University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 18, 1959
The Greene Construction Company is now doing the preliminary work on the United Presbyterian Center. The work is expected to be completed by Christmas. The new building will provide over twice as much room for discussion groups. The building will be completely air-conditioned. Dr. John Patton, pastor of the group, said gifts are still coming in for the furnishing of the building.
New Center Grows Daily
United Presbyterians are seeing their dreams and prayers fulfilled in the building of the new United Presbyterian Center.
"Weather cooperating, we should be able to move in during next Christmas vacation." said Dr. John H. Patton, pastor to United Presbyterian students.
The work is proceeding very well, possibly a little ahead of schedule so far. Dr. Patton said. Work on the walls and first flooring will begin this week, he added.
The new $273,000 center at 12th and Oread will have air conditioning and include* a fellowship hall large enough to accommodate 250 persons. The fellowship room in the present Center accommodates only 90 to 100.
The Center's hall may also be sectioned off by sliding doors into four discussion rooms. Counting these four rooms and the proposed offices, there will be rooms enough to hold 14 separate small discussion groups simultaneously.
In the above picture the Greene Construction Company begins the first stages of the new Center.
With the new Center, Dr. and Mrs. Patton will have a private home for the first time in 14 years. They will be no less available for consultation, however, Dr. Patton said.
"Several of the needs and furnishings have not been selected yet but will,be chosen by a local committee as the building progresses," Dr. Patton said.
Guatemalan Visitors to Meet
A panel of thirty visiting Guatemalan graduate students will discuss "Guatemalan Attitudes Toward the United States" at 7:30 tomorrow night at a history club meeting.
The discussion will be in parlor B of the Kansas Union.
The students, who are on a Guatemalan Goodwill Caravan, arrived in Lawrence yesterday on the first of four university stops in the United States.
The students include seminary students, an administrator of the Free World newspaper in Guatemala City, and students majoring in music, law, the humanities, bookkeeping and engineering.
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Author Emlyn Williams To Read Poetry April 3
Emlyn Williams, actor and author of stage plays, will present an evening of Dylan Thomas poetry April 3 in the University Theatre.
The program will be an extra attraction of the University Concert Course.
After the death of Dylan Thomas in 1953, Emlyn Williams took an active part in England in four Sunday memorial performances in memory of the poet.
Asked to "read" a few stories, he realized that standing on the stage, reading from a book, was intolerably tame. So, he committed the stories to memory, studying them as an actor studies a script.
The success of this venture and the theatrical richness of Thomas' "Under Milk Wood" encouraged Mr. Williams to greater effort. He began to think that an entire evening of comedy and drama could be mined from the stories and sketches of the poet.
Mr. Williams worked on the Dylan Thomas entertainment for a full year while touring South Africa. In May 1955, the show was presented at the "Bath Festival" and was such
a success that Mr. Williams was asked to open the season at the Globe Theatre in London.
Mr. Williams is the author of many plays including, "Night Must Fall," and "The Corn is Green."
Crosier Reappointed To UNESCO Job
Clayton M. Crosier, associate professor of civil engineering, has been reappointed to the U. S. National Commission of UNESCO.
Prof. Crosier received his first appointment to the commission in 1956. He has also served as chairman of the Kansas Commission for UNESCO and as editor of the organization's newsletter.
Pharmacists to Gather
Seniors and instructors in the School of Pharmacy will attend the annual convention of the Kansas Pharmaceutical Assn. Monday and Tuesday at the Hotel Broadview in Wichita. A dinner meeting of the KU Pharmacy Alumni attending the convention will be held Tuesday night.
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