Word: directorate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days later, Athletic Director Adolph Samborski announced that current assistant coach Loyal K. Park would succeed retiring baseball coach Norm Shepard next spring. Shepard, who has coached three Eastern championships, had reached the compulsory retirement...
...City Art Museum of St. Louis. A dance band played, but most of the black-tie crowd preferred just to chat, drifting at times through the first floor galleries which had been set aside for "Purchases of Two Decades"--an exhibit honoring John Coolidge '35, resigning as director of the Fogg after 20 years...
...Coolidge committed the museum to expanded educational services, so that it now serves as both a display center for Fine Arts classes and a workshop for grad students studying curatorship. Coolidge came to Harvard as an assistant professor of Fine Arts in 1947, the year before he became director, and will go back to full-time teaching after stepping down from the directorship. He taught courses most of the years in between and tried to combine the museum staff and Fine Arts Faculty into a single community of scholars to study and judge...
Part of Coolidge's job the past 20 years has been simply to preside over the museum as a museum--and here his successes have been far more conventional. When he became director in 1948 the Fogg was virtually broke. Post-war inflation made earlier budgets inadequate and the generation for whom the museum had counted on gifts were no longer providing them. A few opportune, bequests and steady cultivation of new sources has brought the Fogg back to solvency and Harvard now spends eight times what it did when Coolidge started. (Much of this money, however, is spent...
Agnes Mongan, now Curator of Drawings, is expected to occupy the director's office for a year. Who the next long-term director will be and how he and the projected expansion will affect the Fogg are anybody's guess...