UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
156
NUMBER 108.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1941.
36TH YEAR
Landes Takes New Position At Michigan
K. K. Landes, professor of geology and state geologist, has been selected as the new head of the geology department of the University of Michigan. He succeeds E. C. Case, graduate of the University in 1893, who retires this year.
Landes joined the staff of the University in 1926 as an assistant professor.
Many times, from 1921 to 1926, Landes was associated with the United States geological survey in New Mexico, Alaska, Colorado, and Vermont.
Gained Title in 1933
Landes was educated at the University of Washington and at Harvard. He was instructor at Wellesley before coming to the University of Kansas. He became a professor here in 1933.
Landes is a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America.
Professor Landes was instrumental in obtaining for the University the new Mineral Industries building. Construction of the building will start in September with completion scheduled for the fall of 1942.
Landes is the second faculty member to leave the campus after obtaining a new building for the University. Colonel Karl F. Baldwin, professor of military science and tactics, has been notified of his transfer to active duty with the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Winfield Scott, San Francisco, Calif. His transfer will probably become effective by July 1.
Swastika Finale
★★★★
Sick Days Over
"I feel fine, and never felt better in my life. But I didn't slide down the flagpole—I just sort of came down the same way I went up only with a little more accelerated speed."
These were the words of the swastika - removing college junior, C. A. Gilmore, who risked his neck atop the swaying flagpole above Fraser hall last week. As a result, Gilmore spent a recuperation period in Watkins Memorial hospital, suffering from leg burns and scratched feet which he acquired on descent from the high perch. He was released from the hospital Wednesday.
Last Jayhawker But Tomorrow
The last copy of the Jayhawker will be out Monday, Betty Coulson, managing editor, said yesterday.
Copies may be obtained in the basement of the Memorial Union until Thursday of this week. Distributing hours will be from 9-12 a.m. and from 1:30-4:30 p.m.
HITCHING POSTS Guides and Gas Lamps Spirit of'66
Eleanor Allen, one of the 60 Hill lassies who will welcome returning grads in the style of '66, is shown being helped into the carriage by Fritz Meyn, general chairman of the Entrada committee. Meyn's daughter, Fritzie, is in the front seat with Billie Doris Jarboe, left, and Georgia Ferrell in the back.
Hitching posts all over the place!
Just drive your gasoline dobbin up to any one of the 65 posts and tie him down and enjoy life amid the gasoline lamps of 1866 and dozens of the University's 1941 version of demure
sweet pulchritude, dressed in the gowns of 75 years ago.
Partly cloudy with probable thunder showers. Cooler west and north central portions.
The hitching posts were modeled after an authentic version found in Lawrence. The gas lamps were designed by T. D. Jones, assistant professor of design.
Bring your aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, sisters, and of course your mother and dad to help the University celebrate its Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
WEATHER FORECAST
A wire mesh, modeled over a wooden frame and resembling a mammoth lamp shade will be fitted on the electric street lights to give the effect of old gas lamp lighting. The Santa Fe Railroad is contributing several model old fashioned trains that will toot their way around the Hill.
In front of each building, artistic signs depicting the sort of sign painting of 75 years ago will be situated.
Comes From Iowa . . .
Miss Edna Hill
New Kansan Staff Jobs Announced
Kansas staff positions for the first nine weeks of the fall semester have been announced by Chuck Elliott, managing editor, and Charles Pearson, editor-in-chief.
Campus editors will be Heidi Viets, college junior; Betty West, college junior; and Orlando Epp, college junior. Sports editor during football will be Clint Kanaga, college junior; society editor, Jean Fees, college junior; news editor, Glee Smith, college sophomore; Sunday editor, Milo Farneti, college sophomore; United Press editor, David Whitney, college junior; re-write editor, Kay Dozarth, college junior; copy editors, Anne Nettels, college junior, and Mary Margaret Gray, college sophomore.
Editorial associates will be Bill Feeney, college sophomore; Mary Frances McAnaw, college junior; and Floyd Decaire, college senior.
The position of feature editor has not vet been filled.
Edna Hill Is New Home Ec Chairman
Miss Edna Hill, of the University of Iowa, has been appointed chairman of the department of home economics, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced yesterday. Miss Hill has been a member of the home economics staff at Iowa for the past 16 years.
She is a graduate of Simmons College, Boston, Mass., with a B.S. degree in 1921, and received her master's degree from the Teacher's College, Columbia University, in 1925. Following her undergraduate work, she taught for three years at Nasson Institute, Springvale, Maine, and came to the University of Iowa, just after receiving the master's degree.
As chairman of the committee in tests and measurements of the food and nutrition section of the American Home Economics Association, Miss Hill prepared a foods test which was employed by more than 100 colleges and universities.
She is a member of Omicron Nu, honorary home economics society, of the American Home Economics Society, the American Association of University Women, and the League of Women Voters.
During the past year, Miss Viola (continued to page eight)
Seventy-Fifth Ticket Deadline Is Thursday
Deadline for obtaining tickets to the Sunset barbecue and the Seventy-fifth Anniversary dinner is Thursday night, June 5. Tickets may be obtained at the Alumni office, the rotunda of Frank Strong hall, or the Round Corner Drug store.
HOLD IT, STUDENTS Hill Activity Not Dead Yet Entrada In 4 Days
Students, don't go home yet!
The greatest outdoor production ever staged in Lawrence, the Coronado Entrada, will be held in the Memorial stadium, Thursday and Friday nights. On a stage that will cover the entire football field, with scenery rising to a height of 35 feet, and with modern stage lighting effects that require 100,000 watts of current, a production in pageant form will dramatize the chief events in the expedition of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado into the plains of Kansas in 1541.
John W. Judd, director from the Jerome Cargill production company of New York, has been directing
the cast of 500 local individuals that will take part in the Entrada. While authenticity has been the keynote of the entire production, Judd has inserted into every scene that which will make each act a show in itself. The battles of the Indians, the dances of the villagers, the horse races, the balky sheep, the small bits of natural conversation and laughter; all of these are but a few of the "tricks" that will be used.
The wardrobe cost of the Entrado was $18,000. For one year prior to the New Mexico showing, costumes designers worked on research for the wardrobe. Now the entire outfit is an exact replica of
the original, even to the last button of each blouse. However, care was taken to be sure that definite contrasts would be made on the stage. For example, Coronado's armor is in gold while his companion's is in silver.
Four truckloads of scenery and costumes arrived in Lawrence yesterday. The 30-ton stage will come via the Santa Fe Railroad in special baggage cars. The massiveness of the Entrada can be seen in such facts that the paint on the scenery, which was done in oil, weighs a ton. The ramps, which the horses climb in order to give an effect of disap-
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