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JUNE 18, 1959- SUMMER NEB R ASK AN PAGE 3 Two Neiv Exhibits Featured At University Art Galleries Two new exhibits "Thej Way of Chinese Landscape! Painting" and a one-man show by a University art instructor, Tom V. Schmitt opened this ,week at the University of Ne- j braska Art Galleries in Mor- j rill Hall, 14th and U. I Mr. Schmitt's exhibition is made up of works completed within the past three years and includes sixteen etchings, five woodcuts and four draw ings. Purchase prizes , haver been awarded to two works in the collection, "Connecticut Woods' by the John Herron Art Institute of Indianapolis and "Still Life with Onion' by the Louisville Art Center. "St. John the Evangelist" won an honorable mention award at the Philadelphia Print Club. Schmitt Instructs . Mr. Schmitt is a University graduate and-holds an ad vanced degree from the Uni versity of Indiana. He has been assistant to the director of the University Art Galleries since last September and, more recently, an instructor in the department of art. The Chinese exhibit consists of an unusual and informative exhibition of 55 original ink and watercolor studies being " circulated by the Smithsonian Institute. The exhibition illustrates with paintings and explana tory text, the evolution of a characteristic Chinese . land scape painting. The special techniques of the art, which developed in the. course of centuries and which varies in Music School Receives Gift The Friends of Chamber Music of Lincoln has given the department of music a gift of $240 for use as grants-in-aid to deserving music stu ' dents, Prof. Emanuel Wish now, chairman announced. Until last year, when the University faculty chamber music group was formed, the Friends of Chamber Music sponsored a yearly series of programs. The organization now plans to lend its support to the University faculty scr ies, Wishnow said. He added that the gift is among the first to be given for music grants-in-aid and it is hoped that the program can be enlarged through further contributions. FATHERS DAY CARDS Large, Quality Selection ALSO Stationery for Gift Goldeoroi STATIONERY STORE , 215 North 14th degree but not in principle Is described step by step. The studies are the work of German Foreign Service offi cer, who studied intensively in Peking for five years under the guidance of the eminent landscape painter, P'u Ch'uan. Referring to the attempt of Chinese painters to present not the external form, but the "idea" of that form, Dr. van Nebraska Regents Accept Two Faculty Resignations from Hollie L. Lepley, assistant professor of physical education,- and Herbert Jehle, professor of physics were accepted last week by the Board of Regents. Inlev. who has been the Varsity swimming coach has been named director of neann, nhwsint education, recrea tion and intramurals at the new branch of Michigan btate University near P o n 1 1 a c, Mich. During his 13 years on the Hollie Lepley Summer Session Sees Increase In Enrollment . More than 5,000 students are engaged in summer stud ies under the direction of the University of Nebraska, Dr. Frank E. Sorenson, director of summer sessions, reported today. The regular summer school enrollment is 3,440, an in crease of 128 over a year ago, he said. Since 1952, the University 'has reported a gain in summer session en rollment of from 4 to 5 per cent each year. In addition, more than 1,300 Nebraska high school students are on the University's Lin coln campuses. Four hundred thirty' student are enrolled in University High School, a gain of 115; 284 in All-State Fine Arts Course; 300 in Girls' State; and 327 in Boys' State. Also, Dr. Somri said, 184 cientary pupils are at tending Bancroft School and 129 in Eastridge Grade School, both operated this summer by the University. Besides permitting school children to continue, their for mal education, the schools provide student-teacher lab oratories for Teachers Col lege, he explained. , I $ I Briessen points out, "M ore than representation, Chinese painting is philosophizing with the brush." Mr. Schmitt's exhibition will continue through Sept. 6, and the Chinese exhibition, which is being held in conjunction with the Far Eastern Institute at the University during the 1959 Summer Session, will end July 15. Resignations staff at Nebraska, Lepley has taught professional physical education courses. He was president of the Nebraska Association of Health, Physi cal Education and Recreation and for five years servea on the Nation al Rules Com mittee for swimming of the NCAA. Dr. Jehle has accepted a po sition as pro fessor of phys icts at George W a s h i n g ton University. Dr. Jehle, who came to the University in 1949, is now on leave at George Washington, where he is continuing his re-' search work on the biosynth esis of proteins. . Before coming to the Uni versity, he served as assist ant professor of physics at the University of Pennsylva nia and also as a member of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. Bids Too High , For Construction Low bids for the Nebraska Center for Continuing Edu cation, totaling $2,726,654, proved to be between $500,000 and $600,000 more than the $2.2 million available for the construction of the building, Chancellor C. M. Hardin told the University of Nebraska Board of Regents Wednesday. mm Dr. Jehle n Is ti ' fyi Ti is&r - I V ,T A A ill I III I Mil "is ! I Agronomists A University of Nebraska ' agronomist will leave in June for a teaching administrative position at the new Ataturkj University in Erzurum, Tur key, j Dr. M. D. Weldon, exten-: sion agronomist at the Col-j lege of Agriculture, will in- struct courses in soils and help j with crops research in Turkey- ' ! TheJJniversity, financed by i Turkish funds, is receiving) technical guidance and as-1 sistance from the University of Nebraska through a con tract with the International Cooperation Administration. It is patterned after land grant colleges in this country. Opened last November, Atta-: turk University is mainly staffed by Turkish profes sors, j Dr. H. J. Weaver, associate I professor of botany and as-: socrate agronomist at the Uni-! versity, is also scheduled to i join the staff in Turkey in June. He will be the Letters , and Science Specialist and will have the title of profes-j sor of biological sciences. Ataturk University offers ; instruction in agriculture, Though he grumbles . about bills, nothing pleases Dad more than the beautiful v ladies in his life. Since it's our pleasure to cress Dad's girls, may we reciprocate T with a reminder? His day Is next Sunday . . . please don't forget Father. NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE PLUS TIDENTY-TIDO IS NINETEEN HUNDRED AND El&WONE WHEN I'M TWEKTY-TU AND SAtxY 15 SEVENTEEN, DO YOU THINK SHE'LL 60 OUT 0)lTH ME? T r Go to Turkey arts and science and home economics. An enrollment of 500 is expected to be built up to an eventual 2,000 students. Summer Gratis Must Register All students who expect to receive bachelors or ad vanced degrees or teaching certificates at the close of the summer session should make application for them by' June 23, 1953, if they have not yet done so. Applications can be picked up at the Reg istrar's Office, Room 208, Administration Building be tween the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, or 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday. RUSS' SNACK BAR Homemade Rolls, , Pies, Soups, Sandwiches 1227 "R" llMSOfl