Freberg to speak at Media Seminar
Stan Freberg, satirist turned advertising consultant, will speak at the William Allen White Foundation's Seminar on the Mass Media in a Free Society next April at KU.
Freberg is one of seven major speakers scheduled during the April 28-30 program commemorating the 100th anniversary of
the birth of William Allen White, Emporia newspaper publisher whose grass roots wisdom brought him national prominence. During three days of speeches, critiques and discussions, the seminar's participants will comment on the
Stan Freberg
present and future of the mass media
Freberg now devotes most of his creative efforts to Freberg Limited (But Not Very), a Hollywood-based advertising firm using unorthodox approaches to serve such diverse clients as a prune company, the United States Army Recruiting Service, a Chinese food company, and the United Presbyterian Church.
Freberg describes himself not as an ad man but as a freelance creative consultant. The late Ernie Kovacs described him as "a multiple incarnation of Fred Allen, Don Quixote and Donald Duck."
The 41-year-old satirist is quite serious despite his tongue-in-cheek approach to advertising. He accept only those clients whose products he believes in.
Other sneakers
Others who will speak at the seminar include Bill D. Moyers, former press secretary to President Johnson and now publisher of Newsday; Cart T. Rowan, nationally-syndicated columnist and former director of the U.S. Information Agency, and Ben Bagdikian, writer and outspoken critic of American Newspapers.
Russell J, Lynes, former managing editor of Harper's magazine, previously was included among the speakers but has withdrawn because of other commitments. However, he plans to participate as a critic commentator.
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The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy tonight with considerable cloudiness Wednesday and possible scattered showers. Low tonight will be near 40. Precipitation probabilities for tonight and Wednesday are 5 per cent and 30 per cent.
Construction men are now working on floor, ceiling and interior partition installations and electrical outlets, Lawton said.
R. Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor of operations, said the Printing Service project is fairly well on schedule and in the finishing stages of construction.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Tuesday, December 5, 1967
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WEATHER
'On schedule'—Lawton
The Pharmaceutical graduate research building, at 19th and Iowa, was finished the second week of September.1967.
The KU campus is moving westward this year, with two buildings under construction and one completed west of Iowa Street.
The Printing Service, on 15th Street, and the U.S. Geological Survey building, at 17th and Iowa, are scheduled for completion early next year.
KU building westward
The target date for completion is Feb. 1, but Lawton said it was impossible to tell whether the building will be completed by that date.
Weather a factor
Construction men are now working against the weather," he said.
The U.S. Geological Survey building, is expected to be completed about the middle of January, said Irvin Youngberg, executive of the KU Endowment Association.
The building is an Endowment Association investment and will be leased by the Geological Survey. The three-story red brick structure will house offices and laboratories.
Kenneth Barsch, construction foreman, said the building was behind schedule because of bad weather last spring. Workers hadn't been able to ge the basement walls in on schedule because of rain.
Complete by Jan. 15
However, he said, the building would be completed by Jan. 15.
"The second floor is finished except for laying the floor tiles," Barsch said.
Youngberg said the Geological Survey plans to occupy the building "hopefully by the first of February or sooner."
The Pharmaceutical building is the base for the research graduate program of Regent's Professor Takeru Higuchi. The program was begun this semester.
Higuichi and Ian Pitman, resident associate in pharmacy, instruct 12 graduate students in the program.
Howard Mossberg, dean of the pharmacy school, said the one-story building was designed to accommodate three or four faculty members and 25 to 29 students.
Finnish fashions will be featured
Kansan photo by Randy Leffingwell
FINNISH FASHION SHOW
(Left to right standing) Miss Christi Elniff, Lawrence freshman; Miss Karen Schlapper, Prairie Village sophomore; and Miss Mikki Moisio, Helsinki, Finland, graduate student, are three of the KU coeds who will model in a Finnish fashion show, 8 p.m. tonight, in the Kansas Union Forum Room. Miss Moisio and Lief Stergard, Vasa, Finland, graduate student (kneeling), are sponsoring the program in honor of their country's 50th decade of independence.
By Pat Pruitt Kansan Staff Reporter
Next year the pharmaceutical department will add a professor and five or six students to the program. More instructors and students will be added the following year to fill the building to its capacity. Mossberg said,
Marimekko, meaning "Mary's Little Dress," is one of the foremost designers on the Continent.
A parade of fashion styles from Finland's Marimekko studios highlights tonight's celebration of Finnish progress in her 50 years of independence.
An historical analysis and films are included in the program
Program honors independence
The brief style show at 8 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Forum Room will be conducted by Mikki Moisei, Helsinki graduate student and fashion editor of "Wee Women," one of Finland's top fashion magazines.
Both blond and blue-eyed, KU's two Finns told in casual, drawing accents how they felt their obligations as informal ambassadors of good will from their country on its anniversary. The program is informatively oriented.
Miss Moisio and Leif Ostergard, Vasa, Finland, graduate student, are sponsoring the program in honor of their country's fifth decade of independence, marked Dec. 6. 1967.
Ostergard, a bearded business graduate student, plays drums with a local jazz band and dances with Sigma Tau honorary modern dance fraternity.
The $160,000 pharmacy building has seven research laboratories, three instrument rooms, three faculty offices, a seminar room, a shop and a stockroom.
The building was constructed by Bradley Construction Co. of Topeka.
Miss Moisio, a petite blonde sporting a golden tan on the day of the year's first snow, is doing graduate work in English and journalism to aid her publications career at home.
Both find America's educational system far more rigidly structured than Finland's, where a student sets his own pace with the teacher's cooperation.
Tiny Finland's delicate position and strong Scandinavian influence will be emphasized in the program by a short analysis by Oswald Backus, professor of Russian History, of Finland's 50 years' progress as compared to that of its neighbor, the Soviet Union. Finland shares approximately 40 per cent of her eastern boundary with Russia.
Separated from Russia
In fact, Finland's history indicates a strongly negative attitude towards Russia, and the two nations, though not separated by physical barriers, are separated by distinct cultural barriers.
Ostergard said because of Finland's 600-year rule by Sweden, she is bilingual and her modernization and culture is closely comparable to that of Sweden.
A bronze sculpture worth $4500 was stolen from the Museum of Art garden court last weekend.
Museum of Art sculpture stolen
Like Scandinavia, of which she is not geographically a part. Finland ranks in the top 10 nations in standard of living and education.
Finland was the only country in the world to pay her war debts; Finland is closely associated with Russia; Finland shares Scandinavia's free love mortality code—these are the usually-known facts about Finland, according to Ostergard.
Two films concerning Lapland and Finnish housing and nature will illustrate conflicting views of Finland—the stereotype and the reality.
Models for the fashion glimpse of Marimekko styles are Karen Schlapper, Prairie Village sophomore; Susan Whitehall, Marshalltown, Iowa, sophomore; and Christi Elniff, Lawrence freshman.
Museum director Bret A. Waller discovered Saturday that Maillot's "Portrait of Renior" had been pried from its base and taken.
"I'm really upset about this," Waller said. "This is no prank—it's a felony."
Waller said museum directors in the past would wait and hope a stolen object was returned, asking no questions of the vandal.
"It's not just schoolboy fun to vandalize things belonging to the museum." Waller said. "Now we may have to take everything out of the garden and deprive people of the right to enjoy the sculpture."
Waller said he will wait just seven days. If the statue is not returned by then, measures will be taken. Police are investigating the theft now.
Student missing
A KU student has been reported missing and Lawrence police will begin an investigation today.
The missing student is William F. Montgomery, Overland Park sophomore. He is a resident of Ellsworth Hall.
Lawrence police say he apparently left sometime Dec. 1.
"He is not here at the moment and we're trying to locate him. He was here Friday night, but we haven't seen him since," said Dave Phillips, Ellsworth resident director.
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