Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 1950
Lawrence, Kansas
Student To KC Royal, Representing Lawrence
Nancy Lindsey, College junior, will be Miss Lawrence in the 1950 American Royal in Kansas City, Mo.
Sponsored by the Lawrence Rotary club, Nancy won the title in competition with 11 Lawrence girls in a contest held in Lawrence Aug. 22, 1950. Her attendants in the local contest were Evelyn Barnsord. College sophomore, and Betty Martin, fine arts junior.
Forty-seven girls will participate $ \textcircled{4} $
in the American Royal Oct. 11 and 14. These girls, all between the ages of 18 and 22, and single, are from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. Nancy will leave Tuesday for Kansas City where all the girls will stay in the Hotel Continental.
The blonde Pi Beta Phi is the daughter of Mr. Adrian Lindsey, one-time football coach at the University. Mr. Lindsey coached here from 1931 to 1938 after coaching at the University of Oklahoma from 1927 to 1930.
Winner of the 1949 contest was a K. U. student, Janice Bryan, Kansas City, Kan. Sue Taylor, College freshman, is also a contestant for the Royal queen, representing Ft. Jevenworth
KU Opera Guild To Hold Tryouts
The title of the production will be announced after the tryouts, Prof Carney said.
Tryouts for the lead parts in a Light Opera guild production will be held from 6:45 to 9 p.m. Thursday in Strong auditorium, G. M Carney, assistant professor of music, announced today.
Prof. Carney said that the following selections would be suitable for the auditions:
The tryouts are limited to members of the Light Opera guild which includes Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary music sorority; Sigma Alpha Iota, professional music sorority; Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity. and the University Players.
Soprano, "Italian Street Song" (Herbert), key of C; "Falling in Love With Someone" (Herbert), key of A flat; alto, "Kiss in the Dark" (Herbert), key of C; "Sympathy" (Friml), key of G.
Tenor, "Falling in Love With Someone" (Herbert), key of A flat; "Ah, Swat Mystery of Life" (Herbert), key of D; baritone; "One Alone" (Romberg), key of A flat; "Stout Heated Men" (Romberg), key of F; bass, "Gypsy Love Song" (Herbert), key of B flat.
Watkins Hospital Adds Two Doctors
Two new resident doctors, Dr. Boyden Crouch and Dr. Floyd Santer, have been added to the staff at Watkins Memorial hospital. Dr. Crouch and Dr. Santer are both graduates of the University of Kansas School of Medicine.
Dr. Crutch received his doctor of medicine degree in 1946. He completed his internship at Milwaukee County General hospital in Wisconsin before entering the army medical corps in 1948. After spending 18 months in Germany he returned to K.U. in 1949 as an instructor in physiology.
Dr. Santer graduated from K.U. in 1944 and received his doctor of medicine degree in 1946. He then interned at St. Luke's hospital in Kansas City, Mo., before entering private practice in Lathrop, Mo., in July of 1948. He continued to practice in Lathrop until this fall when he came to K.U.
ASC Will Meet Wednesday Night
The second meeting of the All Student Council will be held in the Pine room of the Union building at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday.
The A.S.C. is now meeting on Wednesday nights because of a conflict with the "World in Crisis" lecture series.
First Faculty Recital Oct.16
Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, will start the University faculty recital series for the year at 8 p.m., Monday. Oct. 16, in Strong ball auditorium.
Mr. Schmidt, who gave the first faculty recital the past year, is known as one of the foremost interpreters of German songs. He has been equally successful in his "all-English" recitals.
Previous to his debut in Lawrence last year, Mr. Schmidt appeared for several years as a soloist in the annual Music festival.
He has spent several seasons as principal bass-baritone with the Philadelphia Civic Opera company and the Chicago Opera company as well as having opera engagements with the Kansas City and Detroit symphony orchestras.
University Men Attend State Clinic
George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, and Fred S. Montgomery, assistant professor of education and director of the bureau of visual instruction, attended the Winfield Education clinic at Winfield from Oct. 5 through Oct. 7.
They represented the University at a special meeting called by the state department of education. Representatives of other state schools met at Winfield to consider the training program of school administrators.
Enroute to Winfield, Dr. Smith and Professor Montgomery visited school administrators and teachers in 14 high schools. They reported that at least one University graduate is teaching in the communities visited.
Senior Class Appoints Heads For Committees
Eight senior - class committee chairmen were appointed at a meeting Sunday night at the home of Fred Ellsworth, Alumni association secretary.
The appointments were made by the senior class officers; John Amberg, business, president; Mrs. Pat Thiessen, College, vice-president, and Harold Edmondson, education secretary.
dean and Mrs. Laurence C. Woodruff, Margaret Habein, dean of women, and Marvin Small, assistant secretary of the alumni association, also attended the meeting.
Chairmen appointed were: Paul Coker, fine arts, Class day; Donald Giffin, College, alumni relations; John Eulich, business, invitations; Diana Sherwood, education, directory; Dixon Vance, business, rings; Margaret Dickson, College, class breakfast; Fred Six, College, and Maxine Holsinger, education, class gift; and Roger Davis, business, cap and gown.
BULLETIN
Washington, Oct. 10—(U.P.) President Truman and Gen. Douglas MacArthur will meet somewhere in the Pacific this weekend, the White House reported today. No details as to the exact time and place of the meeting were immediately available.
The President, however, will proceed to the Pacific rendezvous from St. Louis where he will spend tomorrow night.
Reporters at the White House were informed shortly after noon, (EST) that arrangements had just been concluded between the President and the United Nations supreme commander in the Far East for a meeting somewhere in the Pacific this coming weekend.
Further details will be announced later. White - House sources would not elaborate beyond the bare announcement that the meeting will be held.
Three Business Graduates
Get Teaching Positions
They are John Marshall Wetmore, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D.; Jack Donald Steele, Texas A. and M., College Station, Texas, and Robert Haney Scott, Simpson college, Iowa.
Three 1950 graduates of the School of Business accepted teaching positions this fall.
Plans for the first annual Kansas Pharmaceutical association pharmacy institute Sunday, Oct. 22, to Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the University were announced today by J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy.
Pharmaceutical Group To Hold First Institute
'World In Crisis Talk By Fields
Dr. J. Eldon Fields, associate professor of political science, will speak on "Twentieth Century Nationalism" at the fourth "World In Crisis" lecture at 7 p.m. today in Fraser theater.
8 To Attend ASEEMeeting
After Dr. Fields' lecture the usual discussion period will be held.
Eight faculty members of the School of Engineering and Architecture will participate in the 31st annual meeting of the Kansas-Neraska section of the American Society for Engineering Education Friday and Saturday at Kansas State College.
Loring O. Hanson, associate professor of applied mechanics; T. F. McMahon and Clayton M. Crosier, associate professors of civil engineering; Dale Rummer, instructor of electrical engineering; F. A. Russel, professor of engineering drawing; Harold L. Kipp, professor of mechanical engineering; and Paul G. Hausman, associate professor of shop practice will speak at round table discussions on the various phases of instruction in their respective fields.
Phi Delta Kappa Will Hear Haugh
Teaching of the language arts will be discussed by Oscar M. Haugh, assistant professor education, at a meeting of Phi Delta Kappa, professional education fraternity, 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Hearth tearoom.
Professor Haugh will also explain the setting up of a new language arts major at the University, the second of its kind in the United States.
Vacancies in the executive committee of the fraternity will be filled by election. Officers to be elected are vice-president, treasurer, and historian.
Also to be elected at the Thursday meeting are a delegate and two alternates to the district convention of Phi Delta Kappa, which will meet in Topek Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10 and 11.
Harry James - Circus To Stardom
Being a member of a circus band at 8 is part of the past history of Harry James, whose band and comedienne will appear in Hock auditorium Friday.
By the time he was 10, James was doing trumpet solos in the circus band. He was also billed with a 65-year-old man in a contortionist act with the circus.
At 15, James was playing with local orchestras in Beaumont, Texas, his home town. After winning a state-wide trumpet contest, Harry decided on music as a career.
Benny Goodman heard James playing on a Ben Pollack recording, and before James knew what had
happened he was playing with the Goodman band.
resultant traffic jams and riots brought front page stories of the James band. Crowds appeared at the theater at 4 a.m., and by 8 a.m. special policemen had to be called to handle the 8,000 fans who were jamming the sidewalks.
James likes baseball and goes to the Polo grounds in New York whenever he is there. His band doubles as a baseball team. James has been known to ask a new musician what position he plays before asking him what instrument he plays. He wants someday to own his own ball club, and now has a bid in for one of the Pacific coast teams.
In 1939 James started his own band with Goodman backing him. The tune which James picked for the back side of his first recording was the one that made him nationally famous. It was an old number written in 1913, "You Made Me Love You."
In 1843 James appeared at the Paramount theater in New York. The
Sponsored by the School of Pharmacy, University Extension, and the state association, the institute will consider the technical and business phases of pharmacy.
instruction periods include lectures on new drugs modern medicine, doctor-druggist relations, Kansas pharmacy law, the Kansas Agricultural Chemical act, dangerous drugs and food and drug act, and personal training and merchandising.
Two University alumni will be initiated as honorary members of the University chapter of Sigma Tau-honorary engineering society, at the national convention Thursday, Oct. 19 through Saturday, Oct. 21.
Besides faculty members of the School of Pharmacy, instructors who will participate in this postgraduate educational program are: Dick Raney, president of the Kansas State Board of Pharmacy; Blaine Miller, secretary of the state board; Sam Silverman, general counsel for the Massachusetts Pharmaceutical association; Dr. Edward H. Hashinger, director of postgraduate medical instruction for the School of Medicine; E. C. Buehler, professor of speech; Fred Sharpe, extension lecturer; and Dr. Dale Dickson of Topeka.
Five experts will participate in a panel discussion on "Insurance Problems of the Druggist." They are: N. K. Nelson, chairman; Larry A. Magill, Paul A. Foster and George E. Erickson, all of Topeka; and Homer H. Minnick of Wichita.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will speak at the luncheon on Tuesday, Oct. 24.
Two KU Alumni Will Be Honored
Drs. Ethan P. Allen and E. O. Stene, both of the Bureau of Government Research, will attend a meeting of city managers from Kansas at Emporia Thursday and Friday.
City Managers To Emporia
Discussion periods in which the managers can present problems that have developed in their towns will be held. Each member of the group may then give his views on the problem.
Virgil Baskell, city manager of Hays, is chairman of the meeting.
The two University graduates are Mr. N. T. Veatch, '09, senior partner of Black and Veach Consulting engineers, and Mr. Kenneth A. Spencer, '26, head of the Spencer Chemical company. Both men are from Kansas City, Mo.
Initiation ceremonies will be held Friday, Oct. 20, Dwane Crowl, president of the University chapter, announced Monday.
Draft Board Allows 'Rip' Collins To Stay
A happy Kansas University student is Richard "Rip" Collins, first-year law student and Democrat candidate for state treasurer.
Collins, ordered to report for induction into the army Tuesday, Oct. 3, received his deferment the night before.
he is now continuing his campaign and made several appearances in Wichita last week-end.