TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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University Daily Kansan Presents—
Jamie Hasn't Always Made A's Once.She Made B In Speech
Jamie Estlack, pharmacy senior, hasn't always made straight A's. In 1947 as a freshman majoring in nursing at Colorado Woman's college in Denver, she got a B in a speech course.
When she came to K. U. in the fall of 1948, Jamie changed her major to pharmacy because she said, "I felt better suited to it." She has maintained a straight A average every year at the University.
When asked what she considered to be the secret of her good grades, she replied, "I think that if one gets a good foundation for courses, he
can understand all the studies better. It's easier to get a basic knowledge and it doesn't take so much time. Lots of concentration is the main thing in getting and maintaining good daily grades."
Photo by Frankie Waits
Miss Jamie Estlack
After she is graduated, Jamie is looking forward to going home to Greensburg, "home of the world's largest hand dug well." As a preparatory to the state board examination in pharmacy, she will receive practice in making up prescriptions while working in a drug store in Greensburg.
She then plans to return to K. U. to take the state board test. "As a sort of secret ambition, I would really like to get another degree from K. U. and then do research work in the field of new drugs," Jamie said.
Jamie is 5 feet, 4 inches tall with blue eyes and auburn hair. "Boys—oh, they're all nice, but I'm a confirmed career girl," she said.
She is president of Sigma Kappa, social sorority, secretary of Iota Sigma Phi, women's honorary chemistry fraternity. She is social chairman of Kappa Epsilon, women's honorary pharmacy fraternity, a member of International Relations club, and a student member of the America Pharmaceutical association.
For diversion and when she has time, Jamie writes poetry and does sketching. She has had two of her poems published in college anthologies.
"It's beautiful back East, but I still like Kansas," she said.
Jamie was a member of U.N.E.S.-C.O. while it was in operation at the University and secretary of the pharmacy junior class.
She received a scholarship award in the form of a ring for earning the highest grades in pharmacy schools in the entire United States for one year. She attended the Kappa Epsilon convention in Philadelphia, Pa last year to receive the award.
"K. U. always seemed like a never, never land to me. It sounded like a wonderful place to go to school, and it is all that I expected," she said.
America's Only Woman Opera Composer Wants Competition In 'Deluxe Undertaking'
New York—(U.P.)—America's only woman opera composer wishes this country would encourage its native composers to write opera so she wouldn't be in a class by herself.
"There's no truth in the idea that America can't produce a Verdi or Wagner," Florence Wickham said. "We'll have a native opera when there's a market for it."
Miss Wickham, who turned to operatic composition 25 years after she retired as a leading contralto at the Metropolitan opera, said she has found operatic composing "a deluxe undertaking."
The tall, blue-eyed blonde who sang with Caruso and Scott ought to know. She had to go to Germany in 1938 to have her first opera, "Rosalind," produced. When news of its success seeped back to the United States she finally found a market here at home.
"It takes a lot of courage to write an opera when you know there is almost no chance of having it produced," she said. "But I do think there's a better chance of success if a composer writes about an American theme."
This summer Americans will have a chance to hear her second work, "The Legend of Hex Mountain." It is a folk opera with Pennsylvania Dutch trimmings, and Miss Wickham calls it a "real native work" because it has its setting in her home state. She wrote the whole works--music, lyrics, and libretto.
She has fashioned her plot about an old Amish legend that a witch who does a good deed is freed from the evil spell which binds her. Miss Wickham has obtained just about the best witch in the country for the role. She is Dorothee Manski, who won fame at the Metropolitan as the witch of "Hansel and Gretel."
The opera will have its premiere in August at the Plymouth, Mass., music festival with a cast of Metropolitan singers. Then Miss Wickham plans to move it to Broadway to chalk up a musical record. The late French composer, Cecile Chaminade, was the only other woman to write a successful opera, "La Sevillane."
"Broadway seems to be the only outlet for an American opera right now, although financing a New York production is prohibitive." Miss Wickham said. Opera composers such as Kurt Weill and Gian Carlo-Menotti already have given the Broadway public a taste for a layer of opera in their theatrical sandwich. If the appetite keeps growing, opera composing may become a paying proposition, she believes.
"Goodness knows, opera composing is the most up-hill work in the music world," she said. "I think it can be done only on direct inspiration with as little thought of box office sale as possible. Opera should be real art; that's why few composers can afford it."
The Ivy Leaf club of Alpha Kappa Alpha fraternity will entertain with a skating party from 7:30 until 10:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Rollerdrome rink.
The results of a recent popularity contest will be given and a queen and two attendants will be chosen.
Skating Party Wednesday
The two benches in front of Watson library are made of stone from old Snow hall and were a gift of the class of 1931.
Socially Speaking
Martha Heck, fine arts freshman,
has been named honor pledge of
Alpha Phi sorority. She received a
gold pledge pin.
Heck Named Honor Pledge
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity announces the pledging of C. Charles Cain, fine arts freshman from Wellington.
YOUR EYES
Cain Pledges ATO
Kappa Initiation
should be examined today. Call for appointment. Any lens or Prescription Duplicated. Phone 425 1025 Mass. Lawrence Optical Co.
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority announces the initiation of the following women on March 11:
Carolyn Armsby, Peggy Chambers, Marianne Deschner, Marilyn Dubach, Karen Hall, Mary Jo Israel, Marilyn Kendall, Virginia Mackey, Adelia Schutz, Ann Wagner, Diane Walker, and Jo Ann Wellman. Ann Wagner was the honor initiate.
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