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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Friday, June 14, 1968
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10:45 a.m. to noon Tuesday, June 11. Political rallies and state and county candidate campaigns closed Tuesday's work. Lights out was at 11:10 p.m.
Awakening at 5:45 a.m. Monday the girls began preparing campaign materials, campaigning, signing petitions, and attending classes on political parties, forms of city and county government.
A panel discussion on politics and government was presented Monday evening by KU Dean of Women Emily Taylor; Mrs. Raynolds Shultz, wife of the Douglas County Kansas state senator; and Beatrice Jacquart, former member of the Kansas House of Representatives.
CONCLUDING MONDAY'S activities were election and appointment of city officials, registration for county and state voting, passing of city ordinances and other city business.
The week began for the girls
Gordon gets watch award
Edward Gordon, Fort Scott senior, received the Hamilton Watch Company award. The watch is for the senior in science who most successfully combined proficiency in his field with achievements, academic or extracurricular or both, in the social sciences or humanities.
Gordon earned election to Phi Beta Kappa while majoring in chemistry and mathematics. He was senior co-chairman of the Kansas Relays Committee and earned election to Owl Society and Sachem, all-University honor groups for junior and senior men.
He also served on the College Bowl questions committee, Student Union Activities, and was chairman of the Kansas City Phil-harmonic student concert series project. He also is a member of Phl Lambda Upsilon and Pi Mu Epsilon, honor societies in chemistry and mathematics.
Sunday afternoon when after completing registration and opening activities, the 424 high school seniors were grouped into 12 cities to facilitate government activities and movement around campus.
The girls then were divided into Nationalist and Federalist parties whose emblems are the meadowlark and the buffalo respectively. In the city meetings precinct committeewomen were elected, Candidates for justices of the Supreme Court, attorney general, county attorney and judge of the district court signed applications for the required bar exams.
Each of the 424 Girls State participants were selected because of interest in people, leadership, character and scholarship. Each girl must report personal impressions of Girls State to her sponsoring American Legion Auxiliary.
WOMEN FROM the American Legion Auxiliary in Kansas are counselors.
Speakers from the University of Kansas, state and local government and the American Legion have appeared during the week.
"Sunflower Girls State Citizen," a small newspaper, is prepared daily by Mrs. Floyd Rogers, publicity, and Martha Fowler of Osawatomie.
KU adds music prof
Charles K. Hoag, associate professor at the University of Oklahoma since 1963 and chairman of the Oklahoma Composer' Symposium, will become assistant professor of music theory in September.
As a composer Hoag has won two money prizes. In 1963 he received the University of Rhode Island's $200 prize for "Dirge," since published by Boosey and Hawks, Inc. His "Encounter for Orchestra" won the $500 second prize last year in a competition for Oklahoma composers. The Tulsa Philharmonic gave it a premiere in February.
Day campers find skills
By Sister Audrey Martin Advisers Institute Reporter
Emphasis is not placed on underprivileged children participating in the Lawrence day camp project, but rather on the opportunity for children to have the day camp experience.
"It would be a mistake and do a lot of harm to call the camp a poor people's camp or a camp for underprivileged children," Jesse Milan, administrator of the camp, said. "Such a reference would put a stigma on the participating children, a stigma that would mark them."
Milan, a physical education instructor in the Lawrence public school system, heads the summer project that will be in operation from June 10 through Aug. 16.
CAMPING ACTIVITIES and a variety of other outdoor summer experiences are planned for about 250 Lawrence children between the ages of 5 and 12 at a local day camp. Individual donations and those from various local agencies provided the funds to establish the day camp at the Douglas County Fairgrounds.
"It is true that the children chosen are those who might not get the opportunity for the educational and recreational experiences that the camp is providing," he said. "However, it would be unfair to these children to categorize them."
Selecting the participants was done by a group of people involved in working with these children such as the school nurses
and social workers. Family size, income, and needs of the child relative to his experiences were factors in considering the applicant.
LIMITING THE enrollment was necessary, according to Milan, because of the limited staff. "A counselor can handle just so many," he said, "and we hope to provide as strong an identity and group relationship as we can."
The aids are given on-the-spot camping training. As they work with small groups the aids are taught how to accept and handle responsibilities.
"This day camp is an example of how existing agencies in a community can unite to fulfill human needs," Milan said.
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