SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
50th Year, No. 5
"With Vendure Clad," Hayden; "Ach, Ich Fuhls," Mozart; "Ich Hab' In Penna," "In Dem Schatten Meiner Locken," "Lebe Wohl," and "Er Ists," all by Hugo Wolf; "To Son L'Umilo Ancella," Cilea; "Rusalka's Song to the Moon," Dvorak.
"Before My Window," and "The Lilacs," Rachmaninoff; "O Luna Che Fa Lume," Davico; "Tell Me O Blue, Blue Sky," Gianniari; "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes," "When We Two Parted," "Why So Pale and Wan," Warren Martin, and "The Trees on the mountain," Carlisle Floyd.
Tonight she will perform various works ranging from Baroque to the present day. Her program includes: "Let the Bright Seraphim," Handel; "Tu Lo Sai," Torelli; "Lungi Dal Caro Bene," Sarti; "Le Viloette," Scarlatti.
The assisting pianist will be Marian Jersild.
Young Soprano To Sing Tonight At KU Theatre
The KU Concert Course's summer attraction will feature Mary Evelyn Bruce, soprano, who will appear at 8 tonight in the University Theatre.
Tickets are available at the School of Fine Arts or the Union Ticket Center. Students will be admitted upon presenting their I.D. cards at the door.
Tuesday, June 26, 1962
Miss Bruce is a young attractive musician who is rapidly receiving recognition for her fine performances in opera and solo recitals throughout the United States and Canada. She holds degrees from Radford College and Westminster College. In New York she has continued advanced study with Winifred Cecil.
After an appearance with the Robret Shaw Chorale in San Francisco, the News-Call Bulletin said, "Mary Evelyn Bruce was a superb contribution."
KU's Dotson Breaks Mile Barrier, 3:59
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Another KU graduate, Al Oerter, won the discus throw and came within one-half inch of tying a pending world record in the discus with a throw of 202 feet 2 inches.
Dotson closed his college career the week before at the NCAA meet placing third with a time of 4:00.5. Dotson served as both cross-country and track captain for the Jayhawkers this year.
Last week Kansas Track Coach Bill Easton predicted that Bott Dotson would break the four-minute mile at the National AAU Track and field championships at Walnut, Calif. Saturday.
The twice-All-America proved his coach to be a good prognosticator as he ran the mile in 3.59 and became the first Big Eight performer to break the barrier.
HIS 3:59, as illustrious as it might sound, was good enough for only fourth as Jim Beatty of the Los Angeles Track Club ran a 3:57.9 to win the race and tie the championship record set by Herb Elliott of Australia in 1958.
Beatty and his teammate Jim Grelle who finished second with a 3:58.1 fought it out for the victory. Beatty and Grelle fought furiously in the final 220 yards. The 135-pound Beatty proved too tough, even though Grelle finished in a dead heat he was given a matching time with Cary Weisiger of the U.S. Marines. It took a photo film to separate the leaders.
Religion School Gets New Building
If all goes well, the University of Kansas will have a new Religion School with four full-time instructors by the fall of 1965.
Preliminary plans have been approved by the board of the Kansas Bible Chair for a $500,000 building to replace Myers Hall which was built in 1901. The new Religion School will occupy the same site as Myers Hall, across from the Kansas Union.
THE NEW BUILDING will double the present number of classrooms and there will be additional offices for the increased staff.
A library will be constructed to house more than 15.000 volumes and the study area increased to accommodate over three times as many students as the present library.
The ground floor will consist of a chapel and campus ministry centers. A residence for the Kansas Bible Chair director will be included with the new building.
THE KANSAS BIBLE CHAIR is sponsored by the Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ) and cooperates with seven other religious groups in teaching religion at KU.
The building will serve as a Christian Church contribution for the expansion of the interdenominational and interfaith KU Religion School. The architects for the building are Charles L. Marshall and David E. Prickett, both of Topeka.
The building will be financed entirely by contribution. Construction is expected to start in late 1963 or early 1964 according to the campaign director, the Rev. George V. Bever.
THE KU RELIGION SCHOOL started in 1921 has more than 500 students enrolled in courses during the regular school term. There is presently one full-time instructor.
According to Dean William J. Moore, the new building will allow the school to meet an expected student enrollment increase and also allow an expansion of courses to be offered.
Top Writers Gather at KU
The University of Kansas Writers' Conference which opens today and runs through Friday noon features some of the nation's top writers.
The leaders of the conference are: Holly Wilson of Topeka, author of books for girls, who opened the conference with the first lecture this morning, on "Imagination and Reality"; John Selby, novelist, speaker this afternoon; Peggy Greene, Topeka columnist, this evening's speaker; Marnie Ellingson of Omaha, author of short stories for Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's and other women's magazines; Edsel Ford, poet, speaker tomorrow evening; Bob Sanford, 1950 graduate of the University of Kansas City Star.
Interested persons may attend the Friends-of-the-Conference dinner ($2.52 a plate) at 6 o'clock Thursday evening in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union by making immediate reservation with Institutes and Conferences, University of Kansas Extension. Persons wishing to attend
any single half-day or evening session may do so for $5 for each such session. Full-time enrollment, $30, includes the privilege f some manuscript submission. Persons desiring this should consult Prof. Frances Grinstead, 203 Flint, who is director of the conference for her tenth successive summer.
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Public Invited To Selby Talk
John Selby's Thursday evening lecture to the University of Kansas Writers' Conference is open to the public without charge.
Selby will talk at 8 o'clock in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union on "The Way It Really Is," a discussion of the literary life.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of Rinehart & Co. for eight years, fifteen years
Campus Activities
Today
Swimming—Men: 1-2, 7:30-9 p.m.; Women: 4-6, 7:30-9 p.m.
Swimming—Men: 1-2, 7:30-9 p.m.; Women: 4-6, 7:30-9 p.m.
Fine Arts—Summer Concert Course, Mary Evelyn Bruce, soprano University Theatre. Midwestern Music Camp.
Film Features—Story of Silver, Sculpture by Lipton, Danish Design—3 Bailey Hall, 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday
Hour Dance—8-9 p.m., Kansas Union, informal dress, dance band. Swimming—Men: 4-6, 7:30-9 p.m.; Women: 1-2, 7:30-9 p.m.
His novels usually feature musical performers or other figures prominent in the arts and entertainment. Most often they have a Missouri or other Midwest background, and the Midwest setting is often played off against an exotic European one.
teacher of Columbia University's novel writing workshop, author of ten novels, Selby's career also included newspaper and press association service, primarily on the arts.
Thursday
Intramural softball—Hicks vs. “?” Marks, field 7; Betas vs. Firebirds, field 8.
Selby is as well acquainted with the continent as with such small Missouri towns as Gallatin, where he was born. St. Joseph, Mo., and a fictional town which may be taken to be Gallatin, plus another whose name indicates it is a combination of Cape Girardeau and St. Genevieve, are favorite settings.
Swimming—Men: 1-2, 7:30-9 p.m.; Women: 4-6, 7:30-9 p.m.
IN SELBY'S MOST recent novel, "Madame," the protagonist is a woman columnist who has exerted a dominating influence on family and professional colleagues.
The "scene" is a continuous change, among towns and cities of the Middle West to the East which are well known to Selby. The heroine's progress in this story is actually a death journey, in which recollection is stimulated by memories put in motion during overnight stops in her chauffeur-driven limousine.
Figures brought together at the last of these stops are her children and co-workers who have been made familiar to Selby readers in several of the previous novels.
THE NOVELIST is perhaps most famous for his trilogy of novels which concludes with "Starbuck" and for "Sam," the novel for which in 1939 he received the American prize in the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition.
Now Selby divides his time between Fire Island, N.Y., and Sicily, Italy. His 10th novel, still in progress, is laid in Sicily—but there'll no doubt be some Missourians in it!
Wheelock Guest At SUA Dinner Tomorrow Night
Dr. Lewis Wheelock, a lecturer of history, will be the featured guest at a Summer SUA Board sponsored dinner in the Regionalist Room at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Dr. Wheelock will speak after the dinner on "Some Dimensions of the Right Wing-U.S.A. 1962." After his speech an informal discussion will be held.
The cost of the dinner is $1.75 and since accommodations limit the gathering to 15, it will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Reservations can be made at the Union desk.
The program is the first of a series to be sponsored by the SUA in which well-known faculty members are invited to dinner and speak afterwards. Informal discussions are planned for each dinner.
A KU graduate student in journalism has been named managing editor of the KU Alumni Magazine replacing Jim Tice who is editor of publications for People-to-People in Kansas City.
Blackledge Chosen As Alumni Editor
He is Walt Blackledge, a native of Scottsbluff, Neb., who will assume his new duties on July 1.
Blackledge graduated from Hastings (Neb.) College in 1953. He graduated from the San Francisco Theological Seminary at San Anselmo, Calif. in 1956 and was ordained into the ministry of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
He served churches at Oakley, and Chase, Kan., before coming to KU in the summer of 1961 to work on a masters degree in journalism.