Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 30, 1965
53rd Year, No.13
Lawrence, Kansas
Weekend Is Busy One At KU Camp
By Jonathan Block
The final weekend of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp's 1965 season appears to be as hectic as the other five have been.
At 6 p.m. today the final playback of Sunday's concerts will be heard. This will be the last opportunity for campers to order records of the student concerts.
Saturday, campers will be kept busy since they have been asked to leave the campus as soon as classes are over. Also on Saturday, the Ballet camp will present its concert for campers. This performance will begin at 3 p.m. in the University Theatre and will be free to campers presenting their ID's.
While the tapes are being played, a Tempo signing party will be held, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Templin Cafeteria. The science campers will not be able to attend much of the signing party because at 7:30 p.m. the traditional Science Camp Commencement will be held in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
THEATRE CAMPERS also will be absent from the signing party because the final performance of "Lil'ore" takes place at 8:20 p.m. today.
THE LAST DANCE of the season will be held on the All Purpose Court at 8 p.m. Saturday. Closing time will be at 10 p.m. and lights out will be at 10:30 p.m.
At 6 p.m., the Theatre Camp will go to the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City to see "West Side Story." At 8 p.m. the Ballet division will present its second recital. The price of tickets will be $1.50 and $2 for all interested in attending.
The last day of camp will have only the two Sunday concerts for camp activities. The Choir/Orchestra concert will take place at 3 p.m. in the University Theatre and the Band Concerts will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Outdoor Theatre.
M.A. Showcase Plays Are Set
Three one-act plays will be presented in the M.A. Showcase in the Experimental Theatre Tuesday, August 3.
"The Party Through the Wall',
which takes place in a bomb-damaged street of London, is directed by Nancy Stockwell. The cast; Gary Mitchell—Dr. Fell; Nan C. Scott—Miss Efhel Carson; Connie Tunis—countess; Annora Bryant — housekeeper; and Steve Grossman, Kathy Melcher, Mary Bradish, Brandy Speck, Gary Mitchell, Lois Miller—party voices.
The three plays will be "The Party Through the Wall" by Muriel Spark, "Like Haunted Limbs on a Tree of Night" by Burt Eikleberry, and the "Infanta" by Lewy Olfson.
"Like Haunted Limbs on a Tree of Night" was adapted from a story by Truman Capote by Burt Eikleberry, its director. This play is set late at night on a southern train. The cast: Kathy Melcher—girl; Mary O'Connell—woman; Bruce Levitt—man, and Richard Gibson—conductor.
Clayton Crenshaw is directing "Infanta," a story about a Spanish infanta and a dwarf. The cast list is unavailable.
Today's Outdoor Films
The movies to be shown at 8:30 p.m. today east of Robinson Gymnasium are "Carefree Ireland," "High in the Himalayas," and "Lake Wilderness." These movies will be the last to be shown this season.
REMNANTS OF SPRING FLING?—The ducks on Potter Lake are a recent addition, but the benefactor (if there is one!) is apparently unknown. Buildings and Grounds, and sundry other campus authorities, aren't sure where the ducks came from. We're willing to hazard a guess that they're left over from Spring Fling!
Gale to Leave Soon For Central America
Dean Gale is head administrator and consultant for the program.
Gale himself will leave for Guatemala in August to spend several days at the Regional Organization for Central America and Panama (ROCAP). ROCAP is an agency of AID. After a few more days in Costa Rica, Gale will visit each of the five universities involved.
Rv Kit Gunn
Thomas M. Gale, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will leave next month for Central America to begin the next program in a series of cooperative ventures with Latin American institutions of higher learning.
The program is designed to strengthen the humanities and social sciences departments of the universities of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. A two-year contract has been signed with the Agency for International Development (AID), an organ of the Department of State. Later, the contract will be renewed to extend the program to five years.
KU'S FUNCTION will be to send to the five universities professors to act as consultants and advisers to the universities themselves and to the Consejo Superior Universitario Centroamericano (CSUCA), a secretariat of the five universities, located in San Jose, Costa Rica.
However, no professors will be sent down on long-term basis until next year, although some may be in Central America for brief periods before then.
ACCOMPANIED by his wife, Mary Margaret, and his two sons, Thomas and John, Gale will spend between one-and-one-half and two years abroad. His son, Thomas H., was born in Costa Rica in 1961, and thus has the choice of becoming either an American or a Costa Rican citizen at age 21.
The coming program is actually the fifth recent KU venture involving Central America. The first, organized in 1960, was the junior year in Costa Rica. This program has involved between 10 and 15 students each year, and is still in progress.
The second was a Carnegie Foundation exchange program with the University of Costa Rica in which KU professors spent one month one summer and three months the next summer teaching in San Jose. About 50 to 60 professors have participated.
The fourth contract was with the Ford Foundation to build up the basic science program at the University of Oriente in Venezuela. For this, Oriente faculty members were sent to KU for study and KU students taught at the Venezuelan university.
ORGANIZED IN 1962, the next project was with the Peace Corps to further secondary education in Costa Rica. One of the first universities to participate in such a program, KU supplied the administrators and trained the volunteers.
The universities of Latin America, some of which pre-date Harvard, until recently were constructed on the European system of education, in which professional training was stressed. Students had to choose early whether to enter medicine, law,
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Humanities Series Starts October 12
The Humanities Lecture Series at KU will start its 19th year with a lecture, October 12, recognizing the 700th anniversary of the birth of Alighieri Dante, 13th-century renowned Italian poet, author of "The Divine Comedy." The opening lecture in the 1965-66 series of seven, will be given by Dr. Joseph Mazzeo, Columbia University professor of English and comparative literatures—a widely-recognized Dante scholar.
Ballet Camp Concert Set
The ballet division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp will present its annual concert Saturday, marking the close of the session.
Forty-five dancers will perform on the University Theatre stage in a variety of dances. Mrs. Marguerite Reed, ballet mistress and choreographer with the Tulsa Opera Ballet Co., directed the dancers. Assisting was Larry Long, guest artist, choreographer and teacher with Ruth Fage's Chicago Opera Ballet.
Costumes will be handled by Chez J. Haehl, assistant professor of speech, drama, and theater. The costumes will represent many different looks, from Spanish flamenco to gypsy, early American to contemporary and the main classical look. Each dancer will appear interesting and effective.
There will be two performances: a matinee at 3 p.m. for camp students and summer session students only, and an evening performance at 8 p.m. Reserved seats will be on sale at the University Theatre box office. Admission is $2.1.50, or $1.
Party Votes to Kill Government in Greece
ATHENS—(UPI)—A large majority of the ruling Center Union party — supporters of ousted Premier George Papandreou—voted yesterday to bring down the government of Premier George Athanassiadis-Novas.
The action indicated that Athanasidis-Navas could not hope to win a formal vote of confidence when Parliament takes a vote, probably Aug. 9. The party action left King Constantine's appointee with only a handful of votes in his own party.
THE OTHER LECTURERS, just announced by Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism and chairman since 1952 of the Humanities Committee, will be:
- October 26—Dr. Robert Champigny, Indiana University, research professor in French and Italian literatures.
- November 9—Dr. George Mylonas, Washington University, head of the department of art and archaeology. Mylonas has been president of the American Institute of Archaeology and was decorated by King Paul of Greece for his archaeological discoveries.
- February 22—Dr. G. Wallace Woodworth, Harvard University music theory scholar who is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a trustee of the New England Conservatory of Music.
- January 6—A lecture by a University of Kansas scholar, to be announced
- March 29—Dr. Robert Rosenblum, Princeton University scholar in art history, specializing in contemporary and neo-classic and romantic art and architecture.
- April 26—Dr. Susanne Langer, Connecticut College distinguished philosopher, author of several challenging books, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
During the 18 years since the Humanities Series began, 116 lecturers have been presented, including 17 members of the KU faculty. Visiting lecturers, all of them distinguished scholars in their fields, visit the KU campus for three days, giving one formal public evening lecture and meeting with classes, seminars, faculty and student groups.
FIFTEEN SPEAKERS have come from Italy, Spain, France, England, Lebanon, and Germany. Among the most famous visitors have been Alexander Moiklejohn, Aldous Huxley, Arnold Toynbee, Allan Nevins, Virgil Thomson, Gilbert Highet, Vladimir Nabokov, Sir Ronald Syme, Alfred L. Rowe, Thomas Hart Benton, Germaine Bree, Margaret Mead, S.I. Hayakawa, F. S. C. Northrop, Loren C. Eiseley, William F. Albright, and John Hope Franklin.
Graduate Art Exhibit Is Being Shown in Union
By Mike Shearer
Now on display in the main lounge of the Kansas Union is a graduate exhibit from the art education department.
Oils, prints, photographic experiments, and crafts comprise the exhibit. With the abstract dominating the oils, colors are abundant.
Harry Hart has an abstract which is concentrated on golds and auburns. The effect is colorful and refreshing. Robert Pringle did an oil in basically blacks, whites, and shades of gray. Here too the contrasts prove exciting.
ONE OF PAT WOLF'S oil paintings is done in oranges and reds and the mood is brought out quite effectively. Marvin Spomer has two small texture experiments displayed which proved successful.
Royce Fleming has two of the best oils in the show. One is a beautiful abstract with large areas of ochre. The effects in perspective achieved with the ochre were tremendous. Even better than the one in ochre was one done in deep browns. Both
paintings are moving.
Marieta Spurgeon is the artist of four decorative prints named Horseman #1, #2, #3, and #4. The form captured by the artist in these is tremendous.
IN THE CRAFT area, Mary Sue Foster has a large number of exceptional articles. Her weaving is beautiful in two products, one of which is beaded in an interesting manner. A large pot which thickens at the top and a set of original cups also are displayed. Both are artistic and imaginative.
Kenneth Ebling created a unique pot and lid which shows a freedom of form hard to capture in pottery. A plate by Connie Oakson is original and interesting. The plate has a dark, textured area across it which is beautiful.
Fails to Pay $2 Bill
LONDON—(UPI)—James Aylmer Hamilton was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday for failure to pay a $2 bill at a Chinese restaurant.