SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
49th Year, No.8
Tuesday, July 11, 1961
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
CAMP INSTRUCTIONS—Nevin Wasson, Junior High Band Camp supervisor, is shown giving
instructions to the Junior High Campers on the use of their meal tickets at a meeting Sunday.
Uncle Tom's Cabin' to Have Two-Night Run This Week
The theater division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, in conjunction with the K.U. Theater, will present "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Thursday and Friday in Murphy Hall.
Curtain time for both performances is 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the theater box office (VIking 3-2700, extension 591), from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin." by George L. Aiken from the book by Harrie Beecher Stowe, will be directed by James Hawes, K.U. graduate student, and will feature high school campers from as far west as Idaho and as far south as Texas.
Included in the cast are:
Eliza Harris — Jacqueline Palmer, junior, Fredonia; George Harris — David Haverty, junior, Ottawa; Aunt Chloe — Judy Rosenberg, junior, Leavenworth; Uncle Tom — Steve Biddle, senior, Balwin; Marks — Michael Lollis, junior, Kansas City, Mo.; Marie St. Clare — Martha Groening, sophomore, Kansas City, Mo.; Eva St. Clare — Carol Walker, junior, Eskridge; St. Clare — Larry Ketcham, sophomore, Nampa, Idaho; Ophelia — Jacque Scheideman, junior, Scott City; Topsy — Theresa Lochart, junior, Leavenworth; Simon Legree — Steve Dunlop, junior, St. Louis, Mo., and Deacon Perry — Charles Kocher, sophomore, Topeka.
Others in the cast are:
Tom Clarkson, junior, Larned; Spencer Manuel, senior, Hoisington; Dee Anna Kowalski, sophomore, Wichita; Larry Siekes, junior, Great Bend; Jim Stephens, sophomore, Emporia; Pat Munoz, junior, Leawood; Jeff Angwint, junior, Pittsburg; Sheryl Jones, junior, Wellington; Gary Chandler, junior, Nampa, Idaho, and Debbie Morast, junior, Kansas City, Kans.
Sally Durkee, senior, Mullinville; Ann Ferrell, junior, Beaumont; Vicky Hauser, senior, Salina; Kittie Williams, sophomore, Blackwell, Okla.; Charlotte Ann Gaston, senior, Bucyrus; Lou Brown, junior,
Atchison; Rosemary Fleming, sophomore,
Larned; Nancy Stone, junior,
Beloit; Jill Ronai, freshman, Kansas City, Mo; Joy Taylor, sophomore,
Hebron, Nebr.; Penny Boltres, Woodward, Okla.; Sheri Haynes, sophomore, Manhattan; Mary Godfrey, junior, Lawrence, and Ellen Deacon, junior, Grapevine, Tex.
There had been speculation that Blake would not be torn down, just remodeled. But Wescoe said it would be more efficient to demolish the building. Plans for a new building will be drawn up this year. The administration hopes that bids can be taken in 1962 and the building ready for occupation by the fall semester of 1963. It will contain both classrooms and faculty rooms.
Old Blake Hall To Be Razed
Blake Hall will be torn down and replaced by a modern $750,000 building in the near future according to an announcement made by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
The 66-year-old building, used only for storage since Malott Hall opened in 1954, formerly housed the KU chemistry and physics departments.
In other campus construction, the state will open bids Aug. 3 on construction of the $2 million Engineering School building to be located on the northwest corner of 15th and Naismith Road. The legislature in its latest session appropriated the necessary funds. The structure, which will house the electrical, aeronautical, civil, and mechanical engineering departments, will be ready for use by September 1963.
Wescoe Leaves For Costa Rica
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, left Lawrence yesterday morning for Costa Rica, where they will review the student-faculty exchange program with Costa Rica University.
The men, accompanied by their wives, will take a train from Kansas City to New Orleans and will proceed from there by ship on Wednesday. They will return to Lawrence Aug. 14.
The schools inaugurated the exchange program in 1959 to give students and faculty members from both countries an opportunity to observe the cultural, intellectual, economic, and political institutions of the other.
West Stays Calm Over Berlin Crisis
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
The Western World led by the United States has reacted calmly to Nikita Khrushchev's latest display of brinkmanship over Berlin and responded with some positive moves of its own.
The Soviet Premier announced an increase in military spending Saturday. Russia followed up Sunday with a flashy show of new military airpower. Both acts were timed to reinforce Khrushchev's demands against West Berlin.
Yesterday the United States released hitherto secret testimony by Gen. Lauris Norstad before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last month.
Norstad, supreme allied commander in Europe, said that any serious Soviet move against Berlin would face the might of the entire Western World.
In Paris, NATO officials disclosed "virtual agreement" on a plan to increase from 22 to 30 the number of NATO's front-line divisions in Western Europe if Russia elects to touch off a full-scale Berlin crisis.
Khrushchev had called a halt to troop reductions and he announced an increase of three billion rubles (nominally about $3.5 billion) in the Soviet defense budget.
He said he was "compelled" to make these moves in the face of Western countermoves over the impending Berlin crisis.
He also warned that any forceful actions by the West against an independent Communist East Germany automatically would mean a reply in kind from the Soviets.
NATO forces today are composed largely of U.S. and West German divisions facing 22 Soviet divisions equipped with the most modern weapons on the other side of the iron curtain.
American "shield" forces are equipped with both conventional arms and a variety of nuclear weapons. They comprise five full divisions and three armored brigades. West German forces now number seven divisions, with an ultimate target of 12.
Others are Britain, three divisions; France, two; Belgium, two; Holland, two; and Canada the equivalent of one-third of a division.
NATO's tactical air force in Central Europe has some 3,000 aircraft, including 250 long-range American fighter bombers with nuclear capacity.
The Western reaction to Khrushchev was one of calm determination.
At his weekend retreat at Hyannis Port, Mass., President Kennedy met with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, the President's military representative.
Rusk described the meeting ranging over the problems of Germany and Berlin as a "very relaxed but profitable talk."
In West Berlin, Mayor Willy Brandt used the identical word in telling West Berliners not to take Russia's "war of nerves" too seriously.
"We must face the future relaxed," he said. "This will make the Communists nervous."
Western observers noted a number of possibilities in Khru-shchey's latest outbursts.
Band, Orchestra, Chorus Sparkle In Music Camp Concerts Sunday
David Lawson of College of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif., did triple duty as a guest conductor for the Midwestern Music Camp concerts Sunday. He conducted the orchestra in Handel's "Prelude and Fugue in D"
Much of the music of this period was written "for the glory of God alone" and reveals the power and simplicity in such a philosophy. Mr. Lawson and the orchestra played this popular work with the firm full resonance that such a piece would require. He conducted the band and chorus in two works each. "His Honor" march showed off the concert band in true form.
Dieterich's "Kyrie Eleison" and "Oh Lemuel" were received enthusiastically and Mr. Lawson was brought back by both the audience and the chorus.
KU can be proud of the fact that it can and does perform contemporary music. The chorus sang two numbers Sunday which fall into
this category, Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy" and the "Mystic Trumpeter" by Dello Joio. The "Song of Democracy" was done here at the American Music Symposium several years ago and is very interesting. To those who sat back as far as I did and missed parts of it because of the general outdoor confusion: Please don't sell it sort.
The orchestra opened with Berlioz' popular and rousing "Hungarian March." The orchestra is developing a good technique.
The almost abrupt change of pace between the Mozart and Dello Joio was a good contrast. This week's portion of the "Requiem" was one of the most beautiful. It had the clearly and beautifully blended character of Mr. Krehbicke conducting.
Like many contemporary works the changes and effects in the Dello Joio called for a group that was on their toes and this group was. its toes and this group was.
Throughout the afternoon many harmonies, melodies, and devices appeared which are often considered minor and left muddy. These, of course, are the things that count.
With small children in the afternoon audience several unanticipated events occurred, but the orchestra played with professional compose. It was caught slightly off guard only once—by the spontaneously enthusiastic applause from the audience after the Intermezzo before the last movement from the "Carmen" suite.
Lucien Cailliet conducted both the band and orchestra in many of his own arrangements. The major work in the third portion of the evening concert was Mr. Cailliet's arrangement of the overture to "Italian in Algiers" by Rossint. The evening provided an interesting variety of styles. The concert band not only played well, but with precision and musicianship.-E.W.