Cervantes Day Set For April 26
The 35th annual Cervantes Day in honor of the Spanish author of "Don Quixote," will be held Saturday, April 26. It is sponsored by the department of Romance languages. Plays, speeches, and a luncheon have been scheduled.
The morning session will begin with a coffee hour on the first floor of Fraser Hall. At 10 a.m., Dr. Walter Starkie, the Irish hispanist author and visiting professor of English at the University of Texas, will speak in Fraser Theater about Cervantes.
"La Farce du Cuvier," a French play, will be given by students from Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia in the morning. Dr. Eugene Saviano, chairman of the Spanish department at Wichita University, will speak on "A Three-Dimensional Glimpse of Spain."
At noon there will be a luncheon in the Kansas Union ballroom. Nearly 250 persons from Kansas and Kansas City, Mo, high schools and colleges are expected to attend. It will be followed by a brief program of Latin American and French music.
A variety program will be presented in Fraser Theater in the afternoon. Schools participating will be K-State, KU, Shawnee-Mission and Lawrence high schools, and Lawrence Junior High School. Students from KU will present "Esgrima y Amor," a one-act farce in Spanish by the Quintero brothers. Prizes will be awarded to the Kansas winners of the National Spanish Contest for Secondary Schools, sponsored by the Kansas chapter of the AATSP.
Edouard Morot-Sir, cultural counseler and representative in the United States of French universities, will speak at 3 p.m. in the recital hall in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building. His subject will be "Prix Nobel, 1957—Albert Camus."
The new sound laboratories will be open from 9 to 10 a.m. and from 1:45 to 2:30 p.m. Visitors will be able to observe them in operation. A movie in Spanish has been tentatively scheduled.
A special exhibit of Puerto Rican art, collected by Seymour Menton, assistant professor of Romance languages, during a vacation there last summer, will be on display in the Museum of Art.
Cervantes Day will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Kansas chapter of the American Assn. of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. This year, a combined meeting of the AATSP and the west central chapter of the American Assn. of Teachers of French.
Cervantes Day is open to the public. Luncheon reservations must be made in advance by contacting Prof. Menton, 103 Fraser Hall.
Schedule Events For Business Day
The schedule of activities for Business Day, Wednesday, May 7. have been completed. James Surface, Dean of the School of Business said.
Business School classes will be dismissed at 10 a.m., that day, he said. All people in the business school, pre-business majors, and persons interested are invited to attend the events.
The schedule of events includes:
The schedule of events includes:
10 a.m. - Convocation in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
11 a.m. — Coffee will be served in the Jayhawk Room following the convocation.
11:15 a.m. — Professors in the School of Business will have a question and answer period on "Why things are done as they are in the Business School."
2:30 p.m. — Softball game between the Business School faculty and students at the intramural fields.
6:30 p.m. — Banquet in the Union Ballroom. Balfour Jeffrey, president of the Kansas Power and Light Co. will speak on "Business Opportunities in Kansas."
Business Day was planned by the Business School Council, composed of representatives from the various business clubs and professional fraternities. John Meschke, Hutchinson senior, is president of the council.
Weather
Cloudy to partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Scattered showers southwest tonight. Occasional rain or showers in the east and north portions Friday. Little change in temperature tonight. Warmer in the west Friday. Low tonight 45 northwest to 50s elsewhere. High Friday 80 southwest, 70-75 elsewhere.
Wednesday's high was 75, low was 47. The low this morning was 52.
Daily hansan
55th Year, No. 127
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, April 17, 1958
Downing, Plumb Win; Vox Sweeps 17 Seats
By DOUG PARKER and AL JONES
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
Write-in candidate John Downing. Kansas City, Mo. junior, was elected student body president by a 408-vote margin in Wednesday's All Student Council general elections.
junior, who had a total of 1.031 votes. Ed Prelock, Cleveland, Ohio senior, running on a nonpartisan ticket, collected 403 votes.
Downing collected a total of 1.439 votes to beat the Allied Greek - Independent candidate Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Mo.
The total vote for student body president and vice-president was 2,935, including 62 other write-in candidates.
Vox Populi overpowered the incumbent AGI party by taking 17 voting seats on the ASC and three other seats with no voting privileges.
Election Results
Student body president and vice-president—John Downing, Kansas City, Mo., and Carol Plumb, Overland Park, both juniors.
Social fraternities—Howie Ellfeldt, Kansas City, Mo. (Vox), Karl Wernett, Independence (Vox), Bill Fricke, Jefferson City, Mo. (Vox), John Husar, Chicago, Ill. (Vox), all juniors; Dick Peterson, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore (AGI).
Peterson, Kansas City. Mo. Metropolitan Social sororities-Jan Rodgers, Paradise (AGI), Sharon Dey, Ulysses (Vox), Judi Neil, Abilene (Vox), all sophomores.
Men's dormitories—Dick Lewis, Kansas City, Kan. junior (AGI). Ervell Staab, Hays senior (Vox).
Women's dormitories—Miss Plumb (to be replaced by the ASC), Jan Cameron, Topeka sophomore (AGI), Mary Taylor, Kansas City, Kan. junior (AGI).
Unmarried unorganized—Terry Davis, Frontenac junior, Rosann Libermann, Caney sophomore (both Vox).
Married unorganized—Bob Macy, Hutchinson junior (Vox).
School districts:
College men—Pat Little, Wichita junior (Vox). College women—Mary Helen Clark, Kansas City, Mo. junior (Vox).
Engineering—C. L. Foster, Kingsville, Tex. junior (Vox).
Graduate school—Brooks Becker, Emporia (AGI).
Education—Ed Dittmore, Robinson senior (Vox).
Fine Arts—Glenn Smiley, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore (Vox).
Business—Chet Vanatta, Bartlesville, Okla. junior (Vox).
Pharmacy—Jim Disque, Lawrence junior (AGI).
Class officers:
Junior class—Larry Schooley, Kiowa, president; Jim Henderson. Wichita, vice-president; Judy Woods, El Dorado, secretary, and Sandy Scroggin, Kansas City, Mo., treasurer.
Senior class—Bill Witt, Garden City, president; Larry Dunlap, Salina, vice-president; Judy Chambers, Leavenworth, secretary, and Ann Underwood, Emporia, treasurer.
Sophomore class—Frank Naylor, Kansas City, Kan., president; Deana Grimm, Omaha, Neb., vice-president; Nancy Varney, Kansas City, Mo., secretary, and Sally Brown, Wichita, treasurer.
AGI gained seven seats on the Council, dropping from its powerful victory in last year's elections in which it captured 18 of the 24 seats on the Council.
Plumb Wins Twice
Carol Plumb, Overland Park junior. Downing's running mate for vice-president, was also elected an ASC representative from the independent women's dormitory district.
The new Council will elect another student to take Miss Plumb's position as representative while she serves as vice-president.
Over a third of the student body turned out to vote in 9 Vox candidates from a possible 11 in the school districts.
Two of the Vox candidates, elected from the School of Journalism and the School of Law, did not get enough votes to gain a vote on the Council, but they probably will have speaking privileges.
Vox swept four of five seats in the fraternity district and two of three seats in the sorority district.
Unorganized Take Two
For the first time in several years the unmarried-unorganized students succeeded in placing two representatives on the Council. However, the cooperative and professional fraternity district placed a representative with no vote.
Jack Davis, Topeka senior, elections committee chairman, said the election was carried out with very few irregularities. Only a few discrepancies were found between the ballots and the poll workers' tally sheets.
Fraser Hall polls were closed for a short time to check out ballots that were being marked in different colored pencils due to the change of poll workers. The ballots were accepted.
Downing was apparently pleased after his victory, receiving congratulations from members of both parties.
Patterson and Joel Sterrett, Topeka senior. AGI president, offered congratulations to Downing, and said it appeared to have been a clean election.
Jim Austin, Topeka sophomore, president of Vox, said the clean election was more important than his party winning the majority of the seats on the Council.
A poll worker counts ballots in Wednesday's elections. (Daily Kansan photos)
CAROL PLUMB and JOHN DOWNING in a policy discussion.