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(Dally Kansan photo)
HITCHING UP-Hal Boyle, Associated Press columnist, prepares to address the annual Kansan Board banquet.
40 Journalism Students Honored At Banquet
Forty journalism students were honored at the annual Kansan Board Dinner Saturday in the Student Union. Two senior men and two senior women were named the outstanding seniors in the news-editorial sequence of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
They are Kent Thomas, Ottawa senior, Dick Walt, Girard mid-year graduate, now working on the Topeka Daily Capital; Felecia Anne Feneka, Kansas City, Mo., senior, and Barbara Bell, McPherson senior.
Hal Boyle Speaker
Hal Boyle, Associated Press columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner was the main speaker.
Awards for work on The Daily Kansan:
The best thing about his job as a columnist, Mr. Boyle said, is that he meets a lot of people. Mr. Boyle said that he does not enjoy talking with famous people because they are on constant guard to say the right thing. He would rather talk to common people who are not afraid to say what they think, he said.
Best promotional advertisements—
1. Colby Rehmert, Jetmere; 2. James Pontius, Wichita; 3. David Dickey, Kansas City, Mo. All are seniors.
Best institutional advertisements
—1. John Walz, Bonner Springs
juniper; 2. Steve Schmidt, Salina
senior; 3. Dickev.
Best reporting—1. Bob Lyle, Kansas City, Mo., senior; 2. Tom Sawyer, Topeka junior, and Bob Hartley, Winfield sophomore; 3. James Bannan, Newton senior, and John Battin, Hutchinson senior.
Best sports reporting-1. Richard Brown, St. Marys sophomore; 2. Thomas McGrath, Kansas City, Mo., junior; 3. Malcolm Applegate, Topeka junior.
Senior Gets Fulbright
Eldon Lee Haines, Wellington senior, has received a U. S. Educational Exchange Award, under the terms of the Fulbright Act, for foreign study. He will study chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University. Mainz, Germany.
Haines is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, national honor society; Phi Lambda Upslion, honorary chemistry fraternity; Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemistry fraternity, and is president of the KU Chemistry Club.
His wife, Phyllis C. Haines, also a senior at the University and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, will accompany him to Germany.
Best executive desk work—1.
Thomas and Joan George, Caney
senior; Walt and Jane Pecinovsky,
Kansas City, Mo., senior; Gerald
Dawson, Cisco, Tex. senior.
Best feature writing-1. Jerry Thomas, Independence senior; 2 Miss Pecinovsky; 3. Ray Wingerson, Topeka senior.
Best news photographs—1. Dee Richards, Hutchinson senior; Ralph Butler, Leavenworth senior; 3. Jimmy Sledd, Salina senior.
Special recognition, human interest incidents—Margaret Armstrong, Westfield, N. J. senior.
Best sports photographs—1. Sledd;
2. Richards; 3. Battin
Best feature photographs—1. John Faton, Salina graduate student; 2 Sledd: 3. Richards.
Special recognition, photographer of the year-Sledd.
Monday, May 13, 1957
54th Year, No. 141
Band Shines At Spring Performance
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By IONE TRIMMING
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Although the University Band, which held its annual spring concert in Hoch Auditorium at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, presented a fine allaround concert it played the marches especially well.
"Knightsbridge March" from the London Every Day Suite (Coates) and "Sier Fried Funeral March" from "Twilight of the Gods" (Wagner) gave the band the music it, by its very nature, could do best. The "Pilgrim's March" from the Italian Symphony by Mendelssohn was also played very well.
"Saltarello" from the Italian Symphony gave the concert new life with its lively tempo. The tambourine made this selection an interesting contrast with the rest of the concert.
L. Don Schid, instructor of band and orchestra, played "Flight of the Bumble Bee" (Rimski-Korsakov) on the clarinet. His solo performance was excellent.
Edward L. Masters, assistant professor of band and orchestra, played his own trumpet composition, "LaJoya." The composition was excellent as was his performance.
Flash Floods Batter Texas
By UNITED PRESS
Flash floods drove hundreds of persons from their homes at Dallas and Lampasas, Tex., and hail storms battered sections of Oklahoma and Iowa in a new outbreak of violent weather in the southern plains.
Driving rains in central Texas sent eight feet of water surging through Lampasas, a city of 2,500 population. Sunday night. The body of one unidentified woman was recovered from the flood waters and another was missing.
Heavy rains swept Dallas, flooding streets and forcing evacuation of an undetermined number of persons in northeast and west central Texas during the night.
Student Killed On Turnpike
A 28-year old student was killed about 10 a.m. today on the Kansas Turnpike when his car hit a bridge abutment about a quarter of a mile east of Douglas County.
Roger M. Sommer, St. Joseph senior, was pronounced dead by Dr. Byron Walters, Douglas County coroner, at the scene of the accident.
Trooper Eldon Miller said that Sommer's car had been traveling west on the turnpike toward Lawrence when his car hit the abutment. The force of the collision threw his car crossways into the east bound lane.
Officers said Sommer apparently either went to sleep or suffered a heart attack. He was alone.
Sommer was coming from St. Joseph where he spent his weekend with his family. During the week he had a room at a private home.
His wife and a small daughter live in St. Joseph with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Sommer.
Sommer came to KU in the fall of 1955 after serving a tour of duty in the armed forces. He attended William Jewell College from 1946 to 1951.
Jayhawker Queen Picked By Rainier
Sends Letter With Photos
The pictures were returned with a personal letter, two photographs, and a medallion, slightly larger than a silver dollar. The letter said:
"It has been indeed very hard for me to choose a queen and two princesses out of the wonderful group of finalists, the photos of which you sent me.
"It was certainly a great pleasure for me to select your queen and princesses, and I wish to express them on behalf of Princess Grace
Early in the fall semester Steve Schmidt, Salina senior, and Connie Cloyes, El Dorado senior, sent a letter to Prince Rainier asking him to judge the finalists. They received a reply from the Monaco press attache saying Prince Rainier would do the judging.
Prince Rainier III of Monaco has selected the-1957 Jayhawker Queen. The queen, who will be named Wednesday evening, was selected by Prince Rainier from 11 finalists picked by Jayhawker officials. The officials were notified of Prince Rainier's decision.
Cadet Queen Finalists Chosen
The KU Cadet Corps have chosen the three finalists for Honorary Cadet Colonel. The queen and her attendants will be chosen in classroom voting Tuesday and Wednesday and then will reign over the 1957 commissioning banquet and dance at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the Student Union.
The finalists are Elaine Knupp,
Washington, Iow a, freshman,
Corbin Hall; Ann Lasater, Wichita
sophomore, Kappa Alpha Theta,
and Judy Powell, Bennington
sophomore, Alpha Phi.
The finalists were chosen by a selection committee made up of cadets from each military science classification.
ELAINE KNUFT
The commissioning of the Honorary Cadet Colonel will be Saturday at intermission time by Brig. Gen. Van H. Bond, assist. division commander, 1st Division, Ft. Riley.
JUDY POWELL
ANN LASATER
and myself our most sincere best wishes."
To Be Announced Wednesday
The queen will be announced at dinner Wednesday when Jayhawker officials visit the house of the winner and present a bouquet of roses and the medallion.
Queen finalists are Frances Glenn, Kansas City, Mo. junior, Kappa Alpha Theta; Ruth Rieder, Kansas City, Mo. freshman, Gertrude Sellars Pearson; Jane Dean, Kansas City, Mo. freshman, North College; Peggy Garrison, Phillipsburg sophomore, Alpha Chi Omega; Marcia Goodwin, Columbus junior, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Mary Jean Eckles, Fond du lac, Wis. junior, Chi Omega; Mray Sanborn, Chapman junior, Alpha Delta Pi; Janice Harper, Winchester, III. sophomore, Pi Beta Phi; Virginia Kihm, Hutchinson freshman, Sellards, and Wansley Sharp, Kansas City, Mo. junior, Delta Delta Delta.
21 Baby Owls Take To Tree
Twenty-one sophomore men went through Owl Society initiation in a tree outside Flint Friday.
With 230-pound Ron Claborne, Amarillo. Tex. sophomore and an Owl member, supplying the lift into the trees, the entire new flock scrambled into the trees to sing the traditional Owl song.
Flapping their wings and screaming, the group wound up initiation ceremonies that gave them membership in the honorary group for junior men.
Weather
Cloudy through Tuesday morning with scattered showers and thunderstorms mostly tonight and Tuesday morning. Locally heavy thundershowers east portion tonight. Becoming partly cloudy west and south portions continued cloudy northeast Tuesday afternoon. Not so warm east portion this afternoon. Warmer extreme northwest Tuesday. Otherwise little change in temperature through Tuesday. Low tonight 45 to 50 northwest to 60 southeast. High Tuesdays 70 to 80.