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. Story by Sue McKenztie Photo by Don McCurdy j Rarely does an area like Waterloo County possess the art most important to j the understanding of its deâ€" velopment. & The four, Abram and Dorothy Wiebe, Milton and Verna Good, have purâ€" chased for Conrad Grebel College the entire collecâ€" tion of Waterloo county scenes by a noted New York artist who began his paintâ€" ing career here as a young Russian Mennonite immiâ€" grant. Hére, however, four genâ€" erous â€" Waterloo _ donors have provided a magnificent bridge with the past. Woldemar â€" Neufeld has come home for the hanging of his works this week in the college, touched, he says, and grateful that his cherished recordings of boyâ€" hood memories have found so suitable a home. A walk through the exâ€" hibition with Mr. Neufeld brought alive the activities and changes associated with the buildings and sites he has painted. Some of his landmarks have a personal significance. ‘"‘The old Globe furniture factory where I used to work" . . . "the Hunsberger farm where I came to live. # u* & *# e se io & * % : 4 + roacspomimass.:>~ . S *Â¥ s % L , "om Ww * W !,“’" Artist Waldemar Neufeld is in Waterloo for the special presentation of his works at Conrad Grebel College. His paintings depict several scenes of Waâ€" terloo County, including water colours of buildings in the city while he was growing up in this area. . 75 Lodge St. For Neufeld it‘s a labour of love WATERLOO GLASS & MIRROR LTD. DECORATIVE MIRRORS In Time for Christmas Gifts â€" SPECIAL â€" Selection of PLAIN BEVELLED MIRRORS New and Larger Display of Open Friday Evenings To 9 p.m. â€" Now Till Christmas And some of the landâ€" marks recall the economic and social life of the exâ€" panding community : They (Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Hunsberger) took me in as thought it was marvellous that a city could spend monâ€" ey for sheer enjoyment.‘"‘ _ ‘‘Snider Grist Mill . . . now it was powered by water from Silver Lake which was really built as a dam to store water for power‘"‘ . . . ‘‘King â€" Street, Waterloo, and you can see the spire of the Lutheran church (St. John‘s) still standing and the manually operated railâ€" road gates. .. ." slide in Waterloo Park. It "The Waterloo firehall where the library is now.‘" . . _. "The Kitchener railâ€" way station when it still had its tower. _. . ."_ "Willison Hall which was the real beâ€" ginning for the whole eduâ€" cational complex." With typical honesty, Mr. Neufeld paints only those subjects which he himself remembers. This restricts him to the 50â€"year period since the November day in 1924 when, as a boy of 15, he arrived here with his mother _ and _ stepfather, Bishop Jacob Janzen. {across from the Pop Shoppe! Waterloo Within those 50 years, he has lost much of his subject material: â€" the Waterioo school, gone; floodgates on Silver Lake, gone ; the Dutch gables of Kitchenerâ€"Waterâ€" loo Hospital, completely enâ€" closed by subsequent buildâ€" For many of these paintâ€" ings Mr. Neufeld has suppleâ€" mented his architecturally oriented memory with inâ€" formation from his boyhood drawings and early photoâ€" graphs. And it was his waâ€" tercolor of the old Waterloo town hall, painted in 1947, which provided the impetus for the rest of the series. "I had left Waterloo to go to Cleveland to art school and wh;::;[wéy‘/l? reâ€" alized what a bea place Waterloo is. Somehow I felt I had to record it. It was a kind of inner‘drive." In subsequent years he added to the series, without however, ever taking any of the finished paintings back to his Connecticut farm home or to his New York dealers. "I didn‘t want to sell them to Connecticut," he says frankly. "Dr. Epp (Conâ€" rad Grebel‘s president) got to see them and he was the one really responsible for keeping them here."‘ 7244â€" 1421 love, Mr. Neufeld is quick to point out that they are "I wanted to be an archiâ€" tect but the depression changed all that. _ So, I painted buildings, but they had to be as authentic as I could do it without them beâ€" ing straight architectural renderings. ‘"Our own paintings should all eventually end up here," he says describing how his wife, the former Peggy Conâ€" rad of Waterloo, has hung on to a few selected works. Mr. Neufeld hopes that neither the Conrad Grebel collection nor his own reâ€" cording has been completâ€" ‘‘I‘ve sold a number of the Waterloo paintings around the area. I‘d like to conâ€" tact these people and see if they wouldn‘t will these to the college." "On these Waterloo reâ€" 2:@:@ I tpx to stick to one stylé which I started with. I wanted them to be more or less of a unit."‘ "I am by no means finâ€" ished painting Waterloo, though. People are already approaching me with their pictures and their memorâ€" Next on the drawing board he thinks may be a reminiscence of the band tattoos in Waterloo Park And it is this desire to keep his scenes both auâ€" thentic and personal which makes him limit himself to the period since his armval. ‘‘Otherwise it would just be a commercial thing." ‘"or the beautiful horse shows they held every year on New Year‘s Eve afterâ€" noon. There‘s a lot more to be done."‘ Harold W. Wagner, _ Retired of his _ Reâ€"Elect HAROLD W. 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