SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXVII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8.1939
NUMBER 15
School Is Over Tomorrow
Fiftieth Football Season Opens At Des Moines
★ Jayhawkers To Tangle With Drake in First of Eight Battles; Kansas Coaching Staff Exceptional
By Horaee Mason
The University of Kansas' fiftieth season of football will begin Sept. 29 when the Jayhawks tangle with the Drake Bulldogs at Des Moines. Kansas played its first intercollegiate football in 1890.
The coming season will constitute the debut of a new ching staff, one that is regarded as the best in school's history. Gwinn Henry, an
sitting coach in the Missouri Valley sector for many years, takes over as head coach. As his assistant coaches Henry will have Vic Hurt, former head coach at Tulsa University, and Harry Lansing.
MILTON SULLIVANT who was Henry's assistant when the latter coached at Missouri.
Prospects Are Uncertain
The prospects for this fall are uncertain. If the line comes through the Jayhawks should have a fine season. However the linemen have not shown exceptional ability to date and their performance is problematical.
Backfield material is plentiful and of a high caliber. Nine letter men backs are returning, Dick Ameringer. Bald羊.
Miller, Bill Bunsen,
Milton Sullivant,
Frank Bukaty, Ed
Hall, Eldreth Cadwalader,
Chester Gibbens,
and Kenneth Caldwell
Miller and Bunsen were first stringers last fall and the others all saw a good deal of action. Sullivant was playing great ball at the close of the season, after a slow start, and he is a strong candidate for a starting berth this fall.
Good Fresh Available
Up from the freshman team will be several prospective backfield stars, including Jake Fry from Rosedale high school in Kansas City, Kan., Marvin Vandaveer from Wellington, Miller Cameron from Wichita East high school and Denzil Gibbens from Lecompton. Lecompton.
Lettermen returning in the line will include Bill Arnold, John Burge, Russ Chitwood, Vincent Graves and Steve Renko, ends; Monte Merkel, Bill Lenhart and Dan Rhule, tackles; Ward Crowell, Quido Massare and Mike Sihlanick, guards; and Jack Turner and John Naramore, centers.
Merle Thorpe, now editor of Nation's Business, was once head of the University Journalism department.
Kansan Staff Announced For Next Semester; Jay Simon to Return
The staff of the Daily Kansan this fall will be directed by Harry Hill, c'40, publisher; Stewart Jones, managing editor; and Marilyn McBride, editor-in-chief.
The news staff, under the management of Jones, will be Harry Bronson, c'41, news editor; Dale Heckendorn c'40 and Jim Bell, c'40, camp editors; Walt Meininger, c'40 Sunday editor; Huck Wright, c'uncl. assistant Sunday editor; Reginald Buxton, c'40, and Dan Hamilton, c'40 make-up editors; and Dick Boyce, c'uncl. night editor.
Clavelle Holden, c'uncl, will replace Bell as sports editor; Betty Coulson, c'42, will be society editor; Mary Elizabeth "Porky" Kirsch, c'uncl, telegraph editor and Maurice Jackson, c'42 will edit the pictures printed in the Kansan.
Buxton will write the column, "On The Shin", handled iast year by Jimmy Robertson, new editor of the Sour Owl. The reportorial staff will be bolstered by the return of Jay Simon, Galena, Kan., who was the Kansan's crack sports' writer last fall. Simon attended Pittsburg Teachers' College during the spring semester.
Teaching Appointments Announced by Chandler
Five appointments recently made through the University Teachers Appointment Bureau were announced by its director, H. E. Chandler, yesterday.
Alvena Brecheisen, A.B.'38, will teach in the elementary school in Lecompte; Ruth Madison, B.M.'29, will teach music in the city schools at San Antonio, Texas; Marvin Hawker, gr., will teach educational psychology in Creighton University, Omaha, Neb.; David W. Craik, M.A.'38, will teach science in the junior college at Ranger, Texas; and Minter E. Brown, M.S.Ed.'30, will be superintendent of schools at Anthony.
"Come Back""—Schwegler
To you who are about to leave us, we say a regretful farewell. We trust that your stay at the University during the summer session has been both pleasant and profitable. If we have succeeded in serving you, tell your friends. If we have fallen short in our service, please tell us. We want to serve you.
You are going back to your field of service, a stronger person than you were when you came. You have sat at the feet of great teachers, and they have tried to aid you in capturing a new vision of life, and to unlose the fountains of latent power within you. Farewell. May your footsteps be surer, your hands stronger, your vision be clearer because you tarried with us for a while.
We were delighted when you came to us—we shall be even more delighted when you come back.
Raymond A. Schwegler Director, Summer Session
GRADE REPORT NOTICE
Summer Session students who wish a report on grades earned during the summer session must leave a stamped self-addressed envelope at the Registrar's office.
George O. Foster,
Registrar
Glenn Cunningham was 30 years old Friday.
Cunningham Still Seeks Track Honors at Thirty
Cunningham is a member of the University faculty, holding the position of assistant professor and lecturer in the Extension division. His time is mainly spent in the Kansas schools, where he meets with clubs, teams, and assemblies of students, and demonstrates in a practical way the value of proper living and training. His travels as lecturer make it
Having passed the milestone in life where most athletes are content to settle down to less arduous duties, Glenn's present ambition is to win a coveted place on the 1940 United States Olympic team. His work at home, and on his farm near Cedar Point has kept him in condition and he believes he will be able to achieve his goal next year.
The famous miler, a University of Kansas alumnus spent the birthday anniversary quietly at his home in Peabody, with Mrs. Cunningham and their daughter, Sarah.
Histhirteenth season on the track, he is hoping that it will be his luckiest. His plans for the year include a trip back East, where he will compete in a round of meets during this winter, and others on out-door track druing the spring season just before the tryout for the Olympics.
Cunningham plans to compete in the 1,500 meter race if he is successful. In past Olympic meets he lost this race to Beccali of Italy in 1932 and Jack Lovelock in 1936.
difficult for him to train properly and it is this fact that makes him doubtful as whether he will be able to make the team next year.
The popular Jayhawkner was born at Atlanta, but when five, moved to Elkhart where he spent his early life. He received his bachelor's degree from the School of education here in 1934, was awarded the degree of Master of Science in 1935 from the University of Iowa, and in 1928, was granted the degree of Ph.D from Columbia University.
Six Weeks' Session Contains Highlights Amusing and Tragic
An eventful Summer Session comes to a close tomorrow, and a general exodus of teachers, teachers in the role of pupils for the time being, and of just plain students will begin about noon. Some of them will be going home to rest before their schools open again; many have planned vacation trips; still others are finishing school and getting ready to take jobs out in the cold. cruel world
The six weeks' period starting June 15 was not without its highlights. Most important of Hill activities during the summer undoubtedly was Professor Wiley's Mid-Western Music Camp.
This year the musicians gave concerts every weekend to record breaking crowds, and were heard on a national radio hookup every Monday.
Two fatal car crashes occurred during the summer. In one, near Kansas City, Kan., five coaches who were returning to their homes after a day at the Summer Session, were struck by a Strang Interurban car. The injuries he received later proved fatal to Perey Parks, popular Wyandotte High coach. Then July 30 Glen England of Topeka was killed on Highway 40 hill as he was entering Lawrence. England was not a student.
During the course of the summer a chancellor stepped out and a new one came in to take his place. The house occupied by retiring Chancellor E.H. Lindley during his stay at the University's helm has been rented by the University as a home for a semi-organized group of men for the coming year. Then the new chancellor, Deane W. Malott, will decide what to do with the house. The Malotts will live in the house donated for that purpose by the late Elizabeth M. Watkins.
The complete list of campus activities during the summer is as follows:
June 15--Class work starts.
June 16--Summer attendance record
1.129.
June 19--Jan Chiapusso piano concert.
June 20--Mid-Western Music Camp opens with 175 in attendance; first All School picr'; Big Six National Softball League opens.
June 21--Car crash injures five coaches near Kansas City, Kan. Injuries to Percy Parks fatal.
June 22--All candidates pass Bar exams; Russian Trio concert.
June 23 -- Chancellor Lindley speaks at his last convocation as Chancellor.
June 26--First open house, Union building.
June 27--Reading Institute opens with 171 enrolled; State Educational conference opens.
June 30--Rooming House inspection plan announced--Wilbur Leonard, inspector.
July 1--Deane W. Malott becomes chancellor.
July 5- Three day Debate, Speech and Dramatic Art conference starts. July 7-- Chancellor Malott makes his debut at Convocation.
July 13--Goal-H debut; Georgia Graves recital.
July 18--Dr. Carol Aronovice,
housing expert, at Union.
July 20.--North Lawrence All Stars
K U. All Stars 5.
July 19--Mrs. William Dickerson's art lecture.
July 23--All Musical Vespers.
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Physical Exams Are Required
★ Psychological Tests Will Be Given September 16; Freshmen to Meet Advisers
All students entering the University for the first time regardless of their classification, must be present at the psychological examination Saturday, Sept. 16 at 9 o'clock in Hoch auditorium, and also keep a specified appointment for a physical examination.
Entering freshmen are required to attend the meetings with student counsellors on Friday afternoon, Sept. 15, and the Chancellor's Convocation in Hoch Auditorium that evening.
Except for the School of Fine Arts, the freshmen will meet by schools at 9:30 Monday morning. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet in Fraser Chapel, the School of Engineering in Marvin Hall, the School of Education and physical education majors in Blake Hall, the School of Pharmacy in the lecture room of Bailey Chemical Laboratory. There will be an opportunity to ask questions.
Monday and Tuesday evenings in Hoch Auditorium there will be special convocations for the new freshnen.
Thursday evening the New Student Induction will be held on North College Hill, near Corbin Hall.
SUMMER
SESSION
SlippedUp
by
Walt Meininger
By Jimmy Robertson Guest Conductor
Jim Robertson, Shinster as of last year, stumbled into town last night under the impression school started this morning. The tree in Marysville that he's been cutting the notches on blew down last week and he lost track of the date.
With finals approaching we believe it's better for James to do our chores for today.
We cut a lot of his column today and he wanted to save the left overs for the Sour Owl. But we spread (Continued on page four)
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