THURSDAY. OCTOBER 15, 1953
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Morality:,.F.-i:objom.
"The real puzzle with moral problems Is that it is easier to con
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-demn 'immoral behavior' than it is to get people to live in a respon
sible .world," Dr. Paul L. Lehmann said
,in an informal discussion
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of student •• problems. . . •
• Dr.. Lehmann, professor of applied Christianity and director of
graduate - studies at Princeton
Theological Seminary, has been
on campus working with the Penn
State Christian Association on an
"Institute in Religion" program.
• In discussing social problems,
Dr." Lehmann said, "Drinking in
itself is• not wrong. It is a symp-•
torn 'of something else that is
wrong. Attempts to correct the
evils by prohibiting raises more
problems than they settle.. The
bad side, habitual drinking as an
escape method, should be attacked
by bringing young people together
in social.relationships so meaning
ful that they will learn how to
become -responsible persons and
the values by which to live."
Dr.. Lehinann feels religion
isn't meaningful to students un
less it is concerned with, their
interests and problems. Religion
should teach - students what it
takes' to be concerned with each
other and to join together in coin
mofr'interests.
When questioned about the re
cent condemnation of Penn State
students for their behavior, Dr.
Lehmann said, "Taxpayers have
no right to say -how students be-,
have. They support education be
cause of its importance to public;
life, if they try to control, they
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defeat the purpose of education.!
Character is made, not bought.
"The indifference of students to
campus activities is a sign that
they don't realize they are a part
of a community. The values with
which they approach education
are too narrow.. Far too many
students consider education as
only a means for getting,not giv
ing. Maybe they don't ow how
to belong to society."
"These problems can be over
come by spreading responsibili
ties .in and for campus "affairs
among many students instead of
among cliques, and ,by teaching
students how to be a living part
of a community," he said. _
"College should be a• sort of
laboratory where students can
meet, discuss and try to solve
their own problems and those of
people living outside their im
mediate circle "
In closing, Dr. Lehmann re
marked, "There is too much draw
ing of rules. More risks' with all
kinds of groups and programs
should be taken which will help
people to discover that it is 'fun
to be good'."
WSGA House Meeting
Set for 6:30 Tonight
WSGA House of RePresenta - -
tives will meet at 6:30 tonight in
White, Hall, Maud Strawn, speak
er of the house, announced.
In voting on the tie for dormi
tory presidents in Units 1 and 4
McElwain, Patricia Colgan was
elected president of Unit 1 and
Winifred Rhoad vice president. In
Unit 4 Susan Wescott was elected
president and Barbara Kilmer
vice president.
Frosh Council to Elect
New Officers Monday
Freshman Council will elect
officers at 6:30 p.m. Monday in
the day student room of Wom
an's Building\ according to Bar
bara Stock, president.
The council voted to enter , a
booth in the Mardi Gras Carni
val Oct. 30 in Rec Hall. •
Gamma Phi Beta
'Gamma Phi. Beta recently held
a slumber party in the suite for
new pledges.
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Final elections for two Wo
men's Student Government Asso
ciation and three Women's Rec
reation Association offices will, be
held from 10 am. to 7 tonight in
women's .dormitories.
Two freshman senators to
WSGA and one sophomore and
two freshman representatives to
WRA will be elected.
Nominated in primary elections
Tuesday to run for WSGA fresh
man senators were Suzanne Loux,
Majorie • Babb and Beth Casey.
first semester arts and letLers ma
jors and Barbara Hendel, first
semester chemistry major.
Candidates for sophomore rep
resentative to WRA are Judy Cor
field, Lois Piemme, Mary Bu
chanan and Shirley Mix.
The Misies Piemme and Mix
are third semester physical edu
cation majors. Miss Corfield is a
third semester bacteriology ma
jor and Miss -Buchanan, a third
semester home economics major.
Janet Lee, Sally Rosser, Mariarh
Jones and Martha Patterson will
compete for WRA freshman rep
resentatives. The Misses Lee and
Jones are first semester home
economics majors and the Misses
Rosser and Patterson, fi;Ft sem
ester education majors.
Women living in Grange Dorm
itory, Woman's Building, the
cottages and town may ,vote in
McAllister Hall. Town women
must present matriculation cards.
All other women may vote in
the main lobbies of their dormi
tories.
Newman Club Opens
Radio Series Tonight
The Newman Club radio pro
gram will broadcast for the first
time at 9:15 tonight on Station
WMAJ. Perions interested in the
radio committee will meet at 7:30
tonight in the Catholic Youth
Center.
risque sayings
no more bad moods =-
they'll keep you laughing
The Treasure House E. College Ave.
THE DAM? • COLLEGIAN'. STATE gOLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
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lively personality creeps out - to
the canvas. •
Come i 4 Pfal r ueo
decorate your Malls with
Wiiispptitig . :Gallery ‘: •
Asa child he' took art seriously
and strove .to attend the Philadel-:
phia MUseum School of Arta His
dream was -realized in the early
thirties with •his graduation and
degree from the • school.
"This was a grim fling , for
everybody and artists in partic
ular found it hard to belieVe.
that prosperity, was just around
the corner," he admitted.
"People were too busy trying
to pick up the pieces of a shat
tered stock market to worry
about fine arts," he said. Artists
couldn't even , break into the
commercial field, through, agen
cies."
Jack set to work as an inde
pendent business man and made
his living by lettering trucks and
business shingles. But few trucks
were put on the highways and
very few shingles were hung. Most
people were -trying to forget their
finandial panics over a. Saturday
night been Jack followed the
crowds into the taverns to paint.
Although he swears he had noth
ing to do with "the face on the
barroom floor," he did paint fine
murals behind the .bars and on
the walls of dining rooms. Real
estate transfers were to his ad
vantage too and he built up al
most a monopoly of painting "For
Rent" and "For Sale" signs in
Bucks County.
Meanwhile his work progressed
from the whims of youth to 'a
finely hewn maturity. On week
ends he stole away across the
woods and mountains of Bucks
County to discover old covered
bridges, and waterfalls and moun
tain shacks to preserve on his
canvases.
"Sometimes I pailited from na
ture, sometimes from memory.
Often I took photographs to use
as models. This makes it easier,"
he said.
For many years he devoted
his talents almost exclusively to
quaint street scenes of New
town, or bucolic landscapes in
the Delaware Valley, or an .oc
ca'sional
_portrait of his wife,
Rita,' or a friend. These he ex
hibited in Philadelphia shows
or in' his wife's . beauty parlor,
sometimes selling a canvas to
an art enthusiast.
Then his temperaments shifted
to abstractions— flattened fishes
and owls and flora painted in a
weird medley of bright and som
bre -shades.
Three years ago he began paint
ing neo-objectives, a combination
of the natural elements and ab
stracts in his ' earlier works. On
weekends and after lecture hours
at the Museum School of Att,
where ke ' is now an instructor,
he is constantly working on new
paintings for future exhibits. Of
ten he works on several studies
at the , same time.
He still paints partly from mem
ory, partly from photographs he
has shot himself, and partly from
model setups. The result is a mon
tage effect—an outrageous clash
of the realistic and the abstract
—giving a superimposed pattern
that is • surprisingly pleasing to
the eye and as mentally arousing
as anything concocted by Dali.
Critics, professional and amateur,
are praising Foster for his strik
ing, use of color, good draftsman
ship, and realistic third-dimen
sional effects.
Spectators at the exhibit tried
to run their fingernails up and
down the cracks in some boards
he painted and to pluck precious
• and semi-prescious stones from
their canvas setting. Butterfly
i collectors would have had a
field day. Subject matter in the
i paintings varies with objects
taken from a particular period
of histdry and mixed with na
ture, as is evidence d - in the
George Washington mugs,
cracked Christmas • bulbs, early
American steeds from weather
1 vanes, Colonial coins, antique
coffee pots, chickens, insects
and autumn leaves.
"Objects have no particular
meaning," he told us. "I discover
some of them in peop'le's homes.
Others are taken from, newspaper
clippings and sights in American
museums."
"Iconograph" was awarded the
annual Philadelphia Sketch Club
gold. medal this year as the best
oil painting entered in their show.
The painting is a study of world
religions - with a line drawing of
the crucified Christ overlapping
images of Buddha, an Egyptian
diety taken from the wall of a
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tomb, and an African ceremonial
mask.
• "Most of my pictures .do not
have a definite story," Foster ex
plained, "but they represent a vis
ual expression without narrative."
Last year Foster received the
Dana medal from the Philadel
phia Water Color Club for his
"Nocturne," a study of a lone girl
looking over the back fence in a
tenement district at twilght.
tenment district at twlight.
The artist was commissioned
by Robert Halter, proprietor of
the River House restaurant in
New Hope to paint the "Chil
dren's Hour," a study of Ameri
can toys used by children dur
ing the Civil War. Models were
taken from Mr. Halter's own
prize collection of antique toys.
"Another. Day," and "Birthday,"
inspired by character's from
Goethe are also owned .by the
River House.
Other Foster • works can be
found ih the Tow Path House on
the Delaware barge canal in Bucks
County, the New Jersey Depart
ment of State Highways in Tren
ton, bars and restaurants in New
York City, and in private collec
tions in the East.
He has exhibited at ;the Aca
demy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia
and at the Philadelphia Art Al
liance in• addition to the New
Hope Galleries.
If you're wandering through a
public lobby in Philadelphia one
day and find the wall enhanced
by a picture-puzzle-like painting,
perhaps one engraved "The Let
ter," take a look at the name on
the address—chances are ; you'll be
face to face with an original Fos
ter!
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Tau Kappa Epsilon was enter
tained recently by Gamma Phi
Beta with a skit followed by
dancing and refreshments.
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