1. HELLMUTH WOLFF ORGAN The family of J. Stanford Smith ’36 in 2003 donated this concert organ, which was designed and built by Hellmuth Wolff & Associates and installed in the Kresge Auditorium in the Green Center for the Performing Arts. 2. FLUMMERFELT PIANO The family of the late Joseph Flummerfelt ’58, called “the pre-eminent American choral conductor of his generation” by the New York Times, donated his piano; awards, including a Grammy; photos;
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concert programs; and other memorabilia to the university in August. 3. T.C. STEELE PAINTING A teenaged T.C. Steele spent summer 1863 studying under Joseph Tingley, a professor at Indiana Asbury University. Steele, later celebrated as a Hoosier impressionist, returned to Greencastle several
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times to paint portraits, including one of Washington C. DePauw, for whom the university was renamed. DePauw has 13 Steele paintings in its collection, including “Afternoon at House of the Singing Winds,” a 1908 work donated by Betty Davis ’54 and David W. Givens. 4. DEAGAN MARIMBA Ed Richardson ’90 donated this one-of-a-kind marimba to DePauw in July in honor of Stephen Hanna, a former percussion professor whom Richardson credits as an influential teacher. 5. TRASIMENO PITCHER An archeological dig conducted in Italy by DePauw students, under the direction of classical studies professors Rebecca Schindler and Pedar Foss, rendered this Roman ceramic water pitcher that dates to the first century CE to the second century CE. The pitcher was found on the sub-floor of the bath house of the Gioiella-Vaiano Villa site during the 2018 Trasimeno Archaeology Field School. Photo by Rebecca Kerns ’19. 6. RUSSIAN ICONS Religious icons produced in the Orthodox tradition are vehicles for the divine essence of the depicted biblical figures. Earl Bowman Marlatt, a member of the Class of 1912, donated a collection of
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Russian icons to DePauw.
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