans Kann in
Vienna and Darmstadt. Berkofsky
toured Austria under the auspices
of the U. S. Information Agency,
and broadcast on Icelandic State
Radio. He also has been a prize
winner at the Casella International
Piano Competition in Naples,
Italy and received grants from the
National Endowments of the Arts
Gramma-Fisher Foundation, and
Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.
Ahead of Martin Berkofsky
th is y e a r are p e rso n a l
performances with the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra and the
National Gallery Orchestra of
Washington. He will be recording
the complete Brandenburg
Concerti arranged for Piano-four
hands for the Musical Heritage
Society, and a proposed television
documentary film on the
discovery of the BruchConcerto.
We are indeed fortunate to have
such a distinguished man on the
Music faculty of SMC.
Bob Levy’s
Sonata Released
Robert Levy just received
word from New York composer
Paul Turok that G. Schirmer
Music Publishing Company has
released “Toccata, Op. 39A” for
trumpet and piano. The newly
published work serves as the first
movement of Trumpet Sonata,
Op. 39. It was first performed
here at St. Mary’s College on
February 11,1974 by Levy.
Martin Berkofsky
SMC Photo Services
A rt Activities Scheduled
By Hazel Lafleur
Museum trips, films and gallery
exhibitions are among the
activities planned by the Art
Department this semester.
Trips to the National Gallery
of Art, Hirshhorn Museum, and
the Phillips Collection are
scheduled for September, October
and November respectively. A
film series aimed to compliment
the art program has been arranged
for Monday nights and the work
of several artists will be exhibited
in the gallery throughout the
semester.
The National Gallery was
toured by a group of students on
September 24th. It displays
masterpieces dating from the
Rennaissance through the early
20th century. A trip to the
Hirshhorn, which confines itself
to work fromthe 19th and 20th
centuries up to the most
contemporary art, is scheduled for
October 23rd.
The Phillips collection includes
selections of 19th and 20th
century American and European
paintings spanning the periods of
Surrealism and Expressionism.
The Phillips trip is planned for
Friday, November 14th. Students
or faculty interested in either of
the tours outlined above should
contact Sandy Underwood at least
a week in advance.
The film series which began
last week will continue with
“ Winslow Homer, Yankee
Painter” on Monday, September
29th at 8:45 p.m. in Kent 305.
“The Living Stone”, a film dealing
with Eskimo Art, will be shown
the 6th of October along with
“Picasso” , and Edward Steichen
abstraction.
The Gallery in Anne Arundel
Hall opened its year with an
exhibition of etchings by Charles
Klabunde. Paintings by Jason
Schoener will be on display
September 27th through October
17th. Following the Schoener
exhibition will be a display of
paintings by Cynthia Polsky.
Other art activities this semester
include a class in life drawing with
Earl Hoffman every Thrusday
evening from 8:30 to 10:30. Fees
for the live models are paid by
those present. Mr. Hoffman
assured $ 1.00 per student per
class would normally be
sufficient. Anyone seriously
interested in drawing from life
may attend.
T h e y S a t
they sat limply in the corner,
by themselves, completely alone,
except for the furniture,
in the large spacious bedroom,
the distinctive pungeant odor of a
locker room
was eminating from them and
was completely filling the
air around them,
they sat and waited,
waited and sat,
it had been almost three
hours since their vigorous
workout.
then it happened, the door
opened and a tall, slim, middle
aged
lady in a white dress with a blue
scarf on
her head entered,
she bent down holding her
breath and picked them
up, dropped them in the
dirty laundry basket with
the rest of the dirty socks and
hastened off.
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An Evening o f .
n e w f n u s i o
MONDAY
OCTOBER 6
8:30 P.M.
St. Mary's Hall
Robert Levy, TRUMPET
Thomas Crowe, TROMBONE
Keith Bucher, FRENCH HORN
Thomas Wardlow, PERCUSSION
Admission is Free.