Liberal & Creative

Two famed New England colleges an nounced that they would build elaborate new art centers to strengthen the role of the creative arts in the life of the liberal arts student.

A stone's throw from its "collegiate Gothic" Green Hall, Wellesley College will put up two ultramodern buildings containing a 350-seat combined theater, lecture and recital hall and a gallery for art exhibitions. The gift of Spokane Lumber Tycoon George Frederick Jewett and his wife (Wellesley '23 and a trustee of the college) and their son and daughter, the buildings will form the Jewett Art, Music and Theater Center. Said President Margaret Clapp of the gift: "Aware of the challenge which automation will present to the good use of leisure time, and aware that women educated through the liberal arts will influence the role of arts and letters ... the Jewetts want Wellesley to have the means to contribute more fully to the national culture in the decades ahead."

Last week the trustees of Dartmouth College announced that a special building committee, headed by Nelson Rockefeller, '30, will plan and raise money for a combined social and art center to be named after President Emeritus Ernest Martin Sopkins. Among the new center's facilities: a 450-seat theater, a 900-seat auditorium, galleries, studios and workshops for painting, music, printmaking, sculpture and woodworking, all designed "to encourage campus-wide participation in both the doing and the viewing of these arts as a part of the daily life of a liberally educated person."

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