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Pan American Union

The current exhibition at
the Pan American Union fea-
lures paintings by Florencio
Garavaglia of Argentina. Mr..
Garavaglia has never been
exhibited in the Unite d
States before and his show
here is prefaced by an ex-
PLANTATION that he is "a lead
ing exponent of the move
ment prevalent among the
younger generation of Ar
gentine artists: Informalism.
The name of the movement
placed beside the chi = chi
paintings of Mr.. Garavaglia
raises once more the question
of what's in a name. For
the younger Argentine art
lists, or at least for the Pan
American Union, informal
ism" has the following notes:
Its practitioners, abhorring
strict technical canons, allow
the elements in a picture to
flow freely throughout the
canvas and beyond, in an
open form of composition
which rejects even the limi-
tations of a frame. The
medium used is generally a
thick impasto of sand,
asphalt or cement OCCASION
ally other materials - en-
ployed to provide tactile ap-
peal. Color is indefinite; the
tendency is to be somberly
neutral, the dexterity of the
artist being demonstrated by
subtle nuances and modula-
ton of tones"
Most of this applies to Mr..
Garavaglia. His tendency is
to be somberly neutral and
the stuff does indeed seem
to be a thick impasto of ev-
erything mentioned. On the
other hand the impasto does
not flow freely through the
canvas and beyond. The linn
itations of a frame are
strictly respected in all the
pictures, the thick impasto
being kept not only within
the frame but within the
shape of a large blob, some
times with holes in it, some
times not, sometimes with
amoeba like projections,
sometimes not. The blob is
placed on a perfectly flat
surface, which occasionally is
so tinted as to resemble the
first faint light of morning
breaking behind the blob.
So, if you go for somberly
neutral blobs, this is for you.
AS to what it all means, your
guess is as good as anyone's,
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Art Notes

The 18th Washington Area
Exhibition of painting, draw
ing, prints, sculpture, tex
tiles, ceramics and other
crafts opens Saturday at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art.
About 800 works have been
selected from 1900 submis-
sions by artists and crafts
men within a 100-mile radius
of the city. Cash prizes total
ing $740 have been awarded
by the gallery staff and will
be announced Saturday. On
Friday evening there will be q
reception preview for partici-
pating artists and members
of the gallery. The Friends of
the Corcoran will have a pre-
view on Thursday evening.
Work in the exhibition is for
sale. Last years show sold a
total of SIS 5,246.95.
An exhibition of paintings
by Elizabeth Beer is now on
view at the Chatel Gallery.
DR.. Myron Bement Smith,
Of the Library of Congress,
lectures Tuesday at 8 pm. on
Moorish Architecture at the
1Slamic Center. DR.. Smith is
honorary consultant to the
Library of Congress on Is
lamic archaeology and Near
Eastern history.
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COLLEGE NEWS
Students From Area
Winners of Honors

dero Of the home address, he is
a graduate Of st. Albans School
for Boys here. He studied at
the National School Of Living
Oriental Languages in Paris
before enrolling at Pennsyl-
vania, where he is scheduled
to be graduated in June.
Richard D. Warren of 4504
Harling lane, Bethesda, has
been elected president Of the
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
chapter at the University of
the South. Sewanee, Tenn,
where he is a junior.
Mr.. Warren, majoring in po-
litical science, is a graduate of
Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School.
4 4 \ +
Miss Margaret Ann Move of
5444 North Twenty-second road,
Arlington, has been named an
outstanding senior by her class
at Radford (Va.) College.
- ~
Miss Elizabeth Fowler of 1907
Alabama avenue, Alexandria,
has been named assistant ad-
vertising manger of the Welles-
ley College News, a weekly pub
lication with a circulation of
about 5000.
Also appointed to the staff
of the newspaper was Miss June
Kalijarvi Of 1852 Thirty-third
street NV. Miss Kalijarvi, a
graduate of the Madeira School,
will be a photographer on the
publication, which has a staff
of SIS students.
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EDUCATION
FORUM
By BENJAMIN FINE

Question: Our oldest child
has always excelled in every
thing he has undertaken-Ath-
letics, school work. reading, mu-
sic, etc. At a recent parent
teacher conference we learned
that Tommie has slipped from
top place in his class to the
lower part of the upper third.
He Is satisfied with B work
when he is capable Of A grades.
Socially he is a Joy. He is pres
ident Of student council, pres
ident of his class, head of his
church choir and maintains a
paper route in our neighbor-
hood. We are concerned about
his lack of academic interest.
What can we do to stimulate
him? He is in the sixth grade
and is II years old.
Answer: What should you do?
Nothing! Your boy appears to
be a normal healthy youngster
who Is carrying more than an
average school load. Evidently
your worries are beginning to
rub off on your son. Why de-
mand that he be tops in every
thing? He is accepted by his
classmates, as shown by the
vote of confidence they have
given him. With all the extra
work he Is doing outside school,
plus his paper route, it's to his
credit that he is in the upper
third. Even so, what does that
mean, really?
I'd much rather that he were
happy and well-adjusted than
be a book grind" and do moth
ing but study. Evidently he is
doing bookkeeping up with
his studies, and participating
in wholesome, normal boyhood
activities. Why rush your young
son? Why make an adult out
of him before he completes his
childhood?
Question: I am 49 years old
and serve with the air traffic
branch of the Federal Aviation
Agency. I will be able to retire
in a year, having completed 80
years of service. I lack 20 cred
its for my B.A. degree. I'd like
to get the degree and then go
for a masters with the hope
of teaching after retirement. Is
40 too old to consider this
course Of action? Can I get
my degree through a corre-
Spondence school? Will any
school hire me when I complete
my program? It's not a ques-
ton Of money, but I like to
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PTA EVENTS
CALENDAR

Meeting announcements
must be in the hands of the
PTA Calendar editor by
Wednesday OF each week to
insure publication in the
column on Sunday. Notice
must include street address OF
meetings, as weH as meeting
time and full name and To-
cation Of organization.
Miss Mary Switzer, a Health,
Education and Welfare Depart
ment official, will speak on
"Newer Trends for Rehabilita-
tion of the Physically Handi-
capped in the United States"
at the Wednesday night meet
ing of the Sharpe Health School
IPTA.
Miss Switzer, director Of the
Office of Vocational Rehabil-
itation, will follow her talk with
question-answer period at the
meeting which starts at 7:45
pm. The school is located at
4300 Thirteenth street NV.
Other meetings scheduled
this week follow:
Hendiey Eiem.-Sixth and chesa-
peake streets Sc, 8 pm.
Keene Elem.-Rock Greek Church
and Riggs , roads PADS, NE. uppIf,.tn s pm; and
FrankIffS hi1faOnt Streets EleP Ne pem.ie'n pm Ano
Monroe Elem.--Columbia road near
Georgia avenue NV, 8 pm.
Northwestern sE; ST. High~colesville
Shadd Eiem.-Fifty-sixth and East
Capitol streets, 8 pm.
Shaw Jr. High-Seyenth street and
RhSds Islsnd Rs1d avenue NMi sDd Dm Jack
stoddert Elem. = Thirty-ninth and
Calvert streets NV, 8 pm;
surrattsville Sr. High-Piscataway
roSS Ts,t cltntHn Tn Slrbsbteantb Mds Gent and Perry
streets NE, s pm.
Thomson EIem.-Twelfth and L
streets NV, pm.
Washington Voc.-O street between
First street NV. and North Capitol
street. 8 p'~a WEDNESDAY
KimbalI Elem.-Minnesota avenue
and Ely place Sc, 8 pm.
Baileys Elem. = Knollwood drive,
Falls Church, 8 pm.
THURSDAY
BroOkland Elem.-Tenth and Monroe
streets NE, 3:15 pm.
Cook EIem.-P street between North
Capitol and First streets NV, s pm.
Davis Elem.-Forty-four place and
H street Sc, 8 pm.
Turner EIem.-Stanton road and
Alabama avenue Sc, 8 pm.
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from Impressionist nature
paintings. But all the same
the viewer thinks of one or
two of the paintings that this
is how a garden must have
looked to Monet when he was
losing his vision. Individual
blossoms melt into one an
other. The refreshing and
ife-giving heat is not a patch
of sunlight but a throbbing
rhythm throughout the work,
the intensity established by
the high key Of the colors,
the rhythm by the S sm a i
splashes of green, by the alb
stract shadows of blue and
purple.
Mr.. Pfriem's work, in its
look so completely unrelated
to visual reality, is one more
welcome sign that painters
can turn again. to the wide
world that exists for all of
us outside the confining
walls of the artistic ego.
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ObeIisk Gallery

It's June in January at the
Obelisk Gallery; if you can't
go South you'd be well ad-
vised to nip around and take
in a bit of the sunshine and
flowers on those walls. The
seasonal scene -shifter is Ber-
nard Pfriem. He works his
wonders with paint the color
of summer sun and organi-
zation based on the lush pro-
fusion of August gardens. Yet
there isn't a flower, there
isn't a. garden path, there
isn't a blue sky specifically
visible in the work. The
paintings are all abstract in
the furthest legitimate sense.
1t is a mood and a time of
year which is recognized, not
an identifiable scene. Yet
there Is never any question
of all this being simply the
artists delight in bright,
bright paint. Without the
delineation of a petal or a
leaf, the paintings communi-
cate at once the vegetable
joy of gardens at the full.
They go further than that.
They communicate also the
sense of gardens seen by
painters of the recent past,
by Renoir, by Monet and, in
one memorable work, by Bon
nard. No copying is involved.
Rather, Mr.. Pfriem has eX-
perienced again much the
same feelings of joy in ma
ture that Une older painters
felt and we feel still when
looking at their work. The
abstraction here is from a
feeling for nature, not from
nature and certainly not
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Studio Gallery

The chief instructor at the
Stu d o Gallery, Alexandria,
Miss Jennie Lea Knight, is
having a one woman show
there. The work is of spe-
cial interest at this time be-
cause the artist has found
for herself a kind of half
way house between painting
and sculpture. The show has
about Is paintings and only
four or five sculptures, but
several of the works straddle
the line between the two.
One painting, for example,
is done on wood. The wood
is also gouged into here and
there, cut with a knife and
with a sculptor's tool. The
sculpture, on the other hand,
is mostly flat rather than
round. Some OF the pieces
are demountable; that is,
their parts may be changed
around by the viewer.
Painting or sculpture, all
of the work on view is totally
abstract, but it is so with a
strong sense of the tradi-
tional values of organization
and visual relationships. Miss
Knight is not so much eX-
pressing herself as creating
unexpected and original pat
terms of abstract order. Hard
edge blocky shapes are played
against the total area of a
painting and against cut or
painted lines. The exhibition
is very much one of an art
iSt in progress and it will be
interesting to see the desti-
nation.
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entists. And we want to see
progressive education" out. We
would also like to see this let
ter printed in the paper!
Answer: I appreciate your
candid opinions, and those of
other readers who wrote to me.
I know that there is some
discomfort and even dismay
about teaching methods. Par
ents complain that their chill
dren can't read. Employers
complain that high school or
even college graduates can't
spell. Newspaper editors find
that many recent graduates
can't write coherently or use
correct gammar. Who is to
blame? Is it progressive educa-
ton? Is 1t the "new-fangled"
methods of teaching reading or
arithmetic?
Education magazines IN 1857
complained about the poor
teaching of reading and PEN
manship, saying that the chill
dren could not read, write or
spell as well as their fathers
could. Fifty years ago news
paper editorials charged that
children can't spell as well as
they used to SPELL"
Question: Why do parents
get so worried about educating
more than one child? We have
three children in college, and
we manage. Sure, everybody
works, and we forget about lots
of clothes, new furniture, a
new house and pleasure trips.
So what? We are investing in
our children's future. Their ed
ucation will last longer than
a new television set. We don't
object to riding in a 1851 Plym-
outh. Well be in debt before
we're through, but we figure
it's worth it. Please tell your
readers to stop crying and
whining. It's about time we
made sacrifices to educate our
children, and not ask for hand
outs from the Government.
What do you think?
Answer: Bravo! You have re-
stored my faith in human ma
ture. OF course you deserve
credit for what you are doing.
Sending three children to COL
lege at the same time is no
easy financial task. 1t takes
money-real money-to do
that. Your sacrifices will pay
off in the end. It's worth going
into debt to give a boy or girl
a college education. In terms
of dollars and cents, a person
with a college degree figures
to make 100000 more in life
time earnings than one with
out a degree. You deserve
credit. Keep up the good work
At the same time, though, let's
not freeze out bright students
who find it impossible, depite
all sacrifices, to go to college
They deserve financial help.
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teach and feel I have something

teach and feel I have something
to contribute.
Answer: You are ambitious,
and I don't want to discourage
you. But realistically, you will
be up against major problems.
You'll be so when you retire.
1t will take about q year to
finish your undergraduate de-
gree. You'll have to attend COL
lege; you can't get a degree
through correspondence work.
Then you must figure on about
two years to get a masters and
teaching certificate. You'll be
So then; that isn't old, really,
and it will give you 18 years
of service as a teacher before
you reach the mandatory re-
tirement age in most school
systems.
Will the school Superintend-
ent hire you? Much will depend
on the field you enter. With
your background, science or
math appear to be likely sub
jects. My guess is that if you
earn a teaching certificate in
eigher of these subjects, your
age will not stand in your way.
Schools need math and science
teachers. With your 80 years of
experience, you should be a bet
ter teacher than a person who
enters teaching Immediately
after getting his college degree.
you'll be competing against
candidates % years of age,
while you'll be So. Don't let that
discourage you. My advice: get
your bachelors, masters and
teaching certificate. The Ma
ton needs good teachers.
Question: You asked for
opinions of parents in regard
to the methods of grading in
our schools. Here's what we
think, and others in our COM
munity: We want the old-fash-
ioned method of grading back
in all schools. We want the
old-fashioned phonics method
of teaching reading restored
We would like to see the old
fashioned method of teaching
arithmetic restored so that our
children may have a fair chance
of becoming engineers and sci
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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART. Seven
teenth street and New York avenue
NV. Daily. 10 am. to 4:30 pm;
Saturday, 9 am. to 4:30 pm; Sun
day and holidays. Q to 5 pm: closed
Monday.
BRARY AND AC C0LLECTfoS Nsn 17o3 M
Thirty-second street NV. Daily
to 8 pm; closed Monday. Closed
indefinitely.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
and Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily. 8 am. to 4:30 pm.
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE
ARTS, Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily. 8 am. to 4:30 pm.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
stitution avenue at Sixth street NV.
Daily, 10 am. to 8 pm: Sunday. 2
pm. to 10 pm.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION. 1921 Twenty
8 pm; Monday. IL am. to 10 pm. ;
Sunday. 2 to pm.
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BY LESLIE ]. MASON
Professor Of Education, University
Of Southern California

OF southern Calllornla
"Je parle francais. Parlez-
vous francais?"
"(x+y)@=x@ + 2xy +y2."
"A floating body displaces a
volume of water equal to its
own weight"
French, algebra and physics
in elementary schools?
Of course! There's good evil
dence they belong there.
They may not be taught In
the same way they are now
taught in high school. But
they can give our children a
running start in our race to
get more students to the top
in the fields of language, SCI
ence and mathematics.
For more than go years al
zebra, Spanish, French and the
specific sciences have been
considered college preparatory
courses, largely restricted to
grades nine through IL. Now
we find that younger children
can learn these subjects just
as easily and sometimes more
easily.
How does it happen that,
until now, pre-high school stu
dents have not had the oppor-
tunity to properly explore these
subjects? For one thing the
high schools, for reasons per-
fectly reasonable to them, have
always demanded the right to
teach these courses. They have
regarded them as part of COL
lege preparation, which they
have considered their reSpon-
sibility.
Eliot Led Crusade
The responsibility was
handed to them in 1888 when
DR.. Charles w. Eliot, then
president of Harvard, led the
crusade for Standardization
and enrichment of education
in America. The National Edu-
cation Association appointed
three committees: The Com
mittee of 10 on secondary
schools, the Committee of Is
on elementary education and
the Committee on College En-
trance Requirements.
The Committee of 10, made
up largely of college professors,
defined in 1893 the RESPONSE
bility for teaching secondary
school subjects-uniformity of
content, standardization of re-
quirementS and time allotment
for admission to college.
This is still the basis for
high school education in Amer
lea.
Recently, however, educators
and parents have begun to
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MASON ON EDUCATION
Higher Studies Suit:
Elementary Pupils

wonder whether things that
were excellent in the 1905
might not be improved In the
1960s.
Languag. 1ited
Languages are good ex-
ample. We wonder h, W so many
foreign schools teach usable
English in their elementary
schools while we can't man.
age to teach adequate French
in high school and college,
When we look, we find they
teach English as a language to
be spoken and heard-not just
an exercise in grammar. Taught
in this way, languages are
proper studies for elementary
schools.
Elementary pupils have flex-
ible minds, flexible vocal cords
and an irresistible desire to
learn when the subject is
properly presented. They are
willing to do the necessary drill
IN sounding and hearing for
eign words. They enjoy Ian
guage games and quickly learn
to think in the language-the
big secret to success.
Algebra teachers nave recog-
nized for years that students
gain a far better understanding
of arithmetic through the study
of algebra. Some elementary
teachers have tried teaching
algebra along with arithmetic.
They have found that it teaches
concepts rather than just
processes and eliminates many
trouble spots, such as fractions.
Science has been creeping
into the lower grades for years,
but without being well organ
lied. AS it expands, it may
pull some high school subjects
into the grades and some COL
lege subjects into the high
schools. This may give our
colleges a head start in turning
out more and better scientists.
You may urtte to Dr.
Mason in care of The EUe-
ming Star. He ,Dal discuss
questions OF general interest
in his column.
E,r
Tuesday Ion Feature Pose):
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COLLEGE NEWS

Ronald A. Cordero Of 1914
Warren street NV, a philos-
ophy major at the University
of Pennsylvania, has been elect
ed to Phi Beta Kappa.
The son of Mrs. Helen Cor
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!. F. A. Galleries

With very few exceptions,
the major American print
makers are connected with
the art departments of uni
verSities and this would seem
to be one reason American
printmaking is in so nuch
better a state than painting.
The university based print
maker is necessarily part of
a larger intellectual COM
munity. This confronts him
daily with the existence of a
real world outside his own
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they have no satisfactory
name.
The commercial galleries in
town have done a good job
within their limitations, but
their limitationS-like. those
Of commercial galleries any,
where - are rather severe
when posed against the mon
umental job to be undertaken
by the Gallery of Modern
Art. The Pan American Un-
ion, the Corcoran Gallery
and the Phillips Collection
have all exhibited the new
art that has developed in
this country and abroad since
1945-the Phillips has a per-
manent installation of Mark
Rothko that far surpasses
anything available elsewhere
but none Of these institu-
tions Is totally and exclusively
dedicated to such art.
By contrast, in New York
City, the Museum of Mod
ern Art has for some years
given over its contemporary
shows to such non-represen-
rational art; the Guggenheim
Museum used to carry the
modifier, "of n-Objective
Art" and many observers
fail to see why the line was
dropped; the Whitney Mu-
scum still devotes a large
proportion of its space and
time to such art, though the
proportion has dropped re-
Gently due to the Whitney's
being impartially interested
in all forms of contemporary
art; and the contemporary
American purchase funds of
the Metropolitan itself have
gone increasingly into what
one rather timidly calls "ab-
stract expressionism."
A New Art Life Here
Miss BreeSkin's record of
dedication to the type of
American art that has been
dominant since 1945 is well
known. Under her direction
the Baltimore Museum of
Art became a champion of
such art second only to the
New York institutions men,
toned above and to such
scattered museums as those
at Buffalo and Pittsburgh.
She is a fortnight and artic-
ulate advocate of the art she
believes in and her coming
alone will be an important
addition to the art life of
Washington.
Her avowed aim to "stim-
ulate collecting" in Washing
ton reveals a mind that
knows precisely how art
flourishes in any community.
Art needs not only the mil
lionaire's largesse of the Ma
tional Gallery and the Freer,
not only the intellectual
stimulation of the we'll
planned and executed histor-
ical exhibitions at the Cor
coran, not only the crowds
of visitors to these and other
institutions. Art needs peo-
pie eager to buy and live
with works of art by living
artists.
This perception and the
determination to do some
thing about it make the new
enterprise worthy of any To-
cal support that may be asked.
All success to the Wash
ington Gallery of Modern
ArtI
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ART AND ARTISTS
AWoshington Gallery
Of Modern Art
By FRANK GETLEIN
Star Art Critic

The news last week that October will see the opening
OF the washington Gallery of Modern Art under the probable
direction OF Adeyn Breeskn of Baltimore indeed
Tor the art community of the Nations Capital The
institution brings to this city something it has had
an established art show place dedicated the latest develop
Evening star., 1962-01-14

The author, Pulitzer Prize reporter,
is education editor Of the North
American Newspaper Alliance. Ques-
tions on education and eoreers may
be addressed TO him care Of The
Stor. A stamped, self addressed re-
turn envelope must oeeompony each
question.
Evening star., 1962-01-14

ance, all in a juxtaposition
of light and dark that recalls
Rembrandt.
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Tuesdoy lon Feature Poee):
"Crum" sessions.
, 1962-04-26
NEW YORK GROUP PROTESTS AGAINST
RELATIONSHIPS APRIL 20 APPEARANCE

The American Virgin IS
lands Unity Council Of Har-
lem has protested to Cover
nor Ralph W. ~Paiewonsky
over his scheduled April 20
public appearance before
American Virgin islanders
Of Harlem. The appearance
of the Governor is set for
the Junior High School at
135th Street and st. Nicho-
las Avenue, under the aus
pices of the Voluntary Anne
rican Virgin Islands Civic
Association.
The release from theAV-
IUC states by certified
mail to Governor Paiewon-
sky, under the signature of
Alberto Senior, chairman,
and Geraldo Guirty, execu-