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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1964
Funeral Held Today For Mrs. Leon Flint
Private services for Mrs. Elizabeth Flint, widow of Leon Nelson Flint, former KU professor of journalism, were at 10 a.m. today in the Rumsey Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Paul Davis officiated and cremation followed.
Mrs. Flint died Sunday at the Samaritan Lodge, a Lawrence rest home at the age of 86. Memorial gifts may be sent to the L. N. Flint Loan Fund in care of the Endowment Association at KU.
MRS. FLINT was the former Elizabeth Browning of Manhattan and was a news reporter at the time of her marriage of Prof. Flint in 1904.
Flint Hall, which houses the William Allen White School of Journalism, is named after him. He retired from teaching in 1946 and died in 1955.
In their 40 years of active association with the journalism school, Mr. and Mrs. Flint often entertained the famed editor. William Allen White and other Kansas editors in their home. In keeping with the leisurely social manner of that day and age, many of the guests stayed overnight.
At one time, Mrs. Flint was adviser to Theta Sigma Phi, professional fraternity for women journalists.
Mt. Oread Jazz Groups Picked
The ten collegiate jazz groups which will compete during "Oread Jazz" have been announced by Robert M. Bush, Glendale, Mo., senior and chairman of the jazz festival committee.
Winning bands were selected on the basis of tape recordings which they sent to the jazz festival committee. The event, sponsored by Student Union Activities, will be April 25th. The 10 groups will play at the Kansas Union from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Five bands will be selected in this competition to play at Hoch Auditorium at 8 p.m. in concert with Woody Herman.
BANDS SELECTED for the competition include: Leonard Carnagey's Big Band in Cougarland, Houston, Texas; Jazz Winds Quintet, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; Mitch Farber Sextet, Greencastle, Ind.; Bill Farmer Quartet, Denton, Texas; Cerritos College Band, Norwalk, Calif.; and the Joplin Junior College Stage Band, Joplin, Mo.
Other groups are: Kansas City Jazz Quintet, Kansas City; North Texas Laboratory Band, Denton, Texas; George Southgate Quintet, Normal, Ill.; and "The Green Trio," Chicago, Ill.
There will be prizes for the participating groups. A group of seven or less will be chosen from the contestants for a trip to Europe. These musicians will tour Europe and appear at the Brussels Jazz Festival and at a festival in Sweden. The arrangements for this trip are being made by People-to-People. The best big band in the competition will receive formal music stands. At the Kansas City Arena on April 26 the best small band selected as the result of the KU competition will appear during an evening concert.
SCHOLARSHIPS of $200 to the Berkeley School of Music in Boston, Mass, will be awarded to three musicians. Two more scholarships will be given but the amount has not yet been announced, Robert Bush said. Musicians who are judged best in the fields of brass, reed, and rhythm will receive as a prize the instrument which they play. Judges for the contest are: Woody Herman; Creed Taylor, Verve Records; Matt Betton, administrator of the Stan Kenton summer clinic in Manhattan; Martin Williams, jazz critic for Saturday Review and Downbeat Magazine; George Salisbury, instructor and band leader at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music; and Robert Share, director of the Berkeley School of Music.
HONORARY MEMBERS of the jazz festival board of directors include: Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, John Hammond, vice president of Columbia Records; Paul Winter, leader of a jazz sextet; and the judges.
Mrs. Leon Flint
The Robert Joffrey Ballet, a company of 22 dancers and orchestra, will perform at 8:20 p.m. tonight in Hoch Auditorium.
The company, under the direction of 33-year-old Robert Joffrey, recently returned from an eight-week tour in Russia for the U.S. State Department's Cultural Presentation Program.
World-Touring Ballet Here Tonight
THEY performed in the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad—the theatre which saw the first performances of "Swan Lake," "The Sleeping Beauty," and "The Nutcracker"—where their three-week engagement was sold out.
During the ballet's Russian tour, the eight-year-old company performed ballets which were all contemporary and choreographed by Americans, and set to especially commissioned music by American composers.
In 1962 the Robert Joffrey Ballet toured the Middle East under State Department aupices.
Last fall, the company danced at the White House following the state
Historic Shooters
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (UPI) — shooting records, target guns and trophies still extant show that a powerful civilian and military target shooting club existed in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1474, the National Rifle Association reports.
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