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Show DIGEST GIVES H S. STUDENT RECOGNITION A choice bit of recognition came to Miss Virginia Rivers, a senior student of the Springville high school through the columns of the Literary Digest for December 31, 1932, when an extract from one of her themes was published. 1 For a number of years the English Eng-lish and ' Art departments of the school have : 'cooperated in requiring requir-ing that each student -write a theme "My Favorite Picture."" This is - done to increase! the students' appreciation of ' art and to give motivation to composition work. Accordingly, early in the month of April during which the exhibit iu held, each student selects his favorite fav-orite painting and begins an intensive in-tensive study of its color values, composition, ils message, and where possible, the life of the ait-ist ait-ist who painted it. As a result, many essays of superior merit are produced and some of these - are sent to the artists. Several, last year, were sent to Walter Koeniger whose painting "Through the Birches" was the student body purchase pur-chase prize, and was a favuiite from the very first. Later in the year when one of Mr. Koeniger's paintings "Winter Sunlight" was to be used for a cover design for the last "Literary Digest" of the year, he sent along vith his painting, one of these student essays. The "Digest" was so impressed ' with it that the following fol-lowing paragraph was selected and published along with a short introduction intro-duction of the artist himself. HThis beautiful country scene ap-pears ap-pears to have been -freed - from every impurity by a recent -ain. The clouds aie light as fairies who have paused for a second on a clear blue pool. The trees look to me as those trees must have looked look-ed to Joyce Kilmer when he wrote his poem 'Trees.' The winding road lcoks as though, could it tell its story, it would be one- of trial and endurance at first; but now it is resting as its troubles are' left behind. be-hind. It is like a person who, after aft-er gaining fame by living a life of service, is now waiting for some change in its existence." Other artists, too, have voiced i their appreciation and interest in ihe themes sent them. Colin Campbell Camp-bell Cooper expressed his pleasure by sending a small print of the picture described in the essay of Miss Coba Cafful; John Hubbaid Rich and Olaf Moller lauded the assays sent them; and Paul Dough-erty Dough-erty one of America's foremost marine painters writes: "It is fine to know of this work that the youth of Springville is doing for the community. It is certain to ear fruit in richer- lives for the students themselves and for their! community, too. |