Crafts Advisers

The importance of crafts in the fine arts program of Hopkins Center was underscored last month with the announcement that the Center will have a fifteen- member Crafts Advisory Group, similar to the groups serving in drama, music, and art. The advisory chairman is Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb of New York, who founded the League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts, the American Craftsmen's Council, which she now serves as chairman, and the magazine CraftsHorizons.

Five alumni in the advisory group are Emanuel M. Benson ’27, dean of the Philadelphia Museum College of Art; Elliott Donnelley ’2B, vice chairman of the Chicago printing firm, R. R. Don- nelley & Sons; William H. Timbers ’37, Judge of the U. S. District Court for Connecticut; Henry H. Townshend Jr. ’43, president of J. T. Henry Manufactur- ing Cos., Hamden, Conn.; and Rene d’Harnoncourt, L.H.D. ’55, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and a trustee of the American Crafts- men’s Council.

Other members are William J. Barrett, vice president of Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Cos.; Harold J. Brennan, dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology; David Campbell, president of the American Craftsmen’s Council; Dr. Frederick J. Dockstader, director of the Museum of the American Indian, who was curator of anthropology at the Dartmouth College Museum, 1952-55; Roger H. Hallowell, president of Reed & Barton, silversmiths; Bartlett H. Hayes, director of the Addi- son Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover; Mrs. Dorothy Liebes of New York, textile designer; Francis S. Merritt, director of the Haystack Moun- tain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine; and Dana P. Vaughan, dean of the Cooper Union School of Arts and Archi- tecture, New York.