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Orono Weekly Times, 29 Sep 1966, p. 10

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OROtNO EKY lE, RDYETEBR28i,16 New Trent Building Namned Wallî*s Halli A new residentiai and teach -_______________ ing' building at Catharine Parr Trai College of Trent Univers- PUPILS TO STAY ity hias been namned Wallis Hall in honor of Katherine E.,Wallisp HOME FROM SCHOOL the internatiionally known Can- Eighteen pupils in the South adian artist andi native of ýPeter- Cavan School Area were1 to stay borough, it was anfl0uflcd re- home again Friday. Attempts to cently by Professor T. H. B. Sy- mediate between the parents of, mons, the President and Vice-1pupils who have been advised Chancellor. The new addition, theirchildren will have to go to whieh bas recently been cýomplet-IJMibrok to accommodate pupils ed, will contain fifty-three tudy f rom another School iu the beromsaswell as tutorialo- South Cavan school and the local fices, common- room facis, school board by Alex Carruthers, and accommodation for two miem- MPP, failed Monday night with bers of the- Faculty livinig in resi-, the parents standing fast on not dence as Dons. allowing their children to go- to school until a suitable settiement Bora in Peterborough in 1860, is found. Katherine Wallis studied at the National Gallery in Edinburg and The school board has ~resisted at the Royal College of Art la pressure to reserve its decision London, where, she first discov- and 'bas at on~e point tolti parents ered' sculpturiug as her medium1 to "go home" with the board of, expression and won the Col- chairman, Marshall Fallis advis- lege's Bronze, Medal and the ing the, group, "it is noue of your Modellers' Free Schoarship. From business." , London she went to Paris, to 'Iu addition, to the school, at- study under the uoted scuiptor, tendance complaint the parents of Oscar Waldmann, and was soon the, childreu also stated that iuvited to exhibit in the Exposi- much of the board business is not tion Univ erselle where she won~ made known. honouriable mention. in subse-. quent years, she texhibiteti fre- quently ln the Spriing Salon of the Artistes Fraucaîs andi later lu the 'Societe Nationtale des Beaux Arts, as well as t numnerous ex- hibits lu London land elsewhere in the British Isies, in the Uuit.ed States, and lu other countries. aFI Dariug fLie First .World VWar, ,miss wases r was inter- rupted -wvhile she served as a nurse lui a Canadian hospital lui Paris,' wining decorations from both the British and Frenchi Goverumrents for hejcr services. inu the Years fcfllowîngtlle war, Kathierine W ýallis became an art- ist of injternationally recoguized statu1-re. la 1929 she receiveti per- haps her higyhest r-ecoguitiOn as an artist wheu she was electedl a Societaire of the Societe Na- tionale des Beaux Arts, the flrst Canadian to be sa honoured., A frequent visitor to Peterborough, Miss Wallis left France at, the ont- set of the Second World War when she returnedi to live lu North America lu Sauta Cruz, California, until her death lun 1957. In making" this announcement, President Symious noted 'that Cathariine Parr Trai College and its constituent Houses have ail been namied to commemonate womneu of the Peterborough- area who were notable for literary, artlstic, or historie reasons, and that it was fitting that the new building should. fhonour such a distinii,.shied native of Peter- borough. Miss Wallis's sketch- bookçs, auttobiogapihy aud other material were presenttinlu1965 to the Trent Uu-Iiversity Library and forrn part of the UuiversîtV's growîng colection dealing with Canadian art and artists. The President was, happy to note that, lu addition to honour- lug Katheriue Wallis, the name Wallis Hall would commemorat~e the notable contribution matie to the Peterborough anti Trent Val- ley community by the Wallis family over several generations, and mark the association wîi.h the' University of Colonel Hugh1 Wallis who had been one of the original flouorary Sonor f. Trent. Colonel Wallis has serveti with distinctiopi on som e of the na- tion's Most influential bodies. 11e is a past president of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and played a vital role lu the Museum's celebration, of _e, Cen- tena'ry lun190. A past presidenit of -the Canatilan Citizenship Coun cil auid a governor of the Mont-, real Gýeneral Hospital and the Motreal Childreu's Hospital, Colonel Wallis has aiso been act- ive lu the Canadian Cetenary Council, first as chairman of the seven-makn, nýon-gcoverumfeutal in- terjim commnittee planningý the Or- ganization of the 1967 centenal celebration of Confederationi andi, niow, as chairmani of te exeutveý o2 [thicouni W. J; ,McMECHAN Presiclent 0f Cordiallylin vites you to the showingof the NEW 1967 PONTIACS, BICKS, ACADIANS BEAUMONTS, G.&M.Co TRUCKS SEPTEMBER 29, ý30, 31 REFRESHMENTS SERVED qý-9ý5 fiECOMMENDED R' ilILVALUE) ï V ubuir L, Until November 12-at 1ail stores where you see the Hydro Special display. 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