KU
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
47th Year, No.11
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, July 17, 1959
THINGS TO COME2—High school graduates attend the third preview session banquet, held Monday evening at the Kansas Union, for prospective freshmen. Shown at the banquet are, left to right: Charles Hammond, Osage City;
Ed Godsey, Newton; Don Wilson, Lawrence; Bryont Philgreen, Kansas City, Mo.; June Hortwell, Kansas City, Mo.; Dian Upton, Wichita, and Mary Lieth, Prairie Village. This preview will be followed by three more.
McCullers Play Preview Slated
A special preview performance of Carson McCullers" The Member of the Wedding" will be presented by the University Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, July 23 and 24.
The play will open the fall season Sept. 10 and Oct. 1-2-3. Summer school students and members of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp will be the only persons admitted. Reserved seats are available at the University Theatre box office. There will be no single admission sales.
On Broadway, "The Member of the Wedding" gave Ethel Waters one of her most famous roles. It launched the careers of Julie Harris and Brandon De Wilde. The play deals with the transition of an adolescent girl into womanhood.
Cast members are Joanna Featherston as Berenice, Tomi Yadon as Frankie, Thomas Edward Baumgartel as John Henry, Lou Lyda as Jarvis, Kay Carroll as Janice, Mike Blasingame as Mr. Adams, Margrett Kennedy as Doris, Marguerite Houston as Helen.
Bettie Marie Keele as Betty, Suzanne Calvin as Mrs. West, Virdell Edwards as Sis Laura, Moses Gunn as T. T. Williams, Leon Sidney Jones Jr. as Honey Camden Brown, and Daryl Warner as Barney, Lewin Goff, director of the University Theatre, is the director.
2 Press Club Winners Told
Two journalism seniors, Jack Harrison of Hays and Richard Crocker of Wichita, have been awarded journalism scholarships for 1959-60 by the Kansas City Press Club.
Each scholarship is for $200, Mike Strawn, retiring club president, announces. Two students at Kansas State University and two at the University of Missouri similarly were honored
Scholarships are financed by profits from the club's annual Griddle show.
Harrison has served in several positions on the University Daily Kansan and will be fall semester managing editor. This summer he is an intern on the Salina Journal. He also has worked on the Hays Daily News.
Crocker will be an assistant managing editor of The Daily Kansan this fall. He is working this summer on the Wichita Eagle, and in high school was advertising manager of the Junction City school paper.
University Appoints 16 Summerfield Scholars
Appointment of 16 University of Kansas students as Summerfield scholars has been announced by James K. Hitt, registrar and chairman of the Summerfield committee.
The Summerfield award is the highest undergraduate honor the University can bestow upon men who are graduates of Kansas high schools. High school seniors earn the honor through competitive examinations and interviews. Others qualify on their academic and leadership records as KU students. All have nearly straight "A" averages.
The amount of each scholarship will vary according to need from a single $100 honorarium up to 100 per cent support. The Summerfield scholarship program is maintained by an annual $25,000 grant from the Solon E. Summerfield Foundation to the KU Endowment Assn.
Ronnie Ralph Broun, Phillipsburg, liberal arts sophomore; Edward G. Collister, Lawrence, liberal arts
The new Summerfield scholars, whose awards are renewable until graduation:
juniur; David G. DeLong, Emporia architecture junior; John L. Hodge Kansas City, Kan., liberal art sophomore.
Thomas Wayne Loewen, Wichita, liberal arts sophomore; Daniel Clyde McColl, Arkansas City, liberal arts sophomore; William B. McCollum, Leavenworth, liberal arts sophomore; John B. McFarlane, engineering sophomore.
Larry V. Moore, Topeka, engineering sophomore; Leo M. Pivonka, La Carse, liberal arts sophomore; Constant Poirier Topeka, liberal arts sophomore; Michael Muphy Roberts, Westwood, engineering sophomore.
Jon R. Rutherford, Garden City, liberal arts sophomore; Larry C. Schooley, Kiowa, engineering senior; Carl Mason Sutherland, Prescott engineering sophomore, and Neal Richard Wagner, Topeka, liberal arts sophomore.
Asian Area Study Announced at KU
The establishment of an East Asian Language and Area Program at the University of Kansas under a contract with the U.S. Office of Education has been announced by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy. The contract provides $9,315 for the first year to supplement the University teaching budget.
Dr. George M. Beckman, associate professor of history, will be chairman of the interdepartmental program, which initially will provide a minor or second major course of study for students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Students from any part of the University, however, will be able to enroll in the various new courses provided by the program.
Dr. Beckmann is a specialist in East Asian history and culture and for the past four summers has conducted a summer Asian Studies Institute here with sponsorship by several outside agencies.
Dr. Murphy said, "This grant will permit the University of Kansas to make an expanded contribution to the critical national need of many more people skilled in the significant languages of the world.
"It is however, just the first of many steps which will have to be taken if the University is to carry out its 20th Century responsibility to the youth of Kansas, the Mid-west and the nation."
Dean George R. Waggoner of the College termed the program unusual among the few East Asian studies programs in that it is aimed at the undergraduate student, although enlargement to a graduate level center may come soon.
He said that this fall the University would have the first fulltime teacher of Chinese language in a large Midwestern area. Several other institutions have been teaching Chinese language but the professors' primary duties have been in other fields.
Dr. Beckmann said the program would start "modestly" this fall with the addition of the professor of Chinese and of a political scientist whose specialty is the area of Far Eastern government. Dr. Beckmann already is teaching East Asian courses.
Candidates are being interviewed for the two new positions.
George M. Beckmann
The interdepartmental program of
study is not new in the College Dean Waggoner points out. Such programs in American Civilization, the Humanities and Latin American Area have attained status as full major courses of study for the bachelor of arts degree.
Steel Workers Brace For Prolonged Strike
PITTSBURGH — (UPI)— Pickets patrolling the nation's idle steel mills girded for a long strike. The government's top labor trouble shooter predicted that a solution won't be "early or easy."
Federal Mediation Chief Joseph T. Finnegan said settling the crippling tie-up will take time and "is not going to be accomplished by any magic formula."
Finnegan reported to Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell on his fruitless meetings with union and management leaders in New York.
Here's Program of Sunday Concerts
Orchestra-Chorus
Orchestra-Chorus Sunday Afternoon, July 19 Gerhard Schroth and Morris Poaster, Guest Conductors 3:30 p.m.—University Theatre Part I
Chorus
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes ... Glarum
Breathe on Me, O Breath of God ... Thompson
Lord Thou Hast Been Our Dwelling Place ... Lekburg
He Watching Over Israel from "Elijah" ... Mendelssohn
Mr. Poaster, Conducting
Part II
Orchestra
Symphonic Sketches ... Chadwick
Jubilee
Poem, for Flute and Orchestra ... Griffis
Anne Kepler, flutist
Mr. Carney, Conducting
Sheep May Safely Graze ... Bach-Cailliet
Sheep May Safely Graze ... Bach-Caillet
Symphony No. 41 ... Mozart
First movement—Allegro Vivace
Music for Strings...Jef van Hoof
Marche Slave...Tschaikovsky
Mr. Schroth, Conducting
Theme Song
Irish Tune from County Derry ... Grainge
Mr. Carney, Conducting
Band-Chorus
Sunday Evening, July 19
Gerhard Schroth and Morris Poaster, Guest Conductors
8 p.m.—KU Outdoor Theatre
Theme Song
Irish Tune from County Derry ... Grainger
Band
Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) ... Richard Strauss
Napoli, Solo for Trumpet ... Bellstedt
Bobby Brooks, trumpet soloist
The Italian Symphony ... Mendelssohn
Pilgrims' March
Saltarello
Mr. Wiley, Conducting Part II
Chorus
Contate Domino ... Pitone
Create in Me a Clean Heart ... Gharum
Lord to Thee Our Hearts We Raise ... Glinka
Joobalai ... arr. Ades
Mr. Poaster, Conducting Part III
Band
Prelude and Fugue in F Minor ... Handel-Malin
Sleepers, Wake ... Bach
River Jordan Fantasy ... Whitney
Folk Song Suite ... Leidzin
Mr. Schroth, Conducting
Theme Song
Irish Tune from County Derry ... Grainger
Mr. Wiley, Conducting