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University Daily Kansan Monday. April 30.1956
Steady Stream Of Fiction Published By KU Teacher
MRS. BONNIE BESS KING
"I am primarily a writer," Mrs. Bonnie Bess King, instructor in English, said in an interview.
This statement is supported by the fact that for 20 years she has had a "rather steady" amount of her fiction published in newspapers and magazines.
"Most of this work has been in the form of 'Coke and sandwich' short fiction stories, which were used by newspaper for the "white collar workers lunch time reading," she said and added. "The Chicago Daily News is my chief publisher of these stories."
First Novel
Mrs. King has written works of book length but none have been published in that form until "Sod House Adventure" which came off the press April 5.
"This book is fiction based on fact," she said. "It deals with the history of Kansas in the 1870's as told to me by my grandparents. They were free state people who chose the hardships of pioneer life because they wanted to see freedom in all the states."
They were also interested in the intellectual and cultural life of the state as well as the educational opportunities there, and they helped to open several schools in the state
Mrs. King has three children Courtner, 13, April Marion, 11, and Waveland, 21 months. The names are family names.
Irvill King, her husband, is working toward an M. D. at the Univer-
ity, and teaches English at Mariden High school.
Reared In Kansas
Born in El Dorado, Mrs. King was reared in Kansas City, Kan. She attended high school there and went to the Kansas City, Kan. Junior College. After two years of Junior College, she received a scholarship from the University of Chicago. On receiving her A.B. there, she entered the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. and got a master's degree.
Laughingly she told how she got her M.A. She said she went to the university heads and insisted upon her area of study.
"I told them that I was not interested in a degree as such. What I wanted was to get some good constructive criticism of my work in this area, and if I could get a degree too, it would be fine," she said.
Thesis On Writing Techniques
"It is a study of her work from the writer's point of view, the craftsman's view, and it is primarily for the education of writers and not for the readers. It is an evaluation tool that allows the tempts to account for the popularity or dispopularity of her different works," she said.
Thesis On Writing Techniques
At that time she was interested in
writing her thesis on the "Art Tech-
niques of Willa B. Cather's Fiction."
Early Kansas writings is the area of study that Mrs. King has undertaken. She hopes to apply this
Extension Course On Credit May 4
Merchants and personnel of credit offices in the Lawrence area will hold a short course in Retail Credit Fundamentals May 4, 7, 8 and 9 in the Fine Room of the Student Union.
The classes will be held from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. each of the evenings. A National Retail Credit Association certificate will be awarded all persons passing an optional examination.
Sterling S. Speake of the educational staff of the National Retail Credit Association, will be in charge of the school.
The school is sponsored by the NRCA in cooperation with the National Retail Credit Association, the Credit Bureau of Lawrence, the State Board for Vocational Education, and the Lawrence Adult Education Program, and the University Extension.
Minister To Speak On Drinking Evils
Rev. Roy S. Hollomon, superintendent of the Kansas United Dry Forces, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Trophy Room of the Student Union. His subject will be "Drinking, Right or Wrong?"
Rev. Hollomon was one of the leaders who recently opposed the selection of Mayor H. Roe Bartle of Kansas City, Mo., as a speaker at the Southern Kansas Baptist Convention.
Rev. Hollomon will speak 20 minutes with the remaining time open for student questions.
Gets Guggenheim Fellowship
Dr. Robert W. Wilson, associate professor of zoology, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship Award for the study of miocene vertebrate paleontology at the British Museum of Natural History in London. Dr. Wilson said he will study there for a year.
study to her Ph. D. on which she is now working.
Having worked her way through school, she has had many interesting jobs. They ranged from cook in an Hungarian professor's house to hem presser in a New England clothing factory. She felt that the clothing factory was the best job as far as learning about people was concerned.
"I was a kind of mediator between factions there and learned more about people in that short summer than in any other short time," she said.
No More Pets
The King family now lives in a four-room apartment in Sunnyside where they are "fresh out of pets," she said.
"I love pets," she said, "but we are taking a breather now after having had so many pets. We had an alligator, tadpoles, frogs, springer spaniels, many cats, and a white rat, to name but a few."
"The rat was too much, so that I am holding firmly against any more pets for a while," she said.
'Cosi Fan Tutte' Opens At 8
"Cosi Fan Tutte," comic opera by Mozart, will open at 8 p.m. today in Fraser Theater. The opera, a joint production of the School of Fine Arts and the University Theatre, will be the first musical event of the two-week Fine Arts Festival.
A few tickets are still available for all three performances today, Wednesday, and Friday. Student ID cards may be exchanged for tickets at the box office in the basement of Green Hall and in the Student Union.
of Fine Arts is musical director and conducts the Little Symphony Orchestra during the production.
Lewin Goff, associate professor of speech, is stage director, and Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education, is chorus director.
To Review Wallace Book
"Fabulous Originals," a book containing real life models of famous fictional characters, by Irving Wallace will be reviewed by Henry Hastings, reference librarian, at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Music Room of the Student Union. The book review is sponsored by the Student Union Activities.
The six principals in the cast are Merrilyn Coleman, Frankfort junior; Carolyn Craft, Junction City junior; Sandra Keller, Lenexa senior; Richard Wright, Junction City graduate student; Dale Moore, Olathe graduate student, and Jack Davison, Bolivar, Mo., sohomore.
A chorus of townpeople, soldiers and servants is made up of Sara Jo Pursely, Coffeyville, Delores Mohler, Iola, Dee Daniels, Beliot sophomores; Ernestene Bates, Burlington freshman; Julianne Zimmerman, Overland park junior; Marva Lou Fowell, Topeka, Kay Moreland, Kansas City, Mo, Jane Thoren, Indianapolis, Ind. Robert Cross, Overland Park, Bruce Voran, Kinsley, Mary White, Minneapolis, David Coleman, Frankfort, Ned Norris, Kansas City, Med, freshmen.
Dean Thomas Gorton of the School
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