KU to Tackle OU in Hill-Dale Meet
Kansas fans will have their first good chance to see another in the line of great Jayhawker cross-country track squads Saturday when KU tangles with tough Oklahoma U. on the three-mile $ \mathcal{M} $ .
Joseph Wilkins, tenor, and Marie Wilkins, soprano, will be presented in a recital in Strong auditorium at 8 p.m. Monday.
Wilkins Recital Set for Monday
Prof. Wilkins, head of the University voice department, began his career as an engineer, and holds a masters degree in engineering from Cornell university.
When he was attending Cornell he studied voice with Eric Dudley. Upon completion of his work at Cornell, he spent six months in Paris studying voice, song and operatic repertoire with Mme. Malnarie Marsallace for three years in Milan, Italy, studying voice and operatic repertoire with Corace Cataldi and other maestri and cena with Rugero Galli.
He later studied the German song literature in Munich with Dr. Franz Hallasch. In 1949 Mr. Wilkens studied advanced opera in Milan.
While abroad he also collected material for a book of vocalises and for a history of vocal pedagogy in the libraries of Paris, Milan, Rome, and Florence.
In 1948 he published "Index of Songs for Young Singers." He has appeared in leading tenor roles with the Grand Opera company of Milan.
He has sung with the Shubert Theater corporation of New York and with the St. Louis Municipal opera. Mrs. Wilkins is well known for her debut at the Metropolitan opera when she made an appearance as a last minute substitute for Lily Pons.
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She has also been soloist with the
The chase will start on the baseball field east of the stadium at 1:20 p.m. and will finish on the cinder track in front of the student body at about 1:35. All of the finishers should be in by 1:40.
The route of the harriers winds around Memorial drive, around the parking lot at the west end of the campus, circles Potter lake and returns by way of Memorial drive to the stadium. The runners will enter the cinder track at the southwest corner and will run around the north end to finish on the east side
Coach Bill Easton will again present a well balanced squad headed by NCAA 5.000 meter champion Wes Sante Williams, well known for his companions on the junt, Art Dalzell, Keith Palmquist, Lloyd Koby, and Dick Wilson.
The Jayhawkers will be shooting for their 22nd straight victory and should find the Sooners a formidable opponent. John Jacobs will bring another fine team from the south to do battle headed by Bruce Drummond. Also running for the Sooners will be Warren Rouse, outdoor Big Seven two-mile king, Ronald Reed, Deral Smith, and George Gilmour.
Drummond figures to give Santee a run for the money and the competition could result in a new course record. Santee covered the trail in 15:14.3 against Oklahoma A&M earlier this season, to set the current mark. Drummond ran 14:47.0 against A&M last week over a somewhat flatter course.
Kansas will host all Big Seven schools next Saturday for the conference cross-country championship.
Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra, at the Lindsborg and Asheville Mozart festivals, at the University of Michigan, and appeared in a recital in Town Hall, New York.
Watkins Nurse Back From French Project
By RICH CLARKSON
The head nurse at Watkins hospital was back at her desk today after a year's absence in which she traveled to Paris to head a unique operation in a French-operated American hospital.
Mrs. Elma R. Stauffer, head nurse at the University hospital since 1942, undertook to set up and operate a hospital ward as Americans do in the Paris hospital, working mostly with French nurses and doctors.
doctors.
Purpose of the project in the potentially-operated hospital was to determine if the American ward operated in a more efficient manner and if the patients receive better care.
"And I believe it did." Mrs. Stuffer said, "I don't know whether the hospital directors plan to continue the operation now that I have left since the key to the success of a project seems to depend on having an agent, experienced American in charge.
"And I believe that most of the French nurses that worked with me agreed that the plan was an improvement over the French way of doing things," she added.
dung.
With the exception of three American doctors, the hospital was entirely staffed by European personnel. Mrs. Stauffer had nurses under her direction from Sweden, Holland, England; Belgium, and Switzerland in addition to France.
"The language barrier was deinitely my first trouble point to overcome," she said. "My French is anything but fluent and the introduction of all these other nationalities into the picture didn't help things any. Fortunately many of my personnel spoke English, too."
Mrs. Stauffer said. "The working hours there are longer than in American hospitals and the pay not as good, but I enjoyed every minute of it."
Washington — (U.R.)— The United States has sent Russia a stern note demanding prompt return of 186 lend-lease ships it promised last June, the State department announced today.
sonnet spoke English to the hospital, which caters to Americans in France, is considered as one of the best in Paris. The board of governors of the institution is made up largely of American businessmen in France and members of the American diplomatic staff.
Lend-Lease Account Demanded of Russia
University Daily Kansan
The note, delivered to the Soviet embassy here Thursday, told Moscow to make arrangements for the ships' return "without further delay" to prove it really wants a lend-lease settlement.
Friday, Nov. 7, 1952
The U.S. note charged Russia not only welished on its promise to return the 186 ships, it has refused to agree to a compromise settlement figure and submit the return of other long-overdue ships to the International court.
the hospital is well equipped as seems to be very efficiently run,
Official Bulletin
Statewide Activities: board meeting, 4 p.m., Alumni office.
Hillel service: 7:30 p.m. Danforth chapel. 8:10 p.m., cello recital by Olga Zilboorg, Myers hall.
TODAY
SUNDAY
Holy Communion: 9 a.m., Trinity Episcopal church, followed by breakfast and Canterbury club in rectory.
sorted by Gamma Delta: cost supper and discussion, 5:30 p.m., 8th and Vermont. FUTURE
Danforth services: 8:30 a.m., Bible class, 9:30 a.m., Myers hall. Sponsored by Gamma Delta.
FUTURE
Mathematical Colloquim: 5 p.m.
Monday, 311 Strong.
Earthquake Jars California Town
Bakersfield, Calif.—(U.P.) A sharp earthquake jarred the Bakersfield area at 2:55 a.m. today, and authorities said it was the strongest jolt felt here since a quake Aug. 22 killed two persons.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or property damage. The Aug. 22 trembler caused property damage estimated to run as high as $100 million and the city is still digging out from it.
Today's jolt was another in a series of more than 200 after-shocks which have rocked the Bakersfield area since Aug. 22.
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