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Foundation Awards Sert
Jefferson Memorial Medal

By Jim Massey
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Photo By Andy Stickney

Jose Luis Sert Addresses University Community On Founders' Day

Frank Hereford, Joseph Bosserman, And Others Were Present As Noted Architect Discussed Environment

Jose Luis Sert, a world-known
architect, received the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation medal in
architecture at yesterday's Founder's Day
Ceremonies.

Mr. Sert, author off Can Our Cities
Survive, spoke of the need to develop
qualitative measures of our environment
and use them to maintain a 'harmonious
and balanced environment.'

Referring to Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Sert
stated, "He knew that the 'pursuit of
happiness' that guided his efforts required
a harmonious and balanced environment."

"Let us look at the side effects of 150 years
of growth and prosperity in this Eastern
Seaboard of the United States," he said. "We
have spent so much time looking at figures,
checking statistics, comparing past and present
that we have forgotten to simply open our eyes
and see what has happened to the physical,
man-made environment that such progress has
permitted to take place.

"But there is hope for change," Mr. Sert
declared. "The state of revolt against pollution
of the environment that has given birth to a
country-wide crusade has already world
repercussions, especially among the younger
generations, and it is more than fully justified."

During the Awards presentation, Ross
Augustus (Gus) Howell Jr., a third year student
at the University, was named the first recipient
of the Arthur P. 'Pete" Gray IV Memorial
Foundation Scholarship for the coming year.

Mr. Howell was cited for his scholarship and
leadership at the University. Noted particularly
were his contributions to the University's
residence hall counselling program and the
summer transition programs offered at the
University for disadvantaged students. He will
be chairman of all dormitory counselors for the
1971-72 session.

Mr. Howell is a Dean's List student in the
College of Arts and Sciences, holding a 3.8
grade point average. His scholarship will cover
tuition and room expenses.

Dr. Fredson T. Bowers, a former dean of the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University
of Virginia, received the 1971 Thomas
Jefferson Award for outstanding contributions
to the University.

A distinguished bibliographer and textual
critic, Dr. Bowers has edited texts ranging from
Elizabethan plays to his current projects of
preparing the centenary edition of the works of
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Stephen Crane. For
25 years he has edited the annual "Studies in
Bibliography' published at the University.

President Shannon read a letter from the
Seven Society praising "the student who most
exemplifies the tradition of the student
athlete." Edward J. Kihm, captain of the
baseball team and a fourth year education
student, received the honor.

Founders Day was celebrated three ways.
The exercises were held at 11 a.m., "Mr.
Jefferson's Birthday Party" was held at 5
o'clock in Alumni Hall, and the evening lecture
by Professor Charles Whitebread was held at 8
o'clock in the Cabell Hall auditorium.

Other student-sponsored events for
Founder's Day include an outdoor concert for
2 p.m. Thursday between Lile and Maupin
dormitories and a film series for Wednesday at
2, 7 and 9 p.m. in Newcomb Hall.

Gus Howell

Recipient of Pete Gray Award