SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, July 18, 1961
49th Year. No.10
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Miss Claudette Sorel
Pianist Miss Claudette Sorel To Give Concert Tonight
Tickets are available at the School of Fine Arts and the Union Ticket Center. Students will be admitted on I.D. cards.
Pianist Claudette Sorel will give a concert at 8 p.m. today in the University Theatre.
Miss Sorel, who will be guest lecturer in piano at KU this coming year, will play "Sonata in E Minor, Op. 90" by Beethoven, "Four Impromptus"—A flat major Op. 29, F sharp major Op. 36, G flat major, Op. 51, and Fantaisie-Impromptu (Posthumous) — by Chopin and "Souvenir De Paganiini" and "Fantaisie, Op. 49," also by Chopin.
Following the intermission, Miss Sorel will play "Papillons, Op. 2" by Schumann, "Nocturne for the Left Hand Only, Op. 9, No. 2" by Scriabin, "Sonnetto Del Petracaro No. 123" by Liszt, and "Etude No. 6" by Pagani尼丁.
Finnish Theater Honors KU Alum
The 28-year old artist has made 55 appearances with such major symphony orchestras as the Detroit, Philadelphia, New York Philharmonic, and the NBC Symphony. She
A KU alumnus has become the second American ever to receive the gold medal of honor given by the Finnish National Theater of Helsinki. Finland.
He is Prof. Robert E. Gard, '34, a member of the University of Wisconsin faculty since 1954, director of the Wisconsin Idea Theater, and professor of speech at the university's Extension Center. For his pioneering work there, he was given the KU speech and drama department's merit award.
The first recipient was actress Helen Haves.
The gold medal was given in recognition of Professor Gard's contribution to the National Theater last year while in residence in Helsinki on a Fulbright grant. He is now back in Finland as a U.S. State Department representative to help establish theater education at the University of Helsinki.
has performed in Europe four times and in 150 cities in the United States. Miss Sorel appeared with the New York Philharmonic when she was only 12 years old, following her debut with the New York Town Hall.
She is a 1948 graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and has also studied at the Curtis Institute of Music. She received a bachelor of science degree, magna cum laude, from the Columbia University School of General Studies in 1954.
Wescoe Asks More Housing
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has asked Lawrence citizens to continue to enrich an already good record as international hosts to foreign students attending KU.
In a statement made before his departure for Costa Rica the Chancellor said that both Lawrence citizens and foreign students would benefit culturally by continuing the practice of housing many foreign students in Lawrence homes.
Last year 280 foreign students from 58 countries attended KU. A similar number is expected to attend KU in the coming year.
"By opening their homes to foreign students Lawrence residents can give these visitors an acquaintance with our way of life that the students can get by no other means."
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Kennedy returned to the White House yesterday from a weekend of rest with key decisions facing him on shoring up U.S. defenses to counter Soviet threats.
Kennedy Returns From Hyannis Port
Dr. Wescoe said:
NASA Ready for Second Man-in-Space Shot Today
The President flew here by jet from Cape Cod. After landing at nearby Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, he took a helicopter to the White House lawn.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—(UPI) —Everything is "a-ok" for America's second man-in-space venture this morning.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirmed that 35-year-old Air Force Capt. Virgil I. Grissom will be the pilot aboard "Liberty Bell 7," the Mercury man-in-space capsule for the shot.
Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., who is 40 years old today, will be
backup man for Grissom as he was for Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. who made America's first space hop May 5 aboard the capsule Freedom 7.
Lt. Col. John A. Powers of NASA told reporters at a news conference that everything, including the weather, appears to be all set for Grissom's trip, scheduled to start around 8 a.m. EDT.
Band's 'Porgy and Bess Called Pure Gershwin
"All elements," he said, "are 'a-ok' for the MR-4 mission."
Have you ever heard a 230-piece band swinging? Well, I have.
Sunday night at the Midwestern Music Camp concert the band played a suite from "Porgy and Bess" that was pure Gershwin.
The band has grown proficient at changing styles from number to number, e.g., it opened with an old favorite English concert march with its long and conservative melodic line. This was followed by Leonard Bernstein's overture to "Candide," which is too light and almost too bizarre to be called conservative.
Wagner's "Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" from "The Rhinegold" with its deep rich harmonies and majestic trumpet calls, made the next contrast.
Handel, the old-timer on the band's Sunday program, opened Part III of the concert. Then the band skipped 150 years in history to do the finale from Dvorak's "New World Symphony" and a sultry and cool "Porgy and Bess" preceded Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever."
Audience enthusiasm grew steadily during the evening and they found it hard to hold their applause at times. Sousa's march was well done. It had the spirit of football rallies, bands marching, and jets flying. With a march as familiar as this one, this is quite a trick; it brought murmurs from the audience during its performance and shouts afterwards.
A word stressed today is "to- getherness," and the chorus has it, especially by sections. Each section
Recipients of grants from the national honorary research society are Dr. Ryuchi Matsuda research associate in entomology from Japan; Larry G. Mason, graduate student in entomology from Wyandotte, Mich., and Vernon L. Harms, graduate student in botany from Whitewater.
Research Grants Awarded to Three
A KU research associate and two students have been awarded Sigma Xi-Resa grants-in-aid for their research projects.
Mason's award will finance travel in southern Kansas and southeast Iowa where he will collect plant-feeding beetles as part of his doctoral research.
Harms will use his grant to support doctoral work in botany. He received a masters degree in 1959 from Emporia State Teachers College.
Dr. Matsuda will use his grant to travel to Brazil, where he will collect water bugs in the Amazon area and southern Brazil. A 1950 graduate of Kyushu University in Japan, Dr. Matsuda holds the Ph.D. degree in biology from Stanford University.
is beginning to sound and act as a single unit; this is hard to do with many people. The beauty lies in the combination of many different quality timbres and vibratos and the strength of these acting as one unit.
All of the chorus concert was conducted by Daniel Moe; under his direction parts were distinct and interesting and always balanced each other perfectly.
The music-producing medium of an orchestra and that of a band is just enough different that a conductor who is really effective with both is a rarity. Mr. Johanos is such a conductor.
Dean Thomas Gorton conducted the first movement of Hanson's "Symphony No. II." This beautiful work showed off the orchestra also as a single working unit. This ensemble carried through the rest of the afternoon.
The program ended with Rieger's "Dance Rhythms," which had a very American here-and-now sound.
The high point of the afternoon for most of the audience was when Moussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain," an over-played old favorite, took on new life.-E.W.
MR-4 stands for Mercury-Red-stone no. 4. Shepard's trip was MR-3.
Powers said it is possible Grissom's may be the last sub-orbital hop by an astronaut before the Space Agency attempts to put a man in orbit around the earth.
If the flight is as successful as Shepard's, he said, further trips like it may be dispensed with. NASA had planned at least four sub-orbital launchings.
The first man-in-orbit flight could come late this year but appears more likely to be attented in 1962.
Powers said every precaution will be taken to make certain that nothing goes wrong. He said "the risk element" is still involved in sending a highly-complicated instrument into the "strange and hostile environment" of space.
"This does not mean we are pacing the floor worrying." Powers said, but we are concerned that there might be something less than the perfect performance of the first Mercury flight."
Although Grissom's flight in major respects will be similar to Shepard's, the no. 2 spaceman will have fewer tasks to perform and more opportunity to observe the heavens and the earth curving beneath him.
Powers said that about 15 seconds after the booster rocket separates, Grissom "will be strictly observing," whereas Shepard had myriad tasks to perform.
Grissom and Glenn have both undergone "rather extensive" physical examinations.
Grissom, at 150 pounds, is the smallest of the seven Mercury astronauts. The Redstone rocket now poised on pad no. 5 will hurl him about 115 miles into space and 300 miles out to sea on a path roughly paralleling Shepard's flight.
The final 12-hour final countdown, in preparation for Grissom's hop started at 8 p.m. EDT Monday. The weather, which had delayed Shepard's flight, looked just right for Grissom's.
Theta Sigma Phis to Hold National Convention at KU
The national convention of Theta Sigma Phi, professional fraternity for women in journalism will be held Aug. 16-19 on the KU campus.
More than 200 women journalists, many of them members of undergraduate chapters, will attend. Most sessions will be held at the Kansas Union.
Chairman of the convention is Mrs. Vaughn Williams of Kansas City, Mo., who as Jessie Lea Messick, a journalism student at KU in 1918, was grand marshal of the very first convention of Theta Sigma Phi.
It was held on this campus, and its anniversary is one of several the present convention will celebrate. The others are: 52nd year of the founding of the fraternity, 50th year of the teaching of journalism at KU and 100th year of Kansas statehood.
Dean Burton W. Marvin will address the Centennial dinner Aug. 17 on "How Journalism Looks 7,000 Miles From Home." Dean Marvin, 1960-61 Fulbright lecturer to Iran, has recently returned with his family from that country.
Assisting Mrs. Williams in convention arrangements have been Mrs. Margaret Sally Keach of Mission, national convention coordinator, and Prof. Frances Grinstead of KU's school of journalism, on-the-spot coordinator of this convention. Miss Grinstead is to be
luncheon speaker Aug. 17 on "The Threat to the Written Word."
Speaker at the Matrix Table Aug. 19 which will climax the four-day convention, will be Nina Pulliam of Indianapolis, Ind., wife of Eugene C. Pulliam, president of General Newspapers, Inc. Mrs. Pulliam is herself a widely known journalist.
Lawrence alumnae are to be hostesses at a supper the first evening in the Watkins Room of the Kansas Union, at which time Prof. Helen Hostetter of Kansas State University, adviser to Mu chapter, will give the welcome. This will be followed by a showing of "Six Gun to '61," a film directed and produced by radio-television students, with Dr. Allen Crafton as narrator. Delegates and alumnae will then be entertained at a reception and tea at the home of Chancellor and Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe.
Hostess chapters to the convention include the alumnae chapters of Greater Kansas City and Topeka, the undergraduate chapters at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University. Miss Grinstead is the adviser of Epsilon chapter here.
Delegate of the local chapter to the convention is Miss Susanne Ellermeir of Norton, Kan. Epsilon's president, Miss Karen Kirk of Hutchinson, and other members of the student group also plan to attend, as well as a few of those graduated in June who are employed on newspapers in the state.