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Judging from the outfits observed on the KU campus, the Midwestern Music and Art Camp is destined to soon become the fashion capital of the world.
Since the campers come from such far away and exotic places as New York, California, and Kansas, a wide variety of fashion trends can be found here. The best way to identify the part of the country from which a camper hails is by noticing that popular garment known as the sweatshirt. These usually proclaim a nearby college.
Of course, some sweatshirts may be misleading as in the case of a girl wearing a Yale insignia. Then there are some people like the journalism students who must surely be from "Easter Bunny Land."
CLOTHING ALSO SERVES TO identify the various divisions from which the campers come. Ballet campers usually seem to have pink or black legs. Art campers wear color-splattered shirts that must have been swiped from their fathers.
Various fads from across the country have converged on the KU campus. One of the more popular is the wearing of sandals. This may be for comfort's sake rather than the desire to be up on high fashion.
SUNGLASSES ARE BIG ON THE scene also. Even on cloudy days they are still evident, used either as headbands or to protect contact lens wearers from the wind.
Another fashion trend noticed among the girls is the shell. No, boys, it does not come from a little sea animal. A shell is a sleeveless sweater, which may owe its popularity to the fact that it needs no ironing.
The most popular current fad among the boys cannot be seen here at camp. The wearing of shoes without socks is outlawed for the male campers.
Perhaps the most popular item in men's clothing, judging from the boys around here, is the surfer shirt—a collarless knit (boys like to iron even less than girls do). These shirts are often paired with Madras shorts.
Madras is not confined to shorts, however. Shirts, sport jackets, and even Madras hats are blossoming forth-on girls as well as boys.
A wide variety of hairstyles are evident on the campus. Long, straight hair with bangs is a current favorite. "Is your hair real?" is a question asked of many girls who wear their hair "up" making use of a braided switch.
VARIOUS FADS ARE NOTICEable in girls' jewelry and cosmetics. Pierced ears are in, displaying tiny pearl or gold earrings. Charm bracelets display souvenirs of memorable events; many bracelet wearers may leave here bearing miniature Jayhawks.
In cosmetics the "pearlized" look is popular. Frosted fingernails (and toenails peeking out of sandals) and "slickered" lips are everywhere.
THE "LITTLE GIRL LOOK" is in vogue, as pigtail wearers prove. Boys' hairstyles are as varied as the girls'. Beatle cuts make it difficult to distinguish boys from girls. Some boys must roll their hair up every night. Lady Clairol is also big among boys. "Do blonds really have more fun. boys?"
You can hardly tell boys from girls around here. They all wear sweatshirts and cut-offs, surfer shirts, and Madras, long, bleached hair, and play guitars on skateboards.
their fellow campers—the ballet division. The educational diets of the ballet division are also supplemented, according to one of the ballerinas, by "the good experience of having an audience and their many times helpful criticism."
Director of the ballet division, Marguerite M. Reed and her partner, Larry Long, are the propagators of the "new form of recital." In order to prepare for their performance at 8 p.m. July 31, in the University Theatre, the ballet students must rehearse for five hours each weekday, plus attending one or more of the regularly scheduled classes.
The formerly mentioned "entertainment" takes place in Lewis Hall cafeteria, as all who eat there know, and it seems those "roosting" there at the tables are feeling shy about even sitting down in front of these obviously dedicated workers, let alone eating in front of them.
For the beginners, and more especially for the "getting restored" students, the torture of being watched is doubled if they are audience shy. Unfortunately, there is no other place for them to practice that is adequate. They are much happier cool and watched, than hot and hidden.
If anyone is interested in other than mealtime entertainment, they will find the after-dinner rehearsals are truly delightful for anyone but the participants. All types of dancing practice are generally long and arduous. Those girls and boys have aching feet, tired arms, strained legs, stiff necks, sore backs, and all other injuries known to be caused by strenuous motion. They still glide, whirl, and leap again and again and again until they achieve worthwhile execution of their routine.
Since all this work may tend to cramp the social style of these 63 girls and three boys, they fear that they will be unknown by their fellow campers unless the community as a whole makes an effort to seek them out for friends. One very efficient way, they feel, is to attend at least one after-dinner rehearsal. Even those who are not connoisseurs of "that sorta stuff" have been known to enjoy it.
What these wildly enthusiastic young people were cheering for was the mere mention of the name of Dr. Delbert Shankel and the science camp which he represents.
Dr. Delbert Shankel
The ballet campers finish their morning's practice in Lewis Hall cafeteria while some campers begin to arrive for lunch.
WHAT MADE THESE SCIENCE
Director of Science Camp Cheered Enthusiastically
Camp Blossomed From Dream
By Mike Shearer
The divisions have come one at a time and each has grown slowly. The science camp has a fixed membership of 125 teenagers who were selected from nearly 1000 applicants. The selection was made by scholas-
It was not hard to tell the reason for the science campers' enthusiasm for their director. Dr. Shankel is a very personable man.
Thirty years and 1,513 campers ago, Russell L. Wiley witnessed the assembling of 17 pioneer music campers for the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
When asked about Dr. Shankel, science campers said, "He's a cool guy" and "He's great."
Music campers of today would be amused at the sight of the original 17 campers intermingled with 18 persons whose main task was making it possible to call the group a 35 piece band. Contrasting those dated figures with this year's is sufficient evidence that the camp has been a success.
In one exciting instant, they jumped from seats all over the auditorium; they roared, cheered, clapped, and whistled. No, they were not cheering for a last-second, game-winning basket; they were not cheering for the nomination of a favorite son; they were not even cheering for the announcement that recevele would be at noon instead of at six.
This year's music division boasts two bands, an orchestra, and two choirs with a total enrollment of 700. Prof. Wiley, who started alone, is now assisted by Gerald M. Carney and weekly guest conductors.
JOINING THE "BAND-WAGON" in 1949 was the art division which, like the music division before it, had trouble getting started. The art division has experienced changes since it was begun by Prof. Wiley, Prof. Marjorie Whitney, and Prof. Arvid Jacobson. Miss Whitney and Mr. Jacobson welcomed 255 campers to the art division this year.
campers so enthusiastic about their camp and about their question? Dr. Shankel listed three reasons as to why these people are so enthusiastic about their camp.
Dr. Shankel said, when asked about how he felt about his science campers this year, "They're a real bright bunch. We try to keep them happy and interested."
"MANY OF THE CAMPERS are from out of state and are pleased to find that the campus here is not what they expected. They found beautiful buildings on a beautiful campus instead of some buildings stuck in some wheat fields."
"The science apprentices thought it would be nice to get organized cheers and get enthusiasm," was his explanation. "This was derived from the apprentices who must have enjoyed last year, or they wouldn't have been back this year."
Dr. Shankel indicated that most of the enthusiasm was generated by the science apprentices, who are back for their second year.
Another reason for their elation was the fact that they were lucky to be here. The 100 science campers who are here were chosen from over 900 who had applied.
tic achievement. Prof. Delbert Shankel is director of the science camp.
The ballet camp is again headed by Marguerite Reed of the Tulsa Opera Ballet Company. The 63 ballerinas are also being taught the grace of their art by Larry Long, choreographer and ballet master.
Prof. Wilmer Linkugel is director of the speech camp which has 30 orators enrolled this summer.
Presently preparing for the production of "Lilium" are the 50 theatre campers under the direction of Prof. Bill Kuhlke. "Lilium" will be presented July 26-28.
THE YOUNGEST CAMP is the journalism camp which is in its third year. The journalism division is headed by Prof. John Knowles and has an enrollment of 20.
Mr. Wiley supervised the first camp by himself. The vast increases in the camp population have enlarged the supervisory staff to include eight. The staff is headed by C. Herbert Duncan, who teaches at Normandy High School in St. Louis.
Enrollment Grows
By Marti Teitelbaum
Every Monday night at 9 p.m., a solid mass of about 40 campers sit in a huddle and discuss rules and problems with their counselors. These meetings are called floor meetings.
The floor meetings were started because of the growth of the Mid-Western Music and Art Camp. Its present enrollment of over 1,500 students is too large to have weekly meetings of the entire camp. Therefore, the floor meetings were established to relay information from the supervisors to the campers.
OFTEN PROBLEMS ARISE from the floor meetings. If two wings have their meetings in the lobby of their floor, neither group can get much done. Many floor wings have solved this problem by holding their meetings in the hall of their wing.
There are many cases of girls having to go to bed with wet hair because of lack of time after the floor meeting to set and dry their hair. When the counselors walk up and down the hall, crying, "lights out!" the girls in the midst of doing their hair emit loud screams and wails, and then proceed to try to set their hair in the dark.
THE BOYS don't have the same problem, but one boy complained that the meetings are too long. He explained that the counselors often go over things that the campers can read well in the weekly activity bulletin.
However, during the announcing of these activities, students have the chance to ask questions, and they take advantage of this opportunity to clear up points they don't understand about the week's activities.
On June 28, the floors had elections. Each wing selected a social representative, a recreation representative, and a student council representative,
Mr. Duncan is in his 13th year with the camp. He is assisted by George Neaderhiser who teaches at Topeka High School and Richard Brummett who teaches at Winfield, Kan. This is Mr. Neaderhiser's seventh summer with the camp and Mr. Brummett's fifth.
The girls' dorm is under the supervision of Mrs. Frank Spurrier who during the school year is housemother at Stephenson Hall. This will be the last year with the camp for Mrs. Spurrier who has been here for four summers.
Much a part of the camp is the junior high division which is under the supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Watson. There are 300 two-week campers who are residing in Corbin Hall while studying music under Mr. Brummett.
MR. WILEY'S 17 CAMPERS in '35 lived in a leased sorority house. Today three of the newest and largest dormitories house the campers. The dormitories provide private food service which replaced eating at the Kansas Union a few years ago.
The annual camp trip to the Starlight Theater in Kansas City has been scheduled for July 12.
"Music Man" to Be Camp Starlight Trip
The program presented at that time will be "The Music Man," a musical comedy starring television personality Bert Parks.
IT HAD BEEN ORIGINALLY announced that "West Side Story" would be seen, but transportation difficulties made this impossible. "Transportation in the summertime is at an extreme premium because of the army transporting all its reserve troops to camps," C. Herbert Duncan, camp supervisor, explained. "So, we have to take buses when we can."
"The Music Man" concerns a midwestern "con" man around the turn of the century who attempts to swindle the town of River City, Iowa, by passing himself off as a "Music Man," although he knows nothing at all about the subject. The show contains such songs as "Seventy-six Trombones," "Till There Was You," and "Gary, Indiana," all written by Meredith Willson.
"The Music Man" will have already been shown here at the University by KU students, but Mr. Duncan explained that the experience of seeing it done by a professional group at the Starlight will make it seem like a brand new show. "In the past years this has been one of the highlights of the season because it is a change from the routine of camp." Mr. Duncan stated, and added, "Many have not seen an outdoor theater of this magnitude."
SEVENTEEN BUSES WILL BE available for camp use during this trip and Mr. Duncan indicated that this would be sufficient for all who wanted to go. The cost will be $4.25, covering transportation and admission to the theater.