Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No.116
Docking To Run For Democrat Nomination
George Docking, president of the First National Bank of Lawrence and unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1954, this morning became the first Democratic candidate to toss his hat into the ring for the 1956 campaign.
(Daily Kansan photo)
Mrs. Gray Promises Support
With the Docking announcement came a statement of support from William Salome of Wichita, who was defeated in the 1954 Democratic primary by Mr. Docking; Mr. Salome said he believed Mr. Docking's candidacy would tend to heal any differences that might exist in the Democratic Party in Kansas.
Mrs. Gray Promises Support Mrs. Gray said she was ready to support "anyone who can win for the Democratic Party." Although mentioned as a possible candidate for secretary of state, Mrs. Gray said she did not want to do that. Her name had been mentioned as a possible gubernatorial candidate, and she had said she was available.
In his statement Mr. Docking said he had entered the race because of the "continuing bitter fight between the almost evenly-balanced factions of the Republican Party in Kansas."
Georgia Neese Clark Gray of Richland, first woman treasurer of the United States, said this morning that Mr. Docking made a marvelous campaign in 1954 and said she "was sure he would do do the same in the next election."
"It is apparent that their fight will continue and the bitterness will increase for the next two years regardless of which faction wins. Good government in Kansas has suffered and will continue to suffer if either warring faction wins the governorship."
"Progressive Administration"
Mr. Docking added that he thought he "could bring a more orderly, progressive administration of the state government of Kansas," and said the most compelling reason for his candidacy was his desire to "campaign the state for our national Democratic Party."
Mr. Docking's announcement came within hours after he received a telegram from A. Lewis Oswald, Hutchinson lawyer, urging that he support Lynn Broderick to top a list of candidates for state offices to run for lieutenant governor. Mr. Docking said he talked with Mr. Broderick and Oswald this morning, and both indicated they were ready to support him. Mr. Broderick indicated he did not want the Democratic nomination and would throw his full support to Mr. Docking, the Lawrence banker said.
Monday, March 26, 1956.
Interest in Democratic plans in Kansas, a traditional Republican state, has been given added impetus by conflict between factions of the Republican Party for and against Gov. Fred Hall, and the opinion that dissatisfaction may allow the Democrats to make inroads into the state house in Topeka.
French Club Skits Due Wednesday
Three French skits written by French students are to be presented at the Le Cercle Francais meeting Wednesday in Strong Hall.
freshman; Phyllis Landeene, Topeka, and Carol R. Curt, Neodesha, juniors. Back row, Jo Ann Benton, Overland Park sophomore; Barbara M. Golden, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; E. Joann Houlton, Wichita senior; Sally K. Waddell, Salina junior, and Sue Stout, Wichita freshman.
Jo Ann Brown, Massena, N.Y.
sophomore, and William M. H.
harmon, Topeka junior, will give the first skit, Thomas P. Sawyer, Topeka freshman, and Donald Martin, Emporia junior, the second,
and Victor Cope, Lawrence senior,
and Robert Cook, Leavenworth sophomore, the third.
JAYHAWKER QUEEN CANDIDATES—Alfred Hitchcock, Hollywood movie director, will pick this year's Jayhawker Queen from these lovely lassies. Front row, (left to right): Carol A. Shellhaas, Junction City senior; Janis R. Hartley, Plattsburg, Mo., junior; Barbara J. Everley, Eudora
106 Women, No Males
Men,The Door Is Open!
If you see a young woman entering a kinesiology class with a design book, a jewelry class with a camera, or a neurology class with a woodworking book she is probably studying occupational therapy.
"Variety is something I never lack," said Sheila Trull, Bern junior, of her class schedule.
Occupational therapy is under the design department since so many of the classes in crafts are necessary. However, many other classes in various schools are required before graduation.
"OT's work in mental hospitals, tuberculosis hospitals, veterans' hospitals, and hospitals for handicapped children," Miss Trull said. "This calls for a knowledge of crafts and activities that can be applied to people of different ages and interests. One must know these crafts for the mentally handicapped and for persons with different physical handicaps.
Other Fields Important
"Our subjects in other fields are even more important. Treatment of patients isn't just to build up strength, occupy hospital time, and prepare someone for a new craft outside the hospital.
One summer is spent in a mental hospital, one in a tuberculosis hospital, one in a pediatric hospital, and one in a hospital for the physically handicapped.
4 Summers In Hospitals
"Suppose you're working with a man who has lost an arm." Miss Trull explained. "You don't just teach him how to get along with one arm while earning a living. You help him to walk down a crowded street feeling no different from a man with both arms." Students in occupational therapy spend four summers in different types of hospitals as part of their training. After graduating from college and serving their last summer in one of the hospitals, they take the national registration examination. This qualifies them to practice anywhere in the United States.
"This summer I'll train at the Oakside Tuberculosis Hospital in Iowa," Miss Trull said. "We are given board and room by the hospital and the training counts 4½ hours toward graduation.
"I worked at the Topeka State Mental Hospital last summer. It was quite a feeling when I learned I was going there. People who had worked in them told me it wasn't bad. Until I got there, though, I had my own ideas.
"The first thing they do is give you a tour of the wards. You want to look and see all the strange things people are doing but they aren't doing anything strange. They're acting like anyone else . . ."
"Sometimes clubs or schools would hold social functions at the hospital for the patients. We students would dress in street clothes and mingle with the patients. It is interesting to be mistaken for a patient. It gives you an idea of what they must tolerate.
Mistaken For Patients
"At dances I was, of course, mistaken for a patient. People were always too gentle and too cautious. Quite the opposite of regular dances with children. When they then after such treatment that I worked there." Miss Trull laughed.
"This year the school was opened to men for the first time," Miss Trull said, "but no brave male has taken the step yet. When one of them learns that the occupation is changing, we might addition to the interesting 106-to-1 ratio. I think we'll get men in the field."
Occupational therapy is a growing course at the University. A total of 106, all women, are now majoring in the field.
Juilliard Quartet To Play At 8 p.m.
The Juilliard Quartet will play at 8 p.m. today in Strong Auditorium as the fourth attraction of the KU Chamber Music Series.
The ensemble, which is the insidence quartet at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, will play works of Mozart, Bartok, and Beethoven. Tickets for the concert are on sale at the Fine Arts office, 128 Strong.
Weather
- Fair to partly cloudy today. Not quite so warm northwest. Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Cooler north and west-central tonight and over most of the state Tuesday. High today near 70 northeast to 80s southwest. Low tonight 40 northwest to 50s extreme southeast.
Freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Science are instructed to report to faculty advisers for midsemester conferences today through Wednesday by Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College.
Meet Your Advisers
"The midsemester conferences are not to be considered solely as a time for the students to see if they are down in a subject, but is actually a very good time to plan the course of studies for the next semester," Dean Ulmer said.
For juniors and seniors, copies of midsemester reports will be sent to their major departments, which will arrange the conferences, he added. The junior and senior midsemester conferences are expected to be completed by Friday.
Notices of the unsatisfactory midsmester grades are being mailed to the parents of all classes.
Fraternities and sororites that want reports of sophomore student grades may obtain them by having the student show the midsemester report, which is given to them if their grades are unsatisfactory.
Junior and senior midsemester reports may be obtained by bringing an alphabetized list of the juniors and seniors in the College to the College office, which will fill out the midsemester report on unsatisfactory work.
Demonstrations by Quack Club, Tau Sigma, modern dance society, and the tumbling team will be featured at the Women's Athletic Association's annual Play Day for high school girls from surrounding areas Saturday, April 28. The program will also include basketball, softball, and volleyball games.
Play Day Set For April 28
Skits Bubble Fizz At Rock Chalk Revue
By BOB LYLE
(Assistant Managing Editor
Of The Daily Kansan)
Residents of North College Hall and the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity evidently read between the lines of college life.
Pleasant Liquid of Life
The North College Ski, "TGIF, or
Tumultuous Gaiety Increases Flunkees," successfully proved the benefits of Friday afternoon off-campus diversion, and that the pleasant liquid of life does not come from the cup of knowledge alone.
The two have placed first in the men's and women's division of the Rock Chalk Revue two years in a row, proving that they have a gift for the subtle and the not so-subtle inuendo.
About 6,000 attended Revue performances March 23 and 24 in Hoch Auditorium.
leasant Liquid of Life
"Snow Red and the Seven Bolsheviks" trophy winning production of Alpha Tau Omega, ends up killing Old Man School Spirit in a surprise ending.
Led Astray by Snow Red and evil drink, the student, on the verge of reforming in his senior year, reveals that he is the seventh Bolshevik who has been mysteriously missing during the early part of the performance. Old man School Spirit, despite his magic mirror, never succeeds in keeping his problem student on the straight and narrow path to education.
"The Greek Suite," an analysis of fraternity problems by Lambda Chi Alpha, tells the story of several Greek houses which band together to build "14 floors of beer and sex" on the former site of Potter Lake. To their dismay they learn that the sacred ground has been set aside for the construction of an eight-story illuminated Jayhawk.
"To Heaven and Back," by Alpha Delta Pi sorority, portrays the near death of the Jayhawker spirit. St. Peter decides it must still be alive when it shows up at the Pearly Gates minus his IBM card. Returning to the campus to witness his own funeral, the bird finds only one man who recognizes that spirit is still alive, Sam L. Jones, former editorial editor of The Daily Kansan, who recently wrote a series on "what's the matter (with everybody in general)"?
Kappa Alpha Theta, second place winner in the women's division, took a discerning look at the IBM system introduced to KU by Chuck Mather and adopted by the registrar's office last fall.
Second Place Winner
The second-place winner in the men's division. Sigma Nu, successfully transports a motley crew of Damon Runyon-type characters from Broadway to Mt. Oread, led by Bruce Dillman, spokesman for the mob.
"Little Bop Riding Hood"
Little Bop Riding Hood
"Little Bop Riding Hood," by the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, added fuel to the traditional lawyer-engineer feud. The Heroine is led astray by a wolf in Lawyer's clothing. But a clean-up engineer, complete with slide rule, saves "Little Bop" from a fate worse than death.
"Damn Frankie," a take-off on "Damn Yankees" by the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, centered on a modern Mistophelepis who enables a young scholar to play on the baseball team. The hero soon sings the probation blues but a sympathetic chancellor overlooks the scholastic misdemeanor and gives a pep talk, complete with gestures, that was probably familiar to real KU athletes.
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