Friday, October 7. 1977
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Art museum interior shaping up
The offices are staffed and the displays are starting to take shape at the new Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art, Carol Herman, a special event for the library, said yesterday.
The museum, whose public opening is scheduled for January 15, now contains the offices of the department of art history and the museum of art. The art galleries on the third and fourth floors are to be completed with the scheduled open date, Shankel said.
She said the art library, now on the fourth
floor of Watson Library, would be moved to the first floor of the museum as soon as possible.
"We're not sure when we're going to get the money," Shankel said. "But we beger to have the art library in this building so we can teach a digitized integrated unit of artwork and teach arts."
On the fifth floor are museum offices and storage space. The art history offices are on
The museum staff started the move to Spencer in late August.
Dolo Brooking, curator of Spencer Museum, said she was pleased with the museum's storage facilities and climate control.
"We will be able to store hanging art on moveable screens," Brooking said. "It will be easy to bring things up out of storage, so you can see art readily available for use and enjoyment."
"The temperature and humidity in the building are precisely controlled. We will be able to maintain this level."
because it would deteriorate under uncontrolled conditions.
Shankel said a temporary exhibition consultant and a full time design consultant were hired to assist in the technical and aesthetic aspects of the exhibits.
Mark Roeyer, a KU graduate with a background in art history, is the exhibition consultant. D. Craig Craven, also a KU graduate and formerly employed by the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City, Mo., is the permanent design consultant.
D. Craig Craven, consultant for the Spencer Museum of Art, explains tentative floor plan for an exhibition room to Dolo Brooking, director of museum education. Craven said
Planning
he tried to fit collections into areas so that people learn something, "whether they want to or not."
Phone service provides career information
Information for prospective gunsmiths, information professional clowns is just a HAWAII law enforcement
FIRST, which stands for For Information and Referral Services Toll-free, is a phone service that provides information about career guidance, vocational and technical training and other career and educational services. Coordinator of FIRST said yesterday
The FIRST phone number is 1-800-532-6772 and is staffed Monday through Wednesday from noon to 5 p.m. and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
SINCE ITS inception in March 1976, pepole averaged about 40 calls each week he said.
FIRST's staff compris Davis, who is employed half-time at 20 hours each week, and a research assistant, who works 10 hours a week.
the executive vice chancellor's office gave FIRST $4,000 this year to pay for the toll-free line and supplies, and the Division gave FIRST $3,300 for pay to salaries. Davis said.
"Our belief is that people continue to change and grow throughout their lives, and as a result, some of their life choices involving career and education also continue to change," Davis said. "FIRST is designed to enable those changes and provide guidance."
Together, they keep up-to-date files on almost every possible occupation, however
FIRST can provide information ranging from the availability of financial aid to enrollment procedures in vocational training programs.
THE PURPOSE OF FIRST is to provide Kansans with access to career and educational resources that may otherwise be difficult to obtain, Davis said.
He said a caller could obtain specific information either over the phone or by email.
"In Kansas, because of the many remote communities, the resources for locating educational programs and job training are often sparse; he said to centralize that information," he said.
secondary education.
"I like to provide specific information that is geared directly to an individual's interests and needs, as opposed to shot-gunning him with a lot of general information that has little relevance to him," Davis said.
If a KU student calls, FIRST will give him general information about job outlooks, salaries and best locations to find work, he said. But if a student needs more specific information, he will be referred to the University Center, the career center or the Career Resource Center in Bailey Hall or the school college that could best help him, he said.
If file information is not enough, Davis said, he tries to give a caller a person and a phone number to call instead of just referring him to another department.
Davis said FIRST was geared to individuals who have received at least a
Heider...
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The walk provides exercise for a time to think—about psychology. It is also a time to think—about psychology.
"I am addicted to thinking about it," he said.
EXCEPT FOR LEAVES of absence as a visiting professor, once on a Fulbright exchange grant, Heider has been at KU since 1947.
"I came to KU because a friend of mine was reorganizing the department here and he asked me to come with him," he said. "Part of the agreement was that I would teach only graduate students. The girls at Smith College that I had been teaching were nice, but they were not very interested in psychology."
Heider's teaching career spans many universities in addition to KU and Smith College. He has taught at the University of Hamburg, the University of Oslo, Stanford University, Brandis University and Duke University.
But, Heider said, "As a young man I never
Heider attended the University of Graz in Austria and, after a brief firing at architecture, concentrated on psychology and philosophy. He graduated when he was 24.
wanted to be a teacher. I wanted to paint
and I was also very interested in writing.
Soon have been pleasant diversions, at times during his life, he said, but he has never pursued either seriously. Presently, he plays the piano for relaxation, he said.
"When I was young I had the feeling that I didn't know very much," he said. "I thought I was stupid."
BUT HEIDER was restless during his early years.
"At that time I wanted to live in different
languages, learn different languages and meet
different people."
While he was in his 20s, Heider said, he lived in Italy, Germany, Austria and what today Tczebolskova. He was, among other things, a scholar of the history of philology, an orphanage, a clerical worker and a laborer.
In each new country and city he lived in and with each new language or job that he learned, Heider said he gained new insights into human behavior.
"BUT WHEN I was 30, I felt I had roamed enough," he said.
He decided to study and teach psychology, he said, and he has never wavered from that.
Even retirement from active teaching has not diminished his commitment to his students.
"I am still very much dedicated to psychology," he said. "It is such a young field and there are so many things happening."
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Heider said that despite a bad back and what he described as an ever-increasing pain, it was "not a big deal."
He has several notesbooks full of his ideas and observations, he said, but he doubts he can tell them.
"I am a very slow worker," he said, "so I have made no commitments."
Heider said he was the subject of an extensive interview in a recently published psychology book which has its foundation in Heider's work in interpersonal relations. Last year he participated in a psychology symposium at Dartmouth College. And this year he traveled back to his home, Vienna, Austria, and gave some lectures there.
"I have not been silent," he said
JEWELRY CLASSES are being held in the west wing of the broadcasting hall until the design department moves into the new fine arts building.
Quickly closing the door behind him, Gary Nemchock, head of the jewelry and silversmithing program at the University of Kansas, explains, "It's quiet now. We have about 101 students in and out of here every week, from 8 a.m. until 11 p.m." It's crammed."
The jewelry program at KU started in 1946, is the oldest in the United States, according to Nernchom, associate professor of design. He has been at KU for seven years and teaches various courses from introductory to graduate level.
"Hopefully, we'll move soon, but it'll probably be in the next year." he said.
One student bends over a gas flame, heating a piece of metal to a bending temperature. In the next room, klins and buffing machines are silent, waiting for the next group of students. In a third room, students are blowing out their assignments invades the hall.
Inductive classes combine jewelry and silversmithing, Nernchock said, and higher-level classes separate the two. Silversmithing is the rendering of functional and nonfunctional hollow forms out of metal, such as studs or rings, with the intent of embellishing the body, he said.
Three professors, Vilai Ovaleen, Jon Henkel and Nermack, teach all the classes in this program.
THE JEWELRY department last year received a grant for $4,000 worth of platinum from the Matthey Bishop Platinum Institute in Pennsylvania, and graduate students are experimenting with the platinum. KU is one of few schools doing this. Nemchock said. The mines are in South Carolina and the institute sends the platinum to KU.
"They contacted us about the grant when we sent a request for information." Nemchock said. "We hope to make similar contacts with a silver institute in the East."
The program is taught on a project basis, with students doing projects on increasing
Nermchok emphasizes three areas:
joining, the skill of attaching metals to each other;
forming, requiring three-
electrodes and embellishing,
the decorative process.
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By DIANE PORTER
STUDENTS IN THE department often work back and forth between silversmithing and jewelry and often are working simultaneously in other areas, such as geology or metallurgy. Advanced classes offer instruction in difficult techniques such as casting a ring in the making of jewelry by using chemicals, enamelling and work with gemstones.
"The materials are as varied as the students are," Nomchack said. "Students get a lot of support."
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STUDENTS PAY for their own materials, and costs vary depending on what metals and embellishments a student chooses. Nemchock said he didn't think the cost was unreasonable but admitted it could get expensive.
"The basic tool kit is $30, and we have the more advanced tools here," he said. "People can always sell their tools after the class is over, but most of them keep their."
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