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NEWS from Oberlin College Public Relations Office
Oberlin, Ohio - Telephone 775-1011; 775-0741

[[right margin]] Dr John Spencer [[/right margin]]

Oberlin, Ohio, June 28: -- Dr. John R. Spencer has been appointed professor of art, chairman of the department, and acting director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum of Oberlin College, Oberlin President Robert K. Carr announced today. The appointment is effective July 1.

Spencer is acting chairman of the art apartment at the University of Florida. He succeeds Charles P. Parkhurst, who has resigned to become director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Dr. Spencer is a native of Moline, Illinois, and a graduate of Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. He has also studied at the Universite Laval in Quebec and Yale University. His advanced degrees--master of art in French, master of art in the history of art, doctor of philosophy--are from Yale. He has held a number of fellowships and awards, including a pre-doctoral Fulbright grant to Florence, Italy, and the Morse Fellowship at Yale, the Penrose and the Johnson grants of the American Philosophical Society.

After teaching at Yale from 1952 to 1957, Spencer joined the faculty of the Gainesville university in 1958 and became acting department head in 1959. He has worked principally in the field of 15th century Italian art.

Articles by Spencer have appeared in such journals as the Yale Scientific Magazine, Art Bulletin, Rivista d'Arte, Italian Quarterly, and Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. He is a contributor to the revised edition of Art through the Ages by Helen Gardner and to the forthcoming McGraw Hill Dictionary of World Art. He edited, translated and annotated L.D. Alberti's On Painting. His translation of The Treatise of Antonio di Piero Averlino, called Filarete, will be published by Yale Press in 1963.

Dr. Spencer is married to the former Patricia Brebner of Des Moines, Iowa. The Spencers have two children.
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