kamper kansan
Vol. 5, Issue 1
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, June 30, 1967
CARL JOHNSON. Templel counselor, who served as chairman for the group's first meeting, explained that, though they are wing representatives, campers may let the staff and administration know problems that are bothering them concerning the camp and make suggestions as to how the camp might be improved. Johnson stated that many of the rules which govern the camp have come out of previous camp councils.
Two Lead '67 Camp Council
Leroy Esau, assistant camp director, was present at the council's meeting and explained why some rules could not be changed, specifically, why Friday closing hours could not be extended.
The main item of business, other than election of officers, was deciding what action should be taken if a wing representative was absent from meetings. After much discussion, the group voted to allow each wing to decide whether to elect an alternate or to send another camper in the representative's place if the elected representative misses council sessions.
Jay Maddox, St. Joseph, Mo., and Charla Lawson, Wichita, Kan., were elected chairman and recording secretary of the 1967 Camp Council at the organization's first meeting held Monday evening in the Templin Hall dining room.
SOME OF THE problems which were brought up by the representatives which Esau consented to look into and see if changes or improvements were possible included placing paper towels in dormitory restrooms, extension of swimming hours for campers, opening a branch of the camp bank in Oliver Hall, allowing boys to enter Lewis Hall before 5 p.m. to get in meal lines, and establishing a method for Templin Hall residents to get change without having to go to Oliver or Lewis Hall.
Forty-one representatives attended the council's first session. Each member was elected to the organization on June 22 by the other residents of his wing.
One hundred journalism students from the Midwestern Music and Art camp and faculty members toured Topeka Thursday, from the journalistic viewpoint.
Journalists Take Jaunt to Topeka
The first trip of the 1967 camp began at 7 a.m. as three buses transported the campers from Lewis Hall to the Kansas capital.
First Kamper Kansan
To get a better insight on the workings of mass media, the young journalists visited the American Yearbook Company, Stauffer Publications (The Topeka Daily Capital and State Journal) and WIBW television and radio studios.
This edition of the Kamper Kansan is the first of four which will appear as inserts in the Summer Session Kansan throughout the six-week session of camp.
Camp Opens 30th Season, Incorporates 9 Divisions
By JEAN MICHAELSON
The University of Kansas Midwestern Music and Art Camp has entered its 30th season offering specialized training in music, Spanish, German, Latin, ballet, journalism, speech and debate, science and art.
Participants in the music program, including three bands and two orchestras, practice to present weekend concerts and formal recitals. Students in the instrumental divisions also have the opportunity to work under nine guest conductors who deliver lectures discussing the various aspects of conducting.
Russell L. Wiley, camp director, also directs camp bands. Gerald M. Carney serves as camp orchestra director, and James Ralston, directs choral music.
THIS SESSION OF the summer camp offers three foreign languages—Spanish, Latin and German. The former two are newly initiated into the total camp schedule, with all three offering courses of study in culture, literature, vocabulary, composition, conversation, pronunciation, and
Ermal Gingerer acts as Spanish camp director, Elizabeth Banks heads the Latin camp, and Robert Elkins serves as director of the German division.
structure. Films, recordings, short lectures and informal sing-and-talk sessions supplement the regular activities.
Daily classes for all ballet students under the administrative direction of Marguerite M. Reed include work in classic ballet, pointe work, Adagio - Pas de Deux (partnering) character, choreography and concert in costume.
Internationally known ballet dancers featured as guest artists in the ballet concerts serve the ballet students as guest instructors during the entire camp.
As part of their journalism training program, camerons in this division write news stories and features, edit copy, serve as reporters on the Summer Session Kansan, edit the Kamper Kansan, and edit Tempo, the camp yearbook. Additional courses are advertising, photography and radio and television. Calder M. Pickett is the journalism camp director.
Photo by David Gump
ASSEMBLED AND WAITING
Midwestern Music and Art campers meet for the first time in Hoch Auditorium to hear their director, Russell L. Wiley introduce the instructors of each of the nine divisions of the camp. After hearing the glories of the camp, students faced one of the many Kansas rainstorms of this season as they started the long hike back to their dormitories.
Religious Services Scheduled
Under the direction of Pastor Richard Dulin, camp chaplain, the program will include three divisions: counseling, group discussions, and a nondenominational worship service to be held each Sunday morning. Pastor Dulin also has provided bus schedules and location directories for campers who wish to attend the churches of their choice.
For the first time, religious services will be offered to students in the Midwestern Music and Art Camp program.
Discussions will be held at various intervals in the six-week session. Experimental artistic services which include jazz and folk-music, are also being considered as an addition to the program.
Tempo: Portrait Of 1967 Session
Have you ever seen two boys doing laundry? Perhaps your roommate with a tray of food that just fell, or maybe the looks on a few friends' faces as they jogged the last few hundred feet to their dorms?
By JAN BURKHALTER
If you haven't been there to witness these events don't think that you won't have the chance of seeing them, for you never know when or where a Tempo photographer will be there to capture a funny or unusual camp incident. And there is no way of fighting it, because that is the whole idea of Tempo, a yearbook designed to depict camp life in every phase and under many different circumstances.
THIS YEAR, TEMPO promises to be better than ever with the addition of 20 pages, bringing the total number of pages to 84. There will be 250 pictures in all and will include feature spreads, pictures of various divisions, group shots of each dorm wing, and many candid photos of life in the dorms, dances, and other social activities. Every camper will have his picture in the yearbook at least once.
The supervision of Tempo is under the journalism division, with Prof. Lee Young in charge and the journalism campers responsible for its content.
In order to receive your Tempo you will be required to pay a fee of $3, which will be handled through your dorm.
STUDENTS PURSUING interests in dramatics, debate and public speaking attend classes concerned with the general theories and practices of oral communication in the speech and debate sections of the camp. Guest lecturers and judges from all sections of the country enrich the students' knowledge. Students may elect special courses in speaking, oratory and interpretation of prose and poetry. Exercises in group discussion, listening and cross-examination supplement extensive practice in debate and public speaking. Bobby Patton serves as speech camp director.
Students of the science department have chosen two areas of specialization after having been introduced during the first week to experimental botany, chemistry, combinatorial topology, elementary number theory, microbiology, physiology, physics, radiation biophysics, and sociology. Films, lectures and a tentative field trip are devices utilized to supplement the daily mathematics and science routine supervised by Delbert Shankel, professor of the science division.
UNDER THE DIRECTION of Marjorie Whitney, art students elect courses varying from lettering and print-making to nature portrait and figure drawing. Each camper takes art history in addition to selecting four other choices. Saturday morning art surveys feature faculty members giving demonstrations and lectures concerning the various specialized divisions of art.
Water color, oil painting, design and color, three dimensional design, interior design, fashion illustration, commercial art and cartooning are some sections that art students work in. Other divisions range from sculpture and pottery to jewelry and weaving.
Junior Campers Present Finale
The 400-member junior high band camp, representing 15 states, ended its session with a concert June 17.
Each of the two bands performed various selections: the Concert Band was directed by Richard Brummett of Winfield College and the Symphonic Band by Charles Lawson of Wichita Heights. Performance of the orchestra directed by Loren Crawford, Weber State College, Utah, concluded the concert.
Marilyn Curt, director of the concert and a cappella choirs, also presented her groups in concert.