University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 24.1977
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Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Touch up
Twice a week, a Sonia Sophie抚来 Lawrence from the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City, Mo., to continue the meticulous work
of restoring two 18th-century sculptures for KU's new Helen Spencer Museum of Art, Sophier brushes on solvents that seal the stone.
Staff Writer
Salvation is in store for two once-abandoned 18th century sculptures that have been in storage at Spencer Research Library during the last year.
By MARY ANNE OLIVAR
The sculptures are being restored under the trained hands of Sonja Sophier, associate in conservation for the Nelson Art Gallery, Kansas City, Mo.
Sophier started tightening the wood of the two wooden, painted sculptures two weeks ago so they could be moved to the Helen and Danny artisans, which will open to the public in January.
WHILE APPLYING a solvent that removes dirt from the sculptures, Sophier said yesterday that like all wooden sculptures, these had shrunk over the years.
Now, every Thursday and Friday, Sophie works in the cold finishing room of the Spencer Museum on a statue of St. Corman, one of the two sculptures by a German artist, Joseph Gostch. The other sculpture represents St. Damian.
First she applies a polyvinyl acetate, which penetrates the paint, and seals the wood and helps consolidate the paint to the wood.
Sophier uses three different solvents to down blow the shrinkage. She works on annealing and drying for three days.
The cracked off-white paint that covers the sculpture is evidence that the wood has shrubbed.
THE MAIN problem is the pain," she said, "because it does not stick to the wood and can be easily removed."
After applying that solvent, Sophus uses a small iron to heat the paint so it will stick to the surface.
Next Sophier applies wax to the sculpture and heats it with the iron.
Afterward she rubs off the excess wax and polyvinyl acetate with a solvent and a piece
Oliver president resigns as security monitor
Solvent, heat save wood statues
A security monitor's job is to patrol the hall, enforcing rules that include alcohol regulations.
University of Kansas state policies that only 3.2 per cent beer can be contained in the can are not enforced.
Joe Bandy, president of Oliver Hall, resigned his position as security monitor there last week, one day after an unidentified resident assistant had reported that Bandy had liquor in his room during a party.
State law prohibits consumption of any other alcohol beverage in the halls.
But Bandy said his resignation did not result directly from the reported violation of law.
Bandy said he was told that he had liquor
"It wasn't particularly the reason," he said. "It didn't determine my resignation. There are a number of reasons I resigned, both personal and physical."
BANDY REPORTEDLY had liquor in his room during a party before the Beach Boys came.
Bandy said he did not notice whether his guests were drinking.
He said, "I didn't know they were bringing it. I saw the glasses that had beer in them. I didn't know what was in it actually. I didn't really bother to think about
in his room by a resident assistant, who said he had just seen a girl from the party in the kitchen.
Bandy said he told his guests that if they had any liquor, they should get rid of it.
"I wasn't sitting in here looking for it, which I guess was my fault. We had a party and it was in my room and so it was my fault," he said.
created conflicts of interest with his friends
and with his job as hall president.
"People look at you from two sides—as their president plus as a security monitor. Unfortunately they look on security monitors as policemen, as an enemy—out to get them, when we're really out to protect them," Bandy said.
"There were people here with glasses with whatever it was in Coke, or whatever it was in tea or whatever it were they were drinking. I don't know," Bandy said.
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Bandy said that he was not forced to resign and that his decision was one of mutual agreement with Sam Burns, assistant resident director in charge of security monitors at Oliver, and John McGee, resident director at Oliver.
MGee said there was no set standard for dealing with liquid violations each case was
Events
BANDY SAID the incident was an example of how his job as security monitor
**TODAY:** A conference on SCIENCE AND MATH CAREERS for women will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Kansas Union. Norm Slade, associate professor of systems and ecology, will present a statistics and APPLIED MATHEMATICS colloquium, "Statistical Detection of Density Dependence," at 4:30 a.m. in 119 and ASTRONY COLLOQUIUM, of Washington State University will present a PHYSICS and ASTRONY COLLOQUIUM, "Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae," at 4:30 a.m. in 138 Mallett Hall.
TONIGHT: DAVID NEUEMEYER, pianist, will present a Visiting Artist Series recital at 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murpah Hall. BRIAN ALDISS, British science fiction writer, novelist and critic, will present an English lecture at 8 in the Union's Jayhawk床.
The alcohol violation only brought multiple health and time problems to a
TOMORROW: UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S Club will leave at 8:30 a.m. to tour the Platte Purchase baner in Gower, Mo. Counseling sessions of the Conference MATH CAREERS for women will begin at 9 a.m. in 220 Strong Hall, YURY RHINOUS for women in Strong Hall, YURY SOLIDARITY for Soviet area studies lecture, "Contemporary Russian Prose," at 2:30 p.m. in 4015 Wesco Hall. The lecture will be in Russia. SUA BACKGAMMON Club will meet at 7 p.m. in the Union's Params A program on film "THE FORUMS" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. in the Union's Big Eight Room. SUA FORUMS will be presented as associate professor of law, and Robert Weaver, associate professor of biochemistry, on "The Legal and Scientific Significance of DNA Recombination," at 7:30 p.m. in the Union's Council ROOM MABEL RICE will present a linguistic colloquy, "The Adaptive Significance of Linguistic Input to Prelinguistic Inquiry," at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Rectal Hall in Murphy Hall.
"I decided to quit rather than draw the thing out, as it were. I wasn't up to another one."
DOCTORAL EXAM: Derral Kent Hurn will present his dissertation, "EX-
pansion of the Church in Kansas" Can further Equalize the Kansas School
District Evaluation Act," at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 26.
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of cotton and removes dirt with another solvent.
Sophier, who has worked on thepuppet for two weeks, estimated that it would take her at least another month to restore both sculptures.
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WORKING INTENTLY on the sculpture, Sophier said that her scientific background helped her as a conservator. She was a woman for 14 years when she did experimental work.
"I am able to do things precisely and carefully," she said.
"There is a definite relationship between
technology and applying it to my work as a
technologist."
Sophier, who has been working as the Nelson Gallery for three years, also restores paintings. She recalled that one of the most exciting works she had ever done was a painting by Sir William Beechey, an English artist of the mid 18th Century.
The painting had been heavily overpainted by another conservator she said, so that while she was cleaning it she realized that the painter was also an artist, another painting actually was a piece of art.
Sophie said she had done much painting on her own but lived restoring pieces of art.
"It's a pleasure to work on them and see them transformed so that somebody will be happy."
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