Monday, March 29, 1954 University Daily Kansan Page 3
—Kansan photo by Larry Tretbar
ANTIQUITARIAN TRUMPHS - Winners of the 1854 costume contest, were Sally Foster, Charles Gregg, Bob Fay and Elizabeth Moran.
—Kansan photo by Larry Tretbar
INDIAN GIRL—The only Indian costume to show up at the judging ceremony in the School of Journalism Saturday was on Louise Eads, college freshman
1854 Beards, Pioneer Dress Win in Centennial Judging
Two women dressed in true 1854 fashion and two men sporting thick and trimmed beards won prizes Friday afternoon in the Centennial costume and beard-growing contest.
Elizabeth Moran, college sophomore, won first place for the most authentic costume of the 1854 era. She was dressed in a calico hoop skirt, white blouse, and sunbonnet and carried a white purse.
The weaker of the prettiest costume was Sally Foster, college sophomore, representing Alpha Phi sorority. She wore a long black dress, trimmed in lace, and carried a black parasol.
Robert Fay, graduate student, was an easy winner of the thickest beard
For his red side burns, which he described as old English mutton chops, Charles Gregg, first year architecture, won first place for the most unusual beard.
Miss Moran received a $5 gift certificate from Weavers department store, Miss Foster a $5 gift certificate from the Jay Shop, Gregga a $5 gift certificate from Carl's Men's Wear, and Fay a dinner for two at Duck's Seafood tavern. Prizes were awarded at the Rock Chalk Review Friday night by Don Helfrey, business senior, master of ceremonies.
contest. Fay, who said he started growing his beard last summer, had long, bushy, black whiskers.
Telfel Helps Name Centennial
Lawrences' 100th-year celebration of Kansas' becoming a territory has been given a name as a result of a contest sponsored by the Lawrence Journal-World. Among the judges for the contest was Earl Tellel, a sociate professor of journalism, who helped choose the name "The Crowned Century Centennial" as the official title.
Swarthout Founded Choir at KU
The 1954 edition of the University A Cappella Choir, which will present its only home concert of the year in Hoch auditorium tonight, is the end result of 31 years of development in the field of chorale music on the campus.
It is difficult, however, to tell the story of the organization and how it grew without also telling the story of one man who brought chorale music to the University—Prof. Donald M. Swarthout, director of the choir and former dean of the School of Fine Arts.
Prof. Swarthout was chosen to head the School of Fine Arts in 1923, largely, or so he believes now, because of his experience in chorale work. Hence, it's not surprising that a group known as the Chorale Union was a going concern before the end of Prof. Swarthout's first year at KU.
The Choral Union was comprised of more than 500 voices at its peak, with Lawrence residents contributing fully as many vocal cords as did University students. During the 10 years of the Union's existence, it was customary for the group to present two great oratorios each year—one of which was usually Handel's celebrated "Messiah." Hoch auditorium had not yet been built in those years. Prof. Swarthout recalls, and all performances were given in Robinson gymnasium, on some occasions with the aid of imported soloists and even complete orchestras.
The massive Choral Union came to an end when Prof. Swarthouk suffered a complete vocal collapse and was forced to curtail his activities. Choral music continued, however, on a smaller scale in the form of the Westminister choir of the First Presbyterian church, which Prof. Swarthouk directed. The choir, also a joint effort of students of the University and Lawrence residents, was available for all campus musical events as well as church services and functions.
The A Cappella choir was not instituted until about 1940, but in its comparatively short life, the group has developed rapidly and now enjoys an enviable reputation among campus musical organizations. Its concerts and vespers programs, both in Lawrence and in other cities, have come to be regarded as performances of real excellence.
The choir began with about 70 voices, but now has swelled to include more than 100 students. Rigorous tests are given by Prof. Swarthout to screen applicants for the group, and in recent years there has been a long and perpetual list of students waiting for their opportunity to enter the choir.
ILA Longshoremen Picket White House, Labor Board
Washington — (U.P.) Several hundred striking New York Long-
shoremen, bearing placards saying "Heroes in '41, Hoodlums in '54," picketed the White House and National Labor Relations board head-
quarters today.
The strikers were members of the Independent International Longshoremen's association whose walk-out is strangling the port of New York.
Action Begins In Dolan Case
3 Faculty Members Speak in Hutchinson
The officer accompanied Lt. Louis Shoulders in the arrest of Hall, Lt. Shoulders is scheduled to go on trial in Kansas City April 12, on charges similar to Patrolman Dolan's.
The indictment grew out of Patrolman Dolan's statement concerning the transport of kidnap money from the hotel where Hall was arrested to the precinct police station. The suitcases containing the money "were not taken into the police station at the time and in the manner" related by Patrolman Dolan, the indictment charged.
Dr. Sidney M. Johnson, assistant professor of German, served as chairman of the German section of the meeting. Sam F. Anderson, instructor of German and Russian, and Miss Agnes Brady, associate professor of Romance languages, spoke to the group.
Kansas City — (U.P)— St. Louis patrolman Elmer Dolan went on trial today on a perjury charge in connection with the missing half of the $600,000 Greenlease ransom money.
Conviction could carry a maximum of five years in the penintentiary and a $2,000 fine.
Faculty members of the French, German, and Spanish departments attended the annual meeting of the Kansas Modern Languages association Saturday in Hutchinson.
Patrolman Dolan was indicted Dec. 18, the day Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady were executed for the kidnap-murder of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease. The indictment referred to the 26-year-old officer's testimony before a grand jury Oct. 30.
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They came here by chartered bus and automobiles from New York City and New Jersey points.
The longshoremen, locked in a jurisdictional dispute with the AFL International Lonkshoremen's association, began parading before the White House shortly before 7 a.m.
About 30 police stood by while the longshoremen walked slowly to and fro, carrying placards which read:
"Give us what we won honestly." "The NLRB is loaded."
"No contract. no work."
An NLRB examiner has recommended that a previous bargaining election, which the Independent Longshoremen won, be thrown out and a new one held to determine the bargaining agent for New York's 24,000 stevedores.
The ILA, which was tossed out of the AFL, won by 1.452 votes in the first election, but some 4,000 ballots were challenged by the AFL-ILA.
The NLRB meets here tomorrow to consider its examiner's recommendation that a new bargaining election be held.
This year's choir draws such terms as "magnificent" from Prof. Swarthout's lips with regularity, and he is of the opinion that it is one of the very finest groups he has ever directed. And from what Prof. Swarthout says about the caliber of the choir and its hours of diligent rehearsal, it's apparent that he expects no one to go home disappointed from tonight's concert.
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