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MONDAY, MAY 23, 1949
Heavy Commencement Week Program Planned For Graduates, Parents, Alumni
Students, parents, alumni, and friends will be kept busy with precommencement reunions, tours, and meetings Friday, June 3, through Monday. June 6.
Concerts, recitals and a movie will be added entertainment for guests.
A transcribed radio concert, featuring the University band, orchestra,
The University commencement band will give an outdoor concert at 4:30 p.m. At 5 p.m. there will be a commencement supper for alumni at the Union.
and glee clubs, will be given from 2:30 to 3 p.m. Friday, June 3, over KFKU in which excerpts from Crafton, professor of speech and drama, will direct a broadcast over KFKU in which excerpts from "Hamlet" will be presented
Habein Will Address Grads
There will be an annual alumni business meeting at 3 p.m. in Fraser hall.
Alumni registration headquarters at the Union will open the same day at 3 p.m. The alumni association will have a meeting of the board of directors at 3:30 p.m. in the alumni office.
An informal alumni dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 4, at the Union. A party will follow featuring the first showing of the 1549 KU. movie. A fine arts commencement recital will be given at 8 p.m. in Hoch auditorium
The Rev. Mr. Edward Hughes Pruden, pastor of the First Baptist church of Washington, D. C., will deliver the baccalaureate address at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial stadium.
The Martt Board association has scheduled their reunion for 8:30 a.m. Sunday, June 5, in the Union. A breakfast and annual meeting of the K.U. Endowment association board will be at 9 a.m. in the Union.
At 11 a.m. Danforth chapel will be the scene of an organ recital.
Beginning at noon the classes of '39 and '24 will have their reunions. At 12:30 p.m. the classes of '19 and '1899 will meet. The Emeritus club organization dinner is scheduled for 12:30 p.m.
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of wommen, will address the graduating classes of Beloit and Liberal high schools today and Thursday. Her topic will be "Enduring Values."
At 9 a.m. Monday, June 6, there will be an alumni open house for Presbyterians at Westminster house, 1221 Oread.
The class of '49 will have their luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in Hoch auditorium. The second outdoor concert of the University band will be given at 2:30 p.m.
A reception for graduating seniess, their families, and friends will be from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Union.
At 7:30 p.m. will be the commencement exercises. Greetings will be given by Frank Carlson, governor of Kansas; Fred M. Harris, regents chairman; and Deane W. Malott, chancellor of the University.
Tomorrow's meeting will be the first public hearing on the new master plan drawn by Hare and Hare, city planning architects of Kansas City, Mo. new zoning, and other ordinances. Professor Beal said.
Sunday and Monday, June 5 and 6. free bus tours will be conducted over the campus for alumni, parents, and any persons desiring to visit points of interest. The tours will start at the Union.
Lawrence Planners To Hold Meeting
Under the new plan, property values would remain stable throughout the years due to specific zoning for residences, industry, and business establishments and they would be planned to give consistent growth to all three in the city.
Better public health, increased safety, and maintaining constant property values will be discussed by the Lawrence Planning committee tomorrow, George M. Beal, professor of architecture, and chairman of the committee announced recently.
The meetings are open to the public and will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m. in the city hall.
The first master plan for the city was drawn and zoning set up in 1928. Since that time there has been little change made.
Residents, KU Students To Vote On Bond Issue
Lawrence residents and University students will vote tomorrow on a proposed $1,820,000 bond issue to repair and build city schools.
By STELLA GABRIELSON
One of the major questions is the junior high school. At present, the junior high school is in three buildings, Manual, central and Old High. They are built on three of the four corners at the junction of Ninth and Kentucky streets. The students have
to cross Massachusetts street to go from one class to another.
In Manual and Central all four floors are used while in Old High, built in 1890, only three can be used. The fourth floors of both Manual and Central were intended for use.
Now they are gymnasiums with a few small windows. The stairs leading up to both are steep and narrow.
The worst feature of these gymnasiums are the locker and shower rooms. They are located in dark corners and ventilation is poor. The gymnasiums are barely adequate. There is no room for spectators.
The heating equipment in Old High must be turned off every week-end. In the mornings the third floor is barely heated. The teacher's rest rooms are small and poorly equipped.
Band classes are held in one corner in the basement of Central. The room is small, ideal for a 35-piece band, but inadequate for the school's band. The low ceiling bottles up the noise. The floors are rotten in many places. New boards have been laid but the floor buckles and sinks when extra weight is put on it.
Assemblies are held in the Community building, if and when it can be obtained. Playground space is limited; each of the buildings is built out almost to the street.
The home economics classes meet in the basement of Manual. Facilities for the cooking classes are poor with antiquated burners and little assemblage space.
Parts of the basement in Central and Old High are unfinished. They are poorly lighted and ventilated and have many small rooms.
New plans for the junior high schools include: new fire escapes for
Fall Kansan Staff Named
Editorial staff members for the fall University Daily Kansan have been announced by Marvin Rowlands, managing editor. They will serve for the first half of the semester. They will meet at 5 p.m. tomorrow in 107 Journalism building.
Major positions filled are Russell Oleson, city editor; Oren "Bud" Wright, sports editor; Mary K. Dyer, telegraph editor; Anna Albright, society editor; and Doris Greenbank, feature editor.
Robert Overton, Norma Hunsinger, and Keith Leslie have been named assistant city editors. James Van Valkenburg, and George Brown will serve as assistant sports editors. Darell Norris and Doug Jennings will be assistant telegraph editors. Frankie Waits will be the assistant society editor.
Summer session Kansas staff members will be John Riley, city editor; Larry Funk, sports editor; Miss Hunsinger, assistant city editor; and George Brown, assistant sports editor.
Manual and Central, removing the clock tower from Old High, and additional playground space. Also part of the $1,820,000 would be used for remodeling the present high school for future junior high school use and building a new senior high school.
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"Professor Snarf-You have no idea what this means to me!"
Last minute pre-commencement announcements were made today by Harold Swartz, accountant in the business office.
Seniors Can Get Announcements
He advised seniors to call for their announcements at the business office, and added that extra folders are also available for those who have not received them.
Ten or 12 students who will be in Lawrence on Saturday, June 4, through Monday, June 6, are needed to help check out gowns to graduates. Interested persons should contact Mr. Swartz.
Faculty members are asked to pay the rental fee on caps and gowns by Saturday, June 4.
List Changes In Ballots
The following corrections have been made to the ballots for the Engineering council election Tuesday in the basement of Marvin hall.
Glenn W. Anschutz, engineering junior; and Robert M. Kunert, engineering senior, have been added to the list of candidates for council president.
John E. Thimesch, engineering junior, listed as candidate for sophomore class representative should be listed as candidate for senior class representative.
Charles E. Dutton, engineering junior, should be listed as candidate for the architecture department representative instead of Charles E. Duyyon, engineering junior.
Kenneth E. Carey, engineering junior, should be added to the list of candidates for the petroleum engineering department representative.
James C. Hayward, Jr., engineering junior, should appear as candidate for the chemical engineering department representative instead of John E. Thimesch, engineering junior.
Fourty-five new members of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity, will be initiated into the University chapter at 5:30 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Union.
Phi Beta Kappa Will Initiate 45 Today
Nation Mourns For Forrestal
Washington, May 23—U.P.)—A shocked nation today wrote "killed in action" across the name of former defense secretary James Forrestal, who leaped to his death from the Bethesda, Md., naval hospital early Sunday.
President Truman proclaimed a period of national mourning to last until Forrestal is buried.
The body of the 57-year-old New Yorker, who had been under treatment for a psycho-neurotic disorder since April 2, lay in the hospital morgue awaiting his widow's return from Paris.
Mrs. Forrestal and her elder son, Michael, 21, were expected home this morning aboard the presidential plane, the Independence, in which Secretary of State Dean Acheson flew to the big four conference in Paris last week.
The Forrestal's other son, 19-year-old Peter, was at their Georgetown home here when the tragedy occurred.
Funeral arrangements were held up pending Mrs. Forrestal's return. But it was believed likely that the former secretary, a veteran of World War I, would be interred in Arlington national cemetery.
Beginning in 1940 as an administrative assistant to President Roosevelt, he became Undersecretary of the Navy two months later and was made Navy Secretary on the death of Frank Knox in April, 1944. He held that job until Mr. Truman moved him up to head the unified national defense establishment in 1947 as the nation's first Secretary of Defense.
He drove himself to exhaustion trying to resolve the bitter rivalries and quarrels of the three services. His health began falling rapidly toward the end of 1948.
He submitted his resignation to be effective March 31. On March 28, a hurried ceremony was called at the Pentagon and Louis Johnson was sworn in as Forrestal's successor.
The outgoing secretary flew to Hobe Sound, Fla., on March 30 to rest. On April 2, a navy plane flew him back to Washington and he was admitted to the hospital suffering from what the navy said was "occupational fatigue."
In Amsterdam The Dutch Use Bicycles To Get Around
(Berlin Correspondent for the University Daily Kansan)
(Berlin Correspondent for the University Daily Radium)
Amsterdam—In London I drank more tea and coffee in five days than I usually do in half a year. The English themselves prefer tea, but if they are heavy tea drinkers, a two weeks' ration lasts only three days, and then they take to coffee or cocoa. They thought that being an American, I must also be a coffee fiend, and consequently drowned me in it until I lost enough sleep to say "No thanks" after 6 p.m.
By CARLA EDDY
My host and hostess in Amsterdam were former Berlin lawyers, who fled long before the war and have finally acquired Dutch citizenship. This requires a special act of congress, usually enacted for 20 persons simultaneously the of their baptismship that of their husband. During the five rugged years of German occupation, they learned and spoke only the Dutch language. They are also Esperantist enthusiasts and officers in its local club.
Amsterdam has a quaint individuality I hadn't really anticipated. The city is laid out on the edge of a harbor, with streets and canals running in concentric half circles. Housing is so compact that the area of the city is small despite the substantial population of 800,000. The entire residential area consists of four-story apartment houses of four or five rooms each. The Netherlands is said to have the highest birth-rate
I sailed over to the Netherlands—this is the official name for the country even though the inhabitants call it Holland, too—in a spotless Dutch ship, enjoying a sunny afternoon on the deck. The lunch bill was payable in either English shillings or Dutch guilden, and I never did figure out what it would amount to in dollars.
in Europe, and schools and play- grounds are numerous.
These navigable canals are full of small boat traffic—barges, sightseeing launches, flower dealers. The inhabitants told me in disgust that it is easier to obtain a boat-driving permit than an auto driver's license. The bicycle traffic of Amsterdam is equalled only in Copenhagen. When shops close at 5 o'clock, whole fleets of smartly dressed men and women cycle along the main streets toward home. The terrified foreign pedestrian takes a streetcar instead.
Maybe I should say he takes a mailbox instead. As there are few mail boxes outside the center of the city, each inbound streetcar carries a red letter box on the back end. The contents are taken out every time the car passes the main post office.
I was surprised at the number of orientals in the city. Chinese-Indian eating houses display neon signs, and you find inside all the specialities of Chinese restaurants in the U. S., and a few more. Loomia, for instance, is shredded cabbage wrapped in pastry. Sounds awful, but is surprisingly tasty.