
Rare 19th century portrait
awarded as 1st prize in staff
golf tourney. |
Dulac sandbags competition with
final round 78!
Sunnydale CA August 19,
1999
Professor of Carpathian Studies and
Martial Science, and Chancellor of MUSunnydale,
Anados Dulac was awarded a rare framed portrait
of the Comte de St. Germaine, previously thought
lost in the MUS Gallery fire of 1993, for winning
the MUS Faculty and Staff golf tournament Monday
with a final round score of 78 on the campus
links. "I really didn't think I'd break 80
today, what with the heat and the huge winds
coming in off the harbor," exclaimed a
gleeful Dulac as he accepted his prize.
Previously a runner-up at the tourney, to
Professor Chizmak last year, and to Associate
Professor Bialek in 1997, Dulac demolished this
year's field with a two day total of 161. A 4
handicapper, Dulac and the other competitors were
hamstrung by the violent squalls blowing in off
Sunnydale's natural deepwater harbor.
Dulac's prize, a 19th century rarity by noted
Flemmish portratist Alfonse vonLesch, from a
deathmask housed at the MUArkham Archives, was,
until 1998, thought lost. In September of 1998,
three undergraduate assistants to chief librarian
Rupert Giles stumbled across the painting as it
lay unnoticed in the bowels of the H.U. Monguos
Library at MUBel. The three library science
majors, on a fall term exchange to the MUBel
campus, were awarded a 5% bonus to their final
grade in Professor Giles' course.
The portrait, entitled "Sub Speciae
Diabolici", will be on display in the trophy
cabinet located in the main lobby of the
Presidential Mansion, until arrangements can be
made for its permanent display at the MUS Art
Union, on Lindenborg Road. All students of
Professor Werkovitch's 3rd year aesthetic theory
course are encouraged to take advantage of this
remarkable opportunity to explore the allegorical
methodologies of 19th century alchemical
portraiture.
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