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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.

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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.

/

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.

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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,

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