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DATE: Wednesday, March 15, 1995              TAG: 9503150476
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BEACH SCHOOL DEDICATES SCULPTURE

ILLUSTRATION: Color photo by LAWRENCE JACKSON, Staff

``The Seat of Wisdom,'' a new public sculpture by ODU professor

Victor Pickett, was dedicated Tuesday at Catholic High School in

Virginia Beach. Bishop Walter Sullivan, of the Diocese of Richmond,

said a prayer of blessing for the sculpture, which is an abstract

interpretation of a medieval Madonna and child. The polished

stainless steel form - 800 to 900 pounds and 5 1/2 feet tall - sits

on a 6-foot-tall base.

by CNB