Symphony Orchestra ToHaveNewConductor
A new conductor of the KU symphony orchestra has been announced by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy. He is Robert Baustian and he will assume his duties as an associate professor of music and conductor next fall.
Baudistain has the unique distinction of being the only American conductor on the permanent staff of a European opera. He has been second
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conductor of the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden, Germany, since 1953. For five years before that he was a musical assistant and frequent conductor of the State Theater of Zurich, Switzerland.
ROBERT BAUSTIAN
Will Relieve Prof. Wiley
Will Renée Prof. Wiley
At KU Baustian will teach advanced courses in conducting and be musical director of the spring opera series and be responsible for the symphony orchestra. As orchestra
director he will relieve Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, who for the past 14 years has carried the double burden of handling both band and orchestra and directing the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
The summer camp operation, now serving approximately 400 high school students, has grown to such proportions that it requires considerable administration during the school year.
Baustian, a 36-year-old native of Storm Lake, Iowa, attended the Eastman School of Music, graduating in 1942 with the bachelor of music degree and the Performer's Certificate in Piano.
Was A Military Interrogator
While on leave from his position in Zurich, he conducted the original production of Gian-Carlo Menotti's "The Consul" on tour in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and New Haven. Later he conducted the same opera in France.
Following a $312-$year term of military service, including a year and a half in Germany and Austria as an interrogator of German prisoners of war, he taught piano at Iowa State College. He then returned to the Eastman School, and in 1948 earned the degree master of music in theory.
Baustian's operatic repertoire ranges from Gluck and Mozart to Wagner, Strauss, Puccini and contemporary works. In 1956 he conducted the first performance in Spain of Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" at Barcelona.
15 KU Faculty Members Plan To Take Leaves Of Absence
Sabbatical leaves of absence will be granted to 10 KU faculty members during the 1957-58 year and five others will take leaves without pay.
A faculty member may receive up to half-pay for sabbatical leave. He is expected to engage in advanced study or field work that will improve his competence as a teacher during the leave. Such leave may be applied for once in seven years.
Those receiving sabbatical leave:
Nachman Aronszajn, professor of mathematics, to conduct research in Europe in the field of partial differential equations.
Oswald P. Eackus, associate professor of history, to hold a Fulbright research fellowship in Finland, where he will investigate Baltic and Russian history of the medieval era.
Thurmul F. McMahon, assistant professor of civil engineering, to
General Motors Awards Made
The appointment of three graduating high school seniors to hold General Motors Company scholarships at the University has been announced by Spencer E. Martin, director of the Aids and Awards office.
They are Kirk L Prather, Wellington; Rebecca Ann Grantham, Topeka, and Thomas E. McGurk, St Louis, Mo.
The scholarships are renewable for a full four-year course at KU, with three awards being made each year to entering freshmen who will study engineering or science. The stipend to each scholar varies from $200 to a maximum of $2,000 a year, depending upon need.
Married. Yes—Housewife. No
Murried, Te—housewife, No NEW YORK—(UP)American girls want to get married, but don't want to become full-time housewives, the Girl Scouts of America reported today. A survey made for the Scout organization by the University of Michigan survey research center showed that while 94 per cent of American girls from 11 to 18 expect to get married, only 3 per cent want to do housework.
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Calder M. P. Pickett, assistant professor of journalism, to complete requirements at the University of Minnesota for the Ph.D. degree.
Frederick J. Moreau, professor of law, to accept a Fulbright lecture- ship and fellowship in law at the University of Teheran. Iran.
complete requirements at Purdue University for the Ph.D. degree.
Richard B. Sheridan, associate professor of economics, to collect primary source materials in England and to prepare a book on the rise of the sugar industry in the British Caribbean, 1636-1756. The leave is for the spring semester through the fall of 1958.
Paul C. Roofe, professor of anatomy, to conduct research in the neuroanatomical laboratory, of the University of California at Los Angeles.
Stanley M. Walas, associate professor of chemical engineering, to prepare for publication a book dealing with "Reaction Kinetics for Chemical Engineers" and to work on texts for courses in Mathematics Applied to Chemical Engineering and Chemical Process Design.
Alton C. Thomas, assistant professor of architecture, to complete requirements for the master's degree.
Miss Marian Jersild, assistant professor of piano, to accept a Fulbright scholarship for advanced study at the Music Academy of West Berlin.
Marston M. McCluggage, professor of sociology, to serve as visiting professor irt the College of Business Administration, University of Washington.
Other faculty receiving leaves:
Roger G. Barker, professor of psychology, to accept a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.
Twelve alumni of the first Science and Mathematics Camp at the University will return to the campus to participate in the first apprenticeship program during July.
Other Leaves
Other faculty receiving leaves:
CampersToReturn For More Study
Raymond C. Moore, professor of geology, to serve as visiting professor of geology at the University of Washington, during the spring semester.
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Rufus H. Thompson, associate professor of botany, to accept a Guggenheim fellowship to pursue a study of the genus Cephaleuros in tropical America.
The young scientists will be the first to take part in the program. Under the new apprenticeship plan, students who have attended the Science and Mathematics Camp will be eligible to work during the following summer with KU scientists on research projects. The apprentices will receive compensation for their work, which will be supervised by the project directors.
Wiley S. Mitchell, associate professor of accounting, to serve as visiting professor of business administration at Northwestern University.
The returning apprentices are Jack Heibert, Wichita; Stephen J Little and John Heibert, Topeka; Curtis K. LaFollette, Paola; Rochelle Beach, William Mayhood and Billie Marie Kreebone, Neodesha; Lelia Mayfield, Hutchinson; Thomas Mason, Kansas City, Kans.; Ava Louise Gager, Joplin, Mo.; Ralph Olmstead, Nevada, Mo.; Don Detmer, Great Bend.
A collapsible 250-pound helicopter that can be dropped by parachute and assembled by one man has been designed for the Navy.
Tuesday. June 11, 1957
Guest Speakers Scheduled For Writers' Conference
Writers from the fields of fiction, non-fiction, juvenile stories, and poetry will be guest speakers at the seventh Kansas Writers' Conference to be held at the University June 25-28.
Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism, will direct the conference for the 5th year. She will receive manuscripts for criticism.
Lewis Nordyke, whose biography of John Wesley Hardin was published in May, will speak on "Great Plains of Storyland" and "How to Make a Living Writing." The biography is Nordyke's third book about the Southwest. It contains incidents set in Abilene and Dodge City, Kansas.
Another speaker will be Virginia Scott Miner, whose poetry has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, the Kansas City Star, and other publications.
Also on the program will be Eula Mark Phillips, a high school English teacher who has written over two-hundred stories for boys. Her book, "Chuco, the Boy With the Good Name," won the $3000 Charles W. Follett award for the best children's book in the Wilcox and Follett annual competition.
Children's Writer to Speak
Elizabeth Gregg Patterson, a fiction writer whose work has been published in literary and popular periodicals also will speak. Her first story, published in "American Prefaces," was listed in the O. Henry Prize Stories.
Bob Wormington, a director at the Kansas City WDAF-TV station, will speak at banquet. Wormington received a master's degree in journalism from KU in 1950.
The United States' official standards of length are computed on two platinum-iridium bars in the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. The bars are exact duplicates of a prototype preserved since 1888 in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris.