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National Geographic : 1960 Apr
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has always encouraged the independence of his fellow artists." Dick did not have to remind me that Tobey recently won the Venice Biennale. The only other American ever to win a comparable Venetian prize was James McNeill Whistler. A community sensitive to art is likely to be music minded, too. Our city has a wonderful symphony orchestra, con ducted by Milton Katims. Enormously popular are its family neighborhood concerts that the symphony holds in schools, church halls, and movie theaters. Even the youngest children are welcome. Dwight and I feel that someone should set to music the panorama of Seattle's past, perhaps in something like Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! The inspiration is surely here in the rags-to-riches record of a few score years. First, as in so many parts of the West, there was the Indian University of Washington's Gothic Towers Cast Fluttering Images on Frosh Pond Some 16,800 students make this 99-year-old school the largest in the Northwest. Atomic and oceanographic research centers and major new construction reflect its dynamic spirit. Adminis tration Building at left, Library at center right, and Physics Hall surround these students. Eastern dogwood thrives in the university's Arboretum, whose 250 acres nourish some 2,500 kinds of trees and shrubs. Director Brian O. Mulligan gathers autumn-hued dogwood leaves. problem. In 1853 the Terri tory of Washington was offi cially cut loose from Ore gon. One of Governor Isaac Stevens's first duties was to make treaties with the In dians to establish legal title to the settlers' claims. He assured the red men reserva- 510
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