SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
46th Year, No. 2
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, June 13, 1958
'Cave Dwellers Will Open Thursday
The first Summer Theatre production, William Saroyan's "The Cave Dwellers" will be presented Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the air-conditioned University Theatre in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
Students and faculty will be admitted for the first time on ID cards, and tickets are now available at the theatre box office.
"The Cave Dwellers" is a new and controversial play which raised a storm of critical acclaim and protest while it was running Broadway last season.
Reviewers Disagree
Reviews have ranged from calling it the finest play of the Broadway season to a play where "nothing happens."
The play is the story of a group of destitute people, including an old clown, an old actress, a down-and-out fighter and a frightened young girl who wander into an old abandoned theatre building.
They make the cold bare theatre their home and to this new shelter comes a strange assortment of people all wanting shelter and refuge.
During the play all of the people find hope in life by means of sharing with each other love, understanding, pity and compassion. It is one of Saroyan's most touching and sympathetic plays.
It will be directed by Gordon Beck, assistant director of the Summer Theatre. His assistant is D Michael Blasingame.
Cast Listed
The cast includes Lou Lyda, Lawrence senior, The Duke; Jeanne Rustemeyer, Leavenworth sophomore, The Girl; Sydney Stoeppelwerth, Russell junior, The Queen; Bill Kuhkl, Denver graduate student, The King.
Don Kissil, New York City graduate student, The Father; Herb Hilgers, Plainville, graduate student, Gorky; Lea Thomas, Turner sophomore, The Young Queen; Bruce Ritter, Higginsville, Mo sophomore, The Young Man; Elsie Willan, Medicine Lodge graduate student, The Wealthy Woman.
Gordon Clay, Kansas City freshman. The Silent Boy; Paul McKee. St. Louis. Mo. graduate student. The Wrecking Crew Boss; Larry Solter. Kansas City, Mo. freshman. The Young Opponent, and Phil Harris, omumbus freshman, Jamie.
Doctor Takes Chicago Job
Jack A. Marshall, physician for the Student Health Service, has accepted a position at the University of Chicago where he will be on the Student Health Service staff and teach in the school of medicine.
He will leave KU Saturday and begin his duties at Chicago later in June.
Dr. Marshall joined the staff here four years ago, in August of 1954.
He is a graduate of the University of Chicago but interned at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. He came directly from there to the KU staff.
Weather
Partly cloudy, scattered showers and thunderstorms today. High today 85 to 95.
LINDA LOU LYMAN--The governor of the 16th annual Sunflower Girls State was inaugurated Thursday night. (Photo by KU Photo Bureau)
Girls State Headed By Hutchinson Girl
Linda Lou Lyman, 17, a student at Hutchinson high school was elected 1958 governor Wednesday of the 16th annual Sunflower Girls State, sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary.
Miss Lyman, whose interests' are music and journalism, was chosen by the 350 delegates who went to the polls Wednesday to select county and state officials.
The new governor was installed Thursday night in ceremonies in Strong Hall Auditorium. The main speaker at the program was Gov. George Docking. Linda Seifers of Pittsburg ended her reign as governor when Miss Lyman was inaugurated.
Miss Lyman is active in the Hutchinson high school in public speaking, music and piano study and is editor of the high school newspaper, the Hutchinson Buzz. She is the Central Kansas district president of the Kayettes and Hutchinson president for 1958-59. At Girls State she is a citizen of Chevonne in Delaware County.
The state government will continue through Saturday when about 75 Girls State alumnae will arrive for a reunion and meetings with this year's delegates. Girls State will close Sunday noon.
Rev, Dale Turner of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence will speak to the alumnae Saturday afternoon. Other events on the program will be election of officers, a banquet preceding the candelighting service, a worship service in Danforth Chapel and brunch in the Kansas Union Sunday.
The state government went to work Thursday after some preliminary instructions on the organization and procedure of the Legislature.
It will be the ninth annual reunion sponsored by the Sunflower Girls State Alumnae Assn. Jane Dean, Prairie Village sophomore, is president of the organization, and Judy Gorton, Lawrence sophomore, is vice-president.
Other state officers elected were:
Kay Martin, Winfield, lieutenant governor; Mary Shepeard, Clay Center, attorney general; Martha Clark, Newton, secretary of state; Marian Leonard, Minneapolis, state treasurer; Kay Allison, Arkansas City, state auditor; Elizabeth Sloan, Emporia, superintendent of public instruction; Jamies Page, Lincoln, state printer; Ginny Marshall, Colby, chief justice of the supreme court, and Anita Fisher, Bird City, Beverly McMaster, Topeka, Linda Marshall, Minneola, Karen Keller, Pittsburg, Perri Payne, Baxter Springs, and Linda Viola, Abilene, all associate justices.
Band Camp Starts Sunday
About 500 high school age boys and girls arrive Sunday for the 21st year of the Midwestern Music and Art camp and allied programs.
Russell L. Wiley, professor of band, will direct the summer program, which he began during the depression days as a band camp with only about 25 full-time enrollments. Assisting in conducting the multi-phase activities of the camp will be more than 75 faculty members, and a few guest leaders.
The music division of the camp will be the principal enrollment of between 250 and 300, while the art camp will have about 100. There will be about 50 in the drama program and about 20 full-time enrollments in ballet. The senior demonstration class of KU's National Science Foundation summer mathematics institute will bring 27 students from over the nation, while the Science and Mathematics camp will enroll 83. The latter ending July 3 will be the only program not six weeks in duration.
"We are confident this will be our finest camp." Prof. Wiley said. "The availability of the new Music and Dramatic Arts Building provides us with truly superior facilities. Now all music and drama activities can be concentrated in one air-conditioned building, lending comfort, efficiency and control. Extremely important to those involved is the moving of ballet from the old 'Dante's Inferno' in the gymnasium annex to the roomier and cooler Hoch Auditorium."
Although the bulk of the campers will come from Kansas and neighboring states, the program has become national in scope and two thirds or more of the states will be represented.
Prof. Wiley considers this a strong selling point, "Not only do the boys and girls make friends from different sections of the nation, but in the room assignments and recreational programs they make contacts with youngsters of other subject matter interests."
Tornadoes Hit Kansas
A giant twister-producing storm slammed into Wichita shortly before midnight Wednesday, damaging a five to six block area in the northeast section of the city.
Five persons from Wichita and Andover. a suburb, suffered minor injuries.
Wichita Police Capt. Warner Spann said the tornado moved through the northeast part of town about roof-top level. The weather bureau said about 25 or 30 houses were damaged.
The tornado which hit El Dorado Tuesday killed 17 persons and injured over 50. It hit with almost no warning although the weather
It ranked third in death toll in Kansas tornado history. First in death toll was the May 25, 1955 tornado that demolished Udall, taking 80 lives and second was the April 21, 1887 twister that claimed 20 lives at Prescott.
bureau had issued a tornado forecast for the general area.
Numerous funnels were reported Wednesday in twister-jittery south-central and central Kansas. Other twisters were sighted near Newton, Furley, Emporia and Osage City.
KU Granted $100,000 To Buy Nuclear Reactor
A $100,000 grant from the Atomic Energy Commission to the University will be used to purchase a nuclear reactor to be used in enlarging the graduate program in nuclear energy technology and for research.
The budget session of the legislature appropriated $150,000 for a building to house the reactor and for accessory equipment, making $250,000 available for the project.
The Atomic Energy Commission also will lend the University a supply of uranium-235, which will be the reactor fuel. An Argonaut-type reactor of 10kw power is planned.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said project planning will be started this summer. The reactor building, which will be of simple concrete construction, may be constructed on Endowment Assn. land west of Iowa Street.
The School of Engineering and Architecture is expanding its curriculum to offer courses leading to the degree master of science in nuclear engineering
Administration of the nuclear reactor will be given to the department of chemical engineering. Faculty members in the teaching programs will be from the departments of chemical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, radiation biophysics and chemistry.
The first course offerings planned will have a capacity of 104 graduate students a year.
Although the reactor is planned primarily as a teaching tool, its power will be sufficient to produce many radioactive isotopes with short half-lives. These byproducts of the teaching program will be highly useful in research.
Heretofore KU scientists have been unable to use isotopes having a half-life of less than 30 hours, about the minimum time for getting
an air shipment from one of the A.E.C.'s national laboratories. When the reactor is placed in operation, certain isotopes can be made radioactive and placed in experiments immediately.
Among the members of the faculty who will be concerned with the project are Dean John S. MeNown of the School of Engineering and Architecture; J. O. Maloney, professor of chemical engineering; Russell B. Mesler, associate professor of chemical engineering; Harold Rosson, assistant professor of chemical engineering; Frank E. Hoecker, professor of radiation biophysics; Edward Shaw, assistant professor of radiation biophysics; Charles H. Thomas, professor of electrical engineering; Dennis Le-Croissette, assistant professor of electrical engineering; Gordon G. Wiseman, associate professor of physics; L. Worth Seagondollar, associate professor of physics; and Frank S. Rowland, assistant professor of chemistry.