Word: sarasota
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...with Harvard in 1636, U.S. Congregationalists fathered some of the nation's top colleges, including Amherst, Dartmouth, Howard, Oberlin, Smith, Wellesley, Williams and Yale.* In this century they have not launched a single four-year U.S. campus. Last week they announced a new start: New College in booming Sarasota, Fla. (pop. 34,083), which plans to open its gates by 1964 to 1,200 students of all races and creeds, will eventually have 2,400 undergraduates...
...Church Control. That might spell grief, but New College has advantages. One is debonair Philip H. Hiss, 51, a prosperous Sarasota real estate man and now chairman of New College's board of trustees. A jack-of-all-arts who never went beyond prep school (Choate), Hiss satisfied his itch to be an architect by designing his own Sarasota home, a $200,000 waterfront edifice of ceramic brick and blue aluminum. In 1953, appalled at the state of Sarasota schools, Hiss wound up as the first Republican elected to the school board since Reconstruction days. Result: a Hiss-bred...
Crusader Hiss (a third cousin of Alger) went on to help Sarasota start the state's first program for gifted children and its first merit pay system for teachers, then threw himself into Sarasota's campaign for a college. It failed when the new Florida Presbyterian College went to St. Petersburg and Tampa got the state-run University of South Florida. But the Congregationalists' Board of Home Missions listened. With well-heeled Sarasota willing and able to raise $4,000,000, the Congregationalists have promised $600,000 over ten years, plus expert help-and a guarantee...
...recent trip through the Southeast, I wanted to take some colored pictures of what I thought was a distinct style of architecture with a new, fresh approach. I came home with one picture-St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Sarasota. I am glad we concur on Victor Lundy's abilities [April...
Fountains of Concrete. Back in the U.S., Lundy settled in Sarasota hard by a rival Harvard classmate and fellow prizewinner, Paul Rudolph (TIME color, Feb. 1). In the scramble for commissions, Lundy made his reputation when he designed a handsome drive-in church for as little as $35,000 by using laminated southern pine. He proved equally adept at designing commercial structures. A flower-shaped furniture showroom in laminated redwood pulled business right off the highway. His Warm Mineral Springs Inn, sheltered by 75 overlapping concrete shells suggestive of the nearby tourist-touted "Fountain of Youth," was such a successful...