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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 15, 1956
Senior Pianist Shows Maturity
Norman Chapman, Brandon, Canada senior, is probably ready for the concert stage. The pianist, who presented his senior recital Monday night in Strong Auditorium, shows a maturity not often seen in a student.
His ability was best shown in three works by Ravel: "Ondine," "Le Gibel," and "Alborado del Gactoso." He displayed dexterity and a strong sense of rhythm in his interposition.
Chapman's playing is sensitive and dynamic, expressive and rich. His program, ranging from Bach to Prolegoeff, was demanding.
The "Ballade in F Minor" by Chopin was also well executed. Its lyrical and dynamic passages made pleasant listening.
Chapman closed his program with the "Sonata No. 7, Opus 83" by Roarkoffie. The militant first movement was balanced by a flowing second movement. The difficult last movement with its rapid chords brought a "bravo" from the audience, and five curtain calls for the artist. It was perhaps the most enthusiastic reception given a student this year
Fine Arts Recitals Set
The School of Fine Arts will present two more students in recitals this week to conclude the senior and graduate recitals.
A graduate piano recital will be given at 8 p.m. Wednesday by James Day of Osawatomie, who studies with Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano. Day will play the Busoni transcription of the Bach "Prelude and Fugue in D Major," Beethoven's "Sonata Op. 10, No. 3," the Kabalevsky "Third Sonata," and the entire set of 24 preludes by Chopin.
The final recital of the week will be by Richard Wright, tenor, a Junction City graduate student of Joseph Wilkins, professor of voice. He will sing at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Strong Auditorium. His program will include an aria from Mozart's "Don Giovanni," and numbers by Handel, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Dupare, Poulene and Foudrian.
"Deans of the various schools and department heads have been thinking about the replacements for retiring faculty members for over a year," George B. Smith, dean of the University, said today.
Retirements A Problem
He added that it is impossible to say that one person will take the specific place of the retiring faculty member. Some faculty members have built up their fields to the extent that two or three must be appointed to take over the work done by the one who is retiring, he explained.
"The appointments that have been made this year and for next year have been made to cover the areas represented by those retiring." Dean Smith said.
Dr. Robert E. Bolinger, associate professor of medicine at the Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research at the Municipal University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
Dean Smith said retiring faculty members are replaced either by a reshuffling in the particular department or by bringing in new men.
Faculty Member Gets Fulbright
He is the fifth KU professor to receive a United States educational exchange grant for 1956-57. Seven students have similar scholarships.
Dr. Bolinger's grant is one of approximately 400 made to faculty for lecturing and research abroad. The award includes travel, tuition and a stipend for maintenance, paid from foreign currency credits due the United States.
Light Bombers Can Drop H-Bombs
WASHINGTON (UP)—Gen. Nathan F. Twinning, Air Force chief of staff, disclosed today that H-bombs have been so reduced in size that they can be carried by light bombers.
Gen. Twining's statement was one of the first official indications that the H-bomb can be carried by planes other than huge heavy bombers such as the B-36 and the B-52. Gen. Twining supported the assertion made last week by Adm. Arleigh B, Burke, naval chief of operations, that carrier-based planes are capable of carrying the H-bomb.
Postal Rate Increase Seen
WASHINGTON (UP) — The House Post Office Committee today appeared about ready to approve some postal rate increases.
The administration has sought to increase the price of stamps for three years. Congress has refused. And many observers doubted Congress would reverse itself in an election year.
But chairman Tom Murray (D-Tenn.) predicted the committee will approve postal rate increases this week.
Other Congressional developments:
Farm—The House Banking committee prepared to push through a bill boosting the farm price support fund to a record $14 billion.
Agriculture—The House passed and sent to the Senate a record $1,983,000,000 appropriation for the Agriculture Department. The bill includes $1.2 billion to make up for losses in the price support and surplus disposal program.
Foreign Aid—Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) said "too much emphasis is being placed on military aid" in the administration's $4.9 billion foreign aid program.
Gov. Hall Resumes Reelection Campaign
TOPEKA (UP)—Gov. Fred Hal will resume his reelection campaign Wednesday.
The governor, who had a full day of official duties Monday will make two appearances Wednesday at Kingman before going to Hutchinson for a Republican dinner.
Psychology Club Meeting
Psi Chi, national honorary society in psychology, will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in 305B Student Union. Dr. Anthony Smith, professor of psychology, will speak on "Professional Opportunities in Psychology."
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Class To Give Puppet Show
A puppet show, climaxing the art methods marionette class, will be presented to the Lawrence grade school children at 4:15 p.m. Friday in Bailey Auditorium.
Three of the puppets are shown above.
The show, a French play, "Le Petit Prince," by Antoine de Saint Exupery, will be presented by members of the class and their instructor, Miss Maud Ellsworth, associate professor of education. Anyone interested may attend.
Committee chairmen are Mary Wood, Kewanee, Ill., junior; props; Mary Lou Rickman, Omaha, Neb., senior, advertising; Carolynne Fisher, Lexington, Mass., junior, play writing, and Martha Samuel, Wichita junior, stage setting.
Russian Friendship Sought By France
MOSCOW (UP)—French Premier Guy Mollet said today that France wants to develop friendlier relations with the Soviet Union, but intends to "remain faithful" to its western alliances under any conditions.
Music Concert Thursday
Free Individual Speech Aid Offered At University Clinic
Mollet and Foreign Minister Christian Pineau arrived in Moscow by plane from Paris to start a series of talks with Soviet leaders. The reception accorded Mr. Mollet and Mr. Pineau was spectacular. Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and other high soviet officials joined Premier Nikolai Bulganin and members of the diplomatic corps in the greetings.
Xi chapter of Phi Mu Alpha, honorary music fraternity, will present its annual contemporary American music concert at 8 p.m. Thursday in Strong Auditorium.
"There is no one set pattern for correcting someone's speech." Miss Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech, said in discussing the speech clinic for University students.
"With the foreign students we try to help them with the things of immediate need," Miss Anderson said. "For instance we work with the vocabulary used in the student's particular field of study."
"We must meet the needs of each individual," she continued.
For this reason most of the work done by Miss Anderson and her assistant, Mary Nan Steel, Lawrence graduate student, is individual. Group work was attempted, but proved to be unsuccessful.
During entrance examinations, the health center looks for three things in the student's speech to determine if any assistance is needed. They see if the difficulty will hamper his speech, make him uncomfortable socially, or be a liability in his chosen profession.
The clinic was started in 1941 as a branch of the health service. Since that time the speech department and the health department have cooperated in the program.
The majority of the clinic's work is done with the foreign students on the campus. The work does not duplicate the English courses for foreign students. It merely supplements.
Started In 1941
"When we first visit with a student, we must determine how we are to proceed so that we may get the greatest returns the soonest."
The work done by the clinic is not required, is free, and is not given for credit. A large part of it is to give the students confidence in their use of the English language.
Meetings with the students are held at regular intervals in room 8 Green Hall. They try to meet for half an hour twice a week if possible.
Clinic Is Free
Some persons come for only one semester and others for a year or more.
Voice recordings are used often in the work of the clinic.
"It is a thrilling day when they can detect their own mistakes on a tape recording." Miss Anderson said. "It is an unusually exciting job."
Another job of the clinic is to help the students learn to use their dictionary key to pronunciation. They are taught the sounds that differ in various languages.
Seventeen students are taking part in the program this year.
West Wary Of Red Move
LONDON (UP)—Western powers today greeted with mixed welcome and skepticism the Soviet announcement that Russian armies will be trimmed by 1,200,000 men within a year.
The British Foreign Office and other European foreign ministries withheld official comment while they consulted on how to evaluate the Moscow announcement.
Unofficial sources pointed out however, that:
There is no way to check on Russian demobilization;
The announcement might be only propaganda coinciding with French Premier Guy Mollet's visit to Moscow and the Italian election campaign.
A conventional arms cut has only relative value as long as nuclear weapons are not controlled.
Russia would still have some three million men in service, compared to America's 2.9 million and Britain's 800,000.
State To Study Mental Health Law
TOPEKA (UP)—Kansas mental health laws will be studied today by the welfare committee of the Legislative Council.
Research Director Dr. F. H. Guild said the chief topic before the committee will be commitment procedures to mental institutions. The problem facing the state, he said, was to make it easier to get patients needing mental treatment into the hospitals.
Now complicating the problem is a "safeguard" angle now taken care of by the courts. Under current laws, it requires court action to have persons committed.
Graham Sentenced To Die In August
DENVER (UP)—John Gilbert Graham was formally sentenced to die today sometime during the week of Aug. 26 for the dynamiting of an airliner that killed his mother and 43 other persons last Nov. 1.
Graham told trial Judge Joseph M. McDonald, a few moments before the judge imposed the sentence that he did not desire that his case be carried to the Colorado Supreme Court.
IFC Recognizes New Fraternity
The Delta Sigma Club was recognized as a colony of the Delta Sigma Phi national fraternity by the Inter-fraternity Council Monday.
Part of the process of becoming a campus recognized fraternity, the action must now be approved by Donald Alderson, dean of men. Final approval must be from Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
The club will be on probation for one year after the approvals are made. Then it can become a local chapter of the national fraternity.
The IFC also discussed various ways in which the number of rushes who drop out during rush week could be decreased. No action was taken. ___
Eta Kappa Nu Initiates 7
Eta Kappa Nu, national honorary electrical engineering association, has initiated seven men. New officers also were elected.
Initiates are Carl Pingry, Pittsburgh, John D. Bruce, Kansas City, Mo, Paul Peters, Lorraine, Charles Womack, Humboldt, and Robert Wade, Coffeyville, all junior; Stuart Culp, Bethany, Mo., and Jack Snider, Overland Park, both seniors.
Officers include Oscar Gaddy, St Joseph, Mo., senior, president; Marion Moon, Pratt senior, vice president; Peters, recording secretary; Culp, corresponding secretary; Wade, bridge correspondent, and Pingry, treasurer.
Business Club Appoints 18
Dwane McNabb, Melvern junior, and Bob Valdois, Haven sophomore, newsletter editors; Jerry Roberts, Overland Park sophomore, professional chairman, outside program; Bill Conard, Attica junior, and Bob Lied, Overland Park sophomore, professional chairmen, hill program; Jim Shirley, Parsons senior, senior guide; Don Williams, Mission sophomore, junior guide and associate rush chairman.
The Executive Council of Delta Sigma Pi, international business, eaternity, has announced the appointment of various committee chairmen for the coming school year. They are Dick Reinking, Arkansas City junior, master of ceremonies; Farrell Van Horn, Stockton junior, correspondent; Roger Gramly, Caney sophomore, and Bob Martin, Topeka junior, efficiency contest cochairmen, and Jim Loomis, Topeka sophomore, scholarship chairman.
Gordon Ewy, Hill City junior, and Gilbert Mason, Anthony junior, Business School association; Arlye Hill, Culver junior, and John Wagner, Edna senior, officer's manual chairmen; Marshall Biesterfield, Minneapolis junior, song leader, and John Reinert, Park Ridge, IL, sophomore, faculty relations chairman.
Haugh To Lecture At Michigan U.
Oscar M. Haugh, professor of education, has been invited to be one of three guest lecturers for the University of Michigan's summer conference series for English teachers on "Teaching English Composition, Written and Oral, in the High Schools."
Dr. Haugh will address the approximately 100 teachers on "Interrelations in Teaching, Speaking and Writing." He also will speak to graduate summer session classes in English and speech.
Club To Give Mexico Program
Club To Give Mexico Program
El Ateneo, Spanish club, will present "Mexico 1956" at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday in 113 Strong. Marilyn Fuller, Lyons senior, and Jette Peterman, Topeka junior, will show colored films of Mexico.
There are 5000 cans of film in the Bureau of Visual Instruction in Bailey Hall basement.