Picnic Planned For Wednesday Grads, under-grads, the faculty, and their families will gather on Mt. Oread quadrangle in front of Fow- ler shops next Wednesday afternoon, June 19, to partake of fun and food. In case of rain, the frolicking will be done in Robinson gymnasium. Classed by Dr. F. C. Allen as a family affair, the picnic will begin at 5 pm. with games until 6 o’clock. Everyone is invited; adults will be charged 35 cents, children 20 cents. The varied program includes Rus- sell Wiley’s K.U. Band; the Haskell Indians’ entertaining troupe which will give an exhibition of boxing and dancing; movies showing the champ- ion Kansas varsity basketball team in action; and games for all ages— shattiabaued badminton, croquet, loop tennis, goal-hi, and volleyball. For the children there will be a sand- | pile, swings, monkey-maze, and teeter-totters. building’s dietition, will be respon- sible for feeding the picknickers. Miss Hermina Zipple, the Union FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1940 SPORTS TOPICS By Bill Koester, c Last night's recreation picnic, which attracted around 75 hungry Summer Session students for games and food, proved highly successful. It has apparently become an estab- lished tradition on Mt. Oread for ex- hausted bookworms to relax almost as if aboard a luxury liner, what with -shuffle-board, loop tennis, swimming, archery, and other sports common on vessels of the high seas. Improve- ments this year in equipment and facilities are making the life of the Summer Session student — “the life of Riley”. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1940 Biases, Hurry, Hurry— Th’ Injuns Are Comin‘! | An enlarged version of the annual | Summer Session picnic will be held | Wednesday evening on the quad- ‘rangle between Robinson gymnas- ium and the Anatomy building. An extensive program is planned for all who attend. Several features of interest which will be new this year are included in the plans. Pictures of the K.U. basketball team in action against Rice, Southern California, and Indi-. ana will be shown for the first time. Haskell Institute will send several dancers in complete tribal regalia to demonstrate Indian dances, and will also send several boxers to en- tertain the expected large crowd. The picnic will start with games at 5 o’clock, and a picnic lunch will be served at 6. After the lunch, the program will begin. In addition to the affairs already noted, the Uni- versity band under the direction of Russell L. Wiley will play, and Miss Irene Oliver, of the School of Fine Arts faculty, will lead the group singing. The picnic starts an extensive pro- gram of summer activity for fac- ulty, students, and members of their families. The program is under the direction of Dr. F. C. Allen, and is designed to fit the interests of per- sons of all ages. In event of rain, the affair will be held in Robinson gymnasium. Tick- ets are on sale at the Recreation of- fice, the hostess desk in- the Me- morial Union building, and the Phy- sical Education office. Adult tickets are 35 cents, and children’s tickets are 20 cents. Do YOU KNOW That Summer Session offers you many opportunities for diversion, recreation, and friendship? Your attention is called to the following program which is arranged to enrich your summer and which is open to all students and families. SOCIAL 1. The all-school picnic - Monday, Junc lath, at Brown's Grove. - your first chance to renew old contacts and to make new ones. There will be an abundance of good food, - and games if you went them. Transportation will be provided with the meeting place at the Kansas Union. Trips at 4:30 and 5:00 peme Plates will be 25¢ for adults, 2O0¢ for childrene Sign up now and leave your reservation by Friday, June 10th, at one of the following places: Fraser Hall - Education Office Union Building - Hostess' Desk 2e Open House and Mixcr - Union Building - cach Monday of Summer School, starting at 7:00 p.m. - entertainment, games, dencinge 3e Dames Club - Open to all wives of summer session studonts. Sewing, bridge, and informal gatherings with moetings ench week on Wednesday after= noon in the union Building. EDUCATIONAL le Forum Mectings - Presenting cducators of prominence in stimulating discussions of professional topics - cech Tuesday evening - Union Building from 7:00 to 8:00 pele 2. Educational Conference - Speakers, round tables, and discussions on Physical Educection ond Recreation in Public Schools - June 27. Se Exhibits - ( ) Exhibition of general Education books - Fraser Hnll (2) Exhibition of scientific labors.tory cquipment = Blake Rall June Zle 1 Z ¢ CULTURAL le Campus Junkcts - A sorics of conducted visits to some of the interost= ing and worthwhilc spots on the campus, including Spooner-Thayor Musoum, the Observatory, the Dioramas in Dyche Museun, tho Photosrophic Bureau, the De- partment, of Design, ond tho Geology Florescont display - each Wednesdcy evening, 7:00 to 8:00 pete : 2, Musical Events - Including faculty rocitals, band and orchestra concerts, community sings and many extra musical attructions of worth. There will be recitels overy Thursday evening, and band or orchestra concerts on Fridcys and Sundayse RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY 1. Competition - Leagues and tournaments for sen will be conducted in soft ball, handbell, golf, tennis, badmiaton, tock tennis and horseshocse A men's swimaing moet will take place near tho ond of the summer schoole Register on bullctin board, first floor in men's gymnasium. 2e Unorganizcd Play - The campus becomes your own side yard with facilities for croquet, badminton, archery, dock soniis, volley ball and golf. Equipmcent will be avilablo for games in lnte afternoon and every ovening from the cinner hour 'till darke And don't forget the chances to swim! Pool hours will be: Women: Monday, Wednesday, Friday Mon: Tucsday, Thursdey, Saturday 3:30 = 4:00 Elomentery Swimming 3:30 = 4:00 Elemontcry Swimming 4:00 - 4:30 Intermediate Swimming 4:00 - 4:30 Intermediate Swimming 4:30 ~ 5:30 Open Hour 4:30 = 5:30 Open Hour Tuesday, Thursday, Saturcay Monday, Wodnescay, Friday 2:30 - 3:80 Open Hour 2:50 - 3:30 Open Hour Each evening, between dinner and study, plan to enjoy the campus and the wolcome it brings youe Add to your schedule - CAMPUS HOUR - 7:00 to 8:00 Pele SOME FUN! ONLY TWO MORE SUMMER SESSION PARTIES --- Don’t Forget the Dates MONDAY, wuLyis Union MONDAY, JULY 25 Ballroom For Your Entertainment Special treat by accordion quartet. A full hour of dancing. Nightly additions to Hall of Fame. A sing fest with Ross Robertson. | For Your Comfort Electric Fans, Cold Drinks, Games, Comfortable Chairs “The More We Get TJagether The Happier We'll Be.” T Dai ice’ In Streets On Campus Summer Session students- who would like to “Shake a leg” and “do-si-do” will get their chance Monday night, when a street dance sponsored by the summer recreation office’ will be held on the pavement between the anatomy building and the recreation quadrangle, it was announced today by Dr. F. C. Allen, director of the recreation program. Cornmeal will be applied to the surface of the road to facilitate danc- ing, which will be composed mainly of folk types, and music will be fur- nished without charge to the danc- ers. The orchestra has not been named as yet, Dr. Allen said. The event marks the first time the dances have ever been held on the Street, last year’s and others having ‘taken place in the Memorial Union building. Dr. Allen expressed hope $$ throughout the summer. Dances will be held every Monday night, if the plan meets with the approval of stu- dents and faculty members. The street will be roped off from of the anatomy building. that the new policy con be continued. Oread avenue to the walk at the rear fi Hail 445" A Whale Of A Gale Converging gales of man-made breeze will keep dancers from melt- ing into their socks at the summer. session’s ballroom party tonight in the Memorial Union building. A washed-air cooling system is be- ing installed in the ballroom to make summer heat only a memory for the evening at least. The system is be- ing installed by Green Bros. hard- ware company’s engineer. In addi- tion, several 42 inch fans, furnished by the Kansas Electric Power com- pany, will be in operation. The ballroom windows were left open all last night, and after closing them to the heat of the day this morning, Raymond L. Crow, Univer- sity electrical foreman, has kept fans circulating the air in the room. Further inroads against the sum- mer heat will be attempted with ice- cold punch, to be served free by the sponsors. A coke concession will dis- pense soft drinks for those willing and able to pay for them. Dancers will be wooed with the rhythms of Dick Tippin and his 12- piece orchestra, Dr. Allen said yes- terday. In addition, the ballroom floor has just been re-finished, and should be in excellent shape, he said. Admission to the dance will be free to holders of summer session activity cards, and acharge of 25 cents for outsiders will be made. The party will start at 7:30. These Prots. Can Cook Nearly 150-people turned out last |: night to eat their fill of the cooking |. of Prof. Guy Smith and drink Prof. |, F. O. Russell’s coffee. Everyone, | whether they ate or not, applauded the various numbers of the program. The community recreation class used last night’s activities as a lab- oratory for working out their recrea- tional theories. Members of the class put on a skit entitled “The Cup of Youth,” based upon the idea of the} fountain of youth. There were ex- hibitions of hair stretching, inchem- Hey Look***” pinchem, and doughnut dunking by members of the group. Ernie Fisher, archery instructor, was master of ceremonies, and led the group singing. Dr. F. C. Allen acted in the variety show presented limmediately after the steak fry. -~ More T Than 300 RY Attend Picnic |’ More than 300 persons of all ages played and lunched at the annual Summer Session picnic sponsored by the recreation office, held last night in the quadrangle adjacent to Rob- inson gymnasium. The event sig- naled the start of the summer’s rec- reation program, directed by Dr. F. C. Allen, basketball coach. Events began at 5 o’clock in the af- ternoon, with the assemblage en- gaging in loop tennis, shuffleboard, badminton, goal-hi; and children playing on teeter-totters, in sand piles, monkey mazes and swings. The University band, directed by Russell Wiley, offered a varied musical fare, supplemented by community sing- ing, the performance of Haskell In- dians who danced and boxed, and movies shown publicly for the first time of the University’s basketball team in action against Indiana, Southern California, and Rice last winter. = At 6 o'clock the picnic took on added attraction when food was mentioned and “players” settled down to satisfying the appetites they | had built up. : For Wednesda Grads, under-grads, the faculty, and their families will gather on Mt. Oread quadrangle in front of Fow- ler shops next Wednesday afternoon, June 19, to partake of fun and food. In case of rain, the frolicking will be done in Robinson gymnasium. Classed by Dr. F. C. Allen as a family affair, the picnic will begin at | 5 p.m. with games until 6 o’clock.|: Everyone is invited; adults will be!‘ charged 35 cents, children 20 cents. The varied program includes Rus-« sell Wiley’s K.U. Band; the Haskell |- Indians’ entertaining troupe which will give an exhibition of boxing and dancing; movies showing the champ- ion Kansas varsity basketball team in action; and games for all ages— shuffleboard, badminton, croquet, loop tennis, goal-hi, and volleyball. For the children there will be a sand- pile, swings, monkey-maze, and} teeter-totters. Miss Hermina Zipple, the Union building’s dietition, will be respon- sible for feeding the picknickers. ate, = an) tele, | Structors, and at the Education of- To Stake Students To Steak B’Fast--- And No Mistake GO Medium, rare, or welldone? There are three choices for your steaks at the Fourth of July steak breakfast to be held on the Quadrangle Thurs- day morning. Dr. F. C. Allen’s physical educa- tion department will furnish play equipment on the grounds for all who wish to play. Breakfast will be served from 8:30 until 9:30 am. Play apparatus will i be available until noon. Reservations are being reported from regular classes by faculty in- _ - fice. All reservations should be made today. Breakfast tickets are 50 cents for adults and 20 cents for children. In case of rain the picnic will be held in Robinson gymnasium. Food and Fun For Folks At Fowler Frolic Sizzling steaks, a hot variety show, and the choice of any game on the quadrangle will highlight the sum- mer session farewell picnic to be held -in Fowler Grove Thursday evening. Ernest Davis, master of ceremo- nies, announces a Big Sing and short _ skits entitled Hair Stretching, Foun- tain of Youth or The Drinking Well, and Inchem Pinchem Don’t You Laugh with characters drawn out of the audience as the meat of the variety show. Members of the Com- munity Recreation class will present a one-act play, “The Cup of Youth,” a comedy which ends in a tragedy, for the edification of erstwhile edu- cators and studes. | Games are slated for the prologue | hour from 5 to 6, succulent steaks and all the trimmings for the main act from 6 to 7, and the Big-Sing- plus-Slapstick-skits for the twilight hour (7:00-7:45 p.m.) Festivities will be concluded by : 7:45 so that music lovers may attend the Bakelienikoff concert. One and all, young and old, fat and thin, especially the thin, are invited to this steak fry. Tickets are 35 cents and may be purchased at the physical education office, education office, or from the following members of the Commu- nity Recreation class: Betty Wyatt, Jean Egbert, Marjorie Smith, Ernie Davis, Ed. Hall, Alva Wilkinson, Nell Mitchell, Neva Oliver, Eloise Wirt, Madge Jones, Elizabeth Nesbaum, Evelyn Harriman, Don Powell or Dr. Forrest C. Allen. ~ Men giving the street just south of Good Weather J-lb-Y0 Good Luc Dance Tonight Barring capers of the weather and Doc Allen’s whimsy, there will a street dance just east of the Quad- rangle tonight at 7:30. Thrice before the Community Re- creationers have made arrangements for a street dance. -Once it was too cold, and the other two times—think up your own excuse. But if you have left an ounce of confidence in human nature, or are more than mildly cur- ious about that old wheeze—“the fourth time’s a charm,” then garb yourselves—-but lightly—and hie yourselves up to the proposed scene of the terpsichorean tragedy or tri- umph. : Fate, N. W. Storer, or the calendar has contributed a moon that will be well worth seeing whether the dance is held or not—that is, unless it’s cloudy. In the event of unseen fail- ure in the present plans, one can al- ways go to the library and fight the flies there in an effort to soak upa little outside reading. If, this afternoon you see a crew of Oread and west of the Anatomy building a face-lifting then you may be well assured that there WILL be a dance. Just before the dance starts the street will be given a generous coat of corn meal to make it smooth enough for rug-cutting. In addition to popular music, beat out by a group of high school mu- sicians, Doc Allen insists that there will be a caller for a short period of folk and square dancing. The re- creation grounds in the quadrangle will be open so that rug-cutting par- ents can check the kids with sand- pile, or shuffle-board. If there is a dance you'll have fun, | if there isn’t you'll have a laugh. ui —_—_—_ System of Cooling Prevents Drooling, That’s No Fooling 4-26-46 _ More than 300 dancers glided, bounced, and jittered on the newly finished floor in the Union building ballroom last Tuesday night to the music of Dick Tippin and his or- chestra. For those fond of vital statistics, there were seven coats and four pairs of suspenders visible to the naked eye. All of the gallons of punch had been consumed by 9 o’clock, and the wafers were finished off during the all too brief over- time period. ee The cooling systems did as well as could be expected, as did George Sitterley who does his griping to the contrary on page two. - Corn Meal Was A 4-14- Good Dea! Doc Allen and _ his Community Recreation class played host and hostess to some 650 persons at the street dance Tuesday night. From the sidelines it looked like everyone there was having a good time, although there were mutter- ings from some would-be jitterburgs about the frequent intermissions for folk or square dancing. The quad- rangle games received much atten- tion from enthusiasts before, during, and after the dance. The music furnished for dancing by the recordings via the Univer-: sity loud speaker system drew favor- able attention from dancers and spectators alike, but corn meal did not measure up fully to its pub- licity as a dance ‘wax.” ; On Tuesday, July 23, a dance will be held in the Memorial Union ball- _ room, with music furnished by Dick Tippin’s 12-piece band. Activity tickets will admit summer session students. Others will be charged 25 '}cents a person. Quadrangle in Rotudily A Recreation By Betty Coulson From monkey-maze to archery, all the recreational facilities of Univer- sity quadrangle are managed by Phog Allen’s class in community recrea- tion. “Out there on the grass is the lab- oratory,’ said Dr. Allen. “Here on the second floor of Robinson gymn is the lecture room.” But Dr. Allen has an informal idea of how a lecture room should be conducted. The whole atmosphere is friendly and the nine men and four women can and do speak up when- ever they wish. Dr. Allen and his class are proud of the attendance they mark up every night at their manufactured play- ground. They will tell anyone hon- estly that they entertain between 100 and 200 men, women, and children between 7 and 9 p.m. each day. Dr. Allen says firmly that the area be- tween Robinson and Fowler shops is “the. coolest spot in the state of Kansas.” Members of the class manage and supervise the different parts of the Hill’s “little Olympics”. According to capability and with frequent changes—they are assigned one each to monkey-maze, sand pile, teeter- totter, swings, trapeze, turning pole, and hopscotch for children; to loop- tennis, shuffle-board, badminton, Goal-Hi, archery, croquet, and dart game for older youngsters. Dr. Allen laughs when he tells of Laboratory three young married couples who were found playing on the tiny tots’ monkey-maze after lights were. turned off the other night. “We’re actually building one for the older folks”, he said. Twice a week the group spon- sors a co-recreational splash party in the gymnasium pool. Three times a week the group’s efforts are turned to folk dancing and community sing- ing. Looking toward the future, Dr. Al- len tells his class that next equip- ment in the line will be lawn-bowls “bowling on the green’, and a lighted driving range. Archerer Davis, member of the class, has gained the supervisor’s approval for a miniature Sherwood forest with painted card-board or wooden an- imals for targets. These innovations may be made next year. Sooner or later everyone in the class will be chairman of one com- mittee. A committee plans and su- pervises, down to the smallest detail, each street dance, variety show, steak fry or picnic. The committee chair- man can go the limit, Dr. Allen says. The class, for practical experience in recreation guidance, does all the real work, both on the playground and on the committees. Making a lot of its own paraphernalia from sec- ond hand, bought-in-the-rough, or discarded material, the group has learned its first lesson in economy, says Dr. Allen. 1 Hill vs. Valley In Volley -2-+2 In coordination with the play pro- gram being carried out on the Campus, a little rivalry has de- veloped between the old athletes go-. ing to school and the towns men. It has been decided that the only gen- |. tlemanly way to settle the issue of who is the best, is to play a volley ball game this evening. The town team will be represented by Morris Cohen, Charles Nuffer, George Docking, Sam Maffet, Ben Brown and L. E, Bice. The hill team is made up of Dick Hansen, Lawrence Stanton, Ashley Elbel, Joe Kibler, Don Powell, and Dave Shirk. The crowd should see some fancy ‘playing, get some good laughs and hear some heavy huffing and puffing. By Bill wight ye Something new.in the way of sum- mer session attraction was innovated Tuesday night when a team from downtown defeated student hopefuls in the first volleyball game of the summer season, two games to one. The hope that interest will increase for this sport has brought about ten- tative plans by Dave Shirk to con- tinue with a tournament. (eS Recreational Started on a_ Shoestring” By Agnes Hornblo Like the success story of many multimillionaires is the story of the University’s summer playground. Although the recreational facilities of the quadrangle may not have to pay multimillionaire taxes today, they too were started on the prover- bial “shoe string.” : Three years ago this spring, Phog Allen was laughed at for his play- ground idea. “Summer School stu- ’ dents come here to study,” he was told by the powers-that-be. But Dr. Allen was persistent. He’d seen the plan work in the East. He didn’t see why it wouldn’t work here. _ Unaided financially, he began. Without lights, the playing hours that year had to be set during twilight from 6 to 8 o’clock each evening. Dr. Allen started with the idea of a cool spot for mothers, children, and wives of school teachers. But benches, a monkey maze, and a sandpile set far back from the street soon proved not mess His community recreation class added one thing after another. Shuf- Program mop handles and wooden discs. The group got ropes out of the attic— bought many things second hand. Badminton was made possible when the class bought rubber balls at ten cent stores and added feathers picked up at local poultry houses. “Some just like to sit and watc ,” said Dr. basketball and football benches.” Last year the budget committee gave the “little Olympics” lights— four of them. Dr. Allen was satisfied —temporarily. But this year he had to have more lights. With the aid of some of his “boys” he brought) the stadium lights used at Commence- ment time up from down the hill. This year archery is taught by one of the community recreation class members. Archerer Davis, an Indian lad, not only teaches how to handle a bow and arrow, but how to make them as well. Material for a bow costs the student about a dollar. When he’s through, he has a product worth three to five times that much. Fourteen cents will make a bow string selling for two dollars on the fleboard made its debut with cedar Allen, ‘so we got more benches—| retail market. Play Program _ Proves Success According to Dr. Forrest C. Al- len, director of the community rec- reation program, this year’s enthus- iasm has eceeded that of any pre- vious seasons. It was said several years ago that a program of this type would not succeed. Dr. Allen, however, assuming that summer school students would appreciate this type of activity has proved ifs success. Equipment suitable for a typical playground has been supplied by the physical education department and a great deal of it has been turned out in the Kansas University shops. The idea of the playground is to offer summer school students and their families a chance to relax and participate in non-strenuous games in the cooler part of the day. The period is long enough to offer the ‘proper amount of exercise and yet short enough not to interefere with the evenings study. Everyone is invited to attend these recreation periods in the evening. They will find almost any type of game which they care to play. In addition, there are frequent dances, picnics, band concerts and com- munity sings for those who do not care to play. The dance. which was to be held last night has been postponed be- cause it was felt by Dr. Allen that students would rather study after the Fourth of July vacation. This feature will be held in about two weeks. ~~ 6f- the “Summer Session recreation Summer Session Sports @ Program To Be Opened Monday on Fowler Lawn By Clavelle Holden The summer recreation program will get under way Monday. night when the organized playground will be opened, Dr. F. C. Allen, director program, announced: yesterday. _ The playground= will -be- on: the - Jawn in front of Fowler:shops,-or just. éast. of the gymnasium. _The play- gtound will be open every night, ex- cept Saturday and Sunday, from 7 to 9 o’clock. : Use of the play facilities is not limited to students, everyone is in- vited to attend, and special play ar- rangements will be made for the children, Doctor Allen said. The following games will be avail- able on the playground, which will be lighted by large floodlights; -cro- quet, Shuffleboard, volleyball, bad-| minton, goal-hi, loop tennis, box hockey, deck tennis, ping pong, handball, and archery. Dave Shirk and Josephine Sams will be in charge of the playground, &. Ww working under Doctor Allen’s di- rrection. The softball leagues will be formed: next week. Doctor Allen will call a ‘meeting~ of everyone interested: in playing softball, and at that “meeting Present plans call.for-golf. and ten-. ‘nis ‘tournaments later in the sum- mer. PROGRAM ITs Supper will be served at 6 pare TITe Band 7116 to 7145 (7) IVs aoe oe VIe "“Wmisie Im, Hote tnldng Bee at Me (and enoore) 3 Vite Haskell Indian Boxers 8315 (7) Viti. "Yatsie Coratassel" (Dorothy Gshret) No, No, A Thousand Times, No (and encore) TX. Haskell Indians in Metdve Dances Xe Basketball Movies 8:30 (7) XIe "God Bless America" Taps = Joe Crow