FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREE
Photo by Bob Blank.
Above left to right are: Jim Sellards, Danny Orton, Clyde Bysom, Gene Hall, and Harlan Livingood. Their bands provide music for students. Orton will have Sellards' band next year.
This Is YOUR Campus
Four University Dance Bands Satisfy Desire For Live Music
By DALE S. ROMIG
Four dance bands are instrumental in satisfying the "live band" musical appetite at the University. Three of their leaders have been in the music making business since their high school days and all of them are important contributors to the music field.
At 13, Eugene Hall, fine arts sophomore, started playing in dance bands, and three years later, while a high school senior in Kansas City, formed his own. The past summer marked the third engagement for his band at a southern Missouri resort.
Actually, this is the band's first year on the campus. Formerly, Hall confirmed his jobs to the Kansas City
confined his jobs to the Kansas City area. Now, however, with five of the members attending the University, Hall has expanded his field and has played several games here. He explained, "KU students like to hear the kind of music the band plays playing most, while in Kansas City there are more restrictions on the types of music that will appeal to the crowd."
Hall is director of College Daze, is writing part of the songs and arranging all of them. About the student production, he said that there was a lot of interest shown and that the first auditions brought out much talent.
Kitty Walters, fine arts senior, is vocalist with the band.
James Sellards, education senior, lays claim to having the oldest band on the campus — and the most highly representative of the University. All of Jim's musicians are students, and the organization has been going for "about six years," changing members only when graduation created vacancies.
Jim is reluctant to talk about himself, preferring to speak of the members of the band. He believes that a band is more than just an organization to make money; it is a group which can play together, enjoy themselves, and have fun.
Jim says he might have played in a dance band in Osage City, his home town, while in high school, but the town had no "sax man" and
"without a sax, you can't have a band." He got his start in the business while in the Marine corps. There, he was in a band which played for servicemen's dances. Following his discharge from the Marines, Jim came back to the University (he was here for one semester in 42) and joined what was then John Beach's band.
While most of his engagements have been on the campus Jim's band has played in other towns, too even at Kansas State.
When Jim was at KU in the fall of '42 his roommate war Harlan Livingood. Now they are friendly rivals. Livingood, though employed by a Kansas City construction firm, remains a part of the University by making music for the students. All but two of the 12 members of his band are still enrolled in the University and Livingood considers it a KU band.
Four of the members' wives seldom get to hear their husbands perform. They are too busy at home taking care of their babies. Five of the musicians are married, and among the babies are two boys and two girls. It's a case of papa playing for plumbl.
Charles Steeper, journalism junior, pointed out that a variety of professional interests are represented in the band. Besides himself, there is a psychologist, a commercial artist, and a public school music teacher. Steeper is business manager of the organization.
Jeanne Chambers, fine arts senior, who sings with the Livingood group, thinks that singing with a band is "just great." While she is a commercial art major, she says she wouldn't turn down a singing contract if it "happened to come her way."
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Sigma Kappa sorority will give a costume party from 9 p. m. to midnight Saturday at the chapter house. Chapermons will be Mrs. Mary Youkman, Mrs. Louise Cochran, and Mr. and Mrs. George Benscheidt.
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Pi Phi Dinner Dance
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Kappa Sigma fraternity will entertain with a tea dance from 2 to 4 p. m. Saturday. Mrs. Mercedes Krieger and Mrs. W. S. Shaw are the chaperons.
A dinner dance will be given by Pi Beta Phi sorority from 6 p. m. to midnight Saturday in the Union. Mrs. Dean Alt, Mrs. T. H. Stuart, and Mrs. C. J. Thomas will chaperone.
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Costume Party Saturday
Phi Kappa Tau fraternity will have a costume party at the chapter house from 9 p. m. to midnight Saturday. Chapereons will be the Messrs. Carlyle Smith, David Phillips, and Paul Dcora.
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Delta Internity has planned a payoff of 8 m. to midnight Saturday at the chapter house.
Chaperons are Mrs. Charles Wentworth, Mrs. Dean Nite, and Mrs. H. J. Overholser.
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Gamma Phi Tea Dance
He has recently added a vocal quartet to his band, composed of Bernadine Read, who has always been the featured soloist, and three men.
As president of the local musicians union, Clyde is active in promoting the plan started some time ago to erect a musician's hall. By saving here and there, the musicians in the local, who are mostly students, have built up a sizable fund to apply on the erection of a badly needed hall where bands could audition, meet, practice, and hold jam sessions.
Gamma Phi Tea house
A tea dance has been planned by Gamma Phi Beta sorority for 2 to 4 p. m. Saturday at the chapter house. Mrs. Betty Park and Mrs. Arthur Little will chaperone.
Bover-Haverty
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity announces the pinning of Miss Marcia Jane Boyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Boyer, Lawrence, to Mr. Junior Keene Haverty, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Haverty, Lawrence.
Clyde Bysom, a student in '49, also contributes much in providing recreational music for dance conscious students. He took over the band from Jack Moorehead who graduated the past year.
In addition to "fronting" the band, Clyde is in the music business, selling and repairing instruments.
He hopes to finish school but says that he is too busy right now to continue his studies and get everything out of them he should.
The announcement was made during dinner by Mrs. Virginia Brammer, Sigma Phi Epsilon housemother. Miss Boyer wore a corsage of purple orchids and Mrs. Brammer wore a yellow rose corsage. Cigars were passed by Mr. Charles Haverty and Mr. Alvin Haverty.
Miss Boyer is a College freshman and Mr. Haverty is an engineering junior.
Watkins Dance Saturday
Wattus' Dulce Saturday
Watkins hall will entertain with a dance at 10, m. to midnight Saturday at the hall. Chaperons will be Mrs. Ross Cole, Mrs. Louis Stanley, Mrs. Katherine Eddy, and Miss Julia Willard.
TKE Mardi Gras Saturday
The annual Mardi Gras party given by Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity will be from 9 p. m. to midnight Saturday at the Eldridge hotel. Mrs. Doris Veech, Mrs. Virginia Brammer, Mrs. John Skie, and Mrs. H. P. Ramage are the chaperons.
Sigma Pi Tea Dance
Sigma Pi Tea Dance
Sigma Pi fraternity will have a tea dance from 2 to 4 p. m. saturday. Mrs. Fanny DeLozier and Mrs. R. W. Blume will be the chaperons.
Pledge Class Elects
The pledge class of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity has elected the following officers: Robert Jornayvaz, president; Karl Estes, vicepresident; and Robert Johnson, secretary-treasurer.
KU Co-op Week Will Begin Sunday
Stevenson Pledges ATO
Stevenson Pledge
Alphabet University fraternity announces the pledging of Donald Stevenson, College sophomore, from Mission.
K. U. Co-op week will begin Sunday with open house at the various houses. On Tuesday, Feb. 21, a joint dinner will be held at the Don Henry co-op. The Inter-Co-op coordinator will be elected at this meeting.
The various houses will exchange dinners Thursday, Feb. 23. Dr. John Ise, professor of economics, will be principal speaker at the 7:30 p.m. meeting. He will speak on the Coop.
Pictures of each house will be on exhibit at this time, and special issues of "Rochdale Rag," the Co-op paper, will be distributed to all those attending. A dance on Friday will conclude the week's activities.
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