Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, June 15, 1965
53rd Year, No. 1
Lawrence, Kansas
DISMAYED AND DRENCHED—The familiar long line of 425 Girls' Staters makes it way across
Girls' State Leaders 'Politick,' Elect, and Learn Until Sunday
campus toward a "Coke Hour" in the Kansas Union.
Boys' State Camp Ends
John Peterson, Topeka, was elected governor of the 25th annual American Legion Boys' State of Kansas last Wednesday, culminating three days of hectic political activity
The government-in-action training program began with registration Monday, June 7, and adjourned Saturday.
"A complacent attitude is the attitude that destroys democracy," Avery emphasized.
PETERSON, candidate of the Federalist party, presided at an assembly meeting in Murphy Hall Thursday morning. Gov. William H. Avery spoke to the 1,030 high school seniors at that time.
THE GOVERNOR had planned to lunch with Peterson, but was called away to inspect flood-stricken areas in the southern portions of the state.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe also spoke at Thursday's session. He invited the leaders to explore the Mt. Oread campus and see for themselves the commitment of Kansas citizens to higher education.
OTHER BOYS' Staters elected to state office were Douglas Shryrock, lieutenant governor; Brad Schulenberg, attorney-general; Greg Light, secretary of state; Paul Christianson, auditor; Robert Hartsook, treasurer; Steve Mercer, superintendent of public instruction; Ron Hastings, insurance commissioner, and Ted Gardiner, state printer.
Tom Rader, Greensburg sophomore and KU's freshman class president, was counselor-coordinator of the convention. He was 1963 Boys' State governor. Steve Ridgway of Lawrence, 1964 governor, also was present.
New Threat of Floods
TOPEKA — (UPI)— Heavy rains Sunday and Sunday night sent a few creeks from their banks in eastern Kansas and raised new flood threats for the Marais Des Cygnes River Valley.
Petitioning, campaigning and electioneering will occupy 425 Girls' Staters until Thursday.
THE HIGH SCHOOL seniors, coming from nearly all Kansas counties, will elect officials for 12 cities, six counties and the state during the 23rd annual Girls' State, June 13-20.
Registration for the convention was Sunday at Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Primary elections will be held today and general elections will be Wednesday. Announcement of the election of the new governor, from the Nationalist or Federalist party, will be made Wednesday afternoon.
Arlene Tjart, Baxter Springs, and 1964 governor, is assisting as a staff member this year.
DIRECTOR of the convention is Mrs. Carl Telford, Winfield. She will be assisted by Mrs. Clyde Norris, Burdette, assistant director; Mrs. Delores Horner, official hostess and president of the Kansas Department of the American Legion Auxiliary; Mrs. Fred Plank, Baldwin, secretary-treasurer; 12 other staff members and 24 counselors.
First estimates of summer session enrollment show that KU's student population is up nearly 500 over original enrollment for last year's summer session.
The group will be split for most meetings among Hoch Auditorium, Strong Hall, the Kansas Union and Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
Enrollment for the first week of classes last year was 3.227.
Summer Total Up 500
Foreign Study Seminar Set
The University of Kansas is one of 11 academic centers selected for a summer foreign student program geared to development of their native countries.
Called "Training Opportunities for Youth Leadership," the summer seminars are sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the Institute of International Education, Participants will include those foreign students already studying in the U.S. and new students from 16 countries.
Prof. Maloney said the KU center will direct the foreign students in preparing proposals for development in their own countries and in working on technological problems to be solved by engineering enterprises in line with factors of finance, training, and cultural conditions.
The KU center will be directed by James O. Maloney, professor of chemical engineering. Two of the four KU foreign students chosen for the program will remain at the KU center.
The KU students selected for the program are Eben Kawadza, Rhodesia; S. S. Rao, India; Bhagwan P. Saxena, India, and Daryouth Marhamat, Iran. Rao and Marhamat are both engineering students and will attend the KU center.
Summer Campers Keep KU Hopping!
There were only 17 of 'em in 1935, but nearly 1,530 junior and senior high school students will herald the 28th annual summer camp migration to Mt. Oread, June 20 through Aug.1.
THIS YEAR'S Midwestern Music and Art Camp will attract 1,240 of the students, according to Russell L. Wiley, director of KU bands and camp director.
The largest enrollment will be in the music division, with 700 campers. These will compose a concert band of 100 members, a symphony band of at least 200, an orchestra with 125 and two choirs with 100 each. Each camper is permitted to join two performing groups.
Each Sunday afternoon from June 27 through Aug.1 a concert will be presented by the chamber and concert choirs and the camp orchestra.The concerts are at 3 p.m.in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
ON THOSE evenings a concert will be given by both bands at 7:30 at the outdoor theatre, located between Hoch Auditorium and Haworth Hall.
Camper performances and all recitals will be free of charge. A faculty recital will be given July 7, two advanced student recitals on June 30 and July 28, and two camper recitals on July 14 and 21. All of these will be in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy.
Special guest conductors will be brought in each week for the Sunday concerts. They will be joined by Cmdr. Charles Brendler, retired conductor of the United States Navy Band. Throughout the camp, the bands will be conducted by Wiley and the orchestra by Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education and assistant camp director.
THE ART DIVISION, which will draw 250 campers, will be directed by Marjorie Whitney, professor of design, assisted by Arvid Jacobson, associate professor of design.
Jed Davis, associate professor of speech and drama, expects about 50 for the theatre program. This summer's theatre production will be "Lilium," by Ferene Molnar, which was the basis for the musical "Carousel." The production will be given in the University Theatre July 26-28.
The ballet camp will be led by Marguerite Reed, choreographer, ballet mistress and first dancer of the Tulsa Opera Ballet Co. since 1949.
NEARLY 50 senior campers are expected for this division. The junior high camp, which meets for two weeks, will have almost 300 in attendance.
Miss Reed will be assisted by Larry Long, choreographer and ballet master with Ruth Page's Chicago Opera Ballet during the past four summers.
The ballet camp will conclude its camp session with a recital Saturday, July 31, in the University Theatre.
JOHN KNOWLES, assistant professor of journalism and director of the journalism camp, expects 25 campers for the third year of his division.
Wilmer Linkugel, associate professor of speech and drama, expects nearly 30 in the speech division.
The science camp has a fixed membership of 100 first-year campers and 25 second-year campers. The second-year campers will be here the eight weeks of summer school and will work as lab assistants. Delbert Shankel, associate professor of microbiology, is camp director.
SENIOR HIGH students will be housed in Lewis and Templin Halls, and junior high campers will stay in Corbin Hall.
Camp supervisor again will be C. Herbert Duncan from Normandy, High School in St. Louis. Assistant supervisors will be George Neaderhiser and Richard Brummett.
Mrs. Frank Spurrier, housemother at Stephenson Hall, will be "mother" to the senior high girls. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Watson, Formosa graduate students, will supervise the junior high campers.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nelson will handle some extra-curricular camp activities and will act as assistant supervisors.
'Save Fraser' Plan Hinges on Avery
Nearly a dozen Lawrence residents met with Gov. William H. Avery Friday to plea for a 60-day moratorium on the destruction of old Fraser Hall.
Avery said he had "sentiment for Fraser," but fiscal provisions must be considered. However, he promised a decision sometime this week.
THOSE MEETING with the governor were Bernard Frazier, professor of architecture and chief spokesman for the movement; Charles Stough, Lawrence attorney and former state legislator; Dr. Ted Kennedy, former Lawrence mayor and chairman of the committee; Mike Getto, chairman of the Douglas County Historical Society; Reynolds Schultz, state legislator; Don Schaake; Mrs. Gertrude Park; Walter Meserve, professor of English, and William Solney.
Stough said that Henry Bass, Enid, Okla., architect, had volunteered to make an appraisal of costs to restore old Fraser as an office building and museum.
Solney wrote a three-stanza poem which appeared recently in the Kansas City Star. The last line of each stanza ended, "All that is beautiful must go, for the Regents tell us so."
MEANWHILE, George B. Smith, vice-chancellor for institutional planning, said Carruth-O'Leary Hall is being readied for temporary service while new Fraser is constructed.
Moving operations began June 8 when housing office workers moved most of the fixtures from Fraser into
the south wing of Carruth-O'Leary's basement for temporary storage.
Later in the week buildings and grounds workers moved office materials, books, desks and chairs into offices of the new building.
MINOR reconstruction will be necessary for full utilization of Carruth-O'Leary. Smith said.
The classical art and sculpture pieces in Wilcox Museum, formerly housed in Fraser, are being stored in a warehouse.