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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 31, 1942
Spanish Professor To Talk On Poetry
Dr. Concha Melendez, professor of the University of Puerto Rico at San Juan, will speak at 8 p.m. today in Frank Strong auditorium.
Dr. Melendez will discuss "America Hispana in the Poetry of Gabriela Mistral."
Her appearance is being sponsored by the Spanish department.
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New York Alumni Elect
The University Alumni association of greater New York city held a meeting recently. Officers for the coming year were elected by the Board of Directors. They are: George Hamilton, president; Roland de Watteville, vice-president; Robert G. Pearson, treasurer; and Elizabeth Baker, secretary.
Approximately 60 members attended the meeting which was held in the Grill room of the Phi Gamma Delta club.
Illinois Authoress Speaks Tonight To Journalists
The formal Matrix Table banquet of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary and professional fraternity for women in journalism, will be held at 6:30 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union. Miss Elisa Blak, writer and columnist, will be the featured speaker.
The Matrix Table banquet is the first at the University since before the war. They are annual affairs for all Theta Sigma Phi chapters. They are given to offer an opportunity for journalists and writers to hear an author or journalist with a national reputation in the field.
This year's speaker, Miss Blink, is in private life Mrs. L. Martin Krautter of Winnetka, Ill. She is the author of novels, short stories, child'en's books, and a magazine column. Before her mariage, she wrote for Chicago newspapers, and now writes a column called "I'S Like This In Our Town" for the Household magazine. Novels she has written include "On What Strange Stuff," "The Horse Called Pete," and "Taffy's Foal." "The Sainted Sisters," a movie starring Barry FITzergerald, Veronica Lake, and Joan Caulfield, was based on one of her stories.
Mrs. Russell H. Barett, alumna advisor of the chapter, will give the welcome address. Mrs. Barrett was graduated from the University in 1947, and was editor-in-chief of the University Daily Kansan that year. Emil L. Telfel, assistant professor of journalism and faculty advisor of the group, will speak on the role of Theta Sigma Phi in a school of journalism
Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes, assistant professor emeritas of English and a charter member of the University chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, will give a short history of the founding of the chapter.
Two To Speak At Workshop
George Houser, national secretary of C.O.R.E., and William Boyd, political scientist and lecturer, will speak at the Kansas Inter-Racial workshop at the University tomorrow and Sunday.
They will talk on "Human Rights in the South," and "An Answer to America's Racism," at 7:30 p.m. today in Frank Strong auditorium.
The workshop is sponsored by the Y.M.C.A., C.O.R.E., and the Fellow- of conciliation. The group will study work so, inter-racial problems in the state.
Special guests of the workshop will be Lawrence Scott, executive secretary of the Y.M.C.A.; Billie Parkins, secretary of the Y.W.C.A. at Kansas State college; the Rev. Herbert Brockman, Wellsville; and Joan Kenna, secretary of the conference of Christians and Jews.
"The World of Goethe" is the subject of a four-week series of broadcasts beginning at 9:30 p.m. today on KFKU. Presented in co-operation with the German department, the series commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the German writer and composer.
KFKU To Present Programs On 'World Of Goethe'
Today's broadcast includes the reading of several of Goethe's works, first in German by George Kreye, associate professor of German. Then Sam Anderson, instructor in German, will translate the work's to English, and fine arts students will set the works to music.
Kansas City Firm Head
To Speak To Delta Sigma Pi
Charles Stevenson, vice-president of Hall Brothers, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., will speak to members of Delta Sigma Pi, professional business fraternity, at 7:30 p.m. today. The meeting will be in the Pine room of the Union.
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