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NEW OPENINGS

AVIATION PAINTINGS AND DRAW
INGS BIZ CHARLES H. HUBBELL.
Natural History Museum, Tenth
street and Constitution avenue
NV; Next Saturday throaEh
ARTIST MEMBERS JURIED SHOW.
The Arts Club, 20l7 street NV.
This This afternoon through Decem-
RECENT SERIGRAPHS BY SISTER
MARY CORITA. /. F. A. Galleries.
2623 Connecticut avenue NV. To-
morrow through December 81.
Meet the Artist" reception. De-
cember s. 3 to 8.
ALL-ISRAEL SHOW. The Art Shop
and Gallery, S2Q9 Georgia avenue,
Silver Spring, Nd. Reception this
oi honor Press Press Consular SSHi i0t Of Fuiss the
Embassy of Israel, Francis Amir
Gans.r 9Gfnsr; Show remains through
FOUR WASHINGTON AREA ART.
ISIS. CORNWELL, HARTSHORN,
HOWiSON AND WESTERGREN.
Col Colonial Art Gallery, 201 South
Current through December II.
EXHIBITION BY MRS. SNYDER.
Smiths Color Center, 50 East
Md. Current through December 30.
ROCKVILLE ART LEAGUE MEN,
BERS JURlED SHOW. P. J. Nee
Co.. 1900 Rockville pike Tomor-
row through December "a.
SCULPTURE BY WILLARD STONE.
DHAWlNGS By JORGE DUMAS.
GROUP SHOW OF GRAPHiCS.
avenue NV. Today through De
Ssmber Is. group show through
December 81.
EXHIRITiON BY LOWELL OWSLEY,
DOROTHY FRENCH. FLORENCE
EVERHART. Lees Gallery, 1909
Mount Vernon avenue, Alexandria,
va. Today through January 3.
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universe, but the geometry of
Euclid was needed as a STEP
ping stone to our newer
mathematical insight.
We have built on Greek
reasoning to design our sub
marines and our airplanes.
In the sciences we have scut-
tied little of mankind's expe-
rience.
In the arts we have done
just the opposite.
Discipline Forgotten
We have, in the arts, for
gotten the healthy meaning
Of apprenticeship and disci-
pline, while the critics and
whole sections of the gullible
public gush in ecstasy over
the results Of carefully pre-
served ignorance.
Cennino d'Andrea Cennini
wrote in l437 a treatise called
"The Book of the Arts" In
1t he said that no would-be
artist could expect to be free
to create meaningful works
without at least IL years
Of strenuous apprenticeship.
And" he advised, "remem-
ber that, besides learning
your craft, you must draw
from sunup to sundown, in
cluding Sundays and holi-
days"
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Certainly we have forgot
ten this obvious need.
From the walls of galleries
and modern museums the re-
suits stare back at us, va
cantly and unlicensed.
Quite Obscure
The critics tell us that
this. mumbling its state
ments, is delightfully."- obscure.
Upon awakening from the
spell we will find that it is
merely ignorant, absurdly.
d What is the answer?
The answer, known to the
Egyptians, the Greeks, the
sculptors of the East as we'll
as to the masters of the Rem
aissance, is study with disci-
pline, the mastery of craft,
the regaining of lost skills
and, where the need Is gen.
uine, the acquiring Of new
ones.
Man has had no great arts
without the arsenal Of hard
earned Skills, without the
training of strenuous ap-
premiership.
Exacting Training
The great masters of the
Renaissance received, in
nearly every case, the exact
ing training Of the gold
smiths craft before going on
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Avery Survey

The third and most i'm
portant exhibition presented
at the new Galerie Interna-
tionale. 2l01 s street NV,
Is a retrospective Of paint
ings by Milton Avery, mostly
Of the past eight years, hence
done since his major defini-
tive one-man show at the
Phillips Gallery in 1852. 1t
will remain through Decem-
ber.
This New England artist
continues on his individual
path, painting his family,
landscape. still life, the sea,
and other subjects which are
part Of his life. He simplifies
his forms to comparatively
angular recognizable images,
in large fiat areas Of singing
color, which may or may not
be naturalistic. Sometimes it
Is bright and varied, as in the
painting Of his daughter,
March on Balcony" in a
red dress, overlooking a blue
sea and ship, framed by vio-
let shutters and an emerald
green railing. Again, the
color is somber, as in
"Dieppe." white boats against
dark gray water and darker
shore. open Tuesday
through Saturday, noon to
$50; Thursday to s;-Sunday.
2 tn 81
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scholarship award for the aca-
demic year 1960-1.
The award is made annually
to the senior student in the
field of food and nutrition with
the highest overall academic
average.
Miss Zarof is a member Of
Phi Kappa Phi, senior scholas-
tic honorary fraternity, and is
a former president of the Home
Economics Club.
Her parents are Mr.. and Mrs.
David Zaroff, 12810 Valleywood
drive, Silver Spring.
II Il 4
Five students from Keuka
College, Keuka Park, N. Y, are
now in Washington doing field
work in connection with their
studies, as follows:
Lucy Barnard, at the Library
of Congress; Birgit Moslet and
Elena Saccbet, both with Wood
ward g. Lothrop; Valerie Stout
in the Office of Senator Clifford
Case, and Martha Pierce at tn
District Junior Village.
4 Il Il 4
Oscar Orringer of Washing
ton, a senior at the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology
has been elected to the Tau
Beta Pi, national engineerin-
honor society.
Mr.. Orringer is majoring ir
aeronautical engineering.
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THE SHAPE OF THINGS
Free Art Needs Mastery Of Croft
BY RICHARD HIRsCH

Director. Allentown Art Museum
According to the legend,
there was once q time when
even. the sorcerer had an
apprentice.
For the present, those days
seem gone forever, at least In
the fields of the visual arts.
Music, generally. still de-
mands the discipline Of stren-
uous preparation. whether 1t
be to master a single instru-
ment or to develop the COM
plex skills needed by a COM
poser.
Not so for the visual arts
in these times of ours.
AS a result, practiced with
careful suspicion of all tech
nical skill and "a strong
principled opposition to any
apprenticeship. our painters
and sculptors insist that they
are giving US Spontaneous"
art.
In Imitation
Since they generally imi-
tate each other slavishly, the
public has come to have
some healthy doubts about
just how spontaneous 1t all
Is.
One thing is certain. how
ever: Currently most Of our
arts are supremely ignorant.
This is no accident. The
art schools have planned it
that way. The art market
thrives on the situation,
booms and initiates. It Is
betting heavily on the appeal
of rising legions of the
freaks and two-headed calves
who threaten acres of white
canvas with loaded trowels Of
paint, the art market gam
bles on sculptors armed with
welding torches and a load
Of cog-wheels retrieved from
junkyardS.
The lessons Of 10000 years
Of accumulated experience OF
the arts have been deliber-
ately scuttled. In our new age
Of space and technology this
is a spectacular irony. For
nothing Of the same sort has
occurred in those scientific
areas Of mans thought and
expression where a revolution
would seem most logical.
The Ancient SkilIs
Our astronomers have added
prodigiously to the skills and
the mathematics practiced by
the Egyptian star-gazers; in
this they have rejected none
Of the methods of the past.
They have simply built upon
them.
The forms of reasoning
used by our scientists were
valid in classical Greek. Our
advanced mathematics may
be non -Euclidian to deal with
our more deeply. understood
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to become memorable paint
ers and sculptors. The later
ones. whose works are mean
ingful to millions, labored
long and hard for their
mastery.
Once this was attained they
were free. truly free and un-
hampered, to make state
ments that stand as mile
stones Of personal expression.
Frans Halls could, because
Of his craftsmanship, leave
us memorable messages. They
seem effortless, because dis
cipline had conquered effort.
We see the people portrayed
by Halls with freshness that
nothing can dim, neither
changing times nor the pas
sage of centuries.
And we learn from Halls
as from the masters 'of all
times. the lesson our own
artists need most to learn:
That spontaneity. to be gen.
uine, must be worked for,
intensely.
Copyright. 1860. General Features Corr
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art museums, libraries, his
torical societies, dealers gall
leries and private collectors
all over the country, enables
us to make the acquaint-
ance Of this 18th century
American artist. The collec-
ton is being circulated by
the Smithsonian Institution
Travelling Exhibition Service.
A participant in annual
exhibitions Of the National
Academy Of Design, New
York City. Eastman was
elected honorary member
amateur of that institution
in 1889. He taught drawing
at West Point Military Acad-
emy for seven years, was well
regarded by his contempo-
raries. sold paintings at In
tervals, was called an artist
of rare excellence" He
comes to life in a biography
by John Francis .McDermott,
professor of English at
Washington University, st.
Louis, the introduction to the
illustrated catalogue (50c).
The paintings. most of
them small, are illustrations
handled with the precision
Of miniature paintings. They
show minute observation and
know edge of Indians. with
whor Eastman lived in close
contact in his many years of
service in the West. He
painted other subjects as
well. The shows largest can
vas, approximately 3 by four
feet, a view Of the Hudson
River with West Point In the
distance. was lent by the
Corcoran's director and Mrs.
Williams. Eastman executed
many drawings and water
colors Of Washington and
nearby Virginia in 1850. 1t
would be interesting to see
an exhibition Of these.
This show remains through
next Sunday. (Open Sunday
2 to S. Tuesday through
Saturday, 10 to 4:3O.)
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Pictorial Historian

The paintings and draw
ings by Brig. Gen. Seth East
man Of the United States
Army. who lived and worked
in Washington during his
last quarter century and died
here (lS75) constitute a rec
ord of ethnographic and his
torical significance. His name
probably rings no bells with
most Washingtonians, yet he
is represented in the Cor
coran Gallery's collections,
and more than Is of his
paintings depicting Indian
and military life hang per-
manently in the Capitol.
The Corcoran Gallery's
current exhibition Of nearly
10 Of his works, lent by IA
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Stern Memorial

Armin Stern was one Of
many gifted Jewish artists
who had to flee Nazi Ger
many at the height Of their
successful careers. A COM
prehensive retrospective ex-
hibition commemorating him.
is at the Jewish Community
Center, 1929 Sixteenth street
NV, through December 20.
1t is sponsored by the Hon.
Emanuel Celler, United States
Representative from New
York. whose portrait was
painted by Stern; a photo
graph of it is included.
Hungarian born Q883)
Stern was trained for the
rabbinate, but at II began to
study art in Munich, later in
Paris. After World War I
he settled in Frankfurt, Ger
many, and quickly gained
recognition and success, re-
ceiving public as we'll as pri-
vate commissions. He was
able to make yearly trips to
France. and the picturesque
fishing villages and penetrat-
ing portraits of Breton peas
ants are among the shows
most engaging works.
Leaving Germany in 1888,
He spent a year in Palestine.
Portraits. figure studies and
views of Jerusalem and Haifa
done there. fill one gallery.
The next year he settled In
Czechoslovakia and quickly
won success, only to have 1t
cut short in 1888. He emf
grated to the, United States,
and died here in 1914. aged
81.
His paintings, water colors.
etchings. monotypes and
drawings are naturalistic.
and show a high degree Of
talent. They are beautifully
executed. Views of renowned
cities of Europe and Israel.
have much pictorial appeal,
Evening star., 1960-12-04
BY JOHN ROSSON
Star star Writer

James Whren, Is, Of Sypha1
Elementary School, Half and c
streets S.W., peered into the 4.
inch telescope and began taking
notes.
was pointed skyward. Jimmy
handled it like a veteran.
What are you looking for
now?" a reporter asked.
"Sunspots," the sixth grader
replied. 1--WE can only look for
stars at night. In the day it's
sunspots."
Jimmy is one Of about 100
fifth and sixth graders in two
District schools who are taking
part in an unusual education
experiment on how best to
teach mathematics and science
at the fifth and sixth grade
levels. The District is one of
four cities participating in the
study. The others are Lansing,
Mich; Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and
Versailles, KY.
Living Things"
In the case of the District,
the fifth graders-from Syphax
and Brightwood Schools are
concentrating on mathematics,
but also are taking a course
called Living Things" In
cluded is a study of prehistoric
animals and microscopic plants.
The sixth graders - from
the same two schools - are
studying astronomy. Next year
the fifth graders will take up
where this years sixth graders
leave of. At both levels, the
teachers are specialists and
teach only mathematics and
science.
The experiment, sponsored
by the American Association for
the Advancement of Science,
hopes to provide the answer to
a teaching question which has
bothered educators ever since
the launching of Sputnik /:
Can mathematics and science
best be taught to elementary
school pupils - particularly
those at the critical fifth and
sixth grade levels-by use OF
specially trained teachers who
teach only those subjects, OF
S h ould mathematics and
science be taught in a general
classroom atmosphere where
the teacher teaches all subjects?
No Answers Yet
"It's too soon yet to come up
with an official answer" said
Mrs. Constance B. Jackson, the
specially trained science in
structor teaching the astronomy
course at Syphax, land it's not
our job to do so because our
findings must 60 to Lansing for
analysis"
But she added happily that
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Goodnoueh's First

Robert Goodnough, whose
art career began in the United
States Army in New Guinea
in 194l, and who has been
living, studying. teaching.
painting and exhibiting in
New York City since his
World War II service. is only
now having his first Wash
ington one-man show, at the
Jefferson Place Gallery, 1915
Connecticut avenue NV.
through next Saturday.
open Tuesday through
Saturday. IL to So
Judging from enthusiastic
reviews and occasional repro
ductions of Mr.. Goodnough's
work in New York publica-
tions. he changes it from
year to year. A majority Of
the Is paintings and a few
drawings at the Jefferson
Place Gallery. are full Of
movement, expressed in un-
dulating. fluttering or vio-
lently curving ribbon-like
strokes interpreting the
Movement Of Horses, Run
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award for academic attainment
during her freshman year.
Besides being president OF
her class she is chairman Of
academic affairs for the Stu
dentt Government Association
at Pembroke.
Her parents are Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin H. Miller, 1908 Sundale
drive.
Sheila Powell McClarren Of
Arlington, a senior at Duke
University, Durham, N. c., has
been elected to the Phi Beta
Kappa.
She is also a member of Tau
Psi Omega. national French
honor society: Tau Kappa AL
pha, national debate society,
and of the Ivy, scholastic honor
society.
Miss McClarren has served
on the staff of The Archive,
campus literary magazine, and
the Duke Chronicle, campus
newspaper. She is also a men,
ber of the Varsity Debate Coun-
Gil and the Duke Players, a
drama group.
She is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. j. Kendall McClarron,
1906 North Oakland street.
II Il
Ann Chandler Of Washing
ton. a junior majoring in math-
ematics, was chairman of the
Hospitality Committee of the
annual religion-in-life week re-
Gently observed at Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa.
Students of all faiths par
ticipated in the f1ve-day pro-
gram. which was sponsored by
the Religious Affairs Council
and led by eight visiting min
listers. rabbis and priests.
Miss Chandler is also presi-
dent Of the College Choir. Her
parents are Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
bin S. Chandler. 2444 Thirty
ninth place NV.
h Il 4
Phyllis Zaroff. a senior ma
joring in dietetics in the Col
lege Of Home Economics at the
University Of Maryland, has
been selected for the Borden
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ming Horses" and other
equine subjects. to Judge from
the titles. Landscape" is q
dense forest Of quivering
strokes.
Mr.. Goodnough's analyses
of classical subjects are rep
resented by Ulysses "" a
composition Of vertical rec
tangles in white. rose and
blue: Spartan" is somber,
dominated by black lines.
Western frontier subjects
have inspired another series
Of paintings, exemplified here
in BILLY the Kid" (not rec
ognizable for addicts Of the
Old Vest. But "Locomo-
tive" in black lines. has q
glimmer Of reality. And "Ab-
stract Group" one Of the
largest (6 by Z feet or there
aboutS) resembles nothing so
much as divers into q
crowded pool. some in bright
bathing suits, others in their
own skins, .ar
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Astronomy ToughtHere
In Grade 6 Experiment

there are definite signs that
the results will show that
mathematics and science spe.
cialists will be found to be the
answer.
"All Of a sudden" Mrs,
jackson said, these youngsters
are truly interested in what
they are doing"
And it is no wonder. The
sixth graders are finding sci-
ence fun.
Using the big telescopes, they
gather at their schools at night
and set up observation groups
on the Fairgrounds. They To-
cate the various stars, identify
them and then place them on
their charts. On November 2
they observed the rare transit
of Mercury and ut the event
into their study of celestial ac-
tivity. They also follow, when
possible, the passing overhead
of newly launched satellites. On
Tuesday they win visit the
planetarium at the Rock Creek
Nature Center.
There are other dividends,
too. >
Mrs. Jackson said the group
of experimental students sud-
denly is more interested In
reading. One youth, she said.
who a year ago was somewhat
Of a problem" now is taking q
new book out of the library
every week. They are good
books and he is reading them,"
she emphasized.
Teaching the mathematics
course at Syphax is Mrs. Grace
Bla ckwell. The specialists
tie aching the experimental
group at Brightwood School are
Mrs. Eleanor Smith, science,
and Mrs. Elizabeth Boisclair,
mathematics. AL are members
of the District school systems
elementary science staff, which
is supervised by Keith john
son, science director. The spe-
cial mathematics classes are
held five days a week and the
science classes two days q week.
Mr.. Johnson's department
was asked to participate in the
national study by the associa-
tion. I'VE accepted readily"
a department spokesman said.
Teaching methods need con-
slant reappraisal."
Two Control Groups
To make the study valid.
the District designated two
fifth and sixth grade groups
in two other schools here as
control groups. They are at
Beers and Bryan Elementaries.
To make possible a valid
comparison of achievement
levels, attitudes and so forth.
the fifth and sixth graders at
Beers and Bryan are following
the regular mathematics and
science curriculums for the
District. They are taught the
two subjects in the general
classroom pattern by instruc-
tors who teach other subjects
as well. Mrs. jackson said
both groups = experimental
and control-will be given
identical tests at the end Of
both semesters and the an
swers, as we'll as signs of over
all development, compared.
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French Pointer

Henry dainty, q French
painter. is introduced to
Washington in an exhibition
at Dickson Gallery, 3237 P
street NV, through next
Saturday Concluding a fort
night only. These glimpses
Of Paris. village scenes. land
scape. flowers and still life
and a few figures. are oil
paintings with a peculiarly
hot and heavy appearance.
due to the predominant red,
brown and cream white
tonality, and the ponderous
basic recognizable forms to
which they have been reduced.
(Open Monday through Sat-
urday, 10 to $50; Sunday.
q to g. ........
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PTA EVENTS
CALENDAR

Meeting announcements
must be in the hands of the
PTA Calendar editor by
Thursday of each 1Deek to
insure publication in the
column on Sunday. Notice
must include street address
of meetings, as 1ueu as meet
ing time and full name and
location of o: gGnizGtion.J
DR.. Delbert johnson, psy-
chiatrist, head of special serv-
ices of the Division Of Mental
Health in the District govern
ment, will speak on "Children's
Emotional Needs and Problems
at Home and School," at 8
pm. Tuesday at a meeting Of
the PTA of the Oyster Ele.
mentary School. Twenty-nin
and Calvert streets NV.
Other PTA events Tor the
week, all beginning at 8 pm
unless otherwise stated, are:
DISTRICT
Tuesday
Blow Elementary, 10th st. and Ben.
ming rd. ne; guest speaker, Gran.
VILE w. Woodson, architectural engi.
neer for District public schools.
MARYLAND
Harmony Hills Elementary, Silver
Spring; DR.. william A. Early, director
OF personnel, Montgomery County
Board of Education, to speak on How
Parents Participate in Curriculum De
Thomas S. Stone Elementary, 450(
34th ST., Mount Rainier: 1908 pm.
classroom visitation; S-S:45 pm, dis
cussion with teachers.
Highland Elementary, 3100 MedwG
St, Wheaton; Judge Alfred D: Noye
, OF the Montsomery County Juvenih
Court. will speak on The Problem o
Juvenile Delinquency"
Chiiium Elementary, Hyattsville
David c. Stewart, executive directo
of the Joint Council on Educationa
GrsendaIe Elementary, Seat Pleas
Lynbrook Elementary. Bethesda; re
port on the the Montsomery County cur
west Lanham Hills Elementary
West Lanham Hills: 6-s pm" spa
ghetti dinner.
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EDUCATION
FORUM
BY BENJAMIN FINE

QUESTION: Our son Will
graduate from high school this
year. His grades are low. We
know he has wasted his time.
He has never learned how to
study. Since we are both COL
lege graduates, we are. Of
course, anxious to have our son
go to college, too. We doubt that
he'll get accepted anywhere
with his grades. What do you
advise? Should we seek out a
junior college or send him to
a private preparatory school?
Why can't schools teach stu
dents how to study?
ANSWER: A common COM
plant: Why doesn't my son,
or daughter. do better work?
This is particularly aggravating
when the youngSter is men,
tally able to do better but just
doesn't have enough motivation
to do his best. But to answer
your question: I would advise a
good preparatory school for a
year. He may be able to develop
better study habits, and per-
haps snap out Of it," It is not
uncommon for high school
graduates who have done
poorly to take a fifth year be-
fore entering college. In my
opinion the fifth year, or post
graduate high school course
would be better than junior COL
lege in your case.
You raise a challenging issue
in your cry: Why can't schools
teach students how to study?
Many reasons may be inter-
woven. What about the guild
ance counselors? Were they
able to meet with your son reg
ularly? What about the courses
he selected? Were they suit
able to his needs?
And what about home condi-
tions? The schools alone, you
know. cannot shape the habits
of their students. Parents have
a major responsibility in this
Job too. Both the home and the
school, working closely together.
can do the most effective job
Of educating your son. Neither
can do the task alone.
QUESTION: My niece is a
freshman in a teachers college
and is financed partly by a
music scholarship. However, she
is quite undecided as to what
she wishes to do. She doesn't
want to teach music. What is
wrong with her? She likes her
school. makes good grades. but
just doesn't know what she
wants in the way OF q career.
The high school she attended
did not have a vocational guild
ance counselor. Where can she
get information about possible
careers for women? Shouldn't
she know her mind by this
time? Her parents are annoyed.
ANSWER: Don't be discour-
aged. Many college students do
not know what they want to
do, even after they graduate.
Almost half Of the college stu.
dents change their choice of
careers between the time they
enter as freshmen and leave
as seniors. So don't worry
about it, and tell the young
lady's parents not to feel an
noyed or concerned. It's quite
normal for young men and wo-
men to founder before they
land on their occupational feet.
There are many careers for
Evening star., 1960-12-04
Catholic Speaker

The Rev. James A. Coen, c.
SIS. R., a director of the Cath
olic Information Center here,
will address a meeting of the
Parish Council of Catholic Wo-
men of st. Michael's Catholic
Church, Annandale, Va, at $3.50
pm. tomorrow at the church.