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NUMBER 141
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, MAY, 1, 1944
41st YEAR
34 Preps Chosen For Summerfield Award Selection
Thirty-four finalists will come to the campus May 8-9 for consideration as Summerfield Scholars at the University. They include the high school graduates; William D. Somerville, Philip J. Stockton, from the University High School, and Frank Leitnaker, Baldwin, George H. Caldwell, George E. Exon, William E. Howse, Hubert O. Kintzel, John J. McDermott, Jr., and Wallace R. Touse, all of Wichita East, and J. D. Kabler and Dale Rummer of Wichita North high schools, John H. Gerety, Daniel M. Kirkhuff and Richard N. Mammel of Hutchinson, Richard E. Bernard of Abilene, Stanley Kelly and Kenneth Miller of Chapman, Edward J. Cheskey of Herington, William A. Blanchard of Cherryvale, Calvin Bolze of Wyandotte high school, Kansas City, Dwight Chambers and Warren L. Kump of Oberlin, Charles Cory of Topeka, Wilbur Field, Hugoton, David Foley, Norton, Bernard R. Hawley, Atchison*, Dean Gregory, Osborne, Franklin Pomeroy, Holton,YLE Pursell, Paola, John E. Rees, Emporia, Raymond Sangster, Lyons, Norman D. Wilson, Ellsworth, Lynn Winget, Garden City, and Spencer Yohe, Burron.
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Guidance Institute Program Planned
The committee planning the Institute is composed of Dr. Wilson; W.T. Markham, supervisor of occupational information and guidance of the State Board of Vocational Education; A.H. Turney, professor of education; and L.W. Waters, associate professor of economics.
The program of the Guidance Institute and Work Shop sponsored by the School of Education and the School of Business is now being planned by the committee of leaders and advisers, Dr. Elizabeth K. Wilson, director of counseling of the public schools system of Kansas City, Mo., and chairman, has announced.
Problems to be discussed and studied at the Institute will include personnel and management, personnel and education, modern technologies in industry, modern trends in education, techniques in guidance, counseling in industry and in schools, group relationships in industry and in education, problems of personnel advancement, problems of effective guidance In school systems, training directors of personnel in industry, training of guidance workers in education, public service administration, administration of guidance and counseling programs, war influences on our economy, and war influences on our educational systems.
Designed for administrators, supervisors of personnel, directors of guidance, and for classroom teachers the Institute will meet here from June 19 to June 30. Each day's schedule will include a morning program of lecture, discussion of the lecture, and work shop on problems related to that topic, and a similar program for the afternoon.
Colonel Knox Buried At Arlington Today
Washington, (INS)—The body of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox was buried this afternoon in Arlington cemetery.
Following the usual custom, a horse drawn hearse carried Colonel Knox to his final resting place. A service in the Mount Pleasant Congregational church bore the atmosphere of eulogy of a hero brought to his death by the burdens of war.
Shawnee Is Top In Music Meet
The first division ratings awarded in the afternoon have been released by Clifford Dean, superintendent of the Lawrence city schools and general manager of the festival, as follows: Wyandotte—clarinet, French horn, girls' high voice, and girls' low voice; Highland Park—bass clarinet, alto saxophone, and bass horn; Shawnee Mission—drums, baton twirling, xylophone, girls' high voice, girl's medium voice, boys' medium voice, and boys' low voice.
Shawnee, Mission high school took top honors in the district high school musical festival held here Friday with a total of ten first division ratings out of the 39 awarded. Topeka ran a close second with eight number one ratings, with Lawrence placing third with six top ratings. Three hundred and eighty-nine Kansas students attended the one-day festival.
The five top ratings awarded Topeka students in the afternoon were in cornet, marimba, girls' high voice, boys' high voice, and boys' medium voice. Lawrence entries in tenor saxophone, baritone, and girls' medium voice took first division ratings.
Additional number one ratings went to Leavenworth, also for saxophone; to Washington Rural, and Sabetha for entries in the girls' me-
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May Brings Sunny, Gay Weather
The old adage that "April showers bring May flowers" promises to hold true this year, if the bright sunshine with which May Day dawned this morning is any indication.
During the month of April, a total of 9.11 inches of rain fell, nearly three times as much as the average precipitation for the month, according to C.J.Posey, professor of geology.
Temperatures for the month ran slightly cooler than usual, also, with the average for the month about four degrees below the normal of 55.06 degrees.
Stage Stars to Give 'Uniform of the Day' In Fraser Sunday
"In fact, this was the wettest April since 1868." Mr. Posey declared. The average for the month is recorded as 3.14 in normal years.
Students and teacahers alike are hoping for continued clear weather which is necessary for their sports work-outs, picnics, and other spring activities.
The utilization of a college or university education to further personal advancement in the Women's Army Corps will be portrayed by a company of nationally known stage and screen stars when they present "Uniform of the Day" at Fraser theater at 8 p.m. Sunday through special arrangements with the Seventh Service Command headquarters at Omaha. Admission is free to all women on the campus.
Headlining the production will be Pvt. Lon McAllister, who rose to fame almost overnight by his portrayal of the wistful "California" in the movie version of "Stage Door
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Lilac Lane' Blossoms Again In Traditional May Day Fashion
In a program speeded up by the war and with students busily engaged at their work, there is no room in a packed schedule for May Fetes and celebrations this year. Past years have seen students observe their May holiday with a class fight, later carnivals and merry-making holidays from the class rooms, but May Day of 1944 finds that students and military men are too busy.
Yet there can be one tie with May Fetes of former years, for with the coming of warmer weather the lilacs, though late, are beginning to blossom. May Fetes have never been held regularly through the years, but the lilac blossoms in Lilac Lane have characterized spring on the campus for almost 66 years.
The original lilac hedge was planted in 1878 after a suggestion that Chancellor James Marvin had made in chapel. The Douglas County Horticultural Society bought the bush hedge. Mr. Savage and his brother Forrest were farmer-botanists living near Lawrence and were interested in beautifying the University campus which was then bare. As the hedge flourished with other lilac bushes about the campus, the Hill became known as "The Lilac Campus."
The name "Lilac Lane" was given to the street running from Fourteenth street to the present home of the Chancellor by the Lawrence city council in 1935. At that time the home belonged to Mrs. J. B. Watkins, who gave it to the University upon her death.
Capt. Dusinberre to Inspect EM School and V-12 Unit
Today as its buds break open, Lilac Lane heralds May Day on the campus.
After the bushes, weakened by the drought, became infected by borers, the entire southern half of the hedge was uprooted in 1938 to prevent the spread of the borers to other trees and bushes on the campus. Sprouts cut from the lilacs in 1936 had been placed in the greenhouse. These 73 sprouts, grown into plants, were then planted where they once grew on the old bushes.
Capt. R. K. Y. Dusinberre of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington, D. C., is visiting the University Naval Training School today. He will make an inspection of the medical facilities of the electrician's mates school and of the V-12 unit. Captain Dusinberre will also confer with Lt. Comm. M. E. Gloss, medical officer of the training schools.
Class Schedule For Monday Set
Morning classes next Monday will run on a shortened schedule in order to provide an extra hour for the honors convocation at 9:45 a.m., announced Chancellor Deane W. Mallot today. The speaker, Chancellor Benjamin Cherrington of the University of Denver, has chosen for his topic, "Understanding Latin America."
The convocation will be held in Hoch auditorium with morning classes running on a 35-minute basis. Seven-thirty classes will start at the regular time; 8:30's will start at 8:15, and 9:30's at 9 a.m. Following the convocation, the 10:30 classes will be held at 11 a.m. and the 11:30's at 11:45. Afternoon classes will hold to their regular schedule.
Chancellor Cherrington, who is noted for his popularity with young people, has made an extensive study of Latin American relations and has delivered several lectures on the
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American Ship Lost With 498 Aboard
(International News Service)
The aerial attack on German invasion defenses roared into the fifteenth consecutive day as American war planes-blasted the Pas de Calais area along the French coast, and railway centers and communications points in France and Belgium.
One objective of today's raid was a great German munitions dump southwest of Paris. Multiple explosions and fires caused conflagration visible for miles.
From the supreme headquarters of the Allied expeditionary force it was reported that Adolf Hitler has placed German held Europe upon an emergency footing in an effort to upset the Allied invasion time-table.
The war department in Washington announced destruction of an American ship by enemy action in the Mediterranean waters, with a loss of 498 military personnel. The announcement said the ship was sunk recently and that it went down whistling. Next of kin of the personnel have been notified, but no details were given out.
Kuitert Promoted to Captain
Captain Kuiert, who has been awarded the Bronze Star and the Asiatic Pacific ribbon, was graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1939 and was attached to a sanitary corps for a short time.
Louis C. Kuitert, who received his masters degree at the University in 1940, has recently been promoted to the rank of captain. He has been serving in the China-Burma-India war theater for the past five months.
'Nine Girls Opens Tonight At 8:15 in Fraser
"Nine Girls," a murder melodrama with an all-girl cast will open at 8:15 tonight in Fraser theater for a two-night performance after a weekend of dress rehearsals.
The play has proved one of the most popular college plays of the present season, and will probably be given in more college productions than any other play in 1943-44, according to Prof. Crafton. The setting is laid in the living room of a senior club house in the California Sierra Nevada mountains, where one of the girls is murdered just before the action of the play begins.
The whole play centers around the attempt of the murderess, Roberta Sue McCluggage, who is revealed to the audience soon after the play starts, to prevent the others from discovering that she is the guilty one, endangering the lives of several of the girls.
Members of the cast and their parts are:
Holders of activity tickets may exchange stubs for tickets to the play today and tomorrow at the ticket office in the basement of Green hall. The office will be open from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. The ticket office of Fraser will be open at 7:30 both nights for those who have not exchanged their tickets for the play.
"Nine Girls" being presented by the class in directing is the same class which gave "The Women" in 1942 and "Distinguished Service" last year.
Eighty-four University students will take part in the annual spring concert to be presented by the Women's Glee Club at 8 p.m. next Monday in Hoch auditorium, Miss Irene Peabody, director of the organization and instructor in the School of Fine Arts, has announced.
84 Women Will Be In Glee Club Concert
"The diversified program will appeal to young and old," Miss Peabody said.
With the exception of Schubert and Saint Saens, the composers of the musical numbers to be presented are modern.
Jane, Mary Louise Laffer, junior;
Freida, Carolyn Southall, junior;
Marjory Johnson, junior; Eve Alice
McDonnell, senior; Glamourpuss,
Maxine Kelley, junior; Shirley
Kathryn Bonewits, junior; Tennessee,
Patsy Creel, freshman; Shotput,
Shitley Wagner, freshman; Mary,
Roberta Sue McCluggage, junior;
Phyllis, Beverly Susie Presley, junior;
Oral Reading Group to Meet At 7 p.m. Tomorrow in Green
The time for the oral reading group which meets very Tuesday will be changed tomorrow night in order to allow all those interested in attending the play "Nine Girls to do so, announced Miss Margaret Anderson today. Students will meet at 7 p.m. instead of the regular 7:30 p.m. in room 103 of Green hall. Students who are planning to attend should bring poetry to read, stated Miss Anderson.