University Daily Kansan
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Tuesday, April 23, 1957
Ideas Salvage Scraps
A few pieces of colored paper, old newspapers, a little paste and paint turn into favors and decorations in the art education classes of Miss Alice Schwartz, instructor of education and design.
The classes worked last week on favors and decorations for the Easter season. These projects are now on display in the art education classrooms in Bailey.
Eggs were given the human look with sequins for eyes, yarn for hair and were dressed as cowboys, ladies wearing Easter bonnets and even Santa Claus.
Easter bonnets in miniature were made from colored paper with tiny hat boxes to match. The hats were decked out in feathers, flowers and weals.
Through these projects students in elementary education learn to use scrap material to make interesting and worthwhile objects for use in teaching grade school children.
Films To Feature Africa And Mexico
The projects are simple enough for the child to make for his own entertainment and education.
Two films in color, "Song of the Feathered Serpent" and "Buma African Sculpture Speaks," will be shown at 4 p.m. Wednesday in 3 Bailey.
"Song of the Feathered Serpent" shows the influence of the God of Civilization, represented by the feathered serpent, through the Toltec, Mayan, and Aztec periods in the history of Mexico.
The other film presents Central and West African antique sculpture. It shows the carved wooden statues and masks in which the native Africans sought protection from dangers and fears of everyday living.
In the late 11th century, Henry of Burgundy, a crusader, married a princess of Leon. Her dowry included the county of Portugal, nucleus of today's nation.
Home Ec Day Set For May
Four hundred Kansas high school girls will attend the annual Home Economics High School Day May 4 at KU, according to Miss Viola Anderson, associate professor of home economics.
The girls will participate in a fashion show planned and written by KU home economics students and a panel discussion. Each of the high schools is invited to enter a girl in the show. KU women will also model fashions they have designed and made.
The high school girls will see home economics exhibits and visit freshman dormitories, the home management house and the nursery school, and take part in discussions groups with home economies seniors.
Schofield To Do London Research
Dr. Robert E. Schofield, assistant professor of history, will spend the summer in London, England, doing research for a biography of Joseph Priestley, 18th century English clergyman and scientist was perhaps the first person to receive political asylum in the United States. The American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia is sponsoring Dr. Schofield's research in England.
While in London, Dr. Schofield will represent the University at the Sixth Anglo-American Conference of Historians July 8-13. The Committee of the Institute of Historical Research in London has sponsored conferences of this kinds since 1921. Dr. Schofield was a member of the institute when he studied in England in 1953-54 on a Fulbright scholarship.
He's Got A Large Territory To Cover
A sheriff of Cochise visited his mother in Lawrence this weekend.
This sheriff is Kenneth Barnett, class of '41, a civilian meteorologist with the Army Signal Corps at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. Mr. Barnett is a brother of Jack Barnett, instructor of engineering drawing.
Barnett lives in Cochise County, Ariz, in the unincorporated town of San Jose, near Bisbee. He's a deputy sheriff. He's got a card to prove it, too.
4 Cruises Set For Midshipmen
Freshman, sophomore, and junior midshipmen will embark on four different training programs this summer.
Junior midshipmen, who under the contract program will take their only cruise this summer, will leave Norfolk, Va. July 6 for a 1-month cruise to Quebec, Canada.
The Navy Cruise Bravo, for all freshman and junior midshipmen, will leave June 12 for Valparaiso, Chile, by way of the Panama Canal.
The other three cruises will be taken by regular midshipmen who are under the NBOTC scholarship program.
Sophomore midshipmen will spend half of their cruise periods at Corpors Christi, Tex. with the Navy Air Force and the other half at Little Creek, Va. with the Marine Corps.
Mellorine Survey Current Business Research Project
The smallest cruise will include four junior and one senior midshipman who will attend Marine Corps training at Quantico, Va.
Mauritania is governed from Senegal, a French colony to the south. It lies between Arab Africa to the north and Negro Africa to the south.
A survey of the mellorine industry, a frozen dessert made with vegetable fats in place of milk, is one of the current projects of the bureau of business research. The survey is being conducted for the U.S. department of agriculture.
In this study, the bureau is studying marketing practices and organization, production and distribution costs, consumer preferences and legislation concerning vegetable fat frozen desserts.
German Writing Subject Of Talks
Dr. Paul Boeckman, an authority on modern German literature, will give two lectures at the Museum of Art this week. He is professor of modern German literature at Heidelberg University, Germany.
Dr. Boeckmann, who is a visiting professor at Cornell University this semester, will speak on "Rilkos Weg zur neuen Lyrik" at 4 p.m. Thursday and "Friedrich Hoelderlin" at 11 a.m. Friday. Both lectures will be in German.
He received his doctorate from Hamburg University in 1923 for a study of the German poet Schiller. Dr. Boeckmann was made an assistant professor of German literature there in 1930 and a professor of modern German literature at Heidelberg in 1937.
He has written numerous articles for German periodicals and his books on German poetry are considered to be the standard authority.
Reese To Attend Convention
J. Alten Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, will attend the 1957 convention of the Pharmaceutical Asn. and the American Asn. of Colleges of Pharmacy in New York City Sunday through Thursday.
African tribesmen and some Europeans prize hippopotamus fat and meat, the latter tasting somewhat like beef. The skin, often two inches thick, is used to make a tough and resilient whip.
Another of their projects is an economic survey of Kansas. The bureau has divided the state into six sections and is preparing a series of pamphlets on each.
The bureau, a part of the School of Business, operates to help business, government and the individual learn about business and economic data.
On the governmental level, the bureau conducts special studies designed to discover and interpret this data. The data is used to recommend desirable changes in legislation or to assist governmental bodies and agencies in making prudent policies. The studies are with particular reference to small business.
In the Kansas Business Review, the bureau's monthly publication, is a summary of business conditions in Kansas. This business indicator is available free of charge and has a circulation of about 8000.
The bureau was established about 1925 but was not active until after World War II. Paul E. Malone is director of the bureau.
Soccer Team Plays Tulsa Saturday
A soccer team, organized by KU foreign students, will have their kick-off game at 11 a.m. Saturday when they play. Tulsa University here. The return game at Tulsa is planned for Saturday. May 4.
Co-captains are Patricio Harrington, Buenos Aires, Argentina, graduate student, and Karlowe Kohler, Lund, Sweden, graduate student.
All interested students should report to practice east of Memorial Stadium every day at 4 p.m.
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