How Seniors Chose Gift
By Priscilla Camp
The logical beginning for the accomplishment of a project is the definition of its end. This was certainly true for the Senior Gift Committee, which found more than a little haziness surrounding the issue.
We found our initial task one of deciding what a senior gift ought to be, and then proceeding to the problem of choosing ours.
We surveyed gifts of former classes and found an impressive array of predecessors. Within our time at KU a bronze Jayhawker, bleachers and lights for Quigley Feild, and a lighted map of the campus, yet to make its appearance have been presented.
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Many familiar campus landmarks began as a senior's ideas; the information booth across from Bailey Hall, the display case between Dyche and Green, the landscaping in front of Lindley, Seymor Lipton's "Avenger" in the Museum of Art, and many of the flowering trees on the
campus. Some classes have given money as part of a project, such as the landscaping which will be put between the wings of Murphy Hall
With these in mind, we added some ideas of our own and came up with some basic criteria. The first question is, what is needed? Next, it might be well to buy something which could not be bought because money is committed elsewhere. Third, it seemed that at least a part of our gift ought to be tangible. It will be well to have something around the campus with "Gift of the Class of 1963" upon it, to which we can point with a feeling of having made a difference in the appearance of things.
The other major criterion seems to have been almost entirely original with us; the gift or gifts should be decided upon and purchased before the seniors depart.
To accomplish this, we began in October instead of February (an-
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Haugh Chosen For HOPE Award
By Blaine King
Oscar M. Haugh, professor of education, walked to the front of the Kansas Union ballroom at a Senior Coffee last month to receive the highest honor a senior class can bestow—the HOPE award.
The HOPE award—Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator — is awarded annually to the professor who, in the judgment of the seniors, has done the most to help students, has been most successful in stimulating students, and who has made a significant contribution to KU life and scholarship.
PROF. HAUGH made a short acceptance speech. He was presented the $100 HOPE prize, a personalized
pen and pencil desk set, and a citation.
He told the seniors he was deeply honored by the award, and that he would never forget the moment of presentation.
Prof. Oscar Haugh
presentatlon
Another KU educator, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, congratulated Haugh after the coffee.
But Haugh, who guides the training of language arts majors preparing to teach, declined.
"Take the rest of the day off," Wescoe said.
"I told some of the students I would come over to Topeka today to see them. They expect me, so I'd better go," he said.
PROF. HAUGH HAS taught at KU since 1950. He is editor of the KU Bulletin of Education and of Kansas Studies in Education. He is the author of materials for teachers of retarded readers, and has written a widely-circulated pamphlet for the National Council of Teachers of Education.
His citation also mentioned Prof. Haugh's help in development of language arts in Costa Rica through the KU exchange and in training Peace Corps representatives to Costa Rica.
The endowment for the HOPE award was created by the senior class of 1959.
OTHER WINNERS of the HOPE award have been Clayton Krebhiel chorus; Ray Q. Brewster, chemistry; Allen Crafton, drama, and Vaclav Mudroch, history.
Commencement
8:00 a.m.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Procession Procedure For The Big Event
Monday, June 3, 1963
Here are some suggestions and requests for tonight's exercises:
1. The marshals know the marching order. Comply with their requests promptly. They will appreciate your cooperation.
2. Do not let large gaps develop in the procesion; march close to the person in front of you.
3. Wear caps into the Stadium or Field House. Be seated immediately
SPECIAL
This annual Senior newspaper is a tradition at the University of Kansas. But this year is something special.
Fred Ellsworth, who is a "tradition" at KU himself, retires this year. A salute to the man who has been executive secretary of the Alumni Association for 39 years begins on Page. 3.
Today's Schedule
8 a.m. Class of '63 Breakfast
Union Ballroom
11 a.m. Army, Navy and Air Force Commissioning Ceremonies. Murry Hall.
11 am Bus Tour of Campus, from Union.
Noon Reception for military graduates and their guests Union
2 p.m. Bus tour of campus, from Union.
after reaching your seat. Men should remove caps at all times when seated.
2 p.m. Outdoor concert, K.U. Commencement Band, Dyche Hall lawn.
3-4:30 p.m. University reception for graduating seniors and their Families. Alumni welcome. Union lounge.
7 p.m. 1963 Commencement exercises, Memorial Stadium. Greetings by a representative of the State Board of Regents and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe. Presentation of Degrees and Distinguished Service Citations. Music by Carillon and Commencement Band.
4. When time comes for the conferring of degrees, which is done by schools, all graduates in the group designated by the Dean of the School will rise when the Dean presents the group to the Chancellor (men replacing their caps).
5. Do not bring parcels, handbags,
etc. to the Commencement exercises.
You cannot carry them across the stage and you do not return to the same seat.
6. Wear the tassel on your cap at the front left at all times. Do not change the tassel as you receive your diploma.
7. Please do not smoke or chew gum during the procession or exercises. Either creates more of a distraction than you might think.
8. Light colored shoes should not be worn in the procession.
9. Please inform your family and friends that picture-taking is not permitted during the exercises.
after the conferring of the degree,
you will be handed a dummy diploma which is a souvenir aerial picture of the University campus.
10. As you leave the platform
11. Provisions have been made for checking in caps and gowns and issuing diplomas easily and quickly after the ceremony, but lines will not open until the exercises are concluded.
12. Business Office representatives will issue you a receipt when you check in your cap and gown, and a Registrar's representative will then issue your diploma.
15. If it is not convenient for you to check in your cap and gown and secure your diploma on Monday night, you can do it Tuesday morning. A penalty will be assessed if the cap and gown are not returned by Tuesday noon, June 4.
14. If Commencement is in the Stadium, check in cap and gown and secure diploma in the Field House.
15. You can get your diploma framed at the Union bookstore tomorrow. It will be done while you wait.
By Priscilla Camp
Lively 4 Years; RememberThem?
Everyone sometimes wonders why graduation is referred to as "Commencement," since in everyday vocabulary "to commence" is to start, not finish.
Although seniors supposedly have caught on that graduations are beginnings, not endings, we will sneak a look over our shoulder as we rush into the world, and nostalgically review some of the high spots of our experience at the University of Kansas.
From the first day on campus, things appeared to be in a furious whirl. Our haggard parents tooted boxes and suitcases and racks of new clothes until everyone was ready to drop.
As they turned homeward, perhaps a little sadly, we were swept up by Orientation Week. With the activities carnival, placement exams, meetings, and a procession into the stadium which most of us hoped to repeat four years later under quite different circumstances.
We met Rock Chalk Review and the Kansas Relays that spring, and saw the birth of the KU Model United Nations, which was to become a tradition.
161 was the Kansas Centennial Year, and as we became sophomores, a little more confident but still with much to learn, a new chancellor, Dr. W, Clarke Wescoe, appeared as the "Newest Freshman."
We found our ranks somewhat thinned from the previous year, and
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Thank God, I'm A Senior
(Editor's note: This poem has become a sort of tradition with KU Seniors. It has been reprinted in almost every Senior newspaper in the past 10 years.)
GIMMIE THAT DEGREE; I wanna go, go, go! Fed up with teachers, bleachers, class notes, campus votes, test tubes, classroom rubes, final exams, fine art hams, text books, book nooks, and faculty schnooks.
WANNA GO TO WORK, wife, mother, or dog; gimme a paycheck, uniform, get me out of this smog. Through with learning, Wanna do, did, does, get it done. Wanna earn, not learn.
Enough o' these ideas. Wanna put me down to some practice, pleeuz.
Gotta get me out to meet 'em and greet 'em. And tell 'em and sell 'em. They don't care 'bout Pliny and Winnie. They want pounds and gallons and lumber feet. Know how to build and pave a street. Thought and told are through; bought and sold are new.
THINKERS ARE OUT: computers are in. Figure the wage with the new kind of gauge, forget the trends, intellectual bends. Run, don't walk,
down the venerable Hill. Too many bennies, late study pills.
we got V. And a bug.
Let them fix the pilot, follow it through. Ugh,
heap Injun, he's a schmoo. Operas, of course, but
soap and horse.
Think? Becomes a sphinx. Egypt is done; drive is our fun. Books we'll condense and let 'em be, propped in a row above the TV. Why books when we got TV? And a degree.
Culture? Well, sure, but not a big dose. Time's short; we've got to cut close.
MAYBE AT SIXTY, think and reflect. And decide on the ways that better all men. Service to men? Customers first.
India, China, spots on the sun. No import now; life has begun.
Does the other matter? Darn tootin' it does. It matters as much as a good home and love. Free choice is the arrow; the intellect the bow, to be used as best and as right as we know.
Got to think, chug-a-lug, think, chug-a-lug, to serve ourselves and the guy next door and the Guy up above.
— Chuck Zuegher, '53