Smyrna times., 1955-08-18
FOURTH CLASS
AT WINTERHUR
Arrived AT Museum This
Week to Start Graduate
Course of Study
WILL EARN DEGREES

The fourth class of fellows in
the Winterthur program in Early
American Culture arrived at the
Henry Francis du Pont Winter
thur Museum this week to start
a graduate course of study which
viii earn them Master of Arts
degrees from the University of
Delaware in June, 1857.
The recipients of this years
fellowships, which carry yearly
stipend of $4,000 each, are: JOS
eph Thomas Butler, of Cumber-
land, Maryland, graduate of
Maryland State Teachers College,
Frostburg, Maryland, who receiv-
ed Master of Arts degree from
Ohio State University, Athens,
Ohio, last June; Doris Jean Greer,
of Arcadia, California, a graduate
of Pomona College, Claremont,
California, who is returning to the
United States after a years study
in Italy under a Fulbright grant;
Wendell Douglas Garrett, of Los
Angeles, California, a graduate of
the University of California at
Los Angeles; Jean Bruce Mcclure
of Carmel, California, a graduate
of Stanford University, California;
and Nancy Jane Wosstroff, of
Mount Vernon, New York, grad
nate of Skidmore College, Sara
toga Springs, New York.
The five new students to whom
fellowships have been awarded
will take an intensive training
course at the Museum for the
next five weeks preparatory to re-
porting for classes at the Univer-
sity at the opening of the aca-
iennic year on September FL. This
initial course will acquaint them
with the objects in the Museum,
provide background information in
the field of the decorative arts,
and instruct them in the use of
the Museums collection of early
American architectural interiors,
furniture, and decorative acces-
sories in interpreting history and
related social studies.
The Winterthur Program, which
is conducted jointly by the Muse
UNI and the University of Della
ware, is designed to train person
mel for both teaching and muse
UNI work and is made possible by
generous grants of funds from in
dividuals and foundations inter-
ested in broadening understanding
of Americas cultural past. Fell
lowships for the new class of stu
dents are being given by the Cope
1anl-Andelot Foundation, Inc, Ed
mund du Pont, and Henry B. du
Pont, all of Wilmington; Mrs.
Jackson A. Dykman, of Glen
Cove, New York; and Mrs. Bev-
erly r. Robinson, of New York
City, whose grant is in memory
of her husband, first president of
the Henry Francis du Pont Win
terthur Museum.
Since the Inauguration of the
Winterthur Program in 1851, Is
fellowships have been awarded
and two classes have been grad
uated. A third class of students
is completing its studies this year
and will receive university grad
uate degrees in June, 1856. Three
graduates have joined the staff
of the Winterthur Museum as
curatorial assistants, while others
have gone to the Brooklyn Muse
nm, Brooklyn, New York; Old
Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge,
Massachusetts; and Adena, an his
toric restoration near Chillicothe,
Ohio.
Ernest ]. Moyne, assistant pro-
fessor of history at the Univer-
sity of Delaware, is the coordina-
tor of the Winterthur Program;
and the museum laboratory work
is under the supervision of Char
les F. Montgomery, director of
the Henry Francis du Pont Win
terthur Museum.
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