University Daily Kansan
Monday, April 18, 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWSAPER
Rotarv Award Of Paris Study Given Conard
John J. Conard, instructor in political science, has been awarded a Rotary Foundation fellowship for advanced study at the University of Paris, France, for the 1949-50 academic year.
The announcement was made by Philip Lovejoy, Chicago, secretary of Rotary International.
JOHN CONARD
The amount will be between $2,000 and $3,400, depending upon travel expenses and the cost of living in France. Mr. Conard will use the year of study for work towards a doctorate degree in political science. He received an A.B. degree from the University in 1943 and the master's degree in 1847. During the war, he was a pilot in naval aviation. He is 27 years old.
Mr. Conard and his wife, the former Virginia Powell of Olathe and also a K.U. graduate, plan to sail from New York aboard the French liner "DeGrasse" on August 23. The fall term at the University of Paris begins October 1.
As on undergraduate at K.U., Conard was an honor student and prominent in student activities. He was a member of the Student Council, vice-president of the M.Y.C.A. senior class treasurer, and president of the Rock Chalk Co-op. A Summerfield scholar, he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Sigma Alpha, political science honorary society. He was editor of the University Daily Kansan, the K-Book, and the Jayhawker magazine. He also held membership in Owl society and Sachem, junior and senior men's honor groups.
Mr. Conard's home town is Coolidge, Kansas.
In addition to his academic work, Mr. Conard with Rotary fellow will be charged with gaining an understanding of the social, economic, and industrial life in France. Upon his return to the United States he will be expected to visit Rotary clubs and other groups to bring them information about his year of study and the life and thinking of the French people.
The senior class will meet Thursday, in Fraser auditorium, Marvin Small, president, said today.
The donkey baseball game, senior breakfast, invitations, senior day, and graduation will be discussed. Members will also decide on the class gift. All members are urged to attend.
Seniors To Meet On Thursday
Class Schedule For Tomorrow
The schedule for tomorrow's classes is:
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8 a.m. classes, 8 to 8:30.
9 a.m. classes, 8:40 to 9:10.
Convocation, 9:20 to 10:30.
10 a.m. classes, 10:40 to 11:10.
11 a.m. classes, 11:20 to 11:50.
Afternoon classes will run as usual.
College Daze Starts Tomorrow
The second College Daze production, "Ghost of a Chance," will be presented at 8 p.m. tomorrow through Friday in Fraser theater.
Admission is 75 cents and all seats are reserved. Tickets are on sale in Green. Grassland.
The musical has a cast of 32 students. Peggy J. Shannon, fine arts sophomore, and Donald E. Price, College sophomore, are the leading blavers.
The play, based on an original script by William A. Conboy, College senior, is a satirical comedy based on the housing shortage. Music for the all-student production was composed by Jesse E. Stewart, College senior, and the lyrics were written by Carolyn Campbell, College senior, and Craig W. Hampton, fine arts junior.
James W. Hawes, fine arts junior, is director of the three-act musical, and Margaret Granger, College McHonee, is the executive producer.
Hampton is also in charge of the costumes, scenery, and stage props. He will be assisted by Sally J. Garland, College freshman, and Sally J. Sherwood, fine arts junior.
All costumes were made by cast members and all stage props were constructed by students.
Chancellor Will Speak
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will address the officers and men of the 13 reserve squadrons at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Oatlie Naval Air station during their annual military inspection.
Official inspection of the station will be made by Rear Adm. R. F. Whitehead, chief of naval air reserve training. Admiral Whitehead is a veteran of two wars and was commander of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Shangri La during the last part of World War II.
He will be accompanied on the inspection by Brig. Gen. C. F. Schilt, commander of marine air reserve training, and 26 officers of the air reserve training staff from Glennview, Ill. General Schilt is a Congressional Medal of Honor holder who entered the marines as a buck private. He was the first marine flag officer ever to fly a jet plane.
Each of the organized reserve squadrons attached to the station will also be competing for Noel Davil plaques, which are awarded to the outstanding squadrons of each type represented in the naval air reserve training command.
The inspection party will grade the Olathe station to determine its standing in the annual national competition among the 26 naval air reserve stations for the Conway Memorial trophy, which is awarded to the outstanding naval air reserve unit in the nation.
Kansas—Fair and cooler east, partly cloudy wintoday. Increasing cloudiness tonight, followed by showers south and west tomorrow. Highs today in 60s.
WEATHER
Exposition Will Feature Shop Work
Eleven departments of the School of Engineering and Architecture and seven associated departments of the University will have laboratory and shop exhibits at the annual Engineering exposition Friday and Saturday.
The exposition is presented by the students, with faculty counsel, to show latest advances in engineering and architecture and to demonstrate work being done at the University.
Geiger counters and a small working model of the van de Graaff generator, commonly called an atom smasher, will be featured in the physics department display. The chemistry department will show the freezing qualities of liquid air and exhibit a display of glassware.
Other departments with displays in the Exposition are: mechanical engineering department; engineering drawing department; architecture department; civil engineering department; department of military science; department of naval science; radio station KFKU; University of Kansas Research foundation; shop practice department; electrical engineering department; aeronautical engineering department; mining and metallurgical engineering department; chemical engineering department; petroleum engineering department; and the geology department.
Each year Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, awards a trophy to the department with the most outstanding exhibit. Last year this trophy was awarded to the architecture department.
Officers of the exposition committee are: Ford Bohl, engineering senior, general chairman; and Ralph Andrea, engineering junior, assistant chairman.
The exhibit will be open to all interested persons and no admission will be charged.
Law Club Elects Officers
Officers of Phi Delta Phi professional law fraternity, for the coming term are James D. Waugh, magister; Jeremiah R. McCarthy, clerk; Joseph Stryker, historian; first year law students, and Lawrence Wagner, exchequer, second year law student. They were elected April 7.
Honor Students To Hear Gustavson
R. G. Gustavson, chancellor of the University of Nebraska, will speak at the Honors convocation at 9:20 a.m., tomorrow, in Hoch auditorium. His topic will be "Punching Holes in the Darkness."
Intramural Speech Contest Preliminaries Start Tomorrow
A group of University students majoring in Spanish will serve coffee to out-of-town guests in 117 Frank Strong hall from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday. They are Shirley Matson, Arthea North, Ruby Bibb, Billie Carter, Marian Graham, and Barbara Cleves, College juniors; Jeanne Mueller and Rita Swearingen, College sophomores; and Veda Russell, College freshman.
Preliminaries of the informative speech contest of the second annual intramural speaking contest series will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Little theater in Green Hall.
Learning Aids To Feature Event
Harley Oberhelman, College junior, will show the use of the Presto recorder. Katherine Stevenson, education senior, and Ardyle Wilson, College junior, will demonstrate the wire recorder. Peter Helfert, special student, James O'Brien, and Philip Smith, College juniors, will introduce a new learning aid, the Cerebrophone. Eduardo Alfaro, College junior, and Ora Schofield, education junior, will "teach" the audience by means of choral work.
Members of Delta Sigma Rho, Forensic league, Varsity debate squad, and persons who have won first place in a campus speech contest are ineligible to compete, Mr. Roberts said.
University students in the Methods of Teaching Spanish class will give a demonstration of aural-oral devices in teaching the language at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in connection with the Cervantes day celebration being sponsored by the Spanish department. Miss Agnes Brady, assistant professor of Romance languages, is instructor for the class.
Betty Rae Thomas, mezzo-soprano, will give her senior recital at 8 p.m. today in Frank Strong auditorium.
The finals of the informative speech contest will be held Thursday. The preliminaries of the demonstration speeches will be held Tuesday, May 3, and the finals Thursday, May 5. The after-dinner speech contests will be day, May 10 and the finals day, May 12. The contests are sponsored by the Forensic league.
Betty Thomas Gives Voice Recital Today
Miss Thomas has been a member of the University Women's Glee club and A Cappella choir for two years, and has been a soloist for the First Baptist church for three years. She was a member of the cast of "The Mikado" the past year, and sang the role of Tessa in "The Gondoliers" this year.
"Thirty students have entered the contests," Orville Roberts, instructor in speech, said. "All undergraduate students interested should give his name to me before 5:30 p.m. tomorrow."
For the first time in 26 years of annual Honors convocations at the University, no honor man or woman will be name<sup>1</sup>
Thirty Compete For Scholarships
Thirty senior boys from 21 Kan sas high schools will take the fin tests in the Summerfield scholar ship competition at the University
This morning the group took written examinations in the Union building and this afternoon the students are being personally interviewed by the selection committee. Tonight the candidates will be dinner guests of the Summerfield scholars now in school or on the K.U. faculty.
More written tests will be given the boys tomorrow but will be timed to permit the group to attend the 26th annual Honors convocation.
Scholarship winners will be announced next month. They will receive stipends sufficient to assure them of being able to study at K.U. four years.
The Chancellor's anonymous committee charged with naming the honor student, said that "in a student body of nearly 10,000, there are so many examples of outstanding leadership in so many varied fields that a fair selection is almost impossible."
R. G. Gustavson
The convocation will honor the upper 10 per cent of the senior classes in the various schools. Outstanding students in the other classes will also be named.
New members chosen for honorary fraternities and sororites will be read by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
This will be the third consecutive year in which Honors convocation precedent has been shattered. Two years ago, Howard Engleman, now of Salina, was named honor man while still in school. For 23 years the custom has been to select a man from the preceding year's graduating class. Last year the committee named Mrs. Shirley Wellborn Norris, formerly of Lyndon and now of Topeka, honor woman along with honor man Ray Evans, Kansas City,
Green hall is being redecorated in a variety of modern color schemes. Only the third floor is not completed.
Green Gets New Colors
The basement is white in the main corridor and dark red in the archways. The first floor is painted white and dark green. It extends up the stairway wall to the second floor.
There has been a large number of comments on the new color in the "Law Barn." The remarks seem to be confined to criticism of the colors.
One student remarked that various plots are afoot to paint a hammer and sickle on the basement walls. Other remarks overheard made reference to the "bloody courtroom" and to the first floor as a "girl's dormitory."
According to another student, the task of picking colors was a novel one. Anyone passing the first floor of the "Barn" wearing green were required to stop and have their clothing examined. The color of a secretary's coat was finally used.