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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, February 19, 1968
Fulbright scholar is hip artist
Mustached, long-haired, a painter from San Francisco, and hip—but not a hippie—all describe a Fulbright scholar who is a visiting lecturer in the painting department here this semester.
Robert Price, his wife and a shaggy black dog—in contrast to a serious, well-groomed master—all live in a renovated farm house while Price teaches introductory painting here.
After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from KU in 1960, Price completed his masters at the San Francisco Art Institute.
While at the Institute, Price received a Fulbright grant to paint independently in Paris.
He wanted to go abroad to examine his ideas toward painting in a different environment.
"I feel it is critical for a young painter to get away from a protected environment to examine the ideas he has accepted while in school," Price said.
He explained the "intense" San Francisco environment forces students to take a very strong attitude toward their work.
"A painter out of school must renounce what he has been told in order to find what is really significant about himself." Price said
national center for artists and writers. He said he thrust himself into this alien environment "to see how his ideas held up."
In Paris, Price lived in an inter-
After his grant expired Price accepted a job teaching art for the U.S. government in Germany. He taught art to American civilians and military personnel located there.
"Most of the students were college people who had been drafted, " Price said.
Asked if his painting or ideas had changed as a result of his experience in Europe, Price said certain formal aspects of his work had changed, "but not my basic beliefs."
KU-Y to petition Ten freshmen to for use of pool Relays committee
The KU-Y Special Activities Committee is considering circulating a petition among KU students asking for time in Robinson Gymnasium swimming pool to teach 15 retarded children to swim, said Carl Hoffman, Lawrence senior and chairman of the committee.
The petition, as outlined by Hoffman, would enlist student aid in getting time for retarded children's use of the pool. At the most, students have 10 hours a week free swimming time, and the committee hopes some students will relinquish one hour of their time for the children.
Ten freshmen have been appointed to the Kansas Relays committee by Terry Gill, Shawnee Mission senior, and Ed Gordon, Fort Scott senior, co-chairmen. The freshmen join 15 other committee members appointed earlier.
The new committee members are: Jack Collins, Shawnee Mission; Richard Johns, Shawnee Mission; Dave Martin, Shawnee Mission; Dick Muther, Kansas City, Mo.; Steve Patterson, Topeka; Bryce Pringle, Tribune; Tim Siffers, Shawnee Mission; Rick Stucky, Lawrence; Gregg Van Sickle, Emporia; and Ed Wood, Wichita.
Wilson scholars named
Nineteen University of Kansas seniors have been named Woodrow Wilson Designates, an honor that almost assures them of a fellowship for graduate study in 1968-69.
Six more KU students received honorable mention in the nationwide competition involving 11,682 seniors who were nominated as potential college level teachers by their college professors. A total of 1,125 Woodrow Wilson Designates have been appointed.
The "Designate" award is considered a solid recommendation for existing graduate aids because of the highly competitive nature of regional and national screening.
In previous years, the support from the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation itself has awarded more than a thousand one-year fellowships, each worth more than $2,000.
In the past eight years, 141 KU seniors have received Wilson Fellowships or been named Designates. Among state universities only California and Michigan have produced more.
The KU winners represent 73 percent of the 26 awards made at Kansas schools and 32 percent of the 61 awards made in the 5-state region of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. KU and the state of Kansas led in the region.
Other Kansas institutions with winners were Kansas State Teachers College, Kansas State University, St. Benedict's College, Wichita State University, and Southwestern College.
KU's 19 Woodrow Wilson Designates are:
Douglas J. Amend, Great Bend;
John S. Caldwell, Dallas, Texas; John
D. Case, Arlington, Va.; Daniel F.
Rarrington, Penfield, N.Y.; William R.
Reeve, Spokane Wash.; Karen R.
Freek, Independence Park; Elizabeth Gibson, Independence; Kenneth Gray, Ulysses; Robert J. Harrop,
Topeka
John C. Hoppe, Ottawa; Doris E.
Johnson, Luray; James W. Liebert;
Coffeville; Robert R. Love, Quinces,
II. David S. McClain, St. Joseph,
III. David S. McClain, Melnow,
Ansbach, Germany; Tells K. Meas, Witsa;
Russell B. Merrill; Allen A. Russell, Scottsbuff, Neb.
Gary K. Wolfe, Springfield, Mo.
Martin R. Bebb, Muskogee, Okla.
Edward C. Gordon, Fort Scott; Sarah T. Gorilla, J. Rice.
Lawrence; Eileen F. Schurle, Green;
Dorothy Sloan, Norton.
1967 license tags expire on March 1
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1968 tags will be stopped and the drivers ticketed starting midnight
March 1.
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