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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 19, 1960
Foreign Student Enrollment Hits All-Time High
More foreign students studied in the United States during the 1959-60 school year than ever before, according to an Institute of International Education report.
The 48,486 foreign students in American college classrooms continue to represent the largest foreign student population in the world.
On the other side of the exchange, the traffic of American students going abroad increased a significant 34 per cent to 13.651.
The foreign students in the United States this year came from 141 countries and political areas and studied at 1,712 institutions of higher learning in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Their favorite field of study, as in previous years, was engineering, and more than half of them were undergraduates.
The largest number of foreign students (17,175) continued to come from the Far East and the second largest number (9,428) from Latin America. For the second consecutive year the rapidly developing Near and Middle East sent more students (7,110) here for study than did Europe (6,362).
The number of self-supporting foreign students has been decreasing rapidly in recent years, but statistics on sources of financial support showed that again this year the single largest group of students-38.3 per cent-were studying on their own funds.
Open Doors, IIE's annual statistical report on educational exchange, reported that 2,539 foreign faculty members affiliated with 278 U.S. colleges and universities during the school year.
Girls Nation Mock Campaigning Begins
WASHINGTON—(UPF)—The 17th annual Girls Nation mock political convention began meetings yesterday leading up to election of president, vice president and other national officers.
The Girls Nation is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. The 98 high school seniors taking part were chosen earlier at Girls States in 47 states, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. Louisiana, Alaska and Hawaii did not participate.
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Accents Troublesome Factor In First Art Camp Production
By Jerry Knudson
"They did very well for high school students..."
This was the reaction I heard several times upon leaving the Friday night presentation of "The World of Sholom Aleichem" by the University Theatre and the theater division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
It is a condescending reaction which could be used as the standard for this review, but it will not be. Since director Jack Brooking selected a mature play for his high school cast, the performance will be judged by mature standards.
I believe that participants in the summer theater program for high school students should be confronted with challenges, but not impossibilities.
My scorecard for "The World of Sholom Aleichem" shows one impossibility, which was no fault of the cast, and many challenges successfully met.
The impossibility was the director's decision to do the plays in Jewish accent. The discordant results marred them, whereas the problem could have been met forrightly with simple midwestern American accent.
Otherwise, the high school cast rose to the challenges presented, except that voice projection might have been better. I found myself straining at times to hear the actors.
"The World of Sholm Aleichem" includes three short plays—a farce, "A Tale of Chelm," based on a short story by Aleichem (Saul Rabinowitz); a delightful fantasy, "Bonthe Schweig," by Isaac Loeb Peretz, a contemporary of Aleichem, and "The High School," which calls to mind "I Remember Mama," although the former is far more powerful. Arnold Perl did the dramatic adaptations.
The locale and time for all three plays was Russia around the turn of the century.
The highlight of my evening was
the humorous but painful "Bontche Schweig," a socially conscious fantasy placed in heaven.
When a gentle Jewish outcast, played brilliantly by Cal Winter, reaches heaven, he is tried by an angelic police court. The verdict is not for Bontche but against mankind.
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Another commanding piece was "The High School." Richly spiced with humor, it traces the exodus of a Jewish family trying to find a school that will accept their son as a student.
At one point, the son writes to his father that he would not be accepted anywhere, "not even if Spinoza took the examination and Rothschild saw the principal."
The biting protest of these two plays, cushioned with laughter, might be a timely lesson for a Lawrence community troubled about a swimming pool.
Space limits individual plaudits for acting, but I especially admired the competence of Mike Milroy as the bookseller who introduced the plays; Courtner King as the Defending Angel of "Bontche Schweig," and John Nance as the father in "The High School."
"A Tale of Chelm" — Alan Glines, Linda Lou Holt, David Haverty, Mary Godfrey, Gigi Gibson, Larry Ketchum, Darrell Lawrence, Byron Leonard, and Sarah Corliss.
"Bontche Schweig" — Miss Gibson, Micki Adams, Miss Godfrey, Miss Corliss, Kittie Williams, Judy Lants, Millie Burnap, Haverty, Lawrence, and Ketchum.
Others may find favorites in this listing of the other cast members;
Settings by Bob Moberly, costumes by Carolyn Kriesel, and lighting by Lyn Kazmayer measured up to the high technical standards one expects in the Murphy Hall theater.
"The High School" — Lucinda Hauser, Judy Hudson, Jeff Quinsey, Haverty Winter, Miss Corliss, Ketchum, Lawrence, Miss Gibson, and Leonard.
The summer high school theater students also will present three full-length plays in the Experimental Theatre in Murphy Hall this week. They are "The Bold Soprano." Thursday afternoon; "Medea," 7:30 p.m. Thursday, and "The Glass Menagerie," 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Of the nation's families, 6.5 per cent have annual incomes ranging from $10,000 to $15,000.
Credit Institute Meets This Week
The Midwest Management Institute for credit bureau and collection service personnel is meeting here through Friday.
The Institute curriculum is divided into four sections according to the number of years the members have attended. Those who complete the four-year course of study receive special recognition.
First and second year classes are concerned with management and communications. Third and fourth year members are in an executive development program with lectures and workshops emphasizing management.
Sponsors of the Institute are the Associated Credit Bureaus of the Midwest, Rocky Mountain States and of America, the Kansas State Board for Vocational Education and University Extension. The Institute began Sunday.
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