Kamper Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Friday, July 10, 1964
Vol. II, No. 2
Journalists view Kansas City Star "backshop" during a field trip before a night at the Starlight Theater. The students are Rose Marsha Resnick,
Ron Blacklock, Pamela Peek, and Dave Adams. They are busy examining the page mats before they are sent to be cast into metal.
Engineering Campers Explore TWA Plant
The midcontinental overhaul base for Trans World Airlines provided a field trip to Kansas City for engineering campers.
The overhaul base for TWA is where the multi-million dollar airplanes are completely dismantled after so many flying hours. The young engineers toured the two main divisions of the plant, the engine overhaul and the airframe repair divisions.
The group left early Thursday morning, July 2, for Kansas City by bus and first toured the engine overhaul building. Here the visitors observed the jet and piston engines being tested, taken apart, cleaned, repaired, and put back together again—an operation much like a big puzzle. The entire cost of reconstructing a single engine is approximately $20,000.
After a box lunch, prepared by the Templin cooks, the group went through the airframe division where the complete body, including the interior, flight system and frame, are redone.
After the entire plane passes through with a new paint job, its electrical system replaced, and with a new interior, it joins the rebuilt engine. Then another plane emerges, ready for the runway. Modern and up-to-date equipment, developed by the TWA research scientists, is also added to the planes when they come to the base.
After the tour the group joined the other campers at the Starlight Theatre to see "My Fair Lady."
Camp To Hold Final Recital
Thirty-six advanced music students will be featured in the second and final camp recital to be held Wednesday, July 15, at 8:00 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall. There will be no admission charged for the recital.
The first student recital this year was presented by thirteen students on Wednesday. July 8. The students who participated were
Janet Reyburn, piano; James Willmoth, voice; Selina Davis, cello; Caryne Dockery, French horn; Betty Packard, flute; Mike Smith and Ken Alexander, trumpet duet; Jeanette Skeen, marimba; Steve Franse, bassoon; Marti Larkin, voice; Dave Murrow, clarinet; Michael Latimer, trumpet, and Bill Cosby, oboe.
Those students to participate in the coming recital are Diana Perry, piano; C. Ann Richards, voice; Mary Ellen Butler and John Glassman, violin duet; Alvin Walker, baritone horn; Susan Sandow, Jennifer Nilsson, Charles Lawson, Caryne Dockery, and Tom Johnson, woodwind quintet; Cherry Halstead, voice; Marcia Foster, Steve Meyer, Susie Telfer, Steve Hickerson, Eleanor Higa, and Kathleen Kennedy, string sextet; Marsha Garwin, Katie Good, Suzy Checkett, Jackie Garland, Mary Nowlin, and Laura Resnick, ballet;
Ar was presented by thirteen stute students who participated were Kenneth Heath, trumpet; and Jeanette Skeen, James Aldendifer, Wayne Erck, Robert Rush, Robert Laushman, Gary Vylupeluck, Dora Hoskins, David Hensleigh, John Hanen, James Medlock, Evan Johnson, and Suzanne Mattingly, percussion ensemble.
Each student participating in the recitals auditioned on July 1 in Murphy Hall. The students chose the piece of music which they would play for the auditions and were judged by various musical instructors.
"The camp recitals provide an opportunity for advanced students to exhibit the results of their hard work and practice, and it also provides an excellent evening's entertainment for the camp students," commented Mr. George Neaderhiser, assistant camp supervisor and correlator of the programs.
Excerpts Presented By Drama Campers
Students in the Drama division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp presented excerpts from four plays Friday evening, July 3. in the Murphy Hall Experimental Theater. The four scenes were chosen from a group of plays which were presented on Thursday and Friday mornings, July 2 and 3.
The excerpts were taken from the following plays: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Shakespeare; "West Side Story," Arthur Laurents; "Kind Lady," Edward Chodorov; and "Most Happy Fella." George Loesser.
Camp students enacting roles in the play excerpts were "West Side Story": A-Rab, Myla Jean Hodges; Riff, Marianne Fowler; Baby John, Barbara Kahn; Action, Linda Marriott; Krupke, Woody Wright; Snowboy, Nancy Caston; and Diesel, Woody Wright; "Kind Lady": Mary Harries, Connie Villon; Henry Abbott, Charles Armantrout; Mr. Foster, Penny Rich; Mrs. Edwards, Tommy Collier; Aggie Edwards, Rose Sidler; andMr. Rosenburg, Penny Rich; "Most Happy Fellow": Cleo, Heidi Schuttle; Rosabella, Roxie Clark; and the cashier, John Haworth; and "Mid Summer Night's Dream": Bottom, Johanna Branson; Peter Quince, Bob Brown; Francis Flute, Yolanda Dozier; Sung, Gina Bikales; and Starveling, Bob Flanery.
Starlight "Pygmalion" Seen on MMAC Trip
Fifteen bus loads of campers, counselors, and staff members enjoyed performances of "My Fair Lady" at the open-air Starlight Theater in Kansas City last Thursday and Friday.
Thursday, July 2, 457 attended from Midwestern Music and Art Camp in 12 buses, including four bus loads taking field trips, one-hundred seventeen went in three buses Friday, July 3.
The Starlight production stars Dorothy Coulter and Michael Allinson. "My Fair Lady," written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe, is the famous adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion." The play, a musical comedy, has had the longest run of any play on Broadway, and was heralded by many critics as the greatest musical comedy ever written. The story concerns a phonetics professor who takes a young Cockney flower girl off the streets and changes her into a "princess" by reforming her speech and manners.
"Because there were not enough buses available for use in this area, we had to import some from Wichita,
"Tempo" Breaks Previous Record
Surpassing all prior records, this year's "Tempo" will feature 56 pages with over 120 photos of students, activities, and division work.
Distribution of the 1964 "Tempo" will begin Tuesday, July 21, climaxing a month of preparation by a staff of advanced journalism campers.
Those selected for the yearbook staff by Prof. John Knowles were Barbara Easterwood, Emery Goad, Jolan Csukas, and Jacquie Glaser. The photography was the work of volunteer Tom Tschappat of the music division. Another feature will be student cartoons selected by Mr. Arvid Jacobson of the art division.
Mr. C. Herbert Duncan, who served as advisor again this year, commented that the book acts as a yearbook for the students, and as a permanent and official record for the camp as well as to publicize it. "We try to make it good," he added.
The "Tempo," which originally was entirely a student effort, was composed in part this year by a professional establishment, "Photographic Arts." Printing was done on the University of Kansas press. In recent years, since the book has grown far beyond the first 12-page affair, this procedure has become necessary. "Since the camp is growing, the book should grow with it," remarked Prof. Russell L. Wiley of the four pages added this year.
Copies will be available at the desk in Templin Hall. Campers may also purchase copies of the 1963 "Tempo." The $2 purchase price is about half of the production cost of each copy, but the camp defrays a slight portion of the expense.
Backstage Tour
Denver, and St. Louis," reported C. Herbert Duncan, camp supervisor, who also headed the Starlight trip. "Last year we sent 18 buses, but this year we could only locate 15."
Four camp division groups took field trips in addition to seeing the production. The ballet, theater, and speech groups were allowed to tour the Starlight Theater backstage area. The tour was conducted by the Starlight stage manager who showed the campers and instructors where the scenery and flats are made and how they are moved, the dressing rooms, costumes, singers' and dancers' pavilions (practice rooms), and other backstage areas germane to the production of the play.
After a question and answer period, all campers ate box dinners in Swope Park, where the theater is located. During intermission some of the ballet campers went backstage to meet the dancers.
Besides taking the backstage tour with theater and ballet campers, speech division students, faculty, and guests had a guided tour of the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City. Several faculty members and campers chose to visit the zoo instead of touring the theater.
Journalism Field Trip
Journalism campers and guests, with Prof. John H. Knowles, journalism division director, left camp at 1:45 p.m., and toured the Kansas City Star and the KCMO radio-TV station. While touring the "Star," the students were shown the complete production of a large city daily paper. They were each given a replica of the first "Star" ever printed.
At KCMO, which boasts the tallest free-standing tower in existence, campers were able to see the differences in preparation and production between a radio and a television station. Box dinners were then eaten in Swope Park.
In years past, campers have attended Starlight Theater during their fifth week of camp. Mr. Duncan explained that it was moved up this year to the third week because "My Fair Lady" would not be playing later.
When asked how he thought the trip went, Mr. Duncan replied, "I thought that it was a fine trip. The only disadvantage was that it ended so late. Most of the campers were asleep before the buses even pulled out of the parking lot."
Fireworks Display Seen
A fireworks display was presented at the University Stadium July 4 at 8:30 p.m. by the Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce. Admission was open to the public at 50 cents per person. The display lasted about an hour.
Science Apprentices Do Lab Research
Twenty-five apprentices, 18 boys and seven girls, were selected from those 72 campers who applied, having attended Science and Math Camp last year. These students work in laboratory research with the professors in that division.
The apprentices' daily schedule is 8 p.m. to 5 p.m. They stay in the dorms with the rest of the campers, but they attend an eight week session. Arriving here one week before the Midwestern Music and Art Camp began, they will remain one week after it is over.
Every Monday night after the camp meeting, they have a special meeting among themselves. It includes a five to ten minute talk
by each student about his current project.
Excellent grades in science and math subjects taken in their respective high schools were a basic requirement for application. They had to send in with their application an essay on why they wanted to return, how the research program would help them, and in what research program they wanted to enroll. Costs of the program range up to $60, and scholarships were offered by the National Science Foundation.
The following is a list of the students, and the programs in which they are working: Richard Burns, microbiology; Mark Creamer, physics; Elaine Cunningham, biochemistry and physiology; Loutitia Denison, microbiology; Charles Dickson, chemistry; David Erickson, mathematics; Robert Fisher, mathematics; Frederic Marini, microbiology; Robert Nelson, radiation biophysics; Barbara Padgett, mathematics; Allen Powell, psychology; Steven Rock, radiation biophysics; John Roberts, sociology; James Forstner, mathematics; Myra Gotch, physiology and biochemistry; Larry Kennedy, mathematics; Charles Levy, mathematics; John La Salle, physics; Judy Merer, zoology; Thomas Miller, mathematics; James Schreiber, biochemistry and physiology; Lois Tomek, microbiology; Kent Van Zant, zoology; John Wilson, biochemistry and physiology; and Stanley Yates, physics.