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University Daily Kansan Friday, Nov. 18. 1955
'Voice' Of Memorial Stadium Familiar To Many Since 1931
This Saturday, as for the past twenty years, the same giant voice of the public address man will roll across Campanile Hill, smash into the stands, bounce off the crowd, and continue its merry way drifting into nothingness as it spreads over the countryside.
The generator of this sound is Dr. E. R. Elbel, physical education professor, director of the Veteran's Bureau, and since 1930 Kansas Relays manager. He sits high above the 50-yard line at each game, mike in hand giving statistics, announcements and scores.
His job dates back to 1831 when, Allen, the athletic department acquired its first public address system, one that was rarely heard under the direction of "Phog" over the crowd noise. Mr. Allen handled the chore for the first three or four games and then turned it over to Prof. Elbel. He's been at it ever since, except during the war when he served in the Armed Forces.
Fears Blunder
Even after twenty years Prof. Elbel still fears that one day he will make the "big blunder." He admits he has already come close.
"One time during homecoming half-time ceremonies it was the custom for the queen's identity to be secret until I announced it. Just as she stepped to the field I remembered nobody had told me her name. Some kind soul leaned over and told me her name, he said.
"At this year's SMU game I was supposed to have said at the finale band demonstration, God Bless America. It came out, God Save The King."
Aside from mistakes Prof. Elbel finds deciding what should be announced a difficult job. The most unusual request that he can remember came at the recent K-State game.
"One of the individuals involved in the wildcat deal came to me just as I started up the steps and asked me if I would announce to the K-State cherleaders where the wild-cat could be found. I had to tell him no. I felt if I precipitated a brawl that it was my fault." Prof. Elbel said.
Other notifications such as lost children, University and civic functions, and emergency announcements he accepts.
Another thing he believes important in his job is to remember that "people don't want to be talked to when things aren't going well. They want to hear something about the game but nothing else. Likewise it is hard to keep the announcements as enthusiastic when we are losing as when things are good," he said,
Even when we are winning the policy is to talk as little as possible. This, he says, has not changed since he began announcing.
Credit For Players
Yet announcements can be an incentive to the players, he believes.
"When a man goes in and makes a hard driving tackle he should be given credit for that. Sometimes unconsciously we see a player get up and stand for a minute to see whether the right credit is given," Prof. Elbel said.
"It gives a fella a sort of thrill to give people the announcements they like to hear. One morning a friend told me to turn up the volume extra loud so he could hear the game while he raked leaves on his lawn. On the other hand you are a little depressed sometimes giving announcements they don't like." Prof. Elbel said,
But good luck or bad, tomorrow the man known to most students only as "the voice on the P.A." will rock the hills of old KU.
Installments
NEW HAVEN. Conn. — (U.P.) — The Shore Line Packing Co. was ordered by U.S. district court to pay off a $64,499 judgment to the government in installments of $5 a week. At this rate it will take 248 years.
The sultan of Djokjakarta, a Java city of 295,000 people, keep some 300 dancers and female relatives in quarters to which he alone has access.
She's Their Dream Girl
The homecoming queen will be the "Girl of My Dreams" to the 100 men of the KU marching band.
That's the number the Kansas and Missouri University bands will play when they form the traditional heart which is the setting for coronation ceremonies honoring the queen at the Kansas-Missouri game tomorrow.
Both bands will participate in the pre-game ceremony and the half-time show. The KU bandsmen will form an "M" for Missouri, and the guests will make the "K" for Kansas. The groups will combine for the Alma Mater, the same tune for both universities.
Ends Busy Season
The homecoming ceremony ends a busy season for the KU musicians. The band has met daily at 7:30 a.m. during the football season to practice for the colorful halftime shows it has so successfully performed.
The stunts have required from each of the hours practice for each of the show.
This doesn't include the time the bandsmen have spent studying charts for their various maneuvers or time spent learning the several songs which are used in each show.
The shows, of course, don't "just happen." They are carefully planned by the band's director, Russell Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, and his assistants, Edward Masters, assistant professor of band and orchestra, and Don Scheid, instructor.
Tom Siegfried, Independence, Mo., sophomore, is drum major, a position he also had last year.
Although there are no more football games to play for, some of the members will soon be selected for a 65-piece pep band. Prof. Wiley will direct the band, which will play for basketball games.
Just as the band is famed as a show group on the football field, it will have a distinguished career during the winter and spring as a concert band. There will be 140 men and women in this group.
New Formals
This season the women will be wearing new formal uniform gowns, which are now being completed. Women of the symphony orchestra also have beautiful dresses. They are black, have ankle-length skirts and are trimmed with small white ties.
Two important coming events for the band are the concert on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 15, in Hoch Auditorium, and the spring concert tour in March.
Landscaping the grounds of new buildings on the campus is not just digging a few flower beds, planting a bush or two, and then waiting for mother nature to do the rest.
Rather, it is a complicated process requiring the services of a great many people. One learns this in talking to C. G. Bayles, superintendent of building and grounds
The band will spend a week on tour, playing for high schools and community groups throughout Kansas. Programs are scheduled by civic clubs, music clubs and alumni groups in the state.
Building And Grounds Landscapes Campus
When the engineering prerequisite site to land work is done, the design and planning of grading and location of trees and shrubs are done by Alton C. Thomas, assistant professor of architecture.
It begins with maps and surveys and ends with another beauty spot on the University grounds.
Maintenance of grounds is supervised by Harold E. Blitch, landscape foreman.
Chickens weighing 1 $ \frac{1}{2} $ to $ \frac{2}{3} $ pounds dressed are just right for barbecuing.
Scholarship Halls Gain National Recognition In Recent Years
In recent years KU's scholarship hall system has gained national recognition, according to Dean of Men Donald K. Alderson. Such a system offers to both men and women students "the help needed to help themselves."
Residence hall scholarships are granted to students who have outstanding scholastic records in high school and have need for some financial assistance. In order to remain in the hall a student must maintain a 1.5 grade average.
This unique system of cooperative living was started in 1926 with the gift of Watkins Hall by Mrs. Elizabeth M. Watkins, widow of J. B. Watkins, midwestern banker and mortgage company president.
Students pay only the actual costs of this cooperative living. By spending approximately one hour daily performing household duties such as cleaning and cooking, the students reduce their living expenses by about $300 a year.
The University operates Battenfeld, Jolliffe, Pearson, Stephenson and Sterling-Oliver Halls as scholarship halls for men. Douthart, Miller, Sellards and Watkins Halls are scholarship halls for women.
In 1938 Mrs. Watkins gave funds for the construction of another women's hall, Miller Hall, given in memory of her brother, Frank Miller.
With the opening of Carruth, Battenfeld and Templin Halls in 1940, more students were given the opportunity to become a member of the scholarship hall system.
Douthart Hall is named in honor of Lela Douthart and her sister Ava Douthart Chronister.
Carruth, former home of the University chancellors, was razed in
Templin Hall, formerly a men's scholarship hall is now a dormitory for women.
1953 and in its place two women's dormitories have been constructed, Douthart Hall and Grace Pearson Hall.
Battenfeld Hall was given to the University by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Battenfeld in memory of their son, John, who was killed in an auto accident near Lawrence in 1939.
Jolliffe Hall, opened in 1942, is named in honor of Orlando Jolliffe of Peabody, Kansas, who endowed funds for its purchase.
Sellards Hall, named in honor of Grace Sellards Pearson, was constructed with funds given by Mr. and Mrs.J.R.Pearson of Corsicana, Texas.
Eight members of the U. S. Supreme Court have served terms of 30 years or more since it was founded in 1789.
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