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University Daily Kansan Monday, Dec. 16, 1957
Concert Tape To Be Played
The recent University orchestra concert will be played back at 4 p.m. Tuesday in 128 Music and Dramatic Arts Building in stereophonic sound, the newest in the popular recording media.
The public is invited to hear the concert, which is being played back at the regular orchestra rehearsal time. According to Ed Down of the Audio House, Lawrence, the concert will demonstrate the "uncanny realism" of sound, be played in the place where it is originally recorded.
Mr. Down describes stereophonic sound as an extension of high fidelity, which actually means the peak of purity in sound.
"This is definitely the coming thing in sound," he said. "It is now mainly in tape recording units. A few high fidelity owners have units attached to their sets, but they are mostly sets in the $400 or $500 price range."
Mr. Downs predicts that regular stereophonic recording discs and record players will be available at regular prices in about two years.
"It is in the developing stage now and definitely out of the hobby shop," he said.
United Nations Children's Fund Christmas cards, sponsored by the Foreign Affairs Council, are on sale in the Student Union bookstore.
Sale Of Cards Benefits Children
Money from the sale of the cards is used to buy milk and fight disease among children.
Christmas caroling and a worship service will be featured at the December KU-Y campus forum at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Student Union Jayhawk Room.
KU-Y To Sing Christmas Carols
The group will sing at the Douglas County old folks' home and at the hospitals. After the caroling, they will return to the Union for refreshments and for worship led by Dick Kraus, Arlington junior
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office, 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring Bulletin materials only. Kansan Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function.
Joint meeting of Mathematics Club, 4 p.m. followed by Mathematics Colloquium, 4:15 p.m., 203 Strong, Speaker, Dr J.-C E Dekker, Institute for Advanced Study, "An Extension of the Number System," Coffee, 3:30 p.m., 217 Strong
Theatre staff meeting, noon, 315 Music and Dramatic Arts Building (Performing Arts Center)
Speech 1 seminar, 3 p.m., 134 Strong Hall
College faculty meeting, 4 p.m., Bailey Auditorium.
Presstierian Men's Organization
Christmas dinner, 6 p.m. Westminster
Hill
Alpha Phi Omega regular meeting, 7:30 p.m., 306A. Student Union.
KU Engineerettes Christmas party, 80
p.m. Faculty Club. Bring 50 cents for
dance.
Theater party, 7:30 p.m., Green Room Music and Dramatic Arts Building Slides of past productions. People of theater interest welcome.
WEDNESDAY
Museum of Art record concert, 11 a.m.
and 3 p.m., Poulenc "Mass in G." Britten
"Ceremony of Carols." Tchaikovsky
"Nuteracker Suite."
Faculty forum, noon. English Room.
Student Union Speaker. Prof. Frank
Brown. Water Problem. Phone reservations to Y office (KU-227) by Tuesday afternoon.
Radio and TV committee meeting,
p.m., 22nd Flint Hall
Mathematical Colloquium. 4:15 p.m.
203 Strong Hall. Speaker, Dr. Makoto Otsuka. Involvement inec. Arward. Variation in application to Potential Theory." Coffee at 3:59 p.m., 217 Strong Hall.
Christmas dinner meeting, 5:30 p.m.
Westminster House. Presbyterian women,
bands and musicle with Profs. Reinhold Schmidt and Irene Peabody participating.
By English Teachers
Nonacademic Pasts Revealed
To look at one of KU's English teachers, you would probably never suspect that he once worked in the Omaha stockyards calling pigs and loading bulls, cows and sheep onto freight cars. Yet this was the experience of Dennis Quinn, instructor in English, during one summer while he was in graduate school.
He recalls reciting Ben Jonson's lines, "Queen and Huntress chaste and fair," while supervising the weighing of the unperfumed hogs. Quinn says that this is "about the most unpleasant job you can find, but it's profitable." In his last year at Wisconsin University, Mr. Quinn carried a gun and made the rounds every hour on weekends as a night watchman at a chemical research lab. During the quieter moments, he corrected English themes.
A number of other English instructors and professors are hiding a unique past too.
For several days in 1951, Dr. Walter Meserve, assistant professor of English, was the man who poured asphalt onto new driveways. Ironically enough, he was preparing at the time to write the thesis for his Ph.D. While attending Boston University, Dr. Meserve spent many evenings and vacations in the humble and well-known profession of stockroom boy, which was a change from waiting tables and being responsible for setting up noon-time banquets at the University of Washington's Student Union.
Have you ever heard of one man teaching algebra, English, biology (which he himself had not yet studied), Latin, bookkeeping and economics, not to mention business law all at the same time?
This was Edgar Wolfe's job in a
South Dakota one-room high school where he instructed a total of nineteen students. "I was janitor and coach besides that," Mr. Wolfe, instructor of English, said.
He had played in the Palestra before, and in his last appearance there scored 48 points for Overbrook. One of the two games in Chamberlain's career which his team lost was lost in the Palestra.
Old Fans See Wilt; CheerleaderActive
After getting his master's degree in the midst of the depression when there were practically no opportunities open to teachers, Mr. Wolfe took a door-to-door job selling Watkin products such as floor wax and vanilla.
Another KU instructor, Dana Stevens, has been an assistant to the well-known circus clown, Buzy Potts. Mrs. Stevens, who had never seen a circus before her marriage, became a "spec-girl" in the introductory grand march around the hippodrome.
Philadelphia fans filled the Palestra to its capacity 9,200. They hadn't Wilt perform since his days as a star at Overbrook High in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia basketball fans saw their idol in action Saturday night, when KU's 7-foot all-America center. Wilt Chamberlain, made his first appearance on a basketball court in his home town in three years.
Saturday night's effort was the 20th time he had scored over 30 points in a college game—he has played in 32. His mother, father and eight brothers and sisters watched.
From his next experience as a case worker for the Wyandotte County Relief Office (now the Social Welfare Board), Mr. Wolfe gathered material for his novel, "Widow Man." During World War II, he was in prison teaching illiterates.
Kenneth Irby, Fort Scott senior, and Ray Nichols, Lawrence sophomore, were undefeated in five preliminary rounds of the Southwestern College debate tournament held at Winfield Friday and Saturday, but lost in the quarter finals to Southwest Missouri State, Springfield, Mo.
KU defeated St. Joseph's College 66-54. Wilt showed the home town folks just what can be done with a basketball, scoring 31 points, grabbing 22 rebounds, and blocking 9 shots.
Mr. Stevens sitting at his desk in Fraser Hall, recalled that he also played the drums and acted as press agent for the Al G. Kelly-Miller Brothers' circus. His father, a musician, was their band director for many years. Dana now enjoys collecting data on the history of the circus and each month is a regular magazine contributor on the subject.
Assistant To Clown
Debaters Drop Out In Final Rounds
Irby and Nichols were debating in the senior division as were Brad Lashbrook, Kansas City, Kan., and Lee Baird, Newton, seniors, who won two and lost three in the preliminary rounds.
Two teams debating in the junior division, Larry Ehrich, Russell, and Alan Kimball, Derby, and David Rockhold, Winfield, and Brian McCown, Hutchinson, freshmen, each won three and lost two in the preliminary rounds.
The Jayhawker basketball team played on a foreign court far from home Saturday night, but not without the support of a pep section and cheerleader.
Pat Little, Wichita junior and one of the 10 KU cheerleaders, flew to Philadelphia for the game between KU and St. Joseph's College.
"We had to improvise some cheers, since they didn't know the regular ones, but we got along fine," Little said. He also attended a pregame rally and buffet supper organized by the KU Alumni Club of Philadelphia.
He led a cheering section of about 350 alumni in cheers during the time outs of the game.
Sleeps In Open
Dr. Merrell D. Clubb, professor of English, is quite a mountain climber, often going out by himself on foot and carrying all supplies on his back. "I sleep under some over-hanging rock if it rains," he said. This past summer was his fourteenth one in the Grand Canyon.
When asked what his unusual occupation might be, Dr. A. C. Edwards, associate professor of English, claimed that he was not the person to interview because he had "no past." It is known, however, that Edwards played the role of the illiterate, raw-boned father in the film, "Desk for Billie." Equally the "strong and silent" type was Mr. Albert Kitzhaber, who revealed confidently that he once worked in a dairy, but this was nothing which many other people have not done.
School Officials To Hold Meeting
Three University officials attended a meeting of the five state schools to evaluate the work being done in off-campus extension courses.
Attending from KU were George B. Smith, dean of the University; T. Howard Walker, director of University Extension; and Cloy S. Hobson, professor of education.
Mr. Walker said the conference dealt mainly with extension courses for which teachers can get credit toward their teaching certificates or degrees.
KUOK To Present Goff Interview
Lewin Goff, associate professor of speech and drama and director of the University Theatre, will be interviewed by Carolyn Carter, Lawrence junior, and Ardeth Nieman, Independence senior, on their program "On Mike—Special Production" at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday over KUOK.
Prof. Goff will tell about the University Theatre and some of the students who have worked in it and are now in professional theatre work. He will also discuss the advantages of the new Music and Dramatic Arts Building. He will give his views on the University Theatre production, "Henry IV" and on using professional actors in University plays.
KUOK can be heard in Carruth- o'Leary, Grace Pearson, Gertrude Sellards Pearson, Corbin, North College and Douthart halls.
Christmas Carols Ring Out
Christmas carols will be played between classes from today through Friday over a public address system on the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard by KUOK, campus radio station.
Carols To Be Presented By German Department Choir
Weihnachtsspiel—the German department's annual Christmas program of music and plays performed in Germany during the middle ages—will again include the music of the department's Christmas choir.
The choir, all students in the German department, will sing a wide selection of traditional and modern German carols at the program to be given at 8 p.m. Dec. 18, in Fraser Theater.
The play, being performed annually for 10 years now, is under the direction of Allen Crafton, professor of speech, and has a cast selected from the students taking the language.
Under the direction of Gerald Carney, associate professor of music education, the choir of 32 students will sing selections dating back over 500 years.
Also scheduled for the musical portion of the program is the recorder group directed by Frode Jorgensen, Chabotten, Denmark graduate student. It will play two
numbers.
The program is being presented with the assistance of the University Theatre.
Sally Six, instructor in speech and drama; Edith Bartosch, Vienna, Austria graduate student, and Beatrice Buller, Lawrence graduate student are in charge of costumes.
Makeup will be by Phillip Oglevie, Bellflower, Calif., graduate student; Margarite Margerstern, and Mrs. Cecil Coleman.
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Elm Disease Found Here
Identification of Dutch elm disease in the Lawrence area has been made by Dr. Robert W. Lichtwardt, associate professor of botany.
The disease, a fungus fatal to elm trees, was first discovered in Kansas in Kansas City, and will probably spread across the state at a rate of about 50 miles per year.
The finding of the disease in Lawrence has resulted in a barrage of phone calls from home owners to the Entomology Department asking how to treat it.
According to Dr. Lichtwardt and Dr. C.D. Michener, State Entomologist and professor of entomology, the disease is carried from tree to tree by a tiny beetle called a bark-beetle because it burrows beneath the bark of trees to lay its eggs.
The best way to control the spread of the disease is to destroy the beetles by removing and burning all dead limbs in healthy trees, and all elm wood stored in wood piles.
All of this wood must be burned or buried under at least six inches of soil. Storing elm wood in a shed or cellar will not prevent the beetles from emerging in the spring.
Harold E. Blitch, superintendent of the K.U. greenhouse, said the disease has not been found on the campus and that all elms are being sprayed as a preventive measure.
Mr. Blitch said a program of cooperation between the city and campus must be worked out to control the disease completely, but nothing has been done.
Professor Claims Miss Santa Title
One of his beloved students muttered under her breath, "You can't hold two titles at the same time--Miss Santa and Scrooge."
A professor in the Journalism School noted for his humor and even temper entered a student meeting recently with the greeting. "I've just been elected Miss Santa."
'39 Graduate Named Hallmark Treasurer
Mr. Busler, 39, has held executive positions with the Kansas City Power & Light Co. for the past eight years and has served as secretary of the utility since 1955.
Robert Hyde Busler, Kansas City,
Mo., a 1939 graduate of KU, has been
appointed treasurer of Hallmark
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the following interviews are scheduled for this week:
Monday, Tuesday — Monsanto Chemical Co. (St. Louis branch), chemistry and chemical engineering majors. Sign up in 224 Malott.
Wednesday — Montgomery Ward, management trainees. Sign up in 214 Strong.
Martin Behaim of Nuremberg constructed the earliest surviving globe in 1492, showing geographical knowledge generally available just before Columbus' first voyage.
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