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MEDAL COLLECTION-Ed Tatge, Ramona junior, Joe Spurney, Belleville, and Joe Williamson, Rocky River, Ohio freshmen, lock at Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy's collection of medals, which are in Spooner Thayer Museum of Art. (Daily Kansas photo)
Old Roman Tradition
Chancellor's Medal Collection Displayed
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy's collection of medals of medical men and great Americans are among the permanent display of medals and plaques in the Spooner Thayer Museum of Art.
The medals, a Renaissance revival of an ancient Roman tradition, were self-portraits sculptured in metal and given as gifts or tokens of remembrance by famous persons. The collection includes medals dating from the early 15th century.
An original medal made by Pisanello, the famous 15th century Italian sculptor and painter is on display. The collection also includes tokens given by John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson when making peace treaties with the Indians and a medal made by Elden Teft, assistant professor of design, for the Kauses centennial celebration.
"This is a branch of sculpture that most museums don't have," Edward Mascr, museum director said. "We are continually looking for objects to make more complete this type of collection which is not seen very often."
The seven panels in the display also include several plaquettes, which were used as furniture and wall decorations during the Renaissance. Later they were collected as sculpture pieces to set about the home. Those in the collection are primarily religious scenes.
The medals and plaques are made by casting metal in molds or by stamping metal pieces with the desired design. They are made primarily of bronze, but lead, brass, silver and gold are also used.
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Teachers attending either of the workshops will receive two Univeriety credit hours.
The workshop for elementary school teachers will be held June 3-13. It will concern improved techniques of teaching. The teachers will pick projects to help them develop curriculum material.
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Every evening the latest instructional films will be shown.
Robert W. Ridgway, associate professor of education, will be coordinator of the workshop. Members of the faculty of the School of Education will act as instructors.
The Teachers Workshop in Curriculum and Methods for the Trainable Retarded will be held June 4-14. Enrollment will be limited to 25 because of staff and space, said Alfred H. Moore, assistant professor of education and coordinator of the workshop.
Last summer it was the only such workshop offered in this area. It has only been within the last two years that programs for the trainable retarded have been begun in this area. Thirteen such classes have been started under a state program and though other schools have wanted to start them there have not been enough teachers available.
Both sexes of the bighorn sheep have horns which are never shed.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture estimates farmers bought nearly 600,000 wheel tractors during 1953. About three-fifths were used tractors.
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