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University Daily Kansan Monday.Feb.25,1952
VERNELL WELLS —(Daily Kansan photo)
Musician Starts To College After12 Years Of Travel
As a traveling professional musician for 12 years, Vernell Wells, Lawrence junior. followed a dream "to see the world" before coming to college.
When she finit hed high school, she decided to play in an orchestra for a year before going to college. It took her 12 years to get back on the education track and start work on a college degree.
After playing in a local girls' orchestra, Miss Wells accepted the opportunity to play trumpet for Phil Spitalany and his all-girl orchestra in 1941.
The orchestra played a weekly "Hour of Charm" program until 1948 when it was replaced by the Fred Waring show. In Hollywood to make movie shorts, the group was in a Bud Abbot and Lou Costello movie, "Here Come the Coeds."
During the war Miss Wells traveled with the orchestra to Army camps for benefit performances and gave concert tours all during the war.
After her break with the Phil Spitalary orchestra, she played in the Kansas City Philharmonic and taught at Jenkins Music store in Kansas City, Mo.
Two years ago she decided it was time to go to work on a music education degree. By going to summer school and carrying heavy class loads. Miss Wells expects to graduate in three years.
This semester she is carrying 20 hours and works all day Saturday. However, she is very happy she postponed her education.
"I am having so much fun going to college now and I'm getting so more out of my education than I could have before," she said.
Religious Week Evaluated
After five days and over 30 speeches, forums, panel discussions and coffee hours, Religious Emphasis Week drew to a close with an
Teaching Group To Hear Edwards
Karl Edwards, associate professor of education, will speak at the regional conference of the Kansas Assn. for Student Teaching Friday and Saturday in Lindsborg.
He will talk at the opening session Friday on the work of the association in Kansas and at a general meeting Saturday on "The Forward Look in Student Teaching." The association consists of college and public school teachers who supervise student teachers.
Former Student Leaves Hospital
Richard Kent Troughton, former student from Soneca injured and hospitalized in a fight late Thursday afternoon between five Lawrence High School students and Troughton and John R. Bryant. Merriam freshman, was dismissed from Watkins Hospital this morning.
City Attorney Wesley Norwood said no charges have yet been filed.
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evaluation session Friday in the Student Union.
Mills said the program that sent speakers to various organized houses and classrooms had been a success. He felt REW had, in one way or another, affected students not formally associated with religious groups.
Michael Mills, McPherson junior ad REW chairman, said the purpose of the evaluation session was "to critically analyze the proceedings of the week and to determine where the strong and weak points were."
Mills cited that attendance at coffee hour discussions and supper seminars had been good and that over-all interest in REW had been strong.
"The week was very successful," said Mills, "particularly due to the fine speakers we had."
The number of men majoring in education has increased steadily over the past few years, H. E. Chandler, associate professor of education and director of the teacher appointment bureau, said. Approximately 225 men are now enrolled in the School of Education.
2 Engineers To Get $250
One reason for the increase, he explained, has been the rise in salaries within the past five years. Kansas schools now pay an average annual salary of $3,500 for teachers with a bachelor of arts degree and no experience, while
Two scholarships of $250 each will be awarded to engineering freshmen next fall. The students must be male graduates of Kansas high schools.
More Men Turn To Teaching
The engineering scholarship committee will award the scholarship again to the better of the two students for his sophomore year. Thereafter the scholarships will be awarded to freshmen taking electrical engineering and may be awarded again during the sophomore year if a B average is maintained.
The scholarships are being awarded by the Kansas chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Asn
3 Art Films Next In Bailey Series
Three art films in color will be shown at 4 p. m. Wednesday in 3 Bailey.
"Dawn of Art" shows the beginnings of art among pre-historic people. The film, "Weaving: Warp and Weft," demonstrates the process of weaving various articles of Scottish and European traditional designs and contemporary Canadian work.
"Rhythm in Paint" shows Eliot O'Hara, a watercolorist, illustrating the principle of rhythm in painting by using his own sketches and other well-known works of art.
Eastern and Western states offer as much as $4,000 for a beginning salary.
"With salaries such as these and the prospect of raises within a few years, a man is more able to support a family so education is opening up as a career field for men," Mr. Chandler said.
"In talking with personnel directors of schools, I have found that the demand is for men to teach the upper grades from sixth through twelfth, but more men are entering the elementary field due to increased pay scales."
As teachers men predominate in subjects such as physical education, industrial arts, vocational agriculture, physical sciences and in school administration jobs.
"The demand is great for teachers of physics and chemistry." Mr. Chandler said, "but most men who show skill in these fields are hired by national firms offering 50-to 60 per cent higher salaries."
Within the next 10 years he said that he expected to see a greater increase in teachers salaries which would remedy this critical situation.
Stravinsky Records In Concert
"The Rake's Progress" by Igor Stravinsky, is featured this week in the Museum of Art's record concert series. Mr. Stravinsky conducts the chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera Assm. in the work.
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