Busy man on campus
Therapist best in field
By JACKI CAMPBELL
He's a 30-year KU veteran— "a unique man some people fear, some people love," as one of his students said.
He's an honest man who expects no-nonsense honesty in return.
He's E. Thayer Gaston, chairman of KU's Music Education Department.
"HE'S A VERY distinguished man," June Sutton, Princeton junior, said.
"He's sophisticated but he isn't snobbish. He's down to earth, yet not exactly. He's almost like a grandfather to some of us."
Gaston is perhaps one of the busiest men on campus. In his words, he speaks at national conventions and a bunch of universities.
He is a consultant to hospitals throughout the nation, discussing research work or research programs in music therapy.
HE DOES research in advanced clinical training with $250,000 granted to him by the National Association of Mental Health, to use over a five-year period.
In his spare time, Gaston has even written a soon-to-be-published book.
Gaston registered the first music therapists in the United States and introduced special courses at KU, making it the first school to offer this type of program. Fifteen other universities have similar courses now, Gaston said.
HIS PET PEEVE, Miss Sutton said, is "girls who quit college to get married."
"He feels they don't know what they want; that if you're educated you'll be more prepared to raise a family."
The music therapy program at KU includes four years of study followed by a six-month internship.
During the music therapy student's freshman and sophomore years, he is in the School of Fine Arts, and takes a "little of everything." Miss Sutton said.
"We take things like harmony, piano, voice, history, biology. And we learn to play brass instruments, woodwind instruments; we learn to conduct, to dance; we play in ensembles, just a little of everything."
AFTER HIS sophomore or junior year, the music therapy student spends a summer as a psychiatric aide to "see if he can take it on the floor," Miss Sutton said.
"It's kind of a trial period." Miss Sutton spent her last summer as a psychiatric aide at the New York Hospital in White Plains, N.Y.
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Lecture, 3:30 p.m. Prof. John B. Cormell, Texas U. "Japanese in Brazil. Contexts & Processes of Accommodation." Jayhawk Room, Union.
Linguistics Colloquy, 8 p.m. Michael O'Brien, "A Phonemic Analysis of Methow." Pine Room, Union. Public invited.
"They put us right on the ward and put us to work," she said.
"WE WORKED with people from ages 13-71, playing scrabble and bridge. We were like a tool to keep the patients occupied.
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"Our hospitals had dining rooms and we served them dinner, cleared the plates, things like that. We had nothing really to do with music therapy during this period.
"The first three months are spent on the floor to get acquainted with a hospital set-up, and we worked under the nursing department.
Becky Rogers, Topeka senior,
spent a summer as a psychiatric
aide at the Menninger Foundation
in Topeka.
"WE SOMETIMES had group-sings for fun, but didn't present any kind of music therapy."
"We worked with the entire staff," Miss Rogers said. "It was a period of orientation. Most of the work was in observing, asking questions and we, too, worked on the floor.
"THEY FOLLOWED an open policy—the patients have specified work to do and it is their responsibility to keep busy. We worked with arts and crafts, knitting, getting acquainted—just to get and keep them working in group action.
"We were to accompany them while they worked out their problems."
WORKING with patients "from 16 up." Miss Rogers said they were to "keep them interested in others and not let them mope around."
Neither Miss Sutton nor Miss Rogers administered any medication and music therapy did not enter into their work during this period.
In their internships, music therapists, if the doctors feel the patients will benefit from it, formulate group activities centering around music. They form combos or teach people to strum guitars.
GASTON IS THE MAN who makes KU one of the main producers of music therapists. He is nationally known and most of the prominent music therapists in the United States today have studied under him.
Old town-gown discussion meets
The "Old and the New," a KU men's discussion group that has been in existence for 94 years, held its bi-monthly meeting Friday night.
The organization consists of 12 members, eight university faculty members and four Lawrence businessmen.
AT EACH MEETING, the host (each member takes a turn) presents a paper. The French architect, Edouard Le Corburier was the topic developed by Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor for finance and executive secretary of the university, at Friday's meeting. Topics are on anything of interest to the host. A discussion follows the presentation.
The group originated in 1874. According to Nichols, it has remained the same through the years except for changes in the faculty-town representation and the number of meetings per year.
"In the old days," Nichols said, "the club met every week." MEMBERS OF the group are:
Faculty members—Nichols; E. R. Hall, director of the Natural History Museum; Laurence C. Woodruff, Dean of Students; James K. Logan, Dean, Law School; R. A. Schwegler, acting director, health service; James Campbell, physician, health service; C. D. Clark, professor, sociology; James McNown, professor, mechanical and aeronautical engineering.
Lawrence businessmen—Dolph Simons Jr., James Postmo, Rev. Harvard Wilbur and Justin Hill.
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To school convention
A small group of KU faculty members will attend a convention in Wichita, Jan. 26-28, to discuss major educational issues and propose school legislation.
Herold Regier, associate professor of education and director
of educational placement, called the Council of Administration committee together last Friday to plan the trip, and to organize hospitality and headquarters at the Hotel Broadview in Wichita.
Prof. Regier will release the names of five to ten faculty persons who will attend, next week.
Trouble corner is scene of accident
3 grants to KU
Mike McNally, Bartlesville junior, driver of a 1963 Rambler, collided with a 1957 Ford driven by Dorene K. Willis, Saturday afternoon near the intersection of Iowa street and Harvard Road.
Damage to the two cars totaled $550. Police reported that Miss Willis was driving inattentively. Three passengers in the Willis car were not injured.
Grants totaling $10,200 from the E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., have been announced by KU.
The department of chemistry received two grants totaling $8,-000; $2,200 went to the department of chemical engineering.
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