Gardner to Bring Culture to Mass.

Governor Peabody '42 yesterday appointed Robert G. Gardner '48, lecturer on Visual Arts, to be chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Arts. The new 15-member group will advise the legislature on programs for increasing public enjoyment of the state's cultural resources.

Massachusetts is the third state to respond to President Kennedy's call for greater public interest in the arts and in natural beauty. According to Gardner, Kennedy regarded this program as an important political objective because of Americans' increased leisure time.

Gardner said that the commission will emphasize that the destruction of natural beauty "is a real emergency. We have to decide now whether America is going to be beautiful or whether it will get uglier and uglier."