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In Erich Segalis F ellowis Suite in Ezra Stiles College, an A.A.U. award is attached to the bottom of a Broadway showbill, and facing the showbill is an honors certificate from Harvard. These are the tangible testaments to the success of this versatile Assistant Professor of Classics. The New York Times, reviewing the iilm To Be a Manf stated that the 29-year old Segal is clearly a great teacher, regardless of agef' He often stays up the whole night preparing his lectures, to deliver them with a characteristic dynamism. Outside the classroom, professor Segal was once chosen to represent the United States as a runner in the Olympics. An untimely illness, however, forced him to withdraw to the more sedentary world of the theatre, the University, and the Boston Marathon. Too much in love with the world of scholarshipv to devote himself fully to the theatre, Mr. Segal continues with both. His play The Braggart Soldier, based on a Plautus comedy, still holds the house record in Westport, and he is now busy on the lyrics and script for a musical. From the theatre in Westport to the rural South during the Depression may seem a long way, But it was in photographing the latter that WALKER EVANS, Professor of Graphic Design, first made his reputation. Collaborating with james Agee in the publication of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, he captured the condition . . .

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lecturer organize it and give it form, and in this sense it becomes a work of artfi Like the works of art that he discusses and analyzes, his lectures pulsate with life and embody all forms of encounter with the envoronment. A German expressionist building confronts inan with the horrors and distortions of uDr. Caligarils Cabinetf' a Corbusier villa becomes a ship afloat in the destructive sea of nature. Architecture is not merely what man has built, but an expression of his emotions: MLe Corbusier exposes you up in space. It is as if you are in a ship. lt's as if he were saying, 'You canit merge with nature., You are a man. You want things that nature does not want. You would like to live forever, and nature will kill youf, To experience such a lecture is to become suddenly, ting- lingly alive with penetrating truth. Professor Scullyis activities extend far beyond the classroom. His primary concern is the destruction of cities that has resulted from employing already-dis- credited urban renewal principles. Returning from cere- monies dedicating the Post Office, a New Haven land- mark, he was confident that the building could be saved: K'The Cossacks have been dragged to the ground. Theyill never get that building down! ' That Vincent Scully is seldom in his office portends hope for a reevaluation. Articulate and forceful, he is the gadfly who eventually may cause contemporary planners to see their mistakes. If not, there is still hope in the next generation, for those who have studied with him have discovered the grandeur that man and his architecture may achieve. August 17, 1924-April 18, 1967 MM

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of life with stark realism. Now, at Yale, he teaches photography to another generation, em- phasizing the astraightforwardv style for which his is famous. When another part of the world was ravaged by flood last fall, a Professor of Art History took a leading role in rescue operations. In response to the oily waters that endangered the accumulated art treasures of Florence, CHARLES SEYMOUR, IR. was one of the organizers of the Committee for the Rescue of Italian Art. Known as CRIA for short, the committee sponsored films on cam- pus to raise funds for its operations. In this survey we have traveled a long way, from a one-time Nebraska farmhand turned philosopher and physicist, to an art professor, son of a former Yale President, turned rescuer. Intellectual adventure of the widest variety runs through this group of men, for each man is an in- terpreter of his chosen discipline. As interpreter, each man is both scholar and teacher, both con- servator and adventurer. mxiailhng, vqqmvir X .- Q v E .