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Summer Stock Casting Opens, 18 Sign Up
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Casting for the college summer stock play, "Ring Around the Moon," is now in progress and rehearsals will start next week, according to Jack Brooking, instructor of speech and drama, who is staging the play. It will be presented June 21 an 22 in the Student Union.
Eighteen students are trying out for the play. They also will assist in the high school summer theater program.
The high school session will open June 18 and run through July 29. Three plays will be given by that group. "My Hearts in the Highlands" will be given July 12 and 13 and "Midsummer Night's Dream", will be given cabaret style July 19 and 20. The other play, to be announced later, will be presented July 5 and 6. All three will be given in the Student Union.
The classes for the high school workshop will include ballet and fencing, voice and diction, set designing, make-up, and costuming. The group will also take field trips to near-by summer theaters.
Tuesday, May 8, 1956.
Graduate Gets Fulbright
George W. Betz, Glen Elder graduate student, will study next year at King's College of the University of Cambridge, England, on a Fulbright foreign study scholarship.
Betz will continue his graduate study in economics which he began at KU this year. He leaves for England in September.
He was graduated from the University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1952, and was a member of Owl Society, junior men's honor society, and Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honor society. He was a Summerfield scholar.
After his graduation he served three years with the Navy, and reentered KU last fall.
His is the seventh Fulbright awarded a KU student this year for study abroad, and the first to England.
2 Juniors Receive Corporation Awards
John L. Hysom of Ottawa and Eugene J. O'Neill of Lawrence, both juniors, have been awarded Union Wire Rope Corporation scholarships in industrial management for the 1956-57 school year.
Leonard H. Axe, dean of the School of Business, said the scholarships provide $500 for the school year and opportunity for summer employment with the Kansas City, Mo., corporation.
Are These Words Most Important?
Four most important words:
What is your opinion?
SALT LAKE CITY (ACP) — The most important word in the world? Here they are according to the Utah, Daily, Chronicle;
Three most important words;
If you please.
Two most important words:
Thank you.
Five University alumni have been named to receive the citation for distinguished service to mankind given by the University and the Alumni Association. The joint announcement was made today by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and Herbert A. Meyer Jr. of Independence, Kan., president of the association.
Least important word: I.
Five University Alumni To Receive Citations For Distinguished Service
The five to receive the awards are C. L. Burt, class of 1909, Hutchinson; Rolla A. Clymer, class of 1913, El Dorado; Thomas R. Jones, class of 1913, Westfield, N. J.; Mrs. Nell Burton Renn, class of 1918, Arkansas City, and Dolph Simons, class of 1925, Lawrence.
Secret Vote
The citations were voted by a secret committee on the basis of the individual's contribution to the welfare of mankind and will be conferred at commencement. Since the plan began in 1941, 117 alumni have received the citation.
The University does not grant honorary degrees, but these citations carry a similar honor.
Finally To Get Award
Ward Lockwood, an alumnus and well known painter, will also receive the citation at commencement. He was named to receive the honor in 1942, but has been unable to be present to receive it until this year. Mr. Burt is a former president of the Kansas Contractors Association. He was mayor of Hutchinson at one time and is a past president of the Alumni Association.
Mr. Clymer is editor-manager of the El Dorado Daily Times. He is a past president of the Kansas Editorial Association and is president of the William Allen White Foundation.
Mr. Jones is president and director of Daystrom, Inc. He served six consecutive terms as president of the New Jersey Safety Council and is a past president of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce.
Member of House
Mrs. Renn is a member of the Kansas House of Representatives and last year was chairman of the Kansas delegation to the White House conference on education. She is a past president of the Kansas branch, American Association of University Women.
Mr. Simons is editor and publisher of the Lawrence Journal-World. He is a board member of the Associated Press and is a past president of the Kansas Press Association, the Kansas Day Club, and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
The 100-member A Cappella Choir will present its annual spring concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch Auditorium.
Choir Concert Wednesday
The concert, the second of the year under the direction of Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education, will be the last University presentation in the Fine Arts Festival.
The program will consist of "Four Motets" by Vaet, "Three Songs" by Milhaud, "Mass in G Major" by Poulenc, and "Motet: Sing Ye to the Lord" by Bach.
Soloists will be Barbara Blount, Larned senior, Donald Farrar, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, Bonnie Dinsmore, Overland Park sophomore, and Peggy Wilson, Lawrence senior.
There will be no admission charge.
Speaker Stresses Protein Value
"Proteins are the most interesting substances in the world," said Dr. Linus Pauling of California Institute of Technology, who was the guest speaker at the eighth annual E. C. Franklin Memorial Lecture Monday night.
He pointed out that proteins help make the human being what he is and that if we want to understand the human being, we must understand the structure of proteins. The speaker showed slides illustrating the structure of proteins.
The lecture was sponsored by the Alpha Rho chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary chemical fraternity.
Mostly cloudy with scattered thundershowers late this afternoon and tonight throughout the eastern and central parts of the state. Rain in the west late this afternoon. Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer. Low tonight 40s southwest to 60s southeast. High Wednesday generally in the 80s.
Weather
The department of petroleum engineering and University Extension are helping sponsor a two-day Gas Compressor Institute which began Monday at Liberal. Designed to introduce participants to new developments in the operations of gas compressor engines, the institute is for personnel of the southwest Kansas petroleum industry.
KU Helps Sponsor Institute
Rainy Weather Fails To Halt Construction Of AOPi House
Construction with structural steel and masonry continued Monday on the Alpha Omicron Pi house, 11th St. and West Campus Road, in spite of a threatening sky an Sunday night's rain.
Walls of the building are composed of a lightweight block made from shale. The blocks, structurally like cement blocks, are faced
Structural steel I-beams hoisted Monday formed the floor of the second story. Workmen blocked up the I-beam on the ground and placed a steel rope and a hemp guide rope around it. A crane operator then lifted the I-beam over the top of the front brick wall. When the crane operator lowered the beam, workmen bolted it to previously erected structural steel.
with red brick except on the southwest corner which is being trimmed with Silverdale limestone.
Paul Plantz, masonry foreman, said he invented a saw to strip limestone. The saw is a Carborundum wheel about 14 inches in diameter, driven by an electric motor. Limestone dust had collected under the saw and on the cement floor.
Outside the building, piles of brick, building block, limestone, sand and steel have been stored. A mortar mixer ran continuously while workmen stepped along narrow boards to keep from becoming mired in mud.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
Senior Picnic, Softball Game At 3 Wednesday
The senior men will meet the senior women in a softball game at 3 p.m. at the intramural field on diamond one.
Seniors will lay aside their books at 3 p.m. Wednesday when they are dismissed from classes to join in a class softball game and picnic.
Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women, Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, and Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, will umpire the game.
The men will be somewhat handicapped by the rules of the game. They must run backward, throw the ball behind their backs when playing in the infield, and bat from the opposite side of the plate.
Anyone who has not signed up to play in the game may come to the public address system on the field to receive a position. The positions of those who have signed up will not be announced until game time.
Food will be served at Holcom's Grove at approximately 5 p.m. Tickets will be on sale for 50 cents at the picnic if not purchased beforehand.
He received a severe head injury, and will be hospitalized for an undetermined amount of time, according to Dr. Ralph I. Canutson, director of Watkin's Hospital.
Nicholas E. Lindsley, Salina freshman, who was injured in an automobile accident Sunday morning a mile north of Lawrence, is still unconscious and in serious condition in Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Committee members for the picnic are Joseph Steinbacher, Garnett, general chairman; Harvey Krahenbuhl, Independence, Mo., and Jerry Kindig, Kansas City, Mo., softball game; Joan Sherar, Paola, and Vincent Golden, Liberty, Mo., food; and John Nangle, Burlington, Shirley Lytle, Wheaton, Ill., and Sony Cade, Larned, tickets.
2 Students Hurt In Wreck
Donald A. Harris, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, is holding his own, Dr. Cauteson said, but will have to spend approximately three weeks in the hospital. He received a fracture of the pelvis, lacerations and multiple bruises.
KU Senior Enters Beauty Contest
Jane Ratcliffe, Atwood senior, has entered in the "Miss Beautyrama" contest to be held May 12-15 in Kansas City, Mo. The entrants are classified according to hair coloring, and three finalists are chosen from each division.
Finalists will receive prizes, and the winner will be awarded a diamond ring and a vacation trip to California by air.
Correction
Oscar Stauffer of Topeka, chairman of the Board of Regents, will be one of the featured speakers and will hand out diplomas at the commencement exercises June 3 and 4.
Governor Fred Hall and Clement Hall, Board of Regents member from Coffeyville, also will speak. Lester McCoy is not chairman of the Board of Regents as reported in Monday's issue of The Daily Kansan.