Page 6 University Daily Kansan Monday. May 24,1954
Crafton'sLawrenceStory Runs in Local Paper
By JANE CAREY PLUMMER
. Allen Crafton, chairman of the department of speech and drama and a teacher for 35 years, has written a history of early Lawrence which is being published in the Lawrence Journal-World.
The role of historian is not new to Prof. Crafton. He came to the state in 1923. He has dramatized Kansas history in a series of 30 radio plays—he made radio history for KEKU by writing the first play presented by the station.
In 1935 he wrote, directed, and acted in "Yankee Crusade" (in which the now celebrated Pulitzer prize-winning play-writing, author William Inge, played the prototype of John Brown). The song "Onward, Spirit of Kansas" is a rallying march written by musician Crafton. His after-dinner speech "So This Is Kansas" became so boring to its author, who gave it uncounted times over a period of six years that he had his own apperance for banquet appearances by turning out the humorous "How Culture Came to Kansas" which has gone around the state and threatens to cross the country after almost another half dozen years of performance. The Kansas scene has been done in oil paints and in black and white sketches by Crafton, the artist Stone walls, rustic furniture, a mountain cabin and stage scenes have been built by craftsman and carpentering Crafton.
He calls himself "one of those unfortunate guys who tries everything once. That makes me a jack-of-all trades and a master of none. But I suppose some of us were destined, by a combination of bodily chemistry or something else, to be jack-of-all trades." (It is to be noted that this Jack is a Master of Arts, Harvard university, class of 1914. Also that he majored in biology in undergraduate days, and received his bachelor of science degree from Knox college with honors in philosophy. He was honored with a doctor of literature degree from Knox collage in 1932.)
Five textbooks and 10 plays have been written by author Crafton.
48 Practice For Teaching
Forty-eight education seniors are now doing student teaching in the Kansas public schools.
Students teaching biology are Nancy Adams, Goulding Sanderson, and Ellen Skinner. Teaching social studies are Heidi Bliesch, Marguerite Morgan, Ray Neale, Max Smith, and Donald Weekly.
In elementary education are Jane Bock, Rosemary Frank, Nancy Gilman, Martha Harper, Joan Alice Johnson, Charmaire King, Lois Kittie, Billie Loflin, Marilyn Marhofer, Betty Rieger, Margaret Thompson, Florence Wakefield, and Julie York.
Those teaching physical education are Joan Campbell, Marvin Deckert, Mary Anne Everett, Allen Kelley, Rodney Long, Kathleen Mahoney, Mary Ann Mahoney, and Wesley Whitney.
Stella Carlson is teaching business education. In music education are Curtis Dollis, Larry Harvieck, Billie Jones, Jack Rein, Dorothy Shoup, Frank Towner, and Susan Tougaw.
In language arts are Mark Gilman, Vernon Smith, Barbara Tweet, Bobbie West, and Dorothy Shade. In language arts and speech correction are Olga Nichols and Jeannee Fischer. Beverly Hurwitz is in elementary education and speech correction.
John Newton is teaching science. Joyce Laybourn is doing special work in Spanish and elementary education. La Vonne Godwin is in home economics education.
In order to re-oil locomotives and equipment in case of accidents, giant hydraulic jacks are employed on British railroads which operate faster than the conventional equipment without blocking adjacent tracks.
Some have been done in collaboration with his wife, Jessica.
"How did you happen to write this book on Lawrence?" brought the answer, "I think it was Malory, the mountain climber, when asked why he attempted to climb M. Everest, who replied, 'Because it was there.' This seems a very good reason. The material was there, all in pattern, all in order. The only thing I had to do was write it down. Of course, it took me a number of years to do it because I'm not an historical writer. But I finally got the job done." "Is it authentic history?" he was asked
"Well, now," the professor said. "There were so many lies told and written about early Lawrence history that I can't guarantee it's completely authentic."
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Official Bulletin
TODAY
TUESDAY
Phi Mu Alpna, 9 p.m. Hoch audi-
torium. Please be there.
Marvin Heads Religious Board
Burton W. Marvin, dean of the Journalism school, was re-elected president of the board of trustees of the Kansas School of Religion, at the board's last meeting. Other officers, also re-elected, are, Dr. Kenneth Jochim, assistant dean of the Medical school, vice president; Mrs. Ruth McNair, biology instructor, secretary, and Dr. Parke Woodard, associate professor of physiology, treasurer.
Gaidusek Poems Published
Robert Gajdussek, English instructor, recently had five poems accepted in small literary periodicals published in England. The poems concern his war experiences.
From 1940 to 1952 the port of Charleston, S.C., jumped from 57th place to 21st place in the volume of cargo handled.
Army Starts Search For Murder Witnesses
Frankfurt, Germany—(U.P.)—Army criminal investigation agents fanned out across Europe today to round up witnesses in the fantastic ax-fire murders of three U.S. officers.
Former Capt. James H. Leech Lima, Ohio, has been charged with the killings by U.S. authorities in Germany. The officers were slain in a swanky villa on the bank of the Danube river at Passau, Germany, Jan. 7, 1946. They were bludgeoned with an axe and their bodies doused with gasoline in an effort to cremate them.
Leech has denied the charges. The search for witnesses was ordered by chief U.S. prosecutor in Germany Thomas C. Lancian, who is preparing documents for the extradition of Leech. He said yesterday it would take him at least three weeks to prepare the necessary papers.
Mr. Lancian said in a statement that the evidence against Leech "is not in its recent form legally sufficient for the extradition request." It was hoo, even enough to justify a warrant for his arrest, the ansecutor added.
Mr. Lancian said that most of
the statements made by witnesses were not obtained under cath. Before extradition can be requested, the witnesses must be found to swear to their statements, he said.
Many of the witnesses who lived in Passau during the chaotic days of the early occupation of Germany have moved. One of the chief witnesses, a former girl friend of Leech, is now living in New York state. Mr. Lancian said. Another key witness is somewhere in England, another in Austria.
The eight-year old triple murder case was reopened last Friday by William Canfield, Mr. Lancian's deputy prosecutor. Mr. Canfield filed formal charges in the U.S. court and said he had an air-tight case. But he will reture from government service on June 1, and the case would be left to Mr. Lancian.
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