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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 10, 1956
KU-Y Looks Forward To Year's Activities
The student YMCA and the YWCA have combined forces this year with an eye toward greater effectiveness and enjoyment. The new organization will be called the KU-Y and will be under the leadership of the co-presidents, Kit Westgate, Lawrence junior, and Mickey Mills, McPherson junior.
The KU-Y started off its year's activities with a watermelon feed Sept 8 and the freshman camp Sept. 8 and 9.
Political Emphasis Week will be sponsored by the KU-Y prior to the fall elections. During semester vacation the organization will again sponsor the annual ski trip, which already is in the planning stage.
One of the year's most colorful events, the annual Rock Chalk Revue, is also sponsored by the KU-Y and plans are underway to make this year's show an even better event.
The KU-Y will begin its big membership drive on Sept. 18 and will last until Sept. 27. The broad purpose of the KU-Y is that of meeting the needs and interests of all students on the campus. The purpose reads:
"To create a Christian atomsphere in which we as students may develop a more stable sense of values and may unite in fellowship, study, worship, and service to make our college experience more meaningful."
Construction Continues On Music-Drama Building
The mountain of dirt and mass of construction forms students will remember seeing last spring at the site of the Music and Dramatic Arts building is rapidly approaching recognizable form.
The building, which will represent a total outlay of $2,400,000 when complete, will give the University one of the finest fine arts school facilities in the nation. Being constructed by the Harmon Construction Company of Oklahoma City, Okla., it is half finished. University officials said it should be ready for use during the fall of 1957.
It is located on the curved portion of Naismith drive northeast of Allen Field House and just west of the military science building, and is part of the booming new southwest "front door" of the campus.
The building will be of concrete and steel with an exterior of brick and native limestone. The wings will be of different heights because of ground slope. It will have east
and west wings joined together by a connecting wing.
The music department of the school will be housed in the 4-story east wing which will be 60 by 310 feet. This wing will contain orchestra and choral rehearsal rooms, offices, studios, and about 70 small practice rooms.
The 128 by 327 foot west wing will have a theater seating 1,148 persons and a recital hall with a capacity of 398. This wing will also contain rehearsal rooms and space for making stage props.
The completion of the building will realize a long-time dream of the administration to have all the activities of the School of Fine Arts at one location. At the present time the departments of the school are scattered in several buildings on the campus.
Dr. Arthur J. Mix, professor of botany at the University and for 22 years chairman of that department, died Saturday night in a Houston, Texas, Methodist hospital, where he underwent surgery about three weeks ago. He was 67 years old.
The building is near the site of the proposed new business school. That project is now in the planning stage and is expected to be completed by 1960.
Former Botany Chairman Dies
Dr. Mix joined the KU faculty as an instructor in 1916 and became a full professor in 1924. He was chairman of the botany department from 1931 to 1953.
A memorial service will be held at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Episcopal Church.
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Seven Engineers Get Scholarships
Seven $500 scholarships have been awarded to engineering students for the coming year Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering, has announced.
Those in mechanical engineering receiving the scholarships are Maurice W. Wildin, Hutchinson junior; Jerry J. Jones, Frankfort junior, and Leonard G. Suelter, Manhattan senior.
Electrical engineering students receiving the awards are Cletus H. Isbell, Wichita junior; John L. Lighthouse, Coffeyville senior, and Russell E. Hayes, Wichita senior.
Earl Wilson, Lawrence senior, has been awarded the second annual award of the Frontier Chemical Company scholarship in chemical engineering.
Awards given to Hayes, Lighthouse and Suelter are renewals of scholarships they held last year.
Alum To South Dakota Post
Dr. Carrol M. Mickey, a University alumnus, is the new chairman of the department of sociology, social work and anthropopogy at the University of South Dakota. Dr. Mickey received his A.B. from KU in 1836.
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