UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1942
39th YEAR
Engineers Elect Lichty President
Franklin Lichty, junior engineer from Mankato, was elected president of the Engineering Council, yesterday, for the coming term. Lichty won the office by a safe margin when he defeated candidates John Beamer, junior, and Carl Unruh, junior.
Lichty will replace Dick Lee, senior engineer, from Leavenworth.
Other representatives who were elected are as follows: vice-president, George Bolt, junior; secretary-treasurer, Bill McIntire, junior; senior class representative, Burt Larson, junior class representative, tie between Ralph May and Reed Whetstone; sophomore class representative, Tylon Schuerman; department of architectural engineering representative, Evans Folger, freshman; department of mining and metalurgy engineering representative, Ken Keene, junior; department of petroleum engineering representative, Ed Mishou, special student; department of mechanical engineering representative, tie between Malcolm Harned, junior, and Laurie Russell, junior; department of civil engineering representative, Ted Moser, junior; department of chemical engineering representative, Herbert Hoover; and department of electrical engineering representative, Bob Horak, junior.
Definite arrangements have not as yet been made concerning the ties. However, they will probably be settled either by a special "run-off election" or a settlement by the engineering council.
Honorary Business Frat Initiates 11
Beta Gamma Sigma, national honorary business society, held its annual initiation banquet at 6 o'clock Thursday evening in the English room of the Memorial Union building.
Th following eight seniors of the School of Business were initiated; Robert Fluker, Clay Center; Victor Loskot; Ellsworth; Robert McElfresh, Osage City; John Poos, Nortonville; Dorothy Stump, Kansas City, Mo.; Donald Sussex, Kansas City, Kans.; Franklin Taylor, Hutchinson; and Ruth Wiedemann, Topeka.
The following three juniors were initiated: Dan Merriott, Lawrence; Wiley Mitchell, Valley Falls; and Paul Woolpert, Topeka.
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New officers were also elected for the coming year. They are: Professor John G. Blocker, president; and Kullervo Louhi, secretary-treasurer.
Since the full quota of seniors has not yet been taken this year, it is contemplated that another elec-
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Percy Grainger Conducts--- Successful Music Camp Assured, Says Swarthout
Doubts concerning the music camp this summer caused by the uncertain times are being dispelled by the numerous enrollments the School of Fine Arts is receiving daily, Dean D. M. Swarthout said yesterday.
"The outlook is becoming very encouraging and a successful camp is assured," Swarthout added.
camp is assured. Swartzland The seventh annual mid-west music camp will be held on
the campus from June 8 to July 19, with Percy Grainger, well-known pianist - composer as camp conductor.
Russell L. Wiley, University band conductor, will be director of the camp.
Grainger, Australian composer of "Country Gardens" and numerous other numbers, is making his second appearance as conductor of the camp, having served in that capacity last year. He is familiar with the University, for he has appeared several times previous to last year on concert series as piano virtuoso. In addition to his conducting, Grainger will present a piano concert before the camp is out.
Numerous other band and orchestra conductors will be here from all over the United States, including J. Vincent Bach, New York
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DEAN D. M. SWARTHOUT
. . . sounds all-clear signal
New Plans ★★★ Dance Variety Next Year
Noticing the lag in the attendance at the Varsity dances, Larry McSpadden, newly appointed dance manager for next year, has announced some plans for the parties beginning next fall.
McSpadden explained that he plans to give the students more dances for lower prices and also to add special entertainment features. The idea of night club varieties with tables and coke service is being discussed and may be adopted for some of the dances next year.
Planning to make each varsity different in some way from the others, McSpadden said he believed that the two-hour dances were more popular with the students and would probably be given.
McSpadden explained he would like to have suggestions from students in order to make the varsities an all-student function.
NOTICE
Turn to page 6 for the guest editorial by Walter Sandelius, professor of political science, on "Second Thought on the Atlantic Charter."
Senior Meeting Tomorrow
Seniors in all schools of the University will be excused from classes at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in order that they may attend the senior meeting in Fraser theater during that hour.
Senior committees, in a joint meeting last Wednesday in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building, made final reports on plans for commencement week and also made plans for reports to be given at the senior class meeting tomorrow.
Howard Rankin, senior class president, urges all seniors to be at the meeting because several important items will be discussed which should be of great interest.
A class gift will be decided upon by the group at the meeting and class dues and commencement plans will be voted upon.
Hugo T. Wedell, Chief Justice of the State Supreme court, and president of the University Alumni association, and Balfour Jeffries, general chairman of membership committee, will be present at the meeting. Both men reside in Topeka.
Chairmen of all senior committees will report on what their committees have done in planning for commencement and the senior class will vote on the plans.
Display Silks' Art For Commencement
A collection of water color and oil paintings by Donald Silks, instructor in drawing and painting, will be on display in Spooner-Thayer museum during commencement week.
SPOONER-THAYER MUSEUM .no oil shortage here
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the School of Fine Arts in 1936.
exhibits in New York and other
Silks was graduated from Since that time he has had ex eastern cities. Silks was in New York for several years teaching, painting, and working in stage designing.
the paintings, "Studio Piece," a large still life in oils of objects in a studio, was shown at the Midwestern convention in Kansas City last month. The collection includes landscapes, portraits, still life, and figure paintings.
Before coming to the University as an instructor in drawing and painting, Silks was with the art department of the St. Joseph Junior College.
Most of the paintings to be displayed in Spooner-Thayer have been done by Silks this year and have never been exhibited. One of
Lawson Speaks To High School Seniors on KFKU
"Do you or do you not really enjoy the intellectual exercises of the classroom? The answer to this question is the answer to your problem of, "Why Go to College?" stated Dr. Paul B. Lawson, dean of the college Friday evening in the first of a series of three weekly talks
DEAN P. B. LAWSON
... asks $64 question
given at 6:15 over station KFKU. The speeches are addressed to the high school seniors of the state.
Lawson opened his address by congratulating the younger generation on having been so wise as to have chosen this precise time to have been born and therefore to be on hand at this tremendous hour, when our world is moving on in epoch-making strides. He said that young people do not want sympathy and he was not going to give them any. It is not an occasion for sympathy but an occasion for opportunity, said Lawson.
"If you enjoy the intellectual exercises of the classroom, you have intellectual curiosity, and I think you ought to go to college in spite of any untoward circumstances; for the way can be found as has been demonstrated in thousands of cases.
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Editor Talks On Censorship Code
Speaking before a meeting of the second district of the Kansas editorial association in the Journalism building yesterday, George Marble, editor of the Fort Scott TribuneMonitor, discussed the government censorship plan now in practice. The code was explained at a government conference in Washington which was attended by Marble and other leading newspaper representatives throughout the country.
Marble discussed the amount of voluntary censorship requested in the code on the information concerning troops, ships, planes, fortifications, weather, photographs, maps, and general material.