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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1977
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Joe Hutchinson and Ellisa Schob put together
the tile mosaic for the floor of the Academic
Building. The mosaic will he presented by the
Class of 1978.
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By JEANNE GRAHAM
The hole in the center of the
cademic Building floor will soon
e filled with a replica of the Texas
&M University' seal.
Work on the seal is being done in
he kindergarten section of an A&M
iciitary, see Consolidated School building. The
chool or at rrtist is Joe Hutchinson and his
ieluding pd trtwork is a 160-square-foot, round
nosaic.
| The mosaic is a gift to the Univer-
-j'ity horn the Class of 1978. It is
ourteen feet in diameter with 26
lifferent colors of file.
Hutchinson says he approaches
he mosaic as he would a painting.
The A&M seal is officially black and
*'hite, so the color design of the
project is Hutchinson’s own.
Considering the blandness of the
Academic Building., I want the de
sign to be as strong as possible. 1
ptempted to make a strong con
trast, but keep the colors organized
lV 'th the interior,” he explained.
fWIN The many different colors in the
fliosaic give it a brilliance that
should stand out against the black
and white floor of the building. In
the center of the design are a gray
star and a white T outlined in yel-
low. Both are enclosed in a maroon
background. A multi-colored wreath
stends on either side of the maroon
and 1876 is centered in yellow
aw it. Texas A&M University,
e in maroon on gray, completes
the outer circle.
The commission to do the project
.asgranted last spring after Hutch
esons design was chosen from four
submitted.
Production, however, didn’t start
tod this fall. The three
'nch square tiles were produced and
Mpped from Cuernavaca, Mexico.
°roe had to he sent back and re-
or er ed because they lacked quality'
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“We work five to six hours a day,
whenever we have time between
classes,” Schob said. She is a history
and biomedical science major at
Texas A&M and Einhorn is in land
scape architecture, also at Texas
A&M Jenni Hutchinson, who doesn’t
attend school, is 19.
“It (the mosaic) takes an awful lot
of skill — at least we tell ourselves
that,” Hutchinson joked. Each tile
has to be cut precisely to size, and it
takes hours to place a very small sec
tion together, he explained.
Hutchison is an artist by profes
sion, hut also teaches environmental
design at Texas A&M. He has a
bachelor of fine arts degree and a
master’s in art from the University
of Denver in Colorado.
“I really became interested in art
by' accident, Hutchinson said. “I
took it as an elective at the Univer
sity of Denver, and ended up spend
ing more time on it than anything
else.
“There’s always a challenge avail
able in art because nothing ever re
mains the same” he said. “In an 8 to
5 world. I’d go crazy.”
Hutchinson taught in California
and Kansas before he brought his
family to College Station in 1973.
“There is real potential in Texas,
he said. “A&M offers an opportunity
for growth, and the new art cur
riculum is expanding.
“The department officials are
great to work with, he said. “A&M
students are bright, inventive, have
their noses to the grindstone and
know where they’re headed.
“Once the mosaic is installed, T
start painting again seriously,” he
said. “First, I hope to take a trip to
Europe with the income from this
(mosiac).”
The total cost of the mosaic was
undisclosed by Hutchinson or by
l;he Class of 1978.
The mosaic is being pieced upside
down and backwards on a large
sheet of paper. A local contractor
will inlay it in the floor of the
Academic Building, and the paper
will be peeled off to present the
right side of the mosaic.
Presentation of the gift by the
Class of 1978 will be Oct. 29.
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HOLLYWOOD—There’s no bet
ter way to put a damper on a Hol
lywood party than to invite Charlton
Heston, Gregory Peck and Henry
Fonda to the festivities.
Chuck, Greg and Hank fail to
lend a devil-may-care flavor to any
congregation. All three are ham
pered by legendary characteristics,
partly their own, partly the accumu
lation of the roles they’ve played
and the honors that have befallen
them.
To be sure, none of the three ac
cept all that many invitations, else
they’d he going out three or four
times a night.
But they are as misplaced at a typ
ical swinging Hollywood soiree as
redwoods in a bonzai garden.
Fonda is more socially active than
Heston and Peck. But then his wife,
Shirley, is young and popular with
the party-giving set. Both Lydia
Heston and Veronique Peck are
immense assets to their husbands
socially.
When Hank Fonda does attend a
private party he generally can be
found alone in the library or den in
specting the host s book collection.
Peck usually stands in a corner look
ing self-conscious and flushed of
face.
business and the arts, but they are
strangers to gossip and trivia.
They have excellent analytical
minds and communicate brilliantly
on a one-to-one basis. But put them
in the swirl of a cocktail party or a
cattle call buffet and they die on the
vine.
Their Herculean reputations in
timidate some people, but the bot
tom line is that they are born gen
tlemen, and all three suffer terminal
shyness.
Heston, his famous face wreathed
in a grin, said, “My son, Fraser, told
me the other day he d finally dis
covered I was shy. That took some
insight. I thought I’d concealed it
behind a cool and collected facade of
professionalism.
“He said I do better at parties at
which I’m not supposed to have fun.
Those would be the banquets and
formal affairs I attend for the Motion
Picture Producers Association, the
Screen Actors Guild, The American
Film Institute, The Motion Picture
Academy and the Center Theater
Group.
“No matter how square and un
comfortable Greg and Hank and I
are at parties, we go when asked. It
goes with the franchise.
“They don’t give you a percentage
of the gross just to make a picture.
You have to sell it too. You’re not
just promoting your own films. You
have a vested interest in the on
going success of all movies.
“My criticism of some of the
young stars today is that they feel
they’re compromising their integ
rity if they do an interview. They
feel burdened if they attend an
academy function. That’s self-
indulgent and deceiving.
“I don’t attend many private par
ties because Tin involved in five or
sLx industry events a month. And, to
he honest, I really do feel uncom
fortable at a social gathering unless
I ve known the people for 20 years.
Hank, Chuck and Greg are great
front men, heavyweights to adorn a
dais for visiting VIPs. Inevitably
they are called to participate when
visiting firemen are being feted.
Henry Kissinger visited Hol
lywood recently, and for three
nights in a row, Heston was present
at dinners honoring the ex-secretary
of state.
But it is part of my work.
“Prince Charles of England is
coming to town soon. There will he
a formal dinner and lunch given in
his honor. I was called to attend
Ixxth.
“With all this activity, I can’t be
called a social recluse. But like Greg
and Hank, I’m not a social butterfly
either.
“I can hardly wait to become a
full-fledged character actor profes
sionally. Then I can become a cur
mudgeon and sit in a corner and
have the host bring me drinks.
“Then when people come up with
their tentative questions 1 can poke
them with a walking stick and say,
You young uns, what do you
know?”
Heston cackled like an old man
and polished off a glass of noonday
wine.
He will soon be seen in “The Last
Hard Men,” his first horse opera
since “Will Penny” back in 1968.
“I’m sure Henry was sick and
tired of seeing me, Heston said,
laughing. “And I was tired of him.
“I like doing westerns, he said,
“and I’d like to work in more of
them. I ll tell you one thing, the so
cial amenities were a lot simpler in
those days.
Heston tries to circulate but gen
erally fidgets on the periphery of
groups eavesdropping rather than
participating.
Their presence at parties does no
thing to encourage the open snuf
fing of cocaine or firing up of pot.
Not a soul remembers seeing any of
the trio tipsy, much less roaring
drunk.
All three superstars are benefit of
small talk. Oh, they’ll discuss show
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