Ackerman Given U.S. Art Award

James S. Ackerman, chairman of the Fine Arts Department, Friday received one of the first National Gallery of Arts Awards at the White House for his contributions to popular understanding of art and architecture.

Chosen from among art scholars and teachers across the nation, Ackerman is one of the twenty-five winners who will each receive $500 and a medal.

Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson made the awards at the White House in a ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversity of the dedication of the National Gallery of Art.

John Walker, director of the National Gallery, said that the recipients of the award were "outstanding individuals from every section of the country who, by dedication and unusual abilities to inspire have awakened in others a sense of our visual inheritance." Ackerman teaches Fine Arts 158, Fine Arts 258 and the spring term of Fine Arts 13.