THE DAILY TAR HEEL Sunday, January 8, 1967 Page 4 Ethridge Fellows En joy Return To School From Newspaper Jobs Three newspapermen with a total of 30 years behind them as reporters, critics and edi tors are finishing up their first semester as Mark Ethridge Fellows here. As participants in a unique project for continuing educa tion of Southern journalists, they are enrolled in an assort ment of courses ranging from urbanism and city planning to political science, art, drama and music. Each has mapped out a program of study which he feels will aid him directly once he resumes his position in the newsroom. History Prof. Clif ford M. Foust Jr. co-ordinates the Ethridge project on the UNC campus. Tom Faison of The Durham Morning Herald, Owen Lewis of The Greensboro Daily News, and Bill Tazewell of The Nor folk Virginian - Pilot were among seven newsmen select ed last fall for Ethridge Fel lowships, a program offering working journalists a chance to return to the campus for varies periods of study. Administered by the South ern Regional Education Board in Atlanta, the program is fi nanced by the Ford Founda tion. It is open to news and editorial personnel of newspa pers, wire services, news mag azines, radio and television stations in 15 Southern states which are parties to the South ern Regional Education Board Compact. Fellows may study at Duke, Emory, North Caro lina, Vanderbilt, Virginia or Texas. The program is named for A UNC Artist h Critmd Of Art CriBbs John Sedgwick's new book has intense personal fascina tion for me, but I fear that it is a fascination not likely to shared by the man in the street, for whom, the book was ; purMrteolywjdtten 1 Sedgwick, who is profesor of art history at the UNC at Greensboro, is the author of "Discovering Modern Art" (New York, Random House, 208 pages, $7.95). " 'Van Gogh,' said a popu lar and financially successful portrait painter recently, .'was., a serious but clumsy artist; why, he didn't even know how to draw." This is? used as the point of departure for a re buttal against many of the popularly held, though com pletely unknowledgeable, pre judices against modern ab stract art. It called to mind the feud that raged in my column in the Greensboro Daily News three years ago between Sedgwick and the portrait painter, a great deal of which seems to have motivated a number of the passages in UP TO SLIPS Short And Average HALF SLIPS White And Colors SPORTSWEAR Sweaters Skirts Slacks Blouses GOWNS PAJAMAS Mark Foster Ethridge, a mem ber of the journalism faculty here. Before retiring in 1965, Ethridge held management positions for 27 years with the Louisville Courier - Journal and Ties, and served two years as vice president and editor of Long Island's News day. The fellowship project was announced last Janurary dur ing the annual N. C. Press Institute on campus. One of the first Ethridge Fellows, Jane Willis of Brandenburg, Ky., studied here last spring. While the three newsmen go different ways most of the week, their paths cross each Monday afternoon in a semi nar on Newspaper Manage ment taught by "Professor Ethridge" himself. Faison, an editorial writer for the past eight years, is con centrating on city problems and the politics of develop ment and urbanism. "The Planning Department here deals with many of the things I've been writing about at the paper," he observed. "I'm collecting valuable back ground material and making notes which I can use as in stant references in the future." A Pennsylvania native, Fai son was graduated from UNC and holds a masters degree in journalism from Columbia. He worked several years as a city hall reporter in Rocky Mount before joining the Durham pa per. "Planning is an essential in gredient of society and city life," he continued. "My ex perience here is bringing me Art World By OWEN LEWIS Sedgwick's book. I even find myself quoted in the book. As an art historian for the contemporary field, Sedgwick has few peers. But Ms ap proach in teaching and in. writing is a higi ly personal and selective one. Sedgwick selects a few art ists from Cezanne to the pres ent who are particular favor ites of his, and propunds his personal philosophy of mod ern art. It would take a fair ly sophisticated layman to fol low his development of h i s premise; a fair amount of knowledge of art jargon is es sential top. To help in this re gard Sedwick adds his own glossary as an appendix. His disdain for art critics is apparent in his other pub lished works; he makes no January Clearance At 25 OFF REGULAR u(oD(o& MTIQiJALlY ADVERTISED DOMIDS QUALITY AT A SAVIIIGS PRICE E ASTG ATE SHOPPING CENTER Open Thurs. And Fri. Nites Till 9 P.M. up-to-date on my reading and is giving me a better grasp of a major editorial subject It's good to get out of the of fice and think about things other than general housekeep ing." An art editor, Lewis is tak ing courses in art history and criticism, opera, the oratorio and the theatre. Also a Chap el Hill alumnus, he has stud-, ied art at Salem and UNC at Greensboro. He worked for the papers in his hometown of Winston-Salem before moving to the Gate City. "It's sort of like coming home," Lewis sums up his re turn to the campus. I wish I'd had the advantages as an undergraduate here that I'm having today as a result of my fellowship. As an under graduate, I lived in a trailer and held down several jobs working my way through school. I couldn't enjoy the cul tural and social fringe bene fits of college life." He isn't letting any oppor tunities escape him these days. He attends nearly every con cert, exhibit and literary lec ture staged in the Research Tri angle area. In addition, he is reviewing plays and exhibits for The Daily Tar Heel, as well as continuing h& contri butions to The Greensboro Daily News. "I especially enjoy taking courses simply because I want to learn," he said. "We don't have to worry about grades or degrees. This venture will be invaluable for me and the newspaper. My classes are giv ing me a sound academic bas Professor John Sedgwick bones about it in his glossary : u "CRITICISM, ART: a large ly spurious activity engaged in by poets and professionals, ex-sports writers and aestheti cians, pseudonymous authors of. .mystery, .stories,, .and occa sionally, In desperation or mis-, guidediiessv by artists". Usual-" J ly eschewed by timorous art historians, it has, however, reached summits at the hands ; of such older and bolder his-'Ji torians as Julius meier-Graefe, ' Kenneth Clark and Lionelle . Venturi (or more recently," Meyer Schapire, S. Lane Fai son Jr. and J. P. Hodin), who have not felt superior to the work of art they dealt with. Art Criticism is currently distinguished by a curious self -consciousness and a jerry built, jangling jargon." I qualify for the Sedgwick definition, since the first writ ing I did was sports writing, and I was sports editor of a college paper for a year. I am not, however timorous about my art history, nor is Sedgwick. He gives the back of his hand to whole move PRICE WINTER ROBES Short And Long SCUFFS GLOVES KNEE SOCKS is to back ud what Dartial knowledge I already had of cultural and critical writing." Scholarly pursuits are noth ing1 new for Bill Tazewell, Nor folk native and associate edi tor of The Virginian - Pilot. A graduate of the University of Virginia, he edited the student newspaper there and obtained a masters degree in English. He then studied at Ohio State on a Woodrow Wilson Fellow- ' ship and attended the School of Letters at the University of Indiana. Switching . from Eng lish to history and political sci ence, he studied at Harvard for a year. Tazewell now is focusing at tention on international rela tions and city planning. He described Chapel Hill as "sort of a cross between the Uni versity of Virginia and Har vard." The University commu nity here, he explained, "has . the charm of Charlottesville coupled with the intellectual quality of Harvard." . Obviously- impressed with the state and the University, he mentioned the "variety of opportunities" in this area. "We in Norfolk write a great deal about North Carolina, par ticularly its Northeast cor ner," he explained. "I'm go ing to benefit more from just living in this area than- from any particular course content. There's no substitute for the. firsthand experience of living; in the state." He too likes the freedom ac corded the Ethridge Fellow-" ship recipient in selecting his own course work. - ments- in the modern idiom, ; ; and limits his .discussion al most exclusively to painting and drawing, especially the former. Sculpture, print-making and asemblage get ex-, r tremely tbrief mention. ) To -Sedgwick the culmiha- , tion of the modern art move ment came in abstract expres-q sionism, and the ensuing de- velopments in the emerging ' figure, . pop, op and assem- , blage are fleetingly kised off. It's like oldlliome week in the selection of plates. There's the Weatherspon Art Gal lery's de Kooning, and a num ber of works by Fritz Bult man, Giorgio Cavalon, Tony j Vevers, all of whom have -UNC-G connections. For all his selectivity, though, Sedgwick tells the reader how to look at the art of this century and even how to collect it. He likes painter- ? ly painting, and he thinks it , will be around for a long time to come. "It seems inevitable that the more . challenging aspects of . abstract art will continue to fV. V WE SERVE WELCOME Open 6:30 A.M. to 11:00 P.M., Seven Days A Week n h rra 'Where From the Top of Granville Hall, Two of Chapel HiWs Landmark Seeples Pose Like Mutt and Jeff. Photo by Jock Lauterer hold the center of the stage in a modern world," he wrote. RALEIGH Charles W. Stanford Jr., curator of edu cation at the North Carolina Museum of iArt here, has pub- . lished a "poor man's art kit," ,. called "Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art." Underwritten by an $8,000 grant from the Junior League of j Raleigh, the outfit consists of an 86 - page beautifully il lustrated text and 40 color slides of major works from various schools of art in the museum's collection. The whole kit sells for $8, or the text may be bought separate ly for $1. Impeccably designed and laid out by Stella Suberman, museum public information officer, the kit is a handr some production. If you want to go first class, an extended version in a similar vein is available from the North Car olina State Art Society for $575. BREAKFAST ALL - - mill the Student is Always STAUR : Stanford's text, written to reach the layman who is notv art-oriented, and the children in the public schools of North Carolina, is in no sense a work of art history, criticism; or. connoisseurship. . He dis- 'cusses subject matter, artist's? lives and gives a quick cap sule of the milieu in which the works were produced. The range in art history extends from Giotto to Kline, a large order for 40 works of art. Stanford plans to bring out seven more volumes which will discuss various segments of the museum's collection in greater depth. Meanwhile, Stanford's kit is highly recommended to any group planning a tour of the museum or just interested in finding out a little about the paintings which belong to the people of North Carolina. How fortunate we are that nearly. 20 years ago a state legisla ture had the foresight to ap propriate a million dollars for the purchase of art works. i ' DAY LONG! 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