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I 'The Black Student' College Doors Opened Wider Here For Negroes rial hnrfupt. hones that the ii.nir (n oKnut ti stnrtrnts in What Colleges Cost And colleges and universities in the Pittsburgh district are coming up with new ways every day. professional football team chasing after a high school draft choice. There are a number of ways to nail down the prospect. Costs compared among nine schools for the 1968-69 academic year: Tuition Room Board Total Penn State 525 800 $1325 Robert Morris $1000 900 $1900 Mount Mercy $1500 $1050 $2550 Allegheny Community 300 300 Chatham $1850 $1150 $3000 Pitt 550 $1000 $1550 Point Park $1359 960 $2310 Carnegie-Mellon $1950 $1100 $3150 Duquesne $1400 920 $2320 By LINDA GOLDSTEIN and JACQUELINE JAMES The job of recruiting a black student for college is about as tricky and complex as a AL lb- JlOtll OVUMIi Project Committment, a program for high school juniors," Mr.

Mcrante said. "About 25 of these students are black, and if any of the participants decide to go to Duquesne, we're committed to pay for their education here," he added. Point Park also has created a new program, Academic Improvement, "which has a spe-clal responsibility to work with special community groups," according to Stan Buswell, vice president for community relations. The school has a workshop program for youngsters who haven't qualified for college: "We accept them, and if they complete the workshop requirements, which normally takes one term, we accept them as freshmen," Mr. Bus-well said.

Mt. Mercy has "adjustment" admissions standards for blacks. This recognizes the fact that College Board tests have an inbuilt middle class orientation. Robert Morris, admittedly operating on a limited finan- Their goal is a challenging one, for the percentage of black students is far below a fair proportion of the area black population. A survey reveals that only slightly over three per cent of the undergraduate enrollment at nine schools are black, and this includes a 14 per cent high at Allegheny County Community College.

Blacks comprise about one-fifth of the population of Pittsburgh, and about one-fourth of the graduates of Pittsburgh high schools are black. What accounts for under-representation of blacks in local colleges? High tuition rates were cited as major factors by admissions officers at Carnegie-Mellon, Duquesne and Point Park. Duquesne and Mt. Mercy pointed to their religious affili-a i are typed as strictly Catholic universities, and, according to Joseph Mer-ante, Duquesne's assistant ad-missions director, "most blacks aren't Catholic." The University of Pittsburgh can't claim tuition as a deterrent in attracting more blacks, since it became state-related two years ago. I OZ I DAVID LINDA JACQUELINE ers when they set out this summer to study the educational opportunities and problems of ISegro young people.

The reporting team included Linda Goldstein, Jacqueline James, David Hrightbill, James Crutch field, Barbara Lowe, Peter Bishop, Al Sharp and John Loden. This is the first of a series they developed on "77ip Mack in the Pittsburgh district. From nursery school to high school, from kindergarten to college, the nation has become ronrrrnrd about the education of the black student. Is hr aide to ram pete? Is he staying in school' Is he learning a trade? Can he get into college? How is he treated there? These trrre some of the questions asked by a team of eight I'res report Carnegie-Mellon is working on a project right now in which students and faculty members went Into city neighborhoods and compiled a list of black students for possible admission. "We hope to select between 20 to 25 additional black students for the fall term," according to Kenneth Wenger, director of admissions.

Chatham, too, is working with faculty members and students to determine ways of increasing its black enrollment. Pitt has established a new administrative department, a university-community education program, "specifically designed for co-ordinating the various programs we have concerning black students," said a university spokesman. "We have an experimental program, Project in which we use other means of admitting black students than College Boards. Fifty students are now enrolled," the administrator explained. Duquesne 'Committed' Duquesne has "committed Where Students Go A Pitt spokesman pointed out that "even though the tuition was lowered from $1400, we don't have enough funds available for financial assistance for room and board." Robert Morris shares the problem of a limited financial aid program, according to Leslie Thomas, director of admissions.

And both Chatham and Carnegie-Mellon officials fear that the reputations of their schools Enrollment for nine schools broken down by race for the 1967-68 academic year: Enrollment Whites Blacks Penn State 29,225 28,775 450 Robert Morris 2500 22435 65 Mt. Mercy 900 885 ,15 Allegheny Community 3300 2825 475 Chatham 650 629 21 Pitt 8000 7829 171 Point Park 3136 3064 72' Carnegie-Mellon 3100 3072 28 Duquesne 4100 4020 s. 80 JAMES JOHN PETER BARBARA Rocks Mayor Accused Of Having Widow Fired Art Collector In Dark' About $1.3 Million Theft jh.u.,.1.. urniM Jt iii i vf1 said, "I take it for granted that because I went along with the poverty program she was fired. "Why should my sister suffer for this?" he asked.

"I'll take the blame for it." View Unchanged Mr. Lubas pledged to continue supporting the anti-poverty program. Mr. Lubas originally voted with Democratic majority of the Council to cancel the $200,000 poverty program in the Rocks. Pg.

2 See. 1 The Pittsburgh People State scholarships now available to secretarial students will increase the enrollment of blacks. Penn Sfote Program Penn State is working with a black student group, the Douglas whose members go along with admissions officers'' to visit various high schools in predominently black areas, according to a Penn State spokesman. This intensified effort on the part of the college is new, and is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the recruiting programs. The statistics reflect that' substantial gains have not been made as yet, but the admissions officials tell the story behind the numbers: that they are concerned and are trying to increase the percentage of blacks in each of their schools.

It may take several years to determine the real worth of these programs. For now, opportunities are being offered by the schools. The rest is up to the black student himself. NEXT: A friend in NEED. 1 He changed his vole Thursday night, he said, because "I feel there are quite a.fewr poor people in McKees Rocks-and they need this Mayor Hershman denied that he had had, anything to do with the firing.

"I don't know a thing about it," he said. "I don't have; nothing to do with the school board. I don't know what tliey do. "This Lubas is a little bit crazy anyway if he thinks, that," the Mayor said. Press, Sunday, August 25, 1968 Jack Benny Ccrsfs A 'Fishy1 Story Just for fun.

Wayne L. 51, a. construction company executive from Seattle, was elected national commander of the 250,000 member Disabled American Veterans at the concluding session, of the group's 47th annual convention in Philadelphia. A 29-year-old ormer cocktail waitress, convicted of manslaughter in the death of her 4-year-old daughter, may soon be free on bail despite, the objections of the district attorney's office in New Frank Samansky, New York Supreme Court justice, set bail at $50,000 for the red-haired Mrs. Alice Crimmins, pending her appeal.

Mrs. Crimmins. was sentenced to five to 20 years prison in the 1955 strangling of her daughter Alice Marie, after a sensational trial in May that dwelled ex-tensivey on her extra marital relations. -If prM hi as "tough, academic institutions" is one more liability. As for Allegheny County Community College, it is the one exception in the area, and President Kermit Morrissey explains the school's sizeable black population this way: "We are governed by an open door policy, meaning that any student who has graduated from high school or has the equivalency of a high school diploma is qualified for admission." Because of this policy, the school also has a very extensive remedial program.

r. Morrissey estimated that about one-third of the students this fall will be enrolled in the program and that "25 per cent to one-third will always be enrolled; we designed it this way." What efforts are the schools making to increase the enrollment of black students? Officials from Chatham and Carnegie-Mellon feel they have a special advantage in their large financial aid programs. "It is like a woman buying great jewelry and keeping it in the vault while she goes around with bare hands and neck." According to another collector, much of the collection was purchased i the lean Depression years when prices were negligible and a Seurat drawing could be had for as little as $100. Depression Purchases "But who had $100 during the Depression?" he asked. "Who had money to buy art while millionaires were hopping out of the windows?" According to a catalog from one of the Hanley collection's exhibits at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1967, Dr.

Hanley paid monthly sums over long periods of time years ago when he could not buy tilings outright. Dr. Hanley, who has honorary degrees from three universities, is a member of a family which has been in the brick and gas industries here for many years. Benefit Sale Slated A "rummage Sale," sponsored by the ladies auxiliary of the Crafton Fire will be held from 9 a. m.

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"i'Y'-Tr -r nm mmiiii ii igj'hr -UPI Telephoto FORMER EXOTIC DANCER, Mrs. Tullah Hanley, still hasn't told her husband that 15 of his prized paintings were stolen four days ago from their Bradford, home. Prwi Stat Wlr BRADFORD Certain of the world's foremost art collectors have a very personal and pressing need to own beauty for beauty sake. Such was the motive of Dr. T.

Edward llanley, 75, of nearby Foster who accumulated a tasteful treasure of 1000 drawings, water colors, paintings and sculptures by old and modern masters. The renowned collector, who retreated about two years ago into a dream world inside his 14-room home, still hasn't been told that 15 of his prized beauties were looted last Wednesday night. Pictures Everywhere The home is, and was, literally' sprinkled with the works, which hang from every possible place, even the bannister. The 300 pieces which covered the downstairs are now fewer by two Renoirs, a Cezanne, a Picasso and a Matisse, plus other works by Goya, Rodin. Degas, Gaugin, Modigliani, a i Redon, Latour and Pendergast worth a total of $1,394,000.

Dr. Hanley was asleep when two men (police and Mrs. Hanley suppose) broke in through a kitchen window, piled the loot in the car and fled. But from all indications of Dr. Hanley's past 45 years of collecting, he would be more worried about what was happening to the works and not about their value on the I 4 In1" ties that these qualities are most apparent in the small, intimate drawings by painters and sculptors, because it is here that they reveal their habits and techniques.

Most of the Hanley pieces are drawings and water colors. Some are world-famous, like the water color "Portrait of Vallier," by Cezanne, and the Picasso "Moulin Rouge," from the Blue Period, and his "Harlequin," from the Pink Period. All were stolen. Others taken include three Renoirs, "Girl's Portrait in Yellow Hat," "Girls Portrait in Red Hat" and a drawing, "Portrait of a Degas bronze dancer; a Rodin bronze nude; a Gaugin oil of a "Brittany "The Refugees," by Redon; Goya's pen and ink drawing of "She Leaves All to a 's "The two oil brush drawings, "Teresa" and "Wife of Friesz," by Modigliani; Pen-dergast's "In the Park" and two small Pascin water colors of the Caribbean. Mrs.

Hanley said that all museums of art, including Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, had borrowed works from the Hanley collection from time to time. Carnegie Institute borrowed a Cezanne and a Picasso during Gordon Washburn's years as director of the Museum of Art, she said. The family, which includes Mrs. Hanley's sister, Mrs. Amy Innes, has received "be- iijrjinMilii 1 hi I He collected from the time of his student days at Harvard University, (when, according to museum sources, he bought on the instalment plan because his "means were not until his seclusion two years ago.

His prime objective, accord-, lng to the curator of prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, was "the opportunity to commune again and again with the work of art. The picture possesses him, rather than he the picture (as Edward G. Robinson, another avid collector, once said)." Dr. Hanley also accumulated what has been called one of the finest private libraries in the U. notably for the works of the then-unrecognized George Bernard Shaw and D.

H. Lawrence. He has been referred to as "a half dozen collectors rolled Into me" because of his wide range of tastes, which included contemporary bronzes and carvings by Maillol, Renoir, Picasso, Lachaise; old master drawings by Guardi, Boucher, Goya, Blake, Delacroix and Diimier; early 19th Century American historical portraits, and French and American paintings and watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Most of Dr. Hanley's choices were dictated by his love of human nature in its most poignant and revealing lights.

Hence the portraits, nudes and homely scenes. It is the opinion of many gallery and museum authori lis it' Vv A iinrnr 4 McKees Rocks Mayor David Hershman has been accused of having a 52-year-old widow fired from her job as a school janitor in retaliation for her councilman brother's change of heart on the poverty program. Mrs. Elizabeth Kelly of 471 i Munson Ave. said that when she went to work Friday afternoon at Hamilton School she was fired for no reason after 12 years on the job.

Supports Program The previous night her brother, Councilman Joseph S. Lubas, had publicly supported the anti-poverty program in opposition to the Council's Democratic majority a Mayor Hershman. Mrs. Kelly said, "Hershman was the one who fired me." The actual firing was done by director of schools Harry Sakal who, Mrs. Kelly said, apologized for having to do so.

"Mr. Sakal told me he hated to do this. I got along wonderful with him," Mrs. Kelly said. Her brother, Mr.

Lubas, 2 Breweries Raise Price 25c A Case Area distributors reported that two major breweries have raised prices 25 cents a case. The price hike, according to the distributors, was announced yesterday in telegrams received from the Pittsburgh and Duquesne brewing Spokesmen for the two brew-cries were not available for comment, but the distributors attributed the increase to recent labor contracts signed by the breweries. Also, last week Owens-Illinois, a leading manufacturer of glass containers, announced a 4 to 7 per cent hike in the price of bottles. With the 25-cent price increase, local beer will sell for $4.40 per case, according to one distributor. There was no immediate word on the price of out-of-town beers.

Plum Girl Dies In Driveway A 15-month-old Plum Borough girl died in Children's Hospital of injuries suffered when she apparently was run over by a pickup truck operated by her father. Kathleen Fluent of Milltown Rd. died early yesterday after her transfer from Citizens General Hospital in New Kensington. The Coroner's office said Kathleen was playing on or near the driveway of her home Friday evening when she was struck by the truck driven by her father, Frank A. Fluent.

Many people throw coins in fountains for good luck or to' make a wish. But when comedian Jack Benny came across this fountain in London, he went "fishing." It was all in fun, Jack said, "since everyone knows I'm a big spender." Ray Conniff of the Ray Con-niff Singers yesterday married a 24-year-old former French tour guide. Conniff, 51, and Vera Schmidheiny, 24, of Basel, Switzerland, were married at the Little Church of the West, Las Vegas. It was the third marriage for Conniff and the first for his bride. Lord Harlech, 50, occasionally linked romantically with Jacqueline Kennedy, is to become a grandfather again.

His eldest daughter, Jane Rainey, 25, expects her second child in the next two weeks, it was reported in London. Mrs. Rainey's 18-month-old son is named Saffron Neon Gabriel. Ik' reavement" telegrams from galleries and collectors express i concern over the theft. The man who accumulated the treasure of art objects has been told that the horde of police and detectives at the home to investigate the burglary are merely there to "view" the works, Mrs.

Hanley said. "I will never tell my husband of it." she said. "Why should What would it accomplish?" Her reasons for keeping the truth from her husband included the fear that the knowledge would affect his health, Mrs. Hanley said. "My husband is not ill," said Mrs.

Hanley, a former exotic dancer. "He is just weak, and worrying worrying about old age. He is discouraged by old age. You must understand that my husband was a very handsome, well-groomed man." Still Enjoys Art Born 45 years ago in Hungary of an Egyptian mother, Mrs. Hanley said her husband still enjoys his works of art.

television and "our company." The sisters remove news stories about the theft from the many newspapers that Mr. Hanley reads, his wife said. The Hanleys have another 300 art objects upstairs and about 500 stored or stacked three-deep in the garage. Some time ago the insurance policy was a 1 after widespread publicity about part of the collection which appeared in a museum. "If you worry about art being stolen you are not going to buy it," said Mrs.

Hanley. TV Mrs. America Mrs. H. Byron Fisher of Salt Lake City, Utah, is relaxing today after winning the Mrs.

America crown in. St. Paul, Minn. A substitute school teacher and volunteer i at the Brigham Young Home, Mrs. Fisher, 29, was crowned Friday at the opening of the Minnesota State Fair.

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