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Show Famed Architect WESTMINSTER PROJECT DRAWS TALENT Coming to Sugar House November Novem-ber 17 to study the site for a long-planned long-planned School of Humanities at Westminster College is Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the most fabulous colorful figures in the architectural world. J. Richard Palmer, president of mark a great forward step in the future development and expansion Continued Inside Famed Architect WESTMINSTER Continued from Page 1 of Westminster College. Included in the Cultural Center the college, made the announcement, announce-ment, saying the establishment of the Cultural Center to house the new School of Humanities will will be a chapel, facilities and classrooms for art, music, drama, relgion and philosophy, President Palmer said. Famed for such creations as the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, only building to survive the earthquake of 1923, Press Building in San Francisco and many unconventional unconvention-al homes and other sructures, Mr. Wright will speak on organic ar chitecture in an appearance November No-vember 17 in Kingsbury Hall. His talk is titled, "Trends n Contemporary Contem-porary Architecture and Their Relation Re-lation to Our Culture." Architect Wright's consent to make the study for Westminster College is a dramatic triumph for the school. This is Mr. Wright's first appearance in the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain area. Negotiations to have him come here were begun in September, Septem-ber, 1951, when Elaine Michelsen, head of the Westminster art department, de-partment, flew to Lakeland, Fla., where Mr. Wright was then dedicating dedi-cating the new structures he created cre-ated for the Southern College there. After several meetings with friends of the Sugar House school, Mr. Wright agreed to make the trip. |