Allen

Dunkel

Allen

Allen

Dunkel

RADIO PROGRAM
March 10, 1938.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR HEALTH
"Dance Symposiun"

Miss Dunkel, for tho past three weeks or so I've been hearing fragnents
of conversation from girls dashing through the halls with practice
clothes in one hand and a roll of adhesive tape in the other, I've heard
scattered referonces to “symposium”, “Tau Sigma", "Manhattan", "locture
denonstration, "dance forms", and so forth. So I think now is as good
tine as any for you and Alice Bauman to toll me what it's all about, for
It well aware that scmething either has happened, or is going to happone

You are exactly right in both of those suppositions, for sonething has
happened, and something more is going to happens And you doubtless reale
izo by this timc that I! like the doting mother when it cones to talke
ing abogt the things ny girls in Tau Signa aro doinge - Oh, it just
oceurs to me that perhaps I should explain to our listeners that Tau
Signa is our honorary dance organiza tion at KeU. But now to got back to
what's puzzling you = between Alice and mo you should be able to satisfy
any questions you may havoe Where would you like to start?

Well, Miss Dunkel, we aro very proud of the things that Tau Signa has
done, and I belicve it definitely has an important place ot the Univer-
sitye But lot's got right to that word ~ symposium - is it a new dance
step, or a successor to the Big Apple, Urse Bauman?

Well, it's not quite either. A synposim, strictly speaking, is a cone
feronce where ideas aro exchanged on sac one subject of general interest.
I guess the references to symposium which you heard were from conversa=
tions over the Dance Symposium which was hold in Manhattan a little ovor
a wock ago and in which Tau Signa participated.

That's samic help, but tell me more about ite Is it usual to hold such a
meeting? Who is invited? What do you do? dnd what happened at this
particular conforence?

Woit = waite wit- onc question at a tince Such curiosity deserves reward,
and I going to start irmediately answering your first questione But
before I do, I nust tell youa little joke about this word « "symposiun"
Alice was absolutely right when she gave you the definition of the word,
but a fow of us had to go through considorable kidding over it before we
nade the trip to Manhattan. One of the clever young professors hore at
the University, who possesses an unusually good sonse of hmor, like you
was & little nonplussed over the talk of the dance symposiuie So he
took recourse to the dictionarye Imagine ny surprise when he dropped in
on a rehearsal one day to tell me in sepulchral tones that he felt he
sould not approve of 22 college wonon attending the sort of necting wo
were plominge Whereupon he inforned no that he understood a symposium
was a convivial necting for the sake of rowdy ontertaimonte So he had
a good laugh at our expense until I haulod a dictionary in to dispute
his contentions And sure enough he was right. The first meaning given
was the one he had used to twit us = but jrmediately following it was the
very sober definition Alice has alroady given you « and we will both