"The organizations range from groups concerned with the environment, groups concerned with the homeless, groups concerned with the third world, and groups concerned with nuclear weapons," said David Stuart, spokesperson for and board member of Peace Action. "All of the groups share in the common cause of a future in which all of the people of the world may live in peace and justice, and all nations may learn to resolve their differences without resorting to violence."
Art Professor Remembered
Family, friends and former students remembered the late Max Loehr, Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art Emeritus, at a service in Memorial Church yesterday.
Eight speakers recalled their memories of Loehr, a distinguished scholar of Chinese art, who died on September 16 at the age of 84.
"He brought Chinese art history to the domain of general art history. He introduced Western art history methods to Chinese art history...He told us what we could see with our own eyes. He made us see it," remembered James Cahill, an professor of art at the University of California at Berkeley.
"He was a scholar without peer in Chinese art...of noble and elegant bearing, a gentle and civil man, a man of great dignity," said Robert Maeda, a former student of Loehr's at the University of Michigan and Harvard.
One of Loehr's greates qualities was "his feeling that Chinese art was understandable, but in the end there was a quality in it that was always mysterious and unknowable...As a teacher he came as close to the work of art as we could hope for," said Maeda
A native German, educated at the University of Munich, Loehr taught Oriental art in China, Munich and Michigan, before being appointed Harvard's first Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art in 1960 and curator of Oriental art at the Fogg Art Museum, posts he held until his retirement in 1974.
His successor as Rockefeller Professor, John. M. Rosenfield, called Loehr's 1953 essay on Chinese vases "one of the most important single scholarly contributions to Asian art."
Loehr's surviving relatives include his wife of 60 years, Irmgard Loehr, two sons, Klaus F. Loehr and Thomas M. Loehr, and a grand-daughter, Elise A. Loehr.