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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 25, 1957
TAKING GOOD ADVICE—Three music students from the Midwestern Music and Art Camp listen to advice from chief counselors in the Carruth-O'Leary lobby. They are (from left) Mr. Nevin Wasson, Camp Supervisor; Keith Aschenbrenner, Chenoa, Ill.; C. Herbert Duncan,
Assistant Supervisor; Bob Isle, Jacksonville, Ill., and Roger Beerman, West Union, Iowa. An expensive staff is kept on hand to guide the high school students from over thirty states through the problems they may encounter in a University town.
Camp Supervisor Has The Answers
The man who will probably answer more questions than any other person on the campus this summer is Nevin Wasson, supervisor of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
The questions may not be of such profound significance as the many that will be asked in classrooms by University students, but to 550 campers, the questions are pretty important.
On the first floor of Carruth-O'Leary dormitory where Mr. Wasson has his headquarters, all-camp council meetings on Monday nights in the Student Union Ballroom, and anywhere else he happens to be, he is battered with a barrage of questions from the campers.
From virtually all parts of the U.S. the students came to KU with their questions, and whether it's with a Brooklyn accent or a Texas drawl, the demands are all about the same.
"Where can I buy a stamp? Where
can I mail, a letter? Where can I
find an iron? How do you polish
a lacquered French horn? Where can
I find some silver polish?" There
are hundreds of them.
Mr. Wasson is the man to answer their questions. As a music teacher at North East High School and at Van Horn High School, Kansas City, Mo., he has answered student's questions for the past 20 years. This is also his twelfth season with the Music Camp.
Responsible For Housing
Responsible For Housing Besides the questions, Mr. Wasson has a variety of duties to consume his time. As camp supervisor he was responsible for getting all of the boys and girls housed during the six weeks encampment.
Housing has been one of the most interesting duties for Mr. Wasson. As the camp has grown from 35 or 40 boys to the present enrollment of 550, the Music Camp quarters have shifted all over the campus until the present housing in Carruth-O'Leary and Corbin and North College Halls.
Carruth-OLeary, adequate last summer for the number of boys in the camp, is crowded this summer. Twenty-eight more beds had to be set up in the dormitory to take care of the 228 boys. Mr. Wasson expects enrollment of boys next summer to grow to the extent that another dormitory of comparable size will be needed to house them.
In adition to housing, Mr. Was-
son is in charge of meal books. All of the campers and staff take their meals at the Student Union Cafeteria.
Another duty is that of helping Russell L. Wiley with the camp band. A musician himself, Mr. Wasson helps to organize the band, is present at all rehearsals, and tunes the band and gives the members final instructions before the Sunday night concert.
Mr. Wasson, who plays the woodwinds and specializes in clarinet, has played in every concert until this summer.
"There just isn't enough time to play for myself because my work as supervisor keeps me so busy," he said.
Mr. Wasson also arranges auditions for the two inter-camp recitals which will be held in Strong Auditorium July 9 and 23.
Mr. Wasson's duties, but he does not find it much of a problem.
All-camp discipline is another of
"Of course, there is a little mischief," he said, "but I think most of our problems are reduced because we have such nice quarters. So long as they have good clean fun, we don't discipline them."
Mr. Wasson is assisted by a staff of 30 full-time and part-time counselors. The assistant camp supervisor is Herbert Duncan, who is an instructor in instrumental music in the Normandy school district, St. Louis, Missouri.
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Venezuelan Freshman Saw Danger In France, Spain
Lescarboura recalled wearing wooden shoes and searching for food in France during World War II.
KU is tough, but "that's the way a good university should be," according to James Lescarboura, Venezuelan freshman, a tall, dark-haired petroleum engineering major.
Lescarboura was born in Barcelona, Spain, where his father was a newspaper man and photographer for the Republican party, which opposed the Falangist party of Gen. Francisco Franco.
Mr. Lescarboura, chased into France by the Falangists, sent his wife and Jim into northern France. Jim's mother was put to work, but escaped in 1939 to join his father who had managed to escape from a German concentration camp.
"A French lady, a very good friend, helped us for awhile." Lescarboura said. "We still write to her and send her money."
"War broke out and my father worked for the underground. My parents saw each other every six months or so. My brother was born in 1942 and mother had to work as a hotel clerk and do odd nursing jobs to feed us."
Lescarboura was in the fourth grade when he left France. He completed high school in Venezuela and then attended Northeastern State College in Oklahoma for a year on a scholarship from the Asiatic Petroleum Corp., a branch of Shell Oil Co.
"Two American religious organizations paid our way to Caracas, Venezuela in 1945 when the war ended. We couldn't come here because of U.S. relations with Spain. My father is a commercial artist in Caracas now."
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Last fall, Lescarboura was given his choice of attending Pennsylvania State, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tulsa University, or the University of Kansas,
He chose KU because he liked midwestern people and got along well with them.
"I like the campus and the food." Lescarboura said. "We are accustomed to eating Spanish food. But I don't agree with closing hours."
He plans to marry a KU coed in August, and will return to Venezuela next summer to renew his visa and to work in the oil refinery for two months.
Colby Sophomore Wins Scholarship
Edward E. Metzler III, Colby, has been awarded the Thomas County Alumni Scholarship for his sophomore year in engineering at KU, it was announced recently by Maurice Barker, executive secretary of the Greater University Fund.
Metzler, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward E. Metzler, Jr., Colby, held
the $200 scholarship during the past year. He also held a residence scholarship in Pearson Hall. As an engineering freshman he earned 17 hours of credit the first semester and $20½ hours the spring term,
averaging better than B grades.
One hundred per cent of the KU alumni living in Thomas county contributed to the Greater University Fund for the scholarship. Barker said, and it is among the few alumni clubs to attain full participation. Keith R. Willoughby of Colby was chairman of the scholarship drive. Sam W. G. Lowe, also of Colby, is a member of the Greater University Fund Advisory Board.
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