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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 18, 1958
'Brainy' Kansas Men Take Honor Award
Kansans are a brainy bunch—particularly the men.
In the three-year history of the Paul B. Lawson Honor Award, given annually at the University of Kansas to the highest-ranking College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senior-to-be, all winners have been Kansans and all have been men. All, also, have been Summer-field scholars.
This year three Kansas men have tied for the honor, which carries with it a modest award from the fund contributed in memory of the long-time dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who died in 1954. All had perfect records—the first time this has happened.
The three are Gilbert M, Cuth-
bertson, Leavenworth; Richard A.
Krans, Arlington; and Daniel A.
Ontjes, Hutchinson.
For winning the Lawson award, each of them will select $50 worth of books at the Kansas Union Book Store.
None of them, it might be noted, come from Kansas' three major metropolitan areas. Neither did the two previous winners, Victor Viola, Abilene, and John Beam, Ottawa.
Although both Mr. Viola and Mr. Beam were science majors and have gone on to graduate study, Mr. Viola in chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley and Mr. Beam in physics at Harvard, none of the three 1958 winners are majoring in science. Cuthbertson is studying political science; Kraus, history and international relations; and Ontjes has had a major created especially for him, general arts and sciences.
In these days of concern about the study of science and the kind of jobs our high schools are doing, it is noteworthy that these non-science majors all had solid training in science and mathematics. In high school and three years of college, they have averaged nine years each of training in these fields.
Another area of concern to educators is foreign languages. These three students, none of them language or humanities majors, have averaged four and one half years of language study in their high school and college careers. Two of them have studied two languages, one of them three.
Mr. Viola and Mr. Beam, science majors, averaged four years of language study—Mr. Beam with four languages plus half a year of linguistics.
Life at KU has not been all studies for the three all-A students. Cuthbertson and Outjes have been Summerfield Scholars from their freshman years and participants in the accelerated and enriched Gifted Student Program. But they have had time for numerous other activities.
Cuthbertson belongs to Quill Club—he had a short story published in last fall's "Quill" magazine. He also belongs to Westminster Fellowship, the YMCA, has served as vicepresident and president of the Circle K Club, was county statewide activities chairman, was elected to Delta Phi Alpha, honorary German fraternity, took part in debate, and
played enough bridge to take first prize in last year's KU bridge tournament.
Onties has been elected to Owl Society, Sachem, and the co-presidency of the KU-Y. He is a member of Quill Club, Chemistry Club, and Wesley Foundation. He has taken part in A Cappella Choir and intramural sports, has served on the Rock Chalk committee, and has been 40 per cent self-supporting through work as an undergraduate assistant in mathematics. Next year he will be a Carnegie research assistant in sociology.
Kraus' story is even more unusual. He came to KU last year as a junior, having worked his way through two years of Hutchinson Junior College. He was almost totally self-supporting last year, working 24-31 hours a week in Watson Library and washing dishes at Corbin Hall.
Even so, he had time for Foreign Affairs Club, History Club, Wesley Foundation, the KU-Y, for which he was chairman of the Christian Heritage Commission, and intramural basketball. This spring he was given the highest undergraduate honor of the political science department, the Elizabeth B. and Carl F. Gustafson Award. Next fall he will be a Summerfield Scholar.
Where are they heading? After graduate work, Cuthbertson intends to enter university teaching and research. Kraus is aiming at university teaching or foreign service. Ontjes has his eye on medicine and research.
Surface To Attend Meeting
Dean James Surface of the School of Business, will leave Monday for Ocean Springs, Miss. where he will have a part in a 2-week management development meeting for employees of the Esso Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey.
There are two Christmas Islands—one a lofty British possession in the Indian Ocean, the other a huge atoll among the Line Islands of the Central Pacific.
"Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams, the fourth and final production of the Summer Theatre, will be given at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the University Theatre in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
Williams' 'Summer And Smoke' To Begin Thursday With Cast Of 18
The thirteen scene play has a cast of 14 and will be directed by Jack T. Brooking, assistant professor of speech and assistant director of the University Theatre.
Tickets for the play will go on sale next week at Bell's Music Store, the Kansas Union and the University Theatre box office. Student ID cards may be exchanged only at the University Theatre box office.
The cast is:
Joyce Elliot, Independence, Mo.
senior, Alma; Louis Lyda,
Lawrence graduate student, John; Nancy
Rate, Halstead freshman, Nellie;
Barbara Conroy, Columbus graduate
student, Mrs. Bassett; Bernice
Shear, Lawrence graduate student,
Rosemary; John Harshbarger,
Lawrence graduate student, Gonzales.
Elsie Willan,
graduate student
Bruce Ritter,
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Independence, Mo.
Louis Lyda, Law-
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Columbus gradu-
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graduate student,
Harshbarger, Law-
student, Gonzales.
Medicine Lodge
Mrs. Winemiller;
Higginsville, Mo.
Winemiller; Herb
Japanese Film To Be Shown
"Gate of Hell," a Japanese language film with English subtitles, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Bailey Auditorium.
In 1954 it received the Academy Award as the best foreign film and won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Machiko Kyo is the leading actress in the color film.
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