Summer Session Kansan
76th Year, No. 12
Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, July 26.1966
ALLEN CRAFTON
SUA plans for fall
By Connie Myers
Student Union Activities, headed by president Dave Waxse, Oswego senior, has many new plans for the fall semester. By combining some committees and expanding others, SUA plans to offer a greater variety of new activities to better serve the ever-growing KU student population.
One of the first events on the fall calendar is a campus-wide survey conducted by SUA to learn more about the student attitude toward the Kansas Union and the SUA program. It will probably be a random sample of students chosen through the mail, according to Frank Shavlik, SUA adviser.
THE TRAVEL COMMITTEE, with John Green as chairman, is a new department of SUA. The fall plans include the travel board, which helps students in finding rides to different parts of the country; the charter flight, probably to Europe or the Bahama Islands; and bus trips to Kansas City for special cultural or sports events.
Further possibilities for this new committee include skiing trips and bus trips to the coast. The committee will continue to maintain a file of travel books and folders, which are always available to the student.
A festival of the arts is planned for a week during March. The week will feature a variety of music, drama, and other creative arts. There will be famous personalities as well as KU students participating in the festival. The week will be climaxed by a concert in Hoch. The festival is a
cultural project, which SUA hopes will become a KU tradition.
THE FORUM COMMITTEE, headed by John Hoppe, has expanded. Such things as current events and poetry forums will be continued. Science and career forums have been added in addition to specialized forums, which are designed to appeal to certain segments of the University community.
With a new adviser, Cheryl Knapp, from Colorado University, SUA plans to begin the fall semester with a full schedule of activities. The traditions dance is the first big event, followed by the activities carnival, the SUA carnival and the homecoming dance and concert.
"I'm sure next year will see an even bigger and better SUA program," stated Shavlik. "The potential that the SUA program and those working with it have is almost staggering. Every KU student comes into direct contact with SUA at one time or another during his college career. Because of this, we are trying to widen our horizons and thinking to better serve the students.
"This is part of the reason for the survey we are planning for next year. We hope to meet a greater number of the students directly, more often than we do now. By understanding and responding to their wishes, we hope to make a significant contribution to their college careers. This is one of the major reasons for the many changes we are making in next year's program," stated Shavlik.
Allen Crafton dies at home in Colorado
By Bill Robinson
Allen Crafton, professor emeritus of speech and drama at KU, died suddenly Friday near the family summer home near Glen Haven, Colo. He was 75.
Prof. and Mrs. Crafton and their daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Boyce of Overland Park, had arrived at the vacation spot Friday morning. Prof. Crafton was walking near the cottage with Mrs. Crafton when he complained of dizziness. He died within seconds.
MEMORIAL SERVICES will be announced after Mrs. Crafton's return to Lawrence this wee. Cremation was to be in Colorado. In addition to his wife and daughter, Prof. Crafton is survived by two grandons, both of Overland Park.
Prof. Crafton joined the KU faculty in 1923 as professor of speech and drama and chairman of the speech and drama department. He resigned as departmental chairman in 1957, but continued on the faculty until 1961. Prof. Crafton also was director of the University Theatre from 1923 until 1953.
Recipient of the HOPE award in 1961, Prof. Crafton maintained his interest in KU theatre productions until his death. Prof. Crafton, working with Prof. William Kuhlike, completed "An American Medley" to correspond with the centennial celebration of the University. "An American Medley" was an excerpt description of the first 100 years of the American theatre.
IN ADDITION TO "MEDLEY"
Prof. Crafton authored, with Mrs.
Crafton, five theatre textbooks. In 1954 he wrote a history of Lawrence. The history, "Free State Fortress," was published by the World Company and has become a collector's item.
Camper royalty named Saturday
Toy Caldwell and Fred Wiman were crowned camp king and queen Saturday night at Midwestern Music and Art Camp's final dance.
THEY WERE ELECTED in an all-camp contest held Thursday night following three days of hard campaigning.
Miss Caldwell said immediately after her crowning, "This is wonderful, I was really surprised."
Miss Caldwell is a music camper from Salina, and Wiman came from Snyder, Tex., to attend the science camp this summer.
Wiman added, "This is really an honor."
Prof. Crafton also wrote the Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Pageant, depicting the history of Southwestern Kansas. The pageant was presented in 1957.
For Prof. Crafton, a theatrical career began before World War I. He received his B.S. degree from Knox College, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, and went to Harvard in 1914 to study under George Pierce Baker, then patriarch of the theatre. Prof. Crafton received his master of arts degree from Harvard in 1914.
AFTER A BRIEF TOUR of Boston vaudeville and a time in Galesburg, Ill., where he developed the first small town community theatre in America, Prof. Crafton entered the Army. In World War I, he did work in Army shows in Europe with the Army Entertainment Forces.
Returning from the war, Prof. Crafton was advised by friends against returning to the theatre. He tried writing for a short time,
then began his long and illustrious teaching career.
His first teaching assignment was at Wabash College in 1919, with the English department. He left the English department of Carleton College in 1923 to come to KU.
PROF. CRAFTON, WORKING with E. C. Buehler, professor emeritus of public speaking, and Miss Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech, developed and adopted a program of speech training which made the speech and drama department an integral part of KU student life.
At the time of his retirement in 1961, a scholarship fund was initiated in honor of Prof. Crafton. At the time the fund was announced, its formation was described by the founding group as "the one way we can perpetuate the kind of help and spirit which 'Prof' Crafton has furnished for so many years to so many of us."
Grad students have fee hope
Non-resident graduate students who recently have been faced with a 141 per cent increase in their KU fees may discover that the increase does not affect them.
According to one recent estimate, unofficially advanced by a member of the University's financial staff, nearly 90 per cent of the non-resident graduate students will be eligible for resident or faculty rates. To avoid the $410 increase, non-resident graduate students must be:
- Working as half-time faculty members
- Working as half-time research assistants
Recipients of government or foundation grants or loans which cover fees and tuition.
It has been the policy of the University for the past several years to charge faculty rates, equal to resident rates, to half-time faculty members and research assistants. Students unsure of their status should check with their department.
ALTHOUGH THE EXACT figures were not available, the Graduate School estimated that some 50 per cent of KU's graduate students are half-time faculty or staff members, or are doing half-time research. The Office of Aids and Awards estimated that nearly 1,600 graduate students are the recipients of loans or grants which cover fees and tuition.
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Non-resident undergraduate students are not as fortunate as their graduate counterparts.
Non-resident undergraduates will be paying $700 per year beginning in the fall of 1967. Resident undergraduates will begin paying $342 in 1967. Resident graduate students also will pay more, but will pay an amount equal to that paid by resident undergraduates.
The all-inclusive increases will provide an estimated $3.7 million increase in fiscal 1968.
With camp electioneering under full steam, the windows of Lewis and Templin blossomed with a number of signs, mostly expounding the virtues of a particular candidate (well, at least spelling out his name). But along with the political loyalty went the greater love—home. Here a devoted Minnesotan is surrounded by Skip's campaigners.
(Photo by Glen Phillips)