THE GENTLEMEN BOW-Elisabeth Neubacher, Austrian graduate student, explains the formalities of the Viennese waltz to the twelve couples who took part yesterday in rehearsals for a program to be given March 16. The practice sessions are being held in the Student Union building and are open to all students.
—(Daily Kansan Photo)
Austrians Rehearse Waltz For March 16 Celebration
"Now everybody dance in a circle," said Elisabeth Neubacher, Wieselbung, Austria, graduate student, and immediately 14 couples began to waltz to a recording of Strauss' "Tales from the Vienna Woods."
The occasion was a rehearsal Sunday for a program to be presented by the Austrian students on their Independence Day March 16. The program, to be held at 8 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union, will consist of movies depicting Austrian life, presentation of an Austrian flag to Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, and the waltz as it is done at Viennae balls. Hubert Reisner, Fabiganst, Austria, graduate student, is in charge of the event, and Miss Neubach is choreographer.
The Viennese waltz always opens with a polonaise or grand march by a few couples," Reisner explained. "Then they form a circle and begin the actual waltz, and soon everyone joins in the dancing."
Not everyone at the rehearsal was Austrian. Norway, Germany, Mexico, and even the United States were represented, and Miss Neubacher and Reisner patiently demonstrated the correct steps to couples who sometimes got their feet tended.
"We think Americans would enjoy the waltz if they would dance it more often." Reisner said. "The people here are very talented in dancing, but they do not waltz quite right."
The waltz, the national dance of Austria, is one of the first things learned by small children in dancing schools, and in spit of the "invasion" of the jitterbug, it remains the favorite.
"It is because the orchestras do not play a good Viennese waltz," Miss Neubacher added. "They do not hold the first count long enough."
"But please don't get the impression that we Austrians can do nothing but waltz," Reisner said. "Actually 20 per cent of our dancing is to American music. We like the jitterbug very much, and we do it often at private parties."
The performance March 16 will celebrate Austria's first year of independence and her entry into the U. N. Those taking part in the waltz will wear the traditional ball costume—the men in black suits and evening coats, and the women in white formals.
Basketball Pep Rally Today
A pep rally for the Kansas State basketball game tomorrow night will be held at Allen Field House at 4:30 p.m. today during team practice. Everyone is invited to attend this rally which will be the only rally for the last home game.
Mouselike short-tailed shrews, abundant in the eastern United States, eat two to three times their own weight in a day. With blind ferocity, they often attack larger and more powerful mice. With fore-sight to winter, they store away living snails and occasional disabled beetles, the National Geographic Society says.
Dorms Compete In KDGU Quiz
Competition runs high on Mondays at 6:30 p.m. over radio station KDGU when seven University dormitories match wits on the program "Quote Quiz" which enters the semi-finals of its second series tonight.
Each dormitory selects three or its members to compete with teams from other dormitories entered in the quiz program. Two teams compete each week.
Ask Current Quotes
The dormitories competing are Battenfeld, Douthart, Templin, Grace Pearson, Carruth-O'Leary, Corbin, and North College. They are the dormitories served with KDGU's radio service.
William Harmon, Topeka junior and master of ceremonies of "Quote Quiz," chooses outstanding quotations made by famous people from current news magazines and newspapers. The first team to identify the person who originated the quotation gets two points. Another point is possible if the circumstances surrounding the quotation can be described.
A new series, started Feb. 13,
will end March 19. This series
is organized on a tournament
type basis. Weekly winners are
based on the number of points
compiled during the program. A
plaque will be given to the winner
of the present series.
On March 5, Battenfeld will meet Templin, Grace Pearson will meet Clemens on May 14, final round will be on March 19 before the winners of these two matches.
The first series was run off in the form of a "round robin," with the winner going on in the contest until defeated. Battenfeld won the first five matches in the first series, only to be defeated in the final round by North College.
Listeners can also "cash in" on the program by identifying famous voices two of which are played on each program.
Plaque To Winner
Clerks To Hold Annual School
Alaska has more than seven million acres of national parks, including Mt. McKinley National Park with the highest peak on the North American continent, says the National Geographic Society. Other large parks are Tongass National Forest and Katmai National Monument, site of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, one of the world's largest groups of active volcanoes.
Ralph Butler, Leavenwood junior, is announcer for the program.
Basic problems faced by all city clerks will be discussed at the sixth annual school of the City Clerks Association of Kansas Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the Pine Room of the Student Union.
Kenneth E. Beasley, instructor in political science, said city clerks will be awarded a certificate for attending all classes during the three-day school. A regularly enrolled county deputy or county assessor clerk who attends all classes will receive a certificate by mail. Fifty to 60 clerks are expected to attend.
Speakers and topics will be:
Speakers and topics will be:
Tuesday, 1:40 p.m.: Harry Beecroft
Should investment firm of Topeka,
“When should a City Borrow Money?”
Wednesday, 11 a.m.; E. O. Stene,
professor of political science, "The
Clerk in the Community"; 3:15 p.m.
Clyde Reed Jr., publisher of
the Parsons Sun, "Keeping the Public
Informed."
Thursday, 10 a.m.: Ivan Shull, sanitary engineer, State Board of Health. "Sanitation Problems."
Technical topics include "Purchasing Practices and Policies," "Building Licenses," "Records Management," "State Highway Commission and City Relations," and "Impact of State Financial Problems on Local Finance."
This 'Glass' Was Valuable
MURFREESBORO, Ark (UP)—A 40-year-old Dallas housewife picked up what looked like a piece of glass near here Sunday—and it turned out to be a 15.31 carat diamond worth an estimated $15,000.
Mrs. Arthur Lee Parker had paid $1.50 to hunt for stones in a three-acre tract near here called the crater of diamonds. What she found is the largest gem ever discovered on the North American continent by an individual.
Mrs. Parker, the mother of two children and an amateur rock-hound, said "it easily could have been mistaken for a piece of broken glass. In fact, I think someone might have found it earlier and thrown it away, thinking it was glass.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Miller, operators of the crater, said during the past year some 15,000 persons have found 107 diamonds averaging .59 carats. But said Mr. Miller, "this is the finest stone I've ever seen. It's a perfect gem without a flaw."
Alumni Establish
$200 Scholarship
A $200 a year scholarship has been established by alumni of Dickinson County for the benefit of University students from Dickinson County.
Graduates of Abilene, Enterprise, Chapman and Solomon high schools will be eligible for the award. The $200 will be sent each year to the Greater University Fund to finance the scholarship.
The KU Guidance Bureau staff returned March 2 from a conference of Big Seven schools which met in Lincoln, Neb., to discuss problems encountered by counseling departments of the different schools. The conference began March 1. The meeting is an annual affair, rotating meeting places among the Big Seven schools.
Guidance Staff Attends Meet
Washington's Olympic Peninsula possesses the world's largest Sitka spruce, 51 feet 6 inches in circumference at chest height; the largest western red cedar, 66 feet and 1 inch in girth; and the largest Douglas fir and western hemlock, with circumferences of 53 feet 4 inches and 27 feet 2 inches respectively.
Pizza Delivered
Call VI 3-9111
The Campus Hideaway
106 North Park St.
Monday, March 5. 1956.
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The earth's orbit is such that the sun is three million miles closer in January than in July. If the sun's rays did not strike the Northern Hemisphere more obliquely then, winter would be warmer than summer.
The first men to fly around the world nonstop did it in 10 minutes. Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett on May 9, 1926, flew to the North Pole and circled it, crossing all the meridians of longitude in one full turn.
HOW TO BE A THUMPING BIG SUCCESS ON CAMPUS
While up in the attic last week hiding from a bill collector I came across a letter, yellow now with age, that dear old Dad had sent me when I was a freshman. I read the letter again and recalled, with many a sigh and not a few tears, what an inspiration it had been to me back in my freshman days. I reproduce it below in the hope that it may light your way as it did mine.
"Dear Son, (Dad always called me Son. This was short for Sonnenberg, which was originally my first name. I later traded it with a man Max. He threw in two outfielders and a lefthanded pitcher ... But I digress.)
"Dear Son, (Dad wrote)
"I suppose you are finding college very big and bewildering, and maybe a little frightening too. Well, it need not be that way if you will follow a few simple rules.
"First of all, if you have any problems, take them to your teachers. They want to help you. That's what they are there for. Perhaps they do seem rather aloof and forbidding, but that is only because they are so busy. You will find your teachers warm as toast and friendly as pups if you will call on them at an hour when they are not overly busy. Four a.m., for instance.
"Second, learn to budget your time. What with classes, activities, studying, and social life all competing for your time, it is easy to fall into sloppy habits. You must set up a rigid schedule and stick to it. Remember, there are only 24 hours in a day. Three of these hours are spent in class. For every hour in class, you must, of course, spend two hours studying. So there go six more hours. Then, as everyone knows, for every hour of studying, you must spend two hours sleeping. That accounts for another twelve hours. Then there are meals—two hours each for breakfast and lunch, three hours for dinner. Never forget, Sonnenberg, you must chew each mouthful 288 times. You show me a backward student, and I'll show you a man who bolts his food.
"But college is more than just sleeping, eating, and studying. There are also many interesting and broadening activities, and you would be cheating yourself if you neglected them. You'll want to give at least an hour a day to the campus newspaper and yearbook, and, of course, another hour each to the dramatic and music clubs. And let's say a total of three hours daily to the stamp club, the foreign affairs club, and the debating society. Then, of course, a couple of hours for fencing and bird-walking, a couple more for square dancing and basket weaving, and one or two for cribbage and ice-sculpturing.
"Finally, we come to the most important part of each day-what I call 'The Quiet Time.' This is a period in which you renew yourself-just relax and think green thoughts and smoke Philip Morris Cigarettes.
"Why Philip Morris? because they are the natural complement to an active life; they are gentle, they are benign, they are tranquil, they are a treat to the tired, a boon to the spent, a haven to the storm-tossed. That's why.
"Well, Sonnenberg, I guess that's about all. Your mother sends her love. She has just finished putting up rather a large batch of pickles—in fact, 350,000 jars. I told her that with you away at school, we would not need so many, but lovable old Mother is such a creature of habit that though I hit her quite hard several times, she insisted on going ahead.
Your ever lovin'
Dad."
©Max Shulman. 1958
Advice to freshmen is not the business of the makers of Philip Morris, sponsors of this column. But cigarettes for freshmen is. Also cigarettes for upperclassman, graduate students, profs, deans, and everybody else who enjoys a gentle, modern smoke. We mean Philip Morris, of corris!