Wednesday, October 6, 1954 University Daily Kansan
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Children's Research Group To Hold First Meeting
The first meeting of the Kansas Institute for Research in the Education of Exceptional Children will be held tomorrow at the University, it was announced today by Kenneth E. Anderson, dean of the School of Education and director of the institute.
The institute, an adjunct of the Graduate School, was created last year to coordinate research in the area of educating exceptional children and to help in the training of teachers in that field. The institute published a departmental request to requests by the State Department of Education.
Exceptional children are those varying greatly above or below the norm in mental and physical development.
British Bookseller to Speak
Dean Anderson said the 30- member executive committee would also meet Dec. 3, Feb. 11 and April
The second annual public lecture on books and bibliography, sponsored by the University library, will be held at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium. Peter Murray Hill, British bookseller, will speak on "Two Augustan Booksellers: John Dunton and Edmund Curl."
Archery Club to Meet
Students interested in membership in the Archery club should contact Joane Hedrick at 202 Robinson. The club was organized last week. Practice shooting will begin at 4 p.m. Thursday.
More than half a million people have seen the heavens as portrayed by the only planetarium on a college campus—the Morehead Planetarium, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, which was opened in May, 1949.
The mackerel has a different swimming apparatus than other fish. It has no air bladder to give it buoyancy, but strong muscles along its spinal column enable it to tuck its fins in close to the body for maximum swimming efficiency.
1. Evaluation of current work in the field and planning of future programs are on the agenda.
From the campus: Dean Anderson, Dean J. H. Nelson, Miss Esser Twente, Miss Edna Hill, Ethan P Allen, Richard Schiefelbusch, M Erik Wright, Wallace Verburg, Clov S. Hobson, Don Pilcher.
Executive committee members are:
From the Medical Center: Dean W. Clarke Wescoe, H. D. Miller, Miss June Miller, David Robinson, Harry Gianakon.
From the State Department of Education: Dr. John E. Jacobs, director of special education Topeka.
From the Kansas Society for Ex- ceptional Children: Ellis D. Beaver, Wichita; R. A. Raymond, Wichita.
From the Kansas Society for Exceptional Children: William D. Wolfe, Lawrence; Dr. Merritt W. Sanders, Emporia.
From the University of Wichita:
Dean Jackson O. Powell, Martin F. Palmer. From Emporia State Teachers College: Don E. Davis, Merritt W. Sanders. From Pittsburg State Teachers College: William A. Black, Ernest Mahan. From Fort Hays Kansas - State College: Calvin Harbin, Ralph Coder.
Baur Gives Paper
E. Jackson Baur, associate professor of sociology and anthropology, gave a paper entitled "Decision-Making in Welfare Agencies" at the 49th annual meeting of the American Sociological society in Urbana-Champaign, Ill., recently. Dr. Baur's research was made possible by a grant from Community Studies, Inc., during a sabbatical leave from the University last year.
"It seems time has come to inform Mersh that in MY art class students don't yell for the model to "Take it off."
Alpha Phi Omega Pledges 24 Men
Alpha Phi Omega, honorary service organization, pledged 24 men last night.
Don Pitt, engineering freshmen,
Roger L. Thom, Ned Joslin,
and William L. Clow, engineering
sophomores; Jack Gardner and
Dean DeWitt, engineering juniors;
Al Gaddini, fine arts junior,
and William H. Conway Jr., business
junior.
The pledges are James Feil, John Schick, Ruwel H. Freese, Rex Parsons, Dong Rogers, Clark Ruhman, L. Reddenbaugh, and Don Williams, college freshmen; John L. Baker and Richard Bond, college sophomores, and Chet Artermurn, college junior.
Otto Payton, college senior; Guy Farrar, Charles Shanklin, Lynn A. Johnson, David Masterson, and
The whole Roman Empire was held with only about 150,000 citizen soldiers, supplemented by an equal number of non-Roman auxiliaries.
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Tryouts to Be At 7 Tomorrow For First Play
Tryouts for the first production of the University Theatre, Pirandello's "Right You Are," will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser theater.
For the second production, O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness" tryouts will be held at 7 p.m. Friday in Fraser theater. Tryouts are open to all students.
Almost 40 new singers were auditioned last night in the last day of the University Theater auditions. The general tryouts are ended, but students who have missed them may contact Charles Holt, assistant director of the University Theater in 202 Fraser.
The University Theater box office in Green basement will open Wednesday, Oct. 27. Students may get free reserved seats for the first two productions by showing their ID cards.
Nearly a million people crowd the 991 square miles of the Saar, the largely self-governing state set up in 1947 in an effort to settle the old dispute between France and Germany over control of the Saar's fuel deposits. Coal reserves of 6,000,000,000 tons and yearly steel production of almost 3,000,000 tons give the area industrial significance.
Production dates for the season are "Right You Are—If You Think So" by Luigi Pirandello, Nov. 10 through 13; "Ah, Wilderness!" by Eugene O'Neill, Dec. 8 through 11; "An American in Boston" by Carl Milleocke, Feb. 7 through 11 with a matinee on the 11th; "Richard III" by William Shakespeare. March 16 through 19, and a double bill one-act opera, "Riders to the Sea" by Ralph Vaughan Williams and "The Marriage Merchant" by Giacochino Rossini, May 10 through 12.