NY critic, author to speak at meet
Theme for the 17th annual conference on composition and literature for high school and college teachers of English will be "Minority Voices in American Fiction: Authors and Themes." About 600 persons are expected to attend the event at KU Oct. 17.
Ralph Ellison, New York critic and author of the best-seller novel, "The Invisible Man," will be the luncheon speaker.
Prof, Warren French of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, also a nationally-known critic, will be the keynote speaker.
Discussion panels will consider "The Modern Jewish Novel: Bellow, Malamud, and Roth" and "Contemporary Black American Writers."
Harold Orel of KU will moderate the panel on the Jewish novel
New professors join KU staff
Breck A. Marion has joined the University of Kansas staff as assistant professor of education and assistant director of the Bureau of Visual Instruction in University Extension. He came from an assistant professorship at the University of Hawaii.
Dr. Alex A. Lazzarino, director of the Extramural Independent Study Center, continues as acting director of the Bureau of Visual Instruction, a position he filled since retirement of the late Prof. Fred S. Montgomery a year ago.
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Participants will be Jack Cohn and Charles G. Masinton, KU; and Mrs. Neran Cowan, Shawnee Mission East High School.
Samuel J. Sackett, Ft. Hays Kansas State College, will moderate the other program. Panelists will be Elizabeth Schultz, KU; and Mrs. Margery Bakalar, Topeka West High School; and Vance William, Topeka High School.
Thurston M. Moore, director of freshman-sophomore English at KU, is conference director. Richard F. Treece of University Extension is the coordinator.
Minnesota writer joins KU faculty
A 33-year-old Minnesotan with more than 150 stories, poems, and articles published, including a book and a play, joins the University of Kansas English faculty this month as assistant professor.
Dr. Victor Contoski has just completed the doctoral degree requirements at the University of Wisconsin. He earned his B.A. degree in 1959 and the M.A. in 1961 from the University of Minnesota.
Readers of the North American Review know Contoski for his regular feature, "The Fabulist." In the past three years he has published 28 fables in that magazine.
His book, "Four Contemporary Polish Poets," was published in 1967.
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