Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SECTION A
51st Year, No. 116
Friday, March 26, 1954.
Cities of State Plan Special Birthday Fetes
—Kansan photo by Bob Mason
The students of the University are not alone in their celebration commemorating 100 years of Kansas history. Gov. Edward Arn issued a proclamation designating 1954 as Kansas Territorial Centennial year, calling upon residents of the state to join in the celebration.
UP, UP, AND AWAY-A posse strings up Tom Stewart, hardy pioneer, as one of the final social functions of the campus Centennial celebration.
Campus Centennial Events Honor Territory's Birthday
Varied activities have been going on throughout the state since the beginning of the year. The Santa Fe railroad has equipped a coach for display purposes which is expected to appear in every county in Kansas during the year. The displays include pictures, costumes, traps, museum pieces, and documents illustrative of life in Kansas during the territorial period (1854-1861). The coach started its journey Feb. 15 and will end Dec. 27 of this year.
President Eisenhower will give an address from the Capitol steps in commemoration of President Franklin Pierce signing the Kansas-Nebraska bill. The bill setting up the territories of Kansas and Nebraska was signed on May 30, 1854.
The State committee organized a speakers' bureau, which includes a list of speakers who have gone out over the state speaking in connection with special programs in Kansas localities. They are Robert Taft, professor of chemistry and chairman of the Kansas Centennial committee, who will speak on "An Amazing Century," "Stephen A. Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska bill" and "Hurrah for Kansas (methods of getting to Kansas in 1845);" Charles H. Dick, executive assistant of the centennial committee, who will speak on "The back of Lawrence," and "The Old Santa Fe Trail in Kansas."
Lawrence will celebrate its centennial Sept. 15; Leavenworth, June 6-12; Atchison, June 21-26; Topeka, May 22-25; Marysville, Aug. 17-19; Ogden, July 2-4, and Council Grove, Herrington, Lyons, and Shawnee, sometime in the fall.
Other speakers will be Mrs. Gail French Petersen, historical newspaper and magazine writer from Lawrence; L. D. Wooster, president emeritus of Hays State college; C. M. Correll, professor of history at Kansas State college; Milton R. Vogel, chairman of Kansas Council of Churches, and Fred Stein, mayor of Atchison
George Anderson, professor of history and chairman of the KU history department, will talk on "The Birth of Kansas," "Religious Activities in Territorial Kansas," and "Economic Aspects of Territorial Kansas." James C. Malin, professor of history, will speak on "Kansas, a Crossroad," "Kansas Constitutions," and "Territorial Agriculture." Walter Stitt Robinson Jr., professor of history, will talk on "The Role of the Military in the Kansas Territory," and "The Indian Problem in the Kansas Territory."
Joyce DeVos to Reign Over Model Assembly
The "Model Assembly," sponsored by the Collegiate Council for the United Nations, will begin with registration tomorrow and end with the International banquet in the ballroom of the Student Union tomorrow night. $ \textcircled{4} $
The first session of the Assembly will begin at 10 a.m. after registration at 8 a.m. in the Student Union lobby. The delegates will face the issue. Seating of the delegations presenting the government of Red China."
Joyce DeVos, graduate student from South Africa, was selected last Tuesday by a group of faculty as "Miss UN" and Jenny Villie, graduate student from France, was chosen as an attendant. "Miss UN" will be the guest of honor at the banquet which berins at 6 p.m.
The 1954 Rock Chalk Revue will be presented at 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday in Hoch auditorium.
The second session will begin in Fraser theater at 1:30 p.m. Three issues will be discussed: "The Arab-Israel Dispute, Technical Assistance, and Observations on the Kashmir Question."
From 4:30 to 5 p.m. the delegates will evaluate the two sessions.
Rock Chalk Revue Opens at 8 Today
Dinner entertainment will consist of international dancing. A group of exchange students will perform Scandinavian folk dances. They are Sif Elighammar of Sweden, Sirpa Tomari of Finland, Adolf Juchnick of Sweden, Robert Knudsen of Norway, and Lennart Kullerstrand of Sweden. Mary Ann Le Moine, fine arts freshman, will provide the piano accompaniment. Venezuelan dances will be interpreted by Miguel Gonzalez, engineering freshman from Caracas, and Rosemary Magner, graduate student.
Members of the CCUN are welcome to attend the "Model Assembly" as delegates. All students are invited to attend free as spectators.
Tickets may be bought for 75 cents at the information booth, Student Union, and at the box office at Hoch auditorium before the performance.
The fee for the "Model Assembly"
and the banquet is $2.50
Derek Scott of Yorkshire, England, graduate student, will preside over the "Model Assembly" and be acting president of the General Assembly for the day.
--managing editors, Tom Shannon and Sam Teaford, journalism seniors, and Ken Bronson and Stan Hamilton, journalism juniors.
Tom Stewart, journalism senior, has been named executive editor and Ann Ainsworth, journalism senior, business manager by the University Daily Kansan Board. They will take over their positions Monday.
Kansan Names New Executives
Don Tice, journalism senior, was named editorial editor and Susanne Berry, journalism senior, retail advertising manager.
Editorial associates, Letty Lemon,
Junior, and Court Ernst,
college admiral
Other staff executives for the next eight weeks will be:
National advertising manager, Rodney Davis; circulation manager, Wendell Sullivan, and classified advertising manager, Edmond Bartlett, all journalism seniors.
News editor, Elizabeth Wohle-
muth; sports editor, Dana Leibengo-
good; society editor, Karen Hilmer;
and assistant society editor, Nancy
Neville, all journalism juniors.
Kansan Extra Today
Today's 32-page, three-section centennial edition of the University Daily Kansan commemorates the 100th anniversary of the setting up of the state of Kansas as a legal territory by the Kansas-Nebraska act.
'54 Costume Judging Set
Bv KAREN HILMER
Lynchings, western attire, beards,
holdups, shootings—all have marked
the centennial celebration on the
Hill the past three days.
Many activities were planned by the centennial committee, headed by Letty Lemon, journalism junior, and Ed Bartlett, journalism senior, to get the students in the "spirit of things."
Last Saturday, banners and signs went up all over the campus announcing the coming of the campus centennial celebration, which began Wednesday. A staged "holdup" took place in the Hawk's Nest of the Student Union at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Students were urged to dress up and go western for the celebration. Men students were asked to let their beards grow to commemorate the 160 years of Kansas Territorial history. Sure enough, Wednesday, many students turned out in jeans, holsters, guns, and cowboy boots and are entering the costume contest which will be held today. Even old "Uncle Jimmy" went western for the occasion.
"The varmint who didn't go western for the centennial" was strung up in Fowler Grove Tuesday and a record dance was held in the Trail room Wednesday evening for those who like to dance western, hill-billy style.
Today from 10 a.m. to noon a buckboard drawn by a team of horses and driven by Mr. Mott of Mott's stables began at the Chi Omega house and proceeded down Jayhawk Drive, followed by a student band on a truck.
At 2 p.m. today in the Reading room of the School of Journalism, the contestants for the costume contest will be judged by Burton W. Marvin, dean of the School of Journalism; William Korbel, assistant professor of business, and George Beckman, assistant professor of history.
Tonight, at the Rock Chalk Revue,
awards will be presented to two
women and two men by Donald Helfrey,
business senior.
Weather
It will be partly cloudy in northwest Kansas today, otherwise fair. Increasing cloudiness tonight will be
followed by occasional snow in the northwest portion late tonight or early tomorrow. Occasional s n ow northwest and occasional showers likely developing elsewhere tomorrow principally in the east portion. Warner tomorrow but turning colder in the northwest portion by night.