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Language Study Fun, Profitable For Holt
College students battling their way through German, French, or Spanish will be amazed to learn there is one person at the University who dawdles in these languages for the fun of it—and the money. Charles Loyd Holt, instructor in English and speech, is an adapter of foreign literary dramas.
Five Adaptations
Holt's facility with languages began as a hobby when he was an undergraduate at Kansas City University. His initial effort was a French work, Jaques Offenbach's "La Belle Helene," which received the title of "the best production of the year" at the KCU Playhouse in 1950.
Five Adaptations Since "Fair Helen," Holt has completed five adaptations, which have all been produced.
"Listen Children," an opera by Carl Milloecker, was Holt's second offering at the Playhouse in 1551. It was revised, polished, and presented here last year as "An American in Boston," with special musical arrangements by John Pozdro, assistant professor of music theory.
Oneretta. Bought
Oberetta bought. This collaboration on the extremely diverse European operetta stirred immediate interest in the music world. After much bidding, G. Schirmer, Inc., music publishers, bought it.
"I think it was after my first exposure to grand opera that I realized a work must be heard in the language of its audience if it is to become a truly integrated art form," Mr. Holt said.
"This means that a work cannot simply be translated literally from the original language or setting," he said. "The most demanding requisite of adaptation lies in deciding how and in precisely what light the opera would best appeal to an American audience, while trying to remain true to the spirit of the original musical score."
Wins Fulbright
By the time Holt was awarded his master's degree in theater in 1952, he had learned to respect the adaptor's constant headache of temperamental musicians and singers. Holt received a Fulbright scholarship to study at the University of London and the Covent Garden Opera, where he attended 70 operas and operettas during the 1952-53 season.
This background furnished the climax to last year's theatrical season when the University Theatre presented a twin bill of one-act operas, Vaughan Williams' "Riders to the Sea" and Gioacchino Rossini's "The Marriage Merchant," the latter of which boasted a "libretto by Charles Loyd Holt." It will be presented at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado this summer.
Holt's plans include the completion of his doctorate degree in drama and two more adaptations for publication.
CHARLES HOLT
Housemothers Like Students
With all their faults, somebody must love college students, for jobs as housemothers are among the most sought after on the Hill.
So far only six openings for house-mother position are available for next year and about 50 applications to fill these jobs have been received, said Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women. Names of the retiring house-mothers will be announced later.
Although there are no set qualifications for the job, there are several important characteristics an applicant needs.
"I think it is essential that she have some connection with college or college life—her own experience, keeping students in a college town, or the experiences of her sons or daughters," said Miss Peterson. "She must be at home with college students and college life."
A degree of culture and intellectual interest is necessary to get along well as a housemother, Miss Peterson explained, as well as social ease in a college atmosphere.
Management and executive ability are also important, as a housemother is responsible for hiring help, planning menus, ordering food, and maintaining a well-run house.
Besides this she is responsible for the safety of the house and its occupants, the health of the students, observance of University policies and regulations, and she must act as a counselor and social adviser.
"I think it is heartening to note that within recent years women who are coming in have developed a professional attitude. They have good backgrounds and have had other good jobs. They become house-mothers because they think the job will be satisfying." Miss Peterson commented.
Miss Peterson is also pleased that
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Speech Professor Elected Editor
Dr. William A. Conboy, assistant professor of speech and drama, has been elected editor of the Kansas Speech Journal for next year. The periodical is published five times during the school year.
The election took place at the annual meeting of the Kansas Speech Association in Wichita. KU faculty members who attended were Miss Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech; Dr. Richard Schiefelbush, associate professor of speech and drama, and Dr. Conboy.
Dr. Schiefelbusch was a member of a special symposium on speech correction problems at the conference. Dr. Conboy presented a report on an investigation into possible units for the second semester of a proposed one-year course in speech for all Kansas High Schools. He also led a sectional meeting on problems of research and publication within the Kansas Speech Association.
3 Education Profs To Attend Conference
Dean Kenneth Anderson, Prof. J. W. Twente, and John H. Nicholson, associate professor, all of the School of Education, will attend a Kansas conference on planning school facilities for better education.
nes for better Speech topics included will be "Do Our School Builds Aid Education?" "Looking Ahead in Education," and "Industry's Stake in Education."
Alpha Chi Siama Hear Coach
Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemistry fraternity, held an initiation banquet for 14 new members Tuesday, April 24, in the English Room of the Student Union. Paul J. Schoeffer, assistant football coach, spoke at the meeting.
more housemothers are retiring instead of leaving for other jobs. "This is an indication we are getting fine women on the jobs and we are treating them so they want to stay. It is a tribute to the house to have the housemother stay until she is ready to retire," she said.
what reason do women give for wanting the job? "It's always the same," Miss Peterson said. "I love young people."
Wednesday, April 25. 1956. University Daily Kansan
Sedimentation Talk Friday
Dr. Edwin D. McKee, head of the special Paleotectonic Map Project of the United States Geological Survey at Denver, Colo., will be at the University Friday for a public lecture sponsored by the department of geology.
Dr. McKee will speak at 4:30 p.m. Friday in 402 Lindley on "Sedimentation in the Pacific Atoll of Kapingamarangi." He is particularly well known for work on sedimentation and stratigraphy, especially in original
Baer Takes Leave Of Absence
structures, explains Dr. H.T.U. Smith, associate professor of geology His current work at Denver is concerned with a reconstruction of what the earth was like in earlier periods, a process of value to oil prospectors, miners and others.
Currently he is delivering a series of lectures in the East and will stop at KU en route to Denver from meetings of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in Chicago.
Charles J. Baer, assistant to the dean of the School of Engineering, will take a sabbatical leave effective June 4. He will be a visiting assistant professor of engineering drawing and industrial engineering at Texas Technological College. Lubbock, Tex., during the 1956-57 academic year. He will resume his regular position at the University in September, 1957.
Correction
The Graduate Club panel discussion on "The Prospects of Automation" will be held at 8 p.m. tonight instead of Thursday, as reported in Tuesday's Daily Kansas.
Effective June 1 the present "commercial" grade of beef will be divided into two new grades designated "standard" and "commercial."
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