Dan Defoe of the CIA' He should be,' says prof
Seventeenth-century author and journalist Daniel Defoe would have been invaluable to the FBI or CIA today, an Indiana U. professor said yesterday in a speech at the Kansas Union.
John R. Moore, an authority on English literature, said Defoe was hanged in 1731 although he could have freed himself through his wealth of inside information about the British government.
He said Defoe had connections with people all over England and in other parts of the world from whom he received written reports.
THE INDIANA PROFESSOR called Defoe "the first social historian who viewed national matters with a concern for the common folk" and compared him in his capacity of historian with Winston Churchill.
mores with principle than with political parties, their policies differed on publicity," Moore said.
"Although both were concerned
"Defoe preferred to keep himself in the background and assumed fixed personalities, speaking through a mask as in a Greek tragedy."
MOORE SUMMED UP Defoe's importance as an historian by saying, "He knew the facts of human experience."
Graduation reservations coming fast from alumni
Several hundred of the expected 2,000 KU alumni already have made reservations with the Alumni Association for Commencement activities June 3-5 more than a week before the peak reservation period.
Dick Wintermote, executive director of the KU Alumni Association, said that 215 reservations had already been made for the all-University Commencement supper at 4:30 p.m. June 4 in the Kansas Union. The capacity crowd of 1,450 is expected at the dinner which has been a sellout during the past three years.
DURING THE DINNER Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will deliver his "State of the University" address and the KU men's glee clubs of 1923-1928 will provide music.
A total of 121 persons have made reservations for June 3 reunion activities planned by members of the classes of 1917, 1927 and 1942.
Wintermote said that requests for reservations had also been mailed to parents of graduating seniors but that they had not yet had a chance to answer.
HOUSING WILL BE provided at McCollum Hall and Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall. One hundred and seventy-one persons
have already requested housing at Gertrude Sellars Pearson.
The men's glee clubs of 1923 and 1928 have scheduled reunions. Alumni whose classes graduated before 1917, The Gold Medal Club, will hold their traditional gathering.
Weekend Commencement activities are: a luncheon meeting of the Alumni Association board of directors at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, June 3; a breakfast meeting of the Endowment Association trustees at 8:15 a.m. Sunday, June 4; and a buffet luncheon for the parents of graduating seniors at noon, Monday, June 5 in Oliver Hall. About 700 persons are expected to attend the luncheon for which 44 tickets have already been sold.
RACCALAUREATE SERVICES will begin at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4 in Memorial Stadium. The speaker will be a former missionary in the Belgian Congo, Dr. L Arden Almquist, executive secretary of the Evangelical Covenant Church of America. He earned his M.D. from KU in 1950.
KU's 95th annual Commencement exercises will begin at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4 in Memorial Stadium, during which four outstanding KU alumni will receive distinguished service citations.
Recipients are: Mrs. Ruth Gar-
ver Gagliardo, Lawrence, children's literature specialist; A. H. Cromb, Mission Hills, member of Kansas Board of Regents and president of Gresham and Company, Kansas City; Ellis D. Bever, Wichita attorney; and Dr. Theodore K. Lawless, Chicago, Ill., dermatologist and community leader.
Two KU chemistry professors will be featured soloists when the Trinity Episcopal Church presents "Elijah" at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Episcopal Church at 1011 Vermont St.
Chem profs to sing solos
They are Ralph Christofferson, tenor, and Alfred Lata, baritone, both of the KU chemistry department.
Other soloists are Rosemary King, soprano, of the KU registrar's office, and Mary Caston, a 1966 KU graduate.
Mortar Board picks twenty-four juniors
Mortar Board, KU senior women's honorary organization, initiated 24 members at a Wednesday night banquet addressed by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
The new initiates were selected from the junior class on the basis of scholarship, leadership and service.
The present active chapter, new initiates and alumni of Mortar Board attended the banquet.
The officers of Mortar Board for 1967-68 are: Jenky Speer, Wichita junior, president; Martha Quade, Kirkwood, Mo., junior, vice-president; Gloria Chadborn, Kansas City junior, secretary; Margo Crist, Brewster sophomore, treasurer; Dorothy Sloan, Norton junior, convention chairman; Susan Weinlock, Hutchinson senior, program chairman, and Rosie Burns, Caldwell junior, quarterly editor.
The present chapter elected Miss Speer and Miss Quade. The 24 new initiates elected the rest of the officers.
There is a convention chairman for next year because KU will have a regional Mortar Board convention for the surrounding states sometime in the fall.
Lata, who has sung with Robert Shaw in the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, said his musical interest has "always been an avocation." He said he has never seriously considered a musical career.
Mississippi rights worker killed during demonstration
JACKSON, Miss. — (UPI) A Negro civil rights worker died early today of gunshot wounds and authorities feared his death would signal a new round of demonstrations in this beleaguered city where National Guardsmen kept an uneasy peace.
Witnesses, however, denied that Brown had been participating in the actual demonstrations or had been rushing police barricades at the time he was wounded.
a group of demonstrators that had rushed police barricades, hurled bricks and bottles, and that officers drew their guns and fired only to force the Negroes to retreat.
University hospital said Brown died after undergoing surgery during the night.
The fatally wounded civil rights worker was Benjamin Brown, 22, who frequently appeared at civil rights demonstrations in the Mississippi Delta area.
POLICE SAID BROWN was in
The chorus, which consists mainly of KU students and faculty. will be accompanied by
University hospital said Brown Proctor Crow at the organ.
Photography show begins this week
A photography exhibition, sponsored by the North - Central Camera Club Council and hosted by the Lawrence Color Camera Club, will be held at the Kansas Union beginning this weekend.
The display will consist of entries from 135 camera clubs representing Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas.
Slides will be shown at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, and black - and - white prints will be exhibited in the Kansas Union lounge through May 28.
Judging will be at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Plaques and ribbons will be awarded to winning photographers.
8 Daily Kansan Friday, May 12, 1967
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