The Zoo of Contentment

Wild animal heads will provide a setting for the presentation of a graduate architectural thesis in Robinson Hall today. John R. Arnold 4G, left above, and Abraham Rogatnick '46, on the right, have been working for five months on a new design for the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston.

As of last midnight, the two were still working on the project.

Rogatnick is a member of the newly-formed Massachusetts Zoological Society, which has conferred with Mayor Hynes on plans for a new zoo. "My thesis contains all the best and most modern ideas for keeping captive animals," he claims. "Some of them will be incorporated in the Franklin Park Zoo when we get the necessary contributions."

Rogatnick has travelled all over the world taking notes on zoos. He intends to make a career of scientific zoo designing. This thesis represents the end of his study, "The most enjoyable problem I ever participated in."

The thesis will be presented at noon today before a jury composed of the entire faculty of the School of Design. The "interested public" is invited to hear on-the-spot judgments of the thesis.

Arnold designed the landscaping for the model zoo. He will receive a degree of Master of Landscape Architecture and his colleague a Bachelor of Architecture degree.

Also to be presented tomorrow, at 11 a.m., is a thesis entitled "National Theatre for Music, Drama, and Dance," planned for a site in Washington, D.C., by Victor Koochl '48.