1 nspirational Sculpture Chosen For London School Memorial i Herring Coe, young Beaumont artist, ; considered in the fina] judging. ar- ‘was 2warded the commission for the }Tanged in the order of votes giver : =, itheir work, were Dorothy Austin, jseulpture for the memorial to be Maple ‘Terrace, Dallas: Jose Martin, } jerected i memory of the 2M children 3419 ytain, Dalles; William M. McVey, | and teachers who were killed in the (Houcton- Michael Owens, 2809 Euclid, London (tuck County) School disas-! nates and Waldine Tauch, San An- ter on March 18, 18Y, it was announced jy in s Sunday night after a special commit- < :. sudeing | fee be om the models subs! tbe en cuplay atthe Della Mu-j Mone The announcement was made by seun of Fine tor baby 3 cay Richard Foster Howard, director of} 1, 1 the Dallas Museum ef Fine Arts, ai i Memorial to Cost $16,000. chairman of the committee, whose : : members were selected by the com- The memorial will be erected on a bpeting sculptors. : traffic island, 90x40 feet, formed in Other sculptors whose models were | the buildmg of a new highway and i | will be in front of the recently com- pleted $221,000 school building, which replaced that destroyed in the tragic The memorial will consist of two; darge columns set on a four-foot mound crowned by a dnum-shaped, high relief work of sculptute about}, ten feet across, showing on its sides | School children and a man and a ‘woman teacher. Cost of the memorial pwill be $16,000, which was raised by |, |Pepular subscription by the London |School Memorial Association, | Design for the memorial was exe- cuted by a Delles architect, Donald|, Nelson, who was chief designer far}. the Texas Centennial Central Exposi-i, tion. He was consulted by the offi-;. idials of the memorial association for jadvice, and his offer to give his time iand talents ta the memorial was ac} leepied by the association. | His design of the double columns, |’ each a semicylindrical, fluted shaft | See SCULPIURE on Page & | i | i| Sculpture |CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. four feet in diameter surmounted thy the high relief sculpture was ac- [| cepted by the association. | Bids for building the mound and erecting the two columns will be ‘opened by the association Tuesday at | Overton, which is near London, Ar- chitect Nelson announced. Sculptor | Coe was esked by him to be at Over- ton that day to confer with officials of the memorial association, Among them are M. HO Marwil, Mayor of Henderson, president; Mrs. Fay Beidleman, Overton, secretary; [Sam Warren, Overton, treasurer; John ‘Lumpkin, Overton, vice~president, ‘and ML HL Parish and Mrs. Polk Chil- dress, both of Overton. | On the special commitiee named to pick the sculptor were James Chill- man. director of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts; Jerry Bywaters, Dallas artist: George L. Dahl, Dallas archi- tect; Webb Roberts, Dallas mecument manufacturer, and the chairman, Di- ‘rector Howard of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. - It was early decided that the me- morisl should not reflect the tragedy of the London school explosion, but should be inspirational,