University Daily Kansan Page :Monday. Feb. 29, 1960
PRACTICE TEACHERS—Virginia Smith (left) and Janice Trendel (right), Topeka seniors, show St. John's grade school pupils how to dial a telephone.
Missing Teeth and All, Children Learn Spanish
A classroom full of children, some visual aids and the Spanish language has opened a new door to adventure for two KU women.
Virginia Smith and Janice Trendel, both Topeka juniors, spend two hours a week at St. John's parochial school teaching first and second graders how to speak and understand the Spanish language.
Missing Teeth Hurt Accent
Communication does not present a problem, however, as the children comprehend the language readily. Miss Trendel explained that the age of the children makes this possible as they learn quickly.
Miss Smith said, "We never speak English to the children. If they don't understand us, we use pictures and gestures. When they start to speak English, we tell them that we don't speak the English language."
The women are doing the work
"Their accents are nearly perfect except for an occasional 'th' sound because their front teeth are out," said Miss Smith with a smile.
Play's Cast Is Chosen
The cast for the Children's Theatre production "Rapunzel and the Witch" was announced yesterday by Bernice Harvey, instructor in speech and drama and director of the play.
The play, the second Children's Theatre presentation of the year, is for children 8 to 12 years old. It will be presented March 14-19 in the Experimental Theatre.
The cast and their parts are:
Robert Moberly, Excelsior Springs junior, witch; Sharon Scoville, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, Rapunzel; Kenneth Hill, Olathe freshman, the prince; Theodore Lawson, Medford; Ore, freshman, Otto; Jane Hartwell Kansas City, Mo., freshman, Margot
The play will be at 4:30 p.m. March 14-18 and 2 p.m. March 19.
On March 23, the cast and crew will give two performances in Topeka. The proceeds will go to the Topeka Family Service Guidance Center Day Nursery.
Tickets for the presentations here are on sale Monday through Friday at the Fine Arts box office. Admission is 50c for adults and 25c for children.
as a project for the Spanish department. Lawrence was one of the pioneering cities to have foreign languages taught in the elementary grades, they pointed out.
Jules Dubois, Latin American correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, met one of the classes during his recent visit.
The children sang songs in Spanish and talked with him in Spanish.
Under the guidance of their University instructors the children have learned to count, name the colors, say various greetings, sing songs and name some animals in Spanish.
They Wave Backward
"They like to say 'good-bye' and wave because the Spanish-speaking people wave backwards. That is, they motion toward themselves instead of away as we do," said Miss Trendel.
The children in the second grade have learned to use the telephone. They have two telephones and the children take turns talking to one another.
Miss Trendel said that the children enjoy counting. "They count at the top of their lungs.
Lawrence Dean Howard, who was graduated in June 1959 from KU, was killed Saturday evening when he lost control of his car on U.S. highway 40 near Odessa, Mo., and collided head-on with a semi-tractor trailer.
None of the pupils have proposed to either of the women as of yet.
1959 KU Graduate Killed in Car Crash
"They haven't learned to propose in Spanish yet," said Miss Smith.
Mr. Howard majored in electrical engineering at the University.
'Baby Doe' Tickets On Sale Tomorrow
Tickets for the modern opera "The Ballad of Baby Doe" go on sale tomorrow.
The new rates are $2,000 for persons with A.B. degrees, $2,100 for persons with A.M. degrees, and $2,200 for persons with A.M. degrees and added experience.
The University has announced a new annual rate for half-time services of assistant instructors.
University Announces New Annual Rate for Assistants
Students may exchange their IDs for tickets at the University Theatre box office, Bell's Music Store, and the Student Union ticket, center
For teaching assistants or research assistants the new annual half-time service will be increased to $1,900 for persons with A.B. degrees and $2,000 for persons with A.M. degrees.
Unclassified staff will have an average salary increase of 7 per cent. Classified staff may be increased 5 per cent. Student employees' wages will be increased 5 per cent.
The opera will be performed March 8,10 and 11, at the University Theatre.
The money for the increase in rates was appropriated by the Kansas legislature along with funds for additional staff in the University's 1960-1961 budget.
An undergraduate student may receive up to $1,700 for half-time service.
The University may add four new instructors, a director and three half-time graduate assistants for each of the three new language centers, and three janitors for three new
George B. Smith, dean of the University, referred to the faculty report sheets as a "reflection of the over-all health of the University."
Evaluation Sheets ReflectKU's Status
He spoke at the Faculty Forum in the Kansas Union last week.
Dean Smith said that the section of the reports entitled "Comments" is thoroughly read and filed by the administration.
- They provide an impartial, non-propagandic presentation of KU's needs for the Kansas Legislature.
- "These sheets, which contain almost all constructive statements, serve two purposes," said Dean Smith.
- They aid the administration in handling many little problems and some major questions that arise during the school year.
The faculty annual report turned in by faculty members at the end of the year contains general comments, reports of research and publications (which is sent to the Graduate School), membership in professional organizations, committee work and administrative duties.
"The sheets serve as a channel through which the administration can get information, Dean Smith said.
McNown to View Minnesota School
Dean John S. McNown of the school of Engineering and Architecture leaves tomorrow to inspect the department of civil engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Dean McNown will serve as a member of the Engineering Council for Professional Development, which is one of the groups in the United States that accredits schools of engineering. Schools that are accredited by the ECPD are inspected at least once every five years in order to determine whether they are maintaining their standards of engineering education.
Upon completion of his inspection, Dean McNown will submit a report of his findings to the committee. The dean will also inspect the departments of civil engineering of the University of Louisville in April, and Vanderbilt University in May.
Kansas City Fire Destroys Building
KANSAS CITY, Mo., — (UPI) — A three-alarm fire destroyed a two-story building in the heart of downtown Kansas City last night.
No official estimate of the damage was available but a spokesman for the Brunson Instrument Co., said the loss to the building and contents would total about $500,000. The building housed a considerable amount of precision tooling equipment.
For a time the blaze threatened to spread to the nearby C & R Specialty Co.
buildings. The legislature also provided an increase of $95,159 for general research. This brings the total amount to $400,000.
6 Killed by Firing Squad
ALGIERS — (UPI) — French Army firing squads have put to death six Moslems convicted of terrorists, it was disclosed yesterday. The army said the executions took place Friday and Saturday at several towns across Algeria.
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On Campus with Max Shulman
(Author of "I Was a Teen-eagle Dwarf", "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", etc.)
THE SEARCH FOR BRIDEY SIGAFOOS
Suddenly Dolores Vladnay stood up and stamped her foot. "Chaps," she said to her sorors, "this is too yawn-making! Let's do something gay and mad and gasp-making. Anybody got an idea?"
It was a dullish evening at the Theta house. The pledges were down in the catacombs; the actives were sacked out upstairs, not doing much of anything. Mary Ellen Krumbald was sticking pins in an effigy of the housemother; Evelyn Zinsmaster was welding a manhole cover to her charm bracelet; Algelica McKeesport was writing a letter to Fabian in blood. Like I say, it was a dullish evening.
"No," said the sorors, shaking their little sausage curls.
"Think, chaps, think!" said Dolores and passed Marlboro cigarettes to everybody, for if there ever was a smoke to start you thinking, it is mild and flavorful Marlboro! Things come clear when you puff that good, clean smoke through that fine filter—knots untie, dilemmas dissolve, problems evaporate, cobwebs vanish, fog disperses, and the benevolent sun pours radiance on a new and dewy world. Oh, happy world! Oh, Marlboro! Oh, soft pack! Oh, flip-top box! Oh, get some already!
Now Geraldine Quidnune, her drooping brain cells revivified by a good Marlboro, leapt up and cried, "Oh, I have a perfect gasser of an idea! Let's hypnotize somebody!"
"Oh, capital!" cried the sorors. "Oh, tingle-making!"
At this point, in walked a young pledge named Alice Bluegown. "Excuse me, mistresses," said she, tugging her forelock, "I have finished making your beds, doing your homework, and ironing my pleats. Will there be anything else?"
"Yes," snapped Dolores Vladnay. "When I count to three, you will be hypnotized."
"One, two, three," said Dolores.
"Yes, excellency," said Alice, bobbing a curtsey.
Alice promptly went into a trance.
"Go back," said Dolores, "back into your childhood. Go back to your fifth birthday, back to your birth, to before your birth, to your last incarination . . . Now, who are you?"
"My name is Bridey Sigafoos," said Alice. "The year is 1818, and I am in County Cork."
"Coo!" said the sorors.
"How old are you?" asked Dolores.
"I am seven," said Alice.
"Where is your mother?" asked Dolores.
"I don't know," said Alice. "She got sold at the fair last year."
"Coo!" said the sorors.
"I am five feet tall," said Alice. "I have brown eyes, and I weigh 3200 pounds."
"Tell us about yourself." said Dolores.
"Coo!" said the sorors.
"I isn't that rather heavy for a girl?" said Dolores.
Who's a girl?" said Alice. "I'm a black and white guernsey." "Coo!" said the sorors.
"Moo!" said Bridey Sigafoos.
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© 1960 Max Shulman
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