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PC Applications Increasing
Ev Bob Hovt
Applications for Peace Corps memberships are pouring into the Washington office at the rate of about 1,000 a month. As many as 750 have been received in one week, and in February alone 4,000 applications were received.
Blair Butterworth, assistant chief of the college and university division of the Peace Corps public affairs office, who spoke at KU last week, urged seniors to take the special examination to be given Saturday. Reservations are being accepted by Clark Coan, assistant dean of men.
"Go ahead and take the examination," Butterworth said. "If you are accepted, you can refuse a certain project, ask to be assigned at a later date, or just plain say 'no.'"
AT THE FRIDAY meeting, Butterworth was asked about marriages within the Corps. He said several couples have gotten married during the training or after being assigned to their posts.
Butterworth said that as a rule the Peace Corps does not accept volunteers who already have children, and that volunteers who marry during the term of service have to work that problem out for themselves.
"The Peace Corps doesn't want children being born over there. The volunteers are there to work."
BUT PEACE CORPS service is not all work and no play, according to Butterworth.
Volunteers in West Africa are making arrangements to assemble in Timbuktu during their vacation time. Another group is planning to form an expedition to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, and Butterworth said he "would be surprised" if a Peace Corps group does not tackle Mt. Everest.
He said that the volunteers are remarkably resourceful and that some of them "have conned rides on military aircraft in order to extend their travels."
The organization in the United States continues to grow. The Peace Corps is directed from Washington, but 30 universities are engaged in training programs.
A Kansan, Warren E. Schmidt, formerly assistant state 4-H club leader, has been named leader of a new national Peace Corps project. He is in charge of a program for 52 volunteers who are being
trained for service in 4-S projects in Brazil.
THE BRAZILIAN 4-S clubs are similar to American 4-H clubs. The six-week training program for the Brazil project is being conducted at the National 4-H center in Washington, D.C. The trainees will be sent to the Peace Corps Field Training Center at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, for 26 days before going to Brazil for six weeks of final training.
At the meeting held at KU Friday, Butterworth explained the Puerto Rican training center.
The training includes swimming, crossing a rope bridge over a chasm, and spending a night alone in a rain forest.
"Then," Butterworth said, "we let you go back in the villages where there is work to be done. There, you get the smell of poverty.
"IT'S NOT SO much the physical training," he continued, "as it is that we want you to do things you may never have done before, and get in the habit of saying I never thought I could do it."
He said that nearly 15 per cent of the volunteers are disqualified before receiving their overseas assignment.
The working conditions faced by the volunteers are as varied as the problems they encounter. They draw monthly living allowances which range from $70 in Nigeria to $182 in Tanganyika, and in some cases they also receive compensation from the local governments.
The 50 teachers now working in Ghana receive $1,950 a year salaries from the government. The U.S. government holds $75 a month for each volunteer which is paid in a lump sum of $1,800 at the end of their two year terms of service.
ALTHOUGH VOLUNTEERS serve without salary, it costs between $5,000 and $12,000 per member for training, transportation, living allowances, medical care and administrative overhead.
Director Sargent Shriver has asked Congress for $63.7 million to operate the Corps in the 1963 fiscal year. Shriver said, "If we get all we have asked for, it will be something of a miracle. But we expect to get a lion's share, and maybe all of it."
Shriver said that he has not asked Congress to make the Corps a permanent agency, but said it
By next August, he expects to have 5,000 overseas or in training, and by Oct.1963,he expects the total strength of the Peace Corps to stand near 10,000.
The first mission of the Peace Corps began last September. A proposed group of 28 was expanded to 35, at the request of the Tanganyikan government, to go to that country to help local technicians plan and build roads. Peace Corps members assigned there are generally skilled technicians -- surveyors, geologists and civil engineers.
The program is not restricted to college graduates, and it is open to qualified Americans of all ages. One volunteer, Jeanne Dumas of Reno, Nevada, is 62 years old. She presently is serving in East Pakistan.
may become permanent because of the favorable response to it.
Many of the volunteers have encountered the primitive conditions which were envisioned when the program began. Others have found something of a "good life."
THE EIGHTY-PLUS member orchestra played before the bare walls of the Hoch Auditorium stage. Mr. Ormandy used neither score nor baton at any time during the concert. The familiar sound of the Philadelphia, while thrilling on records in person is nearly overwhelming by sheer force of beauty and spaciousness, only rarely by weight.
Philadelphia Orchestra Plays for 3,000 Persons
THE ORGANIZATION, which was 14 months old May 1, now has 750 volunteers on active service.
More than three thousand people turned out in Hoch Auditorium last night to hear the orchestra which Sergie Rachmaninoff, the late Russian-American pianist-composer-conductor, called "the greatest orchestra in the world."
THE REMAINDER of the program was pure delight. It included Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," a symphony from his opera of that name; "Night Music" by Rochberg, with cello obbligato by Lorne Munroe, the first-desk cellist; "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" by Bussy, and the exhilarating "Pines of Rome" by Respighi.
By Tom Winston
The program included Mr. Ormandy's orchestral transcription of Bach's organ "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor," which is so often heard in the movies in Hollywood's monster and beast movies. Even Walt Disney had captain Nemo playing it in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." It is the feeling of many
who know the work in its organ form that that is where orchestral transcriptions of it belong—in Hollywood movies or under the sea.
TRANSCRIPTIONS of Bach organ works into orchestral arrangements are very popular in some quarters, and the Philadelphia is famous for them. Leopold Stokowski began the tradition at least 40 years ago. But, in all respect to Mr. Ormandy, the work takes on romantic instead of classical proportions in orchestral form, and though the orchestra is spacious, it cannot offer the powerful climaxes of which the organ is capable and for which Bach wrote. And Mr. Ormandy slowed down one section of the toccata so much as to resemble the tread of a lethargic giant.
The Philadelphia Orchestra, directed by Eugene Ormandy, music director since 1936, played in Lawrence for the first time in history. The fame of the Philadelphia is so legendary that superlatives are not in order. It would be news if the Philadelphia were not sensational. R.C.A. Victor records before 1943 and Columbia Masterworks records since 1943 and radio and television have made it, along with the New York Philharmonic and Boston and Chicago Symphonies, one of the best-known symphonies in the U.S. and for that matter, in the world.
"Night Music" is of small consequence, but it is interesting from the standpoint of color. The opening measures, very quiet and played by the contra bassoon, one of the orchestra's lowest instruments, were lost in Hoch somewhere.
"Mathis der Maler" was a favorite. Its textures and tonal tapestries were rich. The movements are called "Concert of the Angels," "The En-tombment of Christ" and "The Temptation of St. Anthony."
ONE VOLUNTEER now on duty in Ghana is quoted in a recent issue of "Newsweek" magazine.
"Ive get a huge bungalow with three bedrooms, living room, dining room, family size kitchen and huge bath facilities." he said.
"I have a cook-steward who fixes meals, washes, irons and markets. Except for the 22 40-minute periods that I teach each week, my time is my own. On weekends I go to Labadi Beach to suntan and surf on the greatest breakers I've ever seen."
Peace Corpsmen in Colombia have not found life so easy. Many of the Colombian volunteers have come face to face with poverty, disease and excruciating manual labor. Sixty-two volunteers are now serving in that country, and President Alberto Lleras Camargo has requested that 62 more be sent.
Those working in Colombia now are so far back in the "bush" that they have little opportunity to spend their $5 a day allowances. They are working with agriculture, health, and road building projects, and the Peace Corps Department has provided them with bicycles, mules and horses for their overland transportation.
THE PHILIPPINES now has 128 Peace Corps teachers. East Pakistan has 29 specialists in farming, sanitation and education. Fifteen Peace Corps members are teaching, nursing and doing agricultural work on the West Indian island of St. Lucia.
When volunteer Barnett Chessin arrived in Ghana, he found the local people suspicious of him and the program in general. After he had proven what he could do for them in helping with village civic problems and improving their living conditions, the villagers of Tafo wanted to make him a tribal sub-chieftain in appreciation of his services.
Whether they are backed at home, or accused of going off to save the world, Peace Corps volunteers still have to face their own problems. They are not exempt from military service, and their positions do not extend them diplomatic immunity. They go to foreign countries on the same terms as any other foreign visitor, and many of them have come through admirable.
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Quill Club: 8 p.m. Kansas Union, Room 104. Visit the website at www.quillclub.com for a brief meeting of the master.
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Seaver Gets Radio Award
Episcopal Holy Communion: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
A University of Kansas history professor received an outstanding broadcaster award at the 10th annual radio-TV film banquet in the Kansas Union recently.
James Seaver, professor of history and director of the KU Western Civilization program, received an award for "Opera is My Hobby." The 55-minute program, under the direction of Prof. Seaver, has been presented over KANU-FM for ten years.
Thad Sandstrom, manager of WIBW-TV and radio, also received an outstanding broadcaster award. The awards were presented by Bruce A. Linton, chairman of the KU radio and television committee.
Several outstanding student awards were also presented.
Judy Southard, Springfield, Mo,
sophomore, and Judith Young, Kansas City, Mo., junior, received merit awards for television performance. Ramona Rush, Little River graduate student, received an award for film script writing; Robert Bush, Webster Groves, Mo., sophomore, radio production; James Welter, Grantville sophomore, sales and promotion and Stephen Hagen, Great Bend sophomore, promotion and publicity.
Student service awards were presented to John McCall, Overland Park senior; Arnold Grundeman, Lawrence junior; Larry Wagner, Lawrence junior; Ruth Anne James, Kansas City, Mo., junior; Charles Boomer, Kansas City, Kan., junior; Philip J. Lane, Lawrence graduate student; and Peter Haggart, Lawrence graduate student.
Bob Banner, executive producer of the "Garry Moore Show" and "Candid Camera" was the guest speaker at the banquet.
Japanese Film Set
"Carmen Comes Home," a Japanese film with English subtitles, will be presented at 7:30 tonight in Fraser Theater.
The film is the fourth and last in a series presented by the KU Committee on East Asian Studies. The film is open to students and faculty members, and there will be no admission charge.
OAS Leader Goes on Trial
PARIS — (UPI) — Under guard by armored cars and 1.000 security troops, former Gen. Raoul Salan went on trial for his life today on charges of treason and leading the Secret Army Organization's (OAS) insurrection to keep Algeria French.
With a cold expression, his hands lightly touching the dock woodwork in front of him, Salan said when asked by the clerk of the court:
Salam, once France's most-decorated soldier, refused to give his name when his trial opened in the famed Assizes courtroom of the Palais de Justice at 1:08 p.m. (6:08 a.m. CST) before the special high military tribunal set up by President Charles de Gaulle.
The irony of his reference to his status and his decorations echoed through the courtroom.
"I am a former (he let the word sink in before going on) general of the colonial army — military medal, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, grand war invalid."
His face, previously almost rigid, relaxed a little as he spoke.
Then the court clerk began reading the lengthy act of accusation.
The indictment was divided into two parts — the first covering Salan's activities before and during the April 1961 generals' revolt in Algiers, and the second his activities at the head of the OAS.
Camelot Review Set
Mrs. E. K. Lilly will review "Camelot" at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Plymouth Congregational Church. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $1.25.
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