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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Jan. 16, 1964
Theatre Forms Plans For Training Program
An honor's program will be initiated in the University Theatre in the spring semester which will help prepare students for professional careers.
Jack Brooking, assistant professor of speech and drama, and a member of the three-man committee that will choose participants in the program, said the purpose of the program is "to guide students in performance experience and contribute to their professional growth."
THE OTHER TWO committee members are William Kuhike, instructor of speech and drama, and Lewin Goff, professor of speech and drama and director of the University Theatre.
Brooking said students eligible for the program have been invited to audition Jan. 27. The ten who will audition at that time have been selected on the basis of maturity, discipline, and strong potential in their creative and scholastic work, he said.
The program will be on a trial basis this semester and will offer actor training only. If the courses of instruction work out as planned, the program will expand to include areas of study in directing, scene design, public relations and technical areas of the theatre.
The reason for establishing this type of honors program is that resident professional companies are springing up throughout the country and they are interested in people with thorough training and cultural background. He said there is a demand for this type of trained actor.
IN FORMING THE plan, Prof. Brooking visited three theatres to learn what qualifications they were seeking in trained personnel. He went to the Alley Theatre, Houston, Tex.; Mummers Theatre, Oklahoma City, Okla., and the Front Street Theatre, Memphis, Tenn., to discuss the type of personnel they hire.
Special work in the coming semester will include dance and movement, diction and scene study. The program will operate within the framework of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and will not effect the students' requirements.
Trainee Grant PresentedtoKU
A grant of $109,000 has been given to KU by the United States Public Health Service for a five-year trainee program in immunology.
The program is the only one in the United States to emphasize molecular taxonomy—the classification and comparison of animals by means of their proteins.
Director is Charles A. Leone, professor of zoology. Under his guidance training in teaching and research will be provided each of the five years for one postdoctoral fellow and three predoctoral students.
The grant provides $21,675 for the first year, beginning in February. Amounts tentatively allocated for future years vary from $20,920 to $22,510.
APPOINTMENTS of the first trainees will be announced in February, Prof. Leone said.
The grant will provide broad training in several biological disciplines—an approach much in demand today because of "blurring of distinctions between biological science areas," Prof. Leone said. This has resulted in part from the use of techniques devised in one field by researchers in other fields, he said.
Important also to the new program is training for teaching along with research, he continued. Trainees later will be expected to enter careers in teaching and research at the university level.
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