Skitch, Doc Star in Week's Events
"DOC"
Kamper Kansan Takes Break
The Kamper Kansan will not be published next week due to a break in the schedule. The fourth and final edition will be published July 28 by the new group of 3-week journalism students.
The Summer Session Kansan will carry next week's concert and other news pertaining to the camp.
By JAN BURKHALTER and BECKY PADEN
Excitement reigns high in the Music Division as students prepare their concerts for July 22-23. Stage fright? No, the music campers are quite used to playing before a large audience by now but not under the direction of Skitch Henderson.
LEROY ESAU, assistant to Russell L. Wiley, has announced that Henderson will lead at least one number in each of the five music groups: Symphonic Band, Concert Band, Varsity Band, Symphonic Orchestra and Concert Orchestra
Henderson is scheduled to arrive on Sunday and to begin camp rehearsals the following day. Various music students have expressed their eagerness and anticipation of working under "such a famous personality."
THERE WILL BE no admission charge at the Saturday and Sunday concerts as usual, but tickets for the Henderson concert July 20 are still available. These tickets may be purchased at Murphy Hall, the Bell Music Company and Raney's Drugstores in Lawrence. Prices range from $1.50 to $2.50.
Featured with Henderson in the concert, will be noted trumpet player "Doc" Severinsen and drummer Robert Rosengarden. Members of the Kansas City Phil-harmonic Orchestra along with a 46-piece symphony orchestra will accompany them.
Kenneth Bloomquist, associate professor of wind and percussion and director of the KU Brass Choir, met Carl (Doc) Severinsen in 1963 when they played a concert together. Since that time they have conducted concerts and clinics together.
"In my opinion," Bloomquist said. "Doc is the finest active clinician on trumpet in the United States." Part of the reason for Severinsen's greatness on trumpet is his ability to play in all styles, Bloomquist said, for he can handle formal concert style and jazz style with equal mastery.
SEVERINSEN IS ONE of those people who can play his horn for 8 to 12 hours without tiring.
Severinsen, it appears, puts great store on his physical conditioning in relation to his trumpet playing. He is very active and will do such things as breathing exercises before a concert.
He is the exact opposite of the clichés used in relation to the jazz player. As Bloomquist put it, "He is as friendly and easy to visit with as if you have known him all your life."
Interested in sports, especially horses, he lives in rural New York state, where he has a stable.
Vol. 5. Issue 3
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, July 14, 1967
Camp, Budget Grow in Proportion
By JILL BRANDT
This is Midwestern Music and Art Camp, a growing establishment.
What 30 years ago functioned on $1,200, today operates on a budget nearing $700,000.
Its first year, Midwestern had an enrollment of 17 campers; each paid $66 for the six-week session. Today the KU campus is host to more than 2,400 campers who now pay $360 for their stay.
The income of the camp in its earlier years came partly from the campers' tuition but also from private donations. Today, however, the camp is self-sufficient; campers' fees support the entire operation, except for certain private scholarships.
THIS YEAR'S BUDGET. running close to $700,000, can be
broken down into the four major divisions of housing, $250,000; staff,
$175,000; services and supplies,
$200,000; and general promotion,
$40,000.
Nearly one-fourth of the budget this year goes for housing, which includes food. This encompasses such things as rental of the dorms from the housing office, payment for the air conditioning, and purchase and preparation of food.
Salaries of the staff represent $175,000 of the budget. These salaries include $100,000 for the approximate 150 instructors, $22,-000 for the clerical staff, $20,000 for the nine guest conductors, and $12,000 for the four housemothers and the five residence directors.
COUNSELORS ARE given their room and board for the eight
weeks of the combined junior and senior high camps, an item which costs about $13,000. The remainder of the salary budget is used to pay such people as the switchboard operators, the desk clerks in the dorms, and the music librarians.
The services and supplies needed to run Midwestern cost approximately $200,000. Included in this are health services costing $3,000, photo services at $2,000, and building and grounds, $3,000. Also adding to the cost are the
purchases of $3,000 in office supplies, approximately $5,000 in music, and additional funds for the operation of the press in the production of the Kamper Kansan and Tempo.
The remainder of this services and supplies budget pays for such things as renting public address systems and tape recorders, telephone and telegraph bills, general repairs throughout the camp, and bus services for camp members.
SKITCH
General promotion of the camp accounts for the remaining $40,000 of the budget. This is used in printing camp brochures, mailing letters and brochures to all interested and prospective campers, and covering general registration costs.
This is only the 12th year of science and math at the 30-year-old camp.
Beginning with two weeks of general study, the science and math camper now attends his classes in the morning, leaving the afternoon free to complete lab projects, assignments, and personal study and experimentation.
Science-Math Offers Figures, Frogs' Legs
THESE CAMPERS are set apart in that they have each received a scholarship from the National
Standing daily behind murky test tubes, frogs' legs, molecular models and bisected leaves are the 102 students enrolled in the Science and Math division at camp.
Divided into different courses, this division offers the student his choice of two of the following subjects: sociology, microbiology, chemistry, physics, physiology, radiation biophysics and botany.
By JAN BURKHALTER
Inspection Of Rooms Set For Sundays
Knowledge in the scientific area, along with interest and an intensive effort in their work, are essential to a camper for achievement in this camp division. Delbert M. Shankel, division director, expressed his belief in the capability and quality of this year's students by stating, "This promises to be our most successful year yet. It certainly is our largest."
Davis is the first chair French horn player in the Concert Band. He plans to attend KU next fall and major in music, with long-range plans of becoming a college professor.
"This is the first time the band has played music written by a camper while he is still in camp," said Esau. "I think it is really a good march."
It will be played by the Varsity Band during the concert tomorrow. Davis composed each part for each instrument in about two weeks. There is a possibility that this march will be used for introducing the Jayhawks at their home football games, according to staff conductor LeRoy Esaü.
Also discussed was the possibility of a moonlight swim previously afforded the junior high campers. However, it was discovered that in order to do so, the pool would have to be rented and there were too many campers for such action to be feasible.
Other pieces that Davis has composed are "Suite for Horn Quartet," "Lament" (a piece for band), two pieces for a brass choir, and "Suite for Band."
E. C. Buchler, professor emeritus of speech, will speak at 10:20 a.m. Tuesday in 426 Lindley. His speech, "Dynamics of Delivery," is open to the public.
"I'd always wanted to write a march," says Bill Davis, composer of the march, "The Happy Jayhawk." Davis, a student in the music division from Natchitoches, La., wrote this march after attending the music camp at KU last year.
Prof Emeritus to Speak
Science Foundation awarded on the basis of scholastic merit in the fields of math and science.
By BEA PARTH
Camper's Song Gets Staff Nod
To obtain this scholarship, all applicants must be entering their senior year in high school and have submitted scores from various tests as well as have included recommendations from their teachers and principals.
It was stated that the rule was made in order to allow campers to eat breakfast, attend church and prepare for the afternoon concerts.
This was the announcement given to the camp council after questions were raised concerning the possibility of sleeping late on Sunday.
Room inspection will now be held on Sundays from 9 to 10 in all dorms and each camper is expected to be out of his room during this period.
Kansan Photo by David Gump
BANKS FLOURISH
Lines prevail in Murphy Hall lobby, the new home of the Camp Bank. Art, Latin and Spanish students have their accounts in the basement of Strong Hall. The hours are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays, the bank however is closed weekends and holidays.