1950
Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan Monday, May 15, 1950
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence. Kansas
Hawes Wins Award For Best Acting
James Hawes, fine arts senior, was given the award for excellence in acting and J. Steve Mills and Alan Kent Shearer, College juniors, were named the debate honor men of the year at the 25th annual speech department dinner May 12.
Approximately 85 members of the speech and drama department, the debate squad, the Forensic league, University Players, and majors in speech and drama attended the dinner.
Mills and Shearer were selected to the top debate honor for "three years of high quality debating." E. C. Buchler, professor of speech said. Hawes received his award for general excellence in acting, particularly for his performance in "Ten Little Indians."
Other dramatic awards went to Mary Lou Lane, education junior; for the greatest improvement in acting; Frank La Ban, College freshman, as the most promising beginning actor; Ernest Coombs, fine arts special student, for the most service in the theater; and Craig Hampton, fine arts senior, for the most original stage work.
The three new members elected to Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debate fraternity, were announced at the dinner. They are: Guy Goodwin, and Wander Colege sophomore; and Harold Lee Turner, first year law.
Eight students were named for junior forensic honors. They were: Betty Whaley, education senior; Eugene Balloun, Jack Stewart, business juniors; Elizabeth Dillon, College junior; Miss Lane; Heywood Davis, and Win Koerper, College sonhomores.
A special award was given to Lloyd Houston, manager of Bell Music company, for being "the most faithful forensic fan" by Allen Crafton, professor of speech. Mr. Houston has attended most of the speech and debate contests at the University for the past 25 years.
650 Persons See Old Minstrel Show
Sixty Lawrence businessmen and students entertained 650 persons with "Dry Bones" and other numbers on their Old Time Minstrel show at the Lawrence Memorial High school auditorium the past weekend.
Roger Butts, fine arts junior, gave two piano solos and the high school quartet sang "Carolina Moon" in true barbershop quartet style.
"I Had a Dream Dear," "Dry Bones," and "Shine" especially delighted the audience. Other hits were "Dark Town Strutters' Ball," "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee," a tap routine by Jimmy Jackson, a Lawrence resident, and "Lucky the Sun," "Accentuate the Positive" was sung in the best Al Jolson manner.
F. C. "Phog" Allen, University basketball coach, who was interlocutor on the program, kept the audience "in stitches."
The chorus was directed by Charles Kassinger, education senior
YMCA Secretary To Speak Tuesday
Objectives and progress of the Y.M.C.A. will be the subject of a talk to be given by Ted Thornton at an all-membership dinner at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 18, in the Känsas room of the Union.
Several senior members of the organization will receive special recognition for outstanding service to Y.M.C.A. during this past year.
Mr. Thorton is general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at the University of Haskell. He completed work for his doctor's degree in the theology at Columbia university.
The dramatic awards were presented by Mrs. Frances Feist, instructor in speech. The forensic awards were given by Professor Buehler.
Physics Group To Be Installed
Eighteen undergraduate students, four graduates, and six faculty members will be initiated into Sigma Pi Sigma, national physics honor society, following formal installation of the chapter here today. Mr. Marsh W. White, national executive secretary from Penn State College will preside. A dinner at 7 p.m. in the Palm room of the Union will follow the ceremony.
Sigma Pi Sigma was founded in 1921 at Davidson college, Davidson, N.C., and now has 71 chapters in universities and colleges throughout the nation. The purpose of the society is to recognize students with high scholarship, promote interest in research work, encourage a professional spirit in persons with special ability in physics, and to popularize physics on the college campus.
Officers of the University chapter are: Richard Moore, president; Norman P. Baumann, vice-president; John McKinley, secretary; Arthur House, treasurer; and Dr. L. W. Seagondollar, faculty advisor.
Summer Jobs Are Open To Engineering Juniors
The Proctor and Gamble manufacturing company wants several junior men from the School of Engineering to work this summer in their Kansas City factory. The jobs will last from eight to 10 weeks.
Mechanical, civil, electrical, and chemical engineering students who are interested may obtain interview information blanks from the heads of their departments. These blanks must be filled out and returned to Dean T. DeWitt Carr's office not later than Tuesday afternoon.
Expert On Asia To Speak Friday At Convocation
Phillips Talbot, one of the nation's experts on southern Asia, will speak in Fraser theater at 10 a.m. Friday, on the "Eleventh Hour in South Asia." He will address a joint convocation of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, the department of Political Science and the department of history.
Mr. Talbot has spent most of the time since 1938 in Asia, particularly as a foreign correspondent in India. He is now a member of the Chicago Daily News Foreign service, a senior associate of the Institute of Current World Affairs and visiting assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
He recently returned to the United States after spending several months covering developments in Pakistan, India, Southeast Asia and the Far East. In his talk at the University he will take up the current situation in Asia, considering in particular the Communist victory in China and what it means to South Asia.
Mr. Talbot was graduated from the University of Illinois in 1936 and from 1936 to 1938 worked as a reporter on The Chicago Daily News. In 1938 he won an Institute of Current World Affairs fellowship for advanced, on-the-scene study of India. For a year he studied at the London School of Oriental Studies, and from 1939 to 1941 he studied aspects of life in India, living and working successively in an Indian university, an Indian village, Indian religious centers and several Indian towns.
During the war he was U. S. naval liaison officer at Bomby from 1941 to 1943 and assistant naval attacke at Chungking, wartime Chinese capital, from 1943 to 1945. In 1946 he returned to India and southeast Asia for the Chicago Daily News and the Institute of Current World Affairs. In 1948 he taught at the University of Chicago and directed the Harris Institute on "Nationalism and Regionalism in South Asia."
In addition to newspaper articles, he has written reports for the Institute of Current World Affairs, Foreign Policy Reports and numerous articles for other journals and magazines. He is editor of "South Asia in The World Today."
Surveys Overrated Post Editor Says
It is impossible to edit a magazine by arithmetic, Ben Hibbs, editor of the Saturday Evening Post, told journalism students and guests at the annual Kansan Board dinner Friday.
"There is a trend which is growing up in this country of trying to edit by a mathematical formula," Mr. Hibbs said. "The theory is that you find out, by surveys and sampling methods, what the public wants and then edit accordingly."
"There are times that come almost every week," he said, "when an editor must fly in the face of known popular appeal if he is to maintain the character and responsibility of his publication."
Mr. Hibbs, a 1923 University journalism graduate, pointed out that these surveys are often fallacious and that the greatest folly an editor could commit would be to follow them too slavishly. He gave as an example public sentiment during World War II. People all over the country were complaining that they were tired of war and tired of reading about it, yet it was found that articles concerning the war were the best read.
Mr. Hibbs told the seniors present that he was aware that the field of journalism is crowded and that finding a job is not going to be easy and advised that, "there is still a place in our chosen profession for the man who is willing to work long, sweaty hours, and on whose shoulder perches the little devil of ambition."
Mr. Hibbs believes that balance is one of the most important qualities of magazine character. He said that if the only objective of the Saturday Evening Post was to achieve high readership figures, space would be filled with sports stories, sketches of Hollywood personalities, and adventure stories. More serious articles on national and world affairs would be excluded. This would quickly destroy the character of the magazine.
Twenty-nine students in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information received awards for superior work.
The Henry Schott memorial prize was awarded Francis Kelley. The Schott award to the "junior man who shows the most promise for success in journalism" is a cash prize.
The Sigma Delta Chi citation of achievement was awarded to James Scott as the outstanding man in the School of Journalism. His character, scholarship, and competence were cited. Mr. Scott was graduated in February and is now a reporter for the Kansas City Star.
Sigma Delta Chi certificates for superior scholarship were awarded to Frederie Brooks, a February grad
uate now employed by the Hutchinson News-Herald; Lee Dyer, Doris Greenbank, Doug Jennings, Yvonne Josserand, Dorothy Hogan, Harrison Madden, Kathleen O'Connor, Louis Sciortino and Jessimal Shidler Strange, journalism seniors.
Band Plays Tonight In Last Concert
Mary Kay Dyer and James Scott were named the outstanding seniors in the news and editorial sequence. Yvonne Josserand and Louis Sciorino were cited in the advertising sequence.
The following were cited for outstanding work on the University Daily Kansan:
NEILL HUMFELD, trombone
Best news story: Edward Chapin and Francis Kelley, co-authors; first; Edward Rogers, second; and Robert Sigman, honorable mention.
Tschaikowsky's "Overture of 1812," cowboy ballads, and Hungarian melodies will be played by the 115-piece University band in its annual Spring concert at 8 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium. Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, will direct.
best feature story; Doris Greenbank, first; Kathleen O'Connor, second; William DeLay, third; and Francis Kelley, honorable mention.
TOM LOVITT, cornet
program of the 1949-50 school year The last official appearance of the band will be during Commencement week.
- Students will be admitted to the concert free if they present their activity cards at the door. General admission tickets are 50 cents each.
For its opening number, the band will play the "Fresques Suite" (Haydn Wood). Next it will present "Fantasia di Concerto" (Boccalari), with a trombone solo by Neill Humfeld, education senior. He is president of the band.
The remainder of the program will consist of the following selections:
"Brunnhlide's Awakening" from the opera, "Sigfried," (Wagner); "March, opus 99" (Prokofeff); "American Folk Songs" (Seimeister); and "Overture of 1812" (Tschaikowsky).
Tonight's concert is the band's final
The band will also play Capriccio followed by "Hungarian Melodies" Espagnolen (Rimsky - Korsakow), (Vincent Bach) Tom. Lovitt, fine arts sophomore, will play the cornet solo on the latter number.
Best editorial: James Scott and Warren Snaas, tied for first; James Morris, second; James Scott and John Bannigan, tied for third; and William Stratton, honorable mention.
Best promotional advertisement:
Carol Buhler, Natalie Bolton,
Forrest Bellum, Elizabeth Hunter,
Mary Elizabeth Webb, and
Mary Mary, honoree, mention,
Best institutional advertisement:
Douglas Jones, first; Richard Hunter,
second; Robert Bottoms, third;
Natalie Bolton, honorable mention
With a full voice and genial personality, Mrs. Thelma Mims presented her senior voice recital Sunday afternoon.
Full Voice Heard In Mim's Recital
Faure's "Les Bercaeaux" was very subtle. 'L'Amour We Moi," arranged by Tierset, became a little tiresome. Mrs. Mims handled the "Connais tule pays" (Thamos) very well.
"Der arme Peter" (Schumann);
"In Der Schatten Meiner Locken"
(Wolf); "Der Tod Und Das Madchen"
(Schubert), "Die Drie Ziegeuner" (Liszt) were included in the second group of songs.
The first group of selections consisted of music by Handel, Bach, and Giovanni Paisiello, Mrs. Mims was moderately dramatic in the "Aria di Polissena" from Handel's "Radmim da Polissena" from Handel's "With a poised with praiseworthy simplicity." In Bach's "Jesus Schaffl" she displayed admirable breath control.
The latest group of songs included "Dusk in June" (Fay Foster) "Animal Crackers" (Hageman) "Fix Me, Jesus" arranged by Johnson, and "My Journey's End" (Fay Foster),
Grigsby, Stites Win Pi Delta Phi Award
Jack Grigsby and Kenneth Stites,
College sophomores won the Pi Delta Phi awards for outstanding scholarship in French at the annual French club picnic May 11.
The award is presented each year to the two sophomores who have done work of the highest quality in the study of French.
The picnic was held at the home of Mattie Crumrine, assistant professor of Romance languages.