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Long Walk to Chat With Carilloneur
By R. L. CHESKY
The only difficult thing about a chat with Ronald Barnes, University carillonneur, is the 70-step spiral staircase which leads to his office somewhere near the top of the campanile. After the ascent has been made and one's breathing has returned to normal, it's most enjoyable to examine the intricacies of the carillon and to talk to Mr. Barnes about himself and his massive instrument.
Two rooms of limited size, one directly above the other atop the campanile, house the tools of Mr. Barnes' unusual occupation. The lower cubicle is a combination office and practice room, containing a practice clavier (carillon keyboard) and an arranging piano-plus some ordinary office furniture.
The arranging piano is a device equipped with tiny bells which correspond in sound to the large bells of the carillon. Its uses are obvious—Mr. Barnes couldn't very well tinker with new arrangements on the carillon itself without disrupt-manner loosely comparable to the ting civilization for miles about. The practice keyboard exists for the same reason, and is an exact duplicate of the clavier attached to the 53-bell carillon.
To approach the clavier which plays the carillon, one follows the winding staircase 20 to 30 steps higher to the second chamber located directly under the bells. The clavier itself is arranged in a manner loosely comparable to the arrangement of an organ keyboard, with a system of levers and pedals that would strenuously exercise a person with eight arms and legs.
Mr. Earnes disposed of two wild rumors at the outset of the conversation. First, he does not sit in a plush office in Frank Strong hall and manipulate the bells by remote control. And second, he does not have to stuff his ears with cotton, wear earmuffs, or tape his ears shut in order to protect his sensitive hearing organs from the sounds of the bells.
"As a matter of fact," he said, "I'm looking forward to warmer weather when I can open up the windows of the cubicle to hear the bells better. It's just like any other instrument--very difficult to play if you can't hear the sounds you're producing. Most of the sound goes out over the campus rather than down on me, anyway."
Mr. Barnes began his experience as a carillonneur at the First Plymouth Congregational church in Lincoln, Neb., where he served as assistant organist from 1946 until 1951. He taught himself the fundamentals of the instrument on the church's 48-bell carillon. "Of course," Mr. Barnes said, "I had been playing the piano since the age of 7, and had pretty thorough grounding in both piano and organ by that time." He considers knowledge of these instruments, plus a background in composition and theory, a necessary part of training for the carillon.
Mr. Barnes' first formal training on the carillon was a summer's study under Robert Donnell, dormon carillonneur for Canada. Mr. Barnes considers this training to have been of great value in supplementing his self-instruction in Lincoln. He then spent a year as university carillonneur at Stanford university before coming to Kansas in 1952.
Asked about the music he plays Mr. Barnes confessed to arranging a good bit of it himself, "There's a very real shortage of arrangements for the carillon in the United States," he said, "And we carillonneurs have to do a great deal of our own work and trade our arrangements back and forth."
In earlier times, Mr. Barnes said, most of the arrangements were done in the Belgian National Carillon school, which, for a time, was the only school in the world in which the carillon was studied. Three American schools, including KU, now teach the carillon, and the literature for the instrument is rapidly becoming more extensive in the U.S.
Mr. Barnes "creed as a carillon was stated firmly and simply: I believe," he said, "that the carillon is a musical instrument—not a noise maker. It can be played with sensitivity and restraint—and with a decent regard for the sensibilities of its 'captive audience'."
Calling the carillon at KU "the best I've ever played" Mr. Barnes praised the "exceptionally fine tuning of the bells" and the "refinement of the mechanism." He also added the testimony of one of the world's leading carillonneurs: "There is only one carillon in North America, and that one is at the University of Kansas."
Even if the carillon is now the best in North America, it's soon to have an added feature. Mr. Barnes said that an automatic device would soon be installed in the campanille which would sound the hours of the day on the bells of the carillon.
Everything sounds almost perfect,
doesn't it? Now, if they would just
put in an elevator . . .
Debaters Off To West Point
William Arnold and Hubert Bell college juniors, will leave tomorrow for West Point where they will represent KU at the national debate tournament.
The team will be among 32 teams from all over the country who will be debating for the national championship.
So far this year Arnold and Bell have had 23 wins and 5 losses. The tournaments they have won are the Southwestern and St. John's tournaments at Winfield, and the regional elimination tournament at Midland college, Fremont, Neb. They received a superior rating at Nebraska university.
Both debaters are members of Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debate fraternity, and tied for second place in the Oratorical contest last Thursday.
KU's previous record at the West Point national tournament goes back to 1948 when KU's team went as far as the semi-finals. In 1951, KU entered the quarter-finals, and in '49, '50, and '53, teams entered the pre-quarter finals.
City Manager School Slated
The seventh annual City Manager school conducted by the University Governmental Research center will be held tomorrow through Saturday in the Pine room of the Student Union.
Thirty-five city managers from the five state area of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, and Oklahoma will attend 27 hours of instruction during the school. Several KU staff members are participating in the program.
Cheerleader School to Begin
Leland J. Pritchard, professor of finance, will speak on "Economic Outlook for the Next Year—Its Relationship to Municipal Programming"; George M. Beal, chairman of the architecture department, "Fire Problems: Building Codes and New Construction Materials"; Fred Sharpe, lecturer, "We Want to Know"; Anthony J. Smith, professor of psychology, "Techniques of Supervising—The Problem of Motivation."
Featured speakers will be George Barton, traffic engineering consultant, Northwestern University Traffic institute, "How to Analyze Your Traffic and Parking Problem," and Arthur Naftalin, associate professor of political science, University of Minnesota, former executive secretary to the mayor of Minneapolis, "Politics in a Non-Partisan City"
Cheerleaders school will be held in the Union ballroom from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday for those interested in trying out for cheerleader. The school will be taught by last season's cheerleaders, headed by Jack Byrd, business senior. Anyone interested may attend the school.
Izvestia Hits U.S. Papers
Moscow —(U.P.)—The Soviet newspaper Izvestia today accused "American reactionary newspapers" of "assiduously spreading fables about the Communist menace."
It said American propagandists were raising this "obviously tendentious hullabaloo" to conceal facts about the proposed American-led Pacific military alliance.
Izvestia said the Pacific plan was a project "for the establishment of one more imperialist bloc headed by the U.S., designated for the suppression of the national liberation movement in the peoples, for the preservation of the colonial domination of the imperialist powers in the Asian countries."
"Taking advantage of their intervention in the hostilities, the American monopolies are trying on the quiet to establish their domination over that country and its peoples," the paper charged.
The government organ said U.S. business "monopolies" were following closely behind the military in moving into Indochina.
Nursesto Give Musical Show
Caduces' Capers, a musical comedy satire on ideal hospital life as viewed by a student nurse, will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday at the Medical Center in Kansas City.
Leading roles in the show will be taken by Rocelin Roney, Marietta Shannon, Georgia Dirking, Orinne Gray, Mary Gayle Sievert, Bonnie Metz, and Jo Wampler.
The show, entirely a student presentation, will be a variety show. Written and directed by Terry Hanlon and Orinne Gray, the show is composed of two acts of two scenes each.
The show will initiate the new student union as a sounding board for student projects.
Sun Soothing For Ike Rest
Augusta, Ga. —(U.P.)— President Dwight D. Eisenhower took advantage of clear, warm weather today to loll restfully in the sun at the National Golf course.
Mr. Eisenhower was expected to handle only routine duties during the last two days of his Easter vacation at the golf course retreat.
A short bout with paper work kept the President indoors at his temporary office here for only a short period today. The rest of the time he was outside.
The weather was expected to continue warm tomorrow.
Official Bulletin
Student-Faculty coffee. 4 p.m., browsing room, Student Union. N. W. Storer, associate professor of astronomy: "A Glimpse of the Universe. Everyone is
Kappa Phi girls must get their senior dinner tickets at the Wesley Foundation office in Myers hall by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
YW Cabinet meeting, 12 noon. Student
TODAY
Phi Mu Alpha meeting, 9 p.m., room.
Short business meeting and
sound practice.
Public lecture, 8 p.m. Strong and
loud; Between India and the United
Indias. Between India and the United
Quill club, 7:30 p.m., Chi Omega house. Initiation of new members.
Alpha Phi Omega meeting, 7.30 p.m.
300 South 4th Street, all activities and bids present.
Quill club meeting, 7:30 p.m., Student Union. Speaker: Vladimir Nabokov.
CUNEX board. 4 p.m., information center, Student Union.
Tuesday, April 20, 1954 University Daily Ransan
KU Dames, interior decorating group,
gym, Cread room, Student Union. All Welcome.
El Ateneo y Tertulia se reunirán a las cuatro y media en 113 Strong el mienoles, 21 de Abril. Programa de balles latinoamericanos. Qe bengan todos.
Quack club, 7:30 p.m., Robinson gym,
Swimming.
THURSDAY
Geology club, 7:30 p.m., 426, Lindley Dr. O. F. Carquafarq of the geology department will present a 50 minute illustrated talk on Scotland and its Geo
Kuku club, 7:30 p.m., in front of Green hall. Initiation.
Der deutsche Verein has a kaffe-
klarisch and folk dancing in p. 502,
p. 503.
The official flower of the state of Michigan is the apple blossom.
Supreme Soviet Meets To Hear Malenkov Talk
By UNITED PRESS
Russia's Supreme Soviet assembled in the Kremlin today to hear another "state of the nation" speech by Premier Georgi Malenkov
Premier Malenkov attended the opening session in the Kremlin's grand palace but there was no indication that he would go to the rostrum before the end of the week when major policy speeches are to be made.
An anxious world eagerly awaited Premier Malenkov's newest utterances on the eve of the Geneva conference on Far Eastern affairs.
Premier Malenkov last spoke to a Supreme Soviet-Russia's highest legislative body—last August. He talked for five hours, mostly on domestic policies and problems, but digressed long enough to say that Russia had the hydrogen bomb.
It was certain that Malenkov would comment on the war in Indochina and American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' proposal for a defensive union of free Asian nations.
Ivestia, the government newspaper, set the stage for a blast against the United States' efforts to prevent the Communists from seizing all of Indochina.
The newspaper accused the United States of "intervention in the hostilities" in Indochina and said American newspapers had been "spreading fables about the 'Communist' menace."
Diplomats and Western newspapermen were invited to attend the session and hear Malenkov's address.
Darwin—Australia issued orders permitting Mrs. Vladimir Petrov to join her husband, former Soviet Embassy third secretary, in political asylum. Her freedom was granted at a Darwin airport after Australian police disarmed two Russians who were attempting to take her back to Russia. The Russian ambassador has demanded her return. Petrov surrendered about two weeks ago, turning over documents that exposed a Soviet spy network in Australia.
Hanoi — Communist besiegers of Dien Bien Phu inches closer toward their goal, the heart of the French-held fortress. They dug new trenches on one-fourth of the main airstrip, indicating they will try to seize more of the runway and completely cut off Dien Bien Phu's only source of supply.
Tehran-British and Iranian authorities opened direct talks on compensation for nationalized oil properties in Iran. More than $5 million in British investments made in Iran before Former Premier Mohammed Mossadeh nationalized the oil fields was up for discussion.
Vienna — Radio Bucharest announced that Romanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Gheorgiu-Dej stepped down as Secretary General of the Romanian Communist party in a major change in party leadership.
Brussels — King Baudoin has asked veteran Socialist Leader Achille Van Acker to form a new Belgian government to succeed the Social Christian cabinet which was a victim of the April 11 general election. Van Acker accepted the bid.
Hitt to Registrars Meeting
James K. Hitt, registrar, will attend the 40th national meeting of the American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers today through Friday in St. Louis. Mr. Hitt is secretary of the group.
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Class Rings Mark Grads Of University
The gold class rings with the ruby center has become a tradition on the KU campus. These rings, bought by students in their senior year, identify them later as KU alumni.
Since 1947 the ring design has remained the same. Made of karat gold, the ring has the seal of the University with two large sunflowers on one side, and the date and a Jayhawk on the other side. Around the oval ruby stone on the top of the ring are the letters "University of Kansas—1866."
Class rings are one of the newer KU traditions. The class of 1947 was the first to order rings. Ray Evans, president of the senior class met with a ring committee of four other students and three faculty advisors to decide on a design for an official KU ring.
Every year the senior class has received a refund from the L. G. Balfour Company for every ring which is sold. In 1947 the class received a dollar for every ring; this year the senior class receives $2.50 for very ring sold.
Students may buy rings in various finger sizes. The price of the men's size ring is $27.50,and the women's size is $21.50. Since April 1, students ordering rings pay the tax instead of the former tax, instead of the former 20 per cent. A 2 per cent sales tax is also added.
Seniors who wish to receive rings by commencement time in June should order them from the business office immediately, Mr. Swartz advised.
Jayhawker Seeks Business Manager
Money Sent to Reduce Debt
Applications for business manager of the Jayhawk, a position which is open to any student in the University, should be submitted before May 4. Jack Rein, business senior and business manager of the yearbook, said today. The applications are to be sent to Karl Klooz, bursar. Further information about the applications or the job can be obtained from Rein.
Hartford, Conn. —(U.P.)— The Rev.
Fletcher D. Parker of the Immanuel Congregational church has sent Gov. John D. Lodge a contribution of $100 to be forwarded to the U.S. Treasury to reduce the national debt. The national debt now stands at about $270,000,000,000.
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