SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 28.1938
VOLUME XXVI
NUMBER 7
Graduates Secure Positions
School of Business Places More Than 20; Other Appointments Expected
Over 20 graduates have already been placed in jobs, announced the School of Business yesterday. Following are the placements made:
Ray L. Britton, Fox Midwest Distributing Co., Kansas City, Mo. Kenneth Catren, Goodyear Rubber Co., Kansas City, Mo. Bruce Cottier, Quaker Oats Co., St. Joseph,Mo. Ernest D. Figgs, Hall Brothers, Kansas City, Mo. Lowell Haldeman, J. C. Nichols Real Estate Co., Kansas City, Mo. Paul E. Kihm, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., Wichita, Kan. Norval Kline, Folger Coffee Co., Kansas City, Mo. Eleanor Mann, Registrar's Office, K.U.
Stanley Paine, Woolf Brothers,
Kansas City, Mo. Homer G. Riley,
Stanolind Oil Co., Stafford, Kan.
Wm. H. Shaw, Retail Credit Co.
Kansas City, Mo. John W. Summers,
Folger Coffee Co. Kansas City, Mo.
Robert L. Watson, Central Light &
Power Co., Phoenix, Ariz. Clark
Weaver, Roddis Lumber & Veneer
Co., Chicago, Ill.
Graduates who plan to enter law school next fall are Foster R. Conklin, Bernhard M. Ettenson, Frank S. Schmidt, Thomas Thurman, Harry Wiles, and Robert Winslow.
Charles Neiswender will continue the study of voice in New York City.
Study of voice in New York City. Paul Fisher and William C. Thompson expect to take a year of graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania while Donald McMorran will enter the Graduate School at Kansas.
James Hail will serve in the U.S. Army during the coming year on a temporary commission as a second lieutenant at Ft. Crockett, Texas.
William Ramey, who graduated from the College in 1934 and who was a student in the School of Business during 1937-38, was placed with the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y.
Faculty Entertain Students' Wives
Faculty Entertain Students' Wives
The bridge and thimble party announced for Wednesday, June 29,
at 2:30 o'clock, at the home of Mrs.
B. A. Nash has been transferred to the home of Mrs. E. E. Bayles, 1408
Kentucky. This is the second of the series of afternoons at which the wives of summer school students of the Education Department are guests of faculty members of the department. Mrs. H. E. Chandler and Mrs. C.B. Althaus will be assisting hostesses.
Open House 'Hall of Fame'
Sour Owl Cartoonist Will Make Sketches Of Visitors
Plans for the party include mixer dances, games, bridge, and ping pong, according to Miss Elizabeth Dunkel, assistant professor in physical education. Adequate lighting for the bridge and ping pong tables has been arranged. Lewis Copeland, fa'40, will be master of ceremonies.
Ross Robertson, assistant instructor in economics, and W. Otto Miessner, professor of public school music, will lead group singing.
"Enough fun has been planned for this party to make up for the two Mondays, June 27 and July 4, when 'Open House' could not be held," Miss Dunkel said. The regular schedule will be resumed July 11.
Initial entries in the summer session "Hall of Fame" will be made at the second "Open House" of the Summer Session to be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Memorial Union building.
Johnson has been art editor of the Sour Owl, campus humor magazine, for the past three years and is well known on the campus for his ability as a cartoonist.
Carol Johnson, fa'38, will draw cartoons of persons present and the finished sketches will be put on display. New sketches will be added to the collection at each succeeding "Open House" held this summer. At the close of the term those who have won a place in the gallery may have their pictures.
Spooner-Thayer Museum Appeals to Busy and Idle
By E. Snyder
Have you ever spent an afternoon ambling through Spooner-Thayer Museum? Do you know the history of this most interesting spot?
In 1894 an endowment from William B. Spooner, an uncle of Dr. Francis H. Snow, then chancellor of the University, made possible the erection of the building, then known as Spooner library. From that day until the fall of 1924, when the first unit of the Watson library was completed, it housed the many volumes of the University library. Then it was closed and remained so for two years until sufficient funds could be secured for plastering and painting the walls and remodeling the rooms.
At last in the fall of 1925, renovation of the interior began. By spring
in 1926 the second floor had beer finished and filled with Oriental paintings and musical instruments. The following fall Oriental furniture, models of architecture, dishes and many other kinds of antiques were moved into the main floor. The basement, the last to be completed, was made into an auditorium with a seating capacity of three hundred and fifty and adequate stage facilities.
The three galleries were open to the public for the first time in March, 1926, although formal dedication was not until April, 1928.
The Thayer collection of art was presented to the University in 1927 by Sally Casey Thayer as a memorium to her husband, William Bridges
Warner Goes To Texas U.
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Robert W. Warner, who has been head of the department of electrical engineering at the University for the past two years, has accepted a position as head of the electrical department at the University of Texas.
Professor Warner received his A.B. degree from Washburn college, his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University in 1918, and his E.E. degree here in 1928. He became an instructor in electrical engineering in 1921 and has taught here since with the exception of one year spent at University of Wisconsin and a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is especially pleased to go to Texas University because this school has a new program whereby schooling and business industry are connected.
Outlines New Program For Education Group At Meeting
Physical 'Ed' Program
A six-point program for physical education and recreation was submitted at the afternoon session of the summer educational conference at the University of Kansas by Alfred O. Anderson, director of physical education and recreation at St. Louis, and vice-president for the central West of the National Physical Education Association. His program:
1. Leisure time activities should be constructive and educational.
2. Educators should guide the program, since it is so essentially educational in character.
3. There should be a pooling of community assets for recreation, including school grounds and buildings, armories, church recreation halls, and the like.
4. The program should be for all boys and girls, and adults, too.
5. The program should be for the whole year; after-school playgrounds are as important as vacation playgrounds.
6. The program should be tax-supported.
Mr. Anderson suggested that the growing demand for the use of school properties for community recreational and physical educational projects demanded that educators study the added problems of administration, the question of leadership that the extra-curricular activities should have, and the matter of financing the program. Should the added cost of light and heat and custodial service be provided in the school budget, or should there be a rental charge to cover actual costs?
The speaker added that whoever conducted the program should consider the wishes of the community. A school curriculum, he said, could be laid down, and the children be required to follow it, but a recreation program, to be most successful, must supply community wants and needs, and not be a program handed down by someone above.
Venezuelan Educator To Speak Here
Dr. George I. Sanchez Has Made Surveys of Mexican and Venezuelan Educational Systems; Calls it "A Release From Tyranny"
"A Release From Tyranny"
Athletic Skill Is Cultural
Dr. C. H. McCloy Sees Great Satisfaction In Sport
A perfectly executed play in tennis, golf, or basketball may give the player just as much satisfaction as the reading of Carlyle, and the one is just as cultural as the other, according to Dr. C. H. McCoy of the University of Iowa, president of the American Physical Education Association, speaking at the opening session of the state educational summer conference at the University.
"Just as there is no cultural value in trying to read a foreign language with two fingers in the dictionary, but a satisfaction that is cultural comes when we can read well enough to get the flavor of the language, so is there satisfaction and cultural value in physical skills.
"I recall a tennis game in which I hit the ball with the wood and it struck the net, finally going over, by accident, for my point. Again, I struck the ball with full force, exactly with the center of the raquet, and although two inches out of bounds and opponent's point, I fbelt the thrill of a well made shot.
"As teachers of physical education we should begin early to teach those physical skills that will be useful later, such as poise and posture, both for sitting and standing. We should teach even the children how to handle their bodies efficiently for games and for the routine movements.
"Why should it be necessary for a varsity basketball coach to teach fundamental footwork to his players? As a child, that player should have played tag, and other games to develop nimbleness and quickness of movement. Such physical skill is highly essential in these days of darting automobiles."
Dr. McCloy urged improvement in teaching of physical education courses, not only "vertically" within the subject itself, but "horizontally" to show he part that well developed physical being had in the enjoyment of the more academic but, to his mind, no more cultural subjects.
"After all, it would be better to raise a million people ten "culture-feet" than to raise 100 persons a thousand "culture-feet," he said.
Chancellor's Son Authors Article
Ernest K. Lindley, son of Chancellor E. H. Lindley, is the author of an article "La Follete's New Party -- What It Really Plans To Do," in the July 2 issue of Liberty Magazine.
Dr. George I. Sanchez, technical adviser to the government in the Ministry of Education in Venezuela, will speak at 10:30 Thursday morning at a convocation of the School of Education in Fraser Theater. Dr. Sanchez's subject will be "The Progression and Development of education in Latin American countries" and on his own experience in Venezuela.
Doctor Sanchez has been instrumental in the direction and establishment of public education in Venezuela. In speaking of his work, Dr. Sanchez said, "The whole project was really a project in release from tyranny."
Before going to Venezuela he was associated with the General Board of Education in New York having charge of their projects in New Mexico. Later, working with the Julies Rosenwald Fund of Chicago he was directly in charge of the rural educational activities in the southern United States. While serving in this capacity he made a survey of the entire educational program in Mexico. A book report on his findings entitled, "Mexico, A Revolution by Education" was published in 1936.
Doctor Sanchez is a graduate of the University of Mexico. He received his master's degree from the University of Texas, and his doctor's degree from the University of California.
Classes in the School of Education will not be held at 10:30 on Thursday.
Additional Enrollments In A Cappella Choir
Additional enrollments in the A Cappella Choir of 71 voices which is under the direction of D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, are as follows: Mrs. D. V. Buchanan, Margaret Fuerst, Mary Randell, Bernard Troutfetter, Wm. Fankhauser, and F. H. Reynolds.
The choir will sing on the Fine Arts Vesper program on July 17, in two groups of unaccompanied numbers.
What did Louis have on his gloves—Schnelling salts?
K.U. DAMES MEET
- K.U. DAMES MEET
* The K.U. Dames will meet
* Thursday afternoon, June 30, at
* 2:30 in the lounge of the Union
* building for contract bridge. All
* wives of students are cordially
* invited to attend. If you plan 'o
* come, please call either Elizabeth
* Finley, 2682R, or Viola Palmer-
lee, 2602R by 9 o'clock Thursday
morning. Mrs. Burt Johnson,
Mrs. Ernest Stelting, and Mrs.
H. A. Hoeglund are hostesses.