Daily hansan
54th Year, No.7
Thursday, Sept. 20, 1956
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Army ROTC Staff Assignments Made
The Army ROTC staff assignments were announced Wednesday by Captain James L. Weed, Commandant of Cadets.
The corps will be changed this year. There will be two battalions as in former years, but only one company per battalion instead of the usual two.
Platoon commanders and NCO positions will be appointed soon. The cadets are:
Lt. Col Robert A. Cooper, Springfield, Mo., regimental commander; Majors Billy P. Phillips, Leavenworth, regimental executive officer, John B. Hunt, Leavenworth, 1st battalion CO, Tom J. Knorr, Wichita, 2nd battalion CO; Captains Stanley R. Ausemus, Madison, regimental S-3, R. L. Brown 3rd, Kansas City, Kan., 1st battalion executive officer, Howard J. Ellfeldt, San Diego, Calif., regimental S-1, Merrill F. Steele Jr., Leavenworth, 2nd battalion executive officer; 1st Lieutenants Carl R. Anderson, Kansas City, Kan., Band CO, Jackie L. Beal, Fredonia, Company A CO, William H. Dye, Wichita, 1st battalion S-1, Gilbert A. Mason Jr., Anthony, 2nd battalion S-3, Robert L. Neighbor, Lawrence, 1st battalion S-3, Leonard L. Sullivan, Lyons, 2nd battalion S-1, Willie Tyson, Lawrence, Pershing Rifles CO. Theodore W. Uhlrich J., Leavenworth, Company E CO, and 2nd Lieutenants Morton Holmes Jr., Bonner Springs, band, and James D. Kohenburg, Louisburg, band. All are seniors.
Voters Guide Is Available
In the forthcoming general election a registered Kansas voter, who wishes to cast an absentee ballot may do so in any precinct after swearing before an election judge that he is a qualified voter in his home precinct. This is only a small part of the information contained in the "Kansas Voter's Guide 1956, Part I," copies of which are now available in the political science library, Strong Annex A.
A publication of the Governmental Research Center at K.U., it is designed to send the voters to the polls with more complete information on the political and election systems.
Part I contains the background information on population and voting trends, party organization, nomination of candidates, registration, and voting requirements and procedures.
Freshman's Funeral Set For Friday
Funeral services will be held for Louis Edward (Eddie) Niemann at 2 p.m. Friday at the Fulton Funeral Home, 18th and Washington Blvd. Kansas City, Kan.
Quit your beefing, Jayhawkers! You never had it so good!
Niemann, an 18-year old University freshman, died Tuesday in Watkins Memorial Hospital of lobar pneumonia.
Things Tough? Look At K-State's Woes
At Kansas State both the classroom days and weeks are being lengthened. This year, students must schedule at least half of their classes during afternoons or Saturday mornings. To make sure this is done, departments are required to offer at least half of their courses during those times. Classes there begin at 7 a.m. and continue until 9 p.m.
One reason for the change is the increased enrollment. The other is the hope that the expanded schedule will bring better student study habits.
Miss Kansas On KDGU Today
Miss Kansas for 1956 will receive a belated, surprise birthday present when she appears on the KDGU program, "Newsmakers," at 6:30 p.m. today. Mary Ann McGrew, Wellington junior, who celebrated her birthday on Sept. 13, will be interviewed about her experiences in the Miss America pageant by members of the KDGU and Daily Kansan staffs.
Miss McGrew is an honorary member of the KDGU staff after having been selected as Miss Santa for 1955 in an annual contest sponsored by KDGU and The Daily Kansas. She will soon be heard regularly on KDGU as a staff announcer.
The nature of the birthday gift is a secret, but Ralph Butler, Leavenworth senior and producer of the program, said it will be a memento of the Miss America pageant. Arrangements for the gift were made by Bill Harmon, Topeka senior and moderator of the program, who will make the presentation.
Interviewing Miss McGrew will be John Branigan, Kansas City, Mo., junior, and James Kohenberg, Louisburg senior, representing KDGU, and Margaret Armstrong, Westfield, N.J., and Jane Pecinovsky, Kansas City, Mo., seniors, representing The Daily Kansan. Dee Richards, Hutchinson senior, will direct the program and Paul Culp, Overland Park senior, will be technical advisor.
Mathematics Head To Talk At Baker
Dr. G. Baley Price, chairman of the mathematics department, will address three groups on the Baker University campus Wednesdy, Sept. 26.
In the afternoon he will talk with Baker mathematics majors on "Famous Problems in Mathematics." At a Baker faculty meeting he will speak on "Some of the Trends in College Mathematics.
"Mathematics and Our World Today" will be the subject of his address at the weekly convocation for Baker students.
Liberal Arts As Important As Technology'
"American people are now realizing that in education liberal arts is as important as technology," Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy told an audience of more than 250 at the first meeting of the International Club.
Chancellor Murphy, the main speaker at the meeting, said, "Americans now know that in this scientific age of ours, we cannot remain isolated."
Terming the American people near the maturity of about the 19-year-old level, he said, "The Second World War greatly shook the American people. We are beginning to know that, historically and culturally orientated, we can rededicate ourselves to the responsibility of international progress."
The chancellor listed the four major missions of the University as "transmission, conservation, expansion of human knowledge, and direct service to the requirements of the citizens who live in the state of Kansas."
Earlier in his address, Chancellor Murphy outlined the history of state universities in America, saying that they are the strong backbone of the United States.
Also addressing the meeting were Mohammed Kazem, Cairo, Egypt graduate student and vice president of the club, James Schultz, Salina junior and president of the All Student Council, and William Allaway, general secretary of KU-Y. Ratnam Swami, Matale, Ceylon graduate student and club president, presided.
Refreshments and dancing followed the meeting.
Band To Perform At Nightshirt Parade
Tryouts for membership in the University Band have been completed and the 90 male members will don their midnight blue, old gold and white uniforms Friday evening for their first performance of the year at the Nightshirt Parade. They will appear at the football game Saturday afternoon.
Both men and women musicians in the band rehearse from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons. The women are not a part of the marching band but the men must spend several additional hours each week in drill work.
DEAN KENNETH ANDERSON
Freshmen To Meet Counselors Monday
Education School Dedication Oct.5
Freshmen women will meet their sophomore counselors at 6:45 p.m. Monday in Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall at a meeting sponsored by the Associated Women Students. Skits on the projects and functions of AWS and on college life will be presented by AWS Senate members and the sophomore counselors.
Bailey Hall, a campus landmark for 56 years, will be formally dedicated as the School of Education Oct. 5 during a two-day conference of state educators.
AWS House To Meet To Discuss Activities
Halftime Entertainment
The Associated Women Students House of Representatives will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Student Union. The room number will be posted.
Committees will be set up and the activities for the coming year will be discussed. The meeting is for both permanent and alternate representatives.
Top Drum & Bugle Corps Coming
Football fans attending the season's opening gridiron contest Saturday afternoon in Memorial Stadium between TCU and KU will be entertained at halftime by one of the top drum and bugle corps in the United States.
The Great Bend youngsters, with an age average of 15, have won the
The "Argonne Rebels," state champion drum and bugle corps of Great Bend, will kick off their '56-'57 exhibition season with "Perpetual Motion." a pageant in high precision marching with bugle flourishes and percussion effects at halftime.
The pageant as done by the "Rebels" is an original creation which has been acclaimed a prizewinner throughout the midwest. The unit appears Saturday with an undefeated record in two years of Midwest contest appearances. The Great Bend youngsters, with
state championship for the past two years, and won the high point honors for the Great Plains Drum & Bugle Corps Assn. this past season.
The "Rebels" travelled more than 7,000 miles during the past year, and have just returned from national competition at Los Angeles, where they placed No. 1 in the nation as a mixed corps, and displaced 16 contending Senior corps from the continental U.S. exhibition appearances which included shows before the Kansas City Athletics, and the world-famous "Disneyland" at Anaheim. Calif.
The Great Bend corps marches 44 in formation, including a sixmember, state champion color guard and two drum majors. One of the drummajors is Wynette McCarter of Great Bend, a KU sophomore, while the other is
Roger Bourland, a Great Bend high school senior. Both have received statewide honors for their drum-major work.
General director of the "Rebels" is James C. Sanner, director of the Great Bend high school and municipal bands.
A Familiar Face
Drill master of the unit is Glenn Opie, 1954 KU law graduate. While at KU, Opie was drum-major of the KU marching band. It was while he led the Jayhawker band that football fans were introduced to the fast moving, high-stepting marching cadence that is synonymous with the KU unit.
The student section of the stadium has been selected as the "reviewing stand" for Saturday's performance officials of American Legion Post No. 180 of Great Bend, sponsors of the corps, have announced.
- Events include a dedication address, luncheon, discussion groups on education problems, a banquet, buffet luncheon and open house. Talks will be given at the lunch-ons and the banquet.
Dean Kenneth Anderson of the School of Education said every school administrator and teacher in the state and the entire University staff have been invited.
Key addresses will be made by Dr. Harold R. W. Benjamin of George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. Dora V. Smith of the University of Minnesota and Dr. Karl R. Douglass of the University of Colorado.
Dean Anderson will preside at the dedication in Fraser Theater at 11 a.m. Dr. Benjamin will speak on "Some Measures of Quality in Teacher Education."
At the luncheon to follow, talks will be given by Adel F. Throckmorton, state superintendent of public instruction; C. O. Wright executive secretary of the Kansas State Teachers Assn., and Wendell Godwin, Topeka superintendent of schools. The luncheon will be held in the Kansas Room of the Student Union.
Four panels in Bailey Hall will discuss "Improvement of the Institutional Process." "The Problem of Articulation between High School and College." "The Nature of Democratic Administration," and "Responsibilities of the Public Schools in Character Education." Members of the panels will be School of Education staff and superintendents of Kansas high schools.
At the dedication banquet in the Student Union Ballroom Dr. Smith will address the group on "Ventures in Education Around the World—Their Significance for American Education."
The final session will be at a buffet luncheon Oct. 6 in the Kansas Room. Dr. Douglass will talk on "Challenge to American Education Today."
An open house will allow visitors to tour the building both days.
Dr. Anderson said he expects over 500 to attend the dedication banquet and 200 to attend both luncheons.
The remodeled "Bailey Barn" was converted from the chemistry department and School of Pharmacy to a building that now houses, in addition to the school, 15 different bureaus, services, laboratories, clinics and divisions.
Bailey was built from a $55,000 legislative appropriation and remodeled at 12 times the original cost of construction but at a fraction of what a new building of the same kind would cost.
Panty Raider Goes To Court Today
The aftermath of a springtime charge onto the campus of Baker University by some 40 University students in a May 22 panty raid showed up today on the November docket of the Douglas County District Court.
Robert Ray Hopkins, former freshman dismissed from KU, is charged with assault with intent to do bodily harm. Charges against five other students were dropped.
Weather
Fair this afternoon and tonight. Increasing cloudiness Friday. Windy over most of state tonight and Friday. Warmer east and north central portions tonight. Low tonight 60-65. High Friday 80's northeast to 90's southwest.