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...Wilson, John Houser, Bob Hall of the Business School, and Fridtjof Lorentzen will comprise the first team, and Steve Rosenfeld, Jim Lawson, Rick Rosenfeld, and George Wilson are members of the second. The third team is composed of Irv Fisk, Andy Newburg, Don Kennedy, and Henry Arthur...
Associate Professor of English Fisk University Nashville, Tenn...
...educational work as executrix of his will by dividing Stieglitz' brilliant art collection and his own even more brilliant photographs among six widely spaced institutions: Manhattan's Metropolitan, Chicago's Art Institute, Washington's National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum and Fisk University (for Negroes) in Tennessee. To house its share (101 modern paintings, Stieglitz photographs and African sculptures), Fisk remodeled its old gymnasium into a gallery at a cost of $25,000 and named it for a longtime friend of the university, Author Carl Van Vechten (Nigger Heaven, The Tattooed Countess). Last...
That was that. But the catalogue of the new gallery contained a one-paragraph foreword written by O'Keeffe which told something more about the Stieglitz approach to art education. The collection had been given to Fisk, she wrote, "with the hope that it may show that there are many ways of seeing and thinking, and possibly, through showing that there are many ways, give someone confidence...
McNear was climbing in France with Irving L. Fisk '50, James Sprek of Chicago, and a Dartmouth man. According to mountaineering practice, McNear and Sprek were tied together by a long rope, and only one man would climb at a time...