Wallace A. Ross same year. In 1959, Ross founded the American Television Commercials Festival and The Clio Awards, and he served as the Managing Director of the Festival until 1971. The name "Clio" means the proclaimer, glorifier and celebrator of accomplishments, and is the name of the Ancient Greek Muse of History. The design of the statuette given to winners of the Clio was inspired by the Brancusi sculpture called "Bird in Space," which Ross originally viewed at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Ross held a contest to choose the name for the statue, and "Clio" was the name suggested by
Scroll (music) Scroll (music) A scroll is the decoratively carved beginning of the neck of certain stringed instruments, mainly members of the violin family. The scroll is typically carved in the shape of a volute (a rolled-up spiral) according to a canonical pattern, although some violins are adorned with carved heads, human and animal. The quality of a scroll is one of the things used to judge the luthier's skill. Instrument scrolls usually approximate a logarithmic spiral. Although many references assert that the instrument scroll closely follows the golden spiral (a specific form of the logarithmic spiral) this assertion is demonstrably false.