Daily Hansan
Tuesday, May 14, 1957
Students now have a once in a lifetime opportunity to see a large exhibit of the paintings of John Steuart Curry, usually considered the only really great artist to come from Kansas.
Persons missing the exhibit, which will be shown in the Art Museum until May 24, would have to travel to more than a dozen cities in about as many states to see the pictures now being shown.
Mr. Maser pointed out that the exhibit is important not only to persons interested in art, but also to anyone interested in American history or their native state of Kansas.
According to Edward A. Maser, director of Museum of Art, the attendance of persons from outside the University has been very good. But very few of the students are taking advantage of the showing.
"We can provide the water," he said, "but we have no way of leading the horse to it or making him drink once he's there."
The paintings, ranging from an emotional presentation of John Brown (see picture) to a picture of solidarity, by "The Stockman," show the development of the feeling and great strength of the Midwest.
Curry's Works Shown
Moreover, Mrs. Lincoln herself was reported to have insisted that often at night she heard the ghosts of Andrew Jackson swearing and Thomas Jefferson playing his violin.
WASHINGTON — (UP) — Is the White House haunted?
Presidential press secretary James C. Hagerty Monday night hinted—or did he?—that possibly a ghost or two flourishes in the old mansion despite its recent renovation.
He said he also has read that Mrs. Roosevelt saw ghosts.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
"Curry pictured the life and history of Kansas," Mr. Maser said. "And anyone interested in the state should take advantage of this chance to see a pictorial expression of what Kansas has been and could be."
And that's not all. She also said she heard old John Tyler wooing his 20-year-old second wife.
Roger Sommer Body Removed To St. Joseph
Ghosts In White House?
A reporter asked Mr. Hagerty on ABC's TV "press conference" whether—as an Irishman, of course—he had ever heard or seen anything of ghosts in the White House.
"No, I haven't," Mr. Hagerty said. "But seriously the president has told me more than once that the presence that he feels more than anyone else is Abraham Lincoln when he is in the White House."
The reporter who asked Mr. Hagerty the question noted he has read that Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands met Lincoln face to face in the White House.
Bowman Funeral Home in St. Joseph Monday night.
The body of Roger M. Sommer, St. Joseph, Mo., senior who was killed when his car struck a bridge abutment on the Kansas Turnpike Monday, was taken to the Heaton-
Funeral home directors said no funeral arrangements have been made.
54th Year, No. 142
Docking To Talk To Business Group Thursday
Gov. George Docking will speak to Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary business fraternity, on "Problems in Government" at the fraternity's spring honor banquet in the Kansas Room of the Student Union at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
W. Keith Weltm, associate professor of business administration and president of the KU chapter, will be toastmaster. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will introduce Gov. Docking.
Ronald Barnes, carillonneur and instructor in music history, has been appointed editor of the Bulletin of the Guild of Carillonneurs.
Dean Leonard Axe of the School of Business will present certificates of membership to the initiates of the 1956-57 school year. They are Kenneth R. Anderson, Belleville, Robert M. Buell, Berryville, Ark., Margaret Downs, Lawrence, Larry G, Sutch, Salma, Donald Paxson, Topeka, Harold C. Hill, Beloit, Vern D. Kornelson, Inman, and Charles R. Shaver, Lawrence, seniors.
Homer Eugene Paris III, Kansas City, Mo., Frank H. Ise, Wichita, and Russell W. Beasley, Topeka, juniors, Graham T. Hunt, Mission graduate student, James L. Chance, 56, and Gov. Docking, who was initiated as an honorary member May 2.
Barnes To Be An Editor
75 To Receive Lieutenant Bars
About 75 senior ROTC cadets will have their second lieutenant bars placed on their shoulders by their dates at the Army Ball Saturday.
KU To Debate Pakistan Team At 7:30 Tonight
"Religious Ideologies Are More Unifying Than Political Ideologies" will be the subject of a debate at 7:30 tonight in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union.
Two students from KU and two students from Pakistan will participate in the debate. They are Miss Jahan Malik and Samin Khan, Pakistan, and Brad Lashbrook, Kansas City, Kan., and Lee Baird, Newton, both juniors.
Preceding the Ball will be a banquet held in honor of the graduating cadets at which time they will be presented with their commissioning sets.
Miss Malik and Baird will debate the negative side, and Lashbrook and Khan the affirmative.
Miss Malik is a student at Michigan State. Khan is a student at the University of Michigan.
Poet Langston Hughes Gives Collection To KU
The debate is sponsored by Student Union Activities in cooperation with the Pakistan Students Assn. of America.
An outstanding American Negro poet has given part of his personal collection of his works to the University library.
Mr. Hughes, who now lives in New York City, received the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative work in 1925.
Langston Hughes, poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, song writer, and anthologist, lived in Lawrence in his early life. His mother, Mrs. Carrie Langston Hughes attended KU in 1894-95 and 1897-98.
In his letter he writes: "I myself have but one copy left but I am happy to give my other one to the University which my mother attended for a while and of whose campus I have such pleasant childhood memories, particularly the museum, and the morgue where I used to watch the students dissecting to my juvenile interest and amazement."
Because of his Kansas background the library staff became interested in obtaining a collection of his works and started a search for all of his available books. Don Dickinson, of the acquisition library staff, wrote Mr. Hughes and asked for suggestions about where some of his older out-of-print items could be obtained.
Mr. Hughes replied he would be happy to supply the University Library with all the out-of-print books mentioned in the letter plus a collection of magazine articles, musical works, programs of plays, concerts, lectures; a libretto of an opera, "Troubled Island," and the author's copy with notes and revisions of a one-act play, "Don't You Want to Be Free."
His contribution contains two rare items: a short book of his poems, "Dear Lovely Death," printed in 100 copies on hand made paper, and one of 12 known copies of a magazine, Fire, which existed for only one issue in 1926. The entire edition was largely destroyed by fire before it could be distributed.
Gets Fulbright To Australia
Gary J. Myers, Fort Scott senior, has received a Fulbright scholarship for study abroad during the 1957-58 academic year.
He will study zoology at the University of New England, Amidale, Australia. His special fields of study will be herpetology and amphibians
He was chosen to work during August, 1956, as a student aid in the United States National Museum in Washington, D. C., a branch of the Smithsonian Institution.
Senior Recital At 3:30 Sundav
Janet Barnes Burton, Valley Falls,
will give a senior recital at 3:30
p. m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium.
The program will include two movements of the "Seventh Sonata" by Rheinberger, the Saint-Saens "Fantasie in E Flat Major" and shorter works by Pachelbel, Corelli. Buxtehude, Bohm, Bach, Wolff, Milhaud, Callaerts, and Pierne, and will conclude with the Toccata from Widor's "Fifth Symphony."
Weather
Fair to partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight. Partly cloudy Wednesday with scattered afternoon thundershowers west portion. Little change in temperature. Low tonight 40s northwest to 60 southeast. High Wednesday 75-80.
Guest speaker at the banquet will be Brig, Gen. Van H. Bond, assistant division commander of the 1st Division.
The blessing at the banquet will be given by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. George Towle, of St. John's Roman Catholic Church in Lawrence.
Guest At Banquet
The Ball will begin at 8:30 p.m. and will be held in the ballroom of the Student Union.
George B. Smith, dean of the University, Laurence Woodruff, dean of students, Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, and their wives, Col. Arthur L. Fuller Jr., chief of the Kansas Military District, and Col. Ralph J. Hanchin, professor of military science, will be guests at the banquet.
During the intermission, Gen Bond will commission the Honorary Cadet Colonel who will pass through an honor guard of members from Pershing Rifles.
Miss Ruth Taggert, Topeka junior, last years Honorary Cadet Colonel, will present the traditional cloak to the new Colonel.
The Honorary Cadet Colonel will be chosen by the cadets at special elections in the classrooms today and Wednesday from the three finalists chosen by the Queen Committee.
To Choose Honorary Colonel
The three finalists are Elaine Knupp, Washington, Iowa, freshman, Corbin Hall; Ann Lasater, Wichita, sophomore; Kappa Alpha Theta, and Judy Powell, Bennington, sophomore, Alpha Phi.
Professor Will Teach In Germany
Dr. Werner Winter, assistant professor of German and Russian, will be a visiting lecturer in linguistics at the summer session of the University of Kiel, Germany, June 15 to July 31.
Following the summer session, Dr. Winter will participate in the International Congress of Linguistics at Olso, Norway, Aug. 5-9.
He will present a paper, "To-charian Metrics," and lead a discussion on the problems of an inventory of Armenian etymologies at the International Congress of Orientalists at Munich, Germany, Aug. 28 to Sept. 4.
Art Films Slated For Thursday
Five films on modern art will be shown by the Museum of Art at 7:30 p. m. and 9 p. m. Thursday in the museum lecture hall.
The films will show paintings by Monet, Pissarro, Morisot, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh, Seurat and Utrillo.
Ah! Watson Should Be So Pleasant!
Two rather small boys were standing outside the Student Union watching the students pass in and out. After a few minutes one asked the other, "What classes do they have in this building?"
The other, looking very disgusted, replied, "That's the library, stupid. Don't you see all those college kids going in there with their books?"