MONTHLY LETTER January 1956 THE CHRISTMAS DINNER ...

/ · Another Club member who has gone "on the air" is Joe McCulley, the not-sodignified
warden of Hart House, who became Master of Ceremonies in a weekly CBC-TV
programme.
We were sorry to learn of the death on July 24th of Dr. Charles R. Sanderson,
formerly a member of this Club, Since 1937 Dr. Sanderson had been chief librarian
of the Toronto Public Libraries. He succeeded George H. Locke, who was a charter
member of the Arts and Letters Club and regarded with affection by his Club contemporaries.
Historic Pictures
An interesting event in which Fred Challener and the late Charles Jefferys
were concerned, took place in May at the Parliament Buildings. A painting from an
original sketch by Jefferys, showing Etienne Brule at the mouth of the Humber River
in 1615, was unveiled on May 28th in the Council Chamber at Queen's Park. The
painting was done by Fred Challener.
The unveiling was done by the artist and Mrs. G. A. Fee, daughter of the late
Mr. Jefferys, in the presence of Premier Frost, members of the Cabinet, artists and
other guests.
Facing this picture in the chamber is another picture done by Challener from a
drawing by Jefferys: depicting Upper Canada's first Parliament in 1792.
Fred Challener recently came into possession of some sketches which had been
lost to sight for some 60 years. These were done by himself, William Cruikshank,
S G. A. Reid and Wyley Grier and were designed for panels to be hung in the new city
hall of 1896, but for various reasons not proceeded with.
An interesting art note informed us recently that an important painting which
had been in the family of A. Y. Jackson for generations has been acquired by Holland's
Rijksmuseum. The canvas is The Incredulity of St. Thomas, by the seventeenth century
Dutch painter, Terbrugghen.
Dr. Healey Willan went to England in the summer to receive from Dr. Geoffrey
Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, the honour of the Lambeth Doctorate of Music. A
reference to this rare musical distinction was made in the monthly letter for December.
Another visitor in England was Nicholas Goldschmidt, who received good notices
for his musicianship in conducting, while there, the London Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Goldschmidt has been appointed artistic director of the Vancouver Festival
Society, the first presentation of which is planned for 1958.
Geoffrey Waddington received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Dalhousie
University in May last. It was awarded "for his work as a sponsor of high standards
in Canadian music, for his skill as a conductor and for his interest in our local
problems."
Eric Arthur was one of three who received the 1956 University of Alberta Award
in Letters, Music and Painting and related arts. The presentation was made at the
Banff School of Fine Arts in July. The citation referred to Professor Arthur as
* "a leader in the development of architecture in Canada".