5, 1941.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1941.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Alec Templeton Concert to Mix Classic, Comic
Alec Templeton, famous pianist and radio star, will open the University concert series for the season at 8:20 p.m. Nov.17 in Hoch auditorium.
The program is expected to bring out one of the largest audiences of the year.
Alec Templeton has been called the greatest genius of the modern entertainment world because of his priceless interpretative and creative talents, both serious and comic. The first part of his program will be given over to some of the finest numbers in piano literature and the final group will be made up of parodies on musical personalities and composers as well as an exhibition of Templeton's improvising an elaborate composition from melodies given him by his audience.
Season tickets and single admissions for the concert series are on sale at the Fine Arts office. Those who have already placed orders for season tickets may pick these up at the Fine Arts office to avoid congestion at the box office on the evening of the opening concert.
K-State's Stellar Swingsters To Play for Varsity Nov. 15
K-State and Kansas rooters will dance at the Wildcat-Jayhawk Varsity Dance to the music of Matt Benton and his orchestra, Saturday, Nov. 15.
The dance will be held in the Memorial Union ballroom from 8:30 to 11:30 o'clock the night of the Kansas State game. Admission price is 75 cents plus tax.
Betton's orchestra, Kansas State's pride, ranked as the most popular college band in the country according to the 1940 Billboard poll of over one hundred colleges from coast to coast.
"We expect this to be a big affair," Dance Manager Jim Burdge declared today, "because not only our University students will attend, but most of the Manhattanites who will be in Lawrence for the game."
The colleges were asked to list in preferential order their favorite bands, and in the final survey Betton ranked 27th on the list of the nation's most famous name orchestras. Wayne King, Blue Barron, Larry Clinton, Gene Krupa are a few of the top bandleaders who ranked lower than
"The Band That Fits Every Dance Step"
Matt Betton and his boys will play for the Wildcat-Jayhawk Varsity Dance in the Memorial Union building the night of the K-State-K.U. football game. This picture was taken during their summer engagement in Colorado. ...
continuing their college work.
Betton, Kansas State's bandleader who plays for SGA varsities and most winter and spring formalms, has recently received three offers to go into the "big time" with his band. But the musicians have declined in favor of
Betton.
The first college band to use the Hammond Novacord, "the world's most versatile musical instrument," Betton's crew includes his orchestra, his clarinet, Ray Stuart, vocalist, and the Undergrads, a rhythm quartet.
Seven students comprised the first class that met at University of Michigan in 1841.
New Directory Out Hard Life Ahead
Yes, it's out, the tale of telephone numbers. No longer need the freshman ask, "Is that blonde gal in my rhetoric class a Kappa?" and no longer need the senior rack his brain for those choice numbers he had in the $ ^{\circ} $
choice numbers he had in the little black notebook that he lost.
Havyagotcher new directory? It's out, you know, and one is available for every student in the registrar's office.
Directories are unmarked and clean as they leave Frank Strong hall, but their life in purity is short. One campus male reported this morning that his roommate, with only a "rough draft" on his new number markings, had underlined 147 names in the front half of his directory and had starred 25 more.
First name listed in the "register of students" is Miriam Abele, college senior, and crowding her closely is Betty Abels, also a college senior. Last name in the list of women students is Bernice Zuercher, college senior. She has a complete monopoly on the "Z" section.
First name in the directory is Outfitter—Ober's Head-to-foot Outfitter, and the last is Store—Rowland's Book Store. But those are not students. They are advertisements.
Men lead forth in their section of the directory with Roy Abbett, junior engineer. Don Abbuehl is in there driving, and will take the first seat in most classes which are arranged alphabetically. Holding the distinguished position of last place in the men's register is Marvin Zoschke, fine arts sophomore. A rumor that there is a man on the campus by the name of Zyxtwythe is unconfirmed by the registrar. No man by that name is listed in the directory.
No phone-book discussion is complete without a settlement of the longest-name and shortest-name
controversy. An analysis of this new everyman's almanac by a committee of the University's best name-and-number hunters shows three students to be tied for the high honor of bearing the shortest name.
Perhaps Otto Ole Schnellbacher deserves some sort of a title for using the greatest amount of directory space, but there is another in the contest, a woman. Dolores Arlene Grossenbacher. She's a college sophomore who hails from Bern, Kans. Her father's name is Grossenbacher—that's a long name, too.
Monickers of only three letters each are sported by freshmen Margaret Kay and LaVerna Ice. Orlando Epp, college senior, (withdrawn) was mistaken when he thought his name would be too short to pass the Army physical examination. Now he's in Fort Leavenworth, but the men haven't lost all their short-name heroes. Don Erb, college freshman, is still in there pitching with a real record to maintain. Don's father also had a short surname, and some suspect that the distinction is hereditary.
Other secrets unfold in this new directory, such as the information that Nov. 11 is a holiday, and that Thanksgiving recess begins at noon Nov.26. All Hill organized houses, clubs, and societies are listed with the name, address, and 'phone number of their presidents. And there are classified ads.
Amherst Praises Design Exhibit
Miss Marjorie Whitney, chairman of the department of design, has received word that her exhibition of design mounts is being well received at Massachusetts State College in Amherst.
In a letter to Miss Whitney, Clare A. Gunn, instructor in landscape architecture at the eastern school says that students there have been more than pleased at the success of the exhibit.
It has been shown only in the school's department of design, but it has been suggested by instructors and students that the exhibit be given a more central location so that it will be accessible to the whole student body.
Mr. Gunn has asked for an extension of time to show the exhibit so that all who are interested in this type of work may see it.
"The staff and I join in commendation of this unusually fine group of designs, very well executed and worthy of the study of all," the instructor stated in the letter to Miss Whitney.
Ellsworth Corrals Alumni
Ellsworth visited Jefferson, Jackson, Brown, Atchison, Leavenworth, and Doniphan counties. He conferred with local association officers, and urged attendance at the Sunday reunion.
Final arrangements for the alumni round-up to be held Sunday afternoon were made yesterday by Fred Ellsworth, Alumni Association secretary, on a trip through the northeastern part of the state.
The round-up is the first of a series of similar events. The day's activities will include alumni addresses, a barbecue, and music by various University organizations. Alumni headquarters for the day will be in the Memorial Union building.
Vacation
Armistice Day
Next Tuesday
Armistice day is Tuesday, Nov. 11, in spite of what it says in the "K" Books!
It was learned from Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor, this morning, that the "Wednesday Armistice day" is
merely a printer's mistake. A one-day vacation will be observed Tuesday, and the usual practice of giving students double cuts for absences on days preceding and following holidays will also be observed.
Forum to Consider Priorities Problems
The first of a series of monthly forums sponsored by the School of Business will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building. School authorities said the sessions have been planned to replace the smokers held in previous years for the business students.
Other business executives and government officials will be invited to speak on important economic problems of the day at the coming forums during the remainder of the school year.
Speaker at the first forum will be Justin Hill of the Lawrence Paper company who was graduated from the University in '26. He will discuss problems of supply, priorities, and allocation in the hard-pressed container industry. Hill holds a master's degree in business administration from the Harvard University business school.
A nine-student campus commission has been named at New York State College for Teachers to draft regulations designed to keep the campus clean and orderly.
Women Plan for Pan-Hellenic Annual Banquet
The Women's Pan-Hellenic council's annual scholarship banquet for all sorority women will be held Monday, Dec. 1, at 5:30 o'clock in the Memorial Union ballroom, the council announced after its regular meeting and dinner held last night in the Alpha Chi Omega chapter house.
The main feature of the banquet will be the presentation of a cup to the Chi Omega's for having obtained the highest scholastic average last year. All Greek women will attend, and a special attempt for inter-sorority friendship will be made.
In addition to furthering banquet plans, the council decided last night to elect two members from each pledge class to the Junior Panhellenic council. This junior council has been formed to act as an advisory committee in planning rush week, and revising the rush rules for next year.
It was also announced that the senior council voted to appropriate $10 to house decorations for the homecoming committee.
Arvid Jacobson, instructor of design and graphic arts, had a lithograph entitled "Mainstreet" which sold on the first day it was presented. Helen Harris Black, a former student, won the water color prize.
The next regular meeting of the council will be held at the Alpha Delta Pi house Dec. 2. In order to cope with the business on hand, an alternate meeting for those groups interested in the revision of rush rules, is scheduled for Nov. 18 at 4:30 o'clock in the women's lounge of the Union building.
Bernard "Poco" Frazier, instructor in the department of ceramics and recent western hemisphere winner of first place in ceramics, now has had another first prize awarded to him.
Frazier Wins First In Art Show At K.C.
Poco entered a piece of his work in the Eighth Annual Sweepstakes Show which opened Sunday at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Instructors in the painting department who are exhibiting works in the Sweepstakes are Raymond Eastwood and Donald Silks.
On Monday he received word that his "Rebekah," a modern interpretation of a Biblical character, had won first place in the show for that type of work.
Students exhibiting work are Violet Lamont, Margaret Hagstrom, and Bob Sudlow.
Chemists to Discuss Defense over KFKU
"The Chemist and National Defense" will be the topic for weekly roundtable discussions over KFKU from 9:30 to 10 o'clock tonight.
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