Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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Soon lo he pulmlishetl liy the Nlrklillan Company in a series ol hooks deyoted to the prolessinns is .l1r'l1iIr'r!. 'l'his y'olume is heing written hy the llireetor ol' the Sehool ol' ryrchiteetttre at Princeton, Kontakt W, Nil,l.Xl't.Ill.lN, lu. In addition he is tnaking a plrotograpliie index ol' l're-Cioloinhian lll'l'llllClfllll'1ll and settlp- tural monuments found in South and Central .'xIllCl'lt'2l. l'I'UliCSSUli B1CL11llglllill is the professional atlvisor on 2ll'l'llllCCllll'C for the Associate Professor ot Sculpture josigtfti BROWN is wending his way' across Europe and ,Xsia on a six- tuonth iourney sponsored hy the State Departnrent. Professor l5rown's fine statues and statuettes ol athletes in action. seyeral of which can he seen as trophies in tlte Dillon Gym loliby. hrought him to the attention of the goyernment. which is haying him do statues and hnsts ol numer- ous foreign athletes and statesmen. Not content merely to portray' athletes, l'rol'essor llrown has put his liaclcgrotitul as a professional hoxet to good use eoaehing hoxing at l,l'illCClUll, His interest ill chil- dren linings him to the l'rineeton Summer Clamp each year :tml has led him to try' his hand at designing fascinating, even artistic, play- ground equipment. New York Port ,xlllllOl'lly'. lle was in eltarge ol' the competition t held to choose the designer ol the new terminal htnltltng at ldlewild International .Xirport. llis primary' lield is Pl'Cli1llJl'lClllCLl 2ll'C'llllCi'llIl'C. Dr. Rrxssityik yy. Irii. C.ltairman ot the Department of ,Xrt and ,Xrel1aeology. retttrtied to the llllllifllill faculty in FCl?l'lllil'y of 19515 as the Howard Clroshy Butler Nletnorial l'rot'essor of the History of .yrtliiteeture alter spending twenty'-liye years at other edueational instittttions. Dr. Iree, on leaye ot' ahsenee during the hrst term, is in the process ot' writing a hook concerning the Since 1955. Professor ol' Classical .Xreliaeoiogy liiuis SJOQYISI has alternated hetween leaching' duties and directing the Princeton .yrcliaeological lixpeclition to Sicily along with l'rot'essor Ricliarcl Stillwell. the latter ot' thest two tasks is an especially' familiar one tor l'l'OliCSSOl SUIUQNISI, who seryed in a sitnilar capacity lot a Sweclish expedition. 'l he present project is an attempt to trace the development ot' a typical Greek town trout the sixth to the second century ll. ll. and is expected to shed significant 7 light on the Hellenit' eiyililatinn. l rotessor S-ioqyist, one nl the lew classical areltaeologists lelt. has pointed out: Ulixcayatioiis are the prinripal means of I'Cl'OllSlI'lll'llllg and reinterpreting the past. Without them. artliaeology and seholatship in the art. history. and language ol' antiquity would heconte unproduetiye, stereotyped, and SlllJCI'iltllll.i influence ot' the Italian poet 'lortiuato 'lasso on the history' of painting. It is a study' ot' the cirtumstantes arising when a great poem is written and suhsequently' depirtecl in paintings. His lield ot' special interest is the history of painting in linrope from the sixteenth century until the eighteenth l'Cllllll'y', including the Renaissanee. Klannerist. and llaroque periods.

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5 1131.119 ii . 'U o' 1 1 A 1111. lf, XHM11 l,l'KIllCNiUl' H. W. Ylrxinic l.xNc.i. xxliuse nizljor lielils of interest eenlei' znnnnil Goethe gincl Gerinzni xinil c-oin1Jzn':ilix'e lilC1'2lIllliC, hm In-en cliziirmzin ol' the Deparlnienl nl' Germanic Languages ' 11 - ' . ' . ' 1, Lintl l.ilei':iI111'eS sinre its KlC'1lIl0li in IUSS. Cinienllx' workin on ,ixx .x IXIX. nmx inxn xtc in Ile .inline 1 1 1 1 . 1 111,11111g 111,11g1.11111 111 111.11111.111111 111.11015 111111 111C ln .lzzllmlnevv of lnzzmjwzii Lilwwlx' iiI'IllFl.Sll1, he hams recently 1Jlll'1N1Nl' nl' the xlmil xttnw ix tu ghe 1Jli'1lNll1'Q1 111111 t'UIll1JlClt'tl The Hzxlmx 1:1 fifflllllll I.llr'i'r1111rr', l.X'?H-lU?U. linlh 111,1.,1,111 111. 11 111111111 11 111111111 1111111111111,1 1111111-11 of lhexe ixorlv are l'l'l1IlCil l0 his CUIIINLN on fiCl'lIlllll l'0Ct1'Y :md - H. 1 . . . . , ' 1115 11, 115 1111111.11111 8111110 5111111 51111-111s 111111.11 N111 the f1L'I'lllllIl novel. .X ll1lllYC nl l,ei1mg, Gerinuny, Professor 0 l aml.iin lincls tlislineth 1Jlt'1lSllI'1llJlC. ln his own lilllgl' mls Iwi elglll ?l'f iS1l'4X1 l'1W'1'-11l'f31l1lCl, fimlllilll, f0l' UIC Nllllll stories. Nli. fylfilllllllll linclQ Cl11OXllll'lll in College l',llll'lIIl4'C lzxgnninzilion Bozlrcl. XVith his kiinwleclge and 111.111111Q 111-111,1. 11111 111 1110 11111115 111 0161111111 1111, interest in the fieltl nl' tlllllPfl1'1lllV.' lllClilllllI'C he is 21 ezipzihle 11111 111 1-X111-0551113 11111 1111111 111 11111101-,111 11-11115, 1116 lllliillllllll nl' 11 SlllJ'tUllllIllllCC of lhe Ciunncil ni the lllltiianilies n ' 1' - -' X - - ' ' '- whith ix enclezixnrine In nlexelu 5 ll l'i'inielnn J1'cw'1':1lii in this area. i.1 fl A 1. .1o.nn 1, mmm 3 oiint in 115 m U nitiu lrelnncl. He lx ciitieiilh writnig ll nmellai hqgnn in the spring' nl' 1060 :nnl il series nl' zntieles lin llnliclfn xillgllllllth e0ncei'neil nith the lIIl15l'CS- xinnx nigiclc ln ilillerent .XlllL'l'lli1lll cities on the ,Q , ,, , , , . 1 1111.1,11,111,1 ' S13Ctl.lllllllQ in l-iench lllClillllll'l' ol lhe Rmnnzinlii' :intl 1JI'C- 5 Rnni.inlie perincls, .Xiuixxn IIOUI1, Nlereclitli H. Pyle Professor of Ifrenih. ix ll pmlific' miiliezil lllltl crezilive ix'1'ile1'. Ciiirrfiiilly 1 worlting un his thircl nmel, Prolemsm' lloog also finds time to Ili' hu O. Whnf, john N. NVcimlIniIl l'mI'essm' of Mmlein lffllllliilllllt' to nnnierons wrliolzirh ioinnuls. The inowl recent of I IHQIIZIQCS nnil Iliiertm' oi' the Speeial l'l'4lgl'1lIll in 1'ilIl'01DCIll1 i,I'OliCSSlJl' lluogfs triliczil worlas, :in :nliele on Nizneel Proust, is Xllllilllflll. is nn UlllSlLlIltllllg llllllllllily on Yoltxiire :intl ziwziiling piilmlicziticni. f3lllt'lZ1IltlI'L'iCl'XCtl in nizinneiphc keeps tighleenth t'enlni'x l'il'L'IlCll 1Jl1ilmn11l13, .Xnllior of IllIIllt'li0llS :in t'Xll'l'lIlL'lf hug scheilnle. teziihing lllllll gilltllllllt'1llltll1lltlCI'- nlxe nn these siilmieels. Di. Hlule is c'ini'entl3' 1Jl'C1l1lI'iIlg two gmiliiaile KUIIINCS, llespile l'1'oft-Sault Ilongk :11J1m:n'ent modesty, IlllIlllAll'l1JlS, one on Ynltaire :intl his 1uliilow11Iiic'zil lJ2lCligI0llllllS, his liI'e hzis heen :in ewnlliil one. Dining the Semiitl XV0l'ld intl zinnlher on the 1Dllil0S01Jllf' ol' the liiiliglitenmeiit. In his YV:n', NIV. llciog wus ziwziitletl the Cimix ile Cineiie. FfIlllCC,S Ilnee ileczirles an l'i'inc'elon. he hzis heecnne ai lzivorite lL't'lllIil'l'. liigliexl tlemrzitimi. in remgiiitioii ul' his work in the Resistance. His uminwes in l'.llIU1JL'llll lllL'l'illllI'C. espeeiullx 'tlfrmii Hinnzniisni in l'iXlNlCllli1lll8lll,u :ne zininng the nioxt 1iU1Jllllll' on unnpus Piiwiillx lLN1JUllNllJll im thc snuess oi the Sllillll Pmgl ini in l lIl'U1Jt'lIIl Cllvllllllliflll, IJr,NYz1ile ienuiins genial :incl iinzissnniing.

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Professor .XRtiu'R Mixmi., Cihairman of the Music Department, is an expert on the Illllsll' ol llach. Presently he is editing thoral works for the .Vette Brtclt-.lu.ygrtlu'. In his edited text Professor Mendel tries to capture the true quality of the music as determined by research into its original sources. Although he is interested chiefly in Nath, Professor Xlentlel docs devote some tinre to the study of Renaissance music. He is the coeditot' of the renowned lincll lfcrlrlzfr, a major contribution to the academic musical world. l'roI'essor Mendel also tleyotes tnuch of his tinle to mttsical organizations outside of l'rinceton. He has been a member of the lixecutiye lioartl of the .Xmerican Musicological Society. and for tnany years was conductor of the Cantata Singers of New York. M'illiam Shuhael Conant known composer. At the project of his life, a three act opera based on the conquest of Mexico. lt will be called Morilrfunta and will concentrate on the period from the landing of Cortes to the death of the Altec etnperor. The text, written in linglish by the famous Italian novelist and scholar Borgese, is poetic drama, and Professor' Sessions has had to cut large portions of the original script in order to fit it into normal opera time. The opera is scheduled to be completed by the end of the suirnner of 1961 and will be performed. probably abroad, in May of lfltii. Professor ROGLR Hl'Nl'lNfQlllX Slissloxs, l'rofessor of Mtlsic, is an internationally present titne he is working on the biggest 28 CARI. lvl-iIXRlllll, Director of Music at the Princeton Chapel, is a famed organist. He is known especially for his performances of Bach and is presently engaged in recording the complete organ works of Bach in twenty-five long-playing records. Mr. Heinrich pioneered the movement which advocated a retutn to the tvpe ot organ used by liach and his contemporaries. This movement has had a revolutionary effect on the building of organs in recent years. Mr. Mcinriclr also has a great interest in contemporary music, especially that of Schoenberg. As they leave Firestone Library just before closing time, many students like to stop in at the Chapel and hear Mr. Weinrich play' the organ. 'l'hese in- formal concerts are restful, and because they offer a pleasant escape from academic worries at the end of the day, they are greatly' appreciated. When one enters .Xrtist in Residence Hvnti Sot.oyiox's studio in the tower of Pyne .Xtlniinistration, he finds himself surrounded by sym- phonies of clanling color. Large canvases lean against the wall covered with beatitiful compositions of bright pigments arranged so that no color, no matter how bright, ever clashes with its neighbor: everything blends into the unified artistic whole. After some moments of study, the viewer begins to project himself into the paintings and they seem to attain a personal meaning for him. Only later does the visitor notice the quiet, unassuming tnan who is the creator of these works. Hyde Solomon seetns to prefer standing back, not saying much, so that his paintings can speak for him. Technically he is somewhere between abstract impressionisni and expressionistn. Best known for his land- scape abstractions, his major exhibition this year will be at the Poindexter Gallery' in New York.