Summer Session Kansan
51st Year. No. 15
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, August 2, 1963
Meals at Home Rare In Wescoe's Schedule
By Linda Machin
Being the chancellor of a university is a job which allows little time for relaxation and family life, and requires a sense of humor, according to W. Clarke Wescoe, Chancellor of the University of Kansas.
"I'm so involved with other people's children that I can't act as a father to my own," he said.
"THE DISAPPOINTING feature of my job," continued the Chancellor who is the father of three children, "is that I cannot lead a normal family life." He explained that during the past school year that he considered himself fortunate to be able to eat dinner with his family once a week. At times he went as long as three weeks without sitting down to a family meal.
The Chancellor has three children, Barbara, who will be a freshman this fall at Indiana University, Bill, a senior in high school, and David, a fourth grader.
The Chancellor and James R. Surface and his family plan to leave today for Green Lake, Minnesota, where they will meet the Wescoe family who has been vacationing there since June. However, even during so-called vacations the Chancellor finds himself busy with University relations. For interspersed with family outings at the family cabin in Minnesota during the month of August he will make a three-day business trip to Washington, travel to Chicago to make a speech for the American Medical Association, and the last week of August he must return to KU to prepare for the opening of the fall semester.
THIS IS THE second time this summer that the Chancellor has made a rather futile attempt to enjoy a vacation with his family. During the Fourth of July weekend, his fishing and other outdoor activities were hampered by an emergency trip to a hospital. He was treated for burns covering his arms which he
had received while burning trash behind the cabin.
The burns, from which he has completely recovered, represented the second injury in the past three months requiring hospital treatment.
Prior to graduation, the third week of May, the Chancellor spent a week in the KU Medical Center suffering from pinched nerves in his neck where previously he had instructed KU medical students in Pharmacology. In 1951, Dr. Wescoe came to the KU School of Medicine from Cornell Medical College, where he had been professor of Pharmacology.
A year later, he was appointed dean of the School of Medicine in 1952, he became the youngest medical school dean in the nation — at age 32.
NOW AT THE age of 43, with three years behind him as Chancellor of the University of Kansas, Dr. Wesscoe sat behind his desk in Strong Hall and told of his summer duties.
"There seems to be a popular misconception that the university is dead after commencement," the Chancellor said jokingly, as he lightened his pipe. "If anyone thinks we close our doors, they're wrong. I'm just as busy in the summer as in the regular school term."
"The only difference in the summer is that the number of students coming in to see me is less."
However, he estimated that over 6,000 students—nearly 60 per cent of KU's normal enrollment—have been here on campus attending the summer session, the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, various conferences and freshman previews.
SMILING GOOD NATUREDLY as he talked of his tight schedule which allows little time for relaxation, he said, "In my position you have to be able to see the humor in every situation and have the ability to laugh at yourself but never at anyone else."
Nick Vaccaro Joins Faculty
Nick Dante Vaccaro, University of Texas faculty member, has been appointed associate professor of drawing and painting and chairman of that department at the University of Kansas.
As chairman he succeeds Raymond Eastwood, who relinquishes the post after 17 years, having reached the administrative retirement age. Professor Eastwood will continue to teach.
THE 32-YEAR-old Vaccar, a native of Youngstown, Ohio, earned the A.B. degree from the University of Washington, magna cum laude, in 1958 and a master of arts degree from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1960. At Washington he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Vaccaro joined the University of Texas faculty in 1960 and was promoted to assistant professor a year later.
He has earned a dozen fellowships and prizes or purchase prizes for his work and his paintings, prints and mosaics are now found in 24 museum and private collections.
Professor Vaccaro's work has been accepted in more than hundred exhibitions.
KU Professor Safe After Earthquake
Prof. Herbert Galton of the University of Kansas is unhurt after being involved in the earthquake in Skopie, Yugoslavia.
Mrs. Galton, who remained in Lawrence while her husband was doing research in Skopje this summer, received a telegram from her husband early Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Galton had not heard from her husband since the earthquake last Friday. Prof. Galton's message said he was unhurt and had moved out of the stricken area.
Ford Foundation Grants $500,000
International education at the University of Kansas is one-half million dollars nearer its goal of "preparing its students to live in a world where every man is a neighbor." Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said Thursday.
The Ford Foundation has granted $500,000 to KU to expand and accelerate development of its international studies program.
LAST DECEMBER, the Ford Foundation gave the university $177,000 for three years of experiments in increasing the international content of undergraduate courses. This fall results will be apparent in new approaches to courses in political science, sociology, and speech, and in an experimental course in Eastern Civilization. The latter will be offered in 10 to 12 sections this Fall instead of only two last Spring.
Other courses under development will be offered next Spring and in following semesters.
The new grant of $100,000 a year for five years will permit KU to increase the size and capabilities of its faculty in international education, to increase its ability to teach the "unusual languages," to purchase additional books for its library holdings in the international area, and to continue its experiments in international teaching and research.
THE GRANT will make it possible for faculty members who specialize in international areas to renew more frequently their personal contacts in the area.
The program was developed by the Committee for International Educational Affairs, whose chairman was Francis H. Heller, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It will be administered by a new Council for International Programs. Prof. George M. Beckmann of the history faculty, is chairman of the council and associate
dean of the faculties, a position created this year.
For a school located in the heart of the nation, the University of Kansas always has been deeply involved in international programs, beginning with early and extensive foreign student enrollments which last Fall reached a total of 366 students from 65 foreign countries.
MORE RECENT developments include a pioneering program in foreign student orientation for the U.S. State Department, three centers devoted to better understanding of the Slavic and Soviet, East Asian, and Latin American areas; exchanges between the University of the Philippines and the KU Schools of Medicine, and a summer language institute which this year flew 150 KU summer session students to Europe for two months of language study in France, Spain and Germany — and this year Finland for the study of Russian.
The university has an extensive cooperative program with the University of Costa Rica which includes a junior year abroad for undergraduate students and a faculty exchange in many areas of study. A group of 29 Peace Corps volunteers last year completed their training at KU and are serving the first of two years' service in Costa Rica as teachers of English and science in rural secondary schools.
The University of Kansas recently joined with seven other schools to form the Organization of Tropical Studies which will develop and assist programs of education and research relating to the tropics.
Thirteen languages already are being taught at KU and more will be added under the terms of the new Ford Foundation grant. Some regular classes also are taught by professors who lecture in a foreign language.
J. C. Thomson Will Teach Music History
James C. Thomson, chairman of the music department at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pa., since 1952, has been appointed associate professor of music history and literature in the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts.
PROF. THOMSON earned the Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1959, an M.A., with major in Music Studies from Yale; an M.A. with majors in German and music theory from Baylor University; the A.B. from Middlebury College, and a teacher's certificate from the Federal Academy of Music in Berlin, Germany.
Violin is his principal instrument. He also has studied piano, harpsichord and gamba here and abroad.
Prof. Thomson had a Fulbright fellowship to Iran in 1962. At Yale he won the Kellogg Fugue prize.
He has taught at the College of
Tennessee since 1952.
42 and at Wilson College since 1952.
'Boy Friend' Cast Home
Seventeen student actors and musicians from the University of Kansas are back in the United States after two months of performances of the musical comedy, "The Boy Friend," at military installations in Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan, the Philippines, Guam and Hawaii.
Some of the performers, who were directed by William Kuhike, speech and drama instructor, have returned to their homes while others are spending some time on the West Coast.
Fall Season for KU Stage Shows Opens Oct.9 with Emperor Jones'
With the stage lights hardly cool from an arduous and ambitious summer program, KU theatre production directors have announced plans for the 1963-64 season.
"The Emperor Jones" Eugene O'Neill's memorable and moving expressionistic drama, opens the KU theatre season. Four other major series productions, four Experimental Theatre shows, two children's shows and touring companies round out the season.
The KU production of "The Emperor Jones" will star the talented Clayton Corbin, hailed by critics as "the new Emperor Jones" of our generation. Corbin has been called an actor "who bids fair to become our next Ira Aldridge, Charles Gilpin, Paul Robeson, Canada Lee, Frank Silvera—rolled into one."
THE MAJOR productions will include "Madame Butterfly," "The Corn Is Green," a Shakespearean production, and "Period of Adjustment." The two children's shows are "Beauty and the Beast," and "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater." The Experimental Theatre series has not been announced yet.
Production dates are Oct. 9-12 with William R. Reardon directing.
"MADAME Butterfly," by Glacemo Puccini, is an opera in which West meets East in a colorful, dramatic way. The tender love story and the expressive lyricism have made this work an all-time favorite with opera-goers everywhere. Lewis Goff, who has been on leave in Vienna the past year, will direct the opera, to be presented Nov. 1-2, 8-10.
THE FINAL major series production will be directed by Gordon Beck. With "Period of Adjustment." Tennessee Williams gives us a comedy with warmth, wisdom and hilarious good humor. It is the story of two marriages in crisis—wedlock and separation—told with a humorous viewpoint but genuine concern for a very real human situation. Dates for this show are April 22-25.
The children's shows will be produced by Jed H. Davis. "Beauty and The Beast" is scheduled for Dec. 12-14, with "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater" set for Feb. 27-29.
"The Corn Is Green." by Emlyn Williams, will be directed by Jack Brooking. Production dates are Feb. 5-8.
In celebration of the sesquicentennial of William Shakespeare's birth, 1964 will see another University Theatre production of one of his plays. A guest director, as yet unannounced, will be guiding the show to production dates of March 18-22.
A new curtain time will be inaugurated this Fall. Formerly at 8:30 p.m., the curtain will now rise at 8:15 p.m. for all productions except the children's shows. Box office hours are weekdays from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon. An answering service is in operation 24 hours a day.
STUDENT identification cards entitle the holder to a ticket for each
major production. Students are seated in the best available seats at the time of purchase. Segments in each price category of the house are reserved for students. On Experimental Theatre productions, the regular admission price is $1, with no reserved seating. Students may be admitted with their I.D. and 50 cents. Student I.D.'s are not good for admission to Children's Theatre productions.
Tickets for auxiliary seating — formerly "standing-room-only" — for Major and Experimental Theatre productions go on sale at the box office at 7 p.m. on sell-out nights. They are dispensed on a first-come, first-served basis, and no reservations are accepted.
Cash prices for seats remain at the old scale; $2.40, $1.80 and $1.20. Season coupon books for the five shows are available at substantial savings —up to $4—for patrons. In addition, season coupon book-holders have an opportunity for early choice of seating, before ticket sales are opened to the general public.
KU Artist Featured
A ceramic candle holder by J. Sheldon Carey, professor of design at the University of Kansas, is pictured in "House Beautiful" for August.
The short article, "Candles by the Score," is accompanied by photographs of examples of 19 candles that can be used for decorative purposes outdoors.
During the 1961-62 year, Abelson was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany, and sang leading and supporting roles in 52 performances. He has sung with the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra seven times and appeared in musical comedy and on television in New York and Minneapolis.
In 1960, he was an opera award winner at the Mozarteum and in 1955 received the "best musical program" award of the Havana, Cuba Music Critics Association.
Opera Veteran To Teach Voice
Abelson, a 37-year-old baritone with more than 50 opera performances and more than 50 oratorio roles on his record, succeeds Miss Meribah Moore, who retired this summer after 36 years on the KU faculty.
Norman Abelson, a University of Minnesota teacher the past six years, has been appointed associate professor of voice at the University of Kansas.
HE EARNED degrees from Washington State and Columbia Universities. He also has studied at the Juilliard School in New York, the Mozartune in Salzburg, Austria, and the Chigiana Accademia Della Musica in Siena, Italy.
ABELSON was an instructor at the University of Florida two years and went to Minnesota as assistant professor in 1857. There he has instructed individual students, directed the glee club, the St. Paul campus chorus and the opera workshop.
His duties also included the hosting, directing and performing on 79 television programs on music offered by a Minneapolis-St. Paul station.