SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
50th Year, No. 2
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, June 15, 1962
Third Theatre Program Starts At 8 Tonight
The curtain goes up at eight o'clock tonight and tomorrow at the University Theatre as the third of a series of programs under Summer Theatre International '62 is presented.
"Sweet Betsy From Pike" and "Hello, Out There" will be presented by a cast of seven students and one faculty member. On June 24 this cast will leave for Strobl, Austria where they will study and perform on the summer campus of the University of Vienna.
THE SEVEN are: Daryl Patten, Lawrence graduate student; Keith Jocum, Birmingham, Mich., junior; Barbara Gerlash, Tarkio, Mo., senior; Roger Brown, Topeka graduate student; Shirley Rea, Lawrence graduate student; Marva Lou Powell, Topeka graduate student, and Ann Kretzmeyer, Liberal junior.
The faculty member who will direct the productions and accompany the students to Strobel is Tom P. Rea, an instructor in dramatics.
The tour will be financed by a university grant to the University Theatre as a part of its program in international education. During the six weeks summer school session the group will attend they will perform on the Strobl campus and on other European university campuses in addition to taking class work in drama and language.
THE TWO WORKS presented tonight and tomorrow are part of a repertory of four. During the summer session the group will use these works as well as "John Brown's Body" and "The Fantasticks" as laboratory works for theatre courses and for presentation.
The four works have been prepared with a minimum amount of scenery, costumes and properties so that they may travel easily and may be performed in a variety of places and spaces. They will be performed tonight as they have been prepared for summer travels.
This project in Strobli, Austria, is designed as the first of a continuing exchange program with European universities in the theatre arts.
IN ADDITION to its study program in Strobl this company has been invited to perform at The University of Utrecht, The University of Bonn. The University of Muenster and The Free University of Berlin.
"Hello, Out There" has been prepared in two languages—English and German. Both versions will be presented. There will be a five-minute intermission between the English and the German presentation.
Barnes to Attend Guild Conference
Ronald M. Barnes, carillonneur of the University of Kansas, will attend the annual Congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs in Ann Arbor, Mich., June 17-20. Barnes is vice president and president-elect of the Guild and will assume the latter office at the conclusion of the Congress.
Barnes will present a recital on the University of Michigan carillon Monday (June 18) afternoon. A major portion of the Congress program is given to recitals so that those in attendance will be able to study the techniques and arrangements used by others.
Because each carillon bell has five distinct tones — its strike note and four harmonics or overtones — music for the instrument must be arranged very carefully and conventional piano arrangements might produce only discord. Thus a major value of a meeting of carillonneurs, who through the year are scattered through North America, is the opportunity to learn from each other.
Lynn Peddicord Elected
NEW GOVERNOR—Lynn Peddicord of Wamego is the new governor of Sunflower Girls State. Miss Peddicord represented the Nationalist Party which won 10 of the 16 state offices. The retiring governor is Carolyn Eymann of Atchison.
Lynn Peddicord of Wamego and Cinda Waller of Girard were elected governor and lieutenant governor of Sunflower Girls' State as their party, the Nationalists won 10 of the 16 state offices.
Miss Peddicord defeated Faye Taplin of Ogden, the Federalist party candidate and Miss Waller defeated Michele Clark of El Dorado.
The new state officers were sworn in at an inaugural ceremony last night in which Kansas Gov. John Anderson spoke.
Miss Pedicardo is an honor roll student at Wamego. She is a cheerleader and a member of the Y-Teen State Committee. She plans to study foreign languages at KU.
There will be little change in temperatures in the Lawrence area today and tomorrow. Highs are expected in the lower 80s and the low tonight will be near 60. North Central Kansas will be partly cloudy with little temperature change and chances of widely scattered thunderstorms tonight.
Miss Peddicord replaces Miss Carolyn Eymann of Atchison who was elected governor last year.
The remainder of Girls State will be devoted to sessions of the legislature in which the Girls Staters will draw up, introduce and vote on various issues of legislation.
Girls State will also elect two delegates to Girls Nation who will serve as the senators from Kansas.
Other officers elected are; attorney general, Paulette Helchen, Arkansas City; secretary of state, Jean Miller, Hiwataa; state treasurer, Mary K. O'Connor, Salina; state auditor, Karen Kimball, Lawrence; supt. of public instruction, Kay Patterson, Wichita; state printer, Jane Zimmerman, Fort Scott; commissioner of insurance, Norma Norman, Topeka, and Justices of the Supreme Court, Gwen Stuart, Lawrence; Lynn Payer, El Dorado; Patricia Ann Hartung, Fredonia; Frankie V. Howard, Wichita; Cindy Dickson, Leavenworth; Karen Aday, Wellington, and Sue Ann Neill, Clay Center.
Weather
The names of the dead sergeant and the two wounded men were
Army Sergeant Killed Near Laotian Border
The American casualties occurred in fighting in the mountainous Quang Nam province not far from the coastal city of Danang, some 375 miles north of Saigon. It was the same general vicinity in which four other American advisers were captured by Communist guerrillas in ambush April 8.
SAIGON, Viet Nam — (UPI) — An American Army Sergeant has been killed and a captain and another sergeant wounded in a battle between Vietnamese and Communist Viet Cong troops near the Laoian border, it was announced yesterday.
The death of the sergeant brought to 17 the number of GIs who have lost their lives in South Viet Nam since the United States moved in military personnel to train and assist the anti-Communist forces. One American is missing.
Two battalions of South Vietnamese infantrymen swept into action in another sector from American helicopters and overran a major Viet Cong supply base. A helicopter was forced down in the Bien Hoa area by engine trouble and had to be destroyed on the spot when it could not be removed.
withheld pending notification of next of kin.
A U.S. military spokesman said the wounds of the sergeant and captain were "not serious." They were taken by helicopter to the 8th U.S. Army Field Hospital at Nhatrang, north of Saigon.
Details of the military action in which the three men became involved were sketchy. The Americans were working with the 1st Infantry Division of the Vietnamese 1st Corps. The spokesman was unable to say how many soldiers of each side were involved in the battle or how the Americans were killed and wounded.
Plan Foiled By Agents
PARIS — (UPI) — The French News Agency, France Presse, yesterday said French Security Agents had arrested six secret army (OAS) commandos who had been ordered to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.
In a dispatch datelined Vesoul, the agency said the OAS "Miller" command unit was captured in the Vesoul-Besacon region in Northeast France.
De Gaulle arrived in Vesoul yesterday on another of his meet-thepeople tours.
The agency said security services were tipped off several days ago to the reported assassination plot and arrested the six men before they could put the plan into operation.
Strict security measures were enforced in Vesoul during De Gaulle's public appearances. Planes, helicopters and balloons were forbidden to fly over the area in which he traveled.
Dean Swarthout To Be Honored
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts will conduct memorial services for Emeritus Dean Donald M. Swarthout Sunday (June 17) at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall, which honors his 32 years of leadership and service to the school.
Dean Swarthout, who would have been 78 on August 9, died. Tuesday in Washington, D.C., where he had lived since retiring from KU in 1955.
THE MEMORIAL SERVICE will feature music by a small choir organized by Clayton Krehbiel, a number by the Faculty String. Quartet, the reading of a Psalm, and remarks by friends of Dean Swartho!
Mrs. Emma Swarthout, the widow; Mrs. Evelyn Swarthout Hayes, a daughter, and her husband Patrick Hayes, all of Washington, D.C., will attend the service.
Funeral services for Dean Swarthout were held yesterday at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Washington. Burial was at Pawpaw, Ill., where he was born and grew up.
DEAN SWARTHOUT headed the KU School of Fine Arts for 27 years, 1923-50, and was a teacher of piano and choral director five more years. After retirement at KU, he was
Donald M. Swarthout
visiting professor of piano at The Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
Swarthout Recital Hall at KU honors his name.
Dean Swarthout was a leader among music educators during the decades that saw American music develop from infancy to young adulthood. At KU he took a school that had area tradition of strength and gave it a solid national reputation.
NATIONALLY he was president of the National Association of Schools of Music for four terms. For two years he was president of the Music Teachers National Association and for 19 years he served that organization as executive secretary. He was a life member of the executive committee of the NASM. In 1948 he was appointed chairman of a U.S. music commission for UNESCO.
Soon after his arrival in Kansas, Dean Swarthout organized the quarterly Sunday Vespers programs and in 1925 presented the first of the famous Christmas Vespers with Tableaux, which since have been widely imitated in colleges and high schools.
In his early years here he organized choral groups of 500 students and townpeople but in the 1930s he turned to smaller groups. One was the Westminster Choir, an a cappella group, associated with the Presbyterian Church. About 20 years ago it became an all-student group and is known now as the highly selective University Choir. In this area of activity, also, Dean Swarthout was a pioneer.
HE DEVELOPED the intensive KU spring music week festivals and was the first to put the KU concert course on the music world's big time circuit. During his deanship the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, now in its 25th year, was pioneered.
More to Arrive On Hill Sunday
Mount Oread will be transformed into Grand Central Station Sunday as the Girls Staters move out and students attending the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, the Science and Mathematics camp and the first session of KU Previews will move in.
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp will open its 25th season and will extend through July 29 with approximately 40 states represented by students of junior high, high school and college level. The camp will provide extensive training in band, orchestra, chorus, small ensembles, private study, ballet, theatre and art. Nationally known guest conductors will appear each week for intensive rehearsals and weekly concerts. Russell Wiley is in charge of the camp.
The science and mathematics camp will be a two-weeks camp. The purpose is to stimulate high school student interest in science by lectures, laboratory work or field trips in over sixteen fields of science and mathematics. Dr. R. W. Baxter is the camp director.
For the first session of KU previews there will be 189 high school seniors who plan to enroll at KU in the fall. The Registrar reports, much to the dismay of males, that there will be 118 males and 71 females at the first session.
Sen. Pearson To Campaign
TOPEKA — (UPI) — U.S. Sen.
James B. Pearson, R-Kan., will be host at the formal opening of his state campaign headquarters here tonight.
The offices and reception room of Sen. Pearson's headquarters are located at 415 Topeka Ave.
THE FORMAL opening will climax a full day of political activity in Shawnee County for the Senator who seeks the GOP nomination for election to the post he now holds on an interim appointment basis.
A breakfast for representatives of press, radio and television was planned for 7:45 a.m. at the Jayhawk Hotel. Sen. Pearson will make a brief statement, answer questions and visit informally with newsmen and his campaign workers.
After the breakfast Sen. Pearson will go to the office of Secretary of State Paul R. Shanahan and formally file for the Republican nomination for the unexpired term of the late Sen. Andrew F. Schoepel.
After filing he will spend most of the day visiting various state offices and campaigning in the Topeka area.
Pearson arrived here last night from Washington.