Flying Student Keeps 'Jet Set' Alive at KU
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At least one student has the same spirit which takes the world hopping socialites to the Riviera for a swim in the Mediterranean one day and then back to New York for a cocktail party the next.
The 'jet" set) is not dead yet. Anyway,
at KU the idea is still alive.
Ron Gustafson, Lawrence freshman, said, "we're flying to the University of Iowa this weekend so a friend of mine can attend a ping-pong tournament there Saturday morning, and be back here Saturday afternoon to participate in a gymnastics meet."
"ID NEVER THOUGHT seriously about flying until my dad asked me if I wanted to take flying lessons," he said. Gustafson's dad, who is stationed in Manila with the Air Force, used to be an Air Force ROTC instructor at KU.
Ron, or 'Gus' as he is known to his fraternity brothers, obtained his pilot's license this summer. He said that so far he has accumulated 58 hours of flying time in the air.
Gustafson said after he went up in a plane, he decided it was a lot of fun. So the flying lessons began. "I've flown to Lynn Creek at the East end of the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, and I flew a solo cross country to Hays," he said.
"Ive never had engine trouble, or extremely bad weather, except one time when landing at Ottawa," he
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said. "I had a 90-degree cross wind which gave me a little trouble. I touched down in the middle of the runway, and ended up over on the left side of the strip," he said.
Gustafson, who is in Air Force ROTC, is a member of the KU Flying Club and is majoring in aerospace engineering.
HE SAID HE might make the Air Force a career. "but, that depends on what I find out about it after I get in."
"This summer," he said, "I plan to go to Manila. They've got a British Tiger Moth at a Flying Club out there which is fully acrobatic. I hope to learn some of the basic maneuvers in acrobatic flying."
Gustafson said that he and some of his fraternity brothers are planning to fly to Las Vegas during Spring Vacation.
"If we go, we'll probably fly down through Liberal, Albuquerque and Phoenix, and then up to Las Vegas so we don't have to fly over some of those little 13- and 14-thousand foot hills around Colorado," he said.
"I hope to get my 200 hours of flying time by next year so I can get my commercial license. Right now flying is a hobby, it's the only thing it can be," he said.
"When I get my commercial license I can start working with such things as aero photography, but that's another hobby."
The University Concert Band will present its annual winter concert at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, in the University Theatre.
One of the selections to be played, Respighi's "The Church Windows," was arranged for the band by Fred Pendergraft, a former concert band member who is presently teaching at the Navy School of Music in Washington, D.C.
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The composition will feature solo work by trumpeter David Clark, Shawnee Mission sophomore.
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Other compositions to be performed are: "Symphonic Transitions" by Joseph Wagner; "Sonata for Oboe" by Handel, featuring solos by oboist Earle Dumler, Russell sophomore; Persichetti's "Divertimento for Band." Moussorky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," and "Estancia Ballet Music" by Argentine composer, Alberto Ginastera.
"In putting this program together, I had in mind contrast. Contrast in key, and contrast in color," Russell L. Wiley, director of the concert band, said. "But, primarily, we do these programs hoping that the audience will enjoy listening to them," he said.
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