Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Monday, Mav 16, 1955
52nd Year, No.146
—Kansan photo by R. A. Wolfe WHIRLY-BIRD COMING TO KU—1st Lt Leighton O. Markley and Sgt. Fred E. Hetrick are shown in a Hiller H-23 A helicopter which will participate in the mock battle that will be put on by Scabbard and Blade Wednesday at 4 p.m. The helicopter will demonstrate how wounded are evacuated from combat zones. It is from the Aviation Section of 137th Infantry Regiment, a National Guard unit, in Topeka
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
26 Journalism Students AreHonoredatBanquet
Twenty-six journalism students received awards for outstanding scholarship and reporting for the Daily Kansan at the annual Kansan Board dinner Saturday evening.
Leading award winners was Stan Hamilton, who received four honors and served as toastmaster.
Hamilton received an award as the most outstanding senior in the news-editorial sequence and the Sigma Delta Chi certificate as the top senior in the school. He also received first place for the best news story of the year and an honorable mention for feature stories.
Letty Lemon was named the outstanding senior woman in the news-editorial sequence, received the Sigma Delta Chi award for scholarship, and received an honorable mention rating in editorial writing.
Outstanding senior awards in the advertising-business sequence went to Mrs. Georgia Wallace and Charles O'Connell. Mrs. Wallace also was awarded first place for the best institutional and service advertisement.
Charles Sledd, advertising junior, was presented the $500 John P. Harris scholarship by Dean Burton Marvin of the Journalism school.
The Henry Schott memorial prize for the "junior man who shows the most promise for success in journalism" was given to Bruce Dillman, a junior major in radio.
Journalism juniors Ron Grandon and John Herrington received $25 and $10 awards, respectively, for third places in editorial writing.
Gene Shank, journalism senior,
received $15 for second place in
editorial writing and was honored
with the Sigma Delta Chi certificate
for the highest grade among
senior men in the school.
Bill Taggart, journalism senior,
received a special $10 award from
an anonymous donor for his work
on the Miss Santa contest and
placed second in the news photography awards.
In the other news story awards second place went to junior Ted Blankenship, senior Jack Lindberg placed third, and Lee Ann Urban, junior, received honorable
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Reed Condemns Standardization
"Standardization is a temptation in a push-button age," he said. "It seems at first glance to be the answer to a lot of problems, particularly those dealing with cost and, unfortunately, you must deal in costs as well as in more abstract questions of producing a newspaper.
Standardization is a great threeboth to the public and to newspapers, and the threat is far greater than the existence of a classic monopoly. Clyde Reed Jr., publisher of the Parsons Sun, said Saturday night in a speech at the Kansan Board dinner in the Student Union.
Standardization can rob a newspaper of its greatest single asset, local individuality, Mr. Reed said. Three remedies for this curse are local news, local pictures, and an active editorial policy, he added.
Mr. Reed said that newspapers today are freer of party and other alliances than ever before. They may not be independent enough to suit their critics, he said, but most are trying to present a more comprehensive and better-balanced budget of news than ever before.
Gamma Alpha Chi to Meet
"But standardization, as attractive as it may be in some aspects, can turn out to be the blind alley, the dead end corner for newspapers."
"They may be criticized for failing, but not for trying," he said.
Gamma Alpha Chi will meet at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow at the Alpha Phi house.
ROTCUnits Plan Mock Battle Review,Awards Wednesday
Six Pharmacy Majors Win Nine Awards
Nine honors went to six students Saturday at the annual awards banquet of the School of Pharmacy.
Ivan Watkins is the highest senior in the school scholastically, with a grade point average of 2.56 out of a possible 3.0. He was presented the school's Lehn and Fink Gold Medal award by Dean J. Allen Reeze. He also received the Brissti award of a Gould Medical Dictionary and one of three Merck awards of a pharmaceutical manual and index. Total value is about $55. Other Merck awards were given
Other Merck awards were given Richard Lolley and Roger Miller, both seniors.
A gold key given by the student branch of the American Pharmaceutical association went to Kay Lowis, as the student who had done the most to advance the pharmacy profession. She was secretary of the student A. Ph. A.branch, vice president of the pharmacy honorary fraternity Rho Chi, and president of Kappa Epsilon, pharmacy sorority.
Perry Rashleigh received the $25 Rho Chi award to the highest ranking junior in the school. The Kappa Psi award to the highest ranking sophomore went to Benjin Keaton Wyatt. Rashleigh will get his award next year at the time of the Eli Lille educational tour. Wyatt gets a pharmaceutical reference book.
Richard Lolley received an honorable mention certificate from the student A. Ph. A. branch in addition to his Merck award. He is president of the senior class of the School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Max Dresden, professor of physics, spoke to the pharmacists on the "Responsibility of a Scholar to Society."
The three ROTC units will jointly celebrate Armed Forces week with a review, presentation of awards to cadets, and a mock battle on Campanile hill beginning at 3 p.m., Wednesday.
'Wilhelm Tell To Be Presented
One scene from Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell will be presented in the Green theatre Wednesday night as part of a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the German dramatist's death. The scene depicts the killing of a cruel Austrian governor by the Swiss patriot, Wilhelm Tell.
The play is usually remembered in connection with the scene in which the Austrian governor forces Tell to shoot an apple from his son's head. Another of the play's claims to fame lies in the fact that the music of the "William Tell Overture" is used as a theme for the radio program "The Lone Ranger."
Gerhard Fisch, assistant instructor of German will direct the production. The cast includes Lawrence Weaver, college junior; Herbert Hilgers, college freshman; Barbara Becker, college senior; John Garland, education junior; Theodore Wilkinson, college junior, and Thomas Mann, college sophomore.
Janet Gabrielson, college senior,
is in charge of costumes. Doen Beene,
fine arts sophomore, has composed
special music to be sung by a chorus
of friars in the scene. Beene will
direct his own composition.
The celebration will also include a cycle of Schiller songs which will be sung by Mrs. Harriet Comfort graduate student. The music for the songs was written by Schubert.
J. A. Burkle, professor of German, will read three of Schiller's poems. A string quartet will play music by Beethoven.
Oscar Jack Buchanek, college senior; Elizabeth Burke, college freshman; Gloria Metcalf, college freshman, and three grade school children also participate in the scene.
Who Will Win—Seniors, Faculty Fossils, or Donkeys?
By STAN HAMILTON
It won't be baseball like they play in Yankee stadium when the proud Faculty Fossils, oldest team man for man in dis-organized baseball, meet the senior class in a donkey game at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the intramural fields. $ ^{*} $
Harlan Parkinson, senior class president, manager of the team, and self-styled Phil Rizzuto, has acquired the services of some 20 specially trained animals for the big game, but as yet has been unable to devise a lineup that can hit, field, or ride.
In fact, it may not even resemble the game one Abner Doubleday devised some 110 years ago, but the ordinary implements of such a contest—umpires, bats, balls, and bases—will be there even if skill isn't.
Fielders will be allowed to dismount to (try to) field the ball, but must either be astride the animals or holding on when throwing the ball. Base runners must be jockeys all, the while they are on base.
All players in the field except the pitcher will be required to stay atop their donkeys. When a batter hits the ball (if such a miracle indeed does occur) he first must mount a nearby donkey and gallop off toward first base—if the animal takes an inclination to go in that approximate direction.
Because the mounts have not yet arrived, team practices have been limited. But Mr. LoBello, working last night to get his glove in shape, boasted, "This game will prove no difficulty since we're used to handling jackasses anyway."
Phil Petitt, a business senior who will act as official scorekeeper, seemed to have some bias in his voice when he retorted. "We'll win—we've listened to them bray for four years as it is."
Following the game, scheduled to go the full nine innings unless one of the stars (the donkeys) is injured, will be the senior picnic at Holcom's Grove, just north of the Wakarusa creek bridge on U.S. 59.
Nino LoBello, erstwhile instructor of sociology and a first baseman of sorts for the haughty Fossils, has nominated his ace (and only pitcher, for that matter). William (Wild Bill) Conboy, to start against the upstarts. Mr. Conboy may be better known to some as a speech and drama instructor.
The annual ROTC Honors day review will be held in Memorial stadium. Over 1,000 cadets will march from the Military Science building onto Jayhawk drive, across the campus, and down to the stadium.
Awards to the outstanding cadets of all three units will be made at the review. The names of the Air Force cadets winning awards was not available today.
Following the honors review, Scabbard and Blade, the honorary ROTC organization, will stage a mock battle on the north slopes of Mt. Oread near the campanile.
An Air National Guard helicopter from Topeka will take part in the battle exercises in evacuating a wounded man from one of the attacking squads.
Today and tomorrow the fuselage of an Air Force B-29 superfortress is on display at South Park. It was brought to Lawrence by the AFROTC unit from the Wright-Patterson Air Force base at Dayton. A group of Wright-Patterson technicians are on hand to explain parts of the aircraft.
Loyal Legion of the U.S. Medal; Peter D. Arrowsmith, engineering junior.
Army RQTC:
Society of American Military Engineers Medal (senior award) Dwight H. Harrison engineering senior Junior Peter D. Arrowmouth engineering junior.
Armed Forces Chemical Association
and Scroll; Lloyd A. Pine, college
selling
Loyal Legion of the U.S. Medal: Richard C. Shaw, college sophomore.
Association of the U.S. Army Medal;
Frank E. Haggard, college senior.
Association of the U.S. Artillery Medal;
V. Ronald, engineering senior.
US Naval Academy Alumni association award. Robert S. Kennedy, engin-
ombroid Academy of American Military Engineers (senior award); Edwin B. Peyton, engineering senior; Junior award; B. Dale Trott, engineering junior.
ROTC Rife Team Medal: Norman B. Gates, enginemer senior headmasters Heorc Mullen, college sophomore; Robert A. Cooper, college sophomore; and Warren C. Cooper, college sophomore.
Media of the American Revolution Medal. Son of Augustus George sojourn some time; Gerald W. Vincenzo reside freshman; James W. Cieland, college freshman; and Thomas G. Pollack, engraver.
Professor of Military Science senior
award; Kenneth D. Crawford, business
senior; Kenneth L. Cox, engineering
senior; and Norman B. Gates, engi-
neering senior. Junior award: Robert A.
Gates. Senior award: Robert A. Cooper. college
senior. Freshman award: Alexis Popoff,
engineering freshman.
NROTC Rife Team Medal; Robert A.
[NROTC Rife Team Medal]; D. Eulane;
D. Eulane, engineering, sophomore;
Sidney N. Hockens, engineering senior;
James D. Whiteside, engineering junior,
Jonathan C. Worcester, engineering
Armed Forces Communications Assoc.
Donald D. Smith, Engineer,
SOLAR ENERGY.
NROTC Rifle Team Captain's Trophy:
John R. Green, business senior.
Sons of the American Revolution senior; Terry W. Fiske, college senior; David M. Snyder, college senior; Donald E. Endacott, college senior, and John C. Dicus, business senior.
Marine Corps "Gazette" Award: Donald H. Franklin, education senior.
U. S. Naval Institute Award: Stephen D. Bainbridge and Gad C. Smith, both business seniors
Weather
The weather for the Lawrence area will be fair today and tomorrow. Last night rain broke out in the southwest corner of Kansas, dumping 4.21 inches at Sublette. Liberal was soaked with 2.37 inches, while syracuse reported 1.12 inches.
Kansas temperatures Sunday ranged from 75 degrees at Pittsburgh to a high 85 at Garden City and Hill City. Lows were from 51 at Goodland this morning to 58 at Pittsburg, Hill City and Dodge City,