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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, May 9, 1955
52nd Year, No. 141
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Kansan Photo by Dick Roberts
HONORARY COLONELS—One of the three candidates for the Army ROTC Spring Hop will be chosen Honorary Colonel for the dance, to be held from 9 p.m. to midnight, May 21 in the Student Union Ballroom. Her two attendants will be honorary lieutenant colonels. The candidates are, from left to right, Nancy Olsen, fine arts sophomore; Gretchen Gann, college junior, Billie Jo Schuetz, education freshman.
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Faculty Art Work Now on Exhibit
More than 100 works representing all phases of art taught at the University are exhibited in the Fine Arts faculty show which opened yesterday afternoon in the Museum of Art.
Many persons from the University and Lawrence attended the public reception at 3 p.m. which formally opened the event.
A group of paintings done in oilcasein, and encasual make up a large portion of the show. Landscapes include such works as the spacious "Cape Cod Landscape," an oil painting, by Raymond Eastwood, professor of drawing and painting.
"Wakaarusa Valley," an oil by Dwight Burnham, assistant professor of drawing and painting, depicts a typical Kansas scene.
Several abstract paintings are exhibited. Among these are "Gas Works," done in oil wax casein by John Armstrong, instructor in drawing and painting, and "Requiem," showing shrouded figures in a greenish atmosphere, painted in caustic by Robert Sudlow, drawing and painting instructor.
Attracting considerable attention at the opening yesterday was a fused steel sculpture entitled "Muser," by Elden Teft, sculpture instructor. This figure of a human, done in an abstract, free-form style, was recently exhibited in the Midwestern Art show at the Nelson gallery in Kansas City, Mo.
The recently completed bust of Donald Swarthout, former dean of the School of Fine Arts, is also on display.
A group of casein compositions by Alice Chandler Sabatini, design instructor, includes one work which depicts the impressions one might receive while attending a church service and is titled simply "Mass."
Contributions from other sections of the drawing, painting and design departments include textiles, cartoons, interior designs, ceramics, bookbindings, advertising layouts, block print designs, and book jackets.
Weather
The weather will be partly cloudy in northwestern Kansas and mostly cloudy in the remainder of the state, with scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon, tonight and Tuesday.
Two Operas to Mark Conclusion of Festival
Two operas in English translation, "The Marriage Merchant" and "Riders to the Sea," will be presented at 8 p.m. tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday in Fraser theater as the concluding feature of the Fine Arts festival and the University theatre season.
the cast. In the original version, one of these was a Mr. Slook, a rich Canadian businessman who went to England to seek a wife on a strictly commercial basis.
"Riders to the Sea" by Vaughan Williams, based on the play by John M. Syngge, was completed in 1927. In the orchestral prelude, the British composer established the fact that the eternal sea itself is one of the chief characters in the drama. The scene is set in the kitchen of a small cottage on an island off the coast of Ireland.
Cast in "Riders to the Sea" are Carolyn Hart, college freshman, Maurya; Jack Davison, fine arts freshman, Bartley; Gretta Reetz, fine arts senior, Cathleen; Nan Noyes, graduate student, Nora; Beverly Runkle, fine arts freshman, a woman, and Delcinia Guest, fine arts senior, solo voice.
Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, is the musical director and John Newfield, professor of drama, is stage director. The chorus is under the direction of Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education, and the stage settings were designed by Milton Howarth, instructor of speech. The orchestral accompaniment for both operas will be provided by the Little Symphony orchestra.
Academy Reports OnWaterProblems
Water conservation from the points of view of the geologist, the engineer, and the rainmaker appeared in the symposium on "Water—Its Source, Movement, and Use" held here Saturday. The symposium was a special feature of the 87th annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science meeting at KU.
"The Marriage Merchant" cast includes Marrilyn Coleman, fine arts sophomore, Fanny; Carolyn Craft, fine arts sophomore, Clarina; William Wilcox, graduate student, Edward; Jerry Hart, fine arts junior, Mill; Jack Davison, fine arts freshman, Norton, and Robert Parke, fine arts senior, Slook. A chorus of women also is included.
It will be the first performance of the new translation and adaptation of Rossini's comic opera, "The Marriage Merchant," done by Charles Loyd Holt, assistant director of the University theatre. Rossini wrote the opera when he was 18. It netted him only 200 lire, but established his reputation.
Dr. William Steps of the State Board of Agriculture traced the history of the development of raimaking or weather modification.
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Dr. Frank Foley, director of the State Geological survey, reviewing the report of the governor's commission on Kansas Water Resources which he headed, set the stage for the symposium with the question, "What can we do about Kansas water conservation?"
Three control methods, soil conservation, small reservoirs, and large reservoirs were analyzed. It was concluded that large reservoirs are the answer to destructive floods as well as the best answer to maintaining minimum stream flow during dry years.
Charles Lane of the State Geological survey analyzed the groundwater problem, pointing out that a water table tends to maintain an equilibrium between discharge and recharge if the table is undisturbed by tapping.
Russell Culp of the State Board of Health read a paper prepared by Dwight Metzler, chief engineer of the State Board of Health water laboratory at KU, on Kansas stream pollution.
On Friday members of the Academy heard Dr. Harold Thomas, staff geologist of the United States Geological survey at Salt Lake City. Utah, describe Kansas water problems.
Dr. Thomas worked last winter with Dr. Foley, on the governor's commission on Kansas Water Resources. It's report was published earlier this year in time for the 1955 session of the Kansas Legislature.
"We can't use water without changing it. If water is not consumed through evaporation or other means, its properties are changed when it is used for such purposes as washing, cooling, or cooking. Most of our uses of water require freshwater, and all usable fresh water comes from circulating systems identified as the "hydrologic cycle." Dr. Thomas said.
Any time we use water in any form we modify the hydrologic cycle of rainfall-evaporation-rainfall. What we must do is to modify it to the greatest advantage, or at least to the minimum detriment. Domestic uses, industrial uses, irrigation, and plant and animal life all use—therefore modify—the water supply. he added.
Among the difficulties confronting the water scientist, he enumerated difficulties of adequate and accurate measurement, valid analysis of data from these measurements, the cost of getting the necessary knowledge—both in money and time—and compartmentalization of work on the water problem by separate agencies with separate interests.
Dr. Thomas holds a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Chicago.
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10 Win Talent Research Awards
The top 10 winners of the annual Talent Research foundation for high school seniors, sponsored by the Kansas Academy of Science, were announced Friday night at the aa-credit banquet.
The first, second, and third place winners will receive scholarships of $75, $50, and $25, respectively, upon entering college, while the other seven received honorable mention.
Those receiving honorable mention were Robert Mykka, Derby; Wendell Nixon and Allen Diller, ElDorado; Donald Pratt, Hays; Rita Hanselman and Joseph McLaughlin, Immaculata of Leavenworth, and Arthur Wooley, Salina.
The winners were Daniel Wilson, Sumner High school of Kansas City, first; George Briels, Neodesha, second, and Bernard King, St. Joseph's of Havs, third.
Murphy Lauds Truman Library
The Truman library, in addition to representing a significant facet of the cultural and scholarly resources of mid-America, also will be an important symbol of Americana, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said last night at the 71st birthday anniversary for former President Harry S. Truman at the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Murphy was the principal speaker at the dinner. He also was one of five speakers at the ground-breaking ceremonies for the new Truman library in Independence, Mo., yesterday afternoon.
More than 550 persons heard Dr. Murphy say that, for the library, the American people will have many to thank, including the thousands who by their contributions, large and small, made possible the construction.
"And most important of all," Dr. Murphy said, "is the well-developed sense of history which Mr. Truman possesses. From the beginning, I am sure that he more than anyone else has been able to visualize the stream of historians, political scientists, and just plain citizens for whom the library will put into perspective this complex part of a complex century.
Dr. Murphy spoke at the ground-breaking ceremonies yesterday.
Wet Grounds Cancel Game with Colorado
The baseball game between Colorado and Kansas, scheduled for 3 p.m. today, has been cancelled because of .wet grounds. A doubleheader will be played beginning at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Horr Is Officer Of Science Group
Dr. D. J. Ameel of the botany department of Kansas State college became president, succeeding A. C. Carpenter of Ottawa, H. S. Choguill, of the chemistry department at Fort Hays Kansas State college, vice president this year, succeeded Mr. Ameel as president-elect.
Dr. W. H. Horr, professor of botany, was elected vice president of the Kansas Academy of Science Friday.
Are You an Isaac Newton?
Hobbies:
By BOB BRUCE
"Any hobby, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem, is capable of making a person's life more worthwhile," Dr. A. C. Carpenter of Ottawa, president of the Kansas Academy of Science, said Friday night at the annual academy banquet.
Dr. Carpenter, whose topic was "Scientific Hobbies," is in the oil business but for the past 60 years has been a geologist by hobby. During this time he not only has gained a thorough knowledge of the geological structure of Kansas but has aided in forming mineral and fossil or "Rock Hound" clubs throughout the state.
Putting special emphasis on the fact that a scientific hobby for a young person often leads to a career in science, Dr. Carentur said,
Guide to Science
should try to help any young person who is interested in that field, whether seriously or as a hobby.
"If students had to dig out their information, they would remember it better," he said.
Showing concern over the fact that colleges and universities still are not turning out enough scientists and engineers, he suggested that perhaps a child's parents, as an experiment, should give him a slide rule instead of a new toy.
In stressing the importance of a hobby, Dr. Carpenter told how such great men as Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Darwin "Youngsters just naturally collect things. It's all a matter of helping and guiding them."
He urged that private citizens having a better than average knowledge of a particular field
had benefited mankind because of their hobbies.
"Newton and Franklin experimented with science merely as a hobby, while Darwin was nothing more than a country gentleman."
"Hobbles such as golf, hunting and fishing are fine, but you need something to do on those rainy afternoons. He said a hobby sometimes comes in handy in that a boy can use it to work off a moment of anger."
Dr. Carpenter's interpretation of a hobby was a "type of hard work you would be ashamed to be caught doing for a living."
Referring to his own hobby of minerals and fossils, Dr. Carpenter likened it to some types of people. "They're coarse and gruff on the outside, but when you break through to the inside, you find that they're fine and good."