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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 29, 1955
'Cuckoo' Tolls The Chimes
This is the mechanism by which the Memorial Campanile is made to toll the Westminster chimes. Custom-built in England by the John Taylor Co. of Loughborough, the mechanism weighs $31\frac{1}{2}$ tons.
On the left, two three-fourths horsepower electric motors activate the mechanism which rings the quarter-hours, and a similar device on the right tolls the hours. The Grimm-Thorpes gravity escapement clock in the center regulates the strikers. In operation it resembles an old-fashioned "cuckoo" clock. Every seven hours the one-fourth horsepower electric motor on the clock lifts the weights below the clock to rewind it, with a reserve of weight chain length in case of power failure.
power failure.
Festivity Is Theme For Studio Theatre Series
Festivity and celebration form the theme for the three one-act plays which open the studio theatre series in Green Theater, October 12 through 14, announced Lewin Goff, director of the University Theatre.
In the first play, "Lord Byron's Loveletter" by Tennessee Williams, the Mardi Gras forms the background of a somber tale of frustration. Jack Brooking, University Theatre assistant, is the director.
the West, concerns a party held for a surprise guest of honor.
Music from the party upstairs adds contrast in "Finiculi, Finicula" by Rita Wellman and underlines the tragedy of two lovers unable to adjust to the responsibilities of life.
"Summer Comes to the Diamond O" by Robert Finch, a tall tail of
Tickets will be available at the box office in Green Hall beginning October 10. Reservations may be made by calling KU 564 or 411. Students may obtain tickets by presenting their ID card, a policy that is new this year in the studio theatre series.
Froshawks Elect Officers
Dick Armstrong, Kansas City Mo. freshman, will head the Froshawks, freshman men's pep club for the current year. He was elected last night at the group's first meeting.
Clayton Shepard, Clay Center freshman, was elected vice-president. Ray Harrell, Wichita freshman, is recording secretary. Chester Zimmerman Jr., Mullinville freshman, was elected correspondence secretary and Dick Jones, McPherson freshman, is the treasurer
To be a member of the organization the students must attend all KU football and basketball games.
New Dance Tryouts To Be Held Tuesday
Final fall tryouts for Tau Sigma, modern dance fraternity, will be at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday in 102, Robinson. Persons trying out must give an original one-minute dance in leotards or a similar costume.
Three persons were pledged last Tuesday. They are Arlene Cushing, New York, N. Y., freshman, and Barbara Baenisch and Martha Samuel, Wichita Juniors.
Want a Laugh?
(Some of these you wouldn't send to your mother.) Come in to see - and read - our new stock of sophisticated Studio Cards. Greetings for any occasion - and for no occasion at all.
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Mr. Cowley will speak on "American Literature: A Re-appealais" at 8 p.m. Oct. 14 in Fraser Theater. The talk will be open to the public.
Other speakers will be Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education, and Natalie Calderwood, assistant professor of English.
Mr. McCoy will speak on "The Role of Practical Politics in Education" at the conference dinner that evening in the Kansas Room of the Memorial Union.
VIking 3-1211
Alvin McCoy, Pulitzer-prize winning Kansas correspondent of the Kansas City Star, and Maleole Cowley, poet and literary critic, head the speaker list for the third annual conference on composition and literature in high school and college to be held in the Student Union Oct. 14-15.
Star Reporter Poet To Speak
The workshop themes will be: "What Shall Our Students Write About?" "Grammar: What Kind and How Much?" "Should Speaking and Writing Be Taught in the Same Course?" "Teaching Students to Read Literature with Understanding," and "The Challenge of Teaching the Superior Student."
Service Group Pledges 22
Twenty-two men have been pledged by Alpha Phi Omega, scouting service fraternity.
Upperclass pledges include John Watson, Bonner Springs junior; Ernest Wohlenberg, Liberal sophomore, and Robert Channell, Chicago sophomore.
Freshmen pledged are: Charles Reeves, Louisburg; Garret Ormistan, Winfield; Jere Hodshire and Charles Rutledge, Kansas City; Paul Neilson, Riverside, Ill.; Arthur Mountain, Newport, N. H.; Thomen Reese, Gardener; Paul Mordy, Emporia, Larry Griggs, Marion.
Ron Bonjour, Lenexa; Harry O'brien, Merriam; Jon Simms, Newton; Arthur Lewis, Council Grove; Charles Holden, Raytown, Mo.; Robert Lewis, Russell; Dick Williams, Tulsa, Okla.; John McDaniel Topeka; Howard Crotchett Louisburg, and Roger Kaster, Ottawa.
A fraternity fellowship meeting will be held Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Student Union.
There is no professional or commercial sport in Israel. Popular sports include soccer, basketball, swimming, track and field, hockey, lawn tennis, rowing, handball, volleyball, gymnastics, boxing, wrestling and fencing.
Officials Caught
WOOSTER, O.—(UP) —Police man Robert Goodish passed out tickets by the dozens in a stepped-up campaign against traffic and parking violations. Those tagged included Mayor Edward Johnson, Police Chief Kenneth Walters and Sgt. James Wilson, head of the police traffic division. They paid their fines promptly.
Curtis Miller, Wichita sophomore, was elected president of the Art Education Club yesterday. Other officers are Barbara Keeler, Lawrence junior, vice-president; Jolene Minor, Great Bend junior secretary; Pat Campbell, Nickerson senior, treasurer, and James Hamil, Mission sophomore, publicity.
Art Club Elects Officers
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