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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 14, 1964
"Well, That About Sews It Up—Now, Let's Get On To The Convention"
Europeans Visit Drama Groups
Two actors from Yugoslavia visited the KU theater last week and a pair of directors from Poland will arrive Wednesday for a two-week visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Mladja Vesselinovic of the Yugoslavia Drama Theater in Belgrade were here Saturday through Monday and spoke to several theater classes.
Conference to which KU will be host.
Jan Wilkowski and Adam Killian of the Lakka Children's Theater in Warsaw, Poland, will arrive Wednesday for a two-week stay. They also will return Aug. 18-22 to the Children's Theater Workshop and the National Children's Theater
Dr. and Mrs. Lewin A. Goff of the KU drama faculty visited the Vesselnovics when they last were in Europe. The latter also were hosts this spring to the 7-student international theater demonstration team from KU. They are in the United States with a Yugoslav theater group that came to the New York World's Fair.
The Poles had contacts with the KU demonstration team and with Jed Davis, children's theater director, who was with the team.
'Moon Shooting' Interests Choir
By Emery Goad and Dan Austin
(Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles about the KU Brass Choir's recent tour of the Far East.)
VIENTIANE, Laos—When there is a full moon in this capital city of Laos, it is best to stay inside. The reason for such precaution is not menacing guerrillas but local residents shooting at the moon.
Kansas Teachers At KU Workshop
Moon shooting was one of the many different Laotian customs noticed by Brass Choir members in their four-day concert tour of Laos, the diplomatic hang-nail of our State Department.
The Core Teachers Workshop, which has been meeting here since June 22, will end Friday. The workshop is good for four hours of graduate work in education.
in Vientiane, they were not able to talk with natives or local students. They did say, though, that the concert audiences were very enthusiastic about their performances.
BECAUSE TRAVEL is limited for all Americans in Laos to a 10-mile radius of Vientiane, choir members were able to see a lot of the city. One thing they saw was the construction of a replica of the famous Arc de Triomphe in the downtown area. The Laotians, who have a French heritage, are striving to bring culture to their capital.
In the hot, unpaved streets of Vientiane, soldiers, armed with automatic weapons and light artillery, marched day and night. Also, bicycles were the only transportation that choir members could see in use when they toured two of the city's open markets. Mike Berger, a choir member, remembered that, to him,
the open markets seemed to be a "big rummage sale."
The next stop for the Brass Choir was Malaysia, about which the KU students will relate their observations and experiences in the next article.
WHILE IN VIENTIANE, the choir gave three public concerts to about 5,000 people. The turnout at the Laotian concerts was poor compared to previous stops, but at the last public concert Prince Souvanna Phouma, Laotian leader, appeared to hear the group.
The choir also gave a private concert in the luxurious back yard of U.S. Ambassador Unger for American Foreign Service personnel. Laos has the largest number of American diplomats in Southeast Asia.
ACCOMMODATIONS for the group were exceptionally good, because they stayed in the homes of American embassy staff members. After spending the last month in native quarters on Ceylon and Okinawa the KU students welcomed the comfortable change.
Because the group was closely supervised by their sponsors and hosts
Most of the 36 teachers enrolled in the course were from this area. The Lyman school district and the Washburn rural school district in Topeka, two junior high schools in the Turner school district near Kansas City, and Lawrence school teachers attended.
The workshop, established to help teachers who teach classes combining two or more subjects in junior high, allows teachers to work on a plan for core teaching during the next school year.
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