Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1957 University Daily Kansar
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IS THAT I?—Ken Gilmore (right), draws a caricature of one of the members of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. Dale Hoyt, Mission (left), and Fulton Warren, Tulsa, Okla., freshmen, look on. (Daily Kansan photo)
A Man Of Faces
He Has 8,000 Of Them
Ken Gilmore answers to 8,000 faces. After two academic years his work would stretch a gallery much more than a mile with distorted faces of college fraternity men.
Caricaturist Gilmore travels with his wife on a profitable cross-country college circuit and has harbored at KU fraternities during the past month. A native of New Orleans, he modestly claims he makes more money in a month than most street painters there make in a year.
"College boys are the most susceptible customers," he says.
"They're the most curious too."
Probably every fraternity on the Hill has Mr. Gilmore's recipe for successful caricaturing. He said these are the ingredients in a capsule:
Accuracy—"The average beginner draws preconceptions and misconceptions as to what things look like. But every human and ape has the potential to reproduce accurately and he can't caricature until he learns this."
Simplicity — "My contemporary, Oscar Berger, has compared the caricature to a telegram: it tells a message with expressive punch with the greatest economy of lines."
Sense of humor—"Essential. Genuine dignity can't be injured by satire."
Sense of proportion—"I don't distort faces to a grotesque degree. And I don't make human noses look like animal snouts and beaks unless they really do."
Mr. Gilmore can sketch about 30 heads in a good day. The men without ready cash can usually add the charge to their housebills. The fraternity treasurer hands him a check upon leaving.
But the biggest advantage of his job is that he and his wife can travel when summer comes. He likes the idea of being his own boss all the year around and says he'll never work for anyone again.
Only the upside-down hours are unattractive but going to bed at 3 am. and getting up at noon is a hangover from the days he was a newspaperman. He turns down invitations at fraternity houses to eat with his wife, who plays bridge with friends five nights a week.
One winter morning he complained to his wife at breakfast, "I don't feel like drawing caricatures today. I'd rather go to Mexico." Wide awake and quite seriously she said, "Let's go." They did.
Structural Engineer To Talk
Milo S. Ketchum, consulting structural engineer from Denver, Colo. will lecture on structures at 3 p.m. today in 205 Flint at 6 p.m. in the Student Union Pine Room. Both lectures will be illustrated and are open to the public.
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The proficiency examination in English composition will be given 2 p.m. Saturday. Students planning to take the examination must register today in the office of the college or school in which they are enrolled.
Social Work - Sociology - Anthropology Club, 4 p.m., 11 Strong Annex E. Discussion, "Husband Catching in India." Coffee.
TODAY
Et Atenco se reune mi ercoles a las cuatro de la tarde en 11 Fraser. El senor Kent Porter hablara sobre "Un Ano en la Universidad de Madrid."
KU Dames, bridge, 7:30 p.m. Student Union.
Museum of Art record concert. 11 a.m.
"Carnival of the Animals"
Corner Suite." "Suite, Bergamasque"
Saint-Antes." "Carnival of the Animals"
Suite Suite." Ravel. "Mother
Goose Suite."
Greeks, KU In Accord
German Christmas choir first rehearsal, 4 p.m., 402 Fraser. Everyone who likes to sing German Christmas carols welcome.
The KU administration and Greek organizations are in close agreement as to who makes the membership rules for fraternities and sororities on the campus, two deans told The Daily Kansan Tuesday.
Jay Jane, 5 p.m., Pine Room, Student Union. Attendance required.
Poetry Hour, 4 p.m. Music and Browsing Room, Student Union. Arvid Shuenberger, associate professor of English, we read the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore.
KuKu Club, election of officers, 7 p.m. Student Union.
The matter of selecting membership standards is left up to the fraternities themselves, according to Laurence Woodruff, dean of students.
German Club. 7:30 p.m. 402 Fraser.
Ski Club. 10:30 a.m. 600 Fraser.
Play everyone bring a 25-cent gift.
Compose a poem or song and attach to
gift. Everyone studying German invited.
Baptist Student Union noonday devotions, 12:30 p.m., Danforth Chapel.
The question of authority was raised at the National Inter-fraternity Conference in Colorado Springs, Colo., last week. A committee report denounced schools which have announced they will not permit fraternities which prohibit membership on the basis of race, color and creed.
Newman Club, no executive council meeting tonight. It will meet Dec. 11 in the
Engineering Faculty To Visit Power Plant
THURSDAY
Thirty-six engineering faculty members from KU and Kansas State will tour the Tecumsah plant of the Kansas Power and Light Co. in Topeka Thursday.
Dean McNown and Dean Durland of the KU and K-State schools of engineering will lead a discussion on problems of interest to schools and industry at a dinner in the Jayhawk Hotel Thursday.
"I am against discrimination, but I respect the right of anyone to choose his own friends and associates," Dean Woodruff said.
Miss Emily Taylor, dean of women, said "Membership selection in sororities is a private affair, but no sororites on campus have restrictive clauses."
Gene Paris, Kansas City, Mo., senior and president of the KU Inter-fraternity Council, said the report may be considered a policy decision of the representatives of the of the national fraternities.
Because engineering is a profession at GM we offer you a career-not a job
ONE REASON engineering standards at General Motors are so high is that GM recognizes engineering as a profession. And the men who engineer the many different products made by General Motors are respected for the profession they practice.
That is why, when you are invited to join General Motors as an engineer, you don't simply take a job-you start a career.
It is a career that is rewarding both professionally and financially-starting on your first day of association with General Motors at any one of its 35 divisions and 126 plants in 70 cities and 19 states.
During your early days at GM, for example, you work with a senior engineer who guides your career along professional lines.
You are given the opportunity to obtain professional recognition through participation in engineering society forums, presentation of technical papers, winning of patents and other recognition of your accomplishments.
You are also actively encouraged to pursue your education towards an advanced degree. For we at General Motors recognize that, in doing so, you will become more valuable to us and the engineering profession.
And you are also encouraged to take an active role in your community's affairs--because a truly professional man is a good citizen as well as a good engineer.
All this is for a reason—and a good one.
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Many of the men who will fill the key positions at GM in the future are the young engineers joining GM today. This is not theory, it is fact. For 14 of our 33 Vice-Presidents are engineers, 23 of our 42 Division General Managers are engineers, too.
Today we are looking for young engineers such as you—who may fill these positions tomorrow. The rewards-both professional and financial-are substantial. If you feel you have the ability, write us. It could be the most important letter of your life.
June graduates!
A General Motors Representative will be on-hand to answer questions about job opportunities with GM.
DEGEMBER 11 and 12
GM positions now available in these fields:
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING • ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING • METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING
AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
CERAMIC ENGINEERING • MATHEMATICS
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN • PHYSICS • CHEMISTRY
GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION Personnel Staff, Detroit 2, Michigan