Michael B. Rolston
Michael Beier Rolston died Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007, at his Woodhaven Home on the Henderson Hall estate south of Williamstown. He was 74 years of age.
He was born in 1933, in Greenbrier County, W.Va., the son of the late Julian Kenneth Rolston and Jean Henderson (Rolston) Brady. He was raised in Parkersburg, where he graduated from Parkersburg High School in 1951. He attended Marietta College, Harvard University and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1958 from the Department of Art and Architecture at Yale University.
He worked in New York City as a graphic designer for more than 25 years. His design for the book "The Promised Land and Other Poems" was selected as one of the 50 best-designed books of 1958 by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and was awarded the same distinction by Graphis, the Swiss publication on International Design. The book was also selected by the U.S. State Department for inclusion in one of the first exhibition of American design to travel to the Soviet Union in 1960.
His work in graphic design spanned a broad spectrum of the visual arts. He was art director for both the American Oxford Encyclopedia and for Grolier Inc. with the firm of Architectural Graphics Inc. He designed and directed the graphic signage programs for the Tampa International Airport, Madison Square Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Westinghouse Pavilion Exhibition of the New York Worlds Fair and the Pan American Airline Terminal at Kennedy Airport.
For 20 years, from 1963 to 1983, he served as designer and art director of the Master Drawings Quarterly published by the Master Drawings Association of the Pierpont Morgan Library. He designed exhibition catalogues for the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and publications for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cooper-Hewett Museum.
In the performing arts, he created promotional designs for Metropolitan Opera stars Martina Arroyo, Eleanor Ross and Bonaldo Giotto, New York's Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus, the Philadelphia Lyric Opera, the French pianist Philippe Etremont and the renowned American organist E. Power Biggs. Here in the Parkersburg area, he has designed brochures for the City of Williamstown and the Blennerhassett Drama Association's production of Eden on the River.
Locally, he has served as chairman of the Williamstown Bi-Centennial Commission, vice president and Chairman of the Board of the Williamstown Area Development Corporation, president of Artsbridge Associates and owner and president of Henderson Farms Inc. In 1984, he became the owner of Henderson Hall, built in 1836 by his great-great-grandfather, George Washington Henderson, and a large portion of the remaining land of the original Henderson Plantation, which encompassed some 2,000 acres, in and below Williamstown. In 1957, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated some 65 acres of the land surrounding Henderson Hall including the Henderson Family Cemetery as Henderson Hall Historic District and placed it on the National Register of Historic Places.
Mr. Rolston was one of the last descendants in this area of two of the valley's earliest settlers, Joseph Tomlinson in 1770 and Alexander Henderson in 1798.
Michael spent the last 20 years of his life and his resources preserving Henderson Hall and its furnishings, which remain much as they were from the 19th century. The Hall is one of the area's most magnificent and intact heritage assets. To assure perpetuation of this heritage, Henderson Hall has been donated to the Oil, Gas and Industrial Historic Association (Oil & Gas Museum) in Parkersburg.
He is survived by a cousin, Sandra Henderson Bauske of Chicago.
Friends may call from 1-5 p.m. Friday at Henderson Hall. A private graveside service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the Henderson Family Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made for the perpetual care of Henderson Hall, in care of the Oil & Gas Museum, 119 Third Street, Parkersburg, WV 26101.
Leavitt Funeral Home, Parkersburg, is handling arrangements.
Source Citation: Newspaper: Parkersburg News, The/Sentinel; Publication Date: 27 Dec 2007; Publication Place: Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States
Michael Beier Rolston died Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007, at his Woodhaven Home on the Henderson Hall estate south of Williamstown. He was 74 years of age.
He was born in 1933, in Greenbrier County, W.Va., the son of the late Julian Kenneth Rolston and Jean Henderson (Rolston) Brady. He was raised in Parkersburg, where he graduated from Parkersburg High School in 1951. He attended Marietta College, Harvard University and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1958 from the Department of Art and Architecture at Yale University.
He worked in New York City as a graphic designer for more than 25 years. His design for the book "The Promised Land and Other Poems" was selected as one of the 50 best-designed books of 1958 by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and was awarded the same distinction by Graphis, the Swiss publication on International Design. The book was also selected by the U.S. State Department for inclusion in one of the first exhibition of American design to travel to the Soviet Union in 1960.
His work in graphic design spanned a broad spectrum of the visual arts. He was art director for both the American Oxford Encyclopedia and for Grolier Inc. with the firm of Architectural Graphics Inc. He designed and directed the graphic signage programs for the Tampa International Airport, Madison Square Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Westinghouse Pavilion Exhibition of the New York Worlds Fair and the Pan American Airline Terminal at Kennedy Airport.
For 20 years, from 1963 to 1983, he served as designer and art director of the Master Drawings Quarterly published by the Master Drawings Association of the Pierpont Morgan Library. He designed exhibition catalogues for the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and publications for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cooper-Hewett Museum.
In the performing arts, he created promotional designs for Metropolitan Opera stars Martina Arroyo, Eleanor Ross and Bonaldo Giotto, New York's Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus, the Philadelphia Lyric Opera, the French pianist Philippe Etremont and the renowned American organist E. Power Biggs. Here in the Parkersburg area, he has designed brochures for the City of Williamstown and the Blennerhassett Drama Association's production of Eden on the River.
Locally, he has served as chairman of the Williamstown Bi-Centennial Commission, vice president and Chairman of the Board of the Williamstown Area Development Corporation, president of Artsbridge Associates and owner and president of Henderson Farms Inc. In 1984, he became the owner of Henderson Hall, built in 1836 by his great-great-grandfather, George Washington Henderson, and a large portion of the remaining land of the original Henderson Plantation, which encompassed some 2,000 acres, in and below Williamstown. In 1957, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated some 65 acres of the land surrounding Henderson Hall including the Henderson Family Cemetery as Henderson Hall Historic District and placed it on the National Register of Historic Places.
Mr. Rolston was one of the last descendants in this area of two of the valley's earliest settlers, Joseph Tomlinson in 1770 and Alexander Henderson in 1798.
Michael spent the last 20 years of his life and his resources preserving Henderson Hall and its furnishings, which remain much as they were from the 19th century. The Hall is one of the area's most magnificent and intact heritage assets. To assure perpetuation of this heritage, Henderson Hall has been donated to the Oil, Gas and Industrial Historic Association (Oil & Gas Museum) in Parkersburg.
He is survived by a cousin, Sandra Henderson Bauske of Chicago.
Friends may call from 1-5 p.m. Friday at Henderson Hall. A private graveside service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the Henderson Family Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made for the perpetual care of Henderson Hall, in care of the Oil & Gas Museum, 119 Third Street, Parkersburg, WV 26101.
Leavitt Funeral Home, Parkersburg, is handling arrangements.
Source Citation: Newspaper: Parkersburg News, The/Sentinel; Publication Date: 27 Dec 2007; Publication Place: Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States
Michael B. Rolston
Michael Beier Rolston died Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007, at his Woodhaven Home on the Henderson Hall estate south of Williamstown. He was 74 years of age.
He was born in 1933, in Greenbrier County, W.Va., the son of the late Julian Kenneth Rolston and Jean Henderson (Rolston) Brady. He was raised in Parkersburg, where he graduated from Parkersburg High School in 1951. He attended Marietta College, Harvard University and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1958 from the Department of Art and Architecture at Yale University.
He worked in New York City as a graphic designer for more than 25 years. His design for the book "The Promised Land and Other Poems" was selected as one of the 50 best-designed books of 1958 by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and was awarded the same distinction by Graphis, the Swiss publication on International Design. The book was also selected by the U.S. State Department for inclusion in one of the first exhibition of American design to travel to the Soviet Union in 1960.
His work in graphic design spanned a broad spectrum of the visual arts. He was art director for both the American Oxford Encyclopedia and for Grolier Inc. with the firm of Architectural Graphics Inc. He designed and directed the graphic signage programs for the Tampa International Airport, Madison Square Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Westinghouse Pavilion Exhibition of the New York Worlds Fair and the Pan American Airline Terminal at Kennedy Airport.
For 20 years, from 1963 to 1983, he served as designer and art director of the Master Drawings Quarterly published by the Master Drawings Association of the Pierpont Morgan Library. He designed exhibition catalogues for the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and publications for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cooper-Hewett Museum.
In the performing arts, he created promotional designs for Metropolitan Opera stars Martina Arroyo, Eleanor Ross and Bonaldo Giotto, New York's Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus, the Philadelphia Lyric Opera, the French pianist Philippe Etremont and the renowned American organist E. Power Biggs. Here in the Parkersburg area, he has designed brochures for the City of Williamstown and the Blennerhassett Drama Association's production of Eden on the River.
Locally, he has served as chairman of the Williamstown Bi-Centennial Commission, vice president and Chairman of the Board of the Williamstown Area Development Corporation, president of Artsbridge Associates and owner and president of Henderson Farms Inc. In 1984, he became the owner of Henderson Hall, built in 1836 by his great-great-grandfather, George Washington Henderson, and a large portion of the remaining land of the original Henderson Plantation, which encompassed some 2,000 acres, in and below Williamstown. In 1957, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated some 65 acres of the land surrounding Henderson Hall including the Henderson Family Cemetery as Henderson Hall Historic District and placed it on the National Register of Historic Places.
Mr. Rolston was one of the last descendants in this area of two of the valley's earliest settlers, Joseph Tomlinson in 1770 and Alexander Henderson in 1798.
Michael spent the last 20 years of his life and his resources preserving Henderson Hall and its furnishings, which remain much as they were from the 19th century. The Hall is one of the area's most magnificent and intact heritage assets. To assure perpetuation of this heritage, Henderson Hall has been donated to the Oil, Gas and Industrial Historic Association (Oil & Gas Museum) in Parkersburg.
He is survived by a cousin, Sandra Henderson Bauske of Chicago.
Friends may call from 1-5 p.m. Friday at Henderson Hall. A private graveside service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the Henderson Family Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made for the perpetual care of Henderson Hall, in care of the Oil & Gas Museum, 119 Third Street, Parkersburg, WV 26101.
Leavitt Funeral Home, Parkersburg, is handling arrangements.
Source Citation: Newspaper: Parkersburg News, The/Sentinel; Publication Date: 27 Dec 2007; Publication Place: Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States
Michael Beier Rolston died Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007, at his Woodhaven Home on the Henderson Hall estate south of Williamstown. He was 74 years of age.
He was born in 1933, in Greenbrier County, W.Va., the son of the late Julian Kenneth Rolston and Jean Henderson (Rolston) Brady. He was raised in Parkersburg, where he graduated from Parkersburg High School in 1951. He attended Marietta College, Harvard University and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1958 from the Department of Art and Architecture at Yale University.
He worked in New York City as a graphic designer for more than 25 years. His design for the book "The Promised Land and Other Poems" was selected as one of the 50 best-designed books of 1958 by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and was awarded the same distinction by Graphis, the Swiss publication on International Design. The book was also selected by the U.S. State Department for inclusion in one of the first exhibition of American design to travel to the Soviet Union in 1960.
His work in graphic design spanned a broad spectrum of the visual arts. He was art director for both the American Oxford Encyclopedia and for Grolier Inc. with the firm of Architectural Graphics Inc. He designed and directed the graphic signage programs for the Tampa International Airport, Madison Square Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Westinghouse Pavilion Exhibition of the New York Worlds Fair and the Pan American Airline Terminal at Kennedy Airport.
For 20 years, from 1963 to 1983, he served as designer and art director of the Master Drawings Quarterly published by the Master Drawings Association of the Pierpont Morgan Library. He designed exhibition catalogues for the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and publications for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cooper-Hewett Museum.
In the performing arts, he created promotional designs for Metropolitan Opera stars Martina Arroyo, Eleanor Ross and Bonaldo Giotto, New York's Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus, the Philadelphia Lyric Opera, the French pianist Philippe Etremont and the renowned American organist E. Power Biggs. Here in the Parkersburg area, he has designed brochures for the City of Williamstown and the Blennerhassett Drama Association's production of Eden on the River.
Locally, he has served as chairman of the Williamstown Bi-Centennial Commission, vice president and Chairman of the Board of the Williamstown Area Development Corporation, president of Artsbridge Associates and owner and president of Henderson Farms Inc. In 1984, he became the owner of Henderson Hall, built in 1836 by his great-great-grandfather, George Washington Henderson, and a large portion of the remaining land of the original Henderson Plantation, which encompassed some 2,000 acres, in and below Williamstown. In 1957, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated some 65 acres of the land surrounding Henderson Hall including the Henderson Family Cemetery as Henderson Hall Historic District and placed it on the National Register of Historic Places.
Mr. Rolston was one of the last descendants in this area of two of the valley's earliest settlers, Joseph Tomlinson in 1770 and Alexander Henderson in 1798.
Michael spent the last 20 years of his life and his resources preserving Henderson Hall and its furnishings, which remain much as they were from the 19th century. The Hall is one of the area's most magnificent and intact heritage assets. To assure perpetuation of this heritage, Henderson Hall has been donated to the Oil, Gas and Industrial Historic Association (Oil & Gas Museum) in Parkersburg.
He is survived by a cousin, Sandra Henderson Bauske of Chicago.
Friends may call from 1-5 p.m. Friday at Henderson Hall. A private graveside service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the Henderson Family Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made for the perpetual care of Henderson Hall, in care of the Oil & Gas Museum, 119 Third Street, Parkersburg, WV 26101.
Leavitt Funeral Home, Parkersburg, is handling arrangements.
Source Citation: Newspaper: Parkersburg News, The/Sentinel; Publication Date: 27 Dec 2007; Publication Place: Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States
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