Spring 2004 Edition
Front Cover
Learning Support Services Celebrates 25 Years
Hagi - Living the Dream
A Gift of Love
Ana Rosales
Campus News
Distinguised Alumni
Faculty News
Ferris
New Athletic Director
Baseball
Athletics
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past issues:
Fall 2003 Scene
June 2003 Scene
“Schweinfurt Again” his alma mater. Ferris was the featured artist during Recall 2004, and more
than 40 of his aviation paintings were on display during the three-day event as well as for the six weeks following Recall.
“My wife and I were particularly proud to have my paintings and drawings
on display in the magnificent Cailloux Campus Activity Center,” he said. “I would never have dreamed of even the remotest possibility of this honor as I worked at my little drawing table in Northeast Barracks as a Schreiner Institute cadet almost 60 years ago! Nor could any of us have envisioned the beautiful buildings that now cover the expansive grass of our old parade ground. The university has certainly come a long way.”
After leaving Schreiner Institute,
Ferris attended Texas A&M and then entered the Air Force as a flying cadet. The son of a career Air Force
pilot, Ferris never imagined that he would never serve as a pilot in the Air
Force. But upon entering the Air Force, he discovered he had an allergy to some of the required inoculations. So Ferris changed his career goals, and putting to work his lifelong experience drawing aircraft, he immediately joined the Air Force’s Training Publications Unit at Randolph AFB as a civilian apprentice artist. He left Civil Service to serve with Cassell Watkins Paul, a civilian art studio in St. Louis under contract with Air Force Publications.
When the Air Force ceased its outside publications contracts, Ferris
moved to the New York market as a freelance artist. In 1960, he became a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York and was introduced to its Air Force Art Program. A 41-year veteran of the program, Ferris has flown in and participated in the missions of almost every jet aircraft type in the Air Force. He created two large murals in Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum—one in the WWII Gallery and the other in the Jet Aviation Gallery. He also has 54 paintings in the Air Force Art Collection, as well as numerous paintings in many corporate and private collections.
Visit Ferris’ online gallery at www.keithferrisart.com.
