Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
51st Year, No. 80
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Thursday, Feb. 4, 1954
CLOSING CLASSES yesterday added new problems and confusion to many perplexed students who were enrolling the last day. Registration was in Strong hall, while enrollment was handled in the Student Union.
Fledermaus' Operetta To Open Monday Night
The gay Viennese operetta, "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss will be presented by the University Theatre in cooperation with the KU Light Opera guild at 8 p.m.Feb. 8,9,10,and 12 in Fraser theater.A special matinee for high school students from Northeast Kansas will be presented at 3:30 p.m.Thursday,Feb.11,at a reduced price.
The production has been designed and directed by Dr. John Newfield, director of the University Theatre. Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education, is the musical director. Leo Horacek, instructor of music education, is assistant music director and Clayton Krebhiel, assistant professor of music education, is chorus director. Miss Shirley Hughes, instructor of physical education, supervised the choreography.
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"Die Fledermaus" (The Bat) has had several revivals in the past few years, the most significant, perhaps, being the recent Metropolitan Opera production. The University Theatre uses the new Ruth and Thomas Martin translation based on the original German librette and especially prepared for the New York City Center Opera production of 1951.
William Wilcox, fine arts graduate, will play Eisenstein; Gretta Reetz, fine arts junior, and Merrilyn Coleman, fine arts freshman, Rosalinda; Merrilyn Coleman and Rosanne Greenwood, fine arts freshman, Adele; Joe Meyers, college senior, Alfred; Dale Moore, fine arts senior, Dr. Falke; Robert Tebow, music education graduate, Frank; Linda Stormont, fine arts senior, and Carolyn Craft, fine arts freshman, Prince Orlofsky; Barbara Blount, fine arts sophomore, Sally; and David Rosario, fine arts sophomore, Frosch.
The all-student cast, ranging from freshmen to graduate students, will include the following:
Chorus members are: Sandra Keller, Barbara Goering, and Susanne Schwantes, college sophomores; Grace Jack, fine arts junior; Christine Wiley, Connie Eikelberger, Rosemary Owen, education seniors; Mary Jo Huyck and Bruce Rogers, fine arts sophomores; Carol Keller, college junior; Delores Striesky, Keith Carter, and Dean Copper, education juniors; Mac Hayes, Leland Roberts, and Bob Schaaf, fine arts
freshmen; Harold Compton, college freshman; Edwin Howard, college senior, and Delbert Fillmore, business senior.
The orchestra has been especially formed for this production and is mainly comprised of members of the University Symphony. Caroline West, college senior, is the stage manager, assisted by Prudy Rowles, college freshman, and David Rosario, fine arts sophomore. Dan Palmquist, instructor of speech is technical director. Richard McGehee, college senior, is in charge of scene construction. Dee Ann Price, fine arts junior, is in charge of painting, and Annette Luthy, fine art sophomore, costumes.
"Kind Hearts and Coronets" will be shown in the movie series at Hoch auditorium at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.
A J. Arthur Rank production, the movie has Alec Guinness as its star. Other British actors in the cast include Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, and Joan Greenwood.
British Movie To Be Friday
The film, one of the most celebrated comedies to appear in recent years, is one of the earlier Guinness pictures that established him as one of the foremost movie comedians.
Guinness, known for his unusual character portrayals, has a field day in "Kind Hearts and Coronets," As Louis D'Ascowe Mazzini, he swears vengeance on his royal family, and in seeking the duke-dom, "accidentally" murders eight contenders to the noble title. Guinness plays all eight contenders.
Steering Group Plans Convention
Plans for the Intercollegiate Associated Women Students convention to be held at KU were made at an all-day retreat last Tuesday by 13 members of the steering committee and Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women, and Miss Mary Peg Hardman, assistant dean of women.
The group spent the afternoon and evening at Lakeview lodge north of Lawrence.
Spring Enrollment May Drop to 6,700
Bringing 600 girls from campuses throughout the nation, the convention will be held April 6-10, 1955. The visitors will be housed in North College hall.
The members of the steering committee who attended the retreat were Alberta Johnson, education junior and convention chairman; Jan Duchossois and Betty Lu Gard, education juniors; Danna Denning, business senior; Winifred Meyer and Maria Griffith, college juniors; Diana Foltz, pharmacy senior; Beverly Churchill and Marjorie Mackey, college sophomores; Victoria Rosen-
By STAN HAMILTON
With the task of registration and enrollment now over for most University students, they can relax a bit, "hit the books," and look forward to the events of the spring semester.
Crack-Down on Speeders Begins
Speeders on the campus will find the going tougher under a new traffic safety program being set up by the campus police in an effort to crack down on violators of the University's 20-miles-per-hour regulation
Speed checks have been run regularly since last week, but only warnings have been issued to offenders. However, Joe Skillman, campus police chief, said arrests soon will be made in these areas: Sunnyside avenue, Jayhawk drive in front of the Union, Sunflower road, and West Campus road.
A drive against stop sign runners also is included in the campaign. Chief Skillman said only minor mishaps have occurred in the past, but added that serious accidents easily could result if no efforts are taken to halt the practice.
Checks will be made by clocking cars between measured points with a stop watch. Descriptions of violations then will be radioed ahead to a patrol car which will issue summonses to the city police court.
Chief Skillman pointed out that students have twice as many cars now as in the boom years after the war when the enrollment soared to 10,000. This has resulted in an "increasingly bad" traffic problem, he said.
The police chief and Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor and chairman of the University traffic committee, admitted they often were "scared to death" of mishaps on Mississippi street behind the Union because of the large number of speeding drivers on their way to the campus.
Both emphasized that the campaign is not designed to "get" drivers but merely to protect pedestrians.
The big sand dune known as Kill Devil Hill, site of the memorial to the Wright Brothers, is believed to be the largest of its kind in the United States.
wald, Pat Aylward, and Norma Lou Falletta, college seniors, and Mary Ann Kaaz, business junior.
The University will have a spring semester enrollment of nearly 6,550 students, James K. Hitt, registrar, reported today. Enrollment on the Lawrence campus is 5,720, he said
It was expected that KU enrollment would drop about 400 to 600 students this semester as has been the trend in past years. The total student body this term probably will be about 6,700, James K. Hitt, registrar and dean of admissions, said.
But most students are not worried about such things, but rather about their own personal wants and needs. The average student probably is thinking about that happy day—just 119 days off—when dreaded spring final examinations will be over.
But between now and then. . . ? For the artistic minded the nearest event is the week-long performance of Johann Strauss' "Die Fleddermaus," next Monday through Friday. And then there is the Film Series, the next program of which will be tomorrow night—"Kind Hearts and Coronets."
Wednesday the annual William Allen White lecture, honoring the late Emporia journalist, will be held, with Grove Patterson, editor in chief of The Toledo Blade, the speaker.
speaker.
After a pair of meets this weekend in Colorado and two more events, the KU swimming team will return home for a meet Feb. 20 with Colorado A&M. The league championships will be held March 12 and 13 at Iowa State.
The 117th University Vespers will be held March 7, just one day after the annual Navy Ring dance, and the yearly fraternity-sorority stage show, the Rock Chalk Revue, will be given March 26 and 27.
for the athletic minded there are events galore.
Although there are no home indoor track meets on tap the Big Seven conference meet will be run Feb. 26 and 27 in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
four home basketball games remain on the schedule, two of which—the Feb. 13 Nebraska game and the Feb. 17 K-State clash—will be televised by KCMO-TV of Kansas City, Mo. There also are four road games left on this year's slate, and of course the possibility that the Jayhawks may be in the NCAA playoffs March 12 and 13 at Stillwater, Okla.
Waggoner Replaces Lawson
Dr. George R. Waggoner has been appointed dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University. He will succeed Dr. Paul B. Lawson, who retires June 30 after 21 years in the deanship.
Now associate dean of the College and associate professor of English at Indiana university, Dr. Waggoner will return to KU, where he received his A.B. degree in 1936 and took his M.A. degree before going to the University of Wisconsin for his Ph.D.
Born Feb. 4, 1916, at Waggoner, Okla, the new dean was appointed by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy. Dr. Waggoner is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, national honor society; Sigma Chi, social fraternity; the Modern Language association, and the National Council of Teachers. He also will serve at KU as professor of English.
Mrs. Waggoner was graduated from the University in 1935. She is the former Helen L. Talbert of Olathe. They were married in 1941 and
GEORGE R. WAGGONER
have three daughters, Jane, Margaret, and Sarah.
After three years of wartime service in Naval Intelligence, Dr. Waggoner taught at Wisconsin and Pennsylvania State college. He went to Indiana in 1948.
Dean Lawson is 65, the mandatory retirement age for administrators in the state schools of Kansas, but will continue as professor of entomology. He will take a long deferred leave after June 30, and he and Mrs. Lawson have planned a trip around the world. They will spend most of their 14 months vacation in India, where Dean Lawson was born.
Dean Lawson graduated from John Fletcher college in 1909 and joined the KU faculty in 1916, while working on his master's degree. He became professor of entomology and assistant dean of the College in 1922, and he was made associate dean in 1929. In 1933, Dr. Lawson became dean after the death of Joseph C. Brandt.