MONDAY, MAY 8, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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University Daily Kansan Presents—
There She Is As Big As Life- Bernie Read On Television
That's who it is all right. There she is as big as life. It's Bernadine Read, fine arts senior, who regularly appears on the WDAF television screen with a program one-half her own.
The other half belongs to Don Price, former student, whose call for a "good girl vocalist" was answered by the pert blond soprano. The program, called "Let's Rehearse," is scheduled for 9 to 9:30 p.m. each Friday.
Singing on television thus adds one more activity to capable Bernie Read's list of accomplishments during her four years at the University. Take her word for it, every day has been crammed full. One afternoon not long ago, she re-
Bernadine Read
heared for her senior recital, went to Kansas City for her TV program, and flew back to the campus to sing at a dance with Clyde Bysom's band.
band.
Strangely enough, Bernie didn't start out to be a singer. She had taken piano lessons since she was five, had won prizes at contests, and played for every event that came along. She didn't begin to study voice, until her senior year at Baxter Springs high school. That year, ironically, she won first rating in voice at a district music contest, and a No. 2 award in piano.
Still convinced that the piano was her "first love," Bernie enrolled as a piano major at the University in 1947. After two years, she changed her major to voice. Now she seems to be closer to her ambition of doing permanent radio and television work.
At the University her teachers have been Mrs. Marie Wilkins, instructor in voice, and Reinhold Schmidt, associate professor of voice. In the regular course of study, students learn Italian and old English repertoire the first year, German the second, French the third, and their choice of those numbers for the fourth year.
In a way, Bernie's evolution might also be termed from "shouting to singing." She was a cheerleader in high school and a University cheerleader for two years. Her memories of the 1948 Orange Bowl game are as vivid as if they had happened yesterday; "Gee, I'm still tired from running two and a half miles in the New Year's Eve parade". She remembers how the cheerleaders pooled their money, rented a car, and drove around Miami stirring up KU. spirit... there was a friendly, colorful crowd at the game... a photographer took a picture of her and Norval Osborn, another cheerleader, which was used in advertisements in several national magazines.
and singing in College Daze have also helped to keep her occupied.
With her senior recital out of the way and graduation "fairly certain," Bernie says she may have time for her favorite diversion, playing bridge.
also helped to keep her occupant. Bernie recalled an incident which occurred in 1948, when she sang the role of "Peep-bo" in the K.U.Light Opera guild's production of "The Mikado." As a joke, she wore Peep-bo's black wig to dinner at the Tri Delt house. To her surprise, no one recognized her. They wondered whose guest she was—until she took off her wig.
The name of the little gal with the charming smile and the "way about her" has been on many a campus roster. She was secretary of the junior class, president of Sigma Alpha Iota, honorary music sorority, and is a member of Mortar board. Being a member of A Cappella choir, Union activities, song leader of her sorority, Delta Delta Delta,
Acacia Dance Guests
In 1830, the first locomotive built in the United States to pull passengers puffed 13 miles over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It weighed six tons and was called the Tom Thumb.
Acacia fraternity recently held its annual spring formal. Guests included Ia Beile Babodie, Clara Ethel Childers, Elda Lou Phillips, Elose Shenk, Pat Hinde, Ruth Allen, Lois Etherington, Laura Belle Overley, Hanna McDowell, Jean McGinnis, Barbara Marunga, Barbara Lameauxre, Mildred Rodgers, Dorris Jo Williams, Dorothy Watson.
Nancy Mitchell, Mary Newton,
Barbara Donovan, Eloise Diabal,
Marilyn Wisdom, Jane Sullivan,
Lura Stouder, Barbara Sells, Jamie
Estlack, Shirley Nelson, Barbara
Burnham, Marilyn Craig, Betty Jean
Waters, Louise Cornelison, Dorothy
Jones.
Helen Poston, Jean Quisenberry, Emma Jean Sands, Ellen Osborn, Joyce Jones, Mary Hercules, Frieda Sahm, Dorothy Twente, Rosalee R. Jones, Virginia Kenney, Mona Bush, Harriet Flood, Harriet Graves, Doris Young, Beverly Hexum
Marlene Earp, Jacque Cook, Betty Byam, Lo Ree Waterson, Ann Carinder, Sally Sherwood, Mary Anne Forman.
Fouhman.
Chaperons were Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Haysinger, Mr. and Mrs. Max
Fessler, and Mrs. T. L. Collier.
High Cost Of Pepper Not To Be Sneezed At Wartime Casualty Still On Shortage List
The high cost of pepper—the world's most popular spice—is not to be sneezed at. Recently quoted in U.S. wholesale markets at $1.45 a pound, compared with a 1939 low of between three and four cents a pound, this wartime casualty of seasoning is still short on import lists.
The Netherlands Indies (now the Republic of Indonesia) accounted for about 90 per cent of the total pepper supply before World War II, notes the National Geographic society. Most of the pepper vines were concentrated on the hot, steaming isles of Sumatra, Java, and Bangka, the latter making a speciality of white pepper.
gle for independence continued to delay the pepper industry's revival. And even in peace, reestablishment of the traffic is expected to take time, since new plants require two to three years for the first yield of berries, and seven and eight years for full bearing.
The East Indies producers were cut off from usual markets when the Japanese overran this territory in 1942, substituted other crops for pepper, and allowed the jungle to reclaim many of the vines. After the war, Indonesia's strug-
Meantime, southern India has moved up to first place as the world's pepper bin, although its supply, plus that of neighboring tropical areas, is still below demand. The U.S. market alone normally consumes some 30 to 40 million pounds annually.
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Organized Houses Choose Officers, Pledges
A D Pi Pledges
Pledging of Joanne Stone of Cedar Vale and Barbara Findley of Osawatomy has been announced by Alpha Delta Pi sorority.
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Oread Hall Election
Ed Perkins has been elected president of Oread hall for the fall semester. Other officers will be: David Heilman, vice-president; Warren Murray, secretary; and Keaton Duckworth, treasurer.
Currently featured with the VARSITY CREW ORCHESTRA of Clyde Bysom and Jim McCaig are the VARSITONES.
Pictured from left to right are: Bob Cooper, Bernie Read, Ben Kamprath, and Todd Seymour.
The group recently completed a successful WDAF television date, combining danceable music with the accent on swing.
For information about the VARSITY CREW ORCHES TRA call Leonard Beck 3021.
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