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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, June 21, 1963
NEAR DISCOURAGEMENT—Annie Sullivan, played by Nancy Harris of Junction City, writes in her journal of her despairing of ever teaching a deaf, blind, mute child to speak. "The Miracle Worker," being presented by the Junction City Little Theatre and the University Theatre, is the story of Miss Sullivan's struggles to teach Helen Keller as a child. The play will be presented Thursday and Friday in Murphy Hall, with curtain time at 8 p.m.
Miracle Worker Stirs Emotions
By Patrick Prosser
"The Miracle Worker" opened the summer theatre season last night at the University of Kansas. If the rest of the productions this summer match this stirring drama in quality, theatre patrons are due for an exciting time.
The play, by William Gibson, covers a lot of ground dramatically. It is the story of Annie Sullivan's struggle to teach the deaf, mute and blind Helen Keller. In the course of the play, Annie goes from the hope of the uninitiated, to the despair of the frustrated, to the tribulations of the successful.
The production is a joint enterprise of the Junction City Little Theatre and the University Theatre. All the actors are from Junction City and the technical aspects were done and are run by KU personnel.
MISS TANDY CRAIG, Joplin, Mo., graduate student, has done an excellent job of directing the Junction City actors through this poignant and trying production. Her cast, as a whole, does well on playing as an ensemble. However, there are places where the play seems to stall.
In one scene, Miss Sullivan is trying to teach the spoiled Helen table manners. A protracted fight sequence, which would carry well in an intimate theatre situation, loses much of its nuances in the main theatre of Murphy Hall. But still, even
at a physical distance, one feels the pathos of this woman trying to teach a child who is more animal than human.
NANCY HARRIS as Annie Sullivan and Kathy Corcoran as Helen Keller portray the principal roles with convincing vigor and sincere depth.
Miss Corcoran brings across the handicap of Helen Keller very well. In the play, Helen has only one vocal line at the end. Throughout the rest of the play, her attitudes and emotions must be communicated either silently or in animal noises. Miss Corcoran's feeling for this blind, deaf and mute girl carries to the audience with amazing strength
Kate Keller, played by Marti Miller, is done well and she has the vocal strength and quality to carry in Murphy Auditorium. Michael B. Trost as Helen's half-brother and L. E. McInnis, as her father, Captain Keller, both do excellent jobs of interpretation, but had some difficulty adjusting to Murphy Hall's acoustics.
Other cast members include John Corcoran, James Hicks, June Banks, John Lockyer, Debra George, Patty Shipman, Kate Fletcher, Kristin Kesinger, Nancy Langvardt, W. G. Flower, Mary Lutz, Kathy Smiley, Stephanie Crider and "Peggy" Cleary, the company's retired "seeing eve" dog.
DIANE BARNHILL as Aunt Ev does well as the "over-stuffed" relative, and Mozell Davis does better-than-average maid service as Viney.
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Tonight is the final performance of "The Miracle Worker," and it is highly recommended fare for the discriminating theatre-goer.
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Appropriations to the University from the Kansas legislature financially support the survey. Most of the money is spent in water, oil and gas research. In addition there is research work done in fundamental study of paleontology, stratigraphy
Geologists Dig into Kansas Resources
GENEVA — (UPI) — The United States and the Soviet Union signed an agreement yesterday to set up a "hot line" communications link between Moscow and Washington to avoid the danger of war by accident.
THE HISTORIC accord was signed by U.S. Ambassador Charles Steele and Soviet Ambasador Semyon K. Tsarapkin, their nations' chief representatives at the 17-nation disarmament conference.
It was the first concrete, formal accord between the world's two major nuclear powers in 17 years of on-again, off-again disarmament talks.
The arrangement calls for a "hot line" teleprinter link—meaning it will be open and operating 24 hours a day every day of the week—which will permit President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to confer immediately at any time.
IT WAS THE first concrete accomplishment of the disarmament conference, which has been paralyzed since it began in March, 1962, by sharply-opposed Western and Communist aims.
Stelle and Tsarapkin affixed their signatures to the agreement at the European headquarters of the United Nations, climaxing about two months of secret American-Soviet negotiations.
Another recent project of the Kansas Survey has been concerned with research of Kansas minerals to be used in building stone. Under this project, geologists Allison Hornbaker and Ronald Hardy helped set up the Kansas Building Stone Association last spring. Through the Association new uses of stone for building purposes may be discovered and that information made known to Kansas architects.
The agreement came after a spokesman explained that certain small clarifications requested by Russia yesterday were approved by Washington during the night.
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THE SURVEY, primarily a research organization, investigates the natural resources of Kansas and the needs and uses for them. The latest project of survey is a new geology map of the state. Such a map of Kansas has not been revised since 1937. The scale will be eight inches to a mile and the completed layout will be 40x50 inches.
and development of computers to solve various geological problems.
The Kansas Geological Survey located in Lindley Hall ranks fifth among the 47 state surveys in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to a Survey staff member.
The Survey, though a division of KU, is not a part of the geology department. Staff workers for the survey include geologists, ceramists, draftsmans, clerks and stenographers. Many are civil service employees; some are also KU faculty members.
The work done by the Survey has often had valuable contributions to nationwide industries. For instance, the work done with clay by the survey in Kansas alone has been responsible for several million dollars added profit to the ceramic industry.
KUDormitories House 167 Men.
One hundred, sixty-seven men are being housed in university facilities throughout the summer session at Kansas University.
Six counselors and 145 men are housed in Carruth-O'Leary Hall. The resident directors, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gasswint, were resident directors of Templin Hall during the past winter session.
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Last year about 100 students were housed in the men's halls. This is about 70 less than this year. The housing is taken care of through the Dean of Men's office.
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