Campus Santas Bring Cheer to Orphans
By Iudy McGhee
Santa has appeared at least four times this Christmas season and is scheduled for future visits to KU living groups to distribute toys for orphans and underprivileged children.
He will appear at Phi Delta Theta, Delta Chi, Sigma Chi, and Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity houses tonight.
Phi Delta Theta is hosting more than 15 underprivileged Lawrence children and is holding its party in conjunction with Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
SIGMA CHI and Kappa Kappa Gamma will hold a party for 20 orphans from St. Vincent's orphanage in Topeka and Alpha Kappa Lambda will host 16 underprivileged Lawrence children.
"We asked parents what the children needed and will give them either clothes or toys," said Bruce Cook, Alpha Kappa Lambda member.
"Each child will get a stocking," he added. "After Santa appears we will have cake and hot chocolate and sing carols."
Cook said tonight's party will be the first of its kind for his fraternity. He said Elizabeth Stanley, the housemother, had assisted greatly with preparations.
DELTA CHI will combine with Chi Omega sorority, as it has for several years, to host eight Lawrence underprivileged children.
Santa has already visited Corbin, Templin, and Ellsworth Halls and Phi Gamma Delta, Acacia, and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternities.
Corbin women held a Christmas party last Sunday for 12 Topeka orphans. They showed two Disney cartoons and gave each child a stocking filled with fruit, candy, nuts, and a gift. After Santa's appearance, refreshments were served.
Acacia hosted more than 15 Topeka orphans Saturday night, and the first floor of Ellsworth Hall gave a party for 15 more.
Sigma Phi Epsilon entertained nine children at a party last Friday and Phi Gamma Delta combined with Pi Beta Phi sorority to host 23 children last Thursday,
KU LIVING groups host approximately 200 children each Christmas.
Practically all of them participate in the Toys-for-Tots Drive sponsored by the Marine Corps Reserve and Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity.
Many hold Christmas parties giving their dates toys as gifts. The students return to childhood for the night, and the toys are then placed in Toys-for-Tots barrels.
After collection, the toys are wrapped by employees of the Hallmark Card Co.
THIS YEAR the toys will be distributed on Dec. 22 to children whose names are on a list made
up by the Lawrence Christmas Bureau.
Dick McLaughlin, Shawnee Mission senior and president of Alpha Phi Omega, said cash donations are also being sought.
And KU students have not forgotten the ill and aged in their concern for children. Ellsworth Hall women used money made ushering at theater productions for donations and gifts to the Topeka State Hospital. Presenting the money will be Marilyn West, Lawrence sophomore, Mary Dunlap, Albuquerque, N.Mex., senior, and Cynthia Belcher, Louisville, Ky., sophomore.
Camps Give Mind Place to Develop
and books collected by the living groups through the Associated Women Students organization.
Bv Roger Myers
"WHEN I WAS a boy there were no high school bands," Wiley said. "I learned music by mail. The only chance I had to sing was in the church choir."
As a boy in central Texas, Russell L. Wiley, professor of music and director of the KU bands, had no opportunity to study instrumental music, so in 1936 he rounded up two dozen high school students and organized a band camp at KU.
Wiley, who came to KU in 1934, said he wanted to give young people something he never had—an opportunity for accelerated training in the arts, not available in high school.
"In those days," he said, "boys and girls didn't have much to do in the summer—and neither did the teachers."
THE PLEDGE classes of Beta Sigma Psi fraternity and Alpha Delta Pi sorority will present Christmas services at three Lawrence rest homes. Heading this project are Laura Mulally, Lawrence sophomore, James Beachler, Overland Park sophomore, and William Hamm, Muskogee, Okla., freshman.
Today, the Midwest Music and Art Camp has blossomed into the second largest music camp in the country. Last summer was the 28th season, with a record attendance of nearly 1,300 campers from 45 states. Wiley is still director of the camp.
Delta Gamma sorority will support its national philanthropy by hosting an annual Christmas dinner for blind persons in the area. In place of usual gifts, the sorority will give donations to the Kansas Association for the Blind.
from the beginning of the camp, founded in the depths of the depression, the budget has been a problem. "We've gone in the hole several times," Wiley
explained, "but we've always managed to pay back our debts.
"Hundreds of similar camps have started, but most of them have failed. We've been lucky."
THE CAMP expanded in 1950, when an art division was added. Marjorie Whitney, of the KU staff, has directed the art division since then.
"Each director runs his own division," Wiley said. "I choose a department head from the staff here, because he knows his field and I don't."
Approximately 150 sorority and residence hall women will carol at Lawrence nursing homes. They will also distribute magazines
Besides music and art, the camp has divisions in speech, ballet, theatre, science, engineering, and a junior high division in music. Journalism, added in 1964, is the newest division.
Wiley is assisted by a faculty of 70 teachers plus guest lecturers and conductors. The campers are supervised by 65 counselors, most of whom are KU students who have attended the camp themselves.
Wiley said the true value of the camp lies in the accomplishments of the individual students.
The sorority will also start a fund to establish a local clinic for prevention of blindness among pre-school children.
10 Daily Kansan Tuesday, December 14, 1965
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