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Show Utah Fine Arts Institute offers memorial to Springville member Several items of importance were taken up at the meeting of the art board this week, under un-der the direction of President Omar Hansen, including plans and proposals to carry on the art project, when the high school moves to a new location. It was noted at the meeting that Stanley Burningham, who is now art curator at the art building and teaches art in the designated to make the presentation presen-tation at the art assembly. At the meeting of the board, it was decided, also, to invite Herb Olsen, an exhibitor in the Springville' April show last year, and whose water color was purchased for the permanent per-manent collection, to come to Springville, when he makes a visit to Utah next month. high school, will teach full time at the new school. The possibility of employing a full-time full-time curator and ways and means of financing, were taken tak-en up at the meeting. Memorial A letter was also read at the meeting from the Utah Art Institute proposing an Art memorial to Mrs. Harold (Ruby) Christensen, "not only as a member of the Art Institute, In-stitute, but as a patron in her own community." The letter stated that the memorial would consist of having hav-ing the art association select a painting, in any medium, by a Utah artist, from the April art show not exceeding $400 in price with an engraved metal met-al plaque placed on the frame. The engraving is to read, "Presented by the Utah Art Institution of Fine Arts in memory of Mrs. Harold (Ruby) Christensen for the many years of devoted service in the promotion pro-motion of Utah art, as a member mem-ber of the Utah Institution of Fine Arts, and also as a patron of art in her own community." The letter was signed by Everett C. Thorpe, professor of Department of Art at USU, who the letter stated, had been |