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Armenian Silver On Display This Month In Art Museum
Crownns, crucifixes, altar crosses, monstraces (receptacle for the sacred Host), and chalices in silver and gold set with precious gems are exhibits of Armenian ecclesiastical silver now displayed in the Museum of Art.
The exhibit, in the lower floor gallery (basement), includes objects used during religious services, and other containers and decorations used in the Armenian Church. Most of the exhibits are from the 17th and 18th centuries, but some are from earlier periods.
The objects, valued at $10,000, are part of the collection of Harry Kurdian of Wichita.
Last year the museum displayed a similar Kurdian collection of Irish silver.
The exhibition was planned as a compliment to the collection of Armenian manuscripts now displayed in Watson Library.
The exhibit will continue through January.
A private collection of Armenian manuscripts, loaned to the University by Mr. Harry Kurdian of Wichita, is currently on display in the main foyer of Watson Library.
Armenian Texts On Display
The manuscripts on display are mostly gospel texts. Short descriptions are found next to each manuscript. They show excellent quality of workmanship, and some show remarkable bindings.
Werner Winter, assistant professor of German, an expert on Armenian philology said, "Armenian art has attracted little attention in the Western countries, mainly because of the small quantity of artistic work available here for study and appraisal."
Mr Kurdian is the owner of one of the largest private Armenian manuscript collections known. The loan exhibition at Watson is only a small part of the total collection.
"It is to be hoped that this exhibition will provoke and foster interest in this fascinating Christian civilization and its works of art," he added.
He has microfilms of these and other manuscripts in his collection in the University library for the use of interested scholars and institutions.
Design Winners To Be Told Feb. 9
Announcement of winners in the concrete masonry house design competition conducted at the University by the Kansas Concrete Masonry Association will be made at a dinner Feb. 9, said Prof. George O. Beal, chairman of the department of architecture.
The Kansas association is awarding cash prizes of $75, $50 and $25 for the best solutions submitted by students in advanced architectural design classes. The Kansas Concrete Masonry Association also will give $150 to the KU architecture department for its scholarship fund. The problem called for a three bedroom residence of up to 1,500 square feet, made of standard size concrete masonry units.
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UN Observer To Speak Sunday
Mrs. Pearl Farmer Richardson of Pratt will speak Sunday at the meeting of the Westminster Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church. Her topic is "A New Doorway to the United Nations."
Mrs. Richardson, author, lecturer, and conference director on world affairs, has been an accredited observed in the UN meetings since it began 10 years ago.
Dr. William A. Conboy, assistant professor of speech, has been reappointed chairman of the publications committee of the American Forensic Association.
She is secretary of the United Nations Committee of the Protestant Council of New York, and represents Women United for the United Nations in the conference group of non-governmental organizations of the United States.
Wichita Bank Bandit Caught
Conboy Gets Forensic Post
WICHTIA (U.P.) The capture of bank bandit Joyce R. Courtwright, 27, was a classic case of poetic justice.
Courtwright, making his first attempt at crime, was captured 17 minutes after he held up the First National Bank yesterday and escaped with $9,600. Police cornered him in a nearby movie theater showing "The Tender Trap."
The robber brandished a bottle he said contained nitrolygcerin and shoved a note toward teller Mrs. Helen Louise Kruske, which read: "Give me the money or I'll blow up the place. ."
Police later said the bottle contained peroxide.
The bandit ran from the bank with several bundles of money in a folded newspaper, dashed through a barber shop into an alley, entered the rear door of a cafe and ran through it to another alley, and then into the theater.
Four policemen, summoned by the manager, cornered him in the balcony of the Orpheum. He was in possession of the money and readily admitted his guilt.
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