CHARLES SCHULZ' DEATH DRAWING NEW STUDENTS TO ALMA MATER?

CHARLES SCHULZ' DEATH DRAWING NEW STUDENTS TO ALMA MATER?

ST. PAUL, Minn. (Wireless Flash) -- The death of "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz may be drawing art students to his alma mater, the Art Instruction Schools in St. Paul, Minnesota. Schulz was a student and instructor at the school in the early 1950s, and enrollment for the first quarter of 2000 is the highest it's been in years. Many Schulz obituaries mentioned Art Instruction Schools and a spokesman admits that may have inspired some artists to enroll in the correspondence school. Although Schulz was a hard worker while attending the school, he only got a C-plus on an assignment titled "Drawing of Children." Still, the artist had fond memories and the characters of Charlie Brown, Linus and Frieda were all named after his instructors, as well as a woman in the accounting department who inspired his Little Red- Haired Girl character.