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369 Students Registered For Music and Art Camp
High school students from at least half of the 48 states will attend the 20th Midwestern Music and Art Camp at the University June 16 to July 28. A total of 369 students have registered in the four divisions: music, art, ballet, and theater.
Included in this section is a 200 piece band, a 100 piece symphony orchestra, and choral groups. These groups will present weekly concerts.
The music section of the camp was founded in 1936 by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra. Prof. Wiley will be camp director again this year.
Each student will receive specialized training in one or more of the four divisions. Although there is a complete program of classes in each of the four groups, a camper may substitute classes from the other three divisions.
Department Chairmen Named
Art students will be under the direction of Miss Marjorie Whitney, chairman of the department of design. Art classes will include oil painting, watercolor, sculpture, and fashion drawing.
For the third year Robert E. Bell, former member of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, will direct the ballet group. The ballet course will offer classes for both the beginner and the advanced student. At atmosphere of summer stock will be evident in the theater section of the camp as the students study acting theater design, fencing, diction, and speech. Three major play productions will be presented in the Memorial Union Ballroom, each in a different production style.
Lewis Goff, director of the University Theater, and Virgil dffred, assistant professor of speech and drama, will direct the theater division of the camp.
The camp's teaching staff will be composed of KU faculty members and distinguished guest conductors.
When Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Walls became ill, a doctor's diagnosis recommended checking the gas piping in their home in Palestine, Ill. Two large leaks were found.
Cadets Honor Crash Victim
Summer Session Kansan
The Cadet Corps of the Air Force ROTC unit at the University of Kansas has established a memorial plaque in the name of the late Cadet Richard D. Hazlett of Cunningham.
Cadet Hazlett, an honor student who had completed his junior year in engineering, was killed in the crash of a jet trainer plane during the 1955 summer camp in Arizona. He was on an orientation flight as a passenger.
The plaque bearing Cadet Hazlett's portrait was unveiled in brief ceremonies June 4. The name of the outstanding cadet in the entire corps, on an academic rating, will be added to the plaque each year.
Biologist Receives Grant
W. Jackson Davis, Richmond, Va. graduate student, has been awarded a predoctoral grant by the National Science Foundation for study at Duke University. The award is one of 12 awards made for work in marine mycology, marine ecology, quantitative biology, or marine invertebrate zoology.
Skunk cabbage, often the first plant of spring, takes its name from the odor released when it is bruised. Rushing the season, the herb grows up through frozen ground, sometimes pushing aside snow.
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School Adds New Department
The creation of a new department of wind and percussion instruments in the School of Fine Arts, with Austin Ledwith, assistant professor, as chairman, was announced Friday by Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts.
KU offers major courses of study leading to the bachelor of music degree in flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, Franch horn and trombone which are grouped in the new department.
Ledwith, who joined the KU faculty in 1953, holds music degrees from the New England Conservator of Music and Harvard University. He has been bassoonist in several symphony orchestras and once was assistant conductor of the Houston Symphony. He has built up a large enrollment in double reed instruments and has organized several woodwind ensembles which have played recitals throughout the state.
Other music majors offered by the School of Fine Arts are piano, voice, violin, cello, viola, organ, harp, music history and literature, composition, and theory.
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Economics Professor To Wisconsin
Don V. Plantz, assistant professor of economics, has been awarded a full-expense fellowship to the Economics-in-Action Program of the University of Wisconsin, July 1-27.
The 1957 program will be concentrated on the paper industry and its two renewable resources, wood and water. There will be numerous field trips to paper mills in Wisconsin and related firms in the marketing and finance centers of Chicago and Milwaukee.
Prof. Plantz has been on leave from KU. He has held a Ford Foundation grant to assist him in completing work for the doctorate degree from Indiana University.
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