Misnomer Kauses Kansan Konfusion
By Jim Trotter
A talented dramatics student used his ability Sunday night to put one over on a Daily Kansan reporter thus causing one of the season's bigger mixups in the Kansan newsroom.
The story started when it was announced that Marlan Carlson, Wayne, Neb., senior, was awarded a Danforth Fellowship for a year of graduate work.
But somehow or other the name came out Marvin Carlson and the Wichita graduate student majoring in theater readily claimed the Danforth Fellowship and, upon request, started spinning a yarn about his history.
Yesterday we gave Marvin's history, now we'll deliver Marlan's:
Everything seemed okay until Marlan walked into the newsroom last night and announced that he had been awarded the Danforth Fellowship—not Marvin.
Martan is a senior majoring in music education. He will get his Bachelor of Arts degree in music education in June and expects to add a Bachelor of Music degree in July.
Marlan plans to use his scholarship to do graduate work at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. His undergraduate grade average stands slightly over 2.8
N. Y. His undergraduate krew average stands slightly 28.8. He is in Phu Mu Alpha Sinfonia, professional music fraternity, Pi Kappa Lambda, honorary music fraternity, Music Educators National Congress, Westminster Fellowship, University Symphony and Little Symphony.
He is also the past president of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and last year served as president and concert master of the University Symphony.
"I don't know Marvin to speak to him but I know him when I see him since our names are so similar. I also know that I was the only KU student awarded a Danforth Fellowship," Marlan said.
Marlan plans to teach in a college after he achieves his doctorate but also stated that he would like to play violin professionally for a while.
Marvin's quote to The Daily Kansas reporter Sunday night still stands.
"There is not much around the theater that I haven't done," he said.
Winter's Tale' to Open Tomorrow for 4 Days
The University Theatre production of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" will open tomorrow at 8 p.m in the theater and will run through Saturday.
Fantasy has been chosen as the style for this romantic story. Costumes and sets are designed to add to the storybook quality.
Bill Henry, Parkville, Mo., senior, is scene designer. He is the first student to design sets for a major theater production at KU.
The plot of "The Winter's Tale" revolves around Leontes, King of Sicilia, played by Sidney Berger, Brooklyn, N. Y., graduate student. He unjustly accuses his wife, played by Linda Plake, Prairie Village freshman, of unfaithfulness and causes his infant daughter to be banished.
The king's life is one of loneliness and regret until those he wronged are returned to their rightful places.
Tickets for non-students are $1.50. Students may get reserved seat tickets free upon presentation of
identification cards, Tickets may be purchased at The Theatre box office and in the Kansas Union.
Quaker Executive Speaks Tomorrow
Edwin Duckles, executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee will speak about "The Quiet Revolution in the Villages of the Less Privileged Countries." tomorrow at a meeting of the Society of Friends.
The meeting, sponsored by the KU-Y International Commission, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Fine Room.
Mr. Duukles has served 14 years as field director of the Mexico-El Salvador project work.
Salvador between 1955 and 1959. Mr. Duckles made several trips to Guatemala. El Salvador and Honduras.
The talk by Mr. Duckles will be illustrated by slides and a discussion will follow.
Daily Hansan
56th Year, No.135
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, April 28, 1959
Chancellor Reinstates Two Suspended Men
Asked to confirm the name of the other student reinstated, L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, said:
Two of the nine students suspended for vandalism Wednesday have been reinstated into the University on probation after conferences with Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy today.
Melvin Hawk, Aitchison graduate student, was one of the two students reinstated. Hawk and David Blackburn, Parsons junior, complained in a Daily Kansan story Thursday that they had not had a fair hearing. Blackburn has not been reinstated.
"You know I won't release the names of any student involved."
The nine students were suspended and two others put on probation after a party April 15 during which the second and third floors of a Lawrence apartment house were damaged.
In the Kansan story Thursday, Hawk and Blackburn said they had not had a fair hearing. They said they had been at the party for only a few minutes and had left before any destruction took place.
The students were told by Dean Woodruff that they could appeal to the chancellor. Hawk appealed yesterday afternoon. Later, he was
"Dean Woodruff isn't going to let me back in school. He said I can still appeal to the chancellor. I'd still like to see the chancellor," Blackburn said.
informed by Dean Woodruff that he had been reinstated. Blackburn said this morning he has not yet seen the chancellor. He appealed to Dean Woodruff this morning.
Blackburn said he will probably then appeal to Chancellor Murphy tomorrow.
Dean Woodruff said he didn't know if final action has been taken in the case. One of the other students involved was meeting with him this morning.
Booth Fad Ended?
BOURNEMOUTH, England — (UPI)—A group of students announced the beginning of an open-air variation on telephone booth stuffing yesterday. They balanced 15 of their number on the top of a pillbox—a circular mail box with a diameter about that of a manhole cover.
Debate Starts Business Day
A debate on "Life Insurance Versus Purchasing Power" will start the annual Business School Day at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Leland Pritchard, professor of economics and business administration, and Harold Krough, associate professor of business, will be the debaters. Coffee will be served.
A softball game between faculty and students at 2 p.m. on intramural field No.4 at 2 p.m. will be the second event of the day.
John Latshaw, resident partner of E F. Hutton and Co., investment bankers, will speak at a banquet at 7 p.m. in the Ballroom. Mr. Latshaw is the youngest man ever to be admitted to the New York Stock Exchange.
AWS 'Fair Ladies' Fete All Women's Day
A revised All Women's Day program, "Our Fair Ladies," will be highlighted by an honors convocation for all women students from 7-8:30 p.m. tonight in Hoch auditorium.
The other section of today's program was a fashion show and tea this morning in the Kansas Union ballroom, featuring fashions.
Fashion show door prizes of a cashmere skirt and sweater and three dresses will be awarded tonight at the honors program.
The honors program tonight will feature the installation of 1959-1960 Associated Women Students officers, the announcements of the AWS Memorial Scholarship winner, residence hall counselors, and Jay Sisters for next year.
There will also be a capping ceremony for the new Mortar Board members, recognition of Phi Beta Kappa members, and the American Association of University Women's award to an outstanding senior woman will be presented.
The program will be concluded with a presentation of "Our Fairest Ladies," which is an announcement of women chosen by their individual
houses as the most outstanding person in house activities.
Last year's All Women's Day program, "You Owe It to Yourself to be Fashionable," was held in the fall rather than the spring. The program was changed to spring this year because the AWS felt that the event would be a good way to culminate the year's activities.
Martha Crowley, Pittsburg senior, is chairman of this year's All Women's Day committee and also will be mistress of ceremonies.
Other members of the All Women's Day committee are Dana States, Dodge City sophomore, honors chairman; Joan French, Topeka freshman, and Marietta Meigs. Mission junior, program chairmen; Barbara Wilson, Wilmington, Del., senior elections chairman; Marilyn Row, Larned junior, tea chairman; Beverley Baird, Topeka junior, fashion show chairman, and Carolyn Ontjes, Hutchinson freshman, publicity chairman.
Phi Kappa Forms New Group Here
A new social fraternity will begin life at KU tomorrow as the final step takes place in consolidation procedures between the national fraternities of Phi Kappa and Theta Kappa Phi.
The new group, to be known as Phi Kappa Theta, will be a national Catholic social fraternity like both of its predecessors. The move was enacted when both fraternities voted for the merger last September. The Phi Kappa chapter has been at KU since 1915.
The initiation services will begin tomorrow at 6:30 a.m. Mass in St.
John's Church, with the formal presentation of the new charter taking place in the evening. A banquet will be held at 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, after which the chapter will hold an open house.
Car Damages Gas Facilities
Jerome Koehler, Phi Kappa Theta representative and alumnus of the KU Phi Kappa chapter, will then present the new charter to chapter president Harley Russell, Topeka junior.
A runaway car rolled backwards from a parking stall located at 10 Stouffer Place last night, smashing into gas meters and resulting in $150 damage to the car and $50 damage to the gas lines and meters. The car, owned by Alfred J. Mroczkowski, Lawrence sophomore, began moving when the transmission failed while in the "park position."
Alumni of both Phi Kappa and Theta Kappa Phi will receive automatic membership in the new fraternity, Russell said. Dating from the founding of Phi Kappa in 1889, the fraternity has now expanded to include 65 chapters and six colonies.
The two charters at the KU fraternity are marked by the passage of one generation. A charter member of Phi Kappa is August M. Shrepfer, Potwin, whose son, M. Waldo, is presently an active member of the fraternity. The latter will step ahead of his father by becoming a charter member of the new Kansas Epsilon chapter of Phi Kappa Theta.
NEW NAME—Viewing a plaque with the fraternity's new name, three members of Phi Kappa Theta remove the Phi Kappa name plate from
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the door. Left to right, Kent Morgan, Hope senior; Gerald Sanderson, Topeka sophomore, and president Harley Russell, Topeka junior.