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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 15.1960
John Perry Named To Fine Arts Post
The appointment of John Perry as assistant professor of piano in the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts has been announced by Dean Thomas Gorton.
Perry has won several top international prizes in piano in Europe where he has studied piano the past three years at the Vienna Academy of Music. He will succeed Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano, who retired after 26 years on the KU faculty.
In September 1959, Perry won the highest prize at the International Busoni Piano Competition at Bolzano, Italy. He won the first prize of 100,000 live (about $2,000) from among 43 contestants from all over the world. The decision of the judges, all Europeans, was unanimous.
A month later, Perry won the highest prize of the Viotti International Competition for Piano at Vercelli, Italy, from among 70 contestants.
A native of Duluth, Minn., Perry received his Masters degree from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, N.Y., in 1957, where he held a tuition scholarship for all three years and a fellowship in opera coaching.
He has studied under pianist Frank Mannheimer and Mrs. Cecile Genhart, chairman of the piano department at the Eastman School of Music.
Two of his three years in Europe were under a Fulbright grant, and the third under the Kate Neal Kinyi Memorial Fellowship of $1.500 awarded by the University of Illinois.
Insurance Men To Meet Monday
The five-day program will be conducted at Gertrude Sellards Pearson dormitory under co-sponsorship of University Extension.
The Institute will offer a basic course for those who have not attended a previous institute and an advanced course for persons having two or more years experience in the insurance business and who have attended previous institutes.
Members of the staff include Hall L. Nutt, director; Charles E. Black and Bernard C. Haught, assistant directors, all of the Life Insurance Marketing Institute, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.
Both courses will be aimed at helping life underwriters to develop effective sales patterns and to aid them in their search for ways in which the power of logic can be used to sell cash value life insurance.
Persons attending the Institute will be assigned to special projects coordinated with each day's discussion, in addition to morning and afternoon classes, and will have an opportunity for informal conversation, an exchange of ideas and techniques, and personal counsel.
Perry has presented recitals at Merano and Empori, Italy, and in the Brahms-saal in Vienna. In 1958 he accompanied Sarah Dubin, American soprano on tour of Germany, appearing at Köln, Koblenz, Stuttgart, Hannover, Frankfurt and Heidelberg.
This year he played with the symphony orchestra in Czestochowa, Poland, and he was selected to represent the United States in piano competition in Poland.
Twice in this country, Perry won first Artist prize in the National Guild Recording Competition, and he won first place in the artist's division of the annual contest sponsored by the American Guild of Piano Teachers in 1957. In the summer of 1959 he made a concert tour of the Midwest.
$55,600 Contract Renewed by AEC
Frank S. Rowland, associate professor of chemistry, has been awarded renewal of a contract with the Atomic Energy Commission for another year's work on "Chemical Reactions of Energetic Atoms."
The contract, in the amount of $55,600, is in addition to a similar contract he holds with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Working on the project with Prof. Rowland will be Mrs. Alicja Sokolowska, research associate, an exchange visitor from the Institute of Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland.
Graduate students assigned to the research are Vincent Anselmo, New York City; Adolph Beyerlein, Phillipsburg; Lawrence Hathaway, Belin. N.M.; Donald Ormond, Kansas City, Kas., John Root, Shawnee and Yi-Noo Tang, Hong Kong.
Before the windshield wiper came into common use, motorists were advised to apply a mixture of kerosene oil and glycerine on windshields to keep the glass clear of rain, snow or ice.
The University of Kansas Library has acquired about 1,150 items bound in three folio albums concerning Astley's Amphitheater, a famous London circus and theater which was operated from the late 18th to late 19th centuries.
Library Gets Rare Folios
Robert Vosper, director of the library, obtained the collection during his sabbatical year in England, 1959-60.
Thomas R. Buckman, head of the acquisitions department, said, "This very interesting and colorful collection will be of great use in the teaching and research programs of the English and speech departments."
The collection ranges from a rare bill of Astley's Riding School, c. 1780, to an original painting of the later theater's drop curtain, done from memory in 1936.
There are more than 220 playbills and more than 300 Juvenile Drama sheets, described as the outstanding items of the collection.
The material is regarded as a find by collectors because at the time no one thought that items concerning the circuses and minor theaters of London were worth preserving.
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Kennedy Would Not Hold 'Youngest' Title
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LOS ANGELES—(UPI) — Theodore Roosevelt was 42 years and 10 months old when he became president upon the assassination of William McKinley in 1901.
If elected president in November, Sen. John F. Kennedy would be 43 years and 8 months old on taking office in January.
Lukinac to Rejoin KU Football Forces
The Kansas Jayhawkers have been bolstered for the upcoming football season by the announcement that senior end Chuck Lukinae will compete this fall.
Lukinac was not expected to be available for the 1960 season and missed spring practice because of pre-medical studies.
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