Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 30.1963
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No.14
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE—Two workers inspect the bottom side of the 6.500 seat addition to Memorial Stadium. Officials of Martin K. Eby Construction Co., general contractor for the project, predict that the expansion will be completed several weeks ahead of KU's home opener with Syracuse University, Sept. 28.
Stadium Expansion Is Fourth of a Series
Kansas' new 6500-seat addition to the west side of Memorial Stadium actually is the fourth expansion of the original concrete arena, first sections of which were erected in 1921.
With the first two sections completed, the Jayhawkers played their first game in the present park on October 29, 1921, beating Kansas State. 21-7, before 5,160 fans.
On November 24 of the same year, with six sections completed, a crowd of 15.480 saw Kansas clip Missouri, 15-9.
In 1925 the two south end sections were added. They housed the visiting and home dressing rooms still in use. On Oct. 3 of that year, 20,640 people watched Kansas beat Oklahoma State (then A & M), 31-3. The north curve was completed two years later, bringing capacity to 35-.000. The Javahawkers played their first game in the completed park October 8 of that year, losing 6-26, to Wisconsin.
This year's addition, begun last January, will be the first since that time. Adding the south bleachers, this latest construction raises capacity to 44,900.
Included with the new seats will be a modern press box, replacing the old concrete rectangle, which was built when the second set of four stadium sections which were added in 1921.
Like most stadia of those early days this was nothing more than a set of wooden stands bordering one side of the field. McCook was laid out from east to west on a site adjacent to present Memorial Stadium.
After playing its first two seasons in old Central Park on Massachusetts Street, Kansas built its first football park, McCook Field, named for Colonel John McCook, who contributed $2500 to trigger a drive for building funds.
In fact, the present north horse-shoe of Memorial Stadium covers most of old McCook. The east end zone of the original field was 400-
feet from Mississippi Street and bounded on the north by McCook Street, which then extended from Mississippi to Maine, now the west boundary of the stadium grounds. McCook Street now is only a block long, extending from Mississippi to Illinois.
Kansas played its first game at McCook on October 27,1892, beating Illinois. 26-4.
The new stadium came about through spontaneous combustion as much as anything. Playing a late-season game against Nebraska in 1920, the Jayhawkers fell behind 0-20 at halftime. In one of the most storied comebacks in Kansas history, the Jayhawkers, playing under Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, then in his first year as athletic director, came back in the closing half to gain a 20-20 tie.
Dutch Lonborg, present athletic director, then en route to selection as all-Missouri Valley quarterback, flung two touchdown passes in this rally.
On the Monday following this game, students and faculty celebrate in a mass meeting, pledged $200,000 toward a million dollar drive for a modern concrete stadium.
At the time most folks said Allen was foolish for building a park that would hold 35,000 fans. They were sure of it when he ordered a concrete press box 90-feet long and including space for radio broadcasts.
Allen's answer always was the same. "You build for the future, not the present." Now the future Allen steadfastly forecast has come and gone. The new addition contains nothing but goal line to goal line seats. The press box is triple-tiered, including one level for press, one for radio and one for photo. It is complete with elevator to haul working newsmen to their lofty perch.
Allen envisioned a horseshoe structure and, under his direction, it was built, as previously described.
Western Civ Test Results Being Tallied
Approximately one-fourth of the students who signed up to take the Western Civilization comprehensive examination failed to appear last Saturday.
James Seaver, director of the Western Civilization program, said that about 355 students actually took the examination although more than 500 had signed up.
ACCORDING TO four local motel managers and four restaurant drive-in managers, a multitude descended upon Lawrence with armloads of Western Civilization books and notebooks crammed with notes, about three days in advance of the examination.
One drive-in restaurant manager said, "Each year we find out ahead of time when the Western Civ test will be so that we'll be prepared for the extra business."
The four motel managers questioned said that they had no vacancies the entire week end.
ONE MANAGER said, "It was fairly quiet Friday night—I guess the kids were studying. But Saturday afternoon, they started having parties and Saturday night some of our other customers started complaining, so I had to quiet them down a couple of times. But there was no harm done."
Another manager agreed, "The students didn't tear up anything. They were just blowing off a little steam with parties."
A counselor at Corbin Hall reported Friday night, "Girls kept coming in until almost midnight asking for rooms for the night. Nearly all of them said they were here for Western Civ. A couple said they were here for parties."
ALL EXTRA bed space on floors being used in Corbin Hall this summer was put to use, the counselor said.
Though the comprehensive examination is over for the students until January when it will be repeated, the work is not complete for instructors. Saver said that he expects the tests to be graded by the end of this week.
"We ought to have the grades posted by Saturday. The registrar's office releases them." Seaver said.
Governor Says: 'Less Stirred Up, Better We Will Be'
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Gov. John Anderson yesterday told a news conference it would be "regrettable" if there were anything less than peaceful civil rights demonstrations in Kansas.
AT THE RALLY, Dr. C. R. Roequemore, Wellington, president of the state NAACP, said if NAACP suggestions were not followed, Kansas Negroes would turn to less peaceful methods of gaining civil rights "to the discredit of Kansas."
Anderson's comments were in reply to "warnings" issued at a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) rally on the Statehouse steps Saturday.
The Governor said anything less than peaceful demonstrations "would bring the greatest discredit to those participating and organizing such demonstrations."
Anderson reiterated his statements that Kansas has, in the past two sessions of the legislature, strengthened its fair employment practices law and its public accommodations law.
REGARDING the entire situation. Anderson said, "The less that is stirred up about this matter, the better off we will be."
Campus Empties, Work Continues
By Linda Machin
KU's summer population is in the midst of rapid depletion with the exception of a full work force of physical plant and buildings and ground workers, a handful of instructors working on research projects, and foreign students from 27 countries who will remain through August.
Already more than 800 high school students attending the Midwestern Music and Art camp here have abandoned Templel and Lewis Halls which will be opened only periodically for conferences in August until the onslaught of September's newly enrolled students.
FOR THE 250 junior high campers the session ended two weeks ago July 13. This year's total number of campers, both junior and senior high, numbered approximately 1,15 and represented 41 states.
Final concerts, exhibitions and performances were held last week as six weeks of study in music, art, speech, theater, ballet, journalism science and engineering drew to a close. Sunday was the last day of camp.
Since the camp's beginning in 1935, when Director Russell L. Wiley started with 17 band students, more than 14,000 youths have studied at the camp.
ORIGINALLY a one-man operation which had been under Prof. Wiley's leadership during its 26 years, the camp this summer had 35 faculty members and 75 university students who are counselors or assistants.
This week also marks the official end of the 1963 summer session at KU with a record registration of 3,526. Final examinations will end Friday; men and women students must vacate Corbin and Carruth-O'Leary Halls by Saturday afternoon; and men students will move out of summer apartments.
Hashinger Hall will be vacated by 300 previewers late this afternoon. Those previewers represent the last, but largest of 11 groups of freshmen which have held orientation meetings here since the first of June.
GERTRUDE SELLARDS Pearson Hall, normally a freshman women's residence hall, which has housed students for the KU-Colorado University sponsored Oriental Language Institute, Foreign Students Orientation Center, as well as many summer session graduate students, will remain open.
Students staying in GSP at the
foreign student orientation center will disperse for universities across the nation the first of September.
Though the KU campus will be nearly abandoned of its students, activity will not cease completely. Patching, painting and repairing university buildings and grounds by workmen continues at a rapid pace in preparation for the fall semester.
KEITH LAWTON, vice chancellor for university operations and physical plant director, said, "We go full speed all year, but when summer session students leave, our attention is diverted to preparing for the fall semester."
One of the major projects for the remainder of the summer, he said, is the renovation of Marvin Hall for use this Fall. Portions of the old engineering building have been vacated recently and the equipment moved to the new engineering building on West 15th.
"We'll be repainting walls and patching floors where machinery has been dislodged in Marvin Hall," Lawton said.
PORTIONS IN THE old building, vacated by the architecture and engineering library, which are to be enlarged in the new building, will be used this fall for offices and engineering classes.
Lawton noted another major change to be made in Strong Hall. Two new offices are being created in room 229 which, previous to this month, has housed the News Bureau. The two new rooms will provide office space for the newly-created positions of Associate Dean of Faculties for International programs and Associate Dean of Faculties for Research to be filled by George Beckman and William Argersinger.
The KU News Bureau has been moved to the basement of Strong Hall across from the post office.
CONCERNING other improvements to be made in August, Lawton said. "We'll be patching streets which can't be done in cold weather, refinishing and recovering floors, and repainting portions of buildings that students usually have access to, and remodeling offices which have been reassigned to different administrators and instructors."
In addition to the special rehabilitation for the fall semester, buildings and grounds superincident Harry M. Buchholtz, said that the huge amount of grounds work such as grass cutting, tree pruning, planting and other ground work will continue as usual.
Avery Bequests $25,000 For Engineering Fund
A $25,000 bequest from the estate of the late Hubert C. Avery of Basin, Wyo., will establish the Avery Scholarships for engineering at the University of Kansas as a memorial to the 1900 graduate of KU, and his family.
Beginning in 1964, the income from the fund placed with the Endowment Association will support annual scholarships for needy students in the upper 25 per cent of their classes in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The Avery Scholarships memorialize a pioneer civil engineer of the northwestern United States; his mother, Mary Sidlow Avery; his wife, Nellie Vincent Avery, an 1898 graduate of KU; and his son, Ernest D. Avery.
AS A KU STUDENT. Avery was an outstanding athlete and was captain of the 1899 football team coached by Fielding H. Yost, who later
Avery's career included his own business, Avery Farm & Loan, Basin, Wyo., as well as varied engineering activities. He began as an engineer for railroad construction in both the United States and Mexico, then participated in development of the West and Northwest. He pioneered irrigation and drainage systems and worked on municipal surveys. From 1947 to his retirement in 1958, he worked for the Federal Works Agency in Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming.
earned fame at the University of Michigan. Avery was proud of being a KU alumnus and always enjoyed recalling memories of his student days.
The pioneer engineer and businessman was also interested in the Temple Lodge and the Methodist Church at Basin, and helped support several institutions in the West and Midwest that work with children and youth.