Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 16, 1963
51st Year. No. 10
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DEADLINE DRAWS NEAR—Don Dugan works at selecting and laying out photographs to be used in the 1963 Tempo, the "yearbook" of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. Tempo is to be a 48-page, official record of the camp activities. The book will be published by the Kansas University Press and distributed before the 26th annual camp ends July 28.
Jayhawkers in Mexico Fight for Athletic Glory
A group of KU students attending the University of Guanajuato, Mexico this summer found themselves matched against a local Mexican baseball team and performing before about 700-800 of the Guanajuato townspeople.
The game came about when the KU students challenged the employees of the Hotel Orozo to a friendly, informal game of softball.
The management of the hotel, located across the street from the summer living quarters of the students, liked the idea, hired umpires, printed posters and sold tickets to the game. It was held in the municipal "sport park."
"We usually study and drink in the bar of the hotel, so we have become good friends with the employees," reported John Anderson, Prairie Village junior and one of the KU students attending the University of Guanajuato. "We found out that they liked to play baseball and challenged them to a game. Later, we found out that it was to be hardball and that 700 or 800 people would attend the game."
The game was played at San Jeronimo sport park July 7. in the afternoon. A poster advertising the game read: Universidad de Kansas, U.S.A. vs. Hotel Oroco. "Gringo" Gary Hill was listed as coach for the student team.
Hill, an assistant instructor of Spanish at the University of Kansas in the regular school year, is one of the summer registrars at the University of Guanajuato.
The student line-up included Anderson, John Hanna, Lawrence senior, David Greenlee, Albion, N.Y., senior, Buzz Warren, Wichita senior, Reid Holbrook, Kansas City, Kansas, senior; George Cabrera, Kansas City, Mo., senior, Stu Keown, Hutchinson senior, Rex Dingey, Ed Martin and David Wilson.
The score of the game has not yet been reported.
Bogartz, Brody Join KU Staff
BRODY, A FORMER research psychologist for the State of Maryland Department of Mental Hygiene, received the Ph.D. degree earlier this year from the American University in Washington, D.C.
Bogartz, who received the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles this year, has held a post-doctoral U.S. Public Health Service fellowship at the Institute for Verbal Learning at the University of California at Berkeley.
William H. Bogartz and Grace F. Brody will join the University of Kansas faculty as assistant professors of psychology in September.
Bogartz's special field is experimental psychology and verbal learning. Brody, a clinical psychology staff addition, has engaged in counseling activities and is preparing a book on the relationship of maternal attitudes and mother-child interaction.
Bogartz earned the A.B. degree from UCLA in 1953, served two years in the Army, and has been a research and teaching assistant at UCLA.
Brody received the B.S. degree with majors in music and education from Columbia University in 1950 and the master of education degree from the University of Maryland in 1955. She was a psychologist with the Prince George's County Bureau of Mental Health, 1957-60, and a pre-doctoral fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md., 1960-62.
New Field Specialty of Prof. Pyron
H. Charles Pyron, who will receive the Ph.D. degree in industrial communications this month from Purdue University, will become assistant professor of speech at the University of Kansas in September.
PYRON HAS been assistant director of inservice training and research for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service in Indiana since January
A Californiaian, the 26-year-old Pyron earned the A.B. degree from Redlands University in 1959 and the M.A. in 1960, from Redlands.
Last fall Pyron held the David Ross Research fellowship at Purdue. His doctoral dissertation is a study of communications skills of industrial foremen.
He has been an assistant debate coach at Redlands University and a teaching associate at Purdue, director of the Indiana High School Debators conference and a research consultant on agricultural mass communications for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
PYRON'S appointment was described as a "breakthrough" by William A. Conboy, speech and drama department chairman. "He is a specialist in industrial communication, trained at Purdue, which is the only university offering doctorate level work on research in business and industrial communications.
"We have had a growing program in business and industrial speech communication but until now have not had anyone whose primary interests lay in that area."
Pyron fills the faculty position of Frank Dance, who will teach at the University of Wisconsin's Milwaukee center.
Dean Gorton Featured At Music Institute
Dean Thomas Gorton of the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts was a guest lecturer last week at the second annual Music Executives' Institute at the Eastman School of Music in the University of Rochester, New York.
Dean Gorton covered the area o. the music curriculum in higher education in a two-day series of lectures. The conference explored problems related to operation of an educational program in music.
'Separate Tables Sells Out All Week
The KU Summer Theatre opened its third production of the 1963 season to a sell-out audience last night with Terence Rattigan's "Separate Tables."
Basically a sentimental work, for the plot the play relies heavily on understanding, forgiveness, and the reform of errant individuals, character, and thought development.
This particular style of writing is somewhat unfamiliar to contemporary American theatre audiences. However, on Broadway the play received critical acclaim during the 1956-57 season and later was made into a popular movie.
Rattigan, one of England's more successful resident playwrights, exhibits skill as a craftsman by exercising a proper combination of comic and tragedy which hold the attention of an audience.
THE GUEST DIRECTOR for the KU production is Dr. Bella Itkin, from the Goodman Memorial Theatre and School of Drama in Chicago.
Appearing in the cast are Barbara Guile, Julia Callahan, Laura Earn-
shaw, Steve Callahan, Robbin Huggins, and Rosemary Fleming, as guests of the Beauregard Private Hotel. Kaye Stevenson appears as the hotel manageress and Helen Groth and Laurie Crew as her employees.
The collection includes mounted heads of both large and small mammals, from dik- dibks (small antelopes the size of a hare) to Elands (as big or bigger than a moose). Dr. von Wedel labeled each specimen according to its sex, date killed and location. Such information is essential to zoologists studying mammals and their geographic distribution.
Goal of Reference Room: 'You Ask, We Answer'
Rattigan has divided the script into two separate plays. In the first act, Patrick M. Prosser and Mary Ann Lierman play the separated lovers around which the controversy centers. In the second act, or play, Robert J. Rumpf and Carol Strickland are the principal characters. The play will continue this week, through Saturday, in the Experimental Theatre. Curtain is at 8 p.m. Though all three nights are sold out, standing room tickets will be available at the box office beginning at 7 p.m. on the evening of performance.
The primary value of the gift is that the specimens represent some species which have been extirpated
TWENTY STANDING room tickets are on a first-come basis. The final production of the season will be the High School Music and Art Camp drama division's presentation of "Romeo and Juliet," in the main theatre, July 25 and 26.
KU Students Tour Louvre
University of Kansas students enrolled in KU's summer language institute in France recently received a special introduction to the Louvre, perhaps the world's finest art museum.
Oklahoma Surgeon's Collection
DR. VON WEDEL donated parts of the collection each year since 1959. The last gift was received shortly before his death this spring.
Andre Malraux, the French minister of cultural affairs, has required the Louvre to fit several rooms for display of pictures never before exhibited.
KLAUS BERGER, professor of art history at KU, was in Paris and conducted the Kansans on a lecturewalk through the new exhibits.
Museum Given Trophies
E. Raymond Hall, Summerfield distinguished professor and director of the museum, said the mounted animal heads were given over the past few years by Dr. Curt von Wedel, a plastic surgeon and eye surgeon from Oklahoma City, who died in March. Dr. von Wedel collected the animals himself during hunting trips from 1943-58.
A collection of 59 big game trophies from parts of Africa, Asia and North America has been added to the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History.
Just ask us a question—any question at all and we'll find the answer, or try to find the source of the answer, boasts Watson's ___ reference library.
(which have disappeared or have been eradicated in a particular area). The bones of the head also have been mounted within the specimens, and the bones are not always preserved.
MANY OF THE 59 specimens will be preserved in their present condition and will be exhibited at a future date, according to Dr. Hall. Only a small fraction of the museum's collection of 94,000 mammals can be exhibited at any one time.
Some specimens will be demounted and the bones used for study. Such specimens are used in comparisons by advanced students and staff members who study animals and the regions where they exist or have existed in the past.
An animal mounted by a taxidermist for display purposes has a "life" of about 150 years. A study specimen, prepared by a zoologist and kept where environmental factors such as dust, light and temperature are controlled, has an indefinite "life."
Dr. von Wedel previously gave the museum a collection of small animals from Africa and India needed to fill gaps in the KU collections.
"Where can I find French books on American or English literature?" "How can I find some of the speeches made by Senator Lane in Kansas in the 1860's?"
According to George H. Caldwell, director of the reference library, such questions as these number over 8,000 every year."
HOW DO THE librarians answer the variety of unusual questions asked at the reference desk of Watson every day? The answer, Caldwell says, is easier than it sounds.
"We have many sources of information that most people do not know about. We try to help all students and faculty find what they need," he said.
Reference material ranges from encyclopedias written in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Russian to telephone directories from all Kansas towns and many larger cities across the nation.
"ONE OF OUR biggest programs," Caldwell said, "is aiding students working on term papers or theses, and faculty members doing research through our inter-library loan system. We total over 6,000 inter-library loans every year, a number comparable to those handled by Cornell University."
"If we do not have a book that someone needs for a project," Caldwell explained, "we can borrow it from another library."
He added that lately the number of such requests for books unavailable at Watson has increased so rapidly "that we cannot provide all the service that we would like to."
OTHER AIDS to finding the wealth of knowledge available in Watson Library itself are dozens of pamphlets on almost any subject, bibliographies, periodical indexes, statistical reports, almanacs, and dictionaryes, and catalogs of other solleges.
Presently, cards for the master card catalog are being made from the list of micro-films and micro-cards owned by the library and available for student use.
Other improvements being made to help students include the rearrangement of the card catalog itself, and the placing of numbers above the book stacks.