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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 17, 1959
U.S. Pavilion, U.S. Art Won Favor in Belgium
Special to The Summer Kansan By Jerry Knudson
(Editor's Note: Jerry Knudson, former instructor of journalism, is touring Europe this summer. This is the fourth of a series of letters.)
BRUSSELS, Belgium—The site of the World's Fair, scene of great doings in 1958, looks pretty forlorn right now.
Almost all of the exhibits are dismantled or coming down. Only two remain which may still be visited—the French "Atomium," a gigantic model of molecular structure, and a miniature map of Belgium planted in flowers and shrubs.
Otherwise, the wind whistles around the super-modernistic buildings and deserted status. An old woman sits in a deck chair, drowsing in the late afternoon sunlight, while her small white dog sits at her side.
Nothing is left of the American pavilion, which caused such ardent discussion in the United States. No one, it seemed, liked our modest spheroid structure or the advanced abstract art on display.
Belgians, however, would disagree. Almost everyone I have talked to here agrees that the American pavilion was the best of all. They complain that not enough art works were shown.
They particularly liked the section of the exhibit which was called "Unfinished Business"—photographs of U.S. slums, segregation, labor unrest, and other national problems.
All other countries, apparently, did not admit that they, too, had domestic difficulties. Europeans liked this American candor.
And they liked the lack of estentation obvious in our display. The U.S. pavilion seemed to say, simply, "Here we are. Come and visit us and have a good time."
So, to all those junketing businessmen and columnists who spewed forth those bitter words about the inadequacy of the American exhibit at the World's Fair, I say: "Nuts."
The complaints about the art display particularly iked me at the
Anderson Is Back From U.S. Capital
Kenneth E. Anderson, dean of the School of Education, has returned from Washington, D.C., where he met with representatives of 26 national organizations to plan the foundation of a National Council for Research in Education.
The council will make available a group wherein other organizations of professional educators and specialists in related fields will be able to pool their efforts in educational research studies.
As president of the American Educational Research Assn., Dean Anderson served as chairman pro tempore of the interim committee. Dean Anderson said, in explaining the need for such a council, that "it is not enough to encourage teachers to put more effort into the teaching of their subjects."
Herbert A. Smith, professor of education, accompanied Dean Anderson.
Phil Delavan to Be Interim Cyclone Coach
AMES, Iowa—Phil Delavan, freshman track coach at Iowa State, will be the interim-head coach while Burl V. Berry is on leave of absence next year, it is announced by Gordon Chalmers, athletic director.
Berry will lecture in Iran on an Fulbright fellowship during 1959-60.
Delavan, a native of Glenwood, is the greatest shot putter ever developed in Iowa, holding the Iowa State record at 55 feet 3 inches. He captained the 1958 Cyclone track team.
City Manager Post Goes to Graduate
time. For the first time at any world's fair, the American show went out on a limb and risked exhibiting contemporary art. None of the safe stuff or the museum relics—here was the life blood of modern American art which need not apologize to anyone.
Glenn E. Varenhorst, a 33-year-old graduate of the School of Public Administration and former city manager at Hays and Sapulpa, Okla., has been named city manager of Salem. Ill.
It comes as a shock to most Americans to learn that their country, which so long held on for dear life to the cultural coattails of Europe, is leading the Old World.
In music, Americans lead the field in musical comedy and jazz. Even our operas by composers such as Menotti are given preference over contemporary European works in Greece, Italy, and elsewhere.
Varenhorst now is administrative assistant in the city government at St. Cloud, Minn. He held a similar job in Phoenix, Ariz. Salem is a southern Illinois town of 7,000.
In drama Tennessee Williams can hold his own with any playwright in Europe. It is unfortunate, however, that most European have seen only "A Streetcar Named Desire" and not his less violent plays such as "The Glass Menagerie."
In architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright sturdy side by side with Walter Groopius. In literature, Americans excel in the short story and solid novels appear on this side of the Atlantic, also.
To those who think America is spelled with dollar signs, an examination of the influence of our civilization on Europe would be illuminating.
Dr. Ruth A. Stout
Whitey Gompert Gets I-State Post
AMES, Iowa — Frank (Whitey) Gompert is the new Iowa State freshman basketball coach, Gordon Chalmers, athletic director, announces.
Gompert has been freshman coach and varsity assistant at Colorado for the past two years. He was a former all-Big Seven forward at Colorado.
Gompert is a 1949 graduate of New Trier Township High, Winnetka, Ill., where he was an all-state performer. He has a bachelor of science degree from Colorado completing his playing career there in 1953. He served three years with the Marines, including a seven-month tour of duty in Japan.
The former Buff star played in the East-West Wish game in Kansas City in 1953 and was an all-Marine star in 1955. He also played AAU basketball for three years in Denver.
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Dr. Ruth A. Stout of Topeka, immediate past president of the National Education Assn., will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Bailey Auditorium. Subject of the public lecture will be "The Dimensions of Professionalism."
The appearance here of Dr. Stout, who is director of field programs for the Kansas State Teachers Assn., is particularly for teachers attending
the various National Science Foundation summer institutes. She previously will have addressed NSF institutes in Emporia, Hays, Manhattan and Topeka.
Dr. Stout is twice an alumna of KU, earning the bachelor's and master's degrees. She has taught in the public schools and at the university level.
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