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Monday, March 21, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
KU gains new art teacher Smithsonian director to be Hall professor
By Stacy Foster Kansan staff writer
The director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art will return to campus next fall as the University's Hall distinguished professor of American art history.
Charles Eldredge, who also was director of the Spencer Museum of Art from 1971 to 1982, will become the first recipient of the Hall professorship in American art, which was established in 1985. The position was provided by a $3 million gift from the Hall Family Foundations of Kansas City, Mo.
Officials in the department of art history said last week that Eldredge would bring national attention to the art history department.
"He will have the most impact on
one graduate level," said Timothy Mitchell, chairman of the art history department. "He will help build our program as he gets the graduate students involved in his research."
Eldredge said that his experience at the Smithsonian Institution would help him add to the American art program at the University of Kansas. He said that his familiarity with art collections and the resources available to him in Washington had enriched his knowledge and would help him teach at KU.
Eldredge was on campus earlier this spring for the 10th anniversary of the art museum.
"I was pleased to notice the continuing vitality of arts on campus." Eldredge said. "The situation of the humanities is a good one, and I hope to contribute to it."
Mitchell said that the art history department needed a professor with an American art emphasis.
"The department hasn't had a specialist in American art," he said. "This is the one place we wanted to conduct a faculty search."
Eldredge said that he looked forward to returning to Lawrence.
"My wife and I have a deep affection for Lawrence," he said. "Of course there are things I will miss about Washington. The best of all worlds would be to move the Smithsonian to Kansas City, but I don't think that's on the agenda."
Hall's three other distinguished professorships will be in the areas of American history, American literature and 19th century comparative literature.
Beach partygoers smash car, riot after driver tries to flee accident
The Associated Press
PORT ARANASS, Texas — Hundreds of partying young people rioted on a Gulf Coast beach Saturday night before police moved in with tear gas and helicopters early yesterday. And a car that speed off a nearby ferry dock was pulled out of the ocean with two bodies inside.
"What you have down there is a tremendous amount of intoxication going on," said Jim Kaelin, an officer with the Texas Department of Public Safety. "All it takes sometimes is for someone to bump into someone else. The crowd just turned into a riot."
Coast Guard spokesman Anthony E. Floyd in Corpus Christi said, "One thing led to
another, and it became a riot out there."
Lloyd said most of the students appeared to be high-school age. About 30,000 students were staying in this island resort for spring break, he said.
The mayhem began when a motorist hit a girl on the beach at this Gulf Coast vacation spot on Mustang Island, offshore from Corpus Christi, and tried to leave the scene, said DPS Officer A.G. Michniak in Corpus Christi. Police said the girl suffered a broken arm.
"They stomped the car, broke all the glass out of it and flipped it over," said Tom Frazier, 22, a student at the University of Texas.
It took more than 100 police officers to break up the mob with the help of tear gas and hovering Coast Guard helicopters with searchlights.
The DPS estimated the crowd at about 3.000
Michiinak said the DPS received the first call at 11:35 p.m. Saturday and the disturbance wasn't declared under control until three hours later.
In an unrelated incident several hours later, a speeding car crashed through a barrier at a ferry landing and sank in water from 20 to 25 feet deep. Lloyd said.
The identities of the two young men found in the car were not immediately available, he said.
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