SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, July 22, 1958
46th Year, No.12
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Mass ill be immer wood,
WORK CAMP DIRECTORS—The Rev. Mr. John H. Patton, professor of religion and director of the Westminster Foundation at KU, and his wife directed a work camp in Arizona in June. (Summer Kansan photo)
Work Camp More Than Manual Labor
The manual labor involved in a work camp was only a part of a busy month of June for six KU students, two former students and the Rev. Mr. John H. Patton, professor of religion and director of the Westminster Foundation, and his wife.
The group remodeled and redecorated the administration building and library of an Indian school at Tucson, Ariz. The remainder of their time was spent learning more about the culture of the Southwest by holding seminars and visiting many of the interesting and historical spots in that area.
For the month the group did everything as a unit. The participants paid all their own expenses and did a job for the mission station which would have cost it about $3,000.
The work camp was one of several under the general supervision of the Board of National Missions of the United Presbyterian Church.
The school is no longer used as an actual school but as a supplementary school for the Indian students who come to Tucson to attend the public schools there.
Most of the Indians have a poor educational background because of the lower educational standards of the schools on the reservations. They could not keep up with the rest of the students in the public schools without the supplementary classes at the Indian school.
While there, the executive secretary of the tribe told them how the tribe was trying to bring industries into the area. They had recently spent $300,000 to bring a textile plant to nearby Winston, Ariz. This plant will hire mostly Navajo men and women.
At Window Rock, a Navajo village, the group was allowed to go into the council house. This was something a group of this sort had never done before, Mrs. Patton said.
During the trip Rev. and Mrs. Patton bought several prize-winning Indian rugs for the new Presbyterian center to be built at KU.
Among the spots the groups visited were the Hubble Trading Post and El Santuario de Chimayo, a Catholic church in Chimayo, Ariz., famous for its "Cristo Negro" or black crucifix of Christ. There is only one other like it known in the world.
The largest rug they bought this year is 17 by 11 feet. It took two women 16 months to make it. This included shearing the sheep, cleaning, carding, spinning, dying and weaving the wool.
Williams' Play To Be Given Thursday, Friday
Those who went on the work camp this summer are Balbino Miranda, Armero, Colombia junior; Don Fisher, a former Kansas State College student; Myra Lewis, Kansas City, Kan. freshman; Dorothy D. Bickley, Kansas City, Mo. freshman; Lucile Stewart, class of 1923; De Anna Hensley, Mission sophomore, and Nancy Peterson, Topeka junior.
Tennessee Williams' play, "Summer and Smoke," will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the University Theatre in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building. It will be the final production by the summer players and will be directed by Jack Brooking, assistant professor of speech and assistant director of the University Theatre.
Tickets may be secured by students at the University Theatre box office by presenting I.D. cards and tickets may also be purchased at the Kansas Union and Bell's Music Store.
This play was first produced on broadway in 1948 by Margaret Jones and it follows Tennessee Williams' pattern of dealing with hysteria and frustration.
However, it is a play with a softer tone and more gentle mood, in contrast to some of his other successes such as "Streetcar Named Desire."
The setting is in a small town in the South prior to World War II and deals with Alma, played by Joyce Elliott, Independence, Mo. junior, and John portrayed by Louis Lyda, Lawrence graduate student, and their struggle to find themselves.
Herbert Camburn, instructor of speech, will do the costumes, Virgil Godfrey, assistant professor of speech and drama, is directing work on the sets and Dick Borgen, Lawrence senior, is in charge of lighting. Barbara Irving, Lawrence special student, is the assistant director.
204 Attend KU Preview
The largest group of entering freshmen to attend a KU preview will finish their two-day orientation session today.
This group brings the total number of entering freshmen to attend a KU preview this summer to 582. There will be two more scheduled previews and Mr. Fahrbach said Monday it looks as if a seventh preview will be scheduled.
Carl Fahrbach, Jr., assistant director of admissions, said there are 204 students here taking placement examinations, physical examinations and getting acquainted with the campus.
The staff of the Summer Session Kansan wishes to extend their greetings and a warm welcome to the foreign students attending the foreign student Orientation Center. We hope you will enjoy your stay at KU.
Kansan Welcomes Foreign Students
Chancellor Leaves For South America
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will leave for South America Thursday. He will travel with a group of educators from the United States and visit institutions of higher learning in South American countries.
A group of educators from South America will pay a return visit to the United States in November. Most of the group is expected to visit at KU.
Orientation To Begin Here
A total of 47 foreign students will arrive at KU Thursday to attend the Orientation Center. While here they will be introduced to the United States.
They will take a six week course during which they will learn the social, political and economic customs of the United States and be prepared to spend a year studying at colleges and universities throughout the country.
Edwards Will Go To Puerto Rico
Karl D. Edwards, associate professor of education, will attend the 14th summer workshop of the Assn. for Student Teaching to be held August 6-13 at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedros.
As a staff member and consultant, Prof. Edwards will assume an active part in the workshop. He will be chairman at a general convocation, will present an address on the role of the public school in student teaching and will be a consultant on the subject of utilizing theory and practice in student teaching.
The Assn. for Student Teaching is a national organization which was formed for the purpose of studying problems involved in giving prospective teachers supervised professional experience in addition to academic training.
Weather
Partly cloudy west to considerable cloudiness southeast today with scattered showers and thunderstorms south portion today. A little warmer over state today. High today 80s.
Thursday the students will attend the performance of the "Summer and Smoke" given by the Summer Theatre.
They will have a social evening in the cafeteria of Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall Friday. Mary Jo Wooffter, Colby senior, will present a program of American folk songs and an official welcome by the University will be given. The public is urged to attend.
Saturday the group will take their first field trip, to Kansas City. While there they will visit the Rockhill Nelson Art Gallery and city hall. The group will attend the final concert given by the Midwestern Music and Art Camp Sunday.
Later the group will spend four days in Chanute living in the homes of families there in order to learn life in a small town.
They will also take field trips to Kansas City, Topeka and surrounding points.
The students will live at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall. Their classex will be held in Baliey and Fraser halls.
J. A. Burzle, professor of German, is director of the Orientation Center.
The students who will attend the Orientation Center come from 18 different countries. They are Burma, Cambodia, Colombia, Finland d, France, Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Spain, Tunisia, and Turkey.
I CROWN YOU QUEEN ROMA—Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and director of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp crowns Roma Case, Ellinwood, queen of the camp at the camp's formal dance Saturday in the ballroom of the Kansas Union. Meridith Willson, Iola, was crowned king. They were chosen by the campers by ballots. (Summer Kansan photo by Ron Miller)