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Sert Speaks On Founder's Day
Awards Presentation Follows

By Ann Brown
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Jose Luis Sert will be the first
architect to serve as Founder's Day
Speaker at the University, during the
Morning Convocation at Cabell Hall on
April 13.

That an architect has never before
spoken at this event "seems an amazing
omission at Mr. Jefferson's University,"
remarked W. Bedford Moore, Professor of
Humanities in the Engineering School and
chairman of the University's Public
Occasions Committee.

Mr. Sert will also receive the Thomas
Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal in
architecture which is given annually at
the convocation. Among the other awards
given at the 11 a.m. ceremony will be the
Arthur P. "Pete" Gray Memorial Scholarship,
to be presented for the first time this year.

Academic Awards Given

Since most of the awards given on Founder's
Day are academic in nature, the presentation of
this honor is, according to Mr. Moore,
somewhat unusual. Similar awards are "usually
given on Class Day in June" he added.
Undergraduates who qualify for Intermediate
Honors will also be acknowledged although the
procedure for the annual recognition of these
students will be changed somewhat this year.

The deans of the undergraduate schools have
always tried to maintain the "personal
recognition" aspect of this part of the program,
Mr. Moore commented, but "numbers make it
difficult." The full names of the approximately
176 students receiving Intermediate Honors will
be printed in the program. The deans, however,
will read only the names of those students who
will be present.

'Mr. Jefferson's Party'

These students will be designated "Mr." or
"Miss" according to the University's tradition
of address. Each individual recognized will step
forward and shake hands with University
President Edgar F. Shannon.

"Mr. Jefferson's Birthday Party," sponsored
jointly by the Student Council and the Public
Occasions Committee, will be held at 5 p.m. in
Alumni Hall. It will be "a get-together of
students and faculty," commented Mr. Moore.
The party, being organized by the Council's
Founder's Day representative, Nancy Crawford,
will be hosted by Mr. And Mrs. Shannon and
will feature a huge birthday cake to be cut by
Mrs. Shannon.

On Tuesday night, Council will present a
lecture by Charles Whitebread, professor in the
Law School. The subject of his talk, to be given
in Cabell Hall, will be "Mr. Jefferson's Legacy."

Council is sponsoring several other events
for the week of Founders Day. A film festival
will be held on Wednesday, April 15 in
Newcomb Hall. "Blow-up" will be shown from
2 to 4 p.m., "The Dirty Dozen" from 7 to 9
p.m., and "Barefoot in the Park" from 9 to 11
p.m.

On Thursday from 2 to 5 p.m. an open air
concert will be held between Life and Maupin
Houses. Although these Council-sponsored
activities are not an official part of the
Founder's Day celebration, they will serve as a
"hyphen between Founder's Day and Easter's
Weekend," remarked Mr. Moore. Students will
be able to celebrate Mr. Jefferson's Birthday
and the arrival of spring from the end of spring
break through the Big Weekend.