UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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APRIL 26,1946
Last Year's Honor Students Are Listed
School of Engineering and architecture: Preston Clement, senior; George Adams, junior, and Duncan Somerville, sophomore.
This year's student scholastic leaders will be announced at Honors convocation Tuesday morning in Hooch auditorium.
At the twenty-second annual Honors convocation last year the following students now attending the University led their respective schools in scholarship: (Where the decision was close, more than one name is given.)
School of Fine Arts: Allen Rogers senior, and Ardella Ringwalt, sophomore.
College: Clyde Jacobs, Mary Morrill, Marjorie Shriek, Merle D. Wagoner and Beverley Jane Waters, seniors; George Caldwell, Teresa Norton and Grace Witt, Juniors; Virginia Allen, Clarence Francisco, Kenneth Miller, Alverna Niedens and Shirley Wellborn, sophomores.
School of Education: Violet Conard, senior.
School of Business: Esther Dudgcon, senior.
School of Law: Kipp Gimple, third year law; Robert Holland and Richard Young, second year law.
School of Pharmacy: Betty Whitney, senior; Amy Rasher, junior; and Margaret Dixon, sophomore.
School of Medicine; William Harsha and Robert W. Wright, sophomores.
Mortar Board members selected on the basis of leadership and scholarship were Betty Whitney, Charlotte Price, Mary Morrill, Frances James, Eugenia Hepworth, Julia Ann Casad, and Elizabeth McKenzie. Also selected were Elizabeth Baker and Dolores Sulzman, who are not enrolled now.
Sachem members selected were Keith Bunnel, Clyde Jacobs, Bolivar Marquez, Albert Chase. Rudy Carl and Thad Marsh, also selected, are not students now.
Washington. (UP)—Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach said today that he would call disputants in the coal strike into new joint conferences next Monday or Tuesday in an effort to get negotiations going again.
Guy W. Smith Named Mathematics Head
Before coming to the University, Dr. Smith had taught at the University of Colorado from 1909 to 1913; the University of Illinois from 1913 to 1917; Beloit College, 1917 to 1918; and the University of Kentucky from 1918 to 1920.
The mathematics department has a peak load of students this semester—1750 in all. Reasons for the increased enrollment are given as being due to heavy enrollments in engineering, and the fact that almost all branches of science are now demanding knowledge of mathematics.
Dr. Guy W. Smith is the new chairman of the department of mathematics at the University. He succeeds Dr. E. B. Stouffer who has been appointed dean of the University.
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DR. GUY W. SMITH
Dr. Smith began teaching in the mathematics department in 1920 and was made a professor in 1934. He is one of six members of the mathematics staff who have taught in the department for 25 years or more.
Prof. Raymond C. Moore, state geologist, and K.U. geology professor addressed the Pick and Hammer club of the University of Oklahoma at its annual banquet at Norman. Thursday.
Moore Discussed Peru In Address at Oklahoma
Professor Moore discussed geological work he has done in Peru
Y.M.C.A. Secretary Said 'I Do' To the Um-Pa-Pa of a Calliope
By BEVERLY BAUMER
(Daily Kansan Staff Writer)
Ned Linegar, K.U.'s new Y.M.C.A. secretary, insists he's a "pretty common fellow," but most common fellows don't have to scream above the bump-pa-pa of a calliope and the roar of an airplane in order to get married.
Mr. Linegar did.
During the ceremony, which was held on the front lawn of his flame's house overlooking the Ohio river, a steam boat, equipped with a calliope, passed by. The bridegroom couldn't bear himself say "I do," so his future father-in-law influenced the captain of the boat to quit making with the music. Then an airplane zoomed over continually for 15 minutes. But regardless of the racket, he got his Mrs.
The new "Y" secretary arrived here recently from Philadelphia, where he worked in a rural recreational center. Before that, he was associate Y.M.C.A. secretary at Pennsylvania State college, and he was employed in Chicago as an assistant program director for a Y.M.C.A. hotel that housed 2,500 men. He graduated from the University of Missouri, and did graduate work at the University of Cincinnati.
Besides doing recreational work, Mr. Linegar has worked with the bosane and feeble minded. During the war, he did social work in a school for mental cases.
In the school, located near Philadelphia, were several idiosavants, among them, a 25-year-old, who
"He was never wrong. He could tell you what day Christmas fell on in 1890, 1920—any time. I only knew once when he missed, and that was when he was doing it in front of a clinical group, and got excited."
He told of other unusual cases like one man who would ask your birth date, and then tell you what day of the week it fell on.
could tell the exact time day o. night, without looking at a watch.
"Recreation has many religious activities, and one big problem the church is not wanting to combine the two. Persons express their personalities through recreation, and it is possible to be religious and recreational-minded at the same time," Mr. Linear stated.
Mr. Linegar, somewhat portly brown haired and brown eyed, who reminds you of the "friendly minister back home you always wanted to talk with but did not get the chance," has lots of ideas on the practical application of religion, though not a minister himself.
Religious questions somehow always come into his "Y" work, and he thinks recreation should tie in with religion.
The new secretary will establish his office in the subbasement of the Union. As for plans in the future, he says that his job will be to help coordinate Y.M.C.A. activities, to act as a student counselor, and to be responsible for the concessions for the organization, but as for government and control of the "Y" the men themselves are to "call it theirs," he declared.
To Understand 'Skin Of Our Teeth, Just Take Along Your Imagination
"What's going on, anwway?"
That's a typical reaction to "Skin of Our Teeth," by Thornton Wilder, according to Allen C. Crafton, director of the student play which will be given in Fraser theater, at 8:15 p.m., Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
"First of all, we're going to try to make the play clear to the audience," Professor Crafton said.
All the spectator needs, he said, is knowledge of the history of the human race, a few points of Biblical history (especially the story of Cain), and a sense of humor.
George Antrobus, played by Herk Harvey, represents the average man. At first he is a roughneck "banging his family around." He is the inventor of the wheel and the alphabet. Through the ages, he becomes rich, egotistical, and pleasure-loving. He survives disaster after disaster, finally becoming discouraged and humbled after a war but he still believes in man's progress.
Mrs. Antrobus, played by Mrs. Kathleen Howland, fights to keep their home intact, lies and cheats for her children, tolerates "the other woman," and campaigns for women's rights.
Raeburn May Play (If Thev Find Him)
Boyd Raeburn and his band may play for the K-club dance May 11 and then again—
Before the Easter vacation, Harold Hunter, varsity dance manager, sent Raeburn a contract to sign, and half of his fee in advance. This week, when Raeburn had not returned the Hunter contacted the Hollywood band which had booked the band. He was told to contact Raeburn personally.
Today, by long distance telephone Hunter is hunting Raeburn, who is touring southwestern army camps in an army C-46 transport plane.
"We expect to catch up with him by tomorrow, and have him signed definitely," Hunter said this morning. "We'll have a band for that dance yet!"
Holtzclaw Elected Religious Group Head
New officers of the Student Religious council, elected Thursday, are Mary Holtzclaw, president; Charles Dillon, vice-president; and Margaret Gruenthal, secretary-treasurer.
The council is beginning to plan Religious Emphasis week for next year.
The United Indian Traders association today announced its code of standards for genuine hand-made Navajo and Pueblo Indian jewelry, and prepared to license use of its stamp and mark on silver in order that quality hand work can be readily identified.
Gallup, N.M. (UP)—From now on, tourist purchasers of Indian jewelry can be sure they're getting the real McCoy.
The mark will consist of the initials of the group, UITA, with an arrowhead breaking the letters in the center. A number, designating the member who applied the mark, will follow the arrowhead.
New Standards Set For Indian Jewelry
The executive committee has also ruled out use of power machinery in the fashioning of jewelry, except in the grinding and polishing of stones and for final finishing. Power equipment that tends to shape, design, stamp or cut out jewelry is prohibited.
Boston. (UP)—More American wheat will be shipped to Japan as an alternative to sending more troops to Gen. Douglas MacArthur to halt possible food riots, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said last night.
New Year's day is Scotland's chief national holiday.
Henry, the son (Robert Mickle) closely resembles Cain, the killer. In act three, he becomes "brute force," the supreme enemy of mankind. Gladys, the daughter (Mary Booth), is the eternal girl growing into womanhood.
Lily Sabina, the maid (Beverly Sue Presley), is the "woman-in-the-case," the breaker-up of home life
case," the breaker-up of home life. Supporting characters are Fred Thomas, John Elliott, Nicholas Schmidt, Gerald Wilson, Vincent Baker, Haney Scott, Benjamin Williams, Mary Ella Lella, Lorraine Tambu, Ari Tindall, Margaret Goosney, Edith Lessenden, Bettylu Cespedes, Susan Bartlett, Buford Tribble, Don Harling, and Mrs. Nicholas Schmidt.
Sunflower Dames To Have Dance
A definite time for initiation of K.U. Sunflower wives who wish to be K.U. Dames will be announced by Mrs. Robert P. Hagen, president
The Sunflower K.U. Dames will hold a dance in the Sunflower clubroom at 8 p.m. Monday, Mrs.Weymouth G. Lowe, social chairman, announced at the regular meeting Wednesday.
The second in a series of lectures on interior decorating was given by Mr. Arvid Jacobson of the University staff, Thursday night. Approximately 100 women attended.
Tickets may be obtained from committee members Mrs. W. S. Perry, Mrs. R. M. Dixon and Mrs. Wilma Ford or at the Sunflower clubroom.
Bids for the addition to the Military Science building have been opened but no contracts have been signed, C. G. Bayles, buildings and grounds superintendent, said today.
Military Addition Awaits Contracts
Work on the 51 $ \frac{1}{2} $ by 41 foot stone addition will not begin until contracts have been let and material is available, he said. Estimated cost of the addition is $ 25,000.
To Human Relations Conference
Harry Lees, Armando Rivas, Alvaro Chavarria, Irene Cebula, and Ned Linegar, Y.M.C.A. secretary, will attend the Institute on Human Relations at the University of Kansas City campus tomorrow. Chavarria and Miss Cebula will perform the rhumba which they presented at the A.A.U.W. Fun Fest Wednesday night.
Army Unveils Secret Of Night-Fighting With Infra-Red Rays
Indianapolis, (UP)—The army has taken the wraps off of the "sniperscope" and the "snooperscope," two infrared devices credited with 30 per cent of the Jap casualties on Okinawa.
The devices enabled U.S. sooters and marines to seek out and kill the enemy in total darkness by means of infra-red radiation.
The Sniper scope, mounted on a 30 calibre carbine, and the Snooper-scope, a hand model, made it possible for fighters to shoot an invisible beam of light into the night. Both models have what appears to be a fog灯, its glass face painted black, and an eyepiece resembling a telescope. The entire unit is connected to a power supply carried on the soldier's back.
Among the most carefully-guarded secrets of the war, the "sniperscope" and "snooperscope" were demonstrated yesterday by the manufacturer, the Electronic Laboratories of Indianapolis. The army permitted the demonstration after it was learned that the Germans had used "night sight" equipment during the war.
Here's the Sniperscope works:
A fighter hears a sound. He points the Sniperscope into the darkness, peers into the eyepiece and turns on his power supply. He swings the weapon back and forth like an invisible searchlight until he sights the enemy.
The enemy soldier is unaware that he is surrounded by an aura of greenish light. (In the eyepiece all objects appear as various shades of green.)
The soldier takes a bead on the enemy through the eyepiece and fires his carbine.
Simple, isn't it?
Maud Ellsworth To Be Hostess
To Delegate in New York
Miss Maud Ellsworth, education professor, will be hostess to delegates from Scotland at the World Education conference in New York City. August 17 to 30.
Twenty-three nations are sending delegates to the conference, and each state in the United States will provide their expenses. Headquarters for the conference will be the Endacott estate near New York City.
Miss Ellsworth was appointed by the State Teachers' association to represent Kansas.
Washington. (UP)—The battleship Nevada, painted a bright orange, has been selected as the center target for the first atomic bomb test to be held this summer at Bekini Atoll.
Howard is the largest Negro university in the country.
Playing Music From the Skies Miss Orcutt, Pianist, Also Flies
Miss Ruth Orcutt, associate professor of piona, not only makes good keyboard contact, but also make "cockpit contact" as well—she holds a pilot's license and flew the length of the West coast and over Death Valley in 1941.
Miss Orcutt, who came to the University as assistant professor of piano in 1928, was advanced in 1938 to the position of associate professor. She has studied piano with Percy Granger, Rudolph Krugel and Edward Hilly, and Ernest Krogski and composition under Felix Borossoski and Arnold Volbe.
She has written many solo pieces for piano and voice. Her "Concert Piece for Piano and Orchestra" was conducted by Grainger in Chicago at a national convention of Mu Phi Epsilon, national honorary music sorority, and later at a State Music Teacher's convention.
At a Mu Phi Epsilon convention at Mills college in California in 1936, two of Miss Orcutt's compositions, "Pasacaglia for Piano," and the piano solo, "Concert Piece" won first prizes in their respective divisions.
After being graduated from high school in Gillespie, Ill., attended the University of Blackburn, Carlinville,
Ill, Forest Park university in St. Louis, and Kroeger School of Music. Later she attended the University of Chicago and Chicago Musical college, where she received her bachelor of music degree in 1925, and a master of music degree in 1924. In 1932, she received a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas.
Miss Orcutt is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Mu Phi Epsilon, Pi Delta Phi, French national society, Pi Kappa Lambda, honorary music maternity, the Society of Native American opportunities and the State Music Teacher's association. In 1943, she was secretary of this organization.
She has appeared as solist with the Chicago Symphony orchestra under the conductors, Henry Hadley, Leon Sametini, and Percy Grainger. Later she appeared as solist with the St. Louis Symphony orchestra, and the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra.
She has been playing at faculty concerts and concerts over the state. At a recent State Music Teacher's convention in Emporia, she played accompaniment for members of the Harthouse String quartet.
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