Greetings from Augusta! This is the time of year when the flowering bushes
and trees are at their peak and the town is namicuring for the Masters. We
also have an extememly high pollen count and I would love to escape to San
Antonio! Unfortunately, I cannot be there this year but wish all of you who
attend a great time.
Carl Penny, who graciously accepted the position of Vice-President, will be
hosting our ARLIS/SE conference in New Orleans (Anne Rice country) on October
31st (Halloween!) - November 2nd. He has reserved a block of rooms at the
reasonably priced Maison St. Charles, 1319 St.Charles Avenue - a
great location on the streetcar route for direct connctions to many points in
the city. My guidebook says, "it was created with panache from five
townhouses dating from the 1840s and contains Patout's restaurant, owned by
relatives of Alex Patout, a name in Cajun cooking". Laissex les bon temps
rouler! Mark these dates on your calendar so that you can join us.
We are currently searching for someone to chair the LoPresti committee so
that work can begin on this annual awards event. The offices of Vice-
President and Secretary for 1997-98 will also need to be filled. [added note:
Donna Smith, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, has agreed to be our interim
Secretary/Treasurer for the remained of the year.] We have a nomination for
Vice-President and would like someone interested in being the
Secretary/Treasurer to give me a call. If your are called on by the
nominating committee, please consider their request to serve ARLIS/SE.
Thanks to everyone who has given me advice and help during my few months in
office as President. I hope that you will keep the input coming and keep in
touch. LeAnne.
P.S. Stephen Patrick has been working on the webpage for ARLIS/SE. I
downloaded this newsletter from the temporary site, leaving in all the
formatting information, so that I could get it out to everyone, but Stephen
tells me that with a few more tweaks that page can go www. It looks
spectacular with a lot of information, not just this newsletter, about
ARLIS/SE. If you want to add information, make suggestions, say "Thanks". or
if you can't find the page, give Stephen a call or drop him an email at
patricks@sherserv.etsu-tn.edu. Thanks, Stephen.
REPORT OF THE FALL 1996 MEETING IN
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA [Top of File]
Yes, Virginia...there was a chapter meeting in 1996. It was in
Augusta, Georgia. You must have missed it. And if you did, you
really missed having a good time. LeAnne Brown hosted a very nice,
intimate meeting on October 17-19. Members were treated to
Southern charm and hospitality par excellance. Those of us
who attended stayed at the fabulous Partridge Inn, a
registered historical landmark hotel on Walton Way. The 22th
annual meeting opened with registration and hospitality on the 2nd
floor porch of the Partridge Inn. There members gathered for a
social hour before adjourning to dinner in "The Pear Tree at The
Partridge."
Friday, October 18, was a full and busy day beginning with a
guided tour of Historic Augusta. We weren't sure if it would
happen for we awoke to a very dense fog which took a very long time
to burn off. Our local tour guide was a delightful woman, who told
us a lot of the social and political history of Augusta along with
pointing out the many architectural gems which the city offered.
Among the sites we saw were: the Sacred Heart Cultural Center
(formerly a Catholic church), the Old Medical College, the Gertrude
Herbert Institute of Art, Springfield Baptist Church, the Augusta
Canal, the Ezekiel Harris House, the Old Confederate Powder Works,
and George Walton's Meadow Garden. The tour ended at the Morris
Museum of Art.
Following the historical tour, the group had a docent tour of
the Morris Museum of Art. We were treated to a wonderful and
diverse collection of paintings and decorative arts items, and
culminating with the Ida Kohlmeyer exhibit. (Editor's note: the
gift shop was great, too.) We reassembled in one of the meeting
rooms to retrieve our specially prepared box lunches and wandered
outside and ate overlooking the Savannah River.
Our afternoon session featured a lecture by local author and
editor, Starkey Flythe Jr. This was definitely a real treat.
According to various reference sources, Flythe has published not
only poetry, Paying the Anesthesiologist, but also short
stories, "Walking, Walking" (found in Best American Short Stories
1985, Houghton Mifflin), and novels. He served as editor of the
Saturday Evening Post in the 1970s. He is also past
recipient of the Tryon Prize and a National Endowment of the Arts
fellowship. While this multi-talented writer was more of rambler,
his wanderings took us on a journey touching upon aesthetics, the
arts, history and literature, culminating in an informal slide
presentation featuring regional architectural sites. He was
terrific...we laughed, we cried and were thoroughly captivated by
this fascinating personality. LeAnne should be complemented on her
choice of speakers.
The lecture was followed by the annual business meeting.
Marilyn Healey, chair of the LoPresti Award Committee, announced
the winners of the Southeast Chapter's 1995 art book award. While
there was a smaller number of entrants the committee found several
excellent recipients (see And the Winners Are...). Chapter
President, Debbie Barlow, accepted a position as Librarian at the
Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC and resigned, thus making
LeAnne Brown, Vice-President, the new President. Secretary-
Treasurer, Emma Zell, also had to resign before the meeting due to
a change in her job. Since there were so few members present, the
President, LeAnne Brown, asked that some of the business be
postponed until a long-range committee could be formed to study the
drop in attendance and to plan future sites for meetings. She will
also appoint a replacement for Zell. In other matters, there was
no nominations nor volunteers for the position of Vice-President,
so Brown offered to search for a volunteer for the position who
would also be willing to serve as host to the 1997 chapter meeting
next fall. The meeting closed with the annual raffle of LoPresti Award non-
winning entries. Although various issues remaining unresolved the meeting
was adjourned.
Friday evening we had dinner in one of the private dining rooms
at The Partridge Inn. We had a good time socializing and
discussing various chapter issues informally. On Saturday, October
19th, while many of the members began their journey home, a few
stayed and toured several surrounding historic towns in Georgia.
Once again the Southeast Chapter had an enjoyable annual meeting
and we look forward to seeing each other at either the Society's
annual conference in San Antonio or at wherever the chapter meets
next fall.
Marilyn Healey announced the winners of the 1995 LoPresti
Southeast Art Publishing Awards at the annual business meeting on
Friday, October 18, 1996. Other members of the Awards Committee
were Rene Shoemaker, director of the H.B. Owens Resource Center,
School of Environmental Design, University of Georgia, and Nadine
Cohen, Reference Librarian, Main Library, University of Georgia.
1997 CHAPTER MEETING IN NEW
ORLEANS [Top of File]
After considerable persuasion, Carl Penny has agreed to serve as
our Vice-President/President-Elect for 1996-97, as well as hosting
the 1997 annual fall meeting of the Chapter. We look forward
seeing our friends and the sights in New Orleans this fall. He
will be assisted by longtime member, Bob Heriard, in planning the
meeting.
Finding the time to compile and edit a chapter newsletter gets
more and more difficult as time passes on. The good intentions are
there in creating some form of communication between members, but
the demands of one's day-to-day job seems to interfere. This past
fall I discovered the joys of HTML and began creating homepages...
homepages for my department, for classes, for organizations (ETSU
Friends of Music, the campus chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor
Society, the ETSU Faculty Senate, a Tennessee documents and
resources webpage, several others, and lastly, myself. Somewhere
along the way I inherited the ARLIS/Southeast Homepage and have
been attempting to revise and update the website. It seems that
all I do is sit behind my terminal and search for new sites in
which to link or to create more webpages. Trying to find the time
to edit a newsletter has been made more complicated with the advent
of the internet. Therefore, in order to save time, effort and the
cost of publishing a newsletter, I hope that as time passes on more
chapter members will be able to obtain up-to-date chapter news via
the ARLIS/SE homepage. Of course, we will need to be kept informed
as to who does not have electronic access so we can continue to
mail those members copies of the newsletter. I also hope to set up
a chapter members webpage where we can access both personal and
institutional homepages. Please email me your URL's so we can make
this happen soon. Thanks for your patience and hopefully we'll be
back on track with a much needed, yes, new and improved
electronic newsletter.
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