SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
45th Year, No.2
Friday, June 14, 1957
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
531 Enrolled For Music Camp Starting Sunday
Guest conductors from five states and Mexico will be among the faculty of 20 for the Midwestern Music and Art camp which starts Sunday and will run through July 28.
They are Victor Alessandro, conductor of the San Antonio, Texas Symphony Orchestra; Paul Christiansen, director of choral music, Concordia College, Moorehead, Minn.; Guy Fraser Harrison, conductor of the Oklahoma City, Okla. Symphony Orchestra; Gerhard Schrotch, conductor, arranger, and composer, Chicago, Ill.; Wayne Hertz, director of choral music, Central Washington College of Education, Ellensberg, Wash.; Lloyd Paufsch, director of choral music, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., and Jose Vasquez, conductor of the University of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Mexico City, Mexico.
Five hundred and thirty-one high school students from 25 states have sent advance registration for the camp. Formal registration for the six-week camp will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Student Union.
A full schedule, beginning with daily 6:30 a.m. reveille and ending with 9:30 p.m. closing hours, has beer planned. Classes in each of the four sections of the camp—music, art, theater, ballet—will be held during the week from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Private lessons with faculty members will also be available. A complete program of instruction, designed for everyone from the beginner to the advanced student, will be offered.
Varied Activity
Weekly recitals, concerts, plays, and art exhibits will give the campers an opportunity to display their achievements.
Although the campers will devote much of their time to classes and practice sessions, they will have opportunities to join field trips to Kansas City, Mo. to visit museums, art galleries, and to attend Starlight Theater performances.
Girls will live in North College Hall and the boys will be housed in Carruth O'Leary dormitory. All the students will eat in the Student Union building.
Play Dates Announced
The morning tryouts will be limited to theatre majors in the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. The afternoon period will be open to the remainder of the camp.
Readings for "Stage Door" and
"Lute Song" will be held from 8
to 12 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. on Mon-
day, June 17, in Fraser Theatre.
Each play will be given twice. "Stage Door" will open the season on July 5 and 6, followed by "Lute Song" July 12 and 13. Scenes from the theatre department's acting class will close the high school series on July 19 and 20.
The summer theatre season will be brought to a climax when the University Theatre returns from its tour to present "Come Back, Little Sheba" July 26 and 27.
First Square Dance June 17
The first of a series of square dances will be held June 17 in the Javahawk Room of the Student Union. An instruction period will be held from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. before the dance. Caller and instructor at the dances will be Shirley Hughes, instructor in physical education.
(Photo by KU Photo Bureau)
1957 GOVERNOR OF GIRLS STATE—After four days of shouting, marching, and campaigning the delegates to Girls State finally chose their new governor. She is Miss Linda Kay Scifers of Pittsburg. She will assume the duties of Miss Judy Gorton, Lawrence, the 1956 governor.
Pittsburg Girl Is Selected 1957 Girls State Governor
Linda Kay Scifers of Pittsburg is the 1957 governor of Sunflower Girls State. She defeated Marcia Casey, Hutchinson, in the general election held Wednesday. ◎
The new governor, who was elected on the Federalist ticket to the highest office in Girls State, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orval R. Scifers, Pittsburg.
Federalists took 11 of the 16 state offices, leaving only 5 for the Nationalist party. Other state officers who won election on the Federalist ticket are Patricia Speir, Newton lieutenant governor; Joan Faulconer, Augusta, attorney general; Linda Ate. Wellington, state auditor; Jeanie Steele, Leoti, superintendent of public instruction; Carole Barkman, Wichita, commissioner of insurance; Wanda Ernestine Thompson, Baxter Springs, chief justice of the supreme court; and Dot Dyer, Atchison; Judy Bauersfeld, Wellington; Kay Gibbs, Peabody; and Mary Susan Lake, Pratt, justices of the supreme court.
Nationalist candidates who won election to office include Beverly Jo
The governor and the state officers were inaugurated Thursday night. The state, county and city governments began operation Thursday morning. The speaker of the House of Representatives will be elected and bills will be introduced in both the House and Senate.
Mason, Wichita, secretary of state; Peggy Anselene, Arma, state treasurer; Charlotte Roberts, Newton, state printer; and supreme court justices Karlene Howell, Kansas City, Kan., and Sandra Davis, Sedgwick.
Party chairmen elected Tuesday night were Rebecca Myers, Salina, Federalist; and Jackie Theis, Wichita, Nationalist.
Of tht 350 girls who took the bar exam (a citizenship test) Tuesday, 327 passed. Virginia Gramzow, Almena, and Rosemary Dumler, Russell, tried for high score with 90 out of a possible 93 points.
Chancellor Names English Chairman
The appointment of Dr. William Price Albrecht as professor and chairman of the department of English at the University was announced Wednesday by Chancellor Franklin D Murphy.
Dr. Albrecht, who will take up his new duties during the summer session, succeeds Dr. James L. Wortham, who has been chairman of the department for the past seven years.
Dr. Wortham came to KU in 1950 as chairman of the English department. During the 1956-57 academic year he was on sabbatical leave to do research work on a historical study of enclopedias. He is now living in Palo Alto, Calif.
Dr. Wortham received his A.B. from the University of California at Los Angeles, the M.A. from California, and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1839. He taught English at the University of California at Los Angeles until he came to KU.
Dr. A. C. Edwards, associate professor of English, has been acting chairman of the department during the past year.
Dr. Albrecht has taught at the University of New Mexico for the past 11 years. He was made a full professor in 1954, and was acting chairman of the English department there during several summer sessions, and the 1954-55 and 1956-57 school years.
A native of Wilkinsburg, Pa., Dr. Albrecht earned the B.S. degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1929, the M.A. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1934, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1943. He was a university fellow at Chicago and during the 1952-53 year was a Ford Faculty Fellow at Oxford University in England.
Dr. Albrecht has taught freshman composition and medieval, nineteenth century and modern literature courses at the upper end graduate levels. He is the author of numerous articles in professional journals, has contributed to several books, is the author of a book on "William Hazlitt at the Malthusian Controversy."
He taught at Carnegie Tech, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Bucknell before going to New Mexico. During World War II he served in the Navy and was assistant officer-in-charge of the Ground School at Bunker Hill, Ind. He is a commander in the Naval Reserve and was active in the Naval Reserve Surface Division at Albuquerque.
Dr. Albrecht has been editor and a member of the executive committee of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association and chairman of its committee on English since 1800.
Schools To Be Like Best Homes
In the school of tomorrow, standards of housekeeping, along with taste in decoration, furnishings, and lighting will be as high on those of the best homes, a Colorado educator and authority in school construction predicts.
"While I do not see much future for windowless schoolrooms, windows will be restricted to vision strips for esthetic and emotional purposes, with some picture windows where appropriate." Dr. Grieder said. "Ceilings will be luminous to provide shadowless, glare-free even lighting, simulating the best quality natural lighting."
Dr. Calvin Grieder, professor of school administration at the University of Colorado, spoke on "Schools for Tomorrow" at the dinner session of the five day Eleventh State Health Education Workshop which opened June 10.
Most schoolrooms are overheated, Dr. Grieder insisted. He recommended temperatures of 65
to 68 degrees for kindergarten and primary pupils in Kansas schools. He added that in the future heating plants will be smaller and can be controlled much as in homes.
Furniture and fixtures will be installed to fit the sizes of the children. This practice, according to Dr. Grieder, is becoming quite commonplace.
Should Expand Sites
"Outside the schoolhouse we should work for some big changes if we are sincerely interested in health and physical fitness, instead of competitive athletics" Dr. Grieber emphasized. He called for a significant expansion for school sites. The example, he said an elementary school site should have a basic plot six acres plus one acre for each 75 pupils. One purpose of the larger site is to make more nearly possible the maintenance of grass. There is no surface as good as turf for most outdoor school activities, he said, the exception being the small areas around and under apparatus and
certain game areas such as tennis and skating.
Dr. Grieder lamented the large sums spent on the construction and maintenance of football stadiums and fields reserved for so-called "varsity" games only. He urged planning, in connection with schools of tomorrow, for large areas for other team sports.
With schools at all levels being used more as community centers, one outside facility needing special attention is parking lots, Dr. Grierie said. At the college level, according to Dr. Grierie, the time may not be far off when the main consideration will be an arrangement for reaching all classrooms conveniently from the parking lot.
"I am convinced that we are making our children soft. We are far too easy when it comes to physical development and stamina." Dr. Grieder noted in his concluding remarks. "Too much is left to incidental learning and to precept; too many concessions are made to ease, softness and convenience."
Mammalogists To Meet At KU
KU will become a zoological capitol of the world next week as it is host to the 37th annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalologists on Monday, June 17-20.
The gathering of about 150 scientists will have an international flavor. France, Denmark, West Germany, India and Mexico will be among the foreign lands represented, according to Dr. E. Raymond Hall, director of the KU Museum of Natural History and chairman of the local committee on arrangements.
Dr. William B. Davis, professor of wildlife management at Texas A&M College and president of the society, will preside at the meetings in the Student Union.
Sixty-one scientific papers will be presented, Tuesday through Thursday, in sessions starting at 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. All but the business sessions will be open to the public.
Tour Of Area Planned A film, "The Wild Cattle of Cambodia," will be shown in Hoch Auditorium Tuesday at 8 p.m. The society will have its annual banquet Wednesday evening in the Kansas Room of the Memorial Union. Inspection tours to the KU Natural History Reservation northeast of Lawrence and to the KU Experimental Fish Ponds southwest of the city are scheduled for Friday morning.
Beloit Graduate Given Scholarship
Barnadine Heller, 1957 graduate of Beloit High School, will hold the first annual Mitchell County Alumni scholarship to KU. The $250 award is financed by contributions of Mitchell County residents to the Greater University Fund.
Miss Heller, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. Roy B. Heller, Beloit, plans to major in foreign languages. She was a delegate to the 1958 Sunflower Girls State, a cheerleader, a class officer, active in dramatics, music and speech.
Weather
Scattered showers and thunderstorms northwest this afternoon, over north tonight and in west and north portions Friday afternoon. Otherwise partly cloudy. Warmer west and north-central this afternoon. Turning cooler northwest Friday. Low tonight 50s northwest to 60s elsewhere. High Friday 80's.
Sunflower Girls Have Odd Rule
Twenty - seven Girls Staters from the mythical city of Cheyenne in the likewise mythical Delaware county, passed a rather odd "city ordinance" Wednesday.
Whenever a "Cheyenne" girl passes the statue of Uncle Jimmy Green, she is forced by law to walk backwards in front of the statue, bow, and say "Allah, Al-lah." When the statute is violated the entire group must undergo the entire procedure twice.