SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
49th Year, No.1
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, June 13, 1961
Summer School Enrollment Up On First Day
James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, reported today that the summer enrollment at KU is 270 larger than at a comparable period in 1960.
One hundred seventy seven more students than last year attended classes the first day at Lawrence. Enrollment at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City increased by 93 to a total of 428.
The 2.965 total as classwork began yesterday will swell to approximately 3.350 by July 1 and an estimated final figure of 3.750 by the end of August, Hitt said.
Late enrollees and those attending 8-week institutes in mathematics, radiation biology, elementary school science, chemistry research and elementary school foreign languages will boost the Lawrence campus attendance far beyond the 3,000 mark.
Hitt explained that, "in the summer we can provide, as needs arise, many types of credit programs. These need not be tied to the formal academic calendar but can be scheduled to serve best the students and to integrate with the necessary summer maintenance of the physical plant.
"This flexibility would be severely curtailed were the University to be shifted to a tri-mester system with an attempt made to shift the regular student body to a 100 percent utilization of all facilities on a 12-month basis."
These figures do not include the up to 1,000 high school and junior high students who will be here for periods of up to six weeks in the various divisions of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, the Science and Mathematics Camp and demonstration classes in the mathematics and language institutes. Several thousand other persons will attend institutes and short courses during the summer for which no credit is given.
Strassenburg Gets First Fink Award
Dr. Arnold A. Strassenburg, assistant professor of physics, has been named first recipient of the H Bernerd Fink Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Announcement of the $1,000 award, provided annually by Mr. Fink, an alumnus and president of the C-G-F Grain Company in Topeka, was made by Chancellor Wescoe during his report on the state of the University at the recent Alumni-Commencement supper.
Dr. Strassenburg, whose promotion to associate professor is effective July 1, was chosen by a secret committee of the University staff.
Professor Strassenburg, who has taught at KU since 1955, received his B.S. degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology and his Ph.D from Cal Tech.
Six Join University Players
Six KU students have been initiated into University Players, a honorary theater fraternity. They are: Kent Atkins Ft. Scott junior; Marilyn Belton, Lost Wilmette junior; Jennifer Wilmette, I freshman; Janice Castle, Oberlin junior; Aletha Curts, Falls Church, Vyo.; freshman; Becky Davis, Cheyenne, Wyo.; freshman; Karin Gold, Leaward Park sophomore; Keith Jochim, Leaward Park sophomore; John Topeka sophomore; Terry Kovac, Wichita sophomore; Judy Mayhan, Emporia sophomore; Karen Saad, River Forest, III, sophomore; Sharon Scowill, Kansas Field, Mo freshman; Joseph Hardt, Springfield, Mo freshman; Joachim Woodard, Bushtown freshman, and Tom Wickard, Des Moines, Iowa, freshman.
SUMMER ENROLLMENT—Sue Dixon, Lawrence senior, receives enrollment advice from Austin Lashbrook, assistant professor of Latin and Greek, and Karl Edwards, professor of education.
'Hello Kansas' Opens, To Be Shown Nightly
"Hello Kansai!" — an original three-act musical based on Kansas history which opened in Murphy Hall last night, is being presented nightly through June 18.
The play, presented by the Douglas County Centennial Commission and KU, will also be given at 2 p.m. Saturday. Ron Trent, Hammon, Okla., graduate student, is directing the 35-member cast comprised of Lawrence townspeople and KU students.
Dr. John Pozdro, newly-named chairman of the department of music theory, wrote the music and Allen Crafton, professor of speech and amateur Kansas historian, the book and lyrics.
Pozdro had barely fulfilled a commission from the Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra to write his Third Symphony when he began the overture and a dozen songs for the musical in October. In January, he began the orchestration.
Prof. Gerald Carney, associate professor of music education, directs the 30-piece orchestra and Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of music education and choral music, the chorus, Esin Eden, Istanbul, Turkey, graduate student, is associate director of the production and Dr. Lewin Goff, University Theatre director, supervising director.
Crafton was persuaded to tackle the project last summer only after another writer had given up the job. He rewrote the book twice and was still rewriting as the musical went into rehearsal.
Dave Pickett, James P. McMullan,
Long Beach Chance, senior; John Hamm-
ger, Thomas Nollman, junior;
and Amy Beafort Hammond; Martha Shirley, Mankato sophomore.
Members of the cast (exclusive of Lawrence residents):
Leading roles—
Other principals-
Waddy Ransom: Ron Loch, Oklahoma City Chiefs. Michael Dickerson, Jackson Shooville, Kansas City Junior, and Tom Hammond: Charles Rogers, Omautie senior.
Bat Masterson: Paul Ackerman, Colby
sophomore; Wild Bill Hickok: Robert Bettcher, Wilmette, Ill., sophomore;
Capt. John Brown: Charles Rogers, Osawatomi senior; Sidney Berger, Brooklyn, N.Y.; graduate student; Steve Boozer, Kansas City, KS; Curtis Falls Church, Va., sophomore; Jane Hartwell, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; James Hawes, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student; Robert Johnson, Kansas City city; Ted Lawson, Medford, Md.; John Randall, Aberdeen, S.D.; Johann Randall, Aberdeen, S.D.; sophomore; Mary Lynne Shankel, Meridian, Miss., special student, and Jacque Volkland, Buushon sophomore.
Prof, Students to Excavate
Dr. William Bass, assistant professor of anthropology, will be assistant director in charge of field operations for an archeological excavation this summer in the Agate Basin of east central Wyoming.
The National Geographic Society is supporting the program.
Girls State Opens; Anderson to Talk
Election of mayors and Civil Defense directors of twelve "cities" highlighted yesterday's activities for approximately 400 Kansas high school seniors-to-be attending Sunflower Girls State here this week.
Newly-elected mayors were honored at lunch yesterday noon in the Kansas Union, with the mayor of Lawrence, Dr. Ted Kennedy, as special guest.
Highlight of the week will be the inauguration of the 1961 Governor of Girls State who will take over the duties of 1960 Governor Bylle Sue Snyder of Scott City. The inaugural address will be delivered by Governor John Anderson Jr. at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Preceding the election yesterday morning, Earl Reeves, instructor of political science, explained the different forms of city government. Following the election, the girls heard Dr. John Grumm, assistant professor of political science, explain the role and purposes of political parties, and Dr. William Cape, visiting professor in the department of political science, talk on county government.
The afternoon was spent signing petitions and campaigning for candidates for county offices, to be elected this morning. Evening activities included a talk on Civil Defense planning by Mrs. Mary Plank, Department Civil Defense Chairman, American Legion Auxiliary, and the appointment of election board members and city officials by the mayors.
City mayors elected were;
Arapano-Patsy Cram, Larned; Cherokee-Barbara Sutton, Neodesh; Cheyeenne-Barbara Scott, Newton; Chippewa-Barbara Scott, Shamee Wilson; manche-Kaye Siler, Wichita; Kaskasik-Sandy Kaiser, Paola; Kickapoo-Beth Berns, Peabody; Kiowa-Sally Giesel, Murdock; Osage-Dell Ann Larson, McPherson; Pawnee-Jeanette Jeffery, Teenagers-Shane Wilson; Winfield, and Pottawatotie-Wanda Scott, Topeka.
Civil defense directors elected were:
Arapaho—Nancy Painter, Kansas City,
Kansas City—Mary Bursick, Cheyenne—Betty Burdick, Sabetha, Chippewa—Kay Goeretz, Marion, Commanche
Civil defense directors elected were:
McNown to Colorado Confab
Dean S. J. McNown of the School of Engineering and Architecture will be a section chairman at a Symposium on Basic Research in the areas of water resources and reclamation, to be held June 12-25 at Colorado State University.
Judy Cuthbertson, Norton; Kaskaskia
Norton; New York
-Nancy Christenson, Winfield; Kickapoo
-Janet Eger, Kansas City, Kans.; Kiowa
-Aaron Dunn, Valley Center, Osage
-Mary McAnally, Kansas City, Kans.
Carol Porter, Kansas City, Kans.; Piankeshaw—Sherry Feeley, Cimarron, and Pottawatomi—Paulette Looney, Wichita.
Japanese Study To Be Offered
KU will offer classes in elementary Japanese for the first time this fall.
The addition of the language is part of an expansion in the East Asian Studies program initiated at KU in 1959. It receives one-half support under terms of the National Defense Education Act administered by the U.S. Office of Education.
Leon Zolbrod, who has just completed work for his Ph.D. degree at Columbia University, will join the KU staff in September as instructor of Oriental language and literature. He will teach a sequence of courses in the Japanese language and a class in East Asian literature and translation.
New additions to the faculty of the department of sociology and anthropology will be Felix Musz, instructor of anthropology, and Dr. Norman Jacobs, assistant professor of sociology.
Muss received the A.B. degree in sociology from the University of Cincinnati in 1955, the master of arts from the University of Washington in 1958 and received the Ph.D. from Washington this year.
He served with the U.S. Intelligence Service in Japan and Okinawa during 1952-53, and held a Fulbright Grant in Japan and Korea, 1958-60. During 1960-61, he taught sociology at the University of Maryland Far Eastern Division in Tokyo.
At KU, he will teach Native Cultures of Asia (included in the East Asian Program), a class in Culture and Society and Methods of Anthropology.
He received the bachelor of science degree in 1943 from the College of the City of New York and the master of arts and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard in 1950, 1951, respectively. He is a specialist in social institutions of the Far East and will teach a course, beginning in the spring (1962) semester, in Comparative Institutions of China and Japan and an advanced seminar in social change.
Many Summer Activities Offered
KU, in spite of many rumors to the contrary, is not "dead" during the summer session.
In fact, there'll be a full slate of recreational activities available appealing to a wide variety of tastes and interests. For example, take a look at the following:
Swimming: regular swimming classes will be held at 2 and 3 p.m. each day. The pool will also be open for students and faculty members during most of the week. Men can splash around from 1-2 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-6 on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, and 3-5 on Saturday. Women's hours are from 1-2 MWF, 4-6 on TT, and 1-3 Saturday. Co-recreational swimming (adults only) is scheduled from 7:30 to 9 Monday through Friday. Children of faculty members will be permitted, provided they can qualify by swimming one length of the pool, at 11 MWF (boys) and 11 TTS (girls).
Four trips to the Starlight Theatre are planned for Thursday nights. Buses will leave Robinson Gym at
Intramural activities will include softball, tennis, horseshoes, golf, handball, and badminton. Further information can be obtained at the Physical Education office, 103 Robinson.
6:30 p.m. and will return following the show. Reservations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.
Six hour dances will be held from 8 to 9 p.m. on the following Thursday nights: June 15, June 22, June 29, July 6, July 13, and July 27. The dances will be held in the Union building.
Outdoor movies will be shown at 8 p.m. every Friday night in the area east of Robinson. The first one is scheduled for this Friday.
Classes in horseback riding will be offered at 7 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays at the Mott stables southeast of Lawrence. The cost will be $1.25 per lesson.
Golfers can obtain special summer session memberships at the Lawrence Country Club for $35. Arrangements should be made at the club house. The Municipal course (sand greens), located about a mile south on Hiway 59, will also be open.
Productions in Murphy Hall will include the Centennial show, "Hello Kansas," now through June 18, followed by "Three Men on a Horse" on June 29, 30; "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on July 13, 14, and "Idiot's Delight" on July 27, 28.
The Fowler Grove playground will be open until 9:30 p.m. Monday through Friday evenings. Families and children of students and faculty are invited.
In addition, 21 tennis courts are available plus several softball fields.
An ice cream social will be held at the Union from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 11.
Union building facilities include bowling lanes, billiard and snooker tables, craft and hobby rooms, dark rooms, and a card room. In addition, students can relax and or study in the music and browsing room.