Students Help Edit Scholastic Journal
By Joel Ahlbrandt
Two KU undergraduates are working as editorial assistants in a major scholarly journal, the "Midcontinent American Studies Journal," published here. They are Ginger Theimer, Colby junior, and Fred Krebs, Shawnee Mission sophomore.
The students aid in the preparation of copy, provide liaison between contributors and editorial consultants, manage circulation and advertising, and handle the distribution of books under review. Occasionally, they travel to professional conventions to manage the "Midcontinent American Studies Journal's" exhibition booth, meeting contributors, subscribers and specialists in the various fields which the "Journal" covers.
"THE JOURNAL tries to function as a kind of 'Scientific American' for the field of American Studies," Stuart Levine, chairman of the American Studies program, said. "It's the place in which specialists publish works which they feel will be of interest to people in other fields. When the American historian, for example, has something to say to the specialists in American Literature, or to the sociologist, he sends it to us. The magazine is a way to keep abreast of the direction of new research in all areas of American culture."
The Journal is in its sixth year of publication. Its title was once the longest magazine title in the United States, "The Journal of the Central Mississippi Valley American Studies Association." Soon after its beginning in 1959, the title was changed "because 'Midcontinent' describes its location more exactly than Central Mississippi Valley," Levine said.
PUBLISHED REGIONALLY, the "Journal" has always been nationally distributed to subscribers and to 400 libraries around the world, including many United States Information Agency libraries.
The "Journal" yearly publishes approximately 16 articles and 100 book reviews, whose contents are covered in the standard index and bibliography services.
Special issues have been published, including an oversized issue at the time of the Kansas Centennial. That issue was called "the best single introduction to Kansas history and culture ever published," Levine said.
ANOTHER SPECIAL ISSUE covered Mark Twain. Articles in it have been reprinted widely, and the issue itself used as a textbook in literature courses.
Make Living Easier
Stuart Levine is the editor of the Journal. The editorial board includes Edward F. Grier, professor of English, chairman; Harold Davey, economist at Iowa State University, Social Science Editor; Professor Robert Johannsen, chairman of the History Department at the University of Illinois, History Editor; George Erlich, professor of Art History at UMKC, Arts Editor; and Warren French, professor of English at University of Missouri, Kansas City.
Course Will Aid Heart Patients
The KU extension is coordinating a program entitled "Work Simplification for Daily Living" to be held in Pittsburg, Hutchinson, Garden City, Great Bend, and Salina during the week of April 12.
E. S. Avison, of the KU extension bureau, has just returned from visiting Pittsburg to talk with community leaders there to plan the program. Avison will also visit the other cities involved in the program in the next several weeks.
The program is designed to explain to people who must know or who want to know how they can do more easily many of their daily chores. The primary purpose of the program is to serve people who have, or who have had, some form of heart trouble. Anyone who is interested, however, may attend the program.
THE KANSAS STATE Health Department is financing the program with the help of a $5,000 federal grant.
COOPERATING with the KU extension and the Kansas State
Department of Health in sponsoring the program are the Kansas Heart Association, the Kansas Medical Society, the Kansas Agricultural Extension Service, the Kaw Valley Heart Association, Kansas Vocational Rehabilitation, and other community and health organizations.
Dean Waggoner Appointed to Committee
George R. Waggoner, dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences, has been appointed to a steering committee to consider an "International Year of the Arts and Humanities" to be observed about 1970.
Others on the committee are Deans W. Todd Furniss, University of Hawaii, and Joseph L. Sutton, Indiana University.
Impetus for the plan came from President Johnson's emphasis on international cooperation in various areas in his Smithsonian Institution address.
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