KU
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, June 20, 1961
49th Year, No. 3
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
KU
WHAT IS THIS ONE FOR?—Donald Scheid, instructor of wind and percussion instruments, asks band camper Sarah Moore, Tallahassee, Fla., a question about one of the keys on her clarinet. This was the general scene in Murphy Hall yesterday morning as hundreds of band campers went through try-outs.
Campus Population Up With 1,000 Teen-agers
The University of Kansas summer campus population, already well past 3,000 on the official rolls, got a lively and refreshing, though unofficial, increase of approximately 1,000 teen-agers Sunday.
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp and allied divisions
Ex-Professor Dies in East
Frederic N. Raymond, emeritus professor of English, died early Sunday morning at his summer home in Hammondport, N. Y. He was 88 years old.
Prof. and Mrs. Raymond maintained their local residence, but because of ill health had been unable to return here last winter.
Prof. Raymond was born Jan. 27, 1873, in the Kanwaka neighborhood west of Lawrence. He attended the Lawrence schools and earned an A.B. degree from KU in 1896. A year later he received the M.A. degree from Columbia University.
He spent four years in railroad work and wrote for many magazines. In 1901 he was appointed an assistant professor at KU. His promotion to full professor was in 1920 and in 1944 he retired. During his 43-year teaching career at KU he spent much time teaching English to the engineering students. He was a member of the Acacia social fraternity and of Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity.
Mrs. Raymond is the former Miss Ida Gleason of Keuka, N.Y. They had one daughter, Elizabeth, now Mrs. Robert S. Raymond Jr. of Athens, Ohio. She holds A.B. and M.A. degrees from KU.
their 24th season Sunday, with most of the activities for high school students continuing six weeks through July 30. Attendance is about 700 boys and girls from 40 states for the KU camp, which in size and scope of activities as well as continuous operation is second only to the National High School Camp at Interlochen, Mich.
"Most junior high school students are neither ready for nor would care for the intensive six-week camp. But we believe those boys and girls who are beginning to love serious music can easily profit from a highly concentrated fortnight of music."
Prof. Russell L. Wiley, founder and director of the camp, said, "Camp is a misnerom as we provide intensive instruction and have strenuous rehearsal schedules.
New this year is the two-week Junior High Music Camp. July 23. Enrollment was limited to 300.
The music, art, ballet, theater and speech, and mathematics demonstration class sections will run the full six weeks. The 100 high schoolers attending the Science and Mathematics Camp will be here June 18-July 8.
Girls will live in Lewis Hall and the boys in Templin Hall, KU's two newest dormitories. Meals will be at the Kansas Union.
Harvesting Under Way
GREAT BEND. Kan. — (UPI) — The harvest control center here reports that wheat harvesting will get under way today across the south border counties of Kansas after some spot cutting on high ground over the weekend.
KU Budget Requests May Be Cut Slightly
Chancellor and Mrs. Wescoe and daughter Barbara left Lawrence for New York City Friday where Dr. Wescoe will attend the American Medical Association conference.
Wescoe Leaves For N.Y. Meeting
Dr. Wescoe is a member of the association's council of Medical Education and Hospitals. The Wescoes will return to Lawrence June 29.
On July 10, Dr. and Mrs. Wescoe will go to Costa Rica University to take a personal look at the student-faculty exchange program between the school and KU and to meet CRU officials.
KU started the "Junior Year in Costa Rica" program in 1959. In this program about 12 students and several faculty members go to San Jose while a similar number of Costa Rican students and faculty come to KU.
The Wescoes will return to Lawrence Aug. 12.
Managers Slated To Study at KU
Approximately 100 credit bureau and collection service managers, assistant managers, supervisors, and sales representatives are expected to attend the Midwest Management Institute here July 16 to 21.
The institute is held annually and is divided into a four-year sequence of courses. A total of 25 hours of credit may be earned at any one institute session, and upon earning 100 hours of credit the student is awarded a certificate of achievement issued jointly by the institute and the University of Kansas.
The Kansas Board of Regents has approved the 1963 fiscal year operating budget for the KU Medical Center, but it appears that some of the requests for the Lawrence campus will be cut.
Miss America Is Visitor on KU Campus
The Regents on Friday chopped approximately 1 million dollars from the $35 million requested for KU, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State, Emporia State, and Ft. Hays State.
By Martha Allen
With a regal smile and feminine charm, Miss America, Nancy Anne Fleming, came to the University of Kansas Friday. Miss America toured the campus after receiving a Jayhawk from Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
The Michigan coed said she had heard quite a bit about KU in past years. She added that her impression of the campus sustained these compliments.
Nancy Anne also went to meet the Girls Staters in session on the campus. She said she was thrilled to see such a good looking group of girls. "I hope to see many of you at future Miss America pageants," she continued.
She was dressed in a mint green Italian silk suit with a bell shaped skirt and sleeves and black patent leather accessories. Her outfit was completed with a corsage of wild sunflowers.
The brunette will be a home economics major at Michigan State University when she finishes her reign. Before winning her Miss America scholarships, she already had won two scholarships to the university. When she was in high school, Nancy Anne was a straight "A" student.
MISS AMERICA—Nancy Anne Fleming, 1961 Miss America, is shown at the South Park celebration where "Miss America Day" brought the Lawrence centennial celebration to a climax last Friday.
KU officials said the Lawrence campus's specific share of the trimming won't be known for about ten days.
Board chairman Whitley Austin of Salina estimated that school administrators had asked for a $4,490,000 increase over the 1962 fiscal year operating budgets. This would indicate that the Regents approved roughly 3.5 million dollars more than for 1962.
Part of this increase was based upon anticipated enrollment increases. As far as the Medical Center was concerned, its budget was approved without change, as were the budgets for the State Schools for the Deaf and Blind.
The board also approved approximately 114 new faculty positions, necessitated by increased enrollments. The new posts were allowed at the ratio of one instructor to each 17 additional students at KU and K-State, and one teacher to each 20 new students at the state teacher colleges. Austin said the new faculty members would be hired at an average salary of $7,500 a year at the universities and $6,000 a year at the colleges.
In other actions, the board:
Sold $750,000 in revenue bonds for construction of a 304-member women's dorm at K-State, and $950,000 in revenue bonds for an addition to the school's student union.
Created a committee to investigate exchanges of faculty and library materials among five state schools.
Reaffirmed a $1,660,000 request to be submitted to the 1962 budget session for construction of buildings under a five-year construction program.
Authorized the Medical Center to negotiate with the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency for a $164,000 loan to provide dormitory housing for 74 male students.
The board also reaffirmed KU's $720,000 request for work on Blake Hall, now vacant. KU has not yet decided whether to remodel the building or replace it with a new structure.
Japanese Films On Summer Agenda
A series of two Japanese films will be shown at Bailey Hall Auditorium, Thursday June 22, and Thursdav, June 29, at 7:30 p.m. The films are sponsored by the Summer Program on Asia, and are open free to faculty and students.
The films are in Japanese with English subtitles. Both are prizewinning films, and both reflect patterns of life and attitudes in Japan since World War II.
"Children of Hiroshima," which will be shown June 22, is based on a book of letters written by children who had been in Hiroshima when the atom bomb fell. The film presents the story of the children as seen through the eyes of a young teacher who revisits Hiroshima in 1952. This film won an award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and also the U.N. award of the British Film Academy.