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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 13, 1953
STARS OF BALLET THEATER—Mary Ellen Moylan and Igor Youskevitch will appear with the Ballet Theater on Thursday in Hoch auditorium.
Ballet Stars to Bring Long Show Program
Mary Ellen Moylan and Igor Youskevitch are two of the leading artists who will appear with the Ballet Theater Thursday in Hoch auditorium. ◎
Following several years with Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and several excursions into Broadway musical comedy, Miss Moylan joined Ballet Theater in August, 1950, traveled in Europe with the American dance company, and became a valued star in its permanent ensemble. She will appear here in the role of "The Black Swan."
Miss Moylan was educated in St. Petersburg, Fla., and she studied dancing from the age of four with Senia Solomonoff. She also studied in New York at the School of American Ballet, and was awarded a scholarship to study with George B兰俞chand Anatol Obukoff.
Her Broadway debut was in 1942 as premiere dancer in "Rosalinda."
Miss Moylan joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as a soloist in 1943. She continued with Ballet Russe throughout 1944-45. She danced the leading feminine role in the Broadway musical "The Day Before Spring" in 1945-46. A year later, she danced the lead in the Broadway revival of "The Chocolate Soldier."
Following a season with the Ballet Society, Miss Moylan rejoined Ballet Russe as a ballerina in 1947, and in the next three years achieved eminence in the major classical roles.
Igor Youskevitch, premier dancer of Ballet Theater, provoked this tribute from Irving Kolodin, distinguished critic. "Youskevitch is the greatest male dancer before the public today."
Although Mr. Yousevitch was trained as a classical dancer, the husky, genial Russian star is an admirer of modern ballet. Upon his release from war service, he chose to cast his lot with Ballet Theater where he would have opportunity to perform in both.
Carillon Program
His soaring leaps, gracefulness of line, magnificent muscular development and control, and his gracious modest manner have made him a ranking favorite of critics and public alike both here and abroad.
The following compositions are scheduled for the Sunday afternoon carillon program to be held from 3 to 3:30 by Ronald Barnes, University carillonneur:
Prelude from Suite for Cello No. 4
JS Bac
J. S. Bach
G. Mahler
Falks und Grette
Folk Songs of the British Isles
Londonbury Air
Londonderry Air
The Ash Grove
Veteran, 111, Dies;
4 Greys, 1 Blue Left
A Rosebud by My Early Walk
The Lark in the Morn
Rochester, N.Y.-(U.P.)-America's oldest soldier, 111-year-old James A. Hard, died quietly in bed last night after a month-long battle for life.
English Irish Welsh Scotch English Handel
Old French Melody    P. Tschulchall
Old German Melody    Our God, M. Lutken
Crimson and the Blue.
The Civil War soldier had rallied repeatedly during his final fatal illness, but since Feb. 18, when his right leg was amputated, doctors had expected him to succumb to his creeping respiratory illness.
The death of the Union army veteran, who participated in major engagements at Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Cancellorville, South Mountain and Antietam, left Albert Woolson, 106, Duluth, Minn., as the sole survivor of the onetime Union army of 800,000 men.
Four other Civil War veterans still living were soldiers in the Confederate army. They are John Salling, 106, Slant, Va.; Walter W. Williams, 109, Franklin, Texas; Thomas E. Riddle, 104, Austin, Texas; and William A. Lundy, 105, Laurel Hill, Fla.
UN to Reject Red Propaganda
Pamunjomjon, Korea —(U.P.)— The United Nations indirectly warned the Communists today that it no longer will tolerate their propaganda at the Pamunjomjon truce headquarters.
Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison,
senior N.U. truce delegate, said the
U.N. is under no obligation to
accept notes from the Reds which have
no bearing on efforts to obtain an
armistice.
Gen. Harrison's point of view was expressed in a letter to North Korean Gen. Nam II, chief Communist negotiator. The primary purpose of the letter was to deny Red charges that U.N. planes killed prisoners of war in North Korea.
Specifically, Gen. Harrison denied for the second time a Red charge that U.N. warplanes bombed a prison camp at Sunchon Nov. 26, 1952, which killed or wounded a number of prisoners.
The U.N. first denied the charge Feb. 19. Four days later, Nam repeated it.
Gen. Harrison pointed out that the U.N. has had difficulty in obtaining from the Reds correct information on the location of the prisoner of war camps.
Courses Slated For Med Center
Postgraduate courses in exfoliative cytologic diagnosis, March 16-17, and applied neurology, March 19-21, will be held at the Medical Center in Kansas City next week.
Both the instruction on techniques of cancer detection and disease of the nervous system will be geared to the doctor in general practice.
Visiting instructors for the exfoliative cytologic diagnosis course will be Dr. John R. McDonald, Mayo foundation, Rochester, Minn.; Dr. Clyde L. Randall, University of Buffalo, N.Y.; Dr. Robert A. Ross, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Dr. Walter T. Wikle, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Visiting instructors for the applied neurology course will be Dr. A. B. Baker, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Dr. Benjamin Boshes, Northwestern university, Chicago; Dr. Clark H. Millikan, Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn.; and Dr. Edward C. Weifeld and Dr. William Q. Wu, neurosurgeons, Kansas City, Mo.
There is no enrollment fee for the March 16-17 classes. The Kansas division of the American Cancer society is subsidizing the course with a $500 grant.
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Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College is looking forward to retiring from the deanship, because he wants to return to India to see if the Himalaya mountains are still as high as he thought they were when he was a boy.
Dean Lawson Looks Forward To Retirement and India Trip
When the time comes, Dean Lawson plans to apply for a sabbatical leave. If his request is approved, he hopes to spend about a year traveling, spending the major portion of this time in India.
Dean Lawson was born in Sitapur, India, a small village 500 miles east and 100 miles south of Mt. Everest. The area is now known as Uttar Pradesh. He is one of six children born to the Rev. and Mrs. James Chapell Lawson, Methodist missionaries in India.
"I am particularly interested in returning to India to see how a country changes in 50 years," he said. "I hope to spend much time with the simple people in their villages talking to them in Hindustani which I learned as a mother tongue, eating with them the foods of my childhood for which I have a terrific nostalgic longing.
"And of course, I will want to see some of the great architecture and natural scenery of India. I hope to visit the major Indian universities. I will be interested in the agricultural problems of the country. Incidentally, I am planning to collect some thousands of leafhoppers and other insects for the KU Snow collection."
The dean of the College came to this country in 1963 at the age of 15. In 1966 he entered Oberlin college, Oberlin, Ohio, where he studied one year. He then enter John Fletcher college at University Park, Iowa, where he received his bachelor of science degree in 1969.
He became an instructor in biology at John Fletcher college the next year and remained five years. In 1915 he entered KU as a graduate student in entomology. The next year he joined the faculty as an assistant instructor in entomology.
He received his master of science degree in 1917, and his doctor of philosophy degree in 1919 here. In the 36 years Dean Lawson has been associated with the University, he has risen from an assistant instructor to the dean of the College, a position he accepted in 1934.
Across from Post Office
Dean Lawson is a member of the Entomological Society of America,
and for many years has been editor of the Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society.
He was pastor of the Westside Presbyterian church at 603 Maine sine for many years "simply because the church couldn't afford a regular minister," he explains. At the press time he is an elder of this church
ZIM'S
For recreation, Dean Lawson prefers teaching entomology.
"Classroom work with student gives me more pleasure than anything I can think of," he said. He has been tempted by such "mild forms of insanity" as golf, photograpy, and fishing, but has yielded only to raising flowers," he said.
Dean Lawson married Miss Coral Alice Cooper, of Delphos, Kan., July 30, 1910. They became the parents of two daughters, Mrs. Lois Marquite Meigs and Mrs. Lila Alice Smith. Mrs. Sarah Lawson died Dec. 26, 1939, in lawrence. On Jun 14, 1914, he married Miss Elizabeth C. Rupp, who holds a master of science degree in political science from the University of Kansas, and who is the sister of Adolph Rupp University of Kentucky basketball coach.
Telfel, McFarland To Speak at School
Professor Telfel and Mr. McFarland had the same positions at the school held in Wichita, March 11-12.
Emil L. Telfel, associate professor of journalism, will speak at a public relations school for social welfare workers in Garden City, today and tomorrow, E. A. McFarland, manager of the Bureau of Institutes will be coordinator.
Yamashita to Speak on KLWN
Osamu Yamashita, exchange student from Japan and teacher of Japanese will be the guest of UNESCO radio program on KLWn at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. He will be interviewed by Arthur Wolf, Lawrence businessman.