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Evening star., 1961-11-12
YenubIe's

The same indifference to
the demands of fashion au-
thorities may be seen in the
work of Melvin Buckner at
Venable's. Mr.. Buckner, q
younger artist than Mr.. Kai-
men, is following the more
familiar path beyond Alb
stract Expressionism. the one
laid out by the Californian
triumvirate of Diebenkorn,
Park and Bischoff. His 20 pic
lures are mostly bout
women, always a pleasant
subject.
The first glance at a Buck
ner painting relates it to
vintage Abstract Expression
ism. Actually, it's nothing of
the sort. The paint seems to
be going off by itself in great
sweeps Of color and in random
splashed lines, but the ran
dom quality is deceptive.
Look at it a minute and
things begin to fall into
place. Typically what emer-
ges is a woman at a window,
with the suggestion of the
outside world being observed
from the shelter Of a coy in
terror. The woman herself is
pensive, even meditative, with
much of the quiet attraction
Of the women of Mary Cas-
satt and, in at least one ex-
ample. a large painting of a
woman reading at q piano, of
Renoir himself.
The spirit of such paint
ers could hardly be further
removed from the spirit of
American painting of the fif-
ties, yet it is through the de-
vices Of the fifties that Mr..
Buckner has got back to the
appealing femininity in Sc
cure repose of those impress
sionists. There is nothing
strained or forced about this.
it is as If the Eternal Femi-
nine. rather raucously pre-
sented by De Kooning, had
returned through the fling
and flay paint method to re-
mind us she has a gentler
side.
Evening star., 1961-11-12
EDUCATION
FORUM
BY BENJAMIN FINE

QUESTION: As you know,
college costs have gone beyond
the average man who earns less
than $500 a year, which is
just about what I earn. How
can I possibly pay $1,000 a year
out of that for my son? And
two years from now, another
$4,000 for my daughter? Our
community has a two-year
Junior college. What are the
chances Of a student going the
first two years in a community
college. and then transferring
to an accredited four-year in
stitution? Do they want trans
fers? I've been told they don't.
What do you advise?
ANSWER: If you have a good
Junior college in your neigh
borhood, by all means take ad-
vantage of it. You'll save con-
siderable money in tuition and
board and room. Many of the
finest four-year colleges accept
transfer students from the
two-year colleges. We assume,
naturally, that your boy will do
creditable work and maintain
the standards expected of all
students in college.
Actually, you raise two ques-
tions: The high cost Of college
and the relative value of a
junior college. Tuition is zoom-
ing Sky-high. A recent report
from Harvard suggested that
soon only 5 per cent would be
able to afford Ivy League tut
ton and other charges. You
may still find colleges that will
cost around $1,000, but their
number is growing simmer
each year. I know: I have two
daughters in college this fall.
With incidentals, the $4,000
figure you name is about right
Your other problem: Junior
VS.. senior college, needs ex-
ploration. If you can afford a
four-year campus college you
do not have any problem. But
If costs are a stumbling block,
by all means consider the
junior college. 1t is not ''in-
ferior" in any sense of the
word. The good two-year col
leges offer an excellent educa-
tion. Check with the junior COL
lege to find out what senior
colleges accept its students on
a transfer basis.
O.: I am a sophomore at 8
campus college in the Midwest
I like it very much, but my boy
friend is attending a law schoo.
in New York City. I want to
transfer to a school so I'll bC
near him. My parents object
They think I should finish
where I am. Please tell them
how wrong they are. Do you
think it's bad to transfer from
one college to anther?.
A.: Only a moment ago I ad-
vised a father to send his boy
to a junior college and then
transfer to a senior one. In your
case, it's different. When lovC
enters, intellect too often gives
way to emotion. Frankly. I'd
recommend that you remain
where you are until you grad
uate. What's your rush? AS a
sophomore you are probably 10
maybe 18. You'll be 81 when
you finish. That will be time
enough to come East, go to a
good graduate school and de-
eide on your future.
This may seem heartless to a
maiden in love. Frankly, I think
Evening star., 1961-11-12
Jefferson Place

One Of the artists in the
Phillips exhibition, Jacon
Kainen. is having a one-man
show at the jefferson Place
: and there is a greater chang
than you might think from
comparing his representation
at both shows. At the Phil
lips, Hot Dog Cart" dates
from 1943 and is a small
painting, posing the central
figure in a public place,
backed by buildings. people
and the all but tangible air
Of the city. Since then the
artist has been deep into abb
straction and is now returned
to the human figure, but the
abstract experience is still
very much a part Of his
work. The sense of place is
gone completely. He creates
monumental single figures,
for the most part. usually
with one dominant color, Oft
en- blue. These people exist in
themselves; sometimes there
is a chair, q sofa, a bit of
cloth, or a window or picture
frame in the background;
but their basic existence Is
in the rectangle of the paint
ing, In the context Of the
paint.
Greatly simplified, the col
oring is nevertheless extraor-
dinary. Often there is a sur
priSing and very appealing
combination Of magenta and
blue. The blues themselves,
which are the strongest
memory the show leaves, are
perfectly balanced between
light and dark to model a fig
ure or express q mood. A
large portrait Of Mona" let's
both red and blue backstop
a gorgeous passage Of ame-
thystine glow. A Portrait of
Gene Davis" makes better use
Of that painters distinctive
stripes than he does himself.
Throughout the show there
is the mark of authority, the
seriousness and assurance of
a mature artist engrossed in
his work, indifferent to evan
gelism In art.
Evening star., 1961-11-12
ART AND ARTISTS
Artists See Return
To VisuoI World
BY FRANK GETLEN
star Art Critic

The art season is in high gear-or overdrive-
with exhibitions opening in all directions all the time Not
quite all directions at that This past weeks work in the art
business pointed Overwhelmingly single direction
namely the return Of the visual world to our painting It's
broad direction the weeks work shows but the note
that holds it together interest by the artist in something
other than his of putting paint This
especially gratifying to the admrer of all kinds Of painting
with the visit to the city
Evening star., 1961-11-12

way with paint beyond the
frontiers of Abstract Express
Sionism. Light on the water
as a subject inevitably recalls
Richard Florsheim, but it is
just those paintings that
most suggest Florshiem that
also most succeed. Colored
light shimmers along the sur
face Of water. The simmer
is projected into the air. A
whole shimmering world of
color is created and we don't
really need the titles refer
ence to the East River to take
in the poetry of the paint.
Evening star., 1961-11-12
PTA EVENTS
CALENDAR

Meet ing announcements
must be in the hands of the
PTA Calendar editor By
Wednesday OF each tSeek to
insure publication in the
column on Sunday. Notice
must include street address
of meetings. as UeH as meet
ing time and fun name and
location of organization.
A special program on "Civil
Defense - Our Schools Dis
persal Plan and Your Family's
Survival" is planned for a meet
ing of the Montgomery Hills
Junior High School PARENT
Teacher Association at 8 pm.
Tuesday.
Guest speakers will include
John Scotton, Weather Bureau
consultant to the Civil Defense
Office, and william Armstrong,
chairman of the Civil Defense
Advisory Board to the Mont
gomery Council.
Other PTA meetings this
week. at 8 pm. unless otherwise
noted, are:
TOMORROW
virginia
WeyanOke Elementary - Annandale,
TUESDAY
District
Buchanan-l3th and Z SITS. Sc.
Cardoze High-13th and Clifton sts.
Coolidge HiEh-5th and Tuckerman
Hearst-Tilden st. between Idaho
Langdon--2Oth and Evarts SITS. ne.
Open house from 7:30 to $50 pm.
Langley Junior High-1st and 7 SITS.
Mann-Newark st. between 44th and
oyster-2sth and Calvert sts. NV.
Iyler--l0th and c SITS. Sc.
Ruth X. Webb-Mt. Olivet I'd. and
West-Farrasut st. between 18th and
whsstleg&MOnterlO ave. and Neal
st. ne.
Bethune Junior High - Fairnont
Heights High School, Nye and Reed SITS.
ne.
Buck Ledge Junior HiEh-26iI Buck
Lodge I'd, Adelphi, Nd.
kensinEton Junior HiEh-Kensington
pkwy. and Saul rd.
WEDNESDAY
District
BOYS JuBiOr-SeniOr High-1St and H
SIS; s.w., at 1880 nm.
Randall Junior High-1st and I sts.
s.w.
Maryland
RidgecreSt Elementary-RiRgs and
Ray rds., West Hyattsville.
THURSDAY
Davis-44th pl. and H st. sc.
Turner-Stanton I'd. and Alabama
ave. sc.
Evening star., 1961-11-12

to try will need plenty of time
and patience, because progress
will seem awfully slow. Grad
ually, however, responsibility
for activity can be transferred
from parent to child.
The results are important
and worthwhile now. They will
become more important and
worthwhile as time goes by.
II you haze a question for
DR.. Mason, tDrite him in care
OF The Evening Star. While
he cannot undertake indi-
uidual correspondence, he
toiH discuss questions OF gen.
erdl interest in his column.
Tuesdoy Ion Feature Poss):
Junior high decisions.
Evening star., 1961-11-12
MASON ON EDUCATION
Student Must Learn
To Be 'SeIf-Storter'

personal supervision-for either
work or college.
Suddenly they are thrown on
their own resources, and find
that they have none. Many
students-and young employees
say, "I just don't do my
work." They are bewildered.
They lack the habit of purpose
full activity, and don't know
how to go about developing the
habit Of taking the initiative.
Recently there has been con-
siderable discussion about an
almost-forgotten system of
teaching which worked won-
ders with this problem. The
system, developed in Italy a
number Of years ago by DR..
Maria Montessori, combined a
comparatively independ d ent
choice Of activity by the child
with encouragement and guild
ance by the teacher which en-
abled him to follow an interest
to a logical and satisfying con-
cluSion. It worked to build
habits of purposeful activity,
not Of dependence, and chill
dren love it. 1t works fastest
and best with children 3 to 8
years old. an age when these
habits are formed.
Early Encouragement
Many teachers and parents
are doing a wonderful Job of
applying these principles, with
out even realizing that they
are using the MonteSsori sys-
tenn! The earlier parents and
teachers start to allow and en-
courage children to initiate and
plan their own activities, the
easier it is to develop purpose
full habits. It might be wise If
every child were given some
unscheduled time in which he
could do something of his own
choosing, within the reasonable |
boundaries every child must
learn to respect, even If it
means doing nothing for
a while.
The routine of getting a child
up in the morning, through his
breakfast. off to school for a |
day of regimented activity,
back home to dancing or music
lessons, dental appointments,
through dinner and a planned
evening Of television, and off
to bed has its effect. When
does he have time to develop
self-reliance?
Once the habit of reliance
upon parents and teachers is
complete, dependence has been
established. 1t isn't easy to
correct. The parent who wants
Evening star., 1961-11-12
Arts Club

The Arts Club of Washing
ton is playing host to the
Washington Watercolor Asso-
citation for a members show.
The large exhibition is all
competent and there are a
few outstanding pieces.
Among them, as would be ex-
pected, is Eliot O'Hara's
Witch Tree, Carmel" and
forest - or landscapes by
Ruth B. Levin, Ruth H. Lee
and James v. Cupoli. The
strongest works are those by
Samuel Bookatz and Pietro
LazZari.
Evening star., 1961-11-12
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

coRcoRAN GALLERY OF ART. Seven
teenth street and New York avenue
NV. Daily 10 am. to 4:30 p.m.:
Saturday, am. to 4:30 pm;
Sunday and holidays. 2 to 5 pm:
DUMBGRToN OAKS RESEARCH L.
BRARY AND COLLECTION. 1903
Thirty-second street NV. Daily,
to 6 pm; closed Monday. Closed
indefinitely.
FREER GALLERY OF Art, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive s.W.
Daily, q an. to 4:30 pm.
ARTS, Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily, 9 am. to 4:30
pm.
NATIONAL GALLERY or ART, Con-
stitution avenue at Sixth street NV.
Daily. 10 am. to 5 pm; sunday
to 10 pm.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 1921 Twenty
second street NV. Daily IL am
to 8 pm; Monday IL am. to 10
pm; Sunday to pm.
Evening star., 1961-11-12
School Book Fair
includes Plays

Lectures, plays and a book
sale will be features Of the
sixth annual book fair at the
Thomas jefferson Elementary
School, Falls Church, Wednes-
day through Saturday.
Mrs. Flora Gills Jacobs, Falls
Church author, will give illus
trated lectures at 1870 and &
pm. Thursday. Third graders
at the school will present two
plays at 1880 pm. Friday.
About 500 books will be on
sale at the fair, between 8 and
8 pm. Wednesday through
Friday, and 9 am. to / pm.
Saturday.
Evening star., 1961-11-12
World Editor to Talk

The editor-in-chief of the
World, the new national weekly
newspaper, will address the
District Phi Beta Kappa Asso--
citation Friday evening. The
speech on world affairs by
Ralph de Toledano will be at
8 o'clock at 1911 @ street NV.
Evening star., 1961-11-12
BY LESLIE J. MASON
Professor Of Education, University
Of Southern California

The responsibility for begin
ning-and completing-a task
is an individual thing. It can
fall as heavily on the shoulders
Of a 5-year-old as on those of
an adult.
Our system Of schooling often
misses the mark because Of
this. Our children fail to take
the responsibility for either be-
ginning or finishing the job
of learning. And our schools
and parents are not doing
enough about it.
First-grade teachers say they
wish children would enter
school with "purposeful atti-
tudes." They mean the child
should be willing to start a
task and try to figure out, all
by himself, how to get the job
done; then stay with it until
he does.
Too many children fail to
develop these "self-starting"
attitudes. They are far more
likely to develop habits of de-
pendence that are most diff
cult to break. These habits usu-
ely have their beginnings at
home when parents, without
even thinking about it. give
detailed instructions for every
task and expect nothing from
the child except exactly what
he has been told to do. When
he enters school. the child
transfers this dependence to
the teacher
Curiosity Is Hidden
The result in the classroom
is just what you might expect.
When an assignment is given
and details are specific, the
child does the assignment.
That's all. too. When he fin
ishes what does he do? Moth
ing! He sits there until the
next assignment is given. If
he has any natural curiosity,
he keeps it well hidden. Un-
fortunately. some teachers are
apt to confuse lethargy with
goodness" and encourage it.
Some children, well endowed
with intelligence, succeed in
school with the assistance of
detailed instructions as to when
and how to do their work, pro-
vided by both parents and
teachers. Many get through
high school rather easily. The
day of reckoning comes when
they leave high school-and
Evening star., 1961-11-12


return envelope must accompany
eoch question.
there are too many early campus
marriages. Your chances of
future marital happiness will
increase as you delay your mar
riage until you reach the ripe
old age OF, at least, 81. I know
you didn't say anything about
marriage at this time. That's
all the more reason why you
should stay in your present
Midwest college that you like
Every mueh," get your degree
and then join your boy friend.
O.: You've advised students
to forget geographic lines and
go to colleges far from home.
That bthers me. Why shouldn't
my child go to a college nearby,
since we have good ones here?
Why look for greener pastures?
Are parents monsters If they
want their children near them?
Lord knows we don't keep them
for long as it is. My daughter
read your article and now she
wants to go to a college 1000
miles away. Help!
A.: I'm afraid I can't help
you. My advice is: Let her go!
II she's chosen a good college,
and it's within your means,
what does a few miles mean?
Let's see, at the rate of $50
miles an hour. how long will it
take to get to San Francisco,
New Orleans, Chicago or New
York? Actually, I don't ad-
vocate going far from home,
Just for the sake of getting
away. What I do recommend
though, is that you don't put
a geographic limit around your
child's college choice. I've had
parents say to me: please rec
ommend a good college for my
daughter but be sure it's not
more than 100 miles away.
want her home week ends" I'd
select the college on the basis
of what is best for your son or
daughter. not how far or how
near it is to your home.
Evening star., 1961-11-12
Collectors Gallery

The exhibition. closing to-
day, Of paintings by Bernard
Leclerq at the Collectors
Gallery presents still another
Evening star., 1961-11-12

Phillips exhibition can give
you a good idea of the vari-
ETY. of things artists made of
their freedom the last time
they had it.
Evening star., 1961-11-12

The author. q Pulitzer Prize
reporter. is education editor Of
the North American Newspaper
Allionee. Questions recording
education and careers moy be
addressed to him eore Of The
Stor. A stamped, seIf-oddressed
return envelope must accompany
eoch question.
Evening star., 1961-11-12
Freedom Rings Anew

In short, the exhibition
shows the freedom American
art used to have to look at
something other than itself.
1t is very good news that
freedom is returning. The
Evening star., 1961-10-05
Ohio Couple Hurt
In Cur-Bus Crash
At Mount Vernon

A visiting Ohio couple re-
manned in critical condition at
Alexandria Hospital today as
a result of a collision at Mount
Vernon yesterday afternoon be-
tween their car and an AB&W
Transit Co. bus.
They are Paul Tenney. SO, of
Cayahoga Falls, Ohio, and his
wife, Estella, go.
Both suffered skull fractures
in the crash. The accident hap
pened shortly before pm. as
the Tenney car left a parking
lot at the historic estate and
collided with a bus, according
to United States Park Police.
Mr.. Tenney also received facial
cuts and back injuries and
Mrs. Tenney, broken leg and
internal injuries.
The bus driver. Harry E.
Bowles, jr., of 1918 Prince
street, Alexandria, and Euls
Mae Washington, 80, of 315
South Patrick street, Alexan-
dria, one of nine passengers
on the bus, were treated at
Alexandria Hospital for minor
injuries and released.
Park Police Pvt. Herbert w.
Paxton charged Mr.. Tenney
with failure to yield right of
way.
Evening star., 1961-10-05

The stations measure the
chief component of smog, g
substance known as oxidant
which is one of the products
created in the reaction in sun
light between the oxides OF
nitrogen in the air. and the
hydrocarbons emitted by auto
eXhauSts. factory chimneys and
other sources.
According to G. B. Welsh, a
sanitary engineer for the
USPHS Air Pollution Division
the highest reading during the
first sampling week was Is
PPM-recorded at the District
Health Departments station
atop the Municipal Center
building at 300 Indiana avenue
NV.
Alexandria was a close second
with a high reading on one
occasion of IL PPM.
Both readings we're rated
below the level of irritating
smog. Officials declared that
a Los AngeleS-type Smog, pro-
ducing eye irritation and throat
scratchineSs, has a PPM reading
of .25 or higher.
Evening star., 1961-10-05
BY T. w. TIRANA
Star Staff Writer

District drivers who get into
trouble with the police would
take a series of tests designed
to improve both their driving
and their driving attitudes un-
der a program being devised at
George Washington University
The program, financed by a
three-year, $270,000 grant from
the Department of Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare, will be
tested here and, if successful,
made available to other cities
Should the District Commits
sloners approve the program
drivers whose licenses have
been suspe ded or revoked
would have to pass the tests
before being allowed to drive
again.
DR.. Lawrence SchleiSinger
director of the Driver Behavior
Research Project, said the prin-
cipal advantage of the pro-
gram is that it forces those TAX
ing it to become interested in
driving.
People don't expose them
selves to information they're
not interested in," DR.. Schleis-
niger said. THE only people
who are going to read about
how to drive better already are
interested"
The program consists o1
small books with statement.
Evening star., 1961-10-05
UGF AT WORK
Talk Sessions Save Jobs

made the grade in school and
on the job, to try again.
How do you decide who is
retarded?" he asks.
How do you decide how
large a role emotional problems
play in keeping someone from
living up to the capacity he
has?"
80 Jobs Found
Eighty workers were placed
in the last fiscal year in such
Jobs as messenger, file clerk,
stock clerk, packager. office
machine operator. welder, do
mestic worker and janitor.
The 2l2-year-old job train
ing program is carried on with
the cooperation of the District
and Maryland Departments of
Vocational Rehabilitation, and
serves persons throughout the
area.
The Occupational Training
Center, established in March,
1857, also runs a sheltered
workshop at it's headquarters
at 317 Cedar street NV. In
all. the center worked with
200 persons last year.
Help for Retarded Children
is one of the agencies for
which the United Givers Fund
is conducting its annual cam
paign.
This years goal of $7.3 mil
lion will go toward the support
of 148 agencies throughout the
area striving to bring a better
life to all.
Evening star., 1961-10-05
ests Seek to Refrain
TroubIe-Prone Drivers

and then questions on each
statement. The statements are
related to each other, and be-
come progressively more CON-
Iplex.
1--WE build up tension by
producing anxiety and doubt, y
DR.. Schleisinger said. Then the
person taking the test gets the
right answer and feels re-
warded."
He added that a driver who
had gone through the program
would have a better attitude
toward driving because he'll
be a guy who really under
stands what's happening on
the road"
He said the person taking
the tests also would be a
safer driver in that he would
be more oriented to other
drivers, not his own feelings.
His problems with his boss
or a fight with his wife will
become less important when
has on the road" DR.. Schlei-
singer said.
DR.. Schleisinger said he has
permission from the Motor
Vehicle Department to start
giving the tests in six weeks to
some 1000 traffic violators.
We'll see whether people
going through the program
have fewer accidents and traf-
fic violations" DR.. Schleisinger
said.
Evening star., 1961-10-05
Marines Give Up
Paint Markings
At Cemetery

The Marine Corps, which
never has surrendered a unit
in combat, bowed meekly to-
day to John Metzler, superin-
tendent of the Arlington Gene
terry, who prefers beauty to
order.
The Marines painted yellow
markings last month on an
old stone wall separating the
cemetery from Henderson Hall,
where their Headquarters Bat
talon for the Washington area
is quartered. The lines desig-
mated parking spaces.
1t. Col. Stewart Lauer said
the Army, on whose property
the wall lies. had given per-
mission to paint the lines.
Col. Lauer also called the
narrow yellow lines "unobsru-
sive."
Mr.. Metzler did not agree.
He picked up his telephone and
told the Marines he did not
mind their parking along the
wall. but would they please re-
move the paint.
I'VE did not think it was in
keeping with the wall Of the
cemetery" he said.