Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No.132
Wednesday, April 25, 1956.
ASC Bill Calls For Council Officer Link
A bill calling for class officers to be appointed to various All Student Council committees was read at the All Student Council meeting Tuesday night. It will be voted on at the next meeting, Tuesday, May 1.
The bill would provide a closer link between the classes and the ASC. The appointment of class officers to committees would replace a portion of the appointments of ASC members to the committee by the president.
Gene Preston, vice president of the National Student Association, spoke on this summer's National Student Association Congress.
George Sheldon, Salina junior and ASC president has been elected regional chairman for the Missouri-Kansas region of the National Student Association, said Jim Schultz, Salina sophomore, ASC president-elect.
Installation of members will be held at the next meeting.
Curare Lecture Heard By 250
"The Story of Curare" was one of the seventh series of the Logan Clendening Lectures given Tuesday in Strong Auditorium before 250 persons.
Dr. Lloyd Stevenson, associate professor of the history of medicine and honorary librarian of the Medical Library at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, delivered the lecture.
Curare, a drug which paralyzes the skeletal muscles, was used by the Indians of South America to poison their arrows, Dr. Stevenson said.
The drug carried an evil connotation until the early 1920s when its benefits were realized. It prevents the transmission of nerve impulses across the nerve and muscle connections.
Dean W. Clarke Wescoe of the School of Medicine has conducted investigations with curare and several other drugs which produce similar effects.
The second lecture in the series will be at 4 p.m. today in Battenfeld Auditorium at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. Dr. Stevenson will speak on "Poison, Infection and Contagion."
100 Hand Weavers To Meet May 4,5
The Third Annual Handweaving Conference at the University of Kansas, Friday and Saturday, May 4 and 5, is expected to attract about 100 persons from Kansas and surrounding states, said Miss Evelyn DeGraw, associate professor of design and director of the conference.
Featured will be Mrs. Donnel Young, a lecturer and teacher, professional handweaver, and a nationally known authority on weaving. Her collections include samples of the weaving of three continents.
Also on the conference staff are Mrs. Kenneth Anderson, wife of the Dean of the School of Education; Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts; Edward R. Maser, director of the Art Museum, and Miss Marjorie Whitney, professor of design.
KDGU Panel To Quiz Sheldon On ASC
The All Student Council will come under fire at 6:45 p.m. today on KDGU's "Mike No. I" when its outgoing president George Sheldon, Salina junior, answers questions about the organization.
Asking questions will be John McMillion, Coffeyville, and Sam L. Jones, Lawrence, seniors, representing The Daily Kansan. Nancy Wells, Kansas City, Mo., and Paul Culp, Overland Park, juniors, will comprise KDGU's half of the panel. James Kohlenberg, Louisburg junior, will be the announcer.
15 Win Forensic Speech Awards
Fifteen students have placed in the Ferensic League intramural speaking contest in either the demonstrative or informative divisions. They will receive their awards at 9 p.m.today in 103 Green.
Awards will also be given for the humorous division which will be judged at 7 p.m. today in Green Hall.
Students receiving awards are;
Men's division - Manuel Jackson, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore; Marshall Havenhill, Blue Springs, Mo. junior; Gary Shields, Great Bend freshman; Claude Kean, Olathe freshman; Donald Johnston, Pittsburg senior; Roger Brown, Topeka sophomore; Marshall Crowther, Salina freshman, and Harry Zerfas, Ellis junior.
Women's division—Lois Harder, Soldier junior, Ruth Laidig, Oberlin sophomore, and Kala Mays and Sandra Blankenkship, Great Bend, Wynette McCarter, Carter, Collingo, Rith Hickilin, Kansas City, Mo., and Donna Fink, Fredonia, all freshmen.
Four Complete Student Teaching
Jayhawk Is'56 Gift Senior Picnic May 9
Four art education students have completed student teaching in nearby elementary schools and high schools.
They are Margaret Donnelly, Lawrence, Patricia, Campbell Elliott, Nickerson, Marilyn Sorem, Clay Center, and Shirley Caldwell, Garden City, all seniors.
Miss Sorem has work of her high school and elementary students on display in 110 Bailey.
(Daily Kansan photo)
SENIORITIS SETS IN—With four years of preparation behind them, these three seniors are anxiously awaiting graduation day and the senior picnic. Bruce Dillman, Independence, (right), was one of the first to buy his ticket to the picnic from Sonya Cade, Larned. Bill Buck, Kansas City, Kan., purchases a pennant, which he will wave as a sign of liberation from the University.
Foreign Student Show To Be Held Saturday
Foreign students from 55 countries will present a picture of life in their countries during the Foreign Student Festival Saturday in the Student Union Ballroom.
The students will dress in their native costumes. Among the items on exhibit will be costumes, ornaments, posters, pictures, coins, and ivory, bronze, and copper handwork.
Exhibits of the countries will be displayed in 20 separate areas from 1 p.m. until 10:30 p.m.
monies.
A variety program will be given at 8 p.m. in which 50 students will take part. Clodoaldo H. Leocadio, graduate student from the Philippine Islands, will be master of cere-
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will give a welcome at the beginning of the program.
Among the eight acts on the program will be a 15 minute skit written and directed by Ise Haussleiter, graduate student from Germany. Other acts will be a Latin American band, a Filipino folk dance, an Indian dance, Japanese fencing, Swiss modelers, a Korean wedding festival, and a piano solo.
Once-Vital Vaults Being Destroyed
Karl Klooz, bursar who came to the University in 1912, said the vault in the basement of Fraser was the old seismograph room. The first-floor vault stored records and cash
Flaster and brick dust are plaguing buildings and grounds crewmen while they destroy two vaults in the re-decorating program of Fraser Hall.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
WATCH YOUR BALANCE—Workmen place a floor joinder across the space left by removing a vault. The brick wall supporting the board has yet to be removed.
for the original registrar and business office. Cash for the post office was stored there, too, when the University operated the station.
A combination lock and double brick wall protected the contents. Mr. Klooz said the vaults have not been re-constructed through the years, nor has there be any theft, from them.
F. S. Montgomery, director of visual education and assistant professor of education, stored film in the first-floor vault for two years after the business office was relocated in Strong Hall in 1918-1919. The vault then held the records of Extension for the League of Kansas Municipalities, the City Managers Association, and the Municipal Reference Bureau.
For nearly 18 years, until January 1956, the department of visual instruction stored films in the basement vault. Increased use and interest in visual aid at the beginning of World War II with the inception of naval training at the University caused more films to take more space. The vault was left empty when the department moved to Bailey.
A four-foot bronze statue of a Jayhawker mounted on a three-foot base was voted unanimously by the seniors today as the gift to the University by the class or 1956. The gift was approved at the senior convocation.
The statue, costing about $2,800, will be of bronze filled with concrete with a plaque commemorating class year. The statue will be made at the University. Elden C. Tefft, assistant professor of design, will do the work.
A committee to design the statue and decide on a location will be appointed at a later time. While discussing a possible location for the statue and the probability of molesters, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, noting paint brush attacks on other statues, suggested that an electric charge be rigged in the Jayhawk to ward off pranksters.
The senior picnic will be held Wednesday, May 9, at Holcom Grove. A softball game between the men and women is scheduled with the men having some restrictions. They must bat opposite, run the bases backwards and throw the ball behind their back at all times. Seniors will be dismissed from classes from 3 p.m., when the game begins. Seniors who would like to play are to sign up May 3, 4, and 6, wherever tickets are sold.
Tickets to the picnic, costing 50 cents, may be purchased May 3-8. The tickets will include information on how to get to Holcom Grove. The supper will be at 5 p.m.
The seniors will pay dues of three dollars starting Monday, April 30. There are a few pennants and announcements left which seniors may purchase when paying dues.
Senior To Give Recital Today
Peggy Wilson, Lawrence senior,
will give her senior recital at 8 p.m.
today in Strong Auditorium. Miss
Wilson, a soprano, is from the
studio of Reinhold Schmidt, profes-
sor of voice.
The program will include three Cantatas by Caldara, four songs by Joseph Marx, four songs from "Ariettes Oubliees" by Debussey, and a group of songs by Watts and Griffes.
While at the University she has appeared as soloist in the Opera Workshop Productions and with the A Cappella Choir.
Carillon Program Set For Friday
A carillon recital of music of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries will be played by Ronald Barnes, carillonneur at the University, from 4:50 to 5:20 p.m. Friday. The recital is in honor of the Central Renaissance Conference.
The program will include works by G. F. Handel, Delmetsch, and Joannes De Gruytters.
Weather
Scattered showers and thunderstorms east and central today. Light rain southwest tonight and light rain or snow mixed extreme northwest. Light rain or snow southwest Thursday. Turning colder northwest and north-central today, warmer southeast and extreme east. Decidedly colder tonight and Thursday. High today 40s northwest to 70 southeast. Low tonight near 30 northwest to 30s elsewhere.