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Survivors include his wife, Ada P. Slichter; two sons, William P. Slichter, of Chatham, a chemist, and Charles F. Slichter, a professor at the University of Illinois in Champaign; and three brothers, Louis B. Slichter of Pasadena, Calif., Allen M. Slichter and Donald E. Slichter, both of Milwaukee...
DAVID D. WAKEFIELD Chatham...
David B. Abernethy '59, of Eliot House and New Brunswick, N.J., H. Kent Allen '59, of Dunster House and Chatham, David M. Asher '59, of Lowell House and Chicago, III., Kenneth Auchincloss '59, of Lowell House and New York City, Alfred C. K. Bakhash '59, of Lowell House and Teheran, Iran, Jonathan F. Beecher '58, of Adams House and Milton, David W. Bernstein '59, of Dunster House and New York City, Peter H. Bodenheimer '59, of Eliot House and Salt Lake City, Utah, Peter P. Brooks '59, of Eliot House and New Canaan, Ct., David O. Carpenter '59 of Winthrop...
Ever-present Christ. Artist Stallknecht herself belongs to no church. To house her church pictures, she bought an unused freight depot and moved it onto her property. Inhabited only by its painted population, the building stands open to the public. It is protected by a roughly lettered sign: "Chatham murals. Free. No Children. No canes. No smoking." On the table inside is Stallknecht's own handwritten and framed description of her work: "This is Chatham-portraits of its people-democracy. A cross-section of the United States, with Christ, the spirit of God, predominating. He is the Christ...
...Stallknecht canvases that toured the West were also filled with works of religious feeling, works interspersed with somber pictures of Chatham, its seafaring people and their tribulations. Straight-forward and often powerful, her art conveys almost as much bitterness and darkness as it does sweetness and light, with a Christian theme to give some light to its darkest corners...