Timmons Appointed Track Coach
Daily Hansan
62nd Year, No.122
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, April 26, 1965
AWS Gives Awards Tonight
Outstanding KU women will be recognized at 7:15 p.m. tonight at the annual Honors Night in Hoch Auditorium.
Honors Night is the highlight of All Women's Week. The week's activities, sponsored by Associated Women Students (AWS) began last Tuesday with the opening of the art exhibit in the Kansas Union browsing room. The week's activities culminate in Honors Night. This year's theme is "With Women in Mind."
Louise Clovis, Salina sophomore and general chairman of events for All Women's Week, said the program would begin with the installation of AWS Senate officers. Freshman residence hall counselors for the next year will be announced at the program for all university women.
WINNERS OF THE AWS Memorial Scholarships will be announced tonight according to Jonni Watson, Kirkwood, Mo., junior. The scholarships are awarded on the basis of superior scholarship and contribution to campus. The memorial scholarship fund is in memory of women whose university careers have been terminated by death. Money is raised by Scholarship Money's Our Purpose (SMOF) projects. The projects are sponsored by AWS throughout the school year to build up the fund.
Yesterday morning at the junior-
senior brunch, KU women cast their
ballots for the most outstanding
senior women. The American Asso-
ciation of University Women award
to the outstanding senior women will
be made tonight. Connie McLain,
Leavenworth sophomore, said the
AAUW award is one of the high
points of the evening's events.
The five finalists, one of whom was elected yesterday morning at the brunch, are Kay Weber and Pam Stone, both Wichita seniors; Wenday Fisher and Sharon Anderson, both Topeka seniors, and Anne Shontz, Kansas City, Mo., senior.
Emily Taylor, dean of women, will announce the outstanding women from each women's living group on the Hill. Each living group selected a woman they feel has contributed most to campus living and campus activities from their group.
MORTAR BOARD, national senior women's honorary organization, will cap its new members during the program. These women have been selected by present Mortar Board members from names placed in nomination by junior women.
Tapping of Cwens, national sophomore women's organization, also is part of the Honors Night events. Miss Clovis said approximately 45 women will be tapped.
Delta Delta Delta sorority will award a scholarship to a KU woman for the coming year. The scholarship is available to any KU woman. Linda Bahr, Annandale, Va., junior, will present the award.
Fashion Board presents fashion shows throughout the year. They also sponsor the Best-dressed KU coed contest each spring.
AWS Fashion Board members for next year will be announced by Nancy Egy, Topeka senior and chairman of the Fashion Board. The women are selected on their interest in fashion and past experience. The
Regents ToLimit Communications
The Kansas State Board of Regents passed a resolution Friday which would require all communications to them to come through the president of any individual school.
The statement said the Board was a policy making body, not administrative, and that it was bipartisan by law and non-political by tradition. It also said the board should not be subject to political pressure.
"RELATIONS BETWEEN the Board and the institutions are to be conducted only through the presidents and their staffs.
"Any information, petitions or statements from other persons should be addressed in writing to the executive officer of the board for distribution to the members, only if authorized by the chairman."
The Board of Regents also approved a recommendation by Chancellor Wescoe to increase student union fees next September.
The raise in fees would involve $2.00 a semester and $.25 an hour for the summer sessions.
"They have no cash reserves. their reserves are not fluid." Nichols said. "So what we have done is to authorize the increase effective next September so they can build up some cash reserves."
RAYMOND NICHOLS, vicechancellor for finance, said he had recommended the fee increase to the Chancellor after conferences with Keith L. Nitcher, business office comptroller over the financial standing of the union.
Nichols explained the background of the decision, "When the 1958 addition of the building was opened, the Union Operating committee stated, in their opinion, that they wouldn't need a fee increase.
NICHOLS EXPLAINED that a student pays two Kansas Union fees. One of $7.50 from which $5.00 is used for paying off bonds and $2.00 of which is used for operating expenses. Another $2.00 fee is used to pay off the binds on the second addition to the building.
The regents also heard a statement by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe concerning the firing of KU track coach Bill Easton.
The regents, meeting on the Fort Hays State College campus, heard the Chancellor express regret at the firing of Easton
"A CONSIDERABLE amount of emotional response has been generated by the decision to relieve Mr. Easton of his responsibilities as track coach at the University of Kansas," Wescoe said. "The decision was not made precipitously but came as a result of continuous difficulty."
Wescoe said he had had conferences with both Wade Stinson, athletic director, and Easton to "restate these principles" and to make it clear to both men that "Stinson is charged with the administrative responsibility for our athletic program."
Partly cloudy skies are forecast for tomorrow by the weather bureau. Low tonight will be in the mid-40's. Tomorrow's high will be in the upper 60's. Winds will be northwesterly with a velociary five to 15 miles per hour.
By Robert D. Stevens
Weather
Bob Timmons will return to KU to become head track coach and director of the Kansas Relays.
The announcement was made Saturday afternoon by Charles H. Oldfather, professor of law and chairman of the KU Athletic Board of Directors with Wade Stinson, director of athletics, at his side.
Timmons will replace Bill Easton who was dismissed Tuesday by the athletic director. Easton will officially leave here June 30 after serving 18 years.
OLDFATHER SAID later, "I've gotten to know him (Timmons) quite well at the field house and I am satisfied with his record. I am quite pleased that he has come back to KU, as apparently is everyone else."
"Timmons was my personal choice all week (once the vacancy occurred,) " Stinson said. "The board considered eight or ten inquiries."
Oldfather said Timmons has been approved by the athletic board, by the committee on athletics of the Kansas Board of Regents and by W. Clarke Wescoe, chancellor.
The announcement came after a four hour meeting of the KU Athletic Board Saturday morning in the Kansas Union.
"I am most happy that Bob (Timmons) has accepted the challenge of returning and heading our track and field program and continuing the great Kansas Relays," Stinson said.
"I THINK IT pertinent at this time to express a policy that was unanimously stated by our athletic board of directors, that in all phases of our inter-collegiate athletic program we will continue to strive for and will gain excellence," Stinson said.
"In other words, we are going to try to be best and not mediocre in every sport in which we engage," Stinson said.
Selection of Timmons to replace Easton ended a four-day controversy over whether Easton should be returned as track coach.
"I could say at this point it's been a most regrettable week," Stinson said, "but we are now looking at the future. We do not gain by looking at the past."
TIMMONS WAS assured that the Kansas track program would not be de-emphasized or its budget cut.
Stinson said the track and field budget for the current fiscal year is about $72,000, of which $30,000 is allotted to scholarships.
EASTON GRACIOUSLY accepted the announcement that his successor had been named.
"I couldn't be happier about their selection," Easton said. "Timmons is a good technician, dedicated to his job.
THE NEW 40-YEAR-OLD track coach is a KU alumnus of 1950. He has coached high school teams at Caldwell, Emporia, Wichita West and Wichita East prior to becoming KU track assistant last fall.
At Wichita East Timmons' track team won six state track championships. His athletes won 29 individual crowns and six relay gold medals in state meets.
At Wichita East he was coach of Jim Ryun, the nation's finest high school miler.
STINSON SAID absolutely no mention was made during talks with Timmons of Ryun. "We'd be glad to have him, though," Stinson remarked.
Ryun said today in Wichita that he is now undecided whether to attend Oregon State University or come to KU.
RYUN HAD BEEN recruited to Oregon State when Timmons was named head track coach there. When Timmons changed back to KU, Ryun was caught in the middle.
Ryun said that he is waiting for Timmons to get back to Kansas to talk to him. His plans are up in the air, but he hopes to talk to his former high school coach sometime this week.
RYUN'S COMMITMENT to attend Oregon State is not binding because Kansas and the Oregon State school do not have a mutual letter-of-intent agreement.
Slats Gill, Oregon State athletic director, had talked to Stinson previously and had given Stinson permission to confer with Timmons.
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Music Creates Many Effects, Mancini Says
By Mary Dunlap
Smiling, the youngish man in shirtsleeves poked his head around the corner of the room, and said, "Sorry to keep you waiting."
Henry Mancini, a young and personable man who has perhaps done more than anyone else today to introduce new melodies and
techniques of orchestra to popular music, discussed his music and himself with about 35 reporters who gathered for a post-performance press-conference Saturday night.
See related story on page 4.
HE WAS ASKED about his impressions of modern pop music, and specifically, the Beatles, who are one of his children's favorite groups. "Do you find this music dull?"
"Dull—certainly it isn't dull," he laughed. "It does have a sameness to it, and hardly any variety. What it is in their music that makes it popular, I don't know. However, it has a spark of something."
"A FIELD HOUSE," he said, "can't compare with a good auditorium. It is hard to find a musically well-balanced field house. Most of the time I don't even ask for a mike."
He said that he had played field houses and stadiums across the country, and that they were good places to play for the simple reason that more people could see the performances.
Asked if he got any ideas for his compositions from other songs that he had heard, he laughed and said. "You mean, do I steal?" He explained that he knew the type of song that he wanted to compose when he sat down at the piano.
About "Moon River," Mancini said. "It says something in an oblique way. It was a story point." He explained that it carried an allegorical meaning. In the balcony scene with Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," it was important that the audience's opinion of her be changed. The song was specifically designed for this purpose, Mancini said.
ASKED IF SCREEN composing is a good field to go into, he said, "I would think so. I got my main experience working for Universal Pictures." As for courses in school such as Theory I, and so forth, he said, "they are just a discipline." He praised the study of composers such as Bach, saying, "He said so much with so little."
He spoke at some length of the men and women of the orchestra that he brought with him from
Kansas City, and of the orchestras that he usually plays with.
"I don't have an orchestra of my own," he explained. "I use the same orchestra that Percy Faith uses." He added that he contracts for a certain orchestra when he is in a central area.
HE CONTRACTS WITH orchestras in Chicago, Kansas City, Bloomington, Ind., Seattle, and in Texas at various times during the year. He rehearsed two and one-half hours on Saturday with the orchestra that accompanied him to Lawrence. Asked how the men could perform so well with so little rehearsal, he laughed, "They're just good."
His most respected and admired composer is Victor Young. Mancini's love for music began at age eight, "when my father stuck a piccolo in my mouth," he laughed.
Music in films plays a varied
part, he said. "Some pictures take music well. In others, it is just as well to leave it out. The idea is to know where to make it (music) important." Music definitely has its place, he added.
"IF I KNOW THAT I can't contribute something to a picture, I won't take the job." he said.
He has just finished working on the score for "The Great Race," starring Jack Lemon. He had just recently completed a 30-hour recording session for the film.
The trip to KU was not a part of a college tour, he added. From now to the end of the year, he will appear approximately 28 times throughout the country, between working on motion picture scores.
HE THEN SIGNED autographs for all present, and even signed a baseball for a small boy, reportedly Chancellor Wescoe's son.