age 8 University Daily Kansan Friday. May 15, 1959
Senior Returns Home
Years of Acting Bring Out Validity of Shakespeare
At the tender age of twelve, Tom Sawyer, Topeka senior, had somehow waded through all of Shakespeare's plays. Since that time he has performed in half of them and seen productions of the rest at Stratford England and the Old Vic in London.
This wealth of experience was drawn upon this week in Fraser Theater when Sawyer gave his recital "The Voices of Shakespeare." The program, sponsored by the National Collegiate Players and the Shakespeare Classes of the English Department, included selections from the major plays, the longer poems, and the sonnets.
"There was a good deal that escaped me in that first reading of the plays—roughly about 95 per cent—and it wa'n not until I had heard Shakespeare spoken properly (by Sir John Gielgud) that I realized the poet wrote more for the action and playgoer than for the reader." Sawyer said.
Shakespeare Is Valid
"I hope to indicate this evening that what Shakespeare has to say is as valid today as when he wrote it.
"The wonderful world of Shakespeare is closed to us because he is crammed down our throats too early by high school teachers; or what is worse, placed on an estoteric pedestal and worshipped. In either case his writings become a physic rather than a catharsis."
Sawyer, as an actor, critic, and general character, has had a checkered theatrical background. Long a mainstay of Topeka Civic Theatre, he joined the Air Force in 1951 where he played over 1,000 performances to troops in the United States, Africa, and Europe.
Returning to the University in 1956, he won the best actor award for his work in the University
Theatre. After touring Europe again with the "Jayhawker Jamboree," he was master of ceremonies for the 1957 Rock Chalk Revue.
He then won two scholarships to study in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from which he was graduated with honors last winter.
Six Years in England
During the six years he has lived in England. Sawyer has presented parts of his recital before members of the royal family and on the BBC. He has appeared at Royal Festival
Hall, Royal Albert Hall, the Southwark Shakespeare Festival, the English Festival of Spoken Poetry, the open-air theatres at Stratford and Regents' Park, London, and "carried the odd spear" at the Old Vic.
On his way to rehearse with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth today, Sawyer said: "I only hope the audience enjoys these larger-than-life Shakespearean characters as much as I have in "meeting" and working with them. After all, Shakespeare can be fun!"
Tau Beta Pi Initiates 27
Twenty-seven men have been initiated into Tau Beta Pi, national honorary engineering fraternity because of their distinguished scholarship and exemplary character.
First semester juniors who are honored must be in the upper eighth of the class. Other initiates must be in the upper fifth of their class.
The juniors chosen: Dennis Edward Haves, Washington; Gerald Edward Holmberg, Lenexa; John Franklin McDonald, Mission; James Austin Franklin, Kansas City, Kan.; Kenneth Leo Hull, Pratt, and John Albert Rupf, Jr., Wichita.
The other undergraduate initiates:
Robert Russell Seacat, Emporia;
James Andrew Ireland, Lawrence;
Gary Willard Kibbee, Kansas City,
Kan; Robert L. Henderson, Garden
City, and James Irvin Metzger, Jr.
Leon, all juniors.
William Joseph Kopek, Kansas City, Kan.; Bobby Dale Griffith, Pratt; Charles Frederick Gibbon, Hutchinson; John Virgil Bowser, Springfield, Mo.; Dale Jackson Gaumer, Jennings; Leland Bradley,
Turner; Young Ju Lee, Seoul, Koarea; John Howard Woodford, Leawood, and Fred Charles Hubert Straub, Blackwood, N. J., seniors.
Tau Beta Pi also recognizes alumni for engineering attainment. Alumni members honored: Ray E. Lawrence, Kansas City, Mo.; K. B. Irani, Stanley M. Wales, Donald E. Metzler, and Curtis Besinger, all of Lawrence.
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TOPEKA — (UPI) — A Michigan business man who is an official of the National Association of Manufacturers said yesterday his state is "head over heels in debt" because of its labor government.
Labor Cited as String-Puller
Charles R. Slign Jr. of Eansing, executive secretary of the NAM, said the only answer is for businessmen to get into politics.
He told members of the Topeka Rotary Club that Michigan's brand of "labor government may come to you."
"As an American citizen and as a servant of American industry I am not happy that organized labor
is now attempting to install in Washington the kind of government they have entrenched in Lansing." Slight said.
He said he was convinced that most Michigan people didn't want labor government. "The problem, plainly, is that the coffers of the unions are opened wide to finance labor-backed candidates," Sligh added.
In 1891 Kansas ranked 4th in coal production west of the Mississippi River, according to government records.
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