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Ensemble Earns KU Cultural Reputation
Thursday, April 16, 1964 University Daily Kansan
The KU Brass Choir, now on the last leg of its far Eastern tour, has helped earn KU the reputation of excellence in cultural exchange programs.
The compliment was paid by John Netherton, director of the U.S. branch of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs spoke before the Midwest America assembly which met
Another Strong To Join Faculty
John William Strong, an Illinois attorney and grandson of the late Chancellor Frank Strong, will join the KU Law faculty in September.
Strong, who will be 29 when he joins the KU faculty, comes from a legal-minded family with a long KU heritage.
Since his graduation he has practiced with the law firm of Le Forgee, Samuels, Miller, Schroeder and Jackson of Decatur. Ill. At KU he will teach in the field of business associations and in legal research and writing.
Strong's grandfather was the KU chancellor from 1902-18 and later taught in the Law School.
Strong was graduated from Yale in 1957 with a major in English and he attended the University of Illinois College of Law where he was graduated first in his class in 1962. He was a member of Order of the Coif and editor-in-chief of the Illinois Law Forum.
Strong's sister, Mary Elizabeth, now Mrs. Larry Brennan of Overland Park, received a bachelor's degree in elementary education at KU in 1960. She is the first granddaughter of a KU chancellor ever to attend KU.
Mrs. Strong is the former Margaret Waite Cleary of Urbana, Ill., a 1962 graduate of Stanford University. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Cleary. Her father is a professor of law at the University of Illinois.
week. Netherton was on the campus as a resource person in the 4-day assembly which brought together 61 persons from Kansas and western Missouri to consider the role of cultural affairs in foreign relations.
NETHERTON SAID KU plays "highly important role," and is making an "exemplary contribution" to the international exchange programs of the United States. He said the 23 members choir performed before 50,000 persons in Ceylon, and in Laos, the largest audience ever assembled for a program of western music.
The group was congratulated by the Laotian prime minister following a concert during which Mrs. Kenneth Bloomquist, wife of the choir's director, sang the Laotian national anthem.
In addition to performing concerts, the choir has been making television appearances, recordings for local radio stations, and conducting workshops and clinics for local musicians and student groups.
CHOIR DIRECTOR Bloomquist reported that the group has been received in Malaysia by "wildly appreciative" capacity audiences.
"We always seem to impress our local organizers and sponsors with the attendance and response we draw," he wrote.
CLARENCE AWAYA, Honolulu senior and bass player with the choir and the jazz quintet, reported on the excellence of several of the Malaysian jazz musicians. He reported that members of the jazz quintet have been enjoying sessions with local jazzmen, many of whom have never before had the opportunity to hear an American jazz musician.
Following the choir's concerts in Indonesia, they will report for Canberra, Australia, where they will complete their three-month tour.
Willard F. Libby
Nobel Chemist Speaks Tonight
Willard F. Libby, 1960 winner of the Nobel prize in chemistry and professor of chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles, will speak here tonight and tomorrow afternoon.
Besides his public lecture at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall, he will speak at a chemistry department colloquium at 3:30 p.m. Tomorrow in 124 Malott.
Tonight's lecture on "Radiocarbon Dating," is second in an interdisciplinary series sponsored by funds from an earlier $100,000 National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant to KU. The lecture will be followed by a reception in Murphy Hall.
Tomorrow's lecture topic is 'Chemical Approaches to Materials Research."
Prof. Libby became well-known for his work from 1945-54 at the University of Chicago, on natural Carbon-14 (radiocarbon) and its application to the dating of archeological artifacts.
He has received a number of awards besides the Nobel prize. These include the Albert Einstein Medal Award and at least 10 other citations, several Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships and membership in honorary societies in the U.S. and abroad.
Fund-Raising Concert To Be Given Sunday
Free will offerings at a concert to be given this Sunday may help a KU student to a YMCA international work camp and leadership seminar in Hong Kong this summer.
Lacy Banks, Kansas City junior and recently elected co-president of the KU-Y, will sing religious and popular songs at 2:30 p.m. in the Wesley Foundation.
Banks is one of six U.S. male students selected for the workshop and seminar in Hong Kong June 27 to August 24.
THE CONFERENCE is sponsored by the West Central Area Council of the YMCA.
Banks must raise 70 per cent of the necessary $2,000 in order to attend. He was chosen by application on the basis on leadership in the KU-Y.
"The workers will build dormitories to house refugees coming to Hong Kong from Communist China," Banks said.
"IT IS SIMILAR to the Peace Corps in that we will help to alleviate the poor and overcrowded conditions. Many refugees sleep in gutters or on hillsides," Banks added.
He said that the seminars will give students of different national, racial and linguistic backgrounds a chance to test, re-think, modify or re-affirm the views they hold in common with students in other parts of the world.
"My personal philosophy is involvement in life to glorify it," Banks said. "This will be an opportunity not only to help others but to learn from such a unique environment and to broaden my knowledge by involvement in a new situation."
A FRENCH AND Spanish major. Banks has also been preaching for 11 years throughout 12 states. He will either study law or become an ordained minister when he is graduated, he says.
He won second place in the campus speaking contest last year and last summer sang in the performance of "Showboat" at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City.
Sociologists Give Studies
Four professors in the department of sociology are giving research papers at the 28th Annual Midwest Sociological meeting scheduled to run through Saturday in the Hotel President in Kansas City, Missouri.
Charles K. Warriner, professor of sociology and anthropology, will present his paper "The Problem of Organization Purpose" in the section on social participation.
E. Gordon Ericksen, professor of sociology and anthropology will present his paper entitled "Virility, Virginity Complexes in Social Demography of an Andracentric Society: Costa Rica" to the section on population and ecology.
Ray P. Cuzzort, associate professor of sociology and anthropology, will present his paper on "Explanation, Evaluation and Social Policy" to the section on research methods.
Gary Maranell, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology will present his paper on "A Factor Analytic Study of Selected Dimensions of Religiosity" to the section on social psychology.
Norman G. Jacobs, associate professor of sociology and anthropology is serving as chairman of a special section on Max Weber.
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