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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, April 20, 1956
Relays, Exposition Top Weekend
AUFS Expert Visits Campus April 23-May 2
Dr. K. H. Silvert, a member of the American Universities Field station and an expert on Latin America, will be on the campus Monday, April 23 through Wednesday, May 2
Dr. Silvert began his field studies in Latin America in 1940 when he went to Mexico to observe the presidential elections. He spent the year of 1947-48 studying in Chile.
Since 1951 he has been a student of Guatemalan affairs. He served as a staff member of the Tulane Summer Session in Guatemala in 1951 and as head of the session in 1953. He lived in Guatemala from 1952 to 1953 under research grants which enabled study of Guatemalan society.
Dr. Silvert joined the AUFS in 1955 and revisited Guatemala, El SAVador, and Costa Rica before participating in the 1955-58 AUFS program of visits to member universities and colleges.
Dr. Silvert's campus host will be Thomas Gale, instructor of history 108 Strong Hall, phone KU 309. Students or faculty members who want to make individual appointments with Dr. Silvert should call or see Mr. Gale.
He is the author of a two-volume work entitled "A Study in Government: Guatemala."
Satellite, Rocket Launcher Models Shown In Marvin
Monday's schedule—Noom, lunch with AUFS committee, Faculty Club, Mr. Nichols, Prof. Heller, hosts; 2 p.m., junior-senior class, Latin America II, 110 Strong, topic; "Recent Political Developments in Central America"; 3 p.m., junior-senior class, International Trade, 20 Strong, Topic; "Relations Between Domestic and International"; 4 p.m., Radio Interview (tanned) station, KEKUI
An artificial earth satellite with its rocket vehicle will be exhibited by the engineering physics department at the Engineering exposition today and Saturday in 116 Marvin Hall.
The full scale satellite will measure nearly 30 inches in diameter and will be made of plexiglass. The satellite will open to show a cylinder in the center for recording air pressure, cosmic radiation, and meteoritic density.
Scale Model Shown
When it is completed the actual satellite will be shot into the stratosphere until it reaches its orbit at a varying distance of from 200 to 800 miles from the earth.
An aluminum scale model of the rocket will measure eight feet. A plexiglass window will show its guidance system, motors, and fuel tanks inside.
The satellite and its rocket are patterned after those in the Vanguard Project which is now being worked on by the Naval Research Laboratory.
Small Radio Shown
The model of the rocket will show its three stages. As each supply of fuel is used that part of the rocket falls away until the last stage delivers the satellite into its proper orbit.
A model of the small radio transmitter in the center of the satellite will be shown. The instruments will channel information into the transmitter which will send it by code to receiving stations on earth.
A apexiglass model of the earth will also be on view. A small light representing the satellite will travel around the model showing how the satellite will enter day and night in its cycle.
Another part of the exhibit will be a small scale model of the entire scene of the launching area for the satellite, including rocket, launching platform, fuel trucks, buildings, equipment, and the maintenance platform for the fueling rocket.
Model Earth On View
General chairman of the exhibit is Gale Harris, Cunningham junior. Assistant chairmen are Ronald Hubert, Garden City, Jerry Jones, and Robert Bussard, Kansas City, M.Ralph Kelley, Maryville, all seniors; Max Lynn, Lawrence, Herbert Wilkening, St. Joseph, Mo., and William Clow, Independence, Mo., Juniors; and Jere Dando, Prairie Village sophomore. L. Worth Seagondollar, associate professor of physics, is faculty adviser of the project.
Weather
Fair today, tonight and tomorrow. High today in the upper 60's and expected low tonight 35-40. The temperature will rise to a high of around 70 tomorrow with a fairly steady report for the next few days.
Broadway Hit Here Monday
"Anastasia," the dramatic hit that ran on Broadway for 34 weeks to the unanimous acclaim of New York reviewers, will be presented at 8:20 p.m. Monday, April 23 in Hech Auditorium.
Co-starring as Anastasia and the Dowager Queen Marie are Viveca Lindfors and Eugene Leontovich, who have been recognized by citizens as among the world's finest dramatic actresses.
Based on the real life enigma of Anna Anderson who claims to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Nicolas II, the last Czar of Russia, "Anastasia" has been made into a play filled with mystery and romance.
"It will be one of the most spectacular productions to appear on the campus," said Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts. "Five moving vans are required to bring the needed stage equipment, and we have been notified that 16 stage hands will be needed for the performance. Considering that the play has a cast of only 13, the settings must be elaborate."
Tau Sigma Tryouts Tuesday
Tau Sigma, modern dance sorority, will hold membership try-outs Tuesday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Robinson Gymnasium. Those who wish to try out are asked to present an original 15-minute modern dance.
Tickets may be purchased at the Fine Arts office, 128 Strong, and in the Student Union.
—(Daily Kansan photo by Diek Hunter
A REAL CRAZY HOUSE—Engineering students pick up a sun tan while putting the final touches on the "hyperbolic paraboloid" exhibition for the Engineering Exposition.
Future Homes May Resemble Weird Apparatus By Marvin
plywood strips adjacent to the mathematical curve.
The strips fit into a 20-foot square frame which forms one unit. Two units are fitted together to form the Exposition model. The Douglas Fir Plywood Association in Seattle supplied the more than 2300 square feet of plywood needed to build it.
The structure is supported on $2\frac{1}{2}$-foot pylons, and the highest point is 12 feet above the ground. The low mid-point permits a person to walk under the structure.
If you're curious about that egg 3-D creation on the lawn between Lindley and Marvin Halls, take note. The roof of your future house may resemble the curve of an egg.
The structure is a hyperbolic paraboloid, one of many geometric shapes which could be adapted to the building industry. Somewhat revolutionary compared to conventional construction design, its unique appearance is created by placing 12-inch wide by quarter-inch
Colorado U. Coed '56 Relays Queen
JANICE MITCHELL
Podoley To Miss Relays Decathlon
The sports section of today's University Daily Kansan has Podoley listed as one of the entrants.
Track star Jim Podoley from Central Michigan College will not compete in the decathlon at the Kansas Relays today and Saturday. Bill Easton, track coach, announced Wednesday that Podoley had pulled a leg muscle and would be unable to enter.
The 1956 University of Kansas Relays queen represents the University of Colorado, but the state of Kansas can also claim her, as she was once a student at Topeka High School.
Chosen to reign over the Relays weekend is Miss Janice Mitchell, a sophomore who now lives in Chipita Park, Colo. She is a member of Pi Beta Phi social sorority at Colorado and was homecoming queen there last fall.
The queen and her attendants will be guests at a dinner in their honor at 6:30 tonight in the Student Union, will watch the Relays parade Saturday morning at 10 a.m. and will participate in coronation ceremonies at 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon in Memorial Stadium.
Her three attendants are Marjorie Pennington, Kansas City, Kan., senior representing the University; Martha DeGraff, Manhattan junior, Kansas State College, and Althea Bromich, Topeka senior, Washburn University. Miss Pennington is a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. The queen and her attendants were selected by three area business men from entries from schools whose teams will be represented in the Relays.
The big weekend started officially this morning with the opening of the Engineering Exposition and the Fifty-second Kansas Interscholastic High School Relays.
Topping off the two days of events will be the Relays Dance at 9 p.m. Saturday night in the Student Union Ballroom.
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Models Will Demonstrate Progress Of Aviation
300Coeds'Attend Panhellenic Picnic
Models demonstrating 50 years of aviation progress will be the feature of the aeronautical engineering exhibit on display in the quonset hut behind Marvin Hall.
About 300 shivering sorority pledges and recent initiates met Thursday at Potter Lake for the Junior Panhellenic picnic. Special guests were Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women, and Miss Mary Peg Hardman, assistant dean.
"I'm pretty pleased about being an alumna of Kansas University," Miss Peterson told the girls in speaking of her new position as dean of women at the University of Wisconsin. "It will be the first time in 23 years that I haven't been either a student, faculty member, or employ at KU."
She said that her secretaries at Wisconsin will be instructed to "open the place wide open for anyone who says they're from Kansas."
A box-like, flimsy, propeller driven bi-plane circles a sod field at night trying to land between two rows of dim lanterns. There is no control tower on the field and only two instruments in the airplane's cockpit.
- The exhibit is divided into three parts—past, present, and future—with all the models being suspended by wire and displayed in a nighttime setting.
German Students To Dedicate Flag
The flag will be hung with the flags of other nations in Strong Hall rotunda.
German students will dedicate their flag to Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy at 9 p.m. today. Marching to his home in a torch parade, the students will sing several songs and present the flag. All students are invited.
In an adjoining field a helicopter lands on a brightly lighted roof of an airport administration building while on the field an airliner takes off vertically by nuclear power applied to rocketed propulsion.
The past in the exhibit represents 1925 and all the danger of flying with nothing under the pilot but thin cloth, piano wire, and earth.
The present shows a modern airline terminal with its heavy inflow of people and airplanes, cement runways, colored lights, control tower, and the now you see it—now you don't beacon light.
The future represents 1975. The exhibit shows a smaller airport for the future than for either the present or past because airplanes will be taking off vertically.Traffic has increased, however, and is more complicated.
Students in aeronautical engineering designed the fields and built the airplanes.