Page #2 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July-1, 1992

Pied sculpts poly hedron

‘By NANCY ORR -

Catching the eye of the visitér
entering the rotunda ‘of the new
Open Learning Institute building
in Burnaby is a unique scupture
— a polyhedron named
“‘Cooperation.”?

What is a polyhedron, who ask?
For an answer we had to go to the
designer, creator and donor of the
sculpture — J. Fred Weber, Open
Learning Agency chairman, long-
lime Terrace resident and founder
of Skeena Broadcasters,

‘A polyhedron’ consists of
seven flat planes,’ Weber says.
“Each one a polygon with six
sides and each polygon joined to
every ‘other piece. It creates a
doughnut shape — a solid sur-
rounding a hole.”

“At a mecting of the OLA
board I was given this-mathemati-
cal formula,”? Weber continues,
“and challenged to creaté the de-
sign it represented. It took a litle
while, but at the next meeting of
the board,.I had'a rough model
ready.” -

“And when a focal point, a
sculpture, was needed for our
new building, the polyhedron
seemed the natural choice,’*

The polyhedron was first creat-
ed in 1977 by: Lajos Szilassi, a
Hungarian“ mathemétician, ~ to
show how 4 seven-coloured map
can be drawn with no two ad-
jacent regions the same colour.

Weber . constructed this
polyhedron for the institute in his
basement | from. tluminam and
steel, painted “in-primary
colours and created a steel cradle

to stand it upright. It:created so

much iiterest there: that his fam-
ily had almost . adopted it as a
member the past year. ©

Weber is a founding member of
the Knowledge Network, the .

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POLYHEDAON sculpic? u. Fred Weber, a former local broad-
caster, stands beside his sculpture at the Open Learning institute.

Open Learming Institute and is the present extensive network
current chairman of the OLA. covering the northwest, Last year
The Webers now live in West at the annual convention in Win-
Vancouver although Fred retains nipeg, Fred was inducted into the
his ‘interest: in: Terrace through Media Hall of Fame for his
-Skeena Broadcasters, ~~. pioneer work with small TV sta-
He ‘came to. Terrice: with his” tions, particularly in Kamloops
family-— Evva, John, Neil and and {ater in Quesnel before they
Ross —- in 1959. He helped bring came to Terrace.
‘television 10 the: * northwest
startomg from the itiodest studio. 7 The: auditorium -in -the new.
at the comer of. Lazelle and - Open. Leaming Building has been
Emerson, ultimately leading to ~ named j in his honour.

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