SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
45th Year, No. 4
Friday, June 21, 1957
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
30 Authors Will Attend Writing Session At KU
The seventh University of Kansas Writers' Conference, meeting in the Memorial Union June 25 to 28, will be attended by about 30 writers from Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas, according to present indications. Miss Frances Grinstead, director of the conference, said today.
Elizabeth Gregg Patterson, fiction leader of the conference, has received the largest number of manuscripts for appraisal. She will arrive from Ann Arbor, Tuesday, to talk to the enrollees on how each of them may best use their special talents in writing short stories.
Mrs. Patterson's work has appeared in the New Yorker, McCall's, Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, and other popular periodicals. "Elizabeth Gregg Patterson is not to be regarded as a 'slick' writer," Miss Grinstead explained. "Her work is of the highest literary caliber and she does not write prolifically."
Mrs. Virginia Scott Miner, who will deliver the poet's lecture Tuesday evening on "Manuscripts and Margins," is a well known writer of verse for both popular and literary periodicals. Readers in this area are familiar with her poems in the Kansas City Star.
Phillips Wins Award
Miss Eula Mark Phillips, juvenile writing leader who will address the group Wednesday morning on "From This a Story Grows," will be honored that afternoon at the American Library Association meeting in Kansas City by a reception celebrating her winning of the $3,000 Charles W. Follett award for a juvenile book, "Chuco, the Boy With the Good Name."
Lewis Nordyke, whose talk on "How to Make a Living Writing" will open the conference's practical sessions, is also scheduled for a Convocation lecture free to the public, at 8 o'clock Thursday evening in the ballroom of the Union. His subject then is "Great Plains Storyland."
Nordyke is the author of two books on the Texas cattle country, and of the life story of "John Wesley Hardin," notorious bad man, part of whose exploits involved Newton and Abilene, Kansas. Copies of this book are obtainable at the Student Union Book Store. In the fall Thomas Y. Crowell will publish his fourth, "The Truth About Texas." This week's Saturday Evening Post (June 22) contains one of Nordyke's popular articles, "Bargain Bonanza."
Nordyke Writes of West
—Pnoto Bureau
These four leaders and Miss Grinstead, as well as Bob Wormington of WDAF-TV, who will give the after-dinner speech Wednesday evening in the Kansas Room, are available for manuscript consultation with enrolled members. Tuition covering this privilege and attendance at the daily workshop sessions is $25. A number of manuscripts can still be received, said Miss Grinstead, though the nominal deadline has expired.
(See related book review on page 2)
Western Kansas partly cloudy with isolated late afternoon and evening thunderstorms today. Eastern Kansas partly cloudy today. Southerly winds of 25-35 miles per hour this afternoon with local blowing dust west portion. High today near 90.
Weather
DANCE, BALLERINA!—Robert E. Bell, director of the ballet division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, corrects the posture of a student. The dancers (from left) are Eugenia Hoefflin, Oklahoma City; Nina Lucas, St. Louis, Mo., and Sue Lyn Bumpas, also from Oklahoma City.
Dancers Begin Work
Ballet Camp Director Emphasizes Practice
By JANET JUNEAU
"Practice—every day, every day, every day!!" This is the "themesong" of Mr. Robert E. Bell, director of the Ballet division of the Midwestern Music and Art camp.
Mr. Bell, known as one of the outstanding teachers of ballet in America today, for many years was a featured soloist with the original Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo.
He prescribes ballet for poise, grace, and appreciation of good music, although he warns that because of the rigid technique, much practice is needed to build up strength and muscles. He said the professional dancer must begin at the age of seven or eight, because as one gets older, the muscles and bones tend to become more settled. For this reason, Mr. Bell said, as a dancer becomes older it requires more and more practice to keep in condition. Mr. Bell is assisted by Miss Genie Hoeflin.
To become a ballet dancer. one
must have an ever-flowing, overflowing stream of energy Mr. Bell said. To the average spectator watching a ballet practice session, it appears to be a group of double-jointed contortionists.
In non-descript costumes which include black, and sometimes blue and red leotards, black or flesh-colored hose, and of course ballet slippers, the forty students can be found hard at work in the Robinson Gym Annex.
The session which meets twice a day begins with a half hour of practice at the bar. Most of the fundamental steps and positions are practiced repeatedly.
Later in the season, the ballet students will appear in a recital
First Camp Concert Scheduled For Sunday
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp orchestra and chorus will present the first concert of the summer session band camp series at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium.
The camp band and chorus will present another concert at 8:00 p.m. in the open-air amphitheater.
Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education, will direct the orchestra Sunday afternoon Clayton Krebhel, assistant professor of music education, will direct the chorus during both concerts.
Following is the program for the Sunday concerts:
Orchestra-Chorus Sundav. June 23
3:30 p.m., Hoch Auditorium
Theme Song: Ibanez Tune from Coun-
tinue
Orchestra: Pomp and Circumstance,
No. 4, in commemoration of the
Elgar Centennial, Eigar; Overture to
Egmont, Beethoven;
Symphony No. 5 (Reformation),
Allegro vivace, Adante, Chorale
and Allegro, Mendelssohn, Mr.
Carney conducting.
Chorus: Brother James' Air, Jacob; Monotone, Lockwood; Angus Dei, Morley, Mr. Krehbiel conducting. Kay Jrogensen, accompanist.
Orchestra: Fantasia on the Alleluia Hymn, Jacob; A Night on Bald Mountain, Moussorgsky; Theme Song, Irish Tune from County Derry, Grainger, Mr. Carney conducting.
Band-Chorus Sunday, June 23
Theme Song: Irish Tune from County Derry, Grainger.
Band: Tannhauser Overture, Wagner; Tap Roots, Skinner; Brighton Beach, Marah, Latham. Mr. Wiley conducting.
Chorus: Create in Me, Brahms,
Barn Dance, Donato; Didn't My
Lord Deliver Daniel, arr. Miller.
Mr. Krehbiel conducting. Kay
Jorgensen accompanist.
SWING TIME - Summer Session students swing to the music of the first hour dance of the summer, held Wednesday night in the Student Union. Wednesday night dances will be held
Band: Phedre Overture, Massenet;
On the Trail from "Grand Canyon
Suite," Grofe; Invocation of
Alberich from "Das Rheingold,
Wagner"; Thune song:
Irish Tune from County Derry,
Grainger. Mr. Wiley conducting.
Student Named Dairy Queen
Photo Bureau
Miss Margaret Elizabeth Green, Girard sophomore, has been chosen Crawford County Dairy Queen. She was crowned by Miss Marcia Hall, Coffeyville junior, 1956 Kansas Dairy Queen, in ceremonies ending a dairy festival at Pittsburg Thursday, June 12.
throughout the summer session on June 26, July 10, 17, and 24. All of the informal dances will be in the Trail Room.
Campus Building Plans Outlined
Building, maintenance, and repair plans of the Buildings and Grounds Department for the summer have been announced by Keith Lawton.
The space left by the transferring of these departments is being redecorated and will be reassigned in the fall.
The Fine Arts Building, which is situated on the southwest corner of the campus by Allen Field House, will be ready for occupation when the fall term begins. The completion of the new building will involve the moving in late August of the departments of music, drama, speech, and art, and their offices.
Contracts will be let this fall for the construction of walks, drives, and a drainage system around the Fine Arts Building. A contract has been awarded for stage equipment which will include rigging, curtains, and drops for the new building.
Other remodeling planned by the Buildings and Grounds Department cannot be started until the end of the summer session. Routine maintenance work, for example, curb and street repairs, which cannot be done during the regular school year will be accomplished during the summer months. It was also announced that a general lighting system will be installed in Allen Field House before the fall term.
Plans for the new men's dorm are now out for bids. The new hall, Joseph R. Pearson, will be situated north of Carruth-O'Leary on West Campus Road.
Bids will be taken in mid-July for the remodeling of Blake Hall. The new housing for married students will be ready for occupation in the fall, Lawton said.
Theatre Program Is Changed
The Summer Theatre Program has announced a change in production dates. According to Dr. Lewin Goff, associate professor of speech and drama, and director of University Theatre, the new schedule is as follows:
July 5-6—"Stage Door" (high school)
July 11-12—"Come Back, Little Sheba" (University)
July 18-19—"Lute Song" (high school)
July 25-26 "Scenes From Great Plays" (high school)
All performances will be at 7:30 p.m. in the air-conditioned Student Union Ballroom.
Faculty Club Invites Members
The Board of Governors of the KU faculty club cordially invites graduate students with an M.A. and all visiting faculty to take advantage of summer membership privileges.
Application forms may be obtained from Jack Weir at 115 Snow Hall, Joyce McLeod in the Reference Room of Watson Library and Martin Jones at Room 2 in Strong Hall.