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University Daily Kansan
Monday. May 14. 1962
English Student Acts, Wrestles
By Tom Winston
Julia Callahan, Lawrence graduate student, is an actress. At 25, she has been both a school teacher and a wrestler and she has a degree in English and philosophy from Leeds University in England. But first and foremost she is an actress.
Julia, as she prefers to be called, was born and reared in England. She is married to Steve Callahan, 24, Lawrence graduate student and assistant instructor of speech and drama.
JULIA PARTICULARLY ENJOYS staged readings. For three years she was in the theater group at Leeds University. And for three more years, while teaching school, she continued to act with the university theater group.
These university drama groups are extra curricular and offer no credit, Julia said. The drama has traditionally been looked on in England as unworthy to be included in a college curriculum.
"At the moment there are only two theater groups in English universities," Julia said. There is one in Bristol and one in Manchester which started in 1960.
Julia has had parts in contemporary Italian drama by Ugo Betti and Luigi Pirandello. From her list of credits one might suppose she is something of an authority on Betti and Pirandello. The readings included Betti's "The Queen and the Rebels" and three one-act plays by Pirandello, as well as others.
JULIA AND TWO male colleagues read the Pirandello one-atts at the National Union of Students Drama Festival in 1955, the only year the festival held staged readings. The NUS Drama Festival includes all Great Britain. Her colleagues were Rudy Shelley, also of the Bristol Drama School, and Frederic May, a Pirandello translator.
"When I was at Leeds I was usually cast as the 'heavy woman,' Julia said. "I either played the temptress or murderess, was insane, or was strongly maternal. I was usually
Wescoe Favors Greek System
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and an alumni relations specialist expressed optimism about the future of the University and the fraternity system Saturday night.
They were speaking at the alumna banquet commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Kansas University Kappa Sigma chapter.
"I am a fraternity man and I believe in the fraternity system," said Chancellor Wescoe, "I believe it is incumbent on us to sustain it.
"THE UNIVERSITY favors the fraternity system and feels that it is an integral part of the University."
Referring to the future of the entire University, he said, "Not one of us has a right to be pessimistic. We have to be optimistic."
Stewart Howe, Evanston, Ill., head of a professional alumni service, said he disagrees with those who say the fraternity system is dying. He said fraternities and sororites are initiating 20 per cent more members today than they were five years ago. There are 1,000 more chapters today than there were in 1952.
"MOST COLLEGES and universities need a fraternity system," he said. "Fraternities provide the cheapest and easiest way for a university to handle housing and disciplinary administrative details."
Howe said the University of Chicago once had about 30 fraternities but then began to implement policies unfavorable to the existence of fraternities. The University of Chicago now has 11 fraternities left and is trying to convince those that removed their chapters to re-establish. The university has offered to build a fraternity quadrangle and help with housing.
He added that the University of Indiana is also helping fraternities with housing. Such aid is in the university's own interest because the expense to the university in the long run will be less.
chosen for my ability to rave," she said.
Julia met her husband Steve through plays. Callahan was in the University of Leeds theater group last year.
At the festival, held at Leeds, Julia and Steve both played Mexican Indians in Lillian Hellman's "Monserat." "Things developed naturally from there," Julia said with candor. "We were married in early July, 1961."
Julia has a brother at Oxford who is an exhibition scholar at the Balliol School doing physics. Her sister is at Liverpool studying French and Russian. Both are younger. Their family name, and Julia's name before marriage, is Jonathan.
"I DID A THREE-YEAR stretch in judo (1957-1960)," she said. "I want no more of that. I went along to see what it was like. There is a belief that, if you can do it, mighty men will come leaping over your little toe and lie down." She has her man now.
Julia said that at one time she was "passionately fond" of wrestling.
"They couldn't exclude women, but they had their way of getting rid of them," she said. "They used to teach them break falls. Every once in a while they would drop them on the concrete.
"I got beaten up enough times I wanted to beat somebody else up," Julia said.
"I fought a shiai (SHE-eye) one time," she added. "There are six in a shiai. Two teams of six persons each fight in pairs. I fought only because I was the only hale and hearty one of the group. It was a case, you know, where one healthy woman was better than a man with two broken legs and a broken nose."
Julia said she likes to read science fiction especially, and otherwise her taste in books is entirely catholic. "In desperation I'll read a telephone directory," she said.
HER FAVORITE FOODS are mushrooms, kippers, (smoked herring), fresh food — "which you can't get in this country, like cheeses for a reasonable price" — and milk. "I wouldn't mind living on milk," she said.
Julia is gay and carefree. "I like to wear as little as possible without getting arrested," she said. Her personal philosophy of living is "definitely epicurean, I am sure. Eat, drink, and be merry and all that."
Asked if she had any intense dislikes she answered:
"Climate. I don't like weather very much." She would not elaborate.
Julia says she hopes to go back to England with her husband soon. She wants to have her children there.
"As a school teacher you get concessions," she said. "The state pays you extra for having children."
Julia memorizes lines for a part in her next play.
Housing for 564 To Be Completed
Student housing for 444 more women and 60 more married couples will be available when the fall term begins in September.
Hashinger Hall, an eight-story dormitory, and Stouffer Place No. Three, a group of five 12-unit buildings, will be completed and furnished.
FIVE TRAFFIC CONTROL stations designed to regulate the flow of automobile traffic to Jayhawk boulevard and other areas of campus congestion will be completed and in operation by September.
These projects are parts of a construction program to be carried on during the summer. Also under construction will be the following buildings:
The $1.9 million engineering building, about 15 per cent complete now. It is scheduled for completion
by September, 1963, and is located at 15th and Naismith Road.
- The Dyche Hall addition (Natural History Museum) for classroom and laboratory use. It costs $840,-000 and is scheduled for completion by July of 1963.
- The addition of two wings to the Watson Library at a cost of $1.8 million. Bids will be accepted on this project on May 22, and construction will begin soon after.
- The new 10-story dormitory south of Hashinger Hall. It will be for 656 men and is scheduled for completion by September, 1963.
The bid for the construction of the traffic stations was approved today, the Kansas Construction Company of Lawrence being the low bidder. The contract calls for five shelter islands, $9,290; additional street work, $575; and five shelter houses for the shelter islands, $15,-990. A deduction of 5 per cent was allowed for the job as a whole.
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Moslem Students To Hold Festival
Moslem students at KU will celebrate the feast of "Bid El-Adhha" — the feast when Moslems go to Mecca to offer their annual pilgrimage — with a "Festival of Sacrifices" at 7 tonight in the Kansas Union.
After the festival, they will go to Potter Lake for communal prayer and a traditional mutton feast.
After the feast, the students will choose next year's officers for the KU Moslem Student Association.
International Club Officers Elected
New officers for the International Club were elected at the club meeting Friday night. They will take office at the beginning of the fall semester.
International Club will hold its business meeting this Friday. Several constitutional changes will be voted on.
Vinod Patel, Baroda, India, special student, president; Bruce Murray, Johannesburg, South Africa graduate student, vice president; Patricia Price, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore, secretary; Suzanne Runnells, Greeley, Colo., sophomore, social chairman, and Lalit Kothari, Bombay, India, junior, treasurer.
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BIRD-IN-HAND, Pa. — (UPI) — This tiny Pennsylvania Dutch community, in Lancaster County, received its name from an old hoteltavern sign which pictured a bird and bore the inscription, "A bird in hand is worth two in the Bush."
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