Noted Men Conduct Concerts
Through the years, one of the privileges of the Music campers has been personal association with conductors of national or international renown.
This opportunity is provided for by the directors of the camp engaging various guest conductors, changing every week.
This year such performers as Skitch Henderson of New York City, conductor, concert pianist, composer and arranger, best known for his part in "The Tonight Show" are featured. Henderson will conduct the large musical groups during the week of July 16-23.
Col. Vivian F. Dunn, the principal director of music at the Royal Marines School of Music in Deal Kent, England, was here June 25-July 2 along with Maurice Casey, the director of choral music at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.
Photo by Bill Seymour
LOREN CRAFWORD, the first guest conductor, was present June 7-17. Following him was Elyakum Shapira, associate conductor of the Baltimore Symphony. Originally of Israel, Shapira conducted throughout the week of June 18-25. The director of band and orchestra at MIT, John Corley, was the July 2-9 guest.
This week Paul Salamunovich, choral music director of Loyola University, and Harry John Brown, conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony, are present guest conductors. For the week of July 23-30, Victor Alessandro, San Antonio Symphony conductor, will be at camp.
Latin Group Edits First Weekly News
By DEANN FAVRE
"Trivitievm et Palea" is the Kamper Kansan's competitor. This eight-page newspaper is published weekly by the Latin division camp.
Besides editorials, the paper features poems translated by the students, articles about Latin which are written in Latin, stories about Roman culture and mythology, as well as a crossword puzzle in Latin.
IN THE FIRST edition, assistant editor Bonny Clark explained why Latin students are interested in the language. This was also the topic of an interview with Latin professor Austin Lashbrook. His discussion was recorded in the "Trivitievm et Palea" by David Eisenberg.
Led by editor Jon Zoll and assistant editor Bonny Clark, a group of Latin students put together the first issue last week.
Both agreed that Latin can be useful to the modern-day scholar. They pointed out that much English is based on Latin, and that by understanding the Roman culture we can better understand our own, thus stating the purpose of the publication.
The paper is published by the Latin students who chose to work on it during their "individual interest time." The other groups of individual interest include coin study, dramatics, and scientific Latin.
Kamper Kansan Friday, July 14, 1967
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING?
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Strat Warden from Aubern, Neb., gives these test tubes a dubious look as he prepares the day's assignment.
18 Given Opportunity For Research Work
By BEA BARTH
In former years the institute was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. This year, however, the program has been financed entirely by the University with grants from the University General Research Fund, Biomedical Sciences Support Grant and the National Science Foundation Institutional Grant. The cost of room and board is $5.000. The total cost is between $10.000 and $15.000.
The Science Apprentice Institute has provided an opportunity for 18 science students to do detailed research in the field of their choice.
Students are selected on the ranking which they received the year before in the science department of the Music and Art Camp. Only the top 20 students are asked to return.
Each student receives individual help by a college professor in fields such as microbiology, physics, radiation biophysics, biochemistry, computer math, chemistry, zoology genetics, and sociology.
DELBERT SHANKEL is director of the institute and of the summer science camp. Associate director is William Balfour.
Students attending the Institute this year are:
Physics: Paul Burgardt, Kansas; Daniel Dean, Missouri; and Michael John Kitchell. Iowa.
Microbiology; Charles Pearson Alexander, Tennessee; James Herbert Henderson, Virginia; Weston Edward Tenney, Texas, and Kathy Kay Wagner, Missouri.
Radiation Biophysics: Kathleen Marie Currey, Kansas; Connie Sue Haisty, Arkansas, and Merry Susan Hapckes, Kansas.
Chemistry: Darrell Dean Rishel, Kansas, and Morris Stanley Scurgs, West Virginia.
Sociology: Christopher Wayne Gunn, Kansas.
Biochemistry: Gretchen Mary Palmen, Minnesota.
Computer Math: John Albert Robinson, Kansas, and James Louis Schwedler, Wisconsin.
Zoology: Jean-Marie Rodgers, Minnesota, and Peggy Jane Tilhner, Nebraska.
Genetics: Jean-Marie Rodgers, Minnesota.
Alaskans, Hawaiians Represented at Camp
By BONNIE SOLOW
Hawaiians Patricia Barnett and Ted Watanabe and Alaskans Sue Riley and Brad Johnston have joined their fellow Americans at the KU Music and Art Camp.
Ted came to KU directly from Wailuku on the island of Maui, Hawaiu, bringing with him leis for the camp administrators. Hailing from Honolulu, Pat stopped at Tennessee for a National Forensic League tournament before arriving at camp.
Fat, twice her state's representative to the NFL national speech finals, decided to attend the Speech and Debate Camp at her speech coach's suggestion. Ted, an accomplished French horn, violin, and viola player, became interested in the Music Camp at his father's recommendation. Mr. Watanabe is the band instructor at Ted's high school.
Because Pat is a native of New York, she is considered a "haole" in the Hawaiian jargon. Ted has an Oriental heritage and says, "I Am American first, then Hawaiian, then Japanese."
Both Hawaiians emphasize the diversity among their state's peoples. While only 10 per cent of the population is pure Hawaiian, the majority is Japanese with the remaining percentages being Chinese, Portuguese, Philippine, and Caucasian.
Traditional Hawaiian and Oriental foods are prevalent on the Islanders' menus. Poi, a sticky vegetable substance from the taro plant, is an Hawaiian staple. "It tastes like library paste," Ted says, admitting that one must acquire a taste for it.
One of Pat's favorite dishes is sashimi, which is raw fish. "I ate it the first time without knowing what it was." Pat said, adding, "It is really good."
Sue Riley and Brad Johnston, KU's Alaskan campers, are schoolmates at Austin Lathrop High in Fairbanks. Sue is taking courses in speech and debate here at KU though her main interest is drama. Brad is a German camper this summer.
Brad and Sue both indicated disappointment at the wet and rainy Kansas weather. Though Alaskan winters are frigid, the
summers are hot and dry with temperatures averaging about 85 degrees.
Brad also remarked that the Kansas "mountains" are "mole hills" in comparison to those he knows back home.
Both Alaskans are as familiar with earthquakes as Kansans are with tornados. Sue received letters informing her of a major earthquake in Fairbanks last Wednesday. No one was injured but damage was extensive.
"Being in an earthquake is like standing on the deck of a boat with the whole sea rolling beneath you." Sue said. All buildings in Fairbanks have metal shock absorbers to prevent buckling in the quakes.
Though the four Hawaiian and Alaskan campers are far from home, they have all adapted to life at KU. Ted Watanabe sums up their common feeling saying, "The camp here is really tremendous and the kids are terrific."
Hawkins Costumes Are Hip
Saturday night the camp held its Sadie Hawkins Dance. On this occasion the girls have the chance to ask the boys to a dance.
Between 9 and 9:30 p.m. the costume contest was held. The costumes were judged by camp officials, Russell L. Wiley, camp director, among them.
From the 10 couples who were chosen as finalists the judges selected April Thorne of Fort Wayne, Ind., and John Hawver of Hollywood, Calif., as the winners. Both are art campers.
They were dressed as hippies and had painted their faces, arms, legs and feet with several colors of tempera.
Asked how they chose their costumes they answered, "It's because we're weird."
Both were given a KU sweatshirt as a prize.
Super-Vocabulare, a Myth
Hero Answers KU Call
By JAN BURKHALTER
All was quiet at the headquarters of world protagonist Super-Vocabulare, when suddenly, from atop Mt. Oread, the lugubrious cries of a maiden were heard.
With radar-tracking, it was determined that they came from inside the impervious walls of Lewis Hall, where the fair young maiden was being held prisoner by M.M&A.C.
Being bumptious by nature and a good boy, Super-Vocabulare decided tacily to rescue yon girl, but first he must subjugate her oppressors. Now our hero is anything but prosaic, so only the most elaborate method could be enforced. He would wait until dark, then scale the wall in true T.H.E. Cat fashion.
At exactly 11 p.m., when all was supposed to be quiet and the young gentlemen in the castle of Templin had ceased their promulgations, or the windows had been shut, Super-Vocabulare felt the time was propitious for his escapade.
THE LADDER PUT in place against the brick wall, our hero started up toward the seventh floor and the despairing hostage,
i. e., maiden. All went well until he reached the third floor and then his strong muscles began to extenuate. However, our hero never quits and because of his will to right wrong, and because he was afraid to look down, he continued his way upward. Oh, what magnanimous spirit!
When the feat was accomplished and Super - Vocabulare had climbed to the top, he found himself facing a new danger. The subordinates of M.M&A.C., better known by their initials of C.O.U.N.S.E.L.O.R.S., were holding conference under eerie incandescent lights. How was our hero to get by them? Was the young maiden trapped forever? Hmm.
No longer incarcerated, the girl wasn't the least apprehensive
WITH THE LIGHT'S GLOW so dimmed by the flutter of playing cards, he slipped by unseen and made his way, cautiously pausing to trip over the ironing board, two Fresca cans and a pizza box. The right room reached, he proceeded to show her his ID card. It wouldn't do to have the heroine rescued by a non-camper, even though he had camped in his own backyard.
about the long climb down. But Super-Vocabulare was, and it took quite a bit of verbal reciprocation, plus a promise to let him ride piggy-back, before our hero began the downward descent.
On the ground, Super-Vocabu-lare inquired about the girl's need to be rescued. He was appalled to hear of 7 a.m. room inspection, the 30-minute standing line for sustenance, the doing of one's own laundry and ironing and no TV; only cinema and physical gyrating. After all, at home you only cleaned your room and a few others, washed dishes after meals and if you didn't iron your clothes, you mowed grass.
HE WAS APPALLED that he lived in the world he did and in an euphemistic manner he bid the girl goodnight, grabbed the ladder and ascended the walls of Templin.
Yon rescued heroine, left in the Kansas Kansas cold with no where left to go, saved but disenchanted, went tripping back into the conclaves of Lewis Hall—tripping over an ironing board, two Fresca cans, and a pizza box—amidst the fluttering of cards and super-expurgated vocabulary.