Summer Session Kausan
Tuesday, June 16, 1964
Lawrence, Kansas
52nd Year, No. 3
Six-Week Music-Art Camp Is Underway As Students Arrive at KU Dormitories
Registration week at KU was simulated on a smaller scale last Sunday as senior high school students enrolled for a six-week stay at KU to attend the 27th annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
After an orderly enrollment that afternoon, an accident occurred before a meeting of all boy campers in Templin Hall. Paul H. Herce of La Grange, Ill., inadvertently mistook one of the hall's large glass doors to be open and walked through it, resulting in minor cuts on the face and arms. He was not hospitalized.
Although official registration took place that afternoon, some 100 students, for various reasons of travel, were housed in the residence halls Saturday. During the camp session, as in the school year, girls will occupy Lewis Hall and the boys Templin Hall.
RUSSELL L. WILEY, director of the camp and head of the KU and camp bands, said that this year, as in years past, campers have come from the four corners of the United States, and the camp is larger than ever.
Prof. Wiley expects that approximately 44 states will be represented at the camp. Perhaps the student furthest away from his family is Shelby Alan Shapiro, a 15-year-old camper who traveled 6,000 miles from his home in Agana, Guam. Shelby is attending the science division of the camp.
ON SUNDAY, campers spent much of the day getting acquainted with their counselors (there are two counselors for each of the two wings on each floor), other campers, and learning the essentials of dorm living, such as how to operate the hair dryers and when the snack bar is open.
Many of the 62 counselors and switchboard operators know the questions that campers ask because two-thirds of them have had some of the same experiences at Midwestern Music and Art Camp. Now, as seasoned college students, they often know campers' problems by instinct. For some, this is their second and third year as counselors.
LEARNING THE RULES of camp and the residence hall was a part of the separate meetings attended by the boys and girls. The housemothers, Mrs. Frank Spurrier, housemother of Stephenson Hall during the fall, and Mrs. Ralph Parks, Gamma Phi Beta housemother, officially welcomed the girls in the lounge of Lewis Hall. At the same time C. Herbert Duncan, head supervisor of campers, and George Neaderhiser, assistant camp director and head of
the boys' dorm, gave the boys an idea of things to come in the next six weeks. After these meetings, floor meetings were held in each dorm.
AFTER TRYOUTS, which were held Monday, music campers begin a schedule of practice today which will lead them to their first concerts this Sunday. The concerts will be conducted by the camp directors for each division: Prof. Wiley, director of the two camp bands: Gerald M.
Art. with an enrollment of 225, directed by Marjorie Whitney, professor of design, and Arvid Jacobson, associate professor of design.
Science, with an enrollment of 125 directed by Delbert Shankel, assistant professor of microbiology.
Engineering, with 40 enrolled, directed by Fred Smithmeyer, assistant professor of metallurgy.
Theater, with 45 enrolled, directed
Carney, orchestra director, and James Ralston, director of the choirs. Brief practices were held yesterday by all groups but the choirs, which were occupied with tryouts throughout the day.
ADVICE TO A CAMPER--Gerald M. Carney, associate director of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, gives Jeanne Christenson and her parents of Jamestown, Kan., directions for enrolling in the camp.
As other divisions of the camp got underway, schedules were made and supplies assembled.
Directors of the various divisions are as follows:
by Jed Davis, associate professor of speech and drama.
Ballet, with 45 enrolled, directed by Marguerite Reed, head of the Tulsa ballet. Tulsa, Okla.
Journalism, with 27 enrolled, directed by John Knowles, instructor of journalism.
Student,31,Dies On Field Trip
Gordon E. Morley, 31, a KU graduate student from Belleville, died Friday, June 5. at Big Bend National Park, Texas. He was on a field trip and died of a heart attack brought on by heat exhaustion.
Morley left Lawrence Tuesday, June 2, with Philip Wells, assistant professor of botany. He was working toward his Ph.D. in botany.
Speech, with 20 enrolled, directed by Wilmer Linkugel, associate professor of speech and drama.
He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees at KU. In the 1962-63 school year he taught at Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, Marvville, Mo. He previously had taught two terms in high schools in Kansas and Missouri. He returned to KU for further graduate studies in the summer of 1963.
Funeral services and burial were held Tuesday, June 9, in Belleville at the Wesleyan Methodist Church.
Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Morley of Believille, four brothers and one sister.
Tickets for both productions may be obtained at the Murphy Hall box office. Students with ID cards or their yellow registration receipts will be admitted free. Other seats are $1.50, or $3.75 for a season ticket.
The first productions of the summer season for the University Theatre will open at 8:15 p.m. today.
Summer Theatre Season Is On Today
George Heineman, director of children's theater for NBC television, will be a featured speaker at the 20th anniversary meeting of the Children's Theatre Conference to be held Aug. 21 at KU.
NBC-TV Director To Speak in August
The plains are "Man of Destiny" and "Exception to the Rule."
The University Theatre and University Extension are sponsors of the four-day conference which will last from Aug. 18 to Aug. 22.
Freedom Plans Are Scheduled
JACKSON, Miss.-On July 1, several hundred white and Negro college students, doctors, nurses, lawyers and teachers will settle at different points throughout the state to begin work on the "Mississippi Freedom Summer."
Under the sponsorship of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), the summer workers will teach in "Freedom Schools," man community centers, and work on registering the state's 380,000 unregistered, but eligible. Negroes.
MORE THAN HALF of the accepted students are white, and for most, it will be their first trip South. Students are selected on the basis of the skills they have to offer, rather than for "a missionary spirit or the feeling that the summer will be just another adventure," a SNCC worker said.
They will attend a two-week orientation session at a Midwestern college campus.
Writer Holly Wilson To Open Conference
"Seeing the Stories That Lie Around You" will be the topic for the speech which will open the 14th annual University of Kansas Writer's Conference Tuesday, June 23.
It will be given by Mrs. Holly Wilson, professor of English at Ferris College in Michigan and one of the writers who have won the Avery and Julie Hopwood Award at Michigan University.
HER NOVEL, "THE KING PIN",
won this award in 1938. It was a novel for adults, but in her several
books published since. Mrs. Wilson has chosen to write for a juvenile
audience.
Following the death of her husband, Dr. Frederic W. Wilson, who was attached to the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Mrs. Wilson returned to Michigan, took up her studies again and in December received her master's degree from the University of Michigan. She entered her work as an English professor in January.
The speaker Tuesday afternoon will be William Harrison, short story and novel writer whose work has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Colorado Quarterly, Northwest Review and New Mexico Quarterly. His topic will be "The Modern Writer and the Amateur Spirit."
OTHERS PARTICIPATING in the conference will be Iola Fuller, historical fiction writer; Theodore M. O'Leary, book review writer for the Kansas City Star and writer for Sports Illustrated; Edsel Ford, poet and short story writer, and Lucille T. Kohler, free-lance writer and photographer.
Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism and director of the conference, may be contacted for information at her home phone VI 3-2429, or extension phone 3048 at KU.
Tuition is $35, including admission to any or all sessions at the four-day conference. It also will cover the right to submit manuscripts for criticism under one of the following alternatives:
Two articles, not to exceed a total of 12,000 words.
Two short stories, not to exceed a total of 12,000 words.
Eight poems, not more than a page each.
One juvenile manuscript, not to exceed 20,000 words.
NO SUBMISSION of manuscripts is required.
Frances Grinstead
Grant Will Aid Loan Program
A Ford Foundation grant of $50,000 continues on an increased level through 1965-66 as a University of Kansas loan program to increase the supply of persons with the Ph.D. degree teaching engineering science.
Two years ago the foundation provided $50,000 and last year $40,000 for the program by which KU can make loans to Ph.D. candidates up to a $10,000 total over a 3-year period.
The individual's debt will be forgiven at the rate of $1,000 or 20 per cent, whichever is greater, for every year of subsequent teaching on an engineering faculty.
The KU engineering departments with doctoral programs are chemical and petroleum engineering, electrical engineering, mechanics and aerospace engineering.
Dr. Kenneth C. Deemer, chairman of the loan committee, said applicants must have attained the master's degree level. Participation in the loan program does not preclude the receipt of fellowships or other student aids.
Trial' on Lawrence Docket After Battle in Classroom
A classroom brawl between a professor and a student at the University of Kansas will result in a trial for damages late this month in Lawrence.
Karl Warden, visiting professor of law, has charged second-year law student Robert McDowell, Wichita, with unwarranted assault resulting from an argument over the class starting time.
As the argument became heated, several startled students tried to separate the two, but failed, and a fight ensued.
ACTUALLY, THE INCIDENT was faked by the two browlers. But it was carried off so smoothly that the entire class (20 students) was fooled.
The difficulties began when Prof. Warden called the class to order. McDowell refused to obey, claiming he had five minutes before the regular class period. They argued, then began shoving.
Before the stunned students could stop them, McDowell slugged the professor, knocking him to the floor.
Prof. Warden staggered out of the room, but returned shortly, wising his face with a phony bloody handkerchief. His "composure" regained, Prof. Warden then appointed attorneys for the plaintiff and for the defendant in a future practice trial over the incident.
"IF WE HAD MORE time in the term, I would have gone home and let them stew about it for a day," Prof. Warden said. But law students compress their summer courses into two five-week terms, and time is too valuable to waste a class session on dramatics.
The reason for the act is that Prof. Warden thinks the best way to learn something is to experience it. He is instructing his students in trial preparation, and he wanted the students to have the experience of interviewing witnesses who actually saw an incident happen.
The fact is, minutes after the mock assault four or more different versions of the scuffle were given by the "eyewitnesses."