Friday, March 26, 1954
University Daily Kansan Page 7
Radio Debut Frightens Girl
By SIF ELGHAMMAR
As I sit in a soundproof room with a microphone in front of me, I am a little frightened by the silence around me and "the importance of the moment." I am a foreign student from Sweden just ready for my debut over the air, one of the weekly international conversations over KLWN, Lawrence's radio station.
I am convinced that the President himself and everybody in the United States is listening. My mind becomes blank, my voice faint, and my English more stuttering than usual.
But I am not alone in this situation. Many young students from different parts of the world have managed the task before me. Started in spring 1951 these programs have been carried on every Sunday for three years, KLWN and the Douglas county UNESCO council have cooperated in sponsoring it.
More than 150 foreign students have thus been interviewed about their opinions of the U.S.A. and helped to create understanding for their native countries among Americans. Practically all countries, even those behind the iron curtain, have been represented.
"My original plan was to show how little difference there really is between us human beings, though living in the most different countries," said Mr. Arden Booth, KLWN director. Mr. Booth first introduced the idea in 1946 when working for WREN.
When KLWN started broadcasting early in 1951 the international conversations with KU's foreign students constituted one of the first programs. Asked to cooperate, the UNESCO council took over in spring 1952 and is now responsible for the program.
The present coordinator, Mr. Zoltan Dios, instructor in electrical engineering, says that getting students for the conversations is a problem in summertime and requires quite a detective ability. This problem is solved otherwise by recordings made beforehand.
Francis Parkman's "History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac" was a literary giant in 1851.
Chinese immigration to this country in the 1854-68 period totaled 75.000.
Tape recordings are now being made of most of the conversations to be sent out to radio stations in western Kansas where opportunities for similar programs are few.
KU professors have served almost from the beginning as interviewers. Serving one Sunday a month for the present are Charles Johnson, assistant professor of education; Ambrose Saricks, assistant professor of history; John Patton, professor of religion, and J. W. Twente, professor of education.
Clayton Crosier, assistant professor of civil engineering and chairman of the Douglas county UNESCO council, indicates that this radio program is in line with the purpose of UNESCO, which is promotion of international understanding.
Next Sunday at 3:30 p.m. another foreign student will take my place here in front of KLWN's microphone to tell about his own country and his observations on the American way of life, so remember to listen.
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