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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 21, 1959
The End
June. It means another class, another commencement. The last class, the last coffee hour, job interviews and the beginning search for the buck.
In a year, we've all grown a little older, some of us a little more disillusioned. The freshman who arrived with such a flourish is back home or in the Army. The senior resolved to get "one year of serious learning" has relapsed into the routine of party, cram, and crib notes.
A few thousand notebooks hold a few thousand notes; the transfer of data from faculty mind to student notes to faithful disgorgement at testing time has gone through another cycle.
Have we learned anything permanently, or anything of permanent value? Of course we have;
osmosis alone assures that. Has the student body produced any original thought? Perhaps a little. Have any of us done our best? It's doubtful. Most of the $1,000, $1,500, or $2,000 a year was wasted.
And yet, despite the black thoughts of missed opportunities, wasted effort and half-hearted work, something comes through from the entire process. The eliche says you learn more outside class than in, and for most of us sluggards it's true.
Surely we all know more about beatniks, the way people think or refuse to think, managing the mechanics of living. Perhaps we've even gained some insight into the thinking process. It happens every year.
Another class, another year, another turn of the wheel. —Alan Jones
Glad To
Editor:
I should like to take this opportunity to thank whole-heartedly the many wonderful people of the University of Kansas, professors and students alike, who gave so graciously untold hours of happiness this year to the patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital and Kansas State Hospital in Topeka. This is the thirteenth year the university has participated in our programs there.
I trust too that the foreign students who participated in the Discussion and Resocialization Clubs and the variety shows, will take back to their native countries a realization of the important role
the volunteer plays in the rehabilitation of the mentally ill.
I am sure you have all felt repaid over and over again for the time taken from your busy schedules. The Douglas County Chapter of the American Red Cross, the staffs of both hospitals, the patients and I, thank you from the bottoms of our hearts. Yours was a deed well done, and I look forward to working with all of you who will be back next year.
Mrs. Ralph Wolfson Rehabilitation & Entertainment Chairman, Douglas County Red Cross
A Prophesv
Twas the night before finals and all through the house most creatures were stirring except for the mouse.
The notes were strenu on the floor without care in hopes that some information might be found there.
When all at once someone's alarm clock began to clatter, everyone sprang up to take care of the matter.
So the morning arrived, and sound in their sacks, were all the students who had broken their backs.
And the finals went on without a hitch. The students who had studied are now digging a ditch.
—David Fastiggi
Cedar Grove, N.J. sophomore
Final 3 Seniors Honored
(Editor's note. This is the last in a series of four articles honoring ten outstanding seniors. The seniors were chosen by a class committee from nominations sent in by organized houses and campus activities.)
An honor-filled four years in his major field was topped off recently with a Danforth Fellowship to study music at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y. for Marlam Carlson, Weyne, Weyne.
While at KU, Marlan has been president of the University Symphony, was named the outstanding musician, and has been president of Phi Mu Alpha, honorary music fraternity. He is also a member of the International Club and Pi Kappa Lambda. He has consistently been on the Honor Roll.
Marlan plans to attend Eastman until he receives his Ph.D, and would like to teach on the college level then. He will receive a Bachelor of Arts in music education in June and one in music with emphasis on viola in August.
In his spare moments, Marlan enjoys swimming, hunting, reading philosophy and bull sessions on "anything from women to phil- ology."
As a successful climax to his four years as an accounting major,
Doug Scott, Ottawa, is now working toward his certificate as a Certified Public Accountant. After a 6-month tour of duty with the Air Force, Doug will work for a CPA firm in Kansas City.
Besides his scholastic endeavors, which include a Summerfield Scholarship. Doug has served as president of both Jollife Hall and the Scholarship Hall Council. He is a member of Sachem. Owl Society, Beta Gamma Sigma and Alpha Kappa Psi, business honoraries, and has consistently been on the honor roll.
Probably one of the best choices for Outstanding Senior is Creta Carter, Jennings. The former vice president of the student body, secretary of the All Student Council and KU delegate to the national student congress, is the holder of six scholarships.
Tennis is Doug's favorite spartime relaxation. He also likes to travel, and spent a summer in Europe two years ago. However, he said, he finds a student's budget a little hard on which to travel much.
There were for: Residence Hall (2 years); Panhellenic scholarship; Elizabeth M. Watkins music scholarship; AWS Memorial scholarship;
the Pi Beta Phi education foundation; and one from the general fund. Her 2.2 grade average has helped her to the Honor Roll many times.
She has been a member of the Dean's Advisory Board; Disciplinary Committee; Student Union Operating Board; Mortar Board, vice president and elections chairman; KU Chorale; A Cappella Choir; University Memorial Corporation; and the University Theatre.
Her major in music education has led her into Pi Lambda Theta and Mu Phi Fpsilon in which she was vice president twice, plede trainer, chaplain, outstanding senior, president of her pledge class, and delegate.
Her sorority, Pi Beta Phi, recognized her for her "most outstanding service to the internal organization of the chapter," gave her the Pi Phi activities bracelet, and nominated her for the most outstanding national scholarship chairman.
She is a charter member of the Inter-Residence Association, was chairman of the first IRA Spring Sing, and was a member of the Inter-Residence Council. She plans to continue her studies on the graduate level, majoring in guidance and personnel.
Creta Carter
Doug Scott
Marlan Carlson
It Looks This Way...
By George DeBord
My old dog Fred was something of a liberal. Consequently, he wasn't too popular in our community.
I used to argue with Fred on summer nights on the front porch. He was a pretty fair listener. He had an open mind and could appreciate my point of view. But it was difficult to sell him a bill of goods if the idea was too conservative. He wouldn't change his ways simply because it was the thing to do.
For example, there is a new group at Wisconsin University known as The Conservative Club. I doubt if Fred would have joined, despite the fact that the club's membership is growing rapidly.
In the first place, Fred would have turned up his nose at the organization's two primary principles, which are to:
1. Oppose further government controls.
2. Recognize that the international Communist movement is a conspiracy.
Fred would have opposed these principles on grounds that they are too cut and dried. They are flatly stated, and leave no room for an individual to adjust them to his personal beliefs.
I think old Fred would have opposed some government controls though, such as those on agricultural production, while recognizing the need for others, such as those inherent in the Sherman antitrust law.
Fred was anti-Communist, and would have seen no need to join a club to prove it.
But the primary reason why Fred would have shied away from the organization goes a bit deeper. He would have been disgusted with some of the recent arguments promoting the need for conservatism in college groups.
One such argument contends that if the Conservative Club catches on and spreads to other campuses, this will prove that college youngsters are level-headed rather than rebellious and troublesome.
One way to get old Fred's dander up was to say that all liberals and radicals are rebellious and troublesome, and that only conservatives are level-headed.
He used to point to the growing conformity and complacency in our neighborhood. He would cry out for the need for individual thought and action.
He would point to the angry young men who constructed the Declaration of Independence, and to those who spoke out against the decadence of the '20's and '30's. These men were liberals, he would say. And they were level-headed.
Fred died of a broken heart in 1952. A thing called McCarthyism had quieted most of the angry young men, and old Fred saw no further use in living. He was the kind of dog you had to respect.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"I figger, at least, I shoulda had a 'C-minus' outa this course.
I had PERFECT ATTENDANCE!"
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