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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, February 6, 1952
Grads Easily Get Jobs
Jewelry, Silversmithing Degree Offered
By MARION KLIEWER
The University has the distinction of being the first school in the United States offering a degree in a four-year course in jewelry and silversmithing.
This is the third year the course is being offered. Graduates have had no trouble getting jobs, and in many have been well pleased with their work.
"Right now things are a little tight in the industry because of a shortage of materials, but if I had any number of graduates today, I could place them by tomorrow," was the comment of Prof. Carlyle H. Smith, organizer and instructor of the course.
Professor Smith said the jewelry and silversmithing industry is one of the top 10 in the country in the number of persons it employs.
"Yet, it is one of the few professional fields which is not overcrowded, and which at the same time has satisfactory monetary rewards," he explained.
When one of the first graduates was hired by a Kansas City industry, the factory superintendent expressed a great deal of skepticism, thinking that his new employee would not understand silversmithing techniques nor be able to use silversmithing tools the first time he started on the job.
In a short while the superintendent found that his new employee "knew his stuff." Now that company is one of the strongest supporters of the course.
The K. U. course is closely allied with the industry. It has an arrangement something like internship for doctors and practice teaching for teachers. Before graduation each sitemithersiming student must spend between three and four months working for a manufacturing jeweler, getting actual bench work experience. The department finds the jobs for the students and they are paid at learners' rates.
Students have made good showing in decorative arts and ceramics fairs. Last spring in the National Decorative and Ceramics show at Wichita, 2,000 entries were made and only 400 accepted. Five of the 400 were the work of K. U. students.
One of the requirements for graduation is that each senior set up an exhibit of his work which is graded by members of the department of design staff. These exhibits are set up in the conference wing of Strong hall where the department laboratories and classrooms are situated.
The course covers the designing and making of silver jewelry, including simple soldering processes and wire work; advanced soldering processes, store setting, and elements
LEARNS SILVERSMITHING — Cecil Reed, fine arts senior, is one of the KU students studying silversmithing. He already has been offered three jobs following graduation. He is shown smoothing the surface of a bowl after it has been raised from a flat piece of
of electrophating; beginning silver-smithing, including the "raising" of simple forms as bowls and trays; and elementary engraving. Particular attention is given to soldering which is the trickiest single operation in repair and special order work.
Special emphasis is placed on special order and repair work. To train themselves for this, students are asked as a class project to examine shop windows and select what appears to them to be the worst-looking piece of costume jewelry on display.
Then they are to sketch the piece as it is and later re-design it, from both an artistic standpoint and the standpoint of creating a saleable piece of jewelry.
A total of 124 hours is required for graduation for the bachelor of fine arts degree. The three months of on-the-job training is not included in these hours. It carries no credit.
Included in the 124 hours are 70 hours of art,12 hours of art history, and 12 hours of economics or business.
The course instructor, Professor Smith, came to K. U. from Rhode Island where for five years he worked at the bench with Richard Paul, considered to be one of the
University To Begin Painting New Studio At KFKU
The department of buildings studio B this week. R. Edwin KFKU. said today.
Pre-Meds Should Plan For Test
Pre-Medical students desiring to enter medical schools in the fall of 1953 should start making arrangements to take the Medical College Admission test, the School of Medicine announced today.
Studio B is one of the two new studios being built at the engineering experiment station as a part of the University's expansion program in radio broadcasting.
The tests, sponsored by the Association of American Medical colleges, will be given Saturday, May 10, and Monday, Nov. 3. The tests are prepared and administered by the educational Testing service.
The room is 12 by 20 feet. It contains 14 splays made of plywood. These splays form a series of cylindrical diffusors which spread sound waves.
"Few universities in this country have a better acoustically treated studio." Mr. Browne said.
Examination centers in Kansas are the Fort Hays State college, Hays; the University of Kansas; Kansas State college, Manhattan; Kansas State Teachers college, Pittsburg; and the University of Wichita. Wichita.
Mr. Browne said the walls will be painted mauve pink and the ceiling dark green.
The examination consists of tests in general scholastic ability, understanding of modern society, and achievement in basic science. It will take about six hours, that is, two sessions of about three hours each.
A bull-session will be held for all students at 7:30 p.m., Friday in the Union music room.
Mr. Browne said studio B would be the most-used studio when the University station goes on the air with FM. It will be used for interviews, roundtable discussions, plays, and other broadcasting activities.
and grounds plans to start painting Browne, director of radio station
Further information will be available at the Guidance bureau within a week or so.
Since no organized program has been planned, students will have an opportunity to discuss any topic freely and a chance to meet out-of-state and foreign students.
Candidates for the University players must turn in their points by 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Leola Stewart education senior and president of the players, said today.
Players Candidates Must Turn In Points
The officers and advisory board of the University players will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, in Green hall. The officers and discussed for initiation purposes.
On the anniversary broadcast, Carroll D. Clark, chairman of the department of sociology and anthropology, said that the residents of rural communities can no longer live in isolation and let the rest of the world go by.
Professor Clark went on to say that rural areas of the United States are basic in furnishing food, raw material, and a large share of citizens to the nation. There can be no peasant citizenry in this vital part of the population.
Candidates must have 12 points to be acceptable. Points are given for participation in plays and for work on stage properties.
Sociology Program Marks Anniversary
English Exam Set In Fine Arts School
The School of Fine Arts has adopted a regulation requiring all Fine arts majors to pass the Eng- glish examination as a degree requirement.
foremost creators of special order jewelry in New England. His work has been exhibited at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Wichita Art association, Gorham's "Fifth Avenue" show, and the Los Angeles County fair.
The requirement goes into effect with the graduating class of June 1953.
Bell Telephone Rate Hike Scheduled For February 23
Topeka—(U.P.)—New Southwestern Bell telephone rate schedules, which will increase private users' monthly bills by from 50-cents to $1.50 and business rates from $1.25 to $3.25, were approved today by the Kansas corporation commission. They will become effective Feb. 23.
A few increases in long distance station-to-station calls within the state were also approved.
-News Roundup
The higher rates for Southwestern Bell customers are based on a complicated schedule which generally provides greater increases for telephone users in thickly populated areas of the staff.
Four party residence service will cost from 50 to 75-cents a month more under the new rate system. Two party residence service increases range from 75-cents to $1; and single party service increases range from $1.25 to $1.50 a month.
Approval Certain
The Senate foreign relations committee unanimously approved the peace treaty Tuesday, along with mutual security pacts between the United States and Japan, the Philippines and Australia and New Zealand.
Washington—(U.P.)The Japanese peace treaty appeared headed today for certain Senate approval, but not without a fight.
The Senate today took up, for the second time, an agreement to safeguard the other flank of Asia by admitting Greece and Turkey to the North Atlantic pact.
McCush will be in charge of political organization for the Eisenhower campaign and will coordinate his efforts with those in Washington.
Sen. Frank Carlson, (R-Kan.) a co-director of the national Eisenhower headquarters said McCuisn will accept his new duties Feb. 10.
Director Named
Southerns Blocked
Washington—(U.P.)—John McCuish, Newton, Kan., publisher and a prominent Republican leader, was named director of the Eisenhower-for-President headquarters in Topeka today.
The bills' supporters admitted defeat in their attempt to get the Senate to consider the Hawaiian measure first because it was believed to have a better chance of passage. The Senate Democratic policy committee declined late Tuesday to put the Hawaiian bill ahead of the Alaskan one now under debate.
Washington—(U.P.)-Senate backers of bills giving statehood to Alaska and Hawaii moved today to thwart a reported attempt by southern Democrats to send the Alaska measure back to committee.
Tanks Ram 6 Miles
More than 20 medium tanks lumbered across the frozen paddies in sub-zero weather at dawn in a surprise armored raid into Red territory north of Chorwon. Not one Allied tank was lost.
Eighth Army Headquarters, Korea—(U.P.)A powerful United Nations tank-infantry force rammed six miles into Communist territory today on the western front and blasted enemy supply lines and installations with direct fire for three hours.
Admiral Chosen
Vice. Adm. Jerailud Wright, present American deputy on the group, will become deputy commander of J.S. naval forces in European waters and commander of U.S. ships in the eastern Atlantic, with headquarters in London.
Washington — (U.P.) — Vice Adm.
Arthur C. Davis, until recently director of the joint staff of the joint chiefs of staffs soon will become deputy U.S. representative on the North Atlantic treaty organization's standing group, a top-level strategic body.
Attempt UMT Ban
Washington—(U.P.) A move developed in the House today to prohibit the start of universal military training until the draft is halted.
Rep. James E. Van Zandt (R-Pa) disclosed the drive as the House armed services committee prepared to put its formal okay on a UMT measure that would call all fit males at age 18 for six months of basic military training.
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