Alumni association elects 3 to board
Three men have been elected to five-year terms on the board of directors of the University of Kansas Alumni Association. Samuel D. Evans, Jr., Salina; Prof. Nicholas L. Gerren, Wilberforce, Ohio; and Dwight D. Sutherland, Kansas City, Mo., will take office at the end of Commencement ceremonies Monday.
Robert B. Riss, Kansas City, Mo., retiring president of the association, automatically begins a four-year term as director.
Retiring directors are Ellis Cave, Dodge City; Clarence McGuire, Kansas City, Mo., former association president; H. William Reece, Scandia; and Mrs. Mary Varner Warwick, Shawnee Mission.
Howard "Tony" Immel, Iola,
will become president for a one-
year term beginning June 1.
Serving with him will be three
regional vice-presidents: Charles
S. Haines, II, New York City, east;
W. F. "Bill" Barber, St. Louis,
Mo, midwest; and Mrs. Pat Penny
Bennett, Los Angeles, Cal., west.
Mrs. Bennett replaces Frank L.
Snell, Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Odd Williams, Lawrence, will begin serving in the newly-created office of executive vicepresident.
This year 6,177 voted in the election, a participation second only to the record 7,047 last year.
Evans, a 1965 business graduate, is associated with the Evans Grain Company in Salina and is vicepresident of EVCO Distributing, Inc. He served as president of the Saline County KU Club in 1968. Evans is also active in various community programs including the Salina Community Action Council.
Gerren is professor and dean of the School of Music and Art at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. He received degrees in fine arts and education in 1934 and 1935 respectively as well as a master's degree in 1948 and a Ph.D. in 1953. A concert violinist, composer and conductor of original music, he has held previous positions at Texas Southern University, Lincoln University, Bennett College and Moscow Conservatory of Music in Russia.
Sutherland, a 1945 graduate, is a partner in the Sutherland Lumber Company in Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. E. Thayer Gaston, University Professor of Music Education and director of music therapy, died June 3 while on a fishing trip in the Ozarks. He was 68 years old.
Thayer Gaston dies at 68
Widely known as the "father of music therapy," Dr. Gaston was designated a University Professor in 1968 in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments in both teaching and research.
He joined the KU faculty in 1936, established the University's first degree program in wind instruments, the Psychology of Music Laboratory, the University's first courses in the psychology of music and the influence of music on behavior, and the Ph.D. program in music education.
He established the first music therapy curriculum in the world at KU in 1948. Four out of five of all university and college teachers of music therapy graduated from the University of Kansas.
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Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., said, "Dr. Gaston was an outstanding example of that
most desirable combination in a professor—he was both a superb classroom teacher and a distinguished research scholar. His death is a great loss to the field of music therapy and to this University, as well as a deeply felt personal loss to his many friends, students, and colleagues.
"Dr. Gaston was a pioneer in the use of music to re-establish lines of communication weakened by mental illness. Although his career has ended, the results of his research and the work of his students will live on to give hope to some who need it most."
Professor Gaston edited "Music in Therapy," published in 1968. The first comprehensive book in its field, it encompassed the work of 59 prominent therapists, clinicians, researchers and psychologists. The National Association for Music Therapy receives all proceeds from the book's sale. He is also author of more than 125 publications in professional books and journals.
Born in Woodward, Okla., on July 4, 1901, Prof. Gaston married Ardis May Waite in 1924.
Mrs. Gaston died earlier this year. Their son, Dr. Lamont Waite Gaston, lives in St. Louis, Mo.
Professor Gaston was a graduate of the Lewis high school in 1919, received the A.B. degree from Sterling in 1923, the bachelor of music degree from Sterling in 1935, and the Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Kansas in 1940.
Among his many offices in professional organizations, Professor Gaston was past chairman of the National Committee on Functional Music, Music Educators National Conference; past chairman of the National Committee on Music Therapy, Music Teachers National Association; chairman of the Committee on Research, National Association for Music Therapy; and member of the executive committee, vice president, and president of the N.A.M.T. At the time of his death, he was editor of the journal of the N.A.M.T.
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