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U.S. Air Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command and the highest ranking officer to graduate from Clemson’s ROTC program, administers the Oath of Enlistment to a group of Army ROTC cadets in Military Heritage Plaza, Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Kathleen Swinney, members of the Clemson Tigers football team, Clifford the Big Red Dog and the Clemson Tiger entertain 150 elementary school kids at the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Professors from Clemson University’s College of Education visit South Carolina’s so-called ‘Corridor of Shame’ during a listen and learn field trip to the area, March 6, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The 2017 Solar Eclipse in totality from Clemson University’s Memorial Stadium, Aug. 21. 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Air Force Col. Christopher R. Mann, professor of military studies for Clemson University's Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Det. 770, pauses to gather himself as he speaks to his family during his retirement ceremony in the Tillman Hall auditorium, April 28, 2017. Mann was retiring after a stellar 26-year career. He began as a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy in 1991 and went on to earn two masters degrees, a PhD, and logged 2,800 flight hours. He deployed and flew combat sorties in support of Operations.Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, and held command positions in units across a full spectrum of U.S. Air Force operations before being assigned to Clemson. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University Tiger Band director Mark Spede and assistant director Tim Hurlburt take the band through a rehearsal on their rehearsal field on the Clemson campus as the sun sets, Nov. 15, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Ever Gann, 8, views the 2017 Solar Eclipse from the Clemson University campus, Aug. 21. 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Here's a shot from my home town of Austin. This is the Littlefield Fountain which is on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, which is where I went to school. This shot is actually fairly old, but I came across it in the archives recently and realized I had never done anything with it. After letting HDR Efex Pro do its magic, I was really happy with the look of the water. I would call it somewhat impressionistic, but I found it interesting nonetheless.
From the blog at: www.nomadicpursuits.com/blog/
The sun flares behind one of the holes on Clemson University’s John E. Walker Sr. Golf Course, March 8, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Oh hey, CN Tower.
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Clemson Tigers defensive lineman Christian Wilkins reads “Clifford’s Good Deeds” to elementary school children during a celebration of the Tigers Read! initiative at the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, June 9, 2017. The initiative is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and has delivered customized Scholastic book packs to nearly 1,200 students across South Carolina that help prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
•Title: The Song of the Vowels
•Collection: Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
•Creator(s): Lipchitz, Jacques (French sculptor, 1891-1973, active in the United States) Male
•Date: 1962; 1931-1932
•Acquisition Date: 1962
•Culture: French
•Style/Period: Cubism
•Work Type: Outdoor Sculpture;
•Materials/Techniques: Bronze
•Extent: 10 Feet Including Base
•Description: “The Song of the Vowels. Gift of Harold D. Uris and Percy Uris 1962.” Artist J. Lipchitz. Between Uris Library and John M. Olin Library.
•Artist Biography: Jacob Lipchitz (1891-1973) was born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz in Druskininkai, Lithuania, and later became a French citizen.
•Donor: Uris, Harold David, 1905-1982; Uris, Percy, 1899-1971
•Repository: Cornell Library
•Repository Location: Between Uris and Olin Libraries, Cornell University
Restored and revitalized, Song of the Vowels enjoys a newly-designed setting on the plaza between Olin and Uris libraries. Cornell University acquired the sculpture in 1962. Since that time, Song of the Vowels has been a fixture on the south end of Cornell’s Arts Quad, and a favorite gathering spot.
Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz created Song of the Vowels in 1931, and had it cast in a limited edition of seven copies, of which Cornell’s is the fifth. Other copies may now be found at Princeton University, UCLA, Stanford University, at Nelson Rockefeller’s Kykuit Gardens and at museums of modern art in Europe.
Born in Lithuania as Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, the artist spent much of his early career in Paris, working alongside Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque as a leader of the Cubist movement. The Cubistic attributes of his style are perhaps better displayed in the Bather, produced between 1923 and 1925, and also owned by the Cornell University Library.
Lipchitz’s Bather is a monumental study of geometric forms and intersecting planes that pivot around a central axis: the human bather’s torso. Bather was one of the last pieces Lipchitz created that can be considered strictly Cubist. Although his debt to Cubism is always apparent in his work, Lipchitz also drew inspiration from mythology, fantasy, and emotion to create expressive sculptural works. Song of the Vowels, created a few years later, represents a significantly different stage in Lipchitz’s oeuvre. While Bather is calm and carefully measured, Song of the Vowels is animated and energetic.
Lipchitz explained his inspiration for Song of the Vowels this way:
I had been commissioned to make a garden statue for Madame de Maudrot for her house at Le Pradet, in the south of France, designed by Le Corbusier. I was entranced by the location, a vineyard with mountains at the background, and since I was still obsessed with the idea of the harp, I decided to attempt a monument suggesting the power of man over nature. I had read somewhere about a papyrus discovered in Egypt having to do with a prayer that was a song composed only of vowels and designed to subdue the forces of nature … I cannot explain why the image of the harp and the Song of the Vowels should have come together except that both of them were in my mind at the same moment.
The design for Olin Library included a small sculpture court in an exterior alcove on the eastern side of the first floor, visible from the main reference area through a glass wall. As the building of Olin Library was nearing completion in 1961, a committee was charged with selecting sculpture for both the Olin Library sculpture court, and for the plaza between Olin and Uris libraries. The committee’s goal was to find modern sculpture of international renown. In January 1962, a major exhibition of Jacques Lipchitz sculpture came to Cornell’s Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art. With urging from art professor Jack Squier, the committee recommended the acquisition of Jacques Lipchitz’s work. Trustee Harold D. Uris, Class of 1925, and his brother, Percy, generously provided funds for both sculptures. Bather was installed in June of 1962, while Song of the Vowels came to its home at Cornell in October of the same year. Olin’s sculpture court has been replaced by a corridor that links Olin Library with the underground Carl A. Kroch Library, which opened in 1992.
After nearly 50 years as a landmark on the Cornell campus, concerns for the preservation and maintenance of Song of the Vowels led to an examination of the physical structure. Small holes had developed and were allowing moisture to penetrate the bronze and compromise the structure, so the sculpture was sent to the Williamstown Art Conservation Center for expert scientific analysis and conservation treatment. The planned return of Song of the Vowels provided an excellent opportunity to redesign the plaza between Uris and Olin Libraries, and landscape architect John Ullberg was hired to re-conceptualize the installation. He created a communal space that focuses attention on the sculpture, placed atop a limestone pedestal in a plaza that incorporates granite pavers, stone benches and new landscaping. The restored sculpture has now come back to its home, where it is appreciated by a new generation of Cornellians.
The Bather, too, has a new location. It now stands near the entrance to Olin Library, within sight of Song of the Vowels.
Kathleen Swinney, members of the Clemson Tigers football team, Clifford the Big Red Dog and the Clemson Tiger entertain 150 elementary school kids at the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The Clemson University ROTC Pershing Rifles raise the American flag on the Ben Skardon flag pole, Aug. 11, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Kathleen Swinney, members of the Clemson Tigers football team, Clifford the Big Red Dog and the Clemson Tiger entertain 150 elementary school kids at the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Kathleen Swinney, members of the Clemson Tigers football team, Clifford the Big Red Dog and the Clemson Tiger entertain 150 elementary school kids at the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University College of Education dean George Petersen, The Clemson Tiger, and the Tiger Cub welcome school kids to the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Beth Clements, wife of Clemson University president James Clements, helps Col. Ben Skardon to his seat during Skardon’s 100th birthday celebration at Clemson, Aug. 11, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
A Clemson Tigers glag waves next to the sun during the 2017 Solar Eclipse, Aug. 21. 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson Universtiy Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps senior cadets listen intently during an informal Q&A session with U.S. Air Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command and the highest ranking officer to graduate from Clemson’s ROTC program, Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Arthur H. Dean Room
The General Reading Room, now known as the Dean Room, is Uris Library’s most commanding interior space and its prominence is significant. While not the first library to contain such a space, architect William Henry Miller’s design reflects a major shift in how academic libraries functioned.
Previously, university libraries were essentially storage facilities open to faculty only a few hours per week. But Cornell’s library building was designed to accommodate a collection of 400,000 books and to provide a convenient way for people to access and use those books. Built into the natural slope of the site, no book in the library was more than 120 feet away from the service desk at the west end of the General Reading Room – the same place where today’s circulation desk is located.
Cornell may have had the first American university library intended for extensive use by undergraduates as well as faculty, thanks to the vision of its first University Librarian Willard Fiske. Cornell’s library was open nine hours a day, longer than any other college library in the country. Hours were extended even further in 1885, when Cornell’s library, then located in McGraw Hall, became one of the first American libraries to be lighted by electricity.
The library may have been open, but books did not leave the building. From the beginning, the library was conceived as a non-circulating reference library. Only later after conducting a survey of other libraries in 1908 did Cornell agree to allow books to be borrowed by its faculty and students.
By then, the stacks were already becoming overcrowded. Lack of adequate space for books and readers became a frequent source of contention over the next 50 years and these pressures were not completely remedied until Olin Library was built in 1961.
Renamed in 1962 for Harold D. Uris, a graduate of Cornell’s Class of 1925 and a Cornell trustee from 1967 to 1972, Uris Library was designated as the “undergraduate library,” so that these students would not have to compete with graduate students or faculty for resources, services or study space.
The Dean Room is named for Arthur H. Dean, an Ithaca native, Cornell alumnus, attorney, diplomat, United Nations delegate, and Cornell University trustee. He and his wife Mary provided funds for the renovation of Uris Library and the building of Olin Library. Thousands of rare books and manuscripts have been added to the library collections as a result of their generosity, and to foster a love of books and reading among Cornell’s students, they also began the library’s first undergraduate book collection contest, which lasted from 1966 until 1989.
The Dean Room is now, as it has always been, a reading room where one can study quietly or take advantage of other traditional library services. It is also a hub of new activities. Card catalogs have been replaced by computers and wireless connections make access to Cornell’s digital resources possible here and throughout the building.
In the northwest corner of the room hang portraits of Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the University’s co-founders. They are joined by portraits of Cornell’s past presidents, which proceed in chronological order as you move counterclockwise around the room.
Elements of Cornell’s history are preserved in Uris Library’s architecture and art work. As you tour the building, we hope that you can appreciate Andrew Dickson White’s belief that: “the library is the heart of the university, ‘the culmination of all.’”
Col. Ben Skardon gets a kiss from NBC News reporter Mandy Gaither during his 100th birthday celebration at Clemson University.(Photo by Ken Scar)
Winston Holton, field coordinator for Clemson University’s Call Me Mister program, and Clemson Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney share a moment on Clemson’s indoor practice field, Dec. 18, 2017. The two were taking part in the “Kicks, Cleats, and Kids” event sponsored by Swinney’s All In Team Foundation, PAW Journey and Call Me MiSTER. Two-hundred children received Nike shoes and an experience designed to motivate and inspire them to better understand the link between strong personal character, commitment to academic success and positive life outcomes. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Air Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command and the highest ranking officer to graduate from Clemson’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program, talks to ROTC cadets in the Tillman Hall auditorium, Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Air Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command and the highest ranking officer to graduate from Clemson’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program, administers the Oath of Enlistment to ROTC cadets in the Tillman Hall auditorium, Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Air Force Col. Michael Seiler, director of safety, Air Mobility Wing, shakes hands with Col. Christopher R. Mann, professor of military studies for Clemson University's Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Det. 770, after he pinned the Legion of Merit medal onto Mann’s uniform during Mann’s retirement ceremony in Tillman Hall auditorium, April 28, 2017. Mann was a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy in 1991 and went on to earn two masters degrees, a Ph.D, and logged 2,800 flight hours. He deployed and flew combat sorties in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, and held command positions in units across a full spectrum of U.S. Air Force operations before being assigned to Clemson. (Photo by Ken Scar)Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, and held command positions in units across a full spectrum of U.S. Air Force operations before being assigned to Clemson. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Professors from Clemson University’s College of Education listen to a group of teachers in Edisto High School in Lake City, S.C., March 5, 2018. The professors were visiting South Carolina’s so-called ‘Corridor of Shame’ during a listen and learn field trip to the area. (Photo by Ken Scar)
LuAnn Leavitt, of Johns Creek, Ga., looks at the sun through a pair of binoculars at Clemson University’s Watt Family Innovation Center during the 2017 Solar Eclipse event, Aug. 21. 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The freshly-painted Clemson University Tiger paw adorns Bowman Field on a beautiful fall morning, March 1, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Kathleen Swinney, wife of Clemson University head football coach Dabo Swinney, greets children from six Upstate South Carolina elementary schools during a celebration of the Tigers Read! initiative at the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, June 9, 2017. The initiative is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and has delivered customized Scholastic book packs to nearly 1,200 students across South Carolina that help prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)