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Friday. July 26, 1963
Kansan Camp News
"LET'S SEE, NOW"—Art student, Susie Dick, is caught deeply engrossed in planning the sketch of this statue in Nelson Art Gallery which art students recently visited.
Color Stains Mark 200 Art Campers
Color-stained hands and faces were the trade-marks of over 200 "Rembrandts" enrolled in the art division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
Directed by Miss Marjorie Whitney, the art division had approximately 20 classes from which the students chose.
WITH A DIP of the brush and a slap on the canvas, the two oil painting classes, taught by Miss Mary McCammon and Dr. Robert Green, painted away. The classes painted still life setups and captured the beauties of nature on canvas.
In the design and color classes, instructed by Alexander Boyle, students experimented with elements of design and creativeness. Some of their projects included making travel posters, books of plain cards, monograms, and trademarks.
The watercoloring classes, taught by Miss Suzanne Adams, John Wyant and Dr. Green developed their artistic skills by painting still life setups and landscapes. One class painted the ballet students in action poses.
GARY COULTER and Bill Bagley instructed the sculpturing classes which first constructed their projects out of clay before the final sculpturing.
The ceramics classes, instructed by Charles Fager, chose their own projects from the many available ones such as making pottery and making decorative vases and coils.
Another class of interest was interior design, taught by Arvid Jacobson. This class was composed mainly of students interested in interior design as a career. They were taught fundamentals of color, layout of furniture, matching pieces of furniture, etc.
THE MAIN OBJECTIVE of the figure-sketching class, taught by Miss McCammon and Downer Dykes, was to develop the ability to capture the quality of a pose, rather than being concerned with the exact form. Students used each other as models.
Throwing aside the brush for a moment, we turn to the weaving classes taught by Mrs. Tonya Rhodes. Students worked on six-week projects. Most of the students, who planned their own design and color schemes, made runners, place mats, wall hangings, and shawls.
In fashion drawing, instructed by Miss Adams, Phil Henderson and Boyle, the main objective was to proportion the model as perfectly as possible. Designing clothes comes next. The model's height depends on the size of her head. The classes sketched quick poses and later filled them in with black ink and color.
STUDENTS enrolled in jewelry, taught by Condon Kuhl, learned to work with silver and were taught how to set stones. Rings, broaches and pins were some of the projects students worked on.
Drawing trees, animals and anything pertaining to nature, was the task the students in nature drawing undertook during the camp period. The classes were taught by instructor Kuhl.
In cartooning classes, instructed by Jacobson, students learned to draw humorous drawings from non-humorous situations. They also practiced satirical drawing.
THE STUDENTS used each other for models in the portrait drawing classes taught by John Wyant.
Dramatists Work Into Nights Acting-Out 'Romeo and Juliet'
During the four weeks the theater campers spent at the Midwestern Music and Art Camp they were engaged in working on scenes and one act plays as well as presenting their major play, "Romeo and Juliet."
For an hour in the mornings campers practiced any lines that they should know, in the heart of the drama section of Murphy Hall, the Green Room.
ACTING CLASSES, also in the morning, emphasized improvisation, voice control, diction, and movement. These classes were taught by Steve Callahan and James Hawes.
Wednesdays and Thursdays found the students in make-up classes instructed by Miss Caroline Kriesel Campers were divided into two sections for this course.
The first thing on the afternoon agenda was a meeting of the entire division in the Green Room. Here scene directors supplied Callahar with daily lists of required actor
This summer four students attended the engineering division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp under the direction of Fred Smithmeyer. The students attended the camp for two months instead of the normal six weeks.
Engineering Held For Two Months
Each student worked on an experiment of their own choice under the direction of an instructor in that field.
STUDENTS RECEIVED full scholarships to attend the camp and they were paid $45 a month from the CRES Foundation, the Center of Research Engineering Science for their work.
George Nossaman, 18, is from Great Bend, Kan. He worked in the electronic devises research laboratory of the electrical engineering department. George spent his time measuring the length of pulses of electricity to lengths of one ten millionth of an inch. Incidentally, he didn't use a yard stick.
In high school George was a member of the Quill and Scroll journalism society. He received the Charles and Helen Hulme scholarship and the Scholarship Hall award to the University of Kansas. He received a national merit commendation and was a Summerfield nominee,
HE IS THE SON of Mr. and Mrs.
L. O. Nossaman, 1507 Adams St.
Great Bend, Kan.
Greg Volkland, 18, is from Topeka, Kan. Greg worked in the chemical engineering department and also experimented in the area of cytogenics, commonly known as low temperature research. This included determining the fission rates of materials at low temperatures and high pressures.
ALSO IN engineering was James Moore, 18, from Pratt, Kan. Kim worked in the aerospace engineering department. This involved working with a supersonic wind tunnel at the Lawrence airport.
Greg, a 1963 high school graduate plans to attend Washburn University this fall. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Grle Volkland, 2019 Meadow Lane, Topeka.
Jim was a National Science Fair finalist and a two-year winner at the Pratt regional science fair.
In high school Perry was a member of the Quill and Scroll journalism society, and a member of the Spanish, science, and radio clubs.
PERRY SCHUETZ, 18. Great Bend, Kan., worked in the environmental health laboratory. He used photosynthesis of algae to change CO<sup>2</sup> to oxygen. To test it he locked a mouse in an airight container with algae to see if it would live.
Perry is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Glen A. Schuetz, 1919 McKinney
Dr. George graduated this past year
and plans to attend KU this fall.
and assignments were made at this time. John Paul, professor of speech and drama at Phoenix College, Phoenix, Arizona, was in charge of this period.
FOR THE FIRST part of camp the afternoons were spent in rehearsal and performance classes. These classes, directed by University of Kansas graduate students, consisted of working out one-act plays and scenes. Campers from other divisions enrolled for this section to the extent of completing casts for the one-acts.
After July 11 the afternoons were spent working on "Romeo and Juliet" with Paul in charge.
Practice sometimes lasted from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at night while students practiced for "Romeo and Juliet" scenes. At these times Paul worked with the campers.
ALTERNATE directors of the theater division, Jed Davis and Jack Brooking. supervised the division.
Speaking of the climax of camp life for the theater students, Davis said that students in "Romeo and Juliet" had to work to get the right emotions and the right depth of emotions to make the play a success. They had to work according to Shakespeare's ideas.
"This is a challenge to the world's greatest actors and performing "Romeo and Juliet" speaks well for the campers' training," remarked Davis.
ELIZABETH BATES, Lawrence, and G. L. Johnson, led the cast as Romeo and Juliet in the production July 25-26. Camp students attended the July 25 performance.
Instead of the Elizabethan dress that is used in productions of "Romeo and Juliet," the camp cast wore modern clothes made by the KU theater costuming shop.
Wing Parties Held
K.C. Zoo and Art Gallery Toured By 200 Sketching Art Campers
Many of the wings in both the girls' and the boys' dorms had parties during the weeks of camp. Some of the wings invited the corresponding wing in the other dorm. A typical one of these parties was the 6-North party.
By Pat Lark
The parties were held on the patio or in the snack bar. Typical foods for the parties were cokes and pizza. Popcorn and cookies were also served at some.
"Tally-ho and away we go," was the cry of over 200 art students, as they boarded chartered buses for Kansas City to tour Swope Park Zoo and the Nelson Art Museum.
Arriving at the zoo at 9:30, students with sketch pads and pencils in hand looked curiously at the various animals, trying to decide if they were good enough models—that is if you would call gorillas, barking seals and mocking monkeys "models." However, some students found the more domesticated animals such as the camels, turtles, and turkeys, better subjects for their drawings.
The parties were planned by a social committee headed by the social chairman from the wing. The parties were either co-ed or simply boy parties or girl parties.
AFTER TOURING the zoo for two hours, weary-worn and hungry, students made their way to one of the outdoor shelters for lunch, which consisted of sandwiches, cookies, baked beans, and milk. It would have been nice, however, if the staff had thrown in a little Alka-Seltzer for those who ate more than their share.
Inside the huge museum are many large rooms filled with the works of great artists of the past and present.
At 1:00 p.m. art campers arrived at the doors of the William Rockhill Nelson Art Gallery where a replica of Rodin's "The Thinker" greets all visitors.
IN THE GREAT Renaissance Room, works of artists, such as Titian, hang as a reminder of the changes that were taking place during the 15th century.
Rembrandt's "Portrait of a Youth With a Black Hat," is on display in the Dutch Room where Peter Paul Rubens" "Frans Hals" is.
The Oriental Rooms contain types of Japanese and Chinese statues and other reminders of their blazing history and their religions.
THE CHINESE Temple Room, which is an exact replica of the ancient temples, is a very mysterious looking place. It is dimly lighted and on the wall is a mural entitled, "Buddah in Paradise." The ceiling is not supported by nails, but by some method of the Chinese that is closely related to putting a puzzle together.
The Nelson Museum was asked
Best Works Displayed
Each week, the outstanding works of students in each art class were chosen by the instructors for display in Murphy Hall. Arranged by Alexander Boyle, the display carried works of as many students as possible for the six-week period, after which works were returned to the campers.
last year to send the portrait of St. John the Baptist, by Caravaggio, to the World's Fair in Seattle. Experts say that this is one of the most priceless and greatest pictures, because of Caravaggio's use of shadowing in the picture. He was one of the first to practice this in his paintings.
Speech Training Helpful in Careers
There may not have been any future Winston Churchills in the speech and debate department, but the group learned information which will be valuable to them in practically any field.
Approximately 25 campers were enrolled in speech at the 26th annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp. Twenty were full time speech students, and 15 of these were also in the debate branch.
THREE TYPES OF classes were offered. The labs gave the students an opportunity to practice what they had learned in the lecture courses. Gary Sherrer was in charge of the debate lab, and James Polsin ran the speech lab. The interpretation class, taught by Miss Roxann Beilh, was a combination of the two types. Students taking this course learned to read poetry, prose, and plays, and to prepare programs.
One class, introduction to speech communication, featured lectures by five professors. Wilmer Linkugel, speech director for the camp, and professor of speech and drama, spoke to the class on persuasion; Stanley Harms spoke the second week on the two person speech system; Frank Dance, the third week, on speech and human behavior; Bill Conboy, the fourth week, on semantics in speech; and Carl Larson, the fifth and sixth weeks, on case studies in communication and on parliamentary procedure. Larson gave illustrations of communication breakdowns.
The debate topic for this session was the expansion of Social Security. Debaters had to do a great deal of research on the subject because they were required to take both the negative and affirmative side during the six weeks. Kim Giffin taught the class.
LINKUGEL WAS enthusiastic about the benefits that can be derived from speech and debate.
"The student learns to think critically, build argumentative cases, and to think on his feet," he said.