University Daily Kansan
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Women Leaders Are Needed Malott Says
The University would run off its trolley if it weren't for women leaders on the campus, Chancellor Deane W. Malott told 46 senior high school girls who attended the High School Leadership day Saturday, March 4.
Chancellor Malott explained that leadership is a combination of responsibility and courage.
A round table discussion led by Grace Gwinner, president of the A.W.S., followed the welcome. The round table group, composed of Mortar board members, discussed the similarities between high school and college activities. They felt that extra-curricular activities broadens one's viewpoints, results in more acquaintances, and helps one to be a well-informed person.
Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women, spoke on various phases of college life. She emphasized that college shouldn't be terrifying for high school girls, but that it should be considered a natural extension of high school.
Luncheon at 12 noon was served in the Kansas room of the Union. Following this a skit was presented by A.W.S. members, which depicted studies and extra-curricular activities at the University.
"The biggest difference between high school and college is the way you live," she told them. College means added responsibilities, regulations, maybe homesickness, and making one's own decisions," she pointed out.
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, spoke on "ideals of leadership" Dean Habein believes that a good leader must have courage and initiative. She explained that freshmen must start at the bottom and work up to become a good leader. In the process one learns about people, how to work with them, how to give and take, and how to react to responsibility, she pointed out.
"No college or university has the right to let you go your first year without some responsibility," she said.
A discussion defining leadership followed the speech. The group agreed that a capable leader inspires other people so they can work under their own initiative, can follow as well as lead, and are self-reliant. Other qualities of a leader they mentioned were stability, ability to answer a question, initiative, impartiality, sense of humor, sincerity, courage, diplomacy, and education, mental, emotional and spiritual.
Cokes and cookies were served in the Palm room of the Union, and a social period until 4 p.m. concluded the day.
The girls who attended leadership day were chosen because of their qualities as capable leaders in their high schools. The conference was sponsored by the Associated Women students.
Lawrence School Nurse Will Speak To Nurses Club
A Lawrence city school nurse,
Miss Electa Kindlesperger, will
speak at the Registered Nurses club
bout m. n. Her topic will be
"School Nursing."
The meeting will be held at 345 Main street.
Charles Thomas Smith Presents Cello Recital
A senior recital was presented by Charles Thomas Smith, cellist, Sunday afternoon in Strong auditorium. Smith has studied under Raymond Stuhl, assistant professor of cello. He is a member of the University orchestra and Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity.
Civil Righters To Plan Breakfast
A Civil Rights Coordinating committee meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in the Union ballroom. Plans for the president's breakfast will be discussed. All organizations are invited to send a representative.
Webster Group Will Give Plays
The Margaret Webster Shakespeare company will present "The Taming of the Shrew" Monday, March 20, and "Julius Caesar" Tuesday, March 21, in Fraser theater. The performances will begin at 8:15 p.m.
This is the second coast-to-coast tour conducted by the company, which features professional Broadway stars in its production. Miss Webster, the director, has been called the "finest director of Shakespeare this town ever had" by Brooks Atkinson, New York Times critic.
Tickets for the performances of "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Julius Caesar" are priced at $2 each. Don Dixon, assistant professor of speech, announced that advanced tickets may be purchased by sending a mail order to the ticket office, Green hall. A self-addressed stamped envelope should be included and the seat preference stated. o phone orders will be accepted. The ticket office will open Thursday, March 16.
The purpose of the Margaret Webster company is to fill the need for live theater outside the metropolitan area and to present Shakespeare as a dramatist rather than as a curio on a library shelf. This season the company is presenting some 300 performances in 34 states.
330 Try For Scholarship
The preliminary examinations for the University Summerfield scholarships were taken at the University today by more than 75 high school seniors. The examinations were given by Jackson Powell, of the guidance bureau.
The examinations were given at five other high schools throughout the state today to approximately 255 nominees from 125 Kansas high schools. Members of the University guidance bureau who gave the preliminaries were: Charles Baker at Chanute; Frank Entwisle at Colby; Dwight Chambers at Dodge City; Don Marder at Washington High school at Salina; and Lee Isaacson at Witchita East High school.
Donald K. Alderson, assistant dean of men, will attend a meeting of the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors in Chicago beginning Wednesday, March 22.
The students making the highest scores in the preliminaries will take the final examinations at the University on Monday, April 3, and Tuesday, April 4.
Mr. Alderson is a member of the foreign student committee.
Alderson To Attend Foreign Student Meeting
Club Hears About Rumania
The French club heard Dan Gallin, College freshman, tell of Rumania, his native country, at the club's meeting the past week.
Gallin is now a Swiss citizen, but has lived in Rumania, Poland, Germany, and Switzerland.
KU To Expand Training Plan For Teachers
An expanded program of teacher training for Kansas schools will begin with the next University summer session. Chancellor Deane W. Malott said Saturday, March 4.
The new four year program was designed to meet new requirements of the Kansas state board of education.
Previously the board has been certifying holders of education degrees to teach in either elementary or secondary schools. In the fall of 1952 a new policy will go into effect which will permit certificates to be granted only for the type of teaching for which the individual has specialized under the new program. The preparation for the elementary and secondary teaching will be separated to qualify K.U. graduates to meet the new regulations.
George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education pointed out that the traditional KU, emphasis on a strong foundation of general education will be maintained in the new program. Social studies, child development, and English will receive special emphasis.
Students training for education degrees will spend their first two years in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the last two in the School of Education.
The elementary training program is part of the developing program of the School of Education. Other features include the new six year graduate degrees of specialist in education, concentration of all facilities of the school in one central building, an enlarged consultant service for the public schools, and training of education students in the public school systems instead of a special campus school.
Formalization of K.U. elementary teacher training to equal status with the high school preparation is mandatory to meet the demands of the 1950's. Dean Smith said.
Despite K.U.'s part in training several thousand elementary and rural school teachers in the last decade, the current shortage in those fields in Kansas is estimated at between 300 and 500.
At the same time the University long has been under pressure from public school officials to expand its elementary program. Unless the supply is materially increased, the teacher's full education become the full impact of the high birth rate of the 1940's is felt, Dean Smith predicted.
In the last decade more than 2,000 teachers have taken correspondence courses from K.U. in elementary teaching and more than 500 have taken such courses in residence in the summer sessions.
Since the end of the war another 2,000 have attended K.U. extension courses designed specifically to meet requirements for certification as grade school teachers. The University for many years has specialized in elementary education in the fields of music, art, and physical training.
Clifford Wade, education senior, underwent emergency surgery at Watkins Memorial hospital March 4.
Clifford Wade's Condition Is Good Following Surgery
THE WEATHER
His condition is reported as good.
KANSAS—Increasing cloudiness, windy, and continued warm weather is forecast for Kansas today, with a possible thundershower in the vicinity tonight. Partly cloudy weather is expected Tuesday. High today 75 to 80 degrees; low tonight in the upper 30's and the high Tuesday 55 to 60 degrees.
Kansas Trackmen Take Big 7 Meet
Kansas trackmen startled the Big Seven March 4 by walking away with the championship of the annual conference indoor track and field meet in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
Bv RICHARD DILSAVER
Other pointgetters were half miler Jim "Red" Dinsmore, miler MClr Abel, and relaymen Emil Schutzel and Jim Hershberger.
Kansas won three events and in doing so, set two new records and tied a third. Bowers and Semper got new marks in their respective half-mile and 2-mile specialties. Karnes equalled the mile standard
Final standings were Kansas 40, Nebraska $34\%$, Oklahoma 29. Missouri $26\%$, Colorado $25\%$, Kansas State $21\%$, and Iowa State 3.
The last Crimson and Blue team to win the indoor meet was the 1934 squad.
The Jayhawkers started slow in team standings in the early events, but 10 points in the mile—KU, got half its points in the mile and 880—and 5 more in the 2-mile put them up with the leaders. By the time the 880 was on the docket and with results of three other events yet to come, the outcome was hardly apparent.
The Jayhawkers, who have only makeshift practice facilities located in the clammy confines of the east stadium, hadn't previously won any kind of indoor meet in the four seasons Coach Bill Easton has been at K.U. They had hardly been rated a darkhorse in the championship running, with disappointing Missouri and defending champ Nebraska holding the pre-meet limelight.
Although K.U.'s dynamic distance trio of Pat Bowers, Bob Karnes, and Herb Semper collected 23 points among them, it was essentially a team victory. The Jayhawkers couldn't have come close to the crown without the contributions of Bob Devinney and Jack Greenwood in the hurdles and relay, and Del Norris and Bill Richardson in the high jump.
K. U. and Nebraska were leading with 22 points each. Missouri had 21, Colorado 20, Kansas State 17, and Oklahoma 16.
Then Bowers, Karnes, and Dinsmore got 10 points more in the half-mile' and Norris and Richardson added four in the high jump. With only the mile relay to go to the Jay-Z game, Bowers scored only a Nebraska victory and a KU shutout could keep Coach Easton's squad from winning the meet.
Fortunately for the Kansans, they were paired with the Cornhuskers in the final heat of the relay.
Schutzel ran the first leg for the Jayhawkers and finished five yards in front of Husker Leonard Kehl. But Wendell Cole of N.U. pared the margin to two yards against Hershberger in the second leg. It was Devinney, running the third leg, who ochmanr Greenwood a near 10-yard. That allowed wood to finish in front, despite a stirring challenge by Husker Loyal Hurlbert that fell a half a step short.
In winning the mile, a triumph that had eluded him the past two seasons, Karnes tied the record of 1:17.21 held by Missourian Bill McGuire and took home the Glenn Cunningham trophy for a year's keeping. McGuire finished fourth, behind Bowers and Lee Moore of Nebraska. Bowers ran a great mile, "nishing on Karnes' heels.
The sterling Jayhawkier pair played turnabout in the 808. Bowers crossing the finish a half-yard ahead of Karnes. Bowers established a new meet record in Friday preliminaries by elipsing by a full second the 1:55.8 standard he had set a year earlier. He also takes possession of the Bill Lyda trophy for another year.
Semper's performance was perhaps the most surprising and crowd-stirring of the night. Holding he lead intermittently through the first 1¼ miles, he took over for road with three laps left and produced such a dynamic kick in the
final lap that he was a good 40- yards in front of second-place George Fitznorms of Colorado. Semper's time of 9:26:4, nearly three seconds better than the record Karnes set a year ago.
Only other record set during the meet was the 13 foot $117\frac{1}{8}$ inch vault of Oklahoman Bill Carroll. Two other standards were tied during the March 3 preliminaries. Merwin Hodel of Colorado equalled the 60-yard high hurdle mark and Byron Clark of Missouri tied the record time in the 60-yard dash.
'Portrex' To End In Island Assault
Ramey Air Base, Puerto Rico. March 6.—(U.P.)An armada of 160 warships, spearheaded by the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, moved in on Vieques island today for an airborne-ambibious assault.
Paratroopers based here and seaborne foot soldiers will make a coordinated attack Wednesday on the small island six miles southeast of Puerto Rico to climax the record-size, peacetime war games being held in the Caribbean.
Known as "Portrex," the training maneuvers involve 0,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen. About 90 air force aircraft planes being used toward re-provisioning being up" amphibia are tactics that could be used counter a possible atomic bomb attack. The new tactics emphasize dispersal and speed in movement of troops and equipment to beachheads and shores.
The basic idea is to keep from massing a big enough force to attract an A-bomb. These tactics are along the lines outlined recently by Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval operations. He predicted a “highly coordinated and highly flexible use” of airborne and amphibious forces
Attack forces today stepped up their softening-up operations preliminary to Wednesday's airborne-amphibious assault. Air Force "Thunderjet" fighters-bombers from here continued to blast defense positions on the island with rockets, bombs, and machine-gun fire.
"We must develop speed in preparation, speed in the movement to the objective, and speed in getting troops and supplies ashore and dispersed," he said.
A fleet of advance naval ships swept minefields and planted some of their own. A company of marines already had slipped ashore from a transport submarine under darkness to reconnoiter the landing beaches, enemy forces and installations.
Heart Committee Meeting
Headed By Canuteson
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the student health service, attended a meeting of the executive committee of the Kansas Heart association Sunday in Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Canuteson is president-elect of the association.