University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 10. 1956
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MR. AND MRS. JOHN T. GULLAHORN
Doctor-Wife Team Aids Students In Study Abroad
Bound for study overseas foreign study tempt you?
Educated at Harvard and holding a grant from the State Department, Dr. Gullahorn sailed for Paris with Jeanne who was educated at Radcliffe and who held a Rotary Foundation Fellowship.
The doctor-wife team became concerned in the spring of 1954 about the threatened reduction of federal appropriations for the International Educational Exchange program. They believe cross-cultural education was significant in furthering understanding among nations.
You've probably wondered what to expect when you arrive. Dr. John T. Gullahorn, assistant professor of sociology, and his wife, Jeanne, graduate student in psychology, have studied attitude problems of American students in France.
"There are different values in non-American surroundings that are disrupting," Dr. Gullahorn said. "Communication problems are intensified by the language barrier.
"Even though students are oriented to their new surroundings, many do not seem to profit," Dr. Gullah lamented.
Their study provided tentative answers in stages of adjustment. Dr. Gullahorn and his wife discerned six stages:
1. Upon arrival, the student was exhilarated and excited.
2. Disillusionment followed when annoying problems arose concerning registering, finding housing, speaking and making friends, etc.
3. A period of questioning followed in which the student asked himself "why?" The student blamed the French for his problems and tended to paint his situation in terms of black and white. Some students formed cliques with other American students, but the majority gave the French another look.
4. Self-examination followed in which the student asked himself what he could get out of his trip abroad. He then explored and contemplated creative solutions. By spring the student approached socialization to France.
5. Overall evaluation followed in which the studnet assessed how much he had learned and matured.
6. Nostalgia toward France arose concerning his departure; the student felt he was getting the full benefit of his stay.
Dr. Gullahorn told of one interviewee in Bordeaux who found himself quite lonely each Saturday when no classes were taught. The young Negro went to the U.S. Information Service Library where he played jazz records. The French people came to listen and to read American magazines and books. The student told them the history and explained the meaning of jazz.
His explanation went over big, Dr. Gullahorn said, so much so that a public relations officer asked the student to talk about jazz each Saturday morning in Biarritz. Jeanne located the small town south of Bordeaux on the Bay of Biscay. The town was about the size of Lawrence.
The talks impressed the French people and they gained two insights. Other than understanding jazz, they received a clearer picture of the American Negro.
"The French view of America didn't remain one-sided, and American students became appreciative of French customs. The reciprocal learning process led to an internal communication.
"We'd love to find some way to speed up the period of disillusionment so that the student may start to understand his relegation study." Dr. Gulakharn as什
"Courses in human relations will help. We hope next fall to try an experimental course made up of half American and half foreign students. It will give students an opportunity to evaluate each other in terms of their own value systems and to contemplate appropriate solutions within those value systems."
"The French are cautious in picking friends and it's an extremely high compliment to be invited into a French home," Jeanne said. "They aren't like Americans who find themselves faced with the problem of backing away from someone following a change of attitude. When French people accept a person as a friend, it's a real bond that lasts forever."
Group To Hold Dinner
The annual University Player's dinner will be held at 6 p.m. May 16 at the Dine-A-Mite. The club will be entertained after the dinner by the new members.
Summer Writers' Conference To Feature John Elliott
John T. Elliott, author's agent of New York City, will discuss publishing trends in books and magazines at the sixth annual Writers' Conference of the University June 25 to 29. Mr. Elliott was a student at the University in 1932-33.
Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism, is director of the conference for the fourth year.
Other leaders of the session are George McCue, assistant editor of the Sunday pictures section of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, nonfiction leader; Martha Cheavens of West Port, Conn., fiction leader; Wilson B.
Key, assistant professor of speech radio and TV drama leader; Dor Wilcox of Lawrence, juvenile writing leader, and Mrs Katherine Edelman of Kansas City, poetry leader The tuition fee for the conference is $25.
Besides the workshop sessions, open only to enrolled members, two evening events are available to others interested in writing. A dinner at 7 p.m., Wednesday, June 27 in the Kansas Room is $2.50 a plate.
The University Concert Band, directed by Russell L. Wiley, will present a concert Friday night in Marysville under the sponsorship of the Marysville Municipal Concert Association.
Band To Play At Marysville
A convocation June 28 will be open to summer school students, conference members, and the public.
The program will include "Espana Rhapsody" by Chabrier, "Andante and Scherzo" by Barat, "Lullaby" by Brahms, waltzes from "Des Rosenkalavier" by Strauss, ballet music from "Faust" by Grainger, "Lincolnshire Posy" by Grainger, "Legende" by Neverd, and "None But the Lonely Heart" by Tschai-kovsky
French Club Picnic ToBe Held May16
Le Cercle Francais, French club,
will hold its annual picnic at 5 p.m.
Wednesday, May 16, at the home of
Miss Matt Crumrine, assistant professor
of Romance languages, 920
Missouri St.
The group will leave today in three chartered buses, and will return Friday night.
Edward Masters, assistant professor of band and orchestra, and Paul Wallace, instructor of music education, will be soloists.
Members of the refreshment committee are Carol Curt, Neodesha junior, and Marcia Fuller, Mission sophomore.
Eta chapter of Pi Delta Phi, honorary French society, will award its annual prize to the outstanding student in soohomore French.
The program will include French songs and scenes from the comedy by Rene Fauchois, "Prenez Garde a la Peinture." The play will be presented by students from the intermediate French conversation class. Officers will be elected.
Water Instruction Course May 21-25
Gilbert Gribble, American Rea Cross director of Safety Services for Kansas, will act as instructor at the organization's water instructors' course to be held from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., May 21-35 at Robinson Gym pool.
This course is open to both men and women. The prerequisite for the course is a current senior life saving certificate.
A difficult and demanding program was presented Wednesday night by the A Cappella Choir, directed by Clayton H. Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education.
A Cappella Choir Does Well With Difficult Program
The choir sang "Four Motets on Humanistic Texts," by Vaat, "Three Songs" by Milhaud, "Mass in G Major" by Poulenc, and a motet, "Sing Ye to the Lord," by Bach.
The Poulenc "Mass," Mr. Krehbiel said, was the most difficult composition sung by the choir, which rose to the challenge.
The "Sanctus" movement was performed with sensitivity and this Palestrina-like movement was one of the high spots of the entire program. The tonal shading was excellent.
Peggy Wilson, Lawrence senior, soloist, more than made up for a beginning difficulty by superbly handling the high obligato in the "Agnus Dei."
the three numbers by Milbaud were sung in French. Bonnie Dinsmore. Overland Park sophomore, mezzo-soprano, sang the lyrical melody of the "Elegy" nicely, giving it a pleasant rounded quality. Other soloists were Barbara Blount, Larned senior, soprano, and Don Farrar, Kansas City, Mo., tenor.
The four Vaet motets are interesting for their uniqueness rather than their musical excellence, although the performance was adequate. The motets were mimeographed from manuscripts found by Dr. Milton Steinhardt, associate professor of music history. The choir is the first in the United States to perform these 16th century numbers.
The Bach motet was sung very well in some places, and quite badly in others. The motet is admittedly difficult, but some of the voices sounded a little tired and at one place the choir had pitch trouble. However, on the whole the number was a well-done climax to a full evening.
Mr. Krehbiel and the choir should be congratulated for presenting a concert of this magnitude, and doing it so well.
Oswald C. Farnarqu, visiting assistant professor of geology, will read the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Music Room of the Student Union. The poetry hour is sponsored by the Student Union Activities.
Stevenson Poems To Be Read
IS THIS BRIBERY?—Shirley Lytle, Wheaton, Ill., senior, attempts to bribe umpire Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, at the Senior Day baseball game Wednesday afternoon.
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House Suggests Tax Raises
WASHINGTON (UF) — The House Ways and Means Committee voted tentatively today to raise taxes in tubeless tires, record players, and wire and tape recorders.
Under the measure, an additional tax of one cent a pound would be levied on tubeless tires. The hike was recommended because buyers of these tires escape the 9-cent a pound tax on tubes.
The new taxes, part of a bill to overhaul the excise tax law, would produce an extra $11,850,000 a year for the Treasury.
In other actions on the proposed bill, the committee tentatively approved a repeal of excise taxes on waxers and floor polishers and called for a new tax on gas-operated incinerator-type disposal units.
The committee approved a 10 per cent tax on the manufacturers' sale price of record players and tape and wire recorders. This would put these items in the same bracket as phonographs and dictaphones.
British Press Blast Hush-Up Of Story
LONDON (UP)—The British press ripped into Prime Minister Anthony Eden today for failing to tell the full story of the mysterious disappearance and "presumed" death a frogman-hero believed to have died beneath a Soviet cruiser.
His explanations to the House of Commons which hinted that the frogman was engaged in espionage work were described as "inept" and "unsatisfactory." There were widespread demands that he tell-all.
Unconfirmed rumors said an American espionage agent may have been involved and that this led to Prime Minister Eden's refusal to give out details "in the public interest." A U.S. Navy spokesman denied today any American was involved. The Frogman was former Cmdr. Lionel (Buster) Crabb, a hero of World War II who disappeared in the waters of Portsmouth Naval Base only one day after Soviet's two top leaders arrived in the cruiser Orjonikidze for a state visit.
Talmadge To Run For Senate Seat
ATLANTA (UF)-Herman Talmadge, one of the South's most vocal segregationists and states' righters, announced for the U.S. Senate today in order to wage his favorite battles at the "national level."
The former governor announced for the campaign after Sen. Walter F. George withdrew from the race Wednesday. Mr. Talmadge has already chosen his weapon—his diehard pledge to keep the races separated in Georgia, predicting "blood will flow in the streets" if they are not.
Hammarskjold Submits Report
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP) — United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold submits the final report on his Middle East peace mission to the Security Council and world opinion today. The 75-page manuscript was said to be confined to an account of his four weeks of negotiations with Israel and its four Arab neighbors and an outline off his conclusions.
4-Year-Old Saves Sister
WORCESTER, Mass. (UP) - A four-year-old boy saved his little sister's life Wednesday by putting his hand down her throat and removing an atomizer cap that had lodged there.