SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
48th Year, No. 3
Tuesday, June 21, 1960
Enrollment for Music Camp Tops '59 Total
Preliminary figures on enrollment for the 23rd annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp and the science and mathematics camp show about 680 high school students enrolled.
However, the figure is expected to go over 700 with late enrollees.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
"There are some students who have not enrolled yet but who are definitely coming. We'll have students enrolling as late as Wednesday," a camp official said.
Enrollment for the camp was Sunday afternoon in the Kansas Union. Russell L. Wiley, professor of band, is the founder and director of the camp which is having its largest season this summer. Last year's total was 675 students.
About 350 of the campers will be in the music division. The art division will have about 125 students; the science and mathematics camp 100 for its three-week period. Twenty-five of the 1959 science campers will return to serve research apprenticeships in various KU departments.
"Camp" is a slight misnomer as the high school-age boys and girls live in KU dormitories, study in University facilities and eat in the Kansas Union.
"While the daily schedule has its periods for recreation, the boys and girls work hard. We make no pretense of offering resort facilities. The camp has been successfully built on offering programs to young people who are dedicated to improving their talents through serious study," Prof. Wiley said.
Assisting Prof. Wiley, who will direct the camp band, will be Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education, leader of the symphony orchestra, and Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of music education and choral music, choral director. Marjorie Whitney, professor of design, is in charge of the art camp. Kim Giffen, associate professor of speech, and Jack Brooking, assistant professor of speech, head the speech and drama section.
Robert W. Baxter, associate professor of botany, is in charge of the Science and Mathematics camp and Russell Bradt, associate professor of mathematics, has the mathematics demonstration class. Robert Bell of Oklahoma City is the ballet director.
The camp orchestra and band will present six Sunday afternoon and evening concerts, assisted by the chorus, at 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., starting this Sunday. The concerts, in the University Theatre and in the open-air theater next to Hoch Auditorium, will be open to the public.
Tickets on Sale For 'Brigadoon'
Students may pick up tickets for "Brogadoon", the University Theatre's first summer production, by presenting I.D. cards at the ticket desk in the Kansas Union or at the Theatre boxoffice in Murphy Hall.
"Brigadoon" will open Thursday and play Thursday and Friday nights. The production is a scaled-down version of last fall's production of the musical. The original 50-member cast has been reduced to 15. The summer company has been selected by the USO for a seven-week tour of military installations in Japan, Korea and Okinawa.
Reserved seats for non-students are $1.50. Coupon books for the Theatre's four summer productions can be purcashed at the boxoffice. The coupon books are $2.50 for faculty and staff and $3 for all others.
Prof. Bernice Slote, associate editor of Prairie Schooner, will give a lecture tomorrow evening, "On a Lock of Keats' Hair," before the University of Kansas Writers' Conference, which meets here June 21 to 24.
Business School Puts 50 on Scholastic List
The names of 50 students on the Dean's Honor Roll of the School of Business for the spring semester have been announced by James R. Surface, dean of the school of business.
Twenty-five seniors, 11 percent of the class, equalled or exceeded the required 2.3 average for the honor roll.
Twenty-five juniors, or 13 percent of the class, met or bettered the 2.2 standard for that class.
Three students made straight A's. They were James Duff, Pittsburg senior; Benjamin Langel, Salina junior, and Jean Barbara Mills, Madison, Wise., senior.
Others on the honor roll:
Marilyn Gunderman, Kansas City, Louis Hannen, Burlington, Robert Hodgdon, Merriam, George Jones, Emporia, Jerry B. Kirsch, Leavennage, Frank Coppola, McKinnon, McKinnon Washington, D. C., John McGrew, Lawrence, Marilyn Miller, Olathe.
Seniors — Theodore Bechtel, Toppea,
Gary L. Carrillo, Beloit, Lynn Clark.
Overland Park. Rex Doherty, Dellvale,
Jon Giovi, Mission.
David Mills, Arkansas City, George Moore Jr., Topeka, Kenneth Pohl, Ottawa Mo. Rohlt, Kansas City, Mo. Joel Robnett, Kansas City, Richard Rohlt, Kirkring Mo., Jack Huih
Chicago, Kenneth Wagon. Wichita, and Sanbon Wood, Kewanee, Ill.
Juniors — Philip Anschutz, Wichita, Mary Lou Beiseler, Colby, Peter Block, Marion, Fall, Burdett, Alan Handly, Prairie Village, Robert Harbison, Kansas City, James Leslie, Hutchinson, Donan, Prairie Village, David Richard McKemey, Downs
Yousef Mebed, Cairo, Egypt, Joseph Mize, Atchison, Joseph Morris, Emporia, Missouri, Tommy Bickford, Camber, Onaha, Nebr., John Phillips, Kansas City, Mo., Don Powell, Hutchinson, John Reiff, Wichita, Robert Lee Hancock, James Stankiewicz, Philadelphia, Pa.
Clark David Stewart, Nashville, Karin Van Tuyl. Evansville, Ind., Frank Wiebe, Lawrence, and Robert Kent Wilson, Independence.
For the period Tuesday through Saturday temperatures will average near to slightly above normal. Normal highs 85 northwest to 89 southeast. Normal lows 56 northwest to 66 southeast.
Weather
Cooler first of period followed by warming trend last of period. Precipitation will average light to moderate occurring as showers and thunderstorms today and again last of period.
Writers Group Opens Meeting
A non-fiction workshop opened the University of Kansas Writers' Conference today. Charles Pearson, Sunday editor of the Topeka Capital-Journal, talked on "Writing and Selling Sunday Features." Miss Frances Grinstead, director of the Conference, discussed "Writing and Selling Magazine Articles." Questions and discussion followed each talk.
This evening at 8 p.m. Margarita G. Smith, of New York, will lecture on "What Reading Means to Me." It means manuscript reading, for Miss Smith was for fifteen years fiction editor of Mademoiselle magazine and for several months has been reading manuscripts submitted in the annual Harper & Bros. competition.
During the years she was Mademoiselle's fiction editor, no year passed in which stories from that magazine were not included in the O. Henry and Best Stories collections.
Tomorrow morning Charlie May Simon (Mrs. John Gould Fletcher) will talk on "Writing for Young Readers," with following questions and discussion. In the afternoon, a writing techniques panel will be conducted by Miss Smith, Mrs. Simon, Prof. Bernice Slote of the University of Nebraska, and Miss Grinstead.
Miss Slote, poet and critic, will speak at 7:30 tomorrow evening. Her subject, "On a Lock of Keats'Hair." Miss Slote's book, "Keats and the Dramatic Principle," won the Explicator Prize of $200 and a trophy for the best book of "explication de texte" published in 1958.
The Future -- Bright or Dark?
“Start With the Sun,” a book of poetry currently due off the press, was the joint work of Miss Slote and of James Miller and Karl Shapiro.
Special panels and round tables will occupy the Thursday and Friday day sessions. Prof. Elmer F. Beth of the KU journalism faculty will talk on "Point of Law for the Freelance Writer" Thursday morning, and Dr. Calder Pickett, also of the journalism faculty, will lead a round table on freelance writing of news and features Friday morning.
Any half-day or evening session of the workshops may be attended by non-enrollees on payment of $5. This does not include manuscript criticism, according to the director, and was initiated primarily for Lawrence persons who may wish to attend single sessions.
The Thursday evening lecture by Mrs. Fletcher is free. Persons who wish to attend the 6 o'clock dinner preceding ($2 a plate) should make reservations with Dana Leibengood at the Institutes and Conferences office of University of Kansas Extension.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn.—(UPI)—Bill Clark is a young man —just 29—and his job is not demanding. But when he drags himself wearily home in the evenings about all he can do is lie on the sofa and think frightened thoughts in the dark.
rus took came in a blue flash on light at the Atomic Energy Commission's "Y-12" plant in this war-born city of the future two years ago last Thursday. He and seven fellow workers felt nothing, heard nothing and did not know until later that they had been exposed to what the
He doesn't say so, but he could well be afraid for all mankind, because Clark has had one brief, terrifying look at what conceivably could be in store for the world.
He is afraid for himself, for his wife, and most of all for his eight-month-old daughter.
medical director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies called an "exceedingly dangerous range" of nuclear radiation.
The accident occurred in a room of the big plant in which fissionable material is separated from uranium for production of atomic power. It happened when a highly enriched uranium solution was accidentally drained into a 55-gallon drum. It is believed to be the worst industrial radiation accident on record.
Now, two years later, Clark is tired all the time. His wife said he "comes home from work and just lies on the couch, he's so tired." His vision appears to have been affected, and Clark said he can "hardly see to read anymore."
suits totaling $950,000 against the federal government. One claims the radiation accident made him sexually impotent. Four others said it caused them to become sterile.
Clark is the only one of the eight victims who has been willing to discuss the accident. All now have filed
The Atomic Energy Commission never has publicly identified the victims. Their names became generally known for the first time last week when they filed their lawsuits in Federal Court at Knoxville, Tenn.
Clark was in the hospital for two months after the accident. When he and the others were released the AEC cautioned them about letting the news out because of the fact that a somewhat similar accident earlier in Houston, Tex, had caused the victim and his family to be ostracized by frightened neighbors.
The future of Clark and his fellow victims can only be one of doubt and worry.
Miss Margarita G. Smith left manuscripts of novels entered in the Harper & Bros. contest to come to the University of Kansas Writers' Conference.
Writer to Give Public Lecture
Mrs. Charlie May Simon Fletcher will give the annual literary lecture of the University of Kansas Writers' Conference, on "The Joys of Gathering Biography," at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
A friends-of-conference dinner at 6 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Union is also open to interested persons, according to Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism, conference director for the eighth year.
Students, faculty and townspeople are invited to this open lecture of the conference, a special convocation.
Mrs. Fletcher, author of "All Men Are Brothers" and "A Seed Shall Serve," biographies of world Christian leaders Schweitzer and Kagawa, has been teaching at the Japan Women's University the past three years and will return to Tokyo right after the conference. She flew to Arkansas from Japan to receive an honorary LL.D. degree from the University of Arkansas June 4.
The most recent of Mrs. Fletcher's books (she writes as Charlie May Simon) is "Sun and Birch," a story of the crown prince and princess of Japan. She is now at work on a fiction story of Japanese rice growers. Mrs. Fletcher's children's books are well known, and she has published more than 15 of them, mostly regional stories of Arkansas.
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