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    The letter responds to an article about the Chouinard Art Institute by the daughter of artist Watson Cross. While the daughter portrayed Walt Disney's vision for CalArts in a negative light, the writer disagrees. Chouinard was dissolved into the new CalArts campus comprised of five art schools directed by a board including Disney, Bill Moore, Millard Sheets and Robert Corrigan. Disney can only be faulted for contracting cancer in 1966 and passing away. The "New York academia" referred to by the daughter were actually H.R. Haldeman, who later worked for Nixon, and his replacement Harrison Price, whose decisions led to attrition in 1969. Blaming Disney for Ch

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    The letter responds to an article about the Chouinard Art Institute by the daughter of artist Watson Cross. While the daughter portrayed Walt Disney's vision for CalArts in a negative light, the writer disagrees. Chouinard was dissolved into the new CalArts campus comprised of five art schools directed by a board including Disney, Bill Moore, Millard Sheets and Robert Corrigan. Disney can only be faulted for contracting cancer in 1966 and passing away. The "New York academia" referred to by the daughter were actually H.R. Haldeman, who later worked for Nixon, and his replacement Harrison Price, whose decisions led to attrition in 1969. Blaming Disney for Ch

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    The letter responds to an article about the Chouinard Art Institute by the daughter of artist Watson Cross. While the daughter portrayed Walt Disney's vision for CalArts in a negative light, the writer disagrees. Chouinard was dissolved into the new CalArts campus comprised of five art schools directed by a board including Disney, Bill Moore, Millard Sheets and Robert Corrigan. Disney can only be faulted for contracting cancer in 1966 and passing away. The "New York academia" referred to by the daughter were actually H.R. Haldeman, who later worked for Nixon, and his replacement Harrison Price, whose decisions led to attrition in 1969. Blaming Disney for Ch

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    CALENDAR
    Sunday, August 5, 2001
    calendarlive.com

    LETTERS
    R
    E the July 8 letter from Cathleen Cross Ohanesian, daugh ter of the celebrated painter and teacher Watson Cross, in response to the article about Chouinard Art Institute ("True to a Significant School: by Suzanne Muchnic, July 1 k While I did not attend CalArts during the period her father taught there, my good friend Edward Reep was the chairman of the painting department and one of Cross' mentors. We were both surpr.ed and saddened to read her bitter and grossly inaccurate interpretation of Walt Disney's ideals for CalArts. Chouinard was indeed to be d.solved into the new campus of CalArts, which was to be made up of five separate uhools of art, under the direction of a board, with Mr. Disney, Mr. Reep, Bill Moore, Millard Sheets and Robert Corrigan, a doctorate in dance, among others. They were thrilled to be a part of an exciting new school infused with a great deal of new capital. The only thing we can possibly fault Mr. D., for is contracting cancer in 1966 and subsequently dying from the divase in December of that year. The "New York academia' Ohanesian refers to were none oth er than H.R. Haldeman, who left CalArts to go do some of work in Washington with the Nixon admin.tration, and his replacement, Harrison Price. the accountant and owner of Price Waterhouse who caused the mass attrition in 1969. To blame Wak Dis, for the demise of Chouinard in 1972 is blatantly unfair. For anyone really interested, there is a book titled "Chouinard, an Art Vision Betrayed" by Robert Perine.

    DON MANN VanNuys

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