SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXI
Britisher Tells Of Campaign In Africa
That the Allies' delay in seizing control of North Africa "probably was a good thing, after all," was emphasized Saturday noon by Philip Jordan, British correspondent for the London News Chronicle, at a University luncheon in the English room of the Memorial Union building. About 25 out-of-town guests, faculty members, and Lawrence townpeople attended the luncheon; Dean Paul B. Lawson presided, in the absence of Chancellor Malott who is in the East.
The North Africa campaign, Mr. Jordan explained, has given us two well-trained and experienced armies, now read and eager for the invasion offensive. If the original campaign in Tunisia had succeeded, we should not have had those armies trained as efficient fighting forces.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1943
"Besides, we have had time to arm and equip them properly," he said, "and Americans and the British First Army have learned their jobs in the only way soldiers can learn their jobs—by actual fighting. We have captured at least 248,000 of the best thoups the Axis had, we took tremendous quantities of boooty, and we have learned to work together."
Mr. Jordan praised General Dwight Eisenhower for his "complete lack of vanity, and wonderful ability to get along with men." The correspondent observed the whole Tunisian campaign and reported the final defeat of the Axis forces. The Germans, he said, were demoralized and beaten men—not at all like the cocky prisoners he had previously seen in Russia and in Egypt.
"If the spirit hadn't gone out of them, the Germans could have kept fighting for probably another month in Tunisia. They had enough men, plenty of excellent material, and good positions for a last-ditch fight—but the simply-gave up. The Italians fought much better at the end than the Germans did."
The British correspondent was in-
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ROTC Available To Engineers
"It will be possible for students enrolling in the 16-week engineering term to complete a semester of ROTC work during that session," stated Col. William C. Washington, head of the department of military science and tactics.
Colonel Washington added that courses will be arranged to permit greatest possible flexibility in enrollment. Only freshman and sophomore courses will be available for the duration, but any student who is eligible and who wishes to obtain credit in military science and tactics in those two years of work will be accommodated, he said.
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Enrollment Figure Stands at 1,342
Two hundred and seventy-six students registered last week for work in the eight week summer session, according to figures released from the registrar's office. That brought the total summer enrollment of regular students to 1,342.
The total figure does not include more than 1,200 students engaged in special work, such as women enrolled in the aeronautical technician program, naval air cadets, marines taking academic work, women enrolled in signal corps training, and other specialized training programs.
The overall enrolment figure is expected to increase July 1, when 500 navy V-12 engineers begin studying at the University and when pre-medic students from other schools will come here to complete their training.
Tropic Diseases To Be Subject Of Clinic
By the K.U. News Bureau
The clinic was one of a series that is being held over Kansas, and interests among the members of the medical profession has been great because of the importance of knowledge of tropical diseases occasioned by the fact that thousands of Kansas young men are on military fronts in countries where the most virulent types of malaria and other tropical diseases, are prevalent.
By the K.U. News Bureau
A post-graduate medical clinic on tropical diseases, for the doctors of Labette and adjacent counties was held at the Quality Cafe in Parsons, on Saturday and Sunday, June 19 and 20, under the auspices of the Kansas Medical Society, the Kansas State Board of Health, and the University School of Medicine.
'Where, as before, we relied entirely upon rigid quarantine at the port of entry, we must now be prepared to diagnose, treat and control these diseases in almost every inland community.'
Faculty members for the clinic included Dr. H. L. Douglas, assistant professor of medicine, and instructor in tropical medicine, School of Medicine, Kansas City; Dr. H. B. Hungerford, professor of entomology; and Miss Mary E. Larson, assistant professor of zoology.
Medical authorities have pointed out that interstate and foreign quarantine has broken down completely under the magnitude and scope of present air transportation. Soldiers returning from infested areas, together with thousands of war industrial workers from southern states, provide a potential source for the spread of tropical diseases in Kansas: Said Dr. Douglas:
The first session of the clinic treated malaria and its control. The second session dealt with the dysenteries and their control, and clinical discussion with other tropical diseases.
Faculty Recital To Be Given Tomorrow
Practically the entire School of Fine Arts music faculty are engaged in teaching the 8-week term at the University. Tomorrow evening, June 23, seven of the artist-teachers will be heard in a recital in Fraser Hall at 8 o'clock.
A program of light music has been arranged that will be varied and appealing to all types of music lovers. Ruth Orcutt and Allie Merle Conger of the piano faculty will open and close the hour's program with numbers arranged for two pianos, which will include such lively dance numbers as a Viennese polka on a theme from Johann Strauss and "Tango at Midnight" by Simmons.
Joseph Wilkins, head of the department of voice, will be heard in three arias from the operas "Barber of Seville," and "La Tosca." Mr. Wilkins sang numerous times in opera while studying in Italy and was for four years leading tenor of the well-known Schubert Opera Company in its tours in this country.
Maribah Moore, soprano, and Irene Peabody, mezzo-soprano, will combine their talents and be heard in three attractive duets, one of which will be from the opera "Madame Butterfly."
Jan Chiapusso will be heard in piano solos from Chopin and Ravel. Mr. Chiapusso has toured extensively in this country and in Europe.
Waldemar Geltch, violinist, will be heard in three well-chosen numbers—one of which will be Richard Czerworky's arrangement of the Sioux Flute Serenade written by the late Dr. Charles Sanford Skil-
Mme. Dony Talks Here Tomorrow
Madame Francoise Dony will lecture on "What Europe Knows of the United States" at a regular convocation at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in Fraser theater.
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A doctor of science and a doctor of philosophy, Mme. Dony is a Fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation and was assistant professor at Brussels University. She is the secretary of the Belgian Federation of University Women.
Mme. Dony, who has lectured at Vassar, Dartmouth and other schools and has worked at Wisconsin University and Iowa State University, is lecturer elect at Bryn Mawr College, Penn., and lecturer at the Franco-Belgian University in New York.
Mme. Dony's lecture here is one of a group of six concerning what the post-war world will be, which she will deliver before University audiences and women's clubs all over the country.
18 Graduates Train For Commissions
Eighteen men who were graduated from the University this spring are in training at the University of Notre Dame for navy officers' commissions, according to publicity releases sent from there and received by Dr. Laurence C. Woodruff, registrar and coordinator of military information.
The men include Norman E. Bruce Mission; Ardon J. Butel, El Dorado; Charles L. Clinkenbeard, Topeka; Wayne Joslyn Dewey, Garden City; Warren Robert DeYoung, Prairie View; Robert Eugene Earnheart, Kansas City; Howard G. Johnson, Miltonvale; Dale Gordon, Larned; Walter H. M. Hendricks, Wellington; J. R. Holt, Ellsworth; Armin V. Landis, Lawrence; Kenneth Larkins, Kansas City, Mo.; Dale Lemon, Parker; Charles Rayl, Hutchinson; Chas Russell, jr., Iola; Carl Loreh Thach, Burtron; Willis Tomkins, Council Grove; and John R. Wells, Kansas City.
The men are attending the U.S.N. R. Midshipman's School situated on the campus of the University of Notre Dame at South Bend, Indiana. After each man has completed the prescribed course in officers' training, he will be commissioned an ensign in the naval reserve and assigned to active duty.
Editors Elect Kelley, Wallace To Hall of Fame
The distinction and honor of being elected to the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame at the University have come this year to Elmer E. Kelley, who wrote the "Kansas Grass Roots" column in the Topeka Daily Capital for years, and to Leslie N. Wallace, publisher of the Larned Tiller and Toiler for 24 years. Both died in 1940; they were elected by the unique Quarter Century Club—all of whose members worked on Kansas newspapers for at least 25 years. No newspaper man may be elected to the Hall of Fame until three years after his death.
Framed photographs of Mr. Kelley and Mr.Wallace now hang in the newsroom of the Journalism building; the Hall of Fame collection includes photographs of the 22 other editors who have been elected since 1931.
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Before he became a partner of Harvey Eckert on the Larned Tiller and Toiler in 1914, Mr. Wallace had worked on the Paola Times, the Topeka Capital, the Iola Register, and the Kansas City Star; he had also been Washington Correspondent for the Topeka State Journal, and private secretary to Charles F. Scott, then a member of Congress.
University Helps Fight Flood Waters
Students, sailor trainees, faculty, army medical students, University employees, marine and navy cadets and other personnel associated with the University turned in out for last week to struggle with the flooding Kaw river, on its biggest rampage in over 30 years.
Probably the most outstanding and most widely talked about feat was the heroism of more than half a hundred sailors who used their bodies to fill a breach in a dike until sandbags could be brought to repair the break.
Members of the army medical training program, all formerly regular University students, were called out at 6:30 p.m. Thursday to aid in fighting the flood. A telegram from district headquarters was received by Colonel William C. Washington, head of the department of military science and tactics, and he ordered two detachments of trainees under the commands of lieutenants to assist George Hedrick, chairman of disaster preparedness and relief committee of the Douglas County chapter of the Red Cross.
Male students were excused by Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, from attending Friday morning classes if they were working on the river. Mr. Lawson and Raymond Nichols, secretary to the Chancellor, were called early that morning by local officials concerning the possibility of securing student help and the two men called fraternities, scholarship halls, and cooperative houses and asked students to offer their services at the flood headquarters downtown. Many students responded to the call and classes were lightly attended all day Friday. Previously, some students had worked two nights
The "Southernaires," colored male quartet, will appear in Lawrence as the third attraction on the University summer session series, on Thursday, July 22, according to Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts.
Change Made in Date For Colored Quartet
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So full is the concert schedule of the quartet that considerable difficulty was encountered in trying to find a date suitable to the University calendar.
Another change in date has been made in the second concert attraction of the summer session series—the recital by Maria Hussa, concert soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, who will sing in Fraser theater on Thursday evening, July 1.
Tickets for both the Hussa recital and for the Southernaires will be on sale soon at the Fine Arts office at popular prices.