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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 20, 1953
Pretty Plastered
BotanyBay'ShipsFigurehead WasMoldedonMovieStarlet
Hollywood—(U.P.)—Jan Sterling is the original one-in-a-million Hollywood movie star.
Paramount's queen of glamour proved once again that she is the come-through kid. The studio was desperately in need of a model for the figurehead on a three-masted ship to be used in the production "Botany Bay."
Typical of Miss Sterling was her
Organ Recital SlatedSunday
The fourth in a series of faculty recitals will be presented by Guy Criss Simpson, organist. at 4 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium.
Mr. Simpson, associate professor of organ and theory, has been on the staff of the University since 1830. He did undergraduate work here and holds a master of music degree from the University of Michigan.
He is an associate of the American Guild of Organists and is past dean of the Kansas chapter of the guild. He is president of the Kappa chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda, professional music fraternity.
Well-known for his organ recitals, ar. Simpson has also achieved recognition in the field of criticism, as a book reviewer for the Dallas Times Herald, and as music critic for the Lawrence Daily Journal-World.
response to the studio project that called for her to be modeled in plaster. She agreed to allow the men of the plaster department to coat her with plaster in order to make a mold for the figurehead.
"I love to do these off-beat things," Jan said, "if for no other reason than to be able to say to my friends, 'Oh, was I ever plastered Monday morning."
Jan reclined on a morgue-like table. A frame was placed around her and oiled paper was put over her entire body, followed by wet, gooey plaster. A mask was made of her face and when completed, the head-to-toe mold was lifted from her bath-to suit-clad body.
The entire job took one hour of cold, clammy work.
Today, however, there just isn't enough time to call in a man and have him whittle a life-size figure-head.
This plaster technique is new to figureheads. In the old days the wood-carvers were responsible for carving out beautiful figureheads.
The research department at the studio selected Jan because her measurements best suited the proportions of the models used during the 1700's. According to authorities who know their figureheads, the average size of the Scottish and British girls who posed for the carvers was five feet, eight inches, with a 34 bust, 23 waist and 34 hips.
Jan shapes up at five feet six inches, 34 bust, 22 waist and $ 34^{1/2} $ hips.
Grads Return to Foreign Schools But Few Have Real Homecoming
Bv SAM TEAFORD
There is little in foreign colleges and universities that corresponds to homecomings in the U.S. KU students from Switzerland, Hawaii, Germany, Greece, Italy, and Iraq say, but a student from Saskatchewan says his school in Canada does observe homecoming.
Chong and Higa said that since more than half of the students live in or near Honolulu and only a few miles from the university, a return visit to the school probably could not be regarded as a great event.
"In my country they don't have homecomings in such an organized form," Helmut Sauer, graduate student from Northheim, Germany, said. Old grades, or "old sirs," as they are called, do return to Goettingen college, Sauer's alma mater, but not on any certain day.
Claudine Effront, graduate student from Geneva, Switzerland, said that the University of Geneva does not have anything similar to American homecomings.
She said that alumni of course did return to the university for a visit, but that there was no particular time or occasion for it.
"There's only one university in Hawaii, so there's a lack of competition with other schools which would benefit loyalty to the school," they said.
The University of Geneva does not play American football, but competes against other schools in soccer and other sports, Miss Effront said.
Harlan Chong, college junior, and Leslie Higa, graduate student, agreed that the University of Hawaii also lacks a homecoming tradition.
When alumni visit at Goettigen
it may be only to see how their sons or daughters are doing in school, Sauer said. Reunions held by fraternities and sororities also bring back former students and graduates, he said.
As in Germany, soccer is played instead of American football, but the emphasis in Greece is on city teams, so an inter-collegiate battle probably could not be developed into the U.S. version of the homecoming game, he said.
Gianakis left Greece in 1948 to come to the U.S. and a new home in Great Bend, where he was graduated from high school.
A fellow named Hing Lee ordinarily would not be one to ask about homecoming in Canadian schools, but in this case Lee, engineering senior of Chinese-Canadian descent comes from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and is qualified to answer.
Soccer, not football, is a major sport in German colleges and universities but Sauer said interest in the game is not great enough to draw many graduates, except from those living near the school.
Neoclis Gianakis, engineering sophomore, said colleges and universities in Greece had to dispense with practically all extra-curricular activities during World War II and also during the civil unrest caused by Communists immediately after the war.
Lee, who attended the University of Saskatchewan for a year, said his school did have a homecoming tradition that was "very similar to a KU homecoming, except that house decorations are emphasized more by independent groups than by fraternities or sororities."
Lee said the only other notable difference was limited to the kind of football played at homecoming. He said Canadian football allows only three downs instead of four, and uses a slightly larger field.
and uses a bigger
At the University of Pisa, Italy,
the only tradition that compares to
our homecoming is a "freshman
holiday," according to Nello Giannessi, graduate student.
Giannessi, who sends weekly accounts of his life in the U.S. to general Italian newspapers; says the holiday was actually a carnival. There are soccer games, dancing, and plays, but no classes for the entire week.
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