It's A Gay Time For KU's Royal Queen Candidates
Five days in the whirlwind existence of the annual American Royal began this week for two KU women. Sandy Blankenship, Great Bend sophomore, and Ann Bigbee, Hugoton freshman. The two are representing their cities as candidates for queen of the American Royal.
They are participating in parties, judgings, interviews, and pageentry in preparation for the Coronation Ball Saturday night.
The girls will be in the 90-minute American Royal parade at 9:45 a.m. Saturday. The Royal queen, wearing a crimson robe and sparkling crown, and will be the central figure in a flower-decked float. The two princesses and eight escorts will be with her on the float. The other queen candidates will ride in convertibles.
In the parade will be Rosemary Clooney, recording artist, television and movie star, and Hopalong Cassidy, riding Topper, his famous horse. Twenty Latin American ambassadors, who are visiting Kansas City, and a gaily-decorated float carrying 25 high school girls dressed in costumes of the Latin American republics will be in the parade. A calypso band will play background music.
On Saturday evening attention
E. Thayer Gaston, chairman of the music education department, is editor of "Music Therapy 1955," which was released Thursday at the opening of the 3-day meeting of the National Association for Music Therapy in Topeka. The book contains the proceedings of the 1955 meeting in Detroit.
Gaston Edits Book On Music Therapy
About 200 persons are attending sessions at the Hotel Jayhawk. This is the second time the national meeting of this association has been held in Topeka.
KU was the first university to establish a graduate training program in music therapy. Because of the proximity of the mental health institutions in Topeka for clinical training and research, this has been one of the nation's pioneer centers for the new field.
will be focused on the 26 girls competing for the honor of queen. E M. Dodds, president of the Royal will crown the winner, the ceremony climaxing a $2_{3}$-hour program to be seen by an expected crowd of 12,000. The eight-ladies-in-waiting and the two princesses will also be presented at this time. The queen and Mr. Dodds will dance the queen's waltz, opening the Coronation Ball.
Mexico Offers Study Awards
The closing date for applications for graduate and undergraduate awards for study in Mexico during 1857 is Nov. 1. Kenneth Holland, president of the Institute of International Education, announced.
Sixteen awards are offered by the Mexican government through the Mexico-United States Commission of Cultural Cooperation for the academic year beginning March 1. 1957.
The awards are open to any U.S. citizen, preferably under 35 years of age and unmarried. A good knowledge of Spanish, good academic record, personality, adaptability and good health are essential. Only junior and senior students are eligible.
Candidates should apply to the U.S. Student Department of the Institute of International Education, 1 East 67th St., New York City.
Delegates To Attend Phi Sigma Chi Meet
The national convention of Phi Sigma Chi, women's pep organization, will be held at Kansas State College, Manhattan, Saturday. Delegates from the Jay Janes and the KU Phi Sigma Chi chapter are Karen Moeckly, Briton, S. D., junior, Gayle Kenoyer, Hugoton, and Martha Lawton, Bushong, sophomores.
Other schools which will be represented are Kansas State College. University of Nebraska, University of Omaha, Washburn University. University of Wichita and Iowa State College.
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Creativity in the education of teachers will be the theme of the combined meeting of the College Conference on Teacher Education and the Kansas Association for Student Teaching in Topeka today and Saturday.
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School of Education faculty members Maud Elsworth, associate professor of education, and Robert Ridgway, assistant professor of education, will assist with the program.
Dr. Cloy Hobson, professor of education, will lead one of nine discussion groups on the topic, "Preparation for creative curriculum Planning."
Karl Edwards, associate professor of education, is committee cochairman and will preside at the session this afternoon.
Nearly 250 college personnel engaged in teaching teacher education, school administrators and teachers will attend.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Donad P. Cottrell, dean of the College of Education at Ohio State University.
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