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Volume 5, Issue 1
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, June 21, 1968
—Kansan Photo by Bill Seymour
BAND CAMP JUST GROWS AND GROWS AND GROWS
Russell L. Wiley, director of the camp, addresses the first all camp meeting in Hoch Auditorium as campers fill the main floor and the first balcony, Tuesday night. Behind Wiley are the camp supervisors and division directors. The all camp convocation is set for each Tuesday night in Hoch.
Campers come from 50 states
High school students from all four corners of the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, complete classes today in the first week of the six-week Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
This year's enrollment topped the 2,000 mark for the first time, pushing near 2,100 in the ten camp divisions.
Students are attending various sessions in music, Latin, French, German, Spanish, journalism, art, speech and debate, science and mathematics, and ballet.
THE CAMP, which began in 1935, now attracts over 50 percent of its students from beyond the borders of Kansas. The camp has steadily grown from its humble beginnings the first year with 17 campers.
The campers are in class from 8 a.m. until mid-afternoon. Then planned recreation and other activities, as well as homework or practice in some divisions, consume most of the spare time.
THE CAMPERS' day begins at 6:30 a.m. with reveille by their residence hall counselors. They eat their meals in the dormitory in which they live and then attend classes on Mount Oread.
Week-end activities include
What's uP
SUNDAY—10 a.m., Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall—Camp worship service.
MONDAY 7 p.m. Carp.
Council meeting.
TUESDAY through Friday — wing pictures starting right after dinner.
hall dances, sporting events and the musical concerts. This year there will be concerts at 7 p.m. Friday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and again at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. These will feature the camp bands, orchestras, and choirs.
The day of the camper closes at 9:30 when they must be in their residence hall. Lights out is at 10 p.m.
The campers paid nothing toward the bank service, and yet only half of the campers took advantage of the bank, Wiley said.
Bank not offered because of cost; campers must watch own money
"Since the camp is not offering a camp bank this year, we caution the students to be careful with their money," he said. He encouraged the use of travelers checks which can be used only by the owner. Theft can be avoided by each camper's responsible protection of his own money, he said.
The Camp Bank will not be operated this year, because of last year's $3,000 overhead cost, Russell L. Wiley, camp director, said.
Director welcomes campers
By Eric Kramer Kamper Kansan Reporter
Russell L. Wiley, camp director, gave the welcoming address at the all camp convocation in Hoch Auditorium Tuesday night.
During his opening address he referred to Hoch as his second home. He said this because he had
First Kamper Kansan
This edition of the Kamper Kansan is the first of five which will appear throughout the six-week session of camp. The Kamper Kansan will be made available to all students participating in the summer camp program.
Students of the Journalism division will provide campers with information concerning classes, activities, and other branches of the camp, which will be in the forms of editorials, news stories and features.
whey said in the early days of camp the campers lived in unairconditioned fraternity houses and thought nothing of the heat.
worked in the auditorium for almost 20 years.
IT WAS also said that the camp started out 33 years ago with only 17 campers. The camp was dormant two years during World War II.
"Bones" Nay introduced the Winning Wing Wiley Cup which is to be given to the wing that excells in sports.
Wiley invited all campers to attend music concerts.
VICE CHANCELLOR George B. Smith, director of the Summer Session, was introduced and asked to speak. Smith mentioned some of the famous people that have been at the University, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, several symphonies and many great actors. The campers were welcomed to this distinguished group.
Guest conductor -I
Brown to conduct concerts
By Meri Maffet
Kamper Staff Reporter
Harry John Brown, formerly conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony, will be the Camp's first guest conductor this summer and will direct concerts this weekend.
"I just love it," Brown said of his work with youth. "In fact, as a result of my love for kids, I've just resigned from the Milwaukee Symphony to take up a New York State University professorship."
THE UNIVERSITY position, he explained, will allow him more personal freedom in scheduling clinics and visits to youth symphonies and music festivals.
Born in Chicago, Brown was educated in their schools. After high school graduation he spent one year at the Eastman School of Music. He pursued a military career for the next three and one-half years and returned to East to complete a bachelor degree two years later. Later he
earned a major degree in humanities from Elmhurst in Chicago.
Brown's professional career got a successful start when he was chosen to conduct the TriCity Symphony of Davenport, Iowa. Later he was invited to be the first director of the Mesker Amphitheatre in Evansville, Ind. During his first summer there he directed 30 concerts in 10 weeks.
THE NEXT three years Brown spent at Tanglewood, Mass., where he studied with Serg Kousevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony. Upon completion of his studies there he became closely associated with Van Cliburn. In 1959 when Van Cliburn was making his concert tour of Moscow, Brown became director of the NBC orchestra and later conducted the orchestra on the former's concert tour in the United States.
While serving with the NBC orchestra, Brown's career with the Milwaukee Symphony was launched. As a result of Brown's
appearance with Cliburn in Milwaukee, he received an invitation to help organize a symphony orchestra in the city. The plan to organize such an orchestra had been tried unsuccessfully several times, but with Brown's help the dream finally became a reality.
TEN YEARS ago there was no Milwaukee Symphony; for the last two years it has received recognition as having become one of the major orchestras in the United States.
This summer Brown has scheduled active participation in various youth activities. He has just come from Annapolis, Md., where he worked with a group of 160 young musicians.
At the conclusion of his seventh annual appearance in Lawrence he will travel to Pleasantville, N.Y., where he will serve as lecturer and conductor in the World of Arts, an eight week exploration of the arts organized by the Girl Scouts. Each week will be devoted to intense study of one aspect of the arts. Brown is
in charge of directing the week in music exploration.
Harry John Brown has a busy summer ahead of him, but nevertheless, he remarks, "The most important thing for me now is this week-end."
HARRY JOHN BROWN