Films Garner Top Prizes
Nine student-produced films have garnered
20	top-flight awards in major national and international film festivals within the past academic year.
Competing with as many as 120 film entries in each of the festivals, USC's films have earned coveted Cine Golden Eagle awards and have swept all top honors in individual competitions The record is outstanding among student film-producing units in the United States and is the best for the Department of Cinema since it earned an Oscar in 1955 for “Face of Lincoln.” Story-telling, documentation and animation all are represented in the award-winning films, according to Dr. Bernard Kantor, head of the Cinema Department and associate dean of the new School of Performing Arts.
One of the most praised among recent films is “Homage to Muybridge,” dedicated to the work of Eadweard Muybridge, who devoted a professional lifetime to still photographs of human and animal locomotion before there were motion pictures. In “Homage" USC’s student
film-makers have given to Muybridge’s stills the movement he sought to show.
The film has won a Cine Golden Eagle award for 1966 and earned top awards from the Calvin Workshop, Wellesley College and Brown Uni versity festivals and was selected by the Modern Museum of Art, all in 1966. In 1965 it earned the Special Jury Prize at the U.S. Student National Film Festival.
“Cosmos,” a child’s story of the cosmos earned the Delta Kappa Alpha Outstanding Student Film award along with the Calvin Notable Film award and honors at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival this year. Earlier, it also won a Cine Golden Eagle award as well as honors at. the Animation Festival at Annecy, France.
Such films as “The Dominator,” “Herbie," “The Sniper,” “McLarification,” and “The Bug” have garnered honors at the Inter-American Festival of the Arts, the Edinburgh, Tours and Moscow film festivals and in the Wellesley and Brown competitions.
Dr. Kantor ranks “The Dominator,” about
a ship wrecked at Palos Verdes, as a “film poem in which the film makers expressed a relationship between natural environment, nature’s forces and man's creations.”
“Herbie” is a short, impressionistic piece; “The Sniper,” is a 3tory of three persons caught up in a war of the past; “The Bug” offers solution to the ills of man; “McLarification” is an experiment in painting directly on film.
The Cinema Department, with a total enrollment of approximately 300, makes about 120 films a year.
Reflecting a strong trend to graduate students out numbering undergraduates, the department will soon have among its students one man who has a Ph.D. in Philosophy and now wishes to earn a master’s degree in film making because he thinks he can “say something about philosophy” with motion pictures.
Later, a medical doctor from the Northwest hopes to come to USC for the same purpose— because he believes motion pictures are an answer to certain needs in medical education
University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
Vol. XVIi
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1966
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No. 8
JOHN W. MACY, JR.
To speak in September
Tennis Star Cromwell Wins NCAA Fellowship
Civil Service Chief to Talk at VKC Dedication
Grants for Architecture Presented
Recipients of major scholarships and fellowships for study in the School of Architecture and Fine Arts have been announced by Sam T. Hurst, dean of the school.
Lewis Dominy, a fifth year student in the Department of Architecture, has been awarded the $2500 Rapid Blue Print Travelin Fellowship.
Dominy, whose family home is at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, where his father is a navy chaplain, will go to Europe for his foreign study.
Richard Bryan of Opai earned the Western Blue Print Scholarship which will cover the $1500 tuition costs for his continued study at USC next year.
Awarded in recognition of creative ability and promise, the scholarship is provided by Western Blue Print and Supply Co.
Jack Irvine is the recipient of the Wei ton Becket and Associates award of $900. made to a student for application toward the final year of his study in Architecture at USC.
Stephen Ball received the Alcoa $750 scholarship offered to a fourth year student in industrial design.
Dean Hurst also announced that the $500 Michael Garris Illumination award for an outstanding student in environ- * mental controls including lighting and the integration of environmental systems, has been made to Jeffrey Blea-man.
One of 18 NCAA $1000 postgraduate scholar-ship awards awarded nationally has been won by Jerry L. Cromwell of Long Beach, who received a bachelor of arts degree in economics from USC on June 9.
Cromwell, who was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at USC this spring, will use the scholarship for postgraduate study at Harvard University. He also holds a Wooodrow Wilson national fellowship for preparation as a college or university teacher.
A tennis star as well as a scholar, he is ranked 17th
among U.S. amateurs. 10th in Southern California, and is the doubles co-champion of the AAWU. He went to the quarter-finals of the NCAA championships as a sophomore. He is playing tennis in Europe this summer.
“Considering the number of potential candidates across the country,” the NCAA said, "this award stands as a significant honor for Cromwell and a tribute to USC.”
Only other scholarships in the Southland were won by scholar-athletes a t Caltech and Pomona College.
John W. Macy, Jr., head of the nation’s largest employment system, the U.S. Civil Service Commission, has ac-c e p t e d an invitation to address a luncheon audience Sept. 30 at the dedication of the new $3 million von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs.
Macy will be one of several important American political figures, international statesmen, and distinguished scholars in the fields of international relations, public administration, and political science to speak during the three-day dedication week-end, through Oct. 2.
The three-story building in the heart of the USC campus was designed by Edward Du-rell Stone, noted New York and Los Angeles architect. It was opened to classes and fac-u 11 y offices in February as one of the most important structures in USC’s Master Plan for enterprise and excellence in education.
Houses 4 Schools
The structure houses the School of International Relations and School of Public Administration, founded in 1924 by the late Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid, as the first and second professional schools of their type in the United States for the education of public servants and scholars in these fields.
Department of Political Science and the von .KleinSmid Library of World Affairs are also in the building.
As chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Macy sets the policies of the government’s central personnel agency concerned with more than
2.5 million federal workers. He is also President Johnson’s principal adviser in federal personnel management and assists in screening candidates for top Presidential appointments.
Chicago Bora
Macy was born in Chicago on April 6, 1917, and was raised in Winnetka, 111. Upon high school graduation in 1934, he entered Wesleyan University where he majored in government. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, won a Thorndike Scholarship, and was a Rhodes Scholar nominee. After graduating with a
B.A. degree in June, 1938, he took post-graduate work at the American University in Washington, D.C. He is married to the former Joyce Hage and they have four children.
Quest for Quality
Macy has long been identified with the quest for quality in government recruiting, From August, 1953, to January, 1958, he held the Commission’s top career post of Executive Director. During this time he spearheaded many reforms to make the federal service more attractive to capable youth. Prior to his Commission employment, he had served with the Department of the Army, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Office of the Secretary of War, and the Social Security Board.
In 1943, he enlisted in the Air Force a3 a private and rose to the rank of captain, receiving hi3 discharge in
1946.	He began his government career in June, 1939, a3 an administrative intern.