THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Bulletin In Library Ends In European Trip
R. C. Broadstone, fine arts sophomore, has been awarded a summer trip to France by the Student International Travel association. The award was made for his high scholastic average, home community work, and the fact that he has never been out of the United States.
A telegram congratulating Broadstone arrived May 10. Since the winners were to have been notified by May 11, Broadstone said, "It was about the biggest shock I have ever had."
"My reaction? I was too dazed to have any. I still can't believe it's true."
The past December, Broadstone sent his transcript and letters from businessmen at his home town in Dighton to the Travel association after having read of the competition on a bulletin in Watson library.
Each year the association awards three scholarships to a deserving American college graduate, high
school student, and a college student. Tours to Mexico or Europe are given to the winners.
Broadstone said he didn't think he had a chance in a million to win the scholarship, but figured it wouldn't cost him anything to trv.
About 20 persons will meet in Canada to make the tour accompanied by a professor of French from an American university. Other students making the trip will pay their own expenses.
The group will sail from Quebec June 20 for Le Havre, France, and will return Sept. 9, according to the tentative schedule.
From the French coast the group will travel by train to Paris. The remainder of the trip will be made on bicycle, with the exception of a trip through the French Alps to Geneva, Switzerland.
"We've supposed to have a car for that." Broadstone said relievedly.
While in France, the group will stay in small hotels, pensions, and private homes. They will learn something of the customs, culture and personalities of the French.
Broadstone became interested in France while studying French here at the University. He hopes to study in France after receiving his degree. He is majoring in theory and composition of music.
Now a French II student, he wants to do a concentrated study of the language before he arrives in France.
Nationalists Retreat To Keelung
Keelung, Formosa, May 18—(U.P.) Thousands of Nationalist soldiers arrived on this island of no retreat today from the abandoned Chusan islands. They vowed revenge for the Communist victory.
The crowded troopship Tien Hsing was given a welcome which resembled a victory celebration more t h a n a Dunkerque evacuation. Crowds cheered and bands blared "Swanee River." But other evacuation ships arrived unheralded and unloaded without fanfare.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of the generalissimo, and the wives of other government dignitaries, led the celebration passing out sand-wiches and congratulating the troops.
The enthusiastic reception covered up the fact that the troops had been ordered out of the Chusans, some 80 miles south of Shanghai, without a fight and now were making their last possible retreat.
Overcast skies failed to dampen the celebration in this land-locked harbor as the rusting, black-hulled, 4,000-ton Tien Hsing tied up at the dock with the first 7,000 evacuates.
The Tien Hsing had been at sea for two days and two nights, but morale aboard still was high. The khaki and green cotton uniforms were clean, and the troops all carried full equipment, including rifles, grenades and mortars.
"We welcome you back and realize your disappointments," she said. "This is the last bastion against Communism and we hope you fight bravely in its defense."
The soldiers answered her with cheers vowing revenge or death.
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Farther along the quay an American-built LST quiet disembarked its share of the more than 100,000 Chusan evacuees. For her, there were no tootling bands, waving flags or other festivities.
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T. DeWitt Carr, Big Seven representative for the University, is attending a conference of the directors of athletics and faculty representatives of the Big Seven in Lincoln today through Saturday.
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Troops quietly walked ashore as soon as the steel gangplank was aboard the Tien Hsing. Toting rifles, knapsacks and bedrolls, they shuffled into the railway yard and squatted amidst their belongings awaiting a troop train.
Mrs. W. J. Sloan, wife of a retired army major, heard her daughter Suzanne babble the news of her marriage to Justin W. Dart, A., a polio victim, while she slept.
Dart, a student at La Sierra college, Arlington, Calif., is the son of the former Ruth Walgreen of the Walgreens Drug family and Justin W. Dart, president of the Liggett and Owl drug store chains.
Watson library will be open Saturday nights, May 20 and 27, and Lindley hall library will be open Saturday, May 20, from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m., C. M. Baker, director of libraries, announced. This is to allow students to do extra studying for final examinations.
New York—(U.P.)-The secret of the nine-month-old marriage of a 19-year-old drug store heir to a 17-year-old blonde was out because the bride talks in her sleep.
This conference is a quarterly meeting of the directors and representatives. Once a year these officials meet in Lincoln in conjunction with the annual Big Seven outdoor track meet. The meet will be held Friday and Saturday.
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Among the places the group will visit are Paris, Versailles, Bourges, Monte Carlo, Marseilles, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Brest.
At the present, Broadstone is somewhat worried about the preliminaries of the trip such as inculcations, vaccinations, passport, and photographs. "By the time all that and finals are over," he said, "I wonder if I'll be able to make it at all."
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Broadstone has a grade average of 2.65 but claims that he has not done much studying since he received the telegram.
"I guess I'll be pretty busy this summer," he admitted. "In 24 hours I was given the names of 15 persons to look up."
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Press Picnic Will Be Friday
Each family or individual should bring one main dish, dessert and sandwiches. A charge of 50 cents will be made to those who are unable to do so. All utensils will be furnished. Reservations must be made by 5 p.m. Thursday.
The annual University Press picnic will be held 5 p. m. Friday at Holcom's grove. All Press employees, journalism students and faculty members are invited.
There will be entertainment for everyone with softball, volleyball, horseshoes, croquet and dancing.
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