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41ST YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1944
NUMBER 73
Wiley to Direct Coming Concert Of KU Symphony
Symphonic in content and masterful in presentation, the orchestra concert scheduled for 8 o'clock in Moeh auditorium next Monday evening promises to be one of the year's outstanding musical events performed by a University group.
Russell L. Wiley, conductor, pointed out that the program was made up entirely of symphonic works, in contrast with the light musical show or "Pops" concert to be presented by the University band Feb. 7. "There is nothing low-brow on the orchestra program," he emphasized.
The University's 70-piece orchestra is one of the few school organizations left intact and functioning. Wiley said. Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts recently returned from a Chicago meeting elated over the fact that the University has a larger orchestra than such schools as Michigan University, which has only a string ensemble.
The orchestra's violin section has been acclaimed one of the best of recent years, Wiley revealed. "We are fortunate under the war conditions to have so many fine first-air people left in college," he added.
Wiley commented that he had spent his first 20 years preparing to be an orchestra conductor and that after 10 years away from his original field, he has his first opportunity to lead an orchestra. Wiley replaces Karl Kuersteiner, on leave from the University, as orchestra conductor.
The program, which will feature symphonic works of Wagner. Bruck.
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Jo Abbitt to Recruit KU Blood Donors For Red Cross Bank
Josephine Abbitt, College sophomore, has been selected to recruit blood donors among University students when the Red Cross blood donor service visits Lawrence on Feb. 3 and 4. Miss Abbitt holds the record in Douglas County for blood donations having made her sixth contribution to the bank bank in October.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the University health service, is the chairman of the blood donor committee for Douglas county.
Any person in good health and between the ages of 18 and 60 is acceptable as a donor. Persons under 21 years of age must bring with them to the blood bank a permit, signed by their parents, on a form supplied by the Red Cross.
As a special convenience, University volunteers may register at Watkins Memorial hospital on the afternoon of Jan. 25. From Jan. 26 through Feb. 2, appointments will be made at the Community building, preferably by telephone. Mrs. Ralph I. Canuteson is in charge of registrations. Volunteer workers—graduate nurses, nurses' aides, receptionists, motor corpsmen, and canteen helpers—are under the supervision of Mrs. Caryl Dodds.
Faculty Recital Postponed; Date to Be Announced
The faculty recital of Miss Meribah Moore, associate professor of voice in the School of Fine Arts, originally scheduled for tonight, has been postponed. The date for the recital will be announced later.
Play Canceled At Last Minute
Because of insufficient interest of the students, the production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by the Dramatic Workshop has been called off, announced Prof. Allen Crafton of the speech department. Rehearsals were to have started today.
"I regret to announce," said Professor Crafton, "that there does not seem to be sufficient interest in the Dramatic club or the University as a whole to put on a play at this time. Probably not more than half the women members of the club came out for tryouts—not enough women appeared during the two days of tryouts to take all the necessary parts of the play. Only two men appeared."
Scenery Built, Costumes Made
Professor Crafton has been working the past two weeks on the scenery for the Shakespearian play, which was to have been given sometime in February as a burlesque, comedy romance. Plans had been made for the costumes, the orchestra was half organized, and the scenery partly painted for the production.
"There are definite, natural, understandable reasons why there is not the interest," added Prof. Crafton. "The world we're used to, the world we have lived by, has disappeared. This is true of other activities, but there is less interest in the theater in this section of the country than anywhere else in the United States."
Professor Crafton said that he would like to do the play sometime next semester, as the production is half built, but that, right now, it is an impossibility.
Lt. Pederson Moved To Advance Training
Lt. (j.g.) O. N. Pederson, from Lubbock, Texas, ship's service officer of the naval training school, has been ordered to an advanced officer's training school at Fort Schuyler, Bronx, N. Y., Chief Yeoman G. O. Starkey announced today.
After the eight-week training period, Lieutenant Pederson, a graduate of Texas Tech in 1936 with a bachelor of business administration degree, expects sea duty as a line officer.
Washington (INS) — Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced today the United States has notified Soviet Russia that this government is prepared to use its good offices in an effort to bring about a resumption of diplomatic relations between Russia and the Polish exiled government in London.
Lieutenant Pederson, who came to the Navy school here in July, 1942, received his officer's training at Notre Dame. He was promoted to lieutenant junior grade in May, 1943.
US Promises to Help Solve Russo-Polish Relations
Responsibility for further deterioration in Russo-Polish relations was laid at the door of Moscow by competent Polish officials today.
Dr.Hibbard's Slides Show Fossil Care
When buffaloes roamed the plains, scientists from the East sent scouts to collect fossils in Kansas, Dr. Claude W. Hibbard told an audience yesterday afternoon in the last of a series of lectures sponsored by Dyche museum.
"To collect fossils you have to go where deposits were laid down at the time the animals lived," Dr. Hibbard said. That is why the beds of Western Kansas are the sources of fossils of elephants, rhinoceros, camels, horses, and ground sloths. The beds in eastern Kansas were laid down 100,000,000 years ago before these animals existed.
Fossils Protected in Plaster
After the bones are found, collectors put a coat of shellac over them and let it dry, then cover with a rice paper tissue and plaster of paris. By this means the fossils are protected in shipment back to the museums.
Two methods of finding small fossils are sifting the sands and dirties which contain material and washing the material that is in slits and clays by running water through screen-bottomed boxes.
Dr. Hibard showed a series of slides illustrating the way fossils are dug, the techniques of sifting and washing the bones, the drying of the fossils in the air on towels, the assembling of the skeletons, and the appearance of the animals after they
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Eisenhower Silent On Invasion Plans As Allies Drive on
While Allied forces battered their way toward Cassino in Italy and the Russians uncorked a driving new offensive toward the Balkan states, Gen. Dwight W. Eisenhower and Sir Henry Maitland Wilson received correspondence in their respective new headquarters and gave a few hints as to what will be done in the coming year to knock Germany out of the war.
Eisenhower spoke in London from the new supreme headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces and his chief disclosure was that Lt. Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley has been made senior ground commander of all American troops in the European theater of operations.
Wilson, Eisenhower's successor as commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean theater spoke in Algiers. His promise was that Allied troops will invade southern France if that proves to be the weakest link in Nazi fortifications.
All will strike where speediest defeat can be meaten out to the military power that started the war. As Sir Henry Maitland Wilson spoke, the forces under his command thrust forward on the route to Rome. Allied troops spearheaded by the U. S. Fifth army lashed at the enemy in preparation for a general assault on Cassino., the main enemy garrison blocking the road to the capital. Advance elements pressed forward from vantage points two miles from Cassino to the banks of the Rapido river.
Lorimer Chosen as First Woman To Be Senior Class President; Other Class Officers Appointed
The first woman president of a senior class in the history of the University of Kansas has been appointed. She is Jane Lorimer, business senior from Olathe. Appointments of class officers were made this year by Peggy Davis, president of the All-Student Council. In former years, class officers have been selected at class elections, but due to wartime conditions created on the campus, it was thought that officers should be appointed by the
Vespers Given By Music Club
Members of Mu Phi Epsilon presented a vesper program of agreeable, easy-to-listen-to music to a small audience yesterday afternoon in their third semiannual vesper performance.
Lueile Rothenberger, pianist,
opened the program with Rubinstein's
“Staccato Etude.” Helen
Pierson played a violin solo, Wieniawski’s “Romance”、“Tranquility”
(Foote) and “If I Could Tell You”
(Firestone) were sung by Suzanne
Schmidt, contralto.
The two-piano team of Beth Beamer and Hope Crittenden played Chaminades "Le Soir." Martha Lee Baxter, cellist, played Offenbach's "Musette." Two Chopin etudes were played by Frances Gulick, pianist.
Barbara Huls highlighted the program with her violin solos, the Concerto in G Minor (First Movement)" by Bruch. The last number was a sparkling piece, "The Mill," played by Peggy Kay, first violin; Harriet Danly, second violin; Barbara Huls, viola; and Martha Lee Baxter, violoncello.
Ruth Orcutt, Shirley Strain, and Hope Crittenden furnished the accompaniments.
Second EM Group Arrives on Campus
The second platoon of electrician's mates arrived Saturday from boot training at the Great Lakes Naval Training school, Chief Yeoman George O. Starkey announced today.
The new trainees were given screening tests today, and will start classes tomorrow, Chief Starkey added.
The 56 men of this platoon, combined with the first platoon of equal size which arrived two weeks ago, will constitute the first company of EM's to receive training here. Lt. McGuigan will be company commander of both platons during their 16-week training period.
Chief Starkey explained that in the future the platoons would be combined into groups of two and be designated as a company, as the first two have been. However, the platoons will arrive and graduate at two-week intervals. The 18th division of machinist's mates, now nearing the end of its training period, will be the last group to be known as a division.
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Underclass Officers Appointed
Edwin Read, engineering senior from Leavenworth, was named vicepresident of the graduating class of 1944 and Glen Gilpin, business senior from Riley, was appointed secretary-treasurer.
Joanne Burch, College sophomore from Wichita, is president of the class of 1946 and will be assisted by Oliver Samuel, vice-president. Samuel is an engineer from Emporia. John Michener, College sophomore from Wichita, is secretary-treasurer.
Donald Alderson, business junior from King City, Mo., will lead the class of 1945. Virginia Rader, College junior from Howard, was appointed vice-president and Maxine Jones, College junior from Topeka, secretary-treasurer.
Michael Nichols, freshman in the College from Phillipsburg, was appointed president of the class of 1947. Patricia Graham, College freshman from Winfield, will be vicepresident and Betty Bixby, College freshman from Valley Center, was appointed secretary-treasurer. Begin Plans for Graduation
Senior officers have started work on graduation activities. The class will have a rather perplexing problem because of the breaking up of the graduating class and the addition of more graduation exercises, Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association said. This year there will be a graduation for Army medics January 31, the mid-year graduation, March 1, and the spring graduation July 3.
Mr. Ellsworth stated that there might possibly have been a woman president of the graduating class in 1875, Kate Stevens, noted author and teacher. However, there is no definite proof that such is true.
Principal VanSlyck Dies in Topeka
Word was received today in the Alumni office that Willard N. Van Slyck, principal of Topeka High School, died yesterday. Van Slyck was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1914 and received his masters degree in 1928.
For several years he was principal of Salina High School, and he has been principal of Topeca High School since 1828. He took an active part in alumni activities and was an outstanding educator. In 1936, he was elected president of the National Department of Standard School Principals of the National Educational Association. He had two sons, Willard Jr. and Harold.
K. U. Dames To Meet Tuesday Night The K.U. Dames bridge group will meet Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Eldon Rich, 736 Mississippi St. The meeting will begin at 8:00 p.m.