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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 22, 1965
Freshman's Comedy Library Wins Book Award
By Robert Stevens Samuel Arnold Gill, Sterling freshman, is winner of the ninth annual Taylor Book Award.
Second place winner was Fred A. Whitehead, Pratt senior. The first place prize was $100, and second place, $50.
The contest is sponsored by Watson Library. Contest directors were Terrence Williams, special collections department, and John Knightly, circulation department.
The winners were announced at a luncheon held by the library personnel Tuesday.
Runners up in the contest were Gail K. Weber, McCune senior; Tim Miller, Wichita junior, and Walter S. Bliss, Omaha junior.
THERE WERE 15 entries in this year's contest.
The contest is designed to honor the students who have placed time into gathering a small library of their own to meet their needs in a certain field.
The award is financed by Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, Kansas City, Mo.
who founded the award to encourage the delights of reading and book collecting.
Mrs. Taylor is a book collector herself. She has one of the major collections of works by Henry Mencken among her vast collections.
"DURING THE LAST eight years, I have hunted through the stacks of second-hand bookstores, searched for shops dealing in out-of-print books, and sought specialty bookstores—all in my desire to accumulate as many books, magazines, films, and photograph stills as possible on the fascinating and little explored field of motion picture comedy during the silent screen era.
According to the statement made by Gill:
"This is a specific subject," Gill continued, "with unlimited sources for research and study.
"Not a single work, accurate or inaccurate, has ever appeared dealing specifically with the comedy techniques and trends, comedians, and all those individuals concerned with the production and aesthetics of silent screen comedy," he said.
"I FIRST GOT the initiative to begin this collection while taking an English Honors Seminar on William Blake, taught by Dr. Edward Ruhe of the department of English here at KU.
"I have found collecting Blake neither easy nor inexpensive." Whitehead continued, "though thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening.
"Most of the books were obtained from dealers in rare and secondhand books in this country and Great Britain, though some have been obtained from France, Italy, Spain, and Ireland."
"My basic motivation was to try to understand and appreciate the range and incisiveness of Blake's imaginative vision and intellect.
KU to Orientate Foreign Students
Whitehead, who entered the contest for the second time, said:
JUDGES THIS YEAR were Stuart Levine, professor of English and a member of the Department of American Civilization; Lawrence DiPietro, public librarian at Topeka; and Miss Alexandra Mason, chairman of the special collections department
His goal is some day to publish such a book.
Fifty students will participate in the KU program. They will study the English language, the U.S. educational system, and American civilization.
One of three official, eight-week orientation sessions for international students entering in the United States next fall will be held July 14-Sept. 7 at KU.
Both of the winning collections came from much larger colections. Dr. Stuart Forth, acting director of the library, felt that all of the entries this year were quite good. He said that the judges had a hard time picking winners.
Last year's winner was Laird Wilcox, Lawrence sophomore, whose collection dealt with political science selections, especially those dealing with minority groups.
Gill's offering will be automatically entered in the Amy Loveland $1,000 National Award Contest. This is sponsored by the Book of the Month Club, the Saturday Review, and the Women's National Book Association.
Wesley Foundation Holy Communion,
7:00-7:20 a.m. Methodist Center, 1314
A $39,000 contract from the U.S. Department of State will support the 15-year-old program, oldest in existence, J. A. Burzle, chairman of the German department, will direct the program, as he has done consecutively since its establishment at KU in 1950.
Ethics and Society Lecture, 8:00 p.m.
Room Room, Fordham Univ
Room Room, Union.
KU-Y Model U.N., All Day, Hoech Aud,
Kansas School Business Official, All Day,
Hoech Aud.
Both of the two top winners will leave their books on display in Watson Library. The first place winner last year has his books on display in the bookstore of the Kansas Union.
Catholic Masses. 6:45 a.m. and 5 p.m.
State Law Enforcement Center.
Student试卷。
TOMORROW
Wesley Foundation Evensong, 5:00 p.m.
Methodist Center; 1314 Oread.
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
City Managers School, All Day. Kansas Ugoing.
SUA Poetry Hall, 4:30 p.m. Dr. Ken-
tellor koolhour. Music Room, Kansas
Union.
Der Deutsche Verein, 4:30 p.m. Donnerstag um 4:30 in 502 Faser. Das program: "Deutschland in-Bild und Lied." Alle sind eingeladen. Erfrischungen.
City Managers School, All Day. Kansas Union.
Friday Flicks, 7:00 and 9:30 p.m. Fraser Theater.
Romance Languages Film, 8:00 p.m. Dyche Auditorium.
University Theatre 8:20 p.m. "The Marriage of Figaro."
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
TODAY
Other eight-week sessions will be at Bucknell University and the University of Arizona. Shorter sessions are planned at Texas, Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota, and Yale universities.
A B Γ Δ E Z H Θ J K A M
Fraternity and Sorority Jewelry
Official Bulletin
By United Press International
Nazi Leader Seeks Candidacy in South
By United Press International George Lincoln Rockwell, the self-proclaimed fuhrer of the American Nazi party, has submitted a petition in an effort to qualify as a candidate for governor of Virginia.
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Rockwell said both major political parties had "degenerated" and "fallen victims to the Negro bloc vote."
Rockwell, 47, who lives at Arlington, Va., said he would not run as a Nazi but as a "constitutional, white, Christian" candidate who would make Virginia's government "the most 100 per cent constitutional, white, Christian state administration in the U.S.A."
Ray Christian
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