from the director's desk

The Acadellly Goes After $625,000 In Its First Building Fund Drive

For 31 years and 8 months the Academy has struggled and thrived, worked and progressed, and ultimately grown to fulfill some measure of the original dream upon which it was founded.

It has been an exciting three decades, and there are many thousands of people to whom we are thankful for this growth and progress.

We have never received tax-support of any kind as so many similar institutions have. Yet in all this time we have not once appealed to the community at large for financial help. And we have never attempted a building fund campaign.

Now we are going to do both.

Many of you know much or something of our plans. For several years we have been meticulously probing at our problem, weighing our needs, making sure that our final decision would be one that would accomplish the greatest overall good for the Academy.

Because of our educational department's vastly expanded program and its vital role in our com­munity's school system, we believed that this was the area of greatest immediate need. And, concomitantly, as we meet the needs for educational space, we will be achieving considerable much-needed gallery space.

So we are going to add an educational wing to the Academy. The plans are drawn and are being reviewed. It will join the existing building in the area now known as the St. Francis garden at the corner of Kapiolani and Kinau Streets. You will be happy to know that the architecture matches our present building-including the unique roof-and that we will be able to preserve the magnificent kamane tree in the garden.

The G. A. Brakeley Company, one of the country's outstanding fund raising organizations, which conducted the preliminary survey, has been retained to direct the effort.

Robert Maxwell has been with us since September, acting as public relations director and simul­taneously as liaison with the Brakeley Company in pre-campaign preparation. In late December Mr. C. S. Nicolai will arrive to direct the drive.

Mr. C. Dudley Pratt, as campaign chairman, has been at the helm of the drive for some months now, flanked by some of the finest leadership in the community. A great deal of spade-work has already been accomplished, and the midnight oil has burned with a vengeance.

We are seeking $625,000.

This is a lot of money. It is money we need and it is money that can be obtained, but only through hard work by many people. Our trustees have already magnificently shown their faith in our future by generously subscribing approximately one-fourth of the goal. Additional gifts have also been received that give us a real head start in this very vital project.

What does this mean to you?

It means, above all, a better Academy to serve you. But it means, too, that once again we de­pend on you-as we always have. We need your generous gifts. We need your active participa­tion as workers in the drive. We need your personal enthusiasm and your influence throughout the community wherever you meet and mingle with people. You are our best public relations contacts. You are our best workers. You are our staunchest friends in giving.

You are, in short, the very key to success in this vastly important undertaking.

You will, of course, be hearing about the drive from now on. We will keep you closely informed. The important thing at the moment is to let you know that we are in business--the business of building a new future-and to invite you wholeheartedly to join us in this venture.

DIRECTOR ROBERT P. GRIFFING, JR.

MEMBERSHIP

Christmas At The Academy

This month 10,000 island children will tour the Educational galleries, now transformed into Christmas in Austria and Germany. Twenty of the new docents (from the Latin doceo, to teach), who have started their two-year training in art education, will assist regular staff members, thereby making it possible to accommodate nearly twice the usual number of youngsters.

Plotting the arrivals and departures of 20,000 big and little island feet, to say nothing of the interim program, takes master-minding in logistics that would make a marine officer blanch. But it's all in a day's work to Mrs. Howard Norton and staff. w ·eeks of planning and construc­tion in the basement are behind the colorful exhibits. In one gallery children will discover a snowy forest where an authentic Austrian country house, replete with roebuck antlers and folk art, evokes a story book quality of holidays in the old world. Many of the objects were lent by Mrs. M. L. Randolph, a native of Austria, who has given invaluable help in research and design. Mrs. Violet Scott painted the cupboards in elaborate peasant design. Another gallery, assembled by Miss Alyce Hoogs, reflects the rococo elegance of the 18th century Viennese drawing room. Here Mrs. Joyce Roberts will play on her harpsichord Christmas music which Mozart played.

On the lanais the children will find ornaments and creches, usually associated with snow and ice, that take on unexpected delight near a flower-filled courtyard in the tropics.

So, if you have lost your Christmas spirit, we know where to find it. With the merry 10,000 who are invading our corridors. Come and join our children of many races in the common joy of Christmas. One senses then, more than at any time of the year, the hope of the Academy founders: "That the new generations of Hawaii might, through the channels of art, perceive a foundation on which a new culture, enriched by all the old strains, might be built in these islands."

Christmas Gifts Of Distinction

Why not hang a new membership on someone's Christmas tree! A gift that offers varied events to be enjoyed throughout the year .... Have you seen our new Christmas cards which are repro-ductions of major art works in the Academy? ... Small gifts in the bookstore include attrac-tive note paper, postcards and boxes of matches .... For the collector, why not select a handsome volume in the "Pageant of Japanese Art" series or a book in the popularly-priced "Tourist Library" on phases of Japanese art? ... Distinguished prints and drawings by Artists of Hawaii will be for sale in gallery 3. Prices range from $5 to $100 .... Don't forget-there is a 10% discount for members on items over $ 1.00 in the bookstore.

Academy Names In The News

Mn. E. F. Fitzsimmons was named to the Members' Council as chairman of the social committee and will begin her duties with the children's Christmas party. M1'S. William Kenda, head of Creative Arts, was given a distinguished service award by the PTA Congress. Many members are enjoying the ceramics class by Miss Toshiko Takaezu, on leave from the Cleveland Art Institute where she is director of ceramics. Miss Sue Thomas, 1957 graduate of the University of Washington, joined the Academy this fall as administrative assistant in the Educational De­partment. Mrs. Albert L. Hoogs was recently appointed Lending Collection Librarian. Welcome to Mrs. Walter Prock, who was in charge of publicity for the Old Plantation Tours and who has joined the Membership office. Now a member of the staff in the Membership office after many months service as a devoted volunteer is Miss Florence O'Rourke. Mrs. Edward Baraty, Jr. is now secretary to Robert D. Maxwell, director of public relations.

Welcome To New Members CONTRIBUTING: Mrs. Clarke M. Ward.

ANNUAL: Miss Mary Elizabeth Bellows, Mrs. Paul L. Brollier, Mrs. J. C. Carter, Miss Carolyn Burkert Clausen, Mrs. Rex B. Fairless, Miss Dorothy A. Hebden, Mrs. Robert George Hogan, Mrs. Howard Hope, Mrs. Frederick G. Humphrey, Mrs. Harold S. Johnson, Mrs. Edward F. Kirkland, Lt. Col. Henry W. Lawrence, Mrs. Thomas A. Long, Mrs. Deloss McGraw, Mrs. John Moodie, Mr. Sam H. Owens, Mrs. Norman R. Sloan, Mrs. Richard M. Towill, Mrs. Vincent Van Brocklin, Mrs. Herbert Zukerkorn, Miss Silvia Wiswell.

EDUCATION: Mr. Warren W. Faus, Mr. William Gemmer, Mrs. Francis H. Kanahele, Miss Charlotte Kastenbein, Mrs. Mary Lou McPherson, Mr. Herbert B. Stellmacher, Mrs. John S. 0 . Wong.

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DECEMBER EVENTS Invitations are in the mail for the Austrian Christmas party for members' children from ages 6 to 11. The party will be at 2: 30 p.m. December 19. Please call membership office if for some reason your children did not receive an invitation.

+ The Gleemen of Honolulu will present two of their popular concerts this month: Thursday, December 18, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, December 21, at 4 p.m. Better come early.

+ Don't miss the Christmas exhibitions at the Academy. Open until January 4th, they feature religious art in Galleries 1 and 2, recent gifts of Oriental art in Gallery 13, and prints and drawings by artists of Hawaii in Gallery 3. You will particularly want to see the beautiful Portuguese tazza given to the Academy by Mrs. Louis Gaspar and the magnificent "Haniwa" pottery horse, a recent anonymous gift.

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