University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 3,1974
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KU Summer Theatre To Honor Playwright
Summer theatre at the University of Kansas with fans like Inge, a Kansas player died last week.
"The World of William Inge" is the first of three summer festivals planned to celebrate the American Bicentennial by presenting works of American playwrights, according to Tom Rea, associate director of the University Theatre.
A photographic portrait of Inge will be dedicated and hung in Murphy Hall in a memorial ceremony July 12, and the Exhibition will open on August 13 the William Ine Memorial Theatre.
Jack T. Brooking, professor of speech and drama, will direct the festival.
The festival will comprise three plays,
"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams will be presented June 28 and 29 and July 5 and 6. This play was chosen to open the festival because Williams encouraged Ineau to become a playwright.
Paltizer Prize for drama in 1953, will show July 11, 12 and 13.
"The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," he last successful work will be presented in a memoir.
During the final week of the festival, July 23 to 27, each play will be presented again.
Inge's play, "Picnic," which won the
23 to 27, each play will be presented again. Imbia was born in Independence on May 13, 1913. He graduated from KU in 1935 where he became a member of the National Collegiate Players.
He was the music and drama critic for
Louis. Louis Starship in 1944 when he
met Wendy Wilson.
His career as a playwright led him into screenwriting. He won an Academy Award for Best Director.
He was found June 10, 1973, in his car with the engine running in the closed garage at Gate Street.
Among his best-known works are “Come Back Little Sheba” and “Bus Stop.”
Continuing Ed Gets Honors From National Association
The University of Kansas Division of Continuing Education received top awards and committee appointments at the National Education Association (NEDA) training in Denver recently.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Extranural Independent Study Center was credited with having the nation's best correspondence study course among a field of 200 NUEA college and university members.
Robert J. Senecal, associate dean of continuing education, was elected chairman of the seven-state region of which Kansas is a member.
Vivian McCoy, director of student services, is charrman-elect of the new national college board.
James Nabors, director of conferences and institutes, received the 1974 Research Award for studies in pharmacy continuing education.
Alex Lazarino, director of the Extramural Independent Study Center, was elected to establish an independent study center and criteria task force for independent study and individualized instruction. He also was elected to a three-year term on a nine-person governing board.
John Blubaugh, and colleagues from other universities were recognized for a monograph on community development. The manuscript, "Series on Continuing
Education," will be the first publication of the ACT-NUFA."
Howard Walker, dean of continuing education, was named to the NUEA's council on administration of continuing education and cochairman of the committee on relations. Walker is a past president of NUEA, serving six years on its board of directors.
David Alley, extension representative at the Kansas City Center, was elected vice chairman of the new division of special needs education. He is also chairman of the charter and bylaws committee of the division of student services.
KU is the only'regents' institution with
oc-campus continuing education ad-
vancement.
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