Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art - Fawcett Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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CARL H. КЕНМАММ НЕ idea of this school was my father's. It came to him as a young man, just as he was starting out in his profession, after his return from abroad where he had studied architecture at the University of Zurich. More- over, he kept up his interest in it all through his happy and successful years until his death. | It started as a free class with my father as volunteer instructor in he old Turn Hall. Then there were two classes in the old Commerce Street School. then more classes in the old Library Building on Market Street. After that a small uilding was rented, by the deserted canal on Washington Street. Now at length, wenty-one years after his death, the school is going to have a great building, mar- velously situated on Washington Park between the Museum and the Library. It has een capable of attracting an enthusiastic principal and of gathering a faculty of alented men and women. Newark, in the meantime, has become a great industrial center, alive to the fact that no center can long hold its position in the world trade without great artists and designers, and without a knowledge of how to make things, as nature herself makes them, purposeful in the noblest and fullest meaning of that word. Newark was not then much interested in art and New York was not the great art center that it is now, but my father never lost his faith in the great future of the school. I wish you could have known him as I did. He was a very fascinating com- panion. I wish you could have shared the fine imaginative atmosphere that he created in our home. He was a man of culture. He was a student of architecture, especially of the Italian Renaissance. He loved music and painting. He took an interest in sculpture and beautiful things. He loved to travel, especially in Italy and Greece. He used to visit the great industrial art schools abroad to study their theories of education. And he never lost his feeling nor his willingness to sacrifice his leisure for the young man or woman who after working all day is eager to spend the evenings in study. He, the first principal of Fawcett School, would appreciate your wishing to have him represented in your Year Book. He would be touched by your thought of him. He deserves to be remembered, however, and to be honored. It was his spirit as a young man that created the school. His perseverance and steadfastness kept it through all its early years. He carried on, as so many fine men and women have carried on in all pioneer ventures, quietly and without thought of self or of reward, for the sake of a big idea, that only years after they are gone comes to its full Íruition. ANTOINETTE PERRETT. March 5,1927.

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SARA А. FAWCETT persons who surpass in ch aracter, Such was Miss Sara A. Fawcett, teaching of Art in the publi lity, she laid a Every one who came in contact with Miss Fawcett was impressed by he: sterling qualities and will always remember her with veneration. As one of the first art supervisors, 1f not the very first in the United States, it was a fitting tribute that one of the first Public Drawing Schools in the country should bear her name, for both have brought great honor to Newark and have helped to make it the great city which it is todav. Mabel J. Chase, Former Supervisor of Art in Newark Public Schools. Bas-relief, executed by the children of the Saturday modelling class, to com- memorate the closing of the Morris Canal, 1926. When reproduced in bronze, it is intended to place it in one of the high schools. H | КЮ pp EVORA | |