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Austrian Stafe Secretary Receives Hope College Vienna Summer School
A W A R M W E L C O M I N G H A N D S H A K E — g r e e t s H a r r y
Pierce , m e m b e r ol the Hope Col lege Vienna S u m m e r School
g r o u p , at a recept ion in the Aus t r i an Federa l C h a n c e l l e r y
which fo l lowed an h o u r long ques t ion and a n s w e r per iod
held by Aus t r i an S ta te Sec re t a ry fo r Fore ign Affa i r s , Dr . Bru-
no Kre i skv .
Every s tudent of c o n t e m p o r a r y his tory is cur ious
about Soviet in tent ions and d ip lomacy, but few have
the oppor tun i ty of get t ing first hand in fo rmat ion on
these topics which came to m e m b e r s of the Hope
College Vienna S u m m e r School when Dr. Bruno Kreis-
ky, Aus t r i an Sta le Secretary for Fore ign Affai rs , re-
ceived the g roup in hjs office. Dr . Kre isky, w h o is one of the ou t s t and ing leaders
of the Aust r ian Socialist Pa r ty , had r e tu rned f rom an
extended visit to the Soviet Union the evening prior to
the meet ing . For over an h o u r the Aust r ian diplomat
answered sea rch ing quest ions on all phases ol Aus t r i an
foreign policy, on the just comple ted negot ia t ions in
Moscow, and on world af fa i rs .
In response to f u r t h e r ques t ions the Secre ta ry also
out l ined the p l a t f o r m of the Aus t r i an Socialist Par ty
which he had recent ly helped to f o r m u l a t e and com-
mented on the unusual political s t ruc tu re of t h e
Aust r ian g o v e r n m e n t which is m a d e up of a coali t ion
formed by a s t r o n g Socialist Pa r ty and an equal ly
s t rong Conserva t ive Par ty .
S tudents of the Mope Col lege Vienna S u m m e r School
were del ighted by the i n fo rma l m a n n e r of the State
Secretary and by the obvious candor with which he
HOPE COLLEGE ANCHOR
HOPE COLLEGE VIENNA SUMMER SCHOOL
E U R O P E A N E D I T I O N V I E N N A , A U G U S T 14, 1958
Nowotny Awarded IRC Scholarship
Will Attend Hope College This Fall T h o m a s Nowotny , a personable young Aust r ian law
s tudent f r o m the Universi ty of Vienna has been se-
lected to at tend Hope College dur ing the n e x t year .
Nowotny , who is r egarded as the top u n d e r g r a d u a t e
candidate by the Aus t r i an Fulbr ight commiss ion , will
come to Hope College on a special scholarship p r o g r a m
sponsored by the Hope College In te rna t iona l Rela t ions
Club.
It was the purpose of the Foreign Student Scholar-
ship drive, sparked by the In te rna t iona l Rela t ions Club
and suppor ted by many campus organiza t ions , to enable
an Aus t r i an s tudent to come to Hope Col lege for a
yea r . M a n y s tudents felt that , since a cons iderab le
n u m b e r of Hope s tudents have a l ready visited Aus t r ia
as m e m b e r s of the Hope College Vienna S u m m e r
School, and m a n y o the r s a re p lanning to do so in the
fu ture , the presence of an Aus t r i an s tudent on the
c a m p u s would be of pa r t i cu la r interest and va lue to the
whole college communi ty .
T h e In te rna t iona l Rela t ions Club and o the r s tudent
o rgan iza t ions sponsored pro jec t s in o rde r to raise the
funds for the scholarship . A s m o r g a s b o r d and the T u l i p
T i m e c a r pa rk ing pro jec t raised near ly five h u n d r e d
dol lars . O v e r three h u n d r e d dol lars was raised by the
Hope College W o m e n ' s Activi ty League du r ing the
annual Penny Carn iva l which, this year , a lso f ea tu red
a Viennese Coffee House, "Ca fe M o z a r t " . T h e F ra t e r -
nal Society cont r ibuted two hundred and f if ty do l la rs
of the money they ea rned th rough the " P r a t e r F r o l i c s "
and President Lubbers agreed tha t the col lege would
g r a n t a scholarsh ip in the same a m o u n t .
N o w o t n y , selected by m e m b e r s of the Hope Col lege
Vienna S u m m e r School g roup for the award , is twenty-
one and has a l ready comple ted three years of s tudy
at the University^ of Vienna where he has made an
ou t s t and ing record . He hopes to en ter Aus t r i an diplo-
mat ic service a f t e r he comple tes work for the Ph. D.
He is mos t eager to l ea rn all he can about the United
States. He has expressed par t i cu la r interest in A m e r i c a n
history and political ins t i tu t ions and hopes t h a t a yea r
States will give him m a n y va luable f i r s thand impres-
sions of Amer ican political, social, and economic life.
N o w o t n y ' s interests also include • l i te ra ture and the
ar ts , as well as sports . He is an a rden t sk ier and is
looking f o r w a r d to seeing an Amer i can footbal l g a m e
at Hope Col lege this fall . S tudents of the Vienna
S u m m e r School have a l ready begun to "b r i e f " No-
wotny on life at Hope College, so he will come to the
Hope campus wi th a good deal more advance i n fo rma-
tion than most o the r foreign s tudents . N o w o t n y ' s a r r iva l at Hope in Sep tember will not
only m a r k the successful comple t ion of the past year ' s
In te rna t iona l Rela t ions Club pro jec t , but will also
signal the beginning of a new drive, designed to pro-
vide scholarships for two Amer ican s tudents to a t tend
the Hope Col lege Vienna S u m m e r School next year . Dr. Paul G. Fried
answered quest ions posed to h im. (Dr . Kre isky, who
devotes his leisure t ime to the study of his tory, seemed
to enjoy the discussion with the Hope g r o u p enough
to ignore the repea ted a t t e m p t s on the pa r t of his
personal secre tary to br ing the mee t ing to a close.)
Fol lowing the recept ion, the State Secre ta ry ins t ruc ted
his aide to escort the Hope g r o u p on a brief l ou r
th rough the bui lding on the Bal lhaus Platz , which has
housed the Aus t r i an Ministry of Foreign Af fa i r s since
the e ighteenth cen tury .
Of par t icu la r interest to mos t s tudents was the large
conference room in which Pr ince Met le rn ich had pre-
sided over mee t ings of the "big f ive" du r ing the Con-
gress of Vienna which had t e rmina t ed the Napoleonic
W a r . T h e five impress ive doors leading into this r o o m
remind s tudents of European history tha t dur ing this
Congress much of present day diplomatic pract ice was
evolved.
C z a r A lexande r of Russia, the Aus t r i an L m p e r o r ,
and all the o the r represen ta t ives of the "big p o w e r s "
claimed the r ight to en ter the confe rence c h a m b e r
first . Met te rn ich ' s solut ion was to add a f i f th door so
lhal all de legates could en ter the r o o m at the s ame
t ime. T h e r e were m a n y o ther impressive r o o m s in the
magnif icent building which now also houses the
Aust r ian Federal Chance l le ry . S tudents were able lo
g lance into the r o o m where the week ly cabinet
sessions are held and they br ief ly paid t r ibute lo the
late Chance l lo r Dol l fuss , at the place w h e r e he had
died in 1934 dur ing a Nazi plot . As the g r o u p left the bui lding on the Bal lhaus Pla tz
s tudents were aware that , for a brief hour , they had
been able to look behind the scenes into one of the
places where in terna t ional policies a re made .
Hope Reception Honors Professor Hugo Hantsch
Member s of the Hope College Vienna S u m m e r School
en joyed the oppor tun i ty of mee t ing Pro fesso r Dr. H u g o
Hantsch , Head of the Ins t i tu te of E u r o p e a n Studies
and Head of the Aus t r i an Ins t i tu te of Modern His tory
at a recept ion given in his honor . T h e genial P rofessor of the Univers i ty of Vienna
recalled the p leasant t ime he had spent at Hope Col lege
when he w a s in the Uni ted Sta tes last December . Whi le
in Hol land Professor Hantsch , who was the house guest
of President Lubbers , was feted at a special b r eak fa s t
by s tudents of last yea r ' s Vienna S u m m e r School and
at a luncheon a t tended by s o m e of Ho l l and ' s leading
citizens. At the s ame t ime Professor H a n t s c h also dis-
cussed p lans for this year ' s p r o g r a m in Vienna with
Dr . Fried. An impressive tea table, decora ted with red and white
f lowers , the Aus t r ian nat ional colors, and made a t t rac-
tive by hundreds of sandwiches and pas t r ies proved the
main a t t rac t ion to mos t of the s tudents . P rofessor
Han t sch tho rough ly en joyed cha t t ing in fo rmal ly with
the s tudents dur ing the tea and repeatedly expressed
his interest in the Hope College p r o g r a m .
Dr. Delena, the Aus t r i an deputy of the Amer i can
Cul tura l Af fa i r s of f icer in Vienna, also a t tended the tea.
J
A U S T R I A N P A S T R Y A N D S T I M U L A T I N G C O N V E R S A T I O N — blend well at t he recept ion given by the H o p e Co l l ege
Vienna S u m m e r School in h o n o r of P ro fe s so r Dr . H u g o Han t sch . P ic tured ( le f t to r i g h t ) M r s . W . C u r t i s Snow, W o m e n ' s
C o u n s e l o r and f acu l ty associa te f o r t he G e r m a n l a n g u a g e p r o g r a m ; Dr . Ca r l N e m e t h , Mus ic i n s t r u c t o r l o r the S u m m e r
Schoo l ; M r . Paul F. K o u t n y , D i r e c t o r of t he Ins t i tu te of E u r o p e a n S tud ies ; and P r o f e s s o r H a n t s c h .
P A G E TWO H O P E C O L L E G E A N C H O R - E U R O P E A N E D I T I O N A U G U S T 14, 1958
ANCHOR GOES INTERNATIONAL
T i m e , Life, and the New Y o r k Hera ld T r i -
bune have long been publ ishing in te rna t iona l
editions. N o w tha t Hope College Vienna Sum-
m e r School is en te r ing its second year ,
the E u r o p e a n edit ion of the Hope College
A N C H O R has become a m e m b e r of this g roup of t r ansa t l an t i c publ icat ions .
T h e E u r o p e a n edit ion of the Hope Col lege
A N C H O R is publ ished by the s tuden t s enro l led
in the Hope Col lege Vienna S u m m e r School
s tudy- tour p r o g r a m . T h e E u r o p e a n edit ion of
the A N C H O R is in tended to provide infor-
mat ion on the activities, impress ions , and
react ions of the s tudy- tour g r o u p for parents ,
relatives, and f r iends . At the s a m e t ime, the
paper serves as a va luab le souvenir fo r par t i -
c ipants in the Vienna s u m m e r school p r o g r a m .
ISSUE NUMBER THREE
E D I T O R I A L S T A F F FOR T H I S ISSUE:
Execu t ive E d i t o r W i l f o r d Dul ler , J r .
M a n a g i n g E d i t o r H a r r y Pierce , J r .
Edi tor ia l Ass i s tan t . . . . L a r r y A. S ieden top
R e w r i t e Dav id C. Bosch
H e n r y W. S t e f f ens
T y p i s t s T r u e E l i zabe th M c D o n a l d
B a r b a r a K l o m p a r e n s
Layout D i r e c t o r Wi l l i am B r o o k s t r a
P h o t o g r a p h e r R o b e r t Wulff
Edi tor ia l C o n s u l t a n t . . . Mrs . W. C u r t i s Snow
Advisor Dr . Paul G . Fr ied
Summer School in Vienna Concludes
Vienna Farewell
I have delayed, until the last possible m o m e n t , the
task of bidding farewel l to Vienna in these columns.
I a m re luc tan t to begin th inking about leaving Vienna
and Europe . I am also re luc tan t to wri te because I
k n o w how futi le any a t t emp t s at reca l l ing the acti-vities of this wonde r fu l , wonder fu l s u m m e r will be.
T h e kaleidescopic p a n o r a m a of days, weeks , and
h o u r s flash before me. It seems only m o m e n t s ago we
arr ived in Europe . How time has whizzed by! I think
of the hours of happiness , the gay, e x u b e r a n t days and
of the precious m o m e n t s spent in an Amer i can ceme-
tary in N o r m a n d y or in the quiet of a church s tanding amids t wa r -bombed ruins .
People s tand out in m y memor ies too, the fr iendlv,
pat ient ones, the not -so- f r iendly o n e s . . . the places
we 've been and the th ings we have observed arc all recalled.
W e have worked and played hard this s u m m e r . W e
have learned a g r ea t deal about the p rob lems of inter-
nat ional unde r s t and ing . It is too soon to eva lua te what
we have gained f r o m this s u m m e r and how it will fit into the j igsaw puzz le of ou r lives.
Now, we s tand at the end of the s u m m e r . Only a
few days remain before o u r r e tu rn to the United States.
Europe , this s u m m e r , the g roup , will never be the
same again. T h e r e will be reun ions , but the spirit
moulded t h r o u g h the exper iences of this t r ip will
r emain only in memor ies .
M e m o r i e s . . . a few faded letters, a souvenir , or two,
some colored slides, a hastily scrawled diary will be
the only evidences of a E u r o p e a n adven tu re .
O r will they?
Shall we use in ou r daily living w h a t we have
learned and observed this s u m m e r ? Shall we s t reng-
then the s t r ings of in te rna t iona l unde r s t and ing between
nat ion and nat ion, m a n and m a n ?
Shall we be "ca re fu l r e p o r t e r s " of ou r experiences ,
using them to forge ano the r smal l l ink in the chain of in ternat ional re lat ions?
T h e r e is a pract ical need for each of us to m a k e a
pract ical appl icat ion of the k n o w l e d g e gained this
s u m m e r . Let us encou rage g rea t e r s t r ides in peaceful re la t ions be tween na t ions t h rough be t t e r unders tand ing ,
instead of g r e a t e r wars in each succeeding genera t ion .
With Farewell Party July 27 ^
11.30 A.M. C h u r c h services, Vienna C o m m u n i t y
Church . S p e a k e r : Rev. Dr. J . M a n n i n g
Pot ts , Edi tor of the " U p p e r R o o m " .
July 28
1.30 P . M . Excurs ion to Schonbrunn Cast le and tour
t h r o u g h the Imper ia l a p a r t m e n t s .
July 2g
3.15 P . M . Recept ion by Aus t r ian State Secre ta ry for
Fore ign Af fa i r s , Dr . Bruno Kre isky .
July j o
3.15 P . M . Recept ion given by Hope College Vienna
S u m m e r School for Professor Dr. Hugo
Han t sch , Head of the Ins t i tu te of European Studies and o the r invited guests .
J"ly .11 6.30 A.M. D e p a r t u r e fo r five day tour of Yugo-
slavia and I ta ly . Lunch in G r a z , Aus t r i a ;
D i n n e r Lub l i j ana , Yugoslavia .
August 1
August 2
August j
August 4
August 5
Sightseeing in Lubl i jana , travel to T r i e s t e
and Venice.
Sightseeing and shopping in Venice.
Sightseeing in Venice, visit to the Lido.
R e t u r n t ravel f rom Venice to Vienna,
Luncheon nea r K l a g c n f u r t , Aus t r ia .
Classes resume.
August ()
Luncheon gues t : Mrs. Breta M a y e r - G r u -ber.
2.30 P. M. Excurs ion to the H o f b u r g to view the
Imper ia l a p a r t m e n t s . t.
August 7
Luncheon gues t : Mr . T h o m a s Nowotny ,
recipient of In te rna t iona l Rela t ions Club
Scholarsh ip to Hope College.
2.00 P. M. Visit to the Kuns th is tor i sche Museum
( M u s e u m of History of Art) .
4.00 P . M . Gues t Lec tu re : by Dr . Heindl , Press Se-
c r e t a ry of the Aus t r i an Conservat ive par-
ty. T o p i c : Cu r r en t Political Issues.
August 8
3.00 P. M. Gues t Lecture by Nat iona l ra t Peter Stras-
ser. T o p i c : T h e His tory of the Aus t r ian
Socialist Pa r ly and its cont r ibu t ions to the
Aus t r i an Political life since 1944.
4.00 P. M. Recept ion for Na t iona l r a t S t rasser a n d for
Miss Ann Eckstein, Ass is tant Cul tu ra l
Af f a i r s Of f i ce r , U. S. Embassy in Aus t r ia .
8.00 P. M. A t t endance at a p e r f o r m a n c e of "Die
F l e d e r m a u s " in the Redoutensaa l of the
Imper ia l Palace.
August )
Ear ly lunch.
2.00 P. M. Excurs ion to Percht olds dorf to visit t h j
h o m e s of two famous Aus t r ian compose r s :
H u g o Wolf and F r a n z Schmidt . T h e widow
of D r . Schmidt has invited the Hope Col-
ge g r o u p to visit her home.
August 10
C h u r c h
C h u r c h . services, Vienna C o m m u n i t y
As I bid Vienna "Auf W i e d e r s e h e n " the moon , high
in the sky, i l luminates the fami l ia r shadows of the
Vienna skyline. I leave, r egre t fu l ly , k n o w i n g some day I m u s t r e t u r n . UP, A. B.
August 11
4.00 P. M. Special guided tou r t h rough the newly
recons t ruc ted Vienna O p e r a House .
August 12
2.00 P. M. Visit to Pr ince Eugene ' s Belvedere Palace
and the a r t collection there .
August 14
Final Examina t ions begin.
7.30 P. M. Farewel l banque t for the Vienna S u m m e r
School g r o u p at the Palais Aue r spe rg .
at Palais Auersperg August 75
Final E x a m i n a t i o n s end.
12.30 P . M . S u m m e r session ends with Luncheon at
Neuer M a r k t 1.
August 15—25 Independent t ravel t h rough Europe .
August 25
September /
September 2
Hope G r o u p re -assembles in L o n d o n , , E n g -
land, fo r the r e t u r n trip on the QSS
" A r k a d i a "
' A r k a d i a " ar r ives in Quebec, C a n a d a .
' A r k a d i a " docks in Mont rea l , C a n a d t .
Group Visits Roman Ruins
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T H E A T E R G O E R S — S t a n d i n g at the en t r ance to ru in s of
an anc ien t R o m a n a m p h i t h e a t e r at C a r n u n t u m , Aus t r i a a r c
Pe te r H u i z e n g a and D a v e O u s t e r l i n g who recent ly inspec ted
the t hea t e r wi th o t h e r g r o u p m e m b e r s .
A visit to C a r n u n t u m , the well preserved site of a
two t h o u s a n d year old R o m a n e n c a m p m e n t , provided
s tuden ts of Dr. Fassb inder ' s course in G e r m a n Civili-
zat ion as well as mos t o t h e r m e m b e r s of the Vienna
S u m m e r School g r o u p with the visual r e m i n d e r of the
age-old impor t ance of the Danube as a bo rde r be tween East and West .
C a r n u n t u m , built be fore the bir th of Chr i s t in the
t ime of E m p e r o r Augus tus , is located about 50 ki lo-
mete r s south and eas t of Vienna . In its ear ly days it
served as an e n c a m p m e n t for the R o m a n legions who
occupied Aust r ia , and a lso as living q u a r t e r s for the
civilian populat ion. It was occupied until 450 A. D.,
when the G e r m a n i c t r ibes f inal ly pressed the R o m a n s
back into I ta ly . D u r i n g its long exis tence it had been
built up and des t royed m a n y t imes, as the t r ibes f r o m
the no r th and east cons tan t ly besieged it.
Like most R o m a n colonies, C a r n u n t u m was mode led
a f t e r Rome , so tha t its occupan t s could en joy the s ame
society as the i r fe l low Romans . Remains of two amph i -
thea te r s could be seen, o n e of which held twenty- f ive
thousand people. As Hope s tuden ts wandered t h r o u g h
the m a z e of ruins. Dr . Fassb inder pointed out tha t the
R o m a n s used a very advanced sys tem of hea t ing . T h e r e
were no f ireplaces, but the f loors were hea ted f r o m
u n d e r n e a t h . Some of the or ig inal fu rnaces were still
par t ia l ly intact .
D u r i n g the . g r o u p ' s s top at these ancient ru ins
m e m b e r s were a t t acked by a s w a r m of h u n g r y gna ts ,
at first casual ly, a n d la ter with vengeance . A n u m b e r
of the less virile m e m b e r s of the g r o u p r e t r ea t ed to the
bus and safe ty . Howeve r , a smal l g roup of h a r d - c o r e
c a m p a i g n e r s cont inued on foot to some of the ou t ly ing
por t ions of the ru ins . T h e y fough t bravely with hand-
kerchiefs , but the mosqu i to a i r force successful ly de-
fended C a r n u n t u m . A shor t t ime la ter , as the bus left
C a r n u n t u m and headed back to Vienna, the g r o u p was
sure they had s tumbled o n t o the real reason why the
R o m a n s had abandoned C a r n u n t u m 1500 yea r s ea r l i e r .
Robert Van Wart
A U G U S T 14, 1958 H O P E C O L L E G E A N C H O R — E U R O P E A N EDI TION PAGE T H R E E
Venice Played Important Role
n Development of Classical Music
Pho to EN I T
S T . M A R K S C A T H E D R A L — M a g n i f i c e n t Byzant ine m o n u -
men t to the s p l e n d o r of the Vene t i an past is not only one
of the f avor i t e tour i s t a t t r a c t i o n s , hut a l so played an i m p o r -
t an t role in the deve lopmen t of classical music .
Venetian Churches, Palaces
Illustrate City's Prominence
In European Music History
By Dr. Carl Nemeib
In the 1 1 ih ccn tury the republic of Vcnice bcc imc
'in independent s tate ruled by an elected Doge, a g r o u p
of wise counselors , a smal le r g r o u p of officials, and
a senate . 'The houses of the republ ic were erected on
approx ima te ly one hundred and twenty islands t h rough
which flow one hundred and seventy-f ive canals . At
the l ime of the Crusades the republ ic reached its peak
of intel lectual and art ist ic development and became
m a s t e r of the Medi t e r ranean Sea by the year 1297. At tha t t ime Venice was the commerc ia l leader of the
Eas t e rn Medi t e r ranean land, but a gradual decline in
its political influence fol lowed. In 1797 it was con-
quered by the French and since 1815 it belonged, as
the Lombard -Vene t i an k ingdom, to the Aus t r i an
m o n a r c h y , becoming in 1866 a pa r t of Italy.
Venice, the showplace of world commerce , of asto-
nishing poli ' ical g rea tness and power , became also
the center of paint ing (Ti t ian , T in to r e t t o , Paul Vero-
nese), a rch i tec tu re (Byzant ine-Romanesque buildings,
San Marco , Campani le , the Gothic Doges palaces) and
na tu ra l ly , of music.
T h e music of Venice reached a height of .deve lopment
paral le l to tha t of Rome with the presence of the
Renaissance composer Adr ian Wil laer t (cv 1480—1562)
as kape l lme is te r at San M a r c o in 1527. As in the
Papal Chapel in Rome, San M a r c o in Venice was the
cen te r point of the musical renaissance cont inuing into
the Baroque era when the birth of European ins t rumen-
tal music was realized. T h e long line of kape l lmeis te r s
at San Marco can be t raced back to the year 1491 and
includes the most ou ts tand ing n a m e s in music history
of the period. A m o n g them we find the most impor t an t
compose r of the I tal ian middle Baroque period, CI au-
dio Monteverd i (1567—1643) who achieved equal s ta-tu re in the wr i t ing of operas , church music, and madr i -
ga l s ; F rancesco Cavall i (1602—1676) whose f lower ing ha rmon ic r ichness served as an example for his succes-
sor Giovanni Legrenzi . (1626—1690) and Antonio Lotti
(1667—1740).
Certain innovat ions were made by the Venet ians in
the expand ing of h a r m o n i c ideas in vocal composi t ion
and the inaugura t ion of h i ther to unused melodic inter-
vals and new ha rmon ic s t ruc tures . As a result Venice
becarrwe a cen te r of g rea tes t impor tance for the develop-
ment of European mus ic since the 14111 cen tury . Par t i -cular ly the compose r s of the Rena issance and Baroque
per iods lived in the city of l agoons and canals m a k i n g
use of a t t rac t ive musical colorat ion s imilar to that of
the Venetian pa in ters (color and h a r m o n y ) at first for
the creat ion of madr iga l s and music for the Baroque
o rches t r a (sonata da chiesa, sonata da c a m e r a ) and later
in the 17th cen tury for the height of opera . 'The
achievement of the Venetian opera was decisively
at ta ined by Cavall i , Marc Antonio Cesti (1623—1669),
one of whose one hundred operas "I! p o m o d ' o r e " of
1667 was pe r fo rmed in Vienna as a wedding opera for
Leopold I, Legrenzi , and Monteverdi in his m a s t e r
period with the operas "L ' incoronaz ione di Poppe ia"
(1642) and "II R i to rno d'Ulisse in p a t r i a " (1641). In
March of 1637 the ope ra thea te r of San Cass iano in
Venice opened its doors with a Roman ensemble . 'This
f irst public o p e r a thea te r of the wor ld gave an impulse
to the composi t ion of opera and became the showplace
for the large scale "Venet ian cho rus ope ra" . Also f r o m
the Venet ian school came Anton io C a l d a r a (1670—
1736), who worked as v ice-kapel lmeis ter under J o h a n n
Joseph Fux (1660—1741) at the court of Char les VI
in Vienna and whose works were highly popular in
Vienna. Fux, the leading Aust r ian composer and theo-
rist of this epoch, and Ca lda ra are the chief r ep resen-
tat ives of the Aus t r ian high Baroque.
Photo EN I T
A L O N G T H E G R A N D C A N A L — T h e g o n d o l a s and the
busy t ra f f i c on the canal in f ron t of the chu rch Santa M a r i a
del la Siada are a m o n g the best k n o w n l a n d m a r k s of Venice.
The two o rgans in the Ca thedra l of San M a r c o are
so si tuated, one on each side of the apse, so that it is
possible to work with two g r o u p s of s ingers an t ipho-
naily. T h i s a r r a n g e m e n t inspired o the r compose r s to
wr i te psalms, motets , and o the r church music which
can be used by two choirs and o rgans e i ther toge ther
o r in the m a n n e r of a question and answer . 'This tech-
nique of compos ing is called "chori spezzat i" . T h e
list of p rominen t o rgan i s t s at San Marco goes back to
Mis t ro Zucche t to in the year 1318 and reaches its
f lower ing peak in the Tate Renaissance and ear ly Ba-
roque periods with Claudio M e r u l o (1533—1604) and
two Gabriel i ' s , Andrea (1510—1586) and Giovanni (1557
—1612), the la t ter a pupil of O r l a n d o di Lasso (1532—
1594) in Munich .
T H E DIRECTOR A N D S T A F F
O F T H E
H O P E C O L L E G E
V IENNA S U M M E R S C H O O L
EXTEND GREETINGS
TO A L L
A L U M N I A N D FRIENDS.
Conversing With Natives
Provides Many Surprises By Robert li'ulfi and Don De Jongb
One of the " a d v a n t a g e s " of a s u m m e r ' s study in
Europe is the chance to use pract ical ly the languages
learned theoret ical ly in college. However , suddenly
one discovers that the l anguages one thought one had, one has not.
Because the m a j o r i t y of o u r g r o u p lives in the out -
lying distr icts of the city m a n y of us have come face
to face with the var ious m e a n s of c o m m u t i n g to and
f r o m the cen te r of town. Of course , the G e r m a n
speak ing "ab i l i ty" of the s tudents makes the job of
c o m m u t i n g much easier (or does it?).
For e x a m p l e : Two of the more athlet ical ly inclined gir ls in the g r o u p decided that the best way to get
a r o u n d Vienna was to ren t a gadget consist ing of two
iron wheels connected by three rusty pipes — for lack
of a be t te r t e rm, "bicycles"!
A Home is No Museum
L'pon r e tu rn ing f rom N e u e r M a r k t one day, the gir ls
were caught in a sudden a f t e rnoon shower . Seeing the
cus tomary m a r k e r des ignat ing a historic site — a
modest three feet high, gold and white plaque c rowned
by a series of c r imson and white flags — the gi r ls
decided to deposit the i r bikes in the en t r ance way and
tour the f a m o u s house for the dura t ion of the s to rm.
As a result of thei r f ran t ic knock ing , the door swung
open, and they pushed the dr ipping bikes into the
foyer . Suddenly thei r placid tourist interest was shat-
tered by an ou tburs t of G e r m a n f r o m a little m a n
si t t ing in one of the f ron t rooms. T h e g i r l s ' splendid
c o m m a n d of the G e m a n language soon enabled them
to real ize that the m a n ' s s c r e a m i n g and a r m waving
indicated tha t they had invaded a pr ivate home and not
a public m u s e u m .
Streetcars Can Be Expensive
Avoiding such perils, ano the r cont ingent chose the
supposedly easier s t ree tca r system. Upon en te r ing the
car , this g r o u p observed the Viennese engaged in a
g a m e of exchang ing smal l coins fo r slips of paper of var ious hues and sizes. 'They rushed the line to join in
the fun and profi t . Upon being gree ted with a m u m b l e
of G e r m a n and a bagfu l of t ickets , they conversed
politely with the conduc tor , picked out cha r t r euse
t ickets , and bl issful ly took their seats little real iz ing
they had purchased a six week pass.
Adventures in Eating
The Inst i tute has also though t fu l ly provided still
more chances to converse in a f r iendly fashion. The
s tuden t s purchase ( independent ly) thei r evening mea l s
in one of Vienna ' s low cost r e s t au ran t s . On one such
excurs ion , a small n u m b e r of s tuden ts discovered an
" a u t h e n t i c " Viennese hole- in- the-wal l vaguely remini-
scent of a place in a foreign in t r igue movie. Unfo r -
tunate ly for the d ic t ionary- laden g r o u p the menu might
as well have been wri t ten in an Ou te r -Mongo l i an dia-
lect Coming to their rescue, the fa ther ly old wai te r
suggested they try the speciality • of the house. H i m
mit Eier. H a l f w a y th rough the meal , some kill joy dis-
covered in his d ic t ionary the Engl ish t rans la t ion for
I Urn mit Eier. Brains with eggs. Oh well, the g roup
wasn ' t real ly that hung ry anyhow.
T h u s the Hope College Vienna S u m m e r School
s tuden ts expand and pract ice thei r newly acquired
l anguage skills in var ious life s i tuat ions t h r o u g h o u t
Vienna.
SYMBOLIC of the wealth and splendor of Venice in past centuries
is the "Go lden H o u s e " located on the Grand Canal .
P A G E FOUR H O P E C O L L E G E A N C H O R — E U R O P E A N E D I T I O N A U G U S T 14, 1958
Swiss Alps, Scottish Highlands, Scandinavia Beckon As Students Arrange for Final European Vacation Days
T o ihink ol leaving this enehan l ing eity, which is
endowed with holh past unci present beauty is li sad
though t . However , we are m a k i n g plans lor ou r inde-
pendent travel f r o m August 15 to 25. Dur ing this
travel period, one will be able to encoun t e r m e m b e r s
of the g roup in a lmost every Wes t e rn Europe m
coun t ry .
The British Isles hold a fascinat ion for m a n y of us;
to o r d e r a meal o r ask di rect ions in o u r nat ive tongue
may be a r e f r e sh ing cha l lenge to ou r k n o w l e d g e of
the English language . Travel ing by t ra in , Janice Koe-
man, Gloria T a v l o r , Barbara K lomparens , and Susan
Monte plan to s top in Swi tzer land for a few days before
reach ing England . T r u e McDona ld hopes to tour three
United Kingdom count r ies a f t e r en joy ing a brief stay
in Paris . Mrs . Snow and Wilford Butler are most
anx ious to en jov the quiet sereni tv of the Burn 's
coun t ry and s u r r o u n d i n g a reas of Scot land. S t r a t fo rd -
on-Avon and London lure J o a n Haml in and Marv Mar -
celon. Also t ravel ing to the British Isles is Henry Steffens .
Southern Europe a t t r ac t s many of o u r g roup . Rober t
Van War t will t ravel a long the French Riviera on his
way to Barcelona, Spain. Jul ius Manr ique , a f t e r spend-
ing several yea rs s tudying Spanish, does not wan t to
miss an oppor tun i ty to visit Madr id . T h e fun- lov ing
people and mas te rp ieces of I tal ian cu l tu re which one
encoun te r s in Rome interest Don De J o n g h , Richard
Brockmeier , H a r r y Pierce, J a m e s S ikkema , and Gera ld
D r a a y e r . Florence will be a m e m o r a b l e visit fo r Larrv
Siedentop, H a r v e y Gend le r , Susanne Huizenga , and
Sharon Crawfo rd . Nancy Demares t will lour the beaut i -
ful cha teaux lands of Southern Farnce .
Brit ish E u r o p e a n Ai rways
M O T H L R O F P A R L I A M L N T S — T h e British Houses of P;ir-
l i a m c m mcei in ihis s l a i d y bu i ld ing . S ludcn i s will a s semble
in London be lo re leaving fo r S o u i h a m p l o n and the boat .
M a n y s i u d e n l s will l ou r city and e n j o y their last Huropean
davs in London .
Tour Members Gain Insight on Yugoslavian Life During Weekend Visit to Large Yugoslav City
Yugoslavia today is a mys te ry to most Amer i cans at home and abroad . Al though there is no restr ic t ion
on Yugoslavian t ravel , the average Amer ican tour ing
in Europe does not include a v i s i i 10 ibis in teres t ing and
unusua l coun t ry on his i t inerary. In fact , the Amer i -
can tourist usual ly s tays f a r away f r o m the C o m m u n i s t
bloc nat ions and commun i s t areas. T h o s e more adven-
tu rous souls who do m a k e trips into Commun i s t coun-
tries usually "p lunge wav in" and take a specialIv
conducted tou r of Moscow and o the r principal Russian touris t a t t rac t ions .
Yugoslavia , then, r emains more or less off the
beaten tourist path . As par t of their mid- te rm holi-
day, and to f u r t h e r unders tand ing of w h a t life in com-
munis t -domina ted count r ies is like, m e m b e r s of the
Hope College Vienna S u m m e r School recent lv p.tid a
brief and interest ing visit to Lubl i jana , Yugoslavia .
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L U B L I J A N A — d o m i n a t e d by its med ieava l f o r t r e s s which
once served as an Aus t r i an f r o n t i e r t o w n . T o d a y L u b l i j a n a is
one of the l ead ing cities of Yugos l av i a .
Lubl i jana , located not f a r f r o m the Aus t r i an -Yugo-
slav border is one of the largest cities in T i t o ' s Yugo-
slavia. T h e city, once a medieval fo r t r e s s on the
Aus t r ian borde r , is a bust l ing, busy met ropol i s .
T h e r e is a cer ta in feeling tha t Amer i cans receive
when first en te r ing the bo rde r cont ro l area of Yugo-
slavia. T h e bo rde r seems more res t r ic ted and the
bo rde r formal i t ies more precise. O n e begins to think
ol what migh t happen if he lost his passpor t o r
misplaced declared camera equipment and he couldn ' t Produce it upon leaving the coun t ry .
M O U N T A I N P A S T U R E S , S H E P H L R D S A N D S H E E P —
typi fy the rus t i c beau ty of the Yugos l av i an coun t ry s ide . Here ,
ques t ions ol poli t ics and wor ld a f f a i r s seem u n i m p o r t a n t .
Fhe pleasant Yugoslav count rys ide with rol l ing hills,
f lat , rich f a r m l a n d , and unusual houses with tha tched
roofs soon fills minds as the bus t ravels the winding
road toward Lubl i jana , the evening ' s dest inat ion.
A f t e r a r r iva l and an unusual d inner at the hotel ,
wa lk ing the s t reets of the city proved in teres t ing.
'Fhe first th ing noticeable was the lack of lights and
moving autos , so m u c h a p a n of Vienna. People were
quiet and moved most ly on foot. Store windows were
bare and the prices on all merchand i se were very high.
T h e r e is an a tmosphe re of foreboding, a lmost
ominous feeling that c reeps inside of you in Y u g o -
slavia. It is not even implied, but you can feel it in
the s te rn eyes of T i t o s ta r ing out f rom the huge por-
trai t in the hotel lobby and in the huge mee t ing
square , the s t a rk a rch i tec ture .
Yugos lav ia is a land of con t ras t s , excit ing, and
awesome, the total p ic ture m a k e s one want to leave.
And, leave we did, the nex t m o r n i n g . Subconsciously
we b rea thed a sigh of relief to be on the o the r side of
the border . O u r stay was shor t , and really uneven t fu l , but indescribably ominous .
T r a v e l i n g up the scenic Rhine Valley of G e r m a n y
presents a new exper ience each time. Rober t Wul l l
plans to view its b r ea th t ak ing beauty dur ing his r e tu rn
visit. Wor ld wide f r iendships made th rough f o r m e r
cor respondence will become a real i ty when Patr icia
Berlinghoff visits her pen pals in several par t s of Ge r -
man v. Fr iends of Will iam Brookst ra will m a k e his
stay in C o p e n h a g e n a happy one. Dave De Rui te r also
plans to s top at this enchan t ing Danish city. Relat ives
will be honored to have as a guest Paul \ an Wyk in
R o t t e r d a m , Hol land .
David Bosch is t ravel ing to Switzer land and D e n m a r k
prior to his fl ight to S tockholm, Sweden, where he will
visit relat ives.
m
Swiss Na t iona l T o u r i s t Of! ice
/ E R M A T A N D 'FHE M A T T E R H O R N — s y m b o l i / e the g rea i
a l l r a c t i o n s of the Swiss Alps and of Swi t ze r l and . M a n y l o u r
m e m b e r s will spend lime in ib is e n e h a n l i n g c o u n i r y .
G a r b e d in lederhosen and felt hats, Peter Huizenga
and David Ous te r l ing will journey to the Alpine land
of Swi tzer land . Fhe boys plan to wind up their t r ip
mo to r ing th rough the British Isles. Sara G o r d o n is
intr igued by both the Swiss and I tal ian cul tures .
F r o m por t s Che rbourg , F rance ; Sou thampton , Eng-
land; and Cobb, I re land the "Q.S.S. A r c a d i a " will greet
the e x u b e r a n t Hope College group , each one anxious to
relate their adven tu rous tales of t ravel , a will be a
h e a r t w a r m i n g t ime to reuni te and share exper iences and wonder fu l memor ies of Europe , hut, m o r e so, to
ant icipate a happy re turn to the shores o." the L". S. A.
Miiry Marceloii
The Insiitute
of European Studies
Wishes
Faculty and Siudenls
of the
Hope College
Vienna Summer School
Bon Voyage and
Auf Wiedersehen
Next Year
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\ European-American Faculty Associated in Vienna Academic Program
German Language and Culture, History, Music Featured in Curriculum
Mrs . \V. C u r t i s Snow, Dr . Paul G. Fr ied , Dr . R i c h a r d
S ick inger .
Dr. Paul €*. Fried T h e es tabl i shment and g rowth of the Hope Col lege
Vienna S u m m e r School is the fu l f i l lment of a long-
eher ished d ream of its Direc tor , Dr . Paul Fried. As
the third successful yea r in Vienna d r aws to a close.
Dr . Fr ied ' s faith in the project has been more than
just if ied, and the time and energy he has expended
has b rough t rich r ewards .
Paul Fried is a nat ive European . His family or iginal ly
came f r o m Vienna. He entered the United States in
1939 and became a United Sta tes citizen in 1943. He
served in the United States A r m y f r o m 1942—1945 and
received the Bronze Star and Cer t i f ica te of Meri t . As a
staff se rgeant he was a m e m b e r of the United States
Army Intel l igence Service. A f t e r the war he spent two
years as chief of one ol" the t rans la t ion sections dur ing
the N u r e n b e r g trials.
He holds a Bachelor ' s Degree f r o m Hope College, a
Mas te r of Ar ts Degree f rom H a r v a r d , and received his
Doc tora te in Philosophy f r o m the Universi ty of E r l an -
gen, G e r m a n y in 1949. He served as a visiting pro-
fessor at Mexico City College for two s u m m e r s and is
a m e m b e r s of the Amer ican Historical Associat ion.
Dr . Fr ied 's in teres ts are var ied. He especially en joys
reading, music, and t ravel . He is a connoisseur of good
European food and is wel l - in formed on the "f inest
r e s t a u r a n t s " in all of Europe . First and foremost , he
is actively engaged in a concre te demons t ra t ion and
ins t ruct ion of the policy of good in ternat ional re la-
tionship.
Mrs. W. Curtis Snow As dur ing the past s u m m e r , Mrs . W. Cur t i s Snow
of the Flope College G e r m a n facul ty serves as W o m e n ' s
Counse lor and as " m o t h e r " to all the s tudents part i -
cipating in the Vienna S u m m e r School p r o g r a m . Her
long exper ience as a music teacher , and her vital
interest in the s tudy of G e r m a n have enabled her also
to serve as Hope facul ty associate for the music pro-
g r a m in 1957 and as superv isor for the G e r m a n
language p r o g r a m . Dur ing the cu r ren t yea r she is
associated with Dr . Fassb inder in the G e r m a n Civili-
zat ion course and cont inues to supervise the G e r m a n
language p r o g r a m .
Mrs . Snow g radua ted f r o m the Mornings ide Conser -
vatory of Music in Sioux City, Iowa and a t tended the
Ober l in Conse rva to ry of Music before coming to Hope
College, where she obta ined her Bachelor 's degree .
Not too many years a g o - M r s . Snow, who was a popu-
lar t eacher of piano and o rgan at Hope College,
decided to m a k e a vocat ion of an avocat ion by t ak ing
g radua te work in G e r m a n . She r e t u r n e d to Hope
College with a M. A. f rom Michigan State Universi ty
to becofne a valued m e m b e r of the Hope College Ge r -
m a n depa r tmen t .
If anyone had told Mrs. Snow three s u m m e r s ago
that she would be spending the next two s u m m e r s
walk ing all ove r Wes te rn Eu rope she might have
called the nurse to have her check her t e m p e r a t u r e .
For at tha t t ime she was in a heavy cast , wai t ing to
recover f r o m a ser ious accident . But wha t may have
seemed an impossible d r e a m in the s u m m e r of 1956
has since become a lmos t second n a t u r e to Mrs. Snow.
Becoming more fami l iar with Eu ropean p rob lems and
s i tuat ions she now ably assists Dr . Fried in p lann ing
and adminis te r ing the social and academic p r o g r a m
of the Hope College Vienna S u m m e r School.
First a m o n g Mrs . Snow's interests are her twelve
grandchi ld ren , six boys and six gir ls all of w h o m are
under seven years old. However , unlike m a n y g r a n d -
mothers , she does not produce pictures of the twelve
at the s l ightest p rovoca t ion . Ra the r , she t akes a lively
interest in the cu r r i cu l a r and ex t r a - cu r r i cu l a r a f fa i r s
of her th i r ty " c h i l d r e n " who have come to look upon
" F r a u Schnee" as the i r m o t h e r for the s u m m e r . Mrs .
Snow's o the r in teres ts i nclude music, par t icu lar ly o r g a n
music, as well as the cooking and ea t ing of good food.
Dr. Richard Siickinger Richard Mar ia Leopold J o h a n n e s W o l f g a n g J o s e p h
Sickinger is not only a professor , but a f r iend to facul ty
and s tuden ts alike. He met least year ' s g r o u p at Le
H a v r e and conducted them on a two week ' s tour of
Wes t e rn Europe . T h i s year , he was unable to join the
g roup until the last two days of the tour because of
his t eaching schedule .
He w a s born in Vienna on Oc tobe r 25, 1925. He
a t tended pr imary school , Piar is tenschule , secondary
school, and g radua ted f rom Piaristen G y m n a s i u m in I943-
He was d ra f t ed into the G e r m a n a r m y in 1943 and
saw service in F rance and in Russia. A f t e r spending
a shor t t ime in a U. S. A r m y prison camp, he was
released and d ischarged f r o m the a rmy in 1945.
At the end of the w a r he enrol led at the Univers i ty
of Vienna, receiving his doc tora te as well as a teacher ' s
cer t i f icate for G y m n a s i u m in 1951. Af te r a period of
research and p roba t iona ry teaching, he was awarded a
Fulbr ight research g r a n t and spent the yea r 1953—1954 in Wash ing ton , D . C . ; he also at tended Yale Univers i ty
and worked on the his tory of the United States Federa l
Civil Service.
In 1954 the Aus t r i an gove rnmen t selected Dr. Sickin-
ger to a t tend the Col lege d 'Europe , an I n t e r e u r o p e a n
pos t -g radua te school of d iplomat ics and in te rna t iona l
re la t ions in Bruges, Belgium. Every European coun t ry
sends one to five s tuden t s to this college, accord ing
to the size of the coun t ry . F rom 1955—1957 he served as a m e m b e r of the editorial staff of "His tor ica l
Abs t rac t s" , then publ ished at the Inst i tute of Modern
History of the Universi ty of Vienna. Since 1956 he has
served as Assistant Di rec tor of the Ins t i tu te of Euro -
pean Studies at the Universi ty of Vienna.
Dr. Sickinger is ex t r eme ly interested in the vital
subject of European in tegrat ion and is we l l - in fo rmed
on m a n y phases of the subject . His hobbies include
reading, ping-pong, chess, and a mode ra t e a m o u n t of
ga rden ing when he visits his pa ren t s ' home in the
coun t ry . His latest and most impor tan t in teres t is Miss
Anne Derbes , to w h o m he is be t ro thed . Ann comes
f rom New Or leans , Louisiana, and a t tended T u l a n e
Univers i ty . T h i s past year she was a s tudent at the
Ins t i tu te of European Studies.
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Fri tz von S a m m e r n - F r a n k e n e g g and Dr . Fr iedr ich Fassb inder .
Dr. F. Fassbinder Dr. Fr iedr ich Fassb inder is a new m e m b e r of the
S u m m e r School facul ty this year and is t eaching a
course in G e r m a n Civilization which has been added
to the cu r r i cu lum for 1058.
Fr iedr ich Fassbinder was born in 1927 in Vienna. In
1943, at the age of s ixteen, be was d ra f t ed into the G e r m a n a rmy . At t ha t t ime all pupils of the secondary
schools who had reached the age of s ixteen were
t ra ined first in an t i - a i r c ra f t and then t r a n s f e r r e d to
the i n f a n t r y .
In 1945, Fassb inder was discharged f r o m mil i tary service and began his universi ty study. He studied Ge r -
m a n and Engl ish at the Universi ty of Vienna and
taught at a Viennese school f r o m 1950—1951, a f te r receiving a degree of doc tor of phi losophy. Fo r a t ime
he worked as an edi tor for the A u s t r o - A m e r i c a n edu-
cat ional Periodical " E r z i e h u n g " and f r o m 1953—1955 he w a s a m e m b e r of the editorial staff of the " I n t e r -
na t ional C u l t u r a l " magaz ine . In 1955 he r e tu rned to
the teaching profession and is at p resen t t each ing
G e r m a n and English in the "Mi t t e l schu le" .
His in teres ts are creat ive wri t ing and the in t e rp re t a -
tion of m o d e r n l i terature in connect ion with o ther fields
of a r t and European t radi t ion. T h e resu l t s of these
endeavor s can be seen in his three act play " T r a c a t u s
diabolicus et angel icus" , his one act play " T h e P r a y e r "
and his s tory "Medi ta t iones" .
Dr . Fassbinder has published a series of book and
d r a m a reviews and sho r t e r ar t ic les on S igmund Freud ,
A. Weber , T . S. Eliot, and G e r h a r t H a u p t m a n n . Essays
include " J o a n of Arc" , " Q u o Vadis" , " Jean Paul
Sa r t r e " , "Aus t r i an L i t e ra tu re" , and "A Li te rary Do-
c u m e n t " .
Dr . Fassbinder is mar r i ed and has one daugh te r , Bri-
gitte, six years old. His g rea tes t in teres t is wr i t ing, but
he also en joys discussions with f r iends and col leagues
on a var ie ty of subjects .
Mr. F. Sanimern T h o u g h the youngest in years , Fr i tz Rued ige r von
S a m m e r n - F r a n k e n e g g is the oldest Aus t r i an m e m b e r
of the Hope College Vienna S u m m e r School s taff . His
initial contac t with Hope s tuden t s came in 1956, when
the first exper imenta l g roup came to spend several
weeks in Vienna. Dur ing the past two years Mr. Sam-
mern , known as Fr i tz to all the s tudents , has been
teaching the courses in G e r m a n conversa t ion and has
spent many hours tu to r ing Hope s tuden ts who are
enrol led in intensive G e r m a n courses.
Fr i tz was born J u n e 27, 1931 in Peuerbach, Upper Aus t r i a . His fa ther was a lawyer who served in the
a r m y and was killed in act ion in 1944. T h e family
lived in W u r z b u r g ( G e r m a n y ) f rom 1931 to 1945. Fr i tz received his secondary school ing in W u r z b u r g and Linz-
Donau (Upper Austr ia) .
In 1951 he entered the Universi ty of Vienna, s tudying
the history of language and l i tera ture in both G e r m a n
and English and in 1957 he received his t e ache r
d ip loma for secondary schools . He served as ass is tant
in the Engl i sh-Amer ican Inst i tute of Vienna Univers i ty
for one yea r and was professor of G e r m a n and Engl ish
in the pr iva te school of the Vienna Boys' Choir in 1957.
At the conclusion of last year ' s s u m m e r session in
Vienna, Fri tz accepted the invitat ion to come to the
United States which had been extended to him by the
G e r m a n D e p a r t m e n t of T h e J o h n s Hopkins Univers i ty .
D u r i n g his nine m o n t h s in the United States Fr i tz not
only did g r a d u a t e work in his chosen field and t augh t
two sect ions of G e r m a n to Amer ican U n d e r g r a d u a t e s ,
but also found time to see a good deal of the coun t ry .
His t rave ls included an ex tended visit to Hope Col lege ,
w h e r e he w a s enthusiast ical ly welcomed by m a n y of his f r iends.
T h i s fall he plans to teach G e m a n and English in
an Aus t r i an Mit telschule and to cont inue work on his
doc tora l thesis in G e r m a n l i tera ture . O t h e r p lans
include his mar r i age in Augus t to Miss Karin Lindell ,
a f o r m e r teacher f r o m Stockholm, Sweden.
Fr i tz plays the piano, r eads extensively, a t tends con-
cer ts and operas , is interested in phi losophy and loves
to dance . He hopes to go to the United States a f t e r
he receives his doc tor ' s degree and the would like to
teach G e r m a n at the college or universi ty level.
Dr. Morrette Rider N e w to the Vienna S u m m e r School staff this year is
Dr . M o r r e t t e Rider, Associate Professor of Music at
Hope College. Dr. Rider , who is en joy ing his f irst visit
to Vienna and the m a n y musical a t t r ac t ions the city
o f fe r s , serves as facul ty associate to Dr. N e m e t h in
the Hope College Vienna S u m m e r School music p ro -
g r a m .
Dr . Rider a t tended the Universi ty of Pennsylvania ,
received his Bachelor of A r t s and M a s t e r of A r t s f r o m
the Univers i ty of Michigan and his doc tora te f r o m
Columbia Universi ty . He has studied conduc t ing with
T h o r Johnson , Leonard Bernstein, and Pierre M o n t e u x .
At present , he is the conduc to r of the Hope Col lege
Symphone t t e and O r c h e s t r a and the first violinist of
the Hope College Str ing Q u a r t e t t .
He is a m e m b e r of var ious profess ional associat ions
including the Nat ional Associat ion of Amer i can C o m -
posers and Conductors , Music Educa to r s Nat iona l Con-
ference, College Music Associat ion, Amer i can S y m p h o -
ny O r c h e s t r a League, Phi Mu Alpha, Pi Kappa L a m b -
da, A m e r i c a n Str ing T e a c h e r s Associat ion, and Music T e a c h e r s Nat ional Associat ion.
(Cont inued on Page 6, C o l u m n 1)
P A G E SIX H O P E C O L L E G E A N C H O R — E U R O P E A N E D I T I O N A U G U S T 14, 1958
Vienna Faculty (Concluded f r o m page five)
Dr . M o r e t t c R ide r .
Mrs. Rider, ihe fo rmer W a n d a Nigh, is a l so a profes -
sional musician and teacher . T h e y have one daugh te r ,
R h o n d a Chris t ine , two years old.
T h e main recrea t ion of the Rider family dur ing the
s u m m e r is thei r boat " P h i r a n a " on which they spend
m a n y hours m a k i n g f r equen t t r ips to por t s on Lake
Michigan f r o m South Haven to Muskegon .
Dr. Carl Nemeth Dr. Carl N e m e t h , genial p rofessor of music , is teach-
ing a course in music to Hope s u m m e r s tuden t s s imilar
to that which he conducted in 1957. T h i s course
includes a t t endance at musical events , t r ips to places
of musical interest , and lectures by Dr. N e m e t h .
Dr . N e m e t h received his e l e m e n t a r y school educat ion
in H u n g a r y and Vienna and a t tended the Humanis t ic
G y m n a s i u m in Vienna. He received the degree of doc-
tor of phi losophy f r o m the Universi ty of Vienna in
1949. His m a j o r field is musicology, his m i n o r , G e r m a n
l i te ra ture with the re la ted subjec ts of h is tory , psycho-
logy, phi losophy, and theatr ical science.
Dr . Car l N e m e t h .
His musical activities a re many and varied. F r o m
' 9 4 9 — ' 9 5 2 w a s Assis tant Conduc to r of the Vienna I onkuens t l e r Orches t r a and conducted research for
the Haydn Society, Inc. of Boston. For the next th ree
years, I m m 1953—1956, he served as Assis tant Pro-fessor at the Inst i tute for Musicology of Vienna, Asso-
ciate of the Musical Research Commiss ion for the
Austr ian Academy of Sciences, and conduc to r of the
Collegium Musicum at the Universi ty of Vienna.
In 1956 he appeared as guest conduc to r for b road -
casts in R o m e and Munich and at the Municipal
1 heater , F iume, Yugoslavia . He was awarded the
Austr ian Nat ional Music Prize in 1957 by T h e o d o r e
Koe rne r , President of the Aus t r i an Republ ic , for his
book, Franz Schmidt, A Master After Brahms and
Bruckner. At present be ac t s as Art is t ic Secre tary of
the F r a n z Schmidt and Gus tav Mah le r Society. T w e n t y -
six of his publ icat ions have appeared in E u r o p e a n music quar ter l ies .
Dr . N e m e t h served two and one half yea r s in the
G e r m a n L u f t w a f l e as a reconnaissance pi lot and was
a pr isoner in w a r in a U . S. c a m p in I t a ly in 1945 —
1946. Flying is now his favori te past ime. If his d r e a m s a re real ized, he will obta in a teaching and conduct ing
position in the United States. H e hopes to live in a
region where he can own and en joy a mo to r -boa t .
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Pic tu red in f ron t of the a i rbase chapel in E r d i n g , G e r m a n y are m e m b e r s of the Hope Col l ege Vienna S u m m e r School s tudy
g r o u p w h o visited the A m e r i c a n i n t e r c e p t o r s q u a d r o n s based at E rd ing .
The g r o u p was w e l c o m e d at the a i rbase by Chap la in (Cap t . ) T h o m a s M. G r o o m e , J r . R e f o r m e d C h u r c h C h a p l a i n and a
g r a d u a t e ol W e s t e r n T h e o l o g i c a l S e m i n a r y in Hol land , Mich igan w h o had invi ted D r . Paul G. Fr ied , to b r ing his s tuden t
g r o u p to visit t he base.
( lef t lo r igh t ) l i rs t r o w : Chap la in I h o m a s M. G r o o m e , J r . ; Mrs . M o r r e t t e R i d e r ; Sara G o r d o n ; S u z a n n e H u i z e n g a ; Mrs .
VC. C u r t i s Snow, W o m e n s C o u n s e l o r ; G lo r i a l a y l o r ; and Dr . Paul G. Fr ied , p r o g r a m d i rec to r . Second r o w : S h a r o n C r a w -
f o r d ; M a r y M a r c e l o n ; Joan H a m l i n ; J an ice K o e m a n ; Susan M o n t e ; and Ann Derbes . T h i r d r o w : Wi l l i am B r o o k s t r a ;
Dr . M o r r e t t e R i d e r ol the Hope Col l ege m u s i c l a c u l t y ; B a r b a r a K l o m p a r e n s ; T r u e E l izabe th M c D o n a l d ; H a r v e y G e n d l e r ;
Pe te r H u i z e n g a ; and J a m e s S i k k e m a . F o u r t h r o w : Paul Van W y k ; David O u s t e r l i n g ; N a n c y D e m a r e s t ; Hen ry S te f fens ; Pa-
t r ic ia B e r l i n g h o f f ; David C. Bosch; G e r a l d D r a a y e r ; Reg ina ld Van W a r t ; R o b e r t W u l f f ; and Ju l ius M a n r i q u e . Last r o w :
W i l f o r d Bu t l e r ; G e r h a r d S e l i g m a n ; t o u r bus d r i v e r ; David De R u i t e r ; H a r r y P i e rce ; Dr . R i c h a r d S ick inger of the Ins t i -
tu te ol E u r o p e a n Studies in V i e n n a ; R i c h a r d B r o c k m e i e r ; and Don De J o n g h .
H U N G A R Y A N Y B O D Y ? O n Sa turday , Ju ly 27, the g lobe t ro t t ing Hope col lege
wisemen filled a Mercedes Benz bus, said good-bye to
the cruel capital ist ic wor ld , and fol lowed the communis t
s ta r ol the East to the H u n g a r i a n border .
E n r o u t e to the "people ' s p a r a d i s e " we paused long
enough to t ake a tour of the Forchtens te in castle, a
p ic turesque medieval edifice owned by the pr inces of
Es t e rhazy and located on a mass of g ran i t e over look ing
a m o u n t a i n pass. It was one of the m a n y cast les
which cons t i tu ted a physical ba r r i e r agains t T u r k i s h and
Asiatic invasions ol Aust r ia du r ing the s ix teenth , seven-
teenth , and e igh teenth centur ies . T h i s cast le was never
o v e r r u n . A m o n g the interest ing f ea tu r e s of the cast le
were a well live hundred feet deep, an execu t ioner ' s
cha i r and sword which toge ther have witnessed seventy
five deaths , and a well supplied a rsena l of swords ,
rifles, a r m o u r and cannon , da t ing back to the T h i r t y Yea r ' s W a r (1618—1648).
T h e H u n g a r i a n border town of A n d a u was a f a m o u s
cross ing point f o r Hunga r i an r e f u g e e s in 1956 dur ing
the H u n g a r i a n revolut ion, and was immor ta l i zed by
J a m e s Michne r ' s book, " T h e Bridge at A n d a u " . T h e
borde r , which is s i tuated outs ide the town, not onlv
looked repulsive but was. T h e road we were t rave l ing
showed less signs of wear as we app roached the bo rde r
ga te . G r a s s g rew unmoles ted in the ru ts . We were not
a l lowed to leave the bus because land mines were con-
venient ly placed on the H u n g a r i a n .side of the road.
Mines were not the only b o r d e r securi ty. A n o t h e r
in te res t ing l ea tu re was a p lowed and raked str ip of
land jus t inside the ba rbed wire fence which would
au tomat ica l ly record the foo tp r in t s of anyone who
a t t e m p t e d to leave the coun t ry . G u a r d s in watch towers
kep t check on us while thickly s t r u n g electric barbed wire separa ted the two wor lds , m a k i n g the " i ron cur-
t a i n " a living real i ty. Peter Huizenga
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v e r a n t w o r t l i c h : P r o f e s s o r Dr . Paul G. Fr ied , H o p e Col lege
Vienna S u m m e r School , Ins t i tu te of E u r o p e a n Studies,
N e u e r M a r k t 1, Wien I, Aus t r i a . D r u c k : P r o f i l d r u c k J a h o d a
& Siegle, Wien III , H in te re Z o l l a m t s s t r a f i e 3.
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