The Brand of Hardin-Simmons University (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 11, Ed. 1, Monday, March 25, 1985 Page: 3 of 6
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Rebecca Coffman...
Art student with
"Art Is my way of expressing the
love of Christ to others" said
Rebecca Coffman.
The senior exhibition of Rebec-
ca Coffman opened Sunday
March 3 and ran through March
22 at the University Art Gallery
The exhibit entitled "A Self Por-
trayal" consisted of ceramics and
paintings. Coffman will receive
her Bachelor of Fine Arts In May
with a double concentration in
painting and ceramics. Coffman is
originally from Dallas and came to
HSU In 1982 when her family
moved to Abilene. Her father is
currently Dean of the School ot
Music at HSU.
Cottman started doing a "self
portrayal" series last semester
when she was going through
some personal struggles in her
own life. She decided to do not
only a self portrait but to include
another theme using masks as a
symbol. Her work Is focused on
presenting a challenge to man to
come out of hiding.
"People all tend to wear masks.
Children have no masks because
they are uninhibited with their
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Senior Rebecca Coffman works with careful concentration at her potter's
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Fontaine.
After brief parts in films with
Joan Crawford and Katherine
Hepburn she took the name Fon-
taine on the advice of a fortune
teller and starred in a series of "B"
films which gave her she feels
better training and experience
than all the dramatic classes she
had attended in Hollywood.
At a dinner party at Charles
Chaplin's Miss Fontaine sat next
to a gentleman discussing
leterature. After saying she had
just read Daphne de Maurier's
Rebecca which she thought
would make a fine film her dinner
partner introduced
himself... David O. Selznick said
he'd bought the book that week
and would Miss Fontaine like to
test for the role of "I" de Winter?
Indeed she would and after seven
tests and many disappointments
she finally landed the coveted part
which had been tested by
Hollywood luminaries such as
Loretta Young Vivien Leigh
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develop a mask to hide behind.
Eventually people become so
wrapped up in their own little
worlds that they forget to reach
out to others" said Coffman. "I
challenge people to take down
their masks and relate to others."
Coffman's show also Included
ceramics consisting of both
stoneware and raku forms. She
first began studying ceramics dur-
ing the summer of 1979.
"It was my first college course.
I'd always been fascinated with
porters. I love working with my
hands and It feeb like I'm doing
what God intended for me."
Since that time Coffman has
had several Influences on her life.
Lisa Enrich a professions! potter
from Denton had a large influence
on encouraging her to continue In
ceramics.
Robert Howell professor of
ceramics at HSU also has had a
large Impact on her.
"Mr. Howell has helped me to
stand on my own as an artist and
has taught me never to limit my
own creativity" saidCoffman.
Susan Hayward and Geraldine
Fitzgerald.
Rebecca won the Academy
Award in 1940 giving Miss Fon-
taine her first Academy Award
nomination plus the New York
Motion Picture's Critics' Award as
well as the Canadian Film Critics'
Award.
In her next film Suspicion also
directed by Alfred Hitchcock she
won the prized Oscar while The
Constant Nymph made the
following year gave her another
Academy Award nomination. She
was the youngest leading lady to
ever win an Oscar.
During her many years In
Holly wod Miss Fontaine made
over 45 films. As well as those
already mentioned her best
known are The Women Jane
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Sun Tender is the Night and
September Affair. Letter From an
Unknown Woman starring Louis
Jourdan directed by Max Ophuls
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"Some people view pottery from a
functional standpoint but I also get
satisfaction working purely from
the aesthetic view."
Coffman has studied many ar-
tists' techniques and attended
several workshops but she strives
to retain her own originality.
One of her most enriching ex-
periences occurred this past sum-
mer when she taught ceramics to
young girls at Camp Waldemar.
"It was a special experience and
although I had never taught
before It all felt very natural. It
was fascinating to be able to share
with all those kids and watch them
learn" Coffman said.
Coffman plans to attend
graduate school and would even-
tually like to teach ceramics on a
college level.
"I don't ever want to stop pain-
ting. In a way it's a form of ex-
pressing myself that I don't get
from ceramics. I want to continue
creating producing studying
and learning. Most of all I want to
develop my skills so that I can
serve God the best way possible"
Coffman said.
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from a story by Stefan Zweig was
made by Miss Fontaine's own film
company Rampart Productions
and has become a classic as have
several of her other films.
She has the good fortune to
play opposite such notable leading
men as Laurence Olivier Cary
Grant Orson Welles Warren
Beatty James Stewart Robert
Ryan Fred Astaire Paul Newman
and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and to
be directed by Alfred Hitchcock
George Cukor Max Ophuls. Fritz
Lang Edmund Goulding George
Stevens and Elia Kazan.
In 1954 she came to Broadway
in Tea and Sympathy with An-
thony Perkins. Since then her
career has been largely focused on
the theatre in such plays as Private
Lives Blithe Spirit Forty Carats
Cactus Flower and Lion in Winter.
She also finds time to appear in
TV films and dinner theatre lec-
turing in universities and women's
clubs on such subjects as
"Hollywood. .. The Golden
Years" "The Romance of
Elizabeth Barrett and Robert
Browning: Their Poems and Let-
ters" "Now is the Best Time of
All" "America: Three Centuries
Through the Words of Her
Women Poets" and "The China
Experience." She received an
Emmy nomination for her cameo
role on TV's Ryan's Hope in
1980.
Miss Fontaine lived in New
York City's East Seventies for
many years and now resides in
California's Carmel Highlands.
When not acting and lecturing
she devotes her time to travel
writing and needlepoint. "The
Joan Fontaine Show" Is viewed
on national TV cable networks
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Pictured are several books that were purchased in London this summer
Rare and Fine Books . These books are on display on the main floor of
Rare books added to
The Rupert N. Richardson
Library has several additions for
the ' Betty Woods Room for Old
Rare and Fine Books .
This past summer during his trip
to London Dr. Larry Brunner
head of the Department of
English was given funds to pur-
chase books for the collection . He
purchased several early editions
which date back to the 17th and
18th centuries The oldest book
.that was purchased was a first edi-
tion of John Milton's 'Tetrachor-
don' which dates back to 1645.
'Tetrachordon' is named for the
four-stringed Greek lyre. It deals
with the four books of scripture
Genesis Dueteronomy Matthew
and First Corinthians. The book
exhibits much of Milton's personal
rancor that he felt as a result of his
own unhappy marriage.
Thomas Moore's 'Lalla Rookh:
an Oriental Romance' was also
among the books purchased
Thomas Moore was a very
popular writer of his time . He was
regarded as the national poet of
Ireland and was paid very high
prices for publishing rights. 'Lalla
Rookh' is his series of four Orien-
tal verse tales ot romance and the
exotic. This contemporary edition
dates back to 1832.
Also among these treasures is
Samuel Butler's 'Hudibras'. This is
a famous mock-epic poem which
is a satire on the hypocrisy and in-
tolerance of the English Puritans.
It is somewhat modled after 'Don
1 Quixote '
A total of eight books were pur-
chased. Brunner researched and
visited many antique book shops
In London In making the pur-
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chases. He was specifically look-
ing for "early and contemporary
editions of literature from the 17th
and 18th centuries."
The folowlng books were pur-
chased; 'Sonnets and Other
Poems' by Rev. William Lisle
Bowles Richard Bentley's
'Paradise Lost of Milton' The
Works of James Thomson' written
by James Thomson Anthony
Wood's two volume first edition of
'Athenae Oxonienses: An Exact
History of the Writers and Bishops
who have had their Education in
the Most Ancient and Famous
University of Oxford' and
Margaret Lucas' 1791 edition of
her only published work 'An Ac-
count of the Convincement and
Call to the Ministry of Margaret
Lucas Late of Leek in Stafford-
shire' "I was delighted to do it" said
Poet to speak at HSU
Betty ..Adcock a well known
poet who has given poetry
readings at over 40 campuses in
the south midwest and southwest
will be appearing on the HSU
campus today March 25 at a 3
p.m. question-answer-discussion
session and an 8 p.m. poetry
reading. Mrs Adcock's visit to
HSU is being made possible
through funding from the Cullen
Foundation and the Texas Arts
Commission.
At 3 p.m. today a question and
answer and discussion session will
be held in Room 100 of the Sid
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the library.
library
Brunner "I hope to have the op-
portunity logo back and purchase
more books."
The Old Rare and Fine Book
Collection is funded by the Gee
and Betty Woods Memorial Trust.
The collection was established in
1983 by Clee Woods. Woods is
a writer educator and author of
several books and is from from
Albuquerque N.M. He and his
late wife Betty taught several
creative writing courses at HSU in
the 1950's. The Wood's have not
only provided funds for the collec-
tion but have donated books of
their own.
According to library director Dr.
Joe Dahlstrom the collection will
be valuable for promoting faculty
and graduate research.
"We are in the early stages of
our collection but we have a good
start" said Dahlstrom.
HSU campus. At 8 p.m. Mrs.
Adcock will give a poetry reading
in Duffy Auditorium of the
Richardson Library. Both sessions
are open to the public and free of
charge.
Best known for her poetry Mrs.
Adcock has published two collec-
tions of poems both by Louisiana
State University Press: Walking
Out (1975) which won the Great
Lakes College Association's New
Writing Award for poetry and
Nettles (1983) receiving the
Roanoke-Chowan Award in 1984
for the best book of poetry by a
North Carolina resident.
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