SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXVII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1939
NUMBER 2
Music Camp Session Opens
Picnic Deadline Extended Till Noon Today
- Total Registered Is Far Below Expected Number; Robinson Gym Available In Case of Rain
Registration for the first all-school picnic this afternoon had reached only 65 up to the deadline set for yesterday noon, and was far from the number of 200 expected by Dr. F. C. Allen and Miss Hermina Zipple, directors. Because school is just getting under way and the weather has been a little uncertain the deadline has been extended to this afternoon, but Doctor Allen urges that anyone wishing to attend should feel free to go on out to Brown's Grove anyway.
Improvements have been made to the Grove by the Physical Education department, and include new eating tables and playground equipment. Plenty of entertainment and food will be on hand according to the directors.
Trips will be made from the Union building at 4:30 and 5 o'clock this afternoon and there will be transportation for all those desiring to attend. Reservations should be made at the information desk in the Union building or at the Education office as early as possible, but Doctor Allen says, "feel free to come on out whether you have signed up or not."
In case of rain the picnic will be held in Robinson gymnasium where provisions have been made to take care of the expected 200.
DEADLINE FOR FEES
The deadline for paying Summer Session fees will be tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock. Late enrollment penalties will be charged after that date.
A Cappella Tryouts This Afternoon
Summer school students who have reasonably good musical voices and the ability to read music are invited to join the A Capella Choir. Dean D. M. Swarthout, of the School of Fine Arts, is director of the group, and has named this afternoon for initial practice. Meetings will be held at 4:30 in room 32 in Frank Strong hall. There will be no individual tryouts. One who reports in the first meeting will be accepted as a singer in fairly good voice.
Besides having a chance to sing, the inducement in an opportunity to perform on radio programs is expected to draw a large group. Besides having a part in several Columbia broadcasting programs the choir will preform in the All-Musical Vespers to be held the afternoon of July 23 in Hoch auditorium.
Approximately 16 selections will be used by the organization this summer. The library includes work of Bach and Palestrina in addition to negro spirituals and other contemporary types of a cappella music. This music is no wavable at Bell's Music Store, and should be brought to the first rehearsal.
Directs Summer Band--of it making access to the western side easy.
Russell L. Wiley is the director of the Midwestern Music Camp, which opened here yesterday. Wiley is also director of the University of Kansas band.
Trip to Add Insects To Snow Collections
A third field trip to be taken by University of Kansas scientists will be the Biological Survey under the direction of Dr. R. H. Beamer, professor of entomology. The Kansas Biological Survey which collects insects from all over the United States for the Frances Huntington Snow Entomological Collections at the University, will make its trip to Florida and the Southeast this year.
The party, which will consist of Mrs. Beamer; Elmo Hardy, Spanish Fork, Utah; Maurice Jackson, Lawrence; and Jack Beamer, Lawrence, leaves Lawrence July 1 and will return about September 1. Each year the Survey adds more to 50,000 specimens to the nationally known collections. This summer special attention will be given to the insect forms occurring in the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia.
Convocation Friday
Chancellor E. H. Lindley will be the principal speaker at the first convocation of the Summer Session Friday morning.
First hour ... 7:30- 8:10
Second hour ... 8:20- 9:00
Third hour ... 9:10- 9:50
Convocation ... 10:00-10:50
Fourth hour ... 11:00-11:40
Fifth hour ... 11:50-12:30
Russian Trio Concert Thursday
There are many picnic sites located at points overlooking the lake, where one may spend a restful, quiet and cooling evening. Gravelled or oiled roadways make motoring a pleasure throughout the park. An excellent view of the lake may be had from the dam, a roadway on top
- Popular Musicians Opens Summer Session Series; Activity Books Admit
Picnic Sites Available
The Russian Trio, consisting of David Moll, violinist; Ennio Bolognini, violoncellist, and Nina Mesirow-Minchin, pianist, will present a concert in Hoch auditorium next Tuesday at 8 p.m. to open the Summer Session musical series.
Established in the early 30s, the lake covers an area of about 175 acres, and winds in and around wooded hills. The state park area itself, exclusive of water, is about 500 acres. In the park are well-equipped ovens, tables and picnic sites, and along the lake beach, sail and rowboats are available. Swimming is also one of the popular sports.
Since they appeared at the National Association of Music Teachers convention in Chicago three years ago, the Trio has been in great demand for performances all over the United States.
All Pleasures of Ozarks Are Available at Tonganoxie State Lake
Each musician will appear in solo numbers in addition to their group selections. All students attending school this summer and members of the music camp will be admitted upon presentation of their activity tickets. University faculty members may obtain tickets without charge for themselves and their immediate families by calling at the School of Fine Arts office or at the box office on the evening of the concert.
By Raymond Derr, gr. The Summer Session student who longs for the cool of the mountains or the beauty of the Ozarks, as well as the thrill of hooking a fish in those areas need not be disappointed this summer.
One of the most popular fishing and picnicking spots of this part of the state is only a few minutes' drive from Lawrence. It is Leavenworth county state park, located four or five miles northwest of Tonganoxie, which, in turn, is 14 miles northeast on US40, from Lawrence.
One of the popular fishing spots of the state, it is visited daily by many persons. Great crowds come from Kansas City and other cities in the area on holidays.
For the fisherman new to this area, a few words may be of help. Since this is a state lake, the only license required to fish in it is a state license. Unless one has a license now, it would hardly be worthwhile to purchase one, since the year's licenses expire June 30. New licenses, good for one year, will be available July 1, at the office of all of the county clerks of the state.
Need State Licenses
All persons, both men and women,
over 16 years of age and under 70,
are required to have a license to
fish in the state, but such a license is
good anywhere in Kansas. Non-
residents may pay $1 for a 15-consecutive-day permit, or $3 for a
year's license, but the resident
license costs only $1 for the entire
year and is good until June 30, 1940
Licenses may be secured at the office of the county clerk, at the Douglas county courthouse, and need not be purchased in the county of which the applicant is a resident.
Licenses must be carried while fishing, and permission must be secured from land owners or tenants.
175 High School Instructors and Students To Attend
Today saw the opening of the fourth annual Mid-Western Music Camp to be conducted at the University. More than 175 people will attend the Music Camp this summer. Approximately 115 of these will be high school students and the others will be instructors and supervisors.
the A O Pi house. All of the students will eat at the Pi K A house.
The camp will last for a six-weeks period starting with enrollment which was completed yesterday afternoon. High school students from Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, South Dakota, Colorado, and Florida will attend the session.
The fee for the six weeks is $66 per person which includes board and room, band and orchestra two hours a day; ensemble, one hour a day; private lessons on any one instrument, one hour a day; theory, one hour a day; supervised recreation, a picnic at Lake Tonganoxie, a trip to Kansas City, and recitals.
Russell L. Wiley, director of the camp, plans to house the young musicians in the Pi Kappa Alpha, the Triangle, and the Alpha Omicron Pi houses. The boys will live in the Pi K A and Triagle houses and the girls in ___
A special course in Drum Major work and baton twirling is offered by the camp. Tennis, soft ball, ping pong, horseback riding, hiking, golf, and swimming are some of the sports offered under supervision.
To Gather Specimens On Zoology Trip
Animals that roamed the Kansas prairies 25,000,000 years ago will be the subject of study of the field party from the department of Zoology of the University of Kansas this summer. Those who will make the specimen collecting trip are Claude Hibbard, assistant curator of paleontology; George Rinker; Joe Then; Ralph Taylor, Spring Hill; and James Sprague, Lawrence, all students in vertebrate zoology at the University.
North of Belvedere, Kansas will be the grst stop of the party, where some pleistocene mammal remains have been exposed in digging a drainage canal. A week will be spent there. From Belvedere the party will go to the state lake in Meade county, Kansas where they will work on upper pleistocene mammals. The largest deposit of its kind in North America has been discovered in Meade county. The party has taken more than 34 specimens from the deposit in the past four years. They will leave Lawrence July 1 and will return about Sept. 15.
before any fishing is done in creeks or privately owned ponds or lakes.
Several other nearby fishing spots are the Anderson County state park, just north of Garnett, the Lyon County state park, north of Emporia, the Kansas and Wakarusa rivers, and there are several smaller streams near Lawrence that are popular with local nimrods.
A copy of the state fish laws may be secured at the office of the county clerk, and certain restrictions on state lake fishing are posted on the lake sites.
Reading Institute To Open Monday
- improvement of Reading Will Be Main Objective Of Week Conference
More than 100 Kansas teachers will be at the University from June 26 to July 1 to attend the first annual Reading Institute to be conducted by the School of Education and the extension division.
Discussions and lectures on the importance of better instruction in reading and the benefits which may accrue from more effective reading will take up most of the week.
Instruction in reading more effectively will be discussed from the standpoint of junior high school, high school, and college levels.
The purpose of the Institute, which is conducting similar short term instruction courses throughout the country, is to emphasize the importance of continuing instruction in reading beyond the elementary grades.
Two outstanding leaders in the field will be here for the first meeting of the Institute on this campus. Dr. Angela M. Broening, supervisor of English and reading in the Baltimore public schools and Dr. Grace Arthur of the Wilders Clinic, St. Paul, will discuss work in high schools and the difficulties which confront children in their attempts at learning to read. Dr. Broening will lecture on reading in the higher grades and Dr. Arthur on the elementary difficulties.
The teachers will attend the meetings without receiving scholastic credit.
SUMMER SESSION Slip-Ups by Walt Meininger
We're well aware of the difficulty Asher has getting dates but we thought perhaps the summer session ratio of men to women would make it easy even for him. There must be some girls around here under four feet.
We're beginning to wish we had never given the right phone num-
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