Thursday, October 25, 1973
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The Billy Spears Band Plays Country and Bluegrass Music
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Bluegrass Band Draws Audiences
By JACQUE WHITE
Kansas Staff Reporter
Kansas Staff Reporter
Billy Spears says he's too old to take the country musics out of the road. That would mean he has to leave.
At age 43, however, Spears isn't so old that he can't enjoy playing the fiddle and performing with his group, the Billy Spears Band.
Spears, acting director of the Kanaas food services, has been playing the fiddle.
Instead he learned to play by ear with the help of his uncle, an old-time fiddle player. Spears was a professional musician for five years.
"I was born in southeastern Oklahoma, and all my relatives were fiddle players," says Spears, who never had formal music lessons.
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He traveled throughout the United States and Canada, playing with Fernin Husky and
"Then I married, which put an end to my music career," he says.
For the last five months, however, Spears has played for the Billy Sears Band.
THE BAND HAS played at college and high-school campuses around Lawrence. Last Sunday the band appeared in concert at Hoch Auditorium. The band has also performed in downtown Lawrence, and plays regularly in Kansas City and Manhattan.
The other members of the band are Gordon Cleveland, who sings and plays the guitar.
Jamet Janam, who plays the fiddle and mandolin; Mike Roarke, the drummer; and Dan Layton, the bassist.
"The band has just kind of grown over the last two or three years," says Spears. "I first started playing with Gordon, and then Bob got a steel guitar and started playing with us. We played for about two years and then started the band."
Spears says that most of the members of the band were in college when he first started playing.
"Someone told them that I played the ladder," and "they came around to play.
THE INCREASING polarity of country and blugrange has had an effect on the countries' economy.
"I've been playing for a long time, and up until five years ago I couldn't sail country," he said. "I'm always in search of new
HIS OWN FIDDLE play has been influenced by a number of people, Spears
folk and blues, and Bob played the piano," he says.
"I was influenced by my uncle, and being from Oklahoma, I met a lot of good fiddle lady's."
He says that when he was growing up, country music bands were bigger, number one in the chart; a type of music called "western swing," and another to impart to the big bands of the Glenn Miller Band.
"I too old to go out on the road for $300 a week, and I know from experience that it's a grind," he says. "Music is a lot of fun, and I just play because I like to play."
Spears says that he wouldn't consider replacing his career in food services with a chef.
Mum Sale Set For Nov.3 By CWENS
CWENs, sophomore women's honorary service organization will sponsor a Parents'
The 31 members of CWENs are currently working on advance sales in residence halls, fraternalties and sororities. Linda Jones, assistant dean of women and CWENs sponsor, can be contacted at the Dean of Women for advance sales.
On Parents' Day, Mums will be sold at the stadium during the University of Kansas-Oklahoma State game, at the Kansas Union Stadium, Pearl's Pearl Services, Corbin and Olive hills.
The yellow and white mums with the KU emblem are made by Mrs. George Smith of Lawrence. CWENS has ordered 1,100 mums, Robin Walker, a CWENS spokesman, said, but sales aren't limited to that amount.
Now, Spew says, there is a lot of audience reaction wherever the band plays. "The audience jumps up and down, and finds a way to dance. The reaction is as open
Fellowships Awarded
The mum sale is the only fund-raising activity for CWENS this year.
Three KU graduate students have received Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for doctoral dissertation research aboard during the current year, Julian Ako, Pearl Woolley, and Daniel Burridge conducting a study in Poland; Carl Dörris, Stillwater, Okla.; graduate study in history, is doing research in Taiwan and Japan; Ana Herzfeld, Buenos Aires, Argentina, is doing research in the province of Lima on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
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Gilles Elected
Paul Gilies, professor of chemistry, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Argonne Universities Association, Argome, Ill. The AUA is a group of 30 American universities that hold the contract of the Atomic Energy Commission for the operation and management of the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.
Most of the other members of the band 'cut their teeth' on rock and roll before they hit the big stage.
"The country music that is played now is a lot different from what I was playing ten years ago."
Country music today, he says, has been greatly influenced by rock music.
"Anet played with ita rock group. She was a violin player, but we're making a fiddle video."
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The committee reported that although the
ROB HOLMES, Wichita senior and member of the committee, said that the new advising system would allow an administrator to carry out well-organized and coherent advising procedures and that it would provide faculty members uniform, standard, and coordinated staff during enrollment arose because of a lack of a central advising system, he said.
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The assembly will discuss the recommendation for an experimental sub-college
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colleges-within-the-college had been active in the orientation, registration and advising of students, they hadn't been as educated or instrumental as was originally expected.
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College Assembly Modifies CWC System of Advising
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THE ASSEMBLY approved four major recommended changes in the CWS' ad
The last major recommended change will require that student records be kept at the college offices. The decentralization of record keeping will solve the logistical challenge in place in Strong Hall for all records and will be more convenient for students, he said.
First, a director to coordinate the advising system within the CWC framework will be appointed. The director's response should organize the system to make it effective.
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David Paretsky, professor of microbiology and acting chairman of the committee, said two significant recommendations concerned the improvement of the advising system and the creation of a totally experimental college.
A second major change will provide a continuing relationship between the student and his adviser until the student has a need for more specialized help. To create this type of relationship, the committee assigned to a faculty member for at least two years Faculty members will advise on a one-to-one basis.
Robert Adams, associate professor of mathematics and a member of the committee, said advising will be on the reward for staff members who volunteer to advise, he said.
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Touch Of Class
By DEBBIE DANIELS Kansan Staff Reporter
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The recommendations were made to the assembly by an ad hoc committee concerned with the future of the CWC. The committee was established a year ago to examine and suggest changes for the CWC program.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Assembly approved several recommendations Tuesday that will modify the present college-within-the-council (CWC) structure to provide uniform advising and administration of rules and regulations.
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