Special
American Civilization Week
Special FIAT LUX American Civilization Week Special
Special
Vol. 49, No. 19 ALFRED, NEW YORK, MARCH 23, 1962 Phone 5402
American Civilization Week March 26-30
Sponsored by Campus Center Board;
Theme: The Impact of Technology
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L.UX has .been sponsored by t h e j munity. Student participation is GAMPUS CENTER BOAjRD as an the dynamic behind this program, announcement of a unique series' Campus-wide participation i s es- of cultural programs on -the uni-1 sential for its success,
versity campus. The Impact of; We welcome all guests and Technology on American Civiliza- friends of the University to all tion is a student directed program, events. There is no admission We of the CAMPUS CENTER charge for any event.
BOARD see this project as a sup-1 We would like to thank those pi em e nit to the classroom and t h e ' faculty members who have contri- lilbrary. This program celebrates I buted their valuable time and ad- the CAMPUS -CENTER as a lead-' vice to our effort. We also extend
the following students: Bruce Dl/t- zion, Neai GanAcher, Sandy Genzel- man, Robert Gottlieb, Julie Levin, Harvey Margolis, Barbara Muen- ger, Joe Rosenberg, and Marti Stiker.
CAMPUS CENTER BOARD Joel Gottlieib, president Vice-pres.—.ifaria . Tarkheimer Vice-pres.—Michael Blabt Vice^pres.—Stephan Greeniberg Vice-pres.—Nancy Gerken
Dr. Bernstein Finds American Studies Fuzzy and "Exuberant"
. . ' t h n t TIM.Mr. Peter Blake, Managing Editor of the "Architectural F^prum,"
who will give the keynote address of American Civilization Week on Monday.
Herrick Library Speaker
Keynote Address to Be Given By Architect Peter Blake
The keynote address oi the Cam pus Center American Civilization Week by Mr. Peter Blake, the Her- rick Memorial Library Speaker for 1962, will be entitled THE IM- PACT O-F TECHNOLOGY ON THE AMERICAN SCENE. Mr. Blake's talk will be given at Susan Howell Hall on March 26 at 8 p.m.
Born in Berlin, Germany, Mr.
Blake received his first profes- sional training in England, at the University of London and the Re- gent Saint Polytechnic School oi Architecture. He came to the Unit- ed States in 1939 (naturalized in 1944) and entered the University of Pennsylvania School of Archi- tecture. He later attended P r a t t Institute School oi Architecture and received the Bachelor of At chitecture Degree, with honors in 1948.
(Following association with lead- ing architectural firms in London, Philadelphia, and New York, be
•was appointed curator of the De- partment of Architectural and In- dustrial Design, Museum of Mod- ern Art, New York, and in 1950 became Associate Editor of Archi- tectural Forum. In 1961 be was made Managing Editor.
He has served as visiting critic and lecturer at several universi- ties and museums, such as IBar-
Tard, Yale, Cornell, the Metro- politan Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of A.rt. Beside many articles in American and foreign periodicals, Mr. Blake has published three books: "Marcel Brener, Architect and Designer;"
"Sun and Shadow;" and "The Mas- ter Builders—>Le Cortousler, Mies Van der Rohe, Frank IJlyai Wrigiht." In addition to several awards In architectural competi- tions, he received a citation from the American Institute of Architec- ture for the design of the Ajmerl-
Fiat on Monday
Next week's FIAT LUX will be published on Monday, March 26, Instead of Tuesday.
can Architectural Exhibition sent to the Iron Curtain countries in 1958, and won the Howard Myers award for architectural journalism
in 1960.
His numerous architectural com- missions include private residenc- es and ecclesiastical buildings.
Blake Is Herrick Speaker
The Herrick Memorial Library Annual Lecture Series is sponsor- ing Mr. Peter Blake as part of American Civilization Week.
Inaugurated in 1957, the lecture series is "dedicated to the spirit and functions of the library in the lives of students and faculty at Al- fred University.»'
This series brings speakers from diverse fields to the campus. Dr.
Llman Butterfield, editor of the Adams Papers, was the first such speaker. Botanist Dr. Conway Zirk- le from the University of Pennsyl- vania visited the campus in 1958.
Dr. Edwin Harrison Cady, prof, of English a t Syracuse University, and Dr. Glyndon G. Van Deusen, prof, of history at the University of Ro- chester, have both been sponsored by the Herrick lecture series.
Dr. Melvin Bernstein has been\
active in the field of American Studies for a number of years. A \ charter member of the American Studies Association of New York State, past president, past vice-pres- ident, and member of the Execu- tive Council, he was chairman of the meeting of the Association at Alfred a few years ago. In addi- tion, Dr. Bernstein has contributed to the Bibliography Committee of the National American Studies As- sciation and was a selected lecturer for the Salzburg Seminar Program in American Studies. The Salzburg Seminar is an independent organi-
zation devoted to presenting to Europeans, in a scholarly fashion, the American Studies method and content.
The following is excerpted from Dr. Bernsteiris article in the "Amer•
can Quarterly,'! XII, no. 2 Part 2 (Summer, I960), pp. 231-238, and is reprinted with the kind permis- sion of both the periodical and Professor Bernstein.
EMERSON'S SEA SHELLS Simply because of its newness there is understandably a fuazi- ness about the method and content of American Studies a s it concerns a teacher of American literature.
But I find an exuberant spirit in It. It has rediscovered an Emer- sonian truth.
In Emerson's "Bach and All"
the poet describes finding some sea shells and what he did with them and what happened to them and to him:
on the shores of which Emerson's sea shells lie—not to be removed (no matter our lust) but studied in place and time and in relation.
Certainly, in the years imme- diately ahead of us, considering the millions seeking college en- 'trance we will not languish for the
lack of an interested audience.
Certainly, we'll discover more and more American elements in the
•literary art, the word-music-dance art, the musical comedy art, the word-picture a r t of television—
just as we discovered the familiar insistence of the common hymn
meter of Emily Dickinson, the deleotaibleness of American speech patterns in Mark Twain, and the
fear of miscegenation that pro- vides some of the melodrama of the novels of Cooper and Faulkner.
Certainly, the literary arts will find a point of equilibrium between the elitist salon of European cus- tom and the democratic saloon, memorialized in emblematic sham- bles in the TV horse opera. Cer- tainly, American Studies will ob- serve the Lincoln Center for t h e Performing Arts with its new Phil- harmonic Hall, a new Metropolitan Opera House, a relocated Juilllard School, a permanent repertory theatre group, a dance theatre, a library museums—ail with upto- date facilities for televising these
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Student Music Concert Thürs.
Student talent will highlight Thursday evening's performance of serious American music. The con cert will begin promptly a t 7 p.m.
in the Campus Center Lounge.
Vocal selections will ibe given by Michael Abelson, Don Dennerlein, Darwin Dorr, and Gloria Weinberg.
They will sing works by John J a oob Niles, Ernest Ovaries, and Gladys Bich.
Maureen Sullivan will play a piano piece by Abram Chasins and Barbara Muenger will perform one selection (by Charles Griffes. Sally Bonnet's performance of a flute solo by Philip Warner will con- clude the program.
The delicate shells lay on the shore:
The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me.
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-fborn treasures
home;
But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and
the wild uproar.
American Studies actively seeks
—not accidentally finds—relation of each to all. While our content Is abundant, our method has not hardened into a formalism.
This is to say 'that American Studies Is not an additive oper- ation. I t Is a rethinking of the deepening American experience with American time on American land bounded by Melville's seas
Readings In American Studies
The following are of help in reading about the method and con- tent of American Studies: ^ R. H. Walter, "American Studies in the US.
S. Skard, "American Studies in Europe"
M. Lerner, "American as a Civilization"
American Quarterly (magazine)
"The Harvard Guide to American History" _
"Problems in American Civilization" (D. C Health Co, pamph- lets),
"Our Long Heritage" (U of Minnesota Press) Beard, "The Rise of American Gvilization"
W. Blair, "Native American Humor"
V. W. Brooks' histories
O. Cargill, "Intellectual America"
G. Chase, "American's Music"
H. S. Commager, "The American Mind"
Curti and others, "An American History"
J. Dorfman, "The Economic Mind in American CmliaationJ R. H. Gabriel, "Course of American Democratic Thought"
F. Hoffman, "The Twenties"
J. B. Hubbell, "The South in American Literature"
H. M. Jones, "American and French Culture: 1750-1848"
A. Kazin, "On Native Grounds"
O. Larkin, "Art and Life in America"
R. W. B. Lewis, "The American Adam" ( F. O. Matthiessen, "American Renaissance"; 'Oxford Bex* of Ameri-
can Verse"
H. L. Mencken, "The American Language"
Perry Miller, "The Puritans", "The New England Mind", "The Trans- cendentalists"
F. L. Mott, "Golden Multitudes"; "A History of American Magazines"
L. Mumford, "Sticks and Stones"
Parrington, "Main Currents in American Thought"
R. H. Pearce, "The Continuity of American Poetry"
Pochmann and Schultz, "Bibliography of German Culture in America to 1940 C. Rourke, "American Humor"; "Roots of American Culture"
Schneider, "A History of American Philosophy"
Sweet, "The Story of Religion in America"
Spiller and others, "Literary History of the U.S."
de Tocquecille, "Democracy in America"
E. Wilson, "The Schok Of Recognition"
S. T. Williams, "The Spanish Background of American literature"
M. D. Zabel, "The Literary Opinion in America"
A. H. Quinn, "A History of American Drama"
A. Cowie, "The Rise of the American Novel"
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Calendar of Events
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
Dr. M. Bernstein on the SCIENCE PANEL Automation and its Relation to Student led Jazz discussion and PANEL BOOK REVIEW
meaning of American Automation the Common Man record concert of Lewis Mumford's
4-5:30 Studies
Campus Center Lounge
Dean John McMahon Footlight Club Dramatizations 'Campus Center Lounge "Art and Technics"
Prof. Myron Sibley 4-5:30 Studies
Campus Center Lounge Dr. Aaron Sayvetz from:
"Art and Technics"
Prof. Myron Sibley
, ""
Dr. Nathalie Renner "Our Town" 7-8 Campus Center LoungeDr. James Cox Prof. Myron Sibley "Death of a Salesman" Live student recital of serious
Mr. Richard Pearce Campus Center Lounge "Dyniama"
"The Adding Machine"
Campus Center Lounge
American Music
Campus Center Lounge
Annual Herriok Memorial MON ONCLE ARTS PANEL 8-10:30—Campus Center Lounge
PANEL DISCUSSION Library Speaker: to be show a t Alumni Hall a t Prof. Theodore Randall
Dr. Bernstein on Occupational
PETTIER BLAKE on 7 p.m., followed by a student panel Dr. Daniel Rhodes
J. D. Salinger— Specialization
9-10:30 The impact of Technology discussion led by Dr. David Ohara Campus Center Lounge
'ILetters and Telephones" Dean John Ousted on the American Scene in the Campus Center Lounge Dr. Maurice Shapiro
sponsored by 'Dr. F. Engelmann
Campus Center Lounge sponsored by 'Dr. F. Engelmann
Susan Howell Hall Pi Alpha Pi Sorority Dr. T. Shapiro
Campus Center Lounge Ceramic 'Design Exhibit in Campus Center
Department Herrick Library Exhibit .
Fourteen Faculty Members Participate in Week's Events
Fourteen Alfred University fac- ulty mem})era are participating in American Civilization Week. 'Fol-
lowing is a brief ^kiographicto.1 sketch of each.
MELVIN H. BERNSTEIN: edu- cated at The City College of New York and New York University;
has taught at The City College, Albany State Teafchers College, Salzburg (Austria) Seminar for American Studies; has published in The Nation, New York Times Book Review, 'American Quarter- ly;" he is past President of the American Studies Association of New York State; has been at Al- fred since 1949.
J A M E S C. GOX: e d u c a t e d a t Baldwin Wallace College, Garrett Biblical Institute, Tueibinger Uni- versity, Basel University; he is President of the Alfred chapter of A.A.UjP.; Director of Religious Program a t Alfred; author of "Jo- h a n n Christoph Blumhardt and the Work of the
Holy
Spirit;" h a s l>een at Alfred since 1959.FREDERICK C. ENGELMANN:
educated <at U.C.LA. and Yale University; has taught at Cornell University Summer School; Is a member of the New York 8tats Political 8cie<tee Association; has received a Rockefeller Foundation Grant (1959-60); has published In the 'Journal of Politics,' 'Canadi- an Journal of Economics,' and 'Pol- ities;* has been aft Alfred since 196a
JOHN W. GUST AD: educated alt Macalester and the University of Minnesota; has taught at the University of Minnesota, Vender- Mit University, George Peabody College, Cornell University, and at the University of Maryland;
j has been Project Director of the I College Teaching Career Research Project, Diréctor of the College Teachers Program of the New England Board of Higher Educa- tion, and .editor of its publications,
•Fellow of the American Psychology Association, member A.A.U.P., the Psychometric Society, American Personnel and Guidance Associa- tion, and Sigma Xi; has taught at Alfred since I960.
JOHN F. McMAHON: educated at Alfred University and Colum- bia University; has an honorary degree from Clemson College;
Past President of the American Ceramic Society and past Vice- President of the Canadian Ceramic Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; has published in Gov-
ernment bulletins, encyclopedias, an in the 'Bulletin and Journal of the American Ceramic Society;' has been at Alfred since 1924 with a 12 year absence for work In in- dustry. '
DAVID M. O HARA: educated a t Graceland College, Indiana Univer- sity, University of Hawaii, and University of Pennsylvania; has been at Alfred since 1967.
RICHARD PEARCE: educated at Hobart College, Columbia Univer- sity; taught at Columbia and Rut- gers; vice-president of Alfred chap- ter of A.A.U.P.; msmber of the American 8tud!es Association of New York Stats; has been at Al- fred since 1969.
THEODORE RANDALL: edu- cated at Tale and Alfred College of Ceramics; Fellow In the Ameri- can Ceramic Society; on Board of Directors of National Association of Schools of Art; member of De- sign section of the Ceramic Edu-
cational Council, member of the Academie Internationale de Cera- mique, member of the. New York State Crafts Society;' has publish- ed in the 'Ceramic Age,' 'Ceramio Industry,' 'Pottery Quarterly'; has exhibited in one-iman, national, in- ternational and group shows; has 'been at Alfred since 1951.
NATHALE RENINER: educated at the Sorbonne; has taught at Blackmountain College; has been Head of fthe Corrosion Laboratory of the Air Ministry of France, Re- search Associate of the Manhat- tan Project and the Rocket Labora- tory, Princeton; has written three books and< 120 articles in assorted French and American journals;
has been at Alfred since 1956.
-DANIEL RHODES: educated a t Drake University, t h e Art Students League in New York City, Univer- sity of Chicago, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Alfred; has taught at the Blanden Gallery in Des Moines and Ohumwa Ant Cen- ter in Iowa; has been represent- ed in numerous one-man and group exhibitions; has been on various ant commissions and received ma- ny awards for his work; is a mem- ber of the American Ceramic Soci- ety; is the author of several books and has published In 'Craft Hori- zons'; has been a t Alfred since 1947.
AARON 8AYVETZ: educated at Unlveralty of Chicago; has taught at the Universitw of Chicago; has published In te 'American Journal of Physics,' and the 'Journal of General Education;' has been at Alfred alnce 1961.
MAURICE SHAPIRO: educated at Columbia, Cornell, New York University, University of Tnloise, and the University Florence; ban
taught a t Indiana University; has worked as a scientific farmer in Costa Rica, a social worker admin- istrator in Australia, an agricul- tural economist with the U.S. Gov- ernment in Washington, D.C., and with the U.S. Miliary Government in Austria; is a member of the College Art Association; has ar- ticles to be published in the ^Col- lege Art Bulletin'; has been a t Alfred since 1969.
THERESA SHAPIRO: educated at Hunter College, Columbia Uni- versity, and the University of Flor- ence, Italy; has taught at the Col- lege of the City of New York and Hunter College; has done economic research for the United States Government, Columbia University Bureau of Applied 8ocial Research, the National Industrial Conference Board, and the United States Mili- tary Government In Austria; Is a member of the Industrial Hala- tions Research Association and the American Economica Associa- tion; has published monographs for the U.S. Department of Labor, 'Science,' and 'Scientific American.' Haa taught at Alfred since 1961.
MYRON K. SIBiLEY: educated at Wesleyan University of Middle- town, Connecticut,' Yale Divinity School, and Pacific School of Re- ligion at Berkeley, California; haa been chaplain and teacher in Hon- olulu and Chaplain at Alfred. H e has been at Alfred since 1947.
Bernstein
(Continued from Page 1) unrigged events to a vast Ameri- can (and, presumably worldwide) audience.
'There is no need for us to feel anxious about literary investiga- tions that help to define 180 mil- lion Americans. American literature
speaks of a public event, and it relates to the world. I sincerely feel (and a t the moment it is a n intuition rather than a demonstra- ble fact) that through American Studies we are on the shores of light rather thian darkness, on t h e margin of period of substantial In- tellectual synthesis. America's com- ing-of-age is, indeed, a fact. Wei recognise it. Critics of other lands and peoples recognize it. W e have the ripeness. Now, relation is alL
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