SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
NUMBER 14
VOLUME XXV
Music Camp Ends Season With Full Schedule Sunday
Orchestra and Band Join Forces in MBS Concert; Both Groups to Appear Individually, Also
N. De Rubertis, Kansas City conductor, will lead the orchestra at 4:30 in the ballroom in a non-broadcast concert, concluding the orchestra's series of Sunday programs. Mr. De Rubertis also is to lead the orchestra in the broadcast program
Opening the afternoon will be a broadcast at 3:30 p.m. from the Memorial Union ballroom, over WHB, Kansas City, and the Mutual Broadcasting system. Both band and orchestra will appear at different times during the program, to which the public is invited.
With a full afternoon and evening's entertainment scheduled Sunday under two conductors, the MidWestern Music camp will end its second annual session. Band and orchestra are featured in programs and broadcasts in the final day's events.
Final event will be the band concert at 8 p.m. in Fowler grove, under Albert Austin Harding, Urbana, Ill., who also leads the band radio program.
Noted Conductors
Both conductors to appear Sunday have achieved renown, and are rated among the best of the large number of leaders brought here this summer. Mr. De Rubertis has been conductor of the Kansas City Little Symphony orchestra for 10 years, and specializes in teaching string instruments.
He has been a central figure in advancing high school contests in recent years, and is regarded highly as a judge in state and national events of that nature. He has instigated several almost revolutionary changes in high school orchestra work.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1937
The music camp band is undergoing rigorous instruction under Doctor Harding, known among band men as a "driving genius" who is satisfied with nothing but perfection. As a consequence, student bandsmen are finding themselves hardput to meet his demands.
Doctor Harding, who was an intimate friend of Sousa's, is said to be the only conductor who may alter an effect in a Sousa march without violating the composer's authority. His deep understanding of Sousa's work is expected to manifest itself in the concert Sunday, when several of "The March King's" numbers will be heard.
Varied Programs
Other numbers by the band Sunday night will be "Pantomime" from "Miracle Suite," by Humperdink; the Gypsy caprice, "Zingeresca," by Frederick Curzon; and excerpts from Wagner's opera, "Parsifal."
No admission charge will be made at any of the concerts.
The orchestra's program will include Saint Saen's "Symphony No. 1," written when the composer was 15, and Schubert and Liszt's "March Hongroise."
THE CAMP ENDS
The remarkably successful conclusion of the second annual Mid-Western Music Camp this weekend bears out the practicability of a plan instituted last summer by Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts and Russell L. Wiley, band director at the University.
With enrollment 25 higher this summer than last, the camp was pronounced a complete success in its second session. Mr. Wiley anticipates a doubling of attendance next year, as word-of-mouth advertising of the camp spreads during the coming winter and spring.
Conducted mainly to benefit high school musicians and provide a bridge for the gap between spring and fall terms of school, the camp also gives school music conductors an opportunity to study under the fine arts faculty and to secure a master's degree in music. Various outstanding band and orchestra conductors brought here each week add to the camp's attractiveness to students.
Seven states—South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado—are represented in enrollment. Expenses of the camp amounted this year to $2,900,paid by fees and scholarship gifts.
A close routine is followed each weekday by all students, and is believed to contribute materially to the camp's success. Boys room at the Delta Chi house, and girls live at the Sigma Kappa house. The routine includes ample recreation.
A combined orchestra and band broadcast Sunday winds up the camp, with the program going out over approximately 60 MBS stations throughout the country.
Deadline Nears For Rooms Reports
Rooming house operators serving University students were urged in cards circulated yesterday to turn in their reports immediately. It is hoped that all reports will be in by the end of July, and under no case will applications be circulated after Aug. 1.
The two rooms bureaus are giving owners a new service this year. As soon as all approved houses whose owners have reported are tabulated a complete list will be sent to every student whose transcript indicates he or she will return to the University next fall. Such lists have been available at the bureau offices heretofore, but never have they been sent individually to students.
The men's rooms bureau phone number is K.U. 175, that of the women's bureau, K.U. 23.
Student Recitals
Students in the Mid - Western Music camp appeared in two recitals this week, the first a program including a large group Monday night, and the second an advanced students' appearance last night.
Mixed Swim
Arrangements were made late yesterday to hold a mixed swim in the gymnasium pool at Robinson gym Saturday morning, as soon as field day activities out of doors end. An unusual event on the campus, the swim will begin at 11:30 or shortly thereafter. All swimmers are asked to bring suits.
Faculty Ends Series Monday
Soloists in School of Fine Arts to Play in Second Recital at Eight o'Clock
One of the events near the conclusion of the summer session musical season, a faculty recital including six members of the fine arts faculty, will take place Monday at 8 p.m. in Central Administration auditorium.
Faculty musicians who will take part are Allie Merle Conger, piano; Ruth Orcutt, piano and accompanist; Irene Peabody, mezzo-soprano; Alice Monricciff, contralto; Meribah Moore, soprano; and Waldemar Geltch, violin.
The Program
The program will be as follows:
"Tocata," (Frescobaldi-Cassado)
two pianos, Miss Conger and Miss Orcutt.
"The Hills of Arcady," (Coombs), "That's All," (Brake); and "Ah, Thou Beloved One," (Levitzki), Miss Peabody.
"Novelette, opus 99," (Schumann), "Valse Tendre," (Friedman), and "Scherzo," (Arensky), Miss Conger.
"Spring Returns," (Marenzio);
and "How Merrily We Live," (Este);
vocal trio, Miss Moore, Miss Peabody and Mrs. Mcripple.
"Sierra Morena," (Monasterio);
"March of the Little Fawns," (Pierne-Duskin); and "Hora Stacato," (Dinicu-Hefitz); M. Gretch.
"Wild Geese," (Buchanan); "Eyes of Blue," (Orth); and "April Children," (Clife Carey); Miss Moore.
"Valse Tzigane," (Levitzik); "The Dancer in the Patio," (Pepper); and "Great Rivers," (Stone); Miss Conger and Miss Orcutt.
Three other events will round out the program for the summer. They are the recital of Robert Head, graduate student in piano, on July 28; the annual campus sing, July 29; and the final advanced student recital, Aug. 2nd.
Dr. Bert Nash, professor of education, and his clinic class left yesterday morning for Atchison, where they will give clinical examinations to children in the orphans' home.
Nash's Clinic Class Goes to Atchison
Those who made the trip are Misses Mamie Burk, Helen Bolin, Mildred Mast, Nancy McClellan, and Mary Alice Hill, and Jess Cooper, Walter M. Robertson, Carl Brandner, Frederick Miller, and Walter Russell.
The group expects to be gone three days, returning tomorrow.
All Campus Waits Eagerly As First Field Day Approaches
All-Star Lineup
Howell's Neversweats Smith's Night Owls
Buller P D. Taylor
Howell C C. Taylor
F. Toalson RF Clover
Hayes 3B Bloxom
Toalson LS Franklin
Welch CF Bird
Johnson LF Walgast
Caldwell 1B Nichols
Innis 2B Corrigan
Kennedy RF Skidmore
Keeler RS Nelson
Olander LF Spong
McElroy CF Peters
Lindsay C-1B Strickler
Hodges RF-P Puffinbarger
Game time, 9:15 a.m.
Skilton Honored Before Departure
Charles S. Skilton, professor of piano in the School of Fine Arts, who will leave soon for Europe, was honored by a large group of students and fine arts alumni in a farewell party at his home Tuesday evening.
The feature of the evening's entertainment was a program of Professor Skilton's compositions, played by different persons who have studied under him and other friends.
Those who took part included John H. Moore, Ruth Rice, Joe Williams, Mary Lou Earlenbaugh, Lucille Porter, Leona Griswold, Janet Coulson, Emily Ball, Lida Warrick, Frances Robinson, Ione Bushong, Ednah Hopkins, Margaret Hockett, and Margaret Bushong.
Chandler Announces Eight New Teachers' Placements
Group singing led by Ray Gafney and accompanied by Dorothy Enlow Miller at the piano supplemented the instrumental and vocal numbers.
Eight recent teacher placements have been announced by H. E. Chandler, director of the University bureau here. They are:
George M. Welch, gr., science and athletics, Shawnee Mission Rural high school, Merriam; Norma Walker, B. Des., '29, art, Colorado State Agricultural college, Fort Collins, Colo.; Dale Perkins, gr., commerce, Troy; R.E. Devore, gr., principal, Burdette High school; Mary Lou Earlenbaugh, B.M.E., '34, music, Iola; John Goering, A.M., '36, social sciences, Independence; W.H. Carter, gr., social science and athletics, Colony; and George H. Zentz, A.B., '37, modern languages, Fort Sumner, N.Mex.
Jessamine Jackson, '34, Joins Kansas City Kansan Staff
Jessamine Jackson, '34, has secured a position as school editor of the Kansas City Kansan. She will begin work Aug. 9. She will fill the position formerly by Margaret Ryan, '36.
Since 1934, Miss Jackson has been employed in the extension division here and as part-time secretary to W. A. Dill, associate professor of journalism.
Softball Embroglio and Wide Men's Waddle Are Featured Numbers Tomorrow Morning
Scholastic muscles and bones are flexing today in anticipation of the field day which will be staged tomorrow. Completed plans promise a full morning of activity and amusement at the ball diamonds southeast of the stadium.
The all-star softball game will open things at 9:15, and immediately after that comes the second feature of the morning—the fat men's race—to be staged on the ball diamond.
Entries at Field
Entries for all events will be taken at the field, and contestants may enter as many events as they wish. Horseshoe pegs have been set up, and courts for deck tennis, badminton, and aerial darts have been marked off near the softball field.
Women Too
In order to assure a good all-star game, original plans to have teams from the professional schools and the college were dropped. Two teams have been chosen from the six that have competed in the softball tournament throughout the summer. R. D. Smith and Howell will captain the two aggregations. As was previously stated, Commissioner Twente and Ump Nash will work the battle between the "Never-sweats" and the "Night Owls."
Provisions have been made for participation by the women in the golf drive, volley ball game, badminton, aerial darts, baseball throw, and horseshoe games. All events will be staged on or near the baseball field east of the stadium, with the exception of the golf drive, slated for the University golf course.
THE SCHEDULE
9:15:
10.15:
Fat men's race.
Golf drive (2 balls).
Volleyball.
Horseshoes.
10.45:
Potato race.
11.00:
Sack race.
11.15:
Standing broad jump.
Baseball throw.
Aerial darts.
Badminton.
11.30:
Mixed grim gum real
Mixed swim, gym pool.
Bulging waistlines of scholastic sportsmen and the notorious dignity of many "school marms" are expected to receive a good workout in tomorrow's activities, but the fun will be well-worth the effort, it is promised. Jay Plumley, who is in charge, has added the final carnival touch to the affair by promising "plenty of icecold lemonade for everybody—so step right up—it's all free—all free!"