SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
45th Year, No. 1
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, June 11, 1957
350 Enrolled In Girls State Leader Course
Over 350 Kansas girls flocked to the KU campus Sunday for Sunflower Girls State, a weeklong course in leadership sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. This will be the 15th Girls State course.
Mrs. Iona Cohoon, Parsons, and Mrs. Marv Plank, Baldwin, will again be director and official hostess, respectively. The 38 volunteer counselors are members of the Auxiliary from all sections of the state.
The young citizens will be organized into cities and counties for the election of officers during the first half of the week. The second half will be devoted to running the new government.
American Legion Auxiliary members. KU faculty, and Governmental Research staff members will lecture on various phases of government and citizenship. University Extension will handle many of the administrative details.
Speakers Are Scheduled
Featured speakers will include Mrs. Beatrice L. Jacquart, a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, who will lecture on organization and procedure of legislature; Miss Hazel Anderson, law librarian at KU who will speak on the legal status of women; Miss Emily Taylor, dean of women, who will speak on the role of women in government, and Francis Roberts of the State Commission of Revenue and Taxation, who will discuss county government.
Miss Judy Gorton of Lawrence, who was elected governor at last year's Sunflower Girls State, will preside until the inauguration of a new governor Thursday. William C. Salome, director of the State Department of Administration, will deliver the inaugural address.
A program presented by the 1956 Girls Nation Representatives from the Sunflower Girls State, Miss Nadine Harrison. Topeka; and Miss Lov Brown, Hutchinson, will precede a joint meeting with the Girls State Alumni and the candlelight ceremony Saturday evening. Adjournment of the week-long session will follow Sunday luncheon, June 16.
Girls Staters will be housed in Corbin and North College Halls during their stav at KU. General assemblies will be held in Strong Hall
(See related pictures, page 9.)
Religious Group Elects Officers
Officers for the coming semester of the Disciple Student Fellowship were installed recently at the First Christian Church.
The new officers are George Gribble Great Bend, president; Don Terpening, Washington, Kan., vice president; Joan Swanson, Hopkins, Mo., worship; Laurie Noell, Kansas City, Mo., recreation; Gail Wade, Belleville, Student Religious Council representative. All are juniors.
Weather
Elaine Piper, Columbus, secretary, Lee Crawford, Bartlesville, Okla. treasurer, Sharon Hoover, Wichita, enlistment, all freshmen; Peggy Risk, Lawrence, foods, and Neal Logan, Garden City, program both sophomores.
Showers and thunderstorms today and tonight. Locally heavy thundershowers central today and over state tonight. Warmer and humid today and tonight cooler northwest Tuesday. High today 90 southwest to 80's elsewhere. Low tonight 60 to 70.
GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS — Sunflower Girls Staters pause momentarily in their campaigning at the Student Union to pose for a picture. Over 350 girls throughout Kansas congregated at North College and Corbin Halls Sunday to
begin the annual citizenship course sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. The girls began campaigning for their chosen offices immediately upon arrival. The winning governor will be inaugurated Thursday.
KU Play Group To Present 'Come Back Little Sheba'
By JOHN HUSAR
The University Summer Theatre has begun rehearsals for its first summer production, "Come Back, Little Sheba," by William Inger.
The play, produced and directed by Dr. Lewin Goff, associate professor of speech and drama, will open at the Community Playhouse in Joplin, Mo. on June 28, and return to Lawrence for a few performances in the Student Union Ballroom early in July.
The lead role will be played by Bill Kuhike, Denver, Colo. graduate student, as Doc, the reticient failure who takes a second try at alcoholism.
Lee MacMorris, Hutchinson graduate student, will play Lola, a lazy, unkempt, matronly wife who unwittingly deprives Doc of any initiative.
Kay Ewert. Abilene junior, as Marie, will portray a young, bouncy
The hours that the air-conditioned Museum of Art will be open during the summer session have been extended.
Since the large portion of the museum is air-conditioned, the Museum of Art will stay open during summer session in the evening, as well, as during the day. The regularly scheduled record concerts given during the school year will also be given during the evening.
Museum Of Art Hours Extended
co-ed who, through her lack of morals ,assists Doc in his descent from sobriety.
The summer hours are:
Collections On Display
Monday through Friday—8
to 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday—8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday—1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
John Husar, Chicago Ill. junior, will play the part of Turk, a playboy-type athlete who lures Marie into the situation that destroys Doc's dreams.
Monday through Friday—8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Provisions have been made for three plays to be presented on succeeding week-ends in July by high-school students attending the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. The titles of the plays selected have not been announced.
The permanent collections of the museum are on display as is the annual exhibition of work by the KU art and architecture faculty. These exhibitions will remain during the entire summer. Should there be adequate request, the museum is prepared to organize summer session versions of its Films on Art series and to cooperate with campus organizations in the use of the museum lecture hall during the afternoon and evening.
Summer Dances Are Scheduled
The first of a series of six weekly dances will be held Wednesday from 8 to 9 p.m. in the Student Union. Three square dances have also been scheduled for the summer session.
The square dances, also in the Student Union, will be held June 17, July 8, and 22. A half hour instruction period will be held from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. before each square dance. Shirley Hughes, instructor in physical education, will instruct and call at the square dances.
The hour dances will be held on Wednesday nights, June 12, 19, 26. July 10, 17 and 24. Dress will be informal and a dance band will play for each dance.
ENROLLMENT MOVES ALONG—Barbara Bullock, Wichita sophomore, consults G. R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, during the enrollment process Saturday. Looking on is Cora Burdette.
Record Number Expected For Summer Session
Summer session enrollment at the University will approach 2.850, it was predicted Monday by James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions.
The first dav enrollment figure of 2.533 represents a gain of 383, or 12 percent over the 1956 figure.
As classwork began Monday morning for the 8-week session, 2094 persons had enrolled on the Lawrence campus and 439 at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Hitt said that approximately 300 persons register late for the summer session. The final figure a year ago was 2,641.
Of the Lawrence campus registrants, 318 are new students and 1.776 had previously attended KU. Approximately 250 of the total are taking field work.
Several Thousand More
The report does not include the more than 400 high school students that will be attending the Midwestern Music and Art Camp or the Science and Mathematics camp, nor does it include the several thousand persons that will enroll during the summer in institutes and short courses of the non-university credit type.
The rapidly rising enrollment at KU was also reflected in the number of persons who received degrees at the June commencement exercises.
In the Graduate School, 290 persons were listed as receiving advanced degrees, an all-time high for KU. The previous high mark was 278 in 1956.
(see related editorial, page 2)
3 Students Win Awards
The award of Ahrens Scholarships in Engineering to three graduating high school seniors was announced Monday by Spencer Martin, director of the University AIDS and Awards office. Each scholar will receive $250 for the 1957-58 year.
The three are Donald Lee Homrighausen, Paola; Gary E. Read, Osawatomie, and Edward Arthur Simons, Rock Creek.
Henry D. Ahrens. Darwin W. Ahrens and Miss Della A. Ahrens, all of Paola, endowed the scholarships for graduates of public high schools in Miami County. Criteria for selection includes scholarship, leadership, character, and need for assistance.
Usually, two Ahrens scholars are appointed, but accumulated income permitted a third award this year. Simons, although a resident of Jefferson County, received an Ahrens scholarship because of his high qualifications and because a third Miami County student withdrew from consideration.
Homrighausen will study mechanical engineering. Reed will hold men's scholarship hall award at KU.
Kansan Needs Help
Anv students desiring to work on the Summer Session Kansas are requested to come to the Kansas news room in the Journalism building or contact either John Faton or Dale Morsch at KU-251 Percons who can write feature stories, book reviews, and editorials are especially needed. A sports editor is also needed.