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Donald T. Fox, Jr. '51 was awarded the Air Force Reserve Association's medal for the senior ROTC student showing "excellence in leadership, scholastics, military bearing, discipline, and related traits." Professor W. Barton Leach '21 of the Law School, a Brigadier General in the Air Force Reserve, made the presentation...
...Leach returned to England with a famous fellow potter named Shoji Hamada, and set up a kiln at St. Ives. The pottery still produced there by Leach and twelve students is much prized by his fans...
...Lately Leach has become a leading member of the British Crafts Center, which passes on Britain's craft exports...
...Pots, like all other forms of art," Leach once explained, "are human expressions . . . projections of the minds of their creators . . . Good hand craftsmanship is directly subject to the prime source of human activity, whereas machine crafts, even at their best, are activated at one remove-by the intellect...
...Leach had brought 301 examples of his own hand craftsmanship with him to Washington. There were urns, vases, teacups, mugs and plates whose clean lines and subdued colors echoed the golden age of Chinese pottery. But none was slavishly Chinese and some were "modern." A first-class craftsman and connoisseur of oriental pottery, Leach is also an occidental, an artist, and his own man. The combination made for strength as well as refinement. His work argued even more forcefully for handcraft than his words...