Summer Session Kansan
Friday, June 14, 1963
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
51st Year, No.2
BEA BURDETTE, adjusts her Girls' State Governor's cap minutes after being informed Wednesday that she had won the election. The 21st annual Sunflower Girls' State, sponsored by
the Women's Auxiliary to the American Legion, will end Sunday. Miss Burdette is from Kansas City, Kan. She was inaugurated Thursday night at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Burdette Heads Girls' State Slate
Delegates to the 21st Sunflower Girls' State, who are meeting here chose their governor and state officers June 12, in a general election.
OTHER WINNERS for state officers were:
Bea Burdette, Kansas City, Kan., of the Federalist party, defeated Pamela Kaye O'Bryhim, Overbrook, Nationalist party candidate, in the balloting which resembled regular Kansas procedure.
Lt. Gov.-Bette Byrd, Wichita, Federalist; Attorney General—Mary Bolton, Abilene, Nationalist; Secretary of State—Judy Pistotnik, Arma, Nationalist; Treasurer—Bonnie Avery, Larned, Nationalist; State Auditor—Marlene Clanton, Fredonia, Federalist; State Superintendent—Dee Ann Mason, Arkansas City, Nationalist; State Printer—Glenda Carmack, El Dorado, Federalist; and Insurance Commissioner—Pat Hill, Mulvane, Federalist.
The 400 high school seniors from Kansas have been carrying on a week-long mock state government which will end Sunday. The group is sponsored annually by the Women's Auxiliary to the American Legion.
Seven Supreme Court justices were elected from nominees from each party. Chief Justice is Robyn Granger, Lyons. Other justices are Judy Broadstreet, Marion; Janel Lyon, Arkansas City; Carmen Hall, Baxter Springs; Linda Goff, Fredonia; Jan Henry, Dodge City; and Jackie Beyers, Burr Oak.
LT. GOV. HAROLD H. Chase was scheduled to speak last night at the inauguration ceremony at 7:30. Afterwards, a reception for Gov. Burdette was held at the Kansas Union.
In conjunction with Girls' State, this Saturday and Sunday, a Girls' State reunion will be held here. Girls' State alumnae, who have attended Girls' State and wish to continue to study and practice the fundamentals of democratic government, will attend and aid with ceremonies Saturday evening following the annual banquet.
Union Open House. June 21
Trail Room Dances, Friday Night Flicks, poetry hours, bowling, ping pong and pool tournaments are some of the activities being planned by the Student Union Activities (SUA), according to Bob Stewart, Bartlesville junior and chairman of the summer board.
SUA Activities Begin
Midwestern Music Camp Opens June16
The 6-week Midwestern Music and Art Camp at the University of Kansas opens its 26th season Sunday, June 16, with prospects of a record enrollment of about 1,100 senior and junior high school students.
The eight divisions, serving senior high boys and girls—music, art, ballet, theater, journalism, speech, science and engineering—will run through July 28. The junior high music camp will be two weeks June 30-July 13.
Prof. Russell L. Wiley, the camp's organizer and only director for a quarter century, said advance registrations indicate about 1,030 boys and girls will be living in the "camp," which will be air-conditioned Lewis and Templin Halls. There will be about 75 participants from Lawrence.
THE MUSIC DIVISION, the KU camp's basic, oldest and largest unit, will provide a series of six Sunday afternoon and evening concerts, starting June 23, and several mid-week recitals. Professor Wiley is the director of bands, Prof. Gerald M. Carney, director of the orchestra, and Prof. Clayton Krehbiel of the chorus. Eight guest conductors will assist.
"This year we shall have two bands, the concert band and the symphonic band," Professor Wiley said. "Each will have the same amount of rehearsal time and each
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Students Cram 10 Hours Daily To Learn Oriental Languages
By Linda Machin
Gertule Sellards Pearson Hall, normally a women's dormitory, this summer has been converted to an intellectual hothouse for nursing a growing knowledge of the Chinese and Japanese languages.
Teachers from KU and Colorado University are the "hothouse" attendants working with the 44 students enrolled in the Oriental Language Institute, which started just this summer.
THE RADICAL differences between English and the oriental languages necessitates a high pressure program, according to D. S. Willis, chairman of the CU department of Slavic and Eastern languages who is director of the institute.
Students in elementary level courses spend at least seven hours daily in organized class work. At noon, students and instructors cat together in private rooms at the Kansas Union; there too, the conversation is in Japanese and Chinese.
"Intensity of exposure to oriental languages is a prime factor in teaching Chinese and Japanese" he said.
IN ADDITION, beginning students are expected to spend from three to four hours each evening listening to tape recordings in special "libraries" at the dormitory. That adds up to 10 hours per day.
Students in intermediate classes have four class hours a day for 10 weeks, and also must enroll in one eight-week oriental area course in
geography, history, or anthropology
geography, history, or anthropology. Beneath the students' rooms are the classrooms; Japanese is taught in the west basement and Chinese in the east. Tape recorders and other equipment have been set up in improvised libraries in the "pent-houses" of both wings. Willis' office is a converted bedroom.
Students have come from as far as Oyster Bay, N.Y., and Tucson, Ariz. The majority are from Kansas.
"WE HAVE FIVE high school students and even two housewives," Willis said.
Two of the high school students, Jill Kleinburg and Karen Finfrock, are 1963 graduates of Lawrence high school. Both will enroll at KU next Fall.
Willis explained that the co-sponsored Oriental Language Institute here is one of three programs commencing this year. The others are a Russian language program in Jarvenpaen, Finland, with 40 CU and KU students attending, and the Russian-Polish Language Institute at Boulder, Colo.
"WHAT ACTUALLY happened this summer," explained Thomas Smith, KU professor of geography, "KU has concentrated on Chinese and Japanese languages rather than Slavic languages, while at CU, the reverse has taken place."
Thus, there has been an exchange of instructors between the two university campuses.
Heinrich Stammler, chairman of the department of Slavic linguistics and languages at KU has gone to
LAST YEAR, under the support of the National Defense Education Association (NDEA) a part of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, a center of East Asian Studies was established at KU. At the same time, a center for the study of Slavic and East European languages was set up at CU.
CU to direct the summer program.
"Due to the greater financial support this summer by the NDEA," said Prof. Smith, "the two programs—CU and KU—were joined this summer for the mutual benefit of both schools."
Federal aid in the amount of $13,000 was matched jointly by CU and KU. Plus the $13,000, the NDEA has provided several undergraduate fellowships averaging approximately $750 each.
IN ADDITION to the federal support, the KU Endowment Association has given smaller scholarships to 22 other student.
"The success and continuation of this joint summer program." Prof. Smith said, "will depend on the continued support by the NDEA.
"So, if we survive the tests of this first summer, we hope the program will become an annual one."
Prof. Smith pointed out that last summer KU had a much smaller language program of its own. There were only 16 students and four instructors teaching one level of Japanese.
"THIS SUMMER there are 44 students, 8 staff members and both
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- "Our first big project," Stewart said, "will be the open house at the Kansas Union next Friday, (June 21)."
AMONG THE OPEN House activities will be free bowling, billiards, and ping pong beginning at 5:00. From 5:00-9:00 the Prairie Room at the Union will also have a "steak special." The Friday movie shown at 3:00, 7:00 and 9:30 p.m. will be "Pal Joey."
Dances Monday and Thursday night for all University students will begin June 16, in the Trail Room of the Union. Stewart explained, "Last summer we found that the dances were attended mostly by the students here for previews, so this year we are sponsoring a Trail Room Dance once every preview."
IN ADDITION to dances, bowling leagues for both men and women students will begin the week of June 16. Ron Tucker, the SUA Board member in charge of recreation, said that registration and team preferences will end Monday.
Due to the large number of persons attending the Friday night movies last summer, Stewart said that a matinee at 3:00 will be shown this afternoon on a trial basis, in addition to the evening show. Today's movie will be "Romanoff and Juliet." Tickets are on sale at the information counter in the Union.
Arrangements for league bowling should be made at the Jaybowl, located on the lowest level of the Kansas Union. League bowling will be in the evenings. A reduced fee will be charged.
Later during the summer session the SUA will sponsor bowling, ping pong, pool and, tentatively, bridge tournaments.
SEVERAL EVENTS featuring faculty members are being planned. These include poetry hours, current event forums and "dinner with a professor." Stewart explained that
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