Fame of former KU couple spreads
By ANN MORITZ Kansan staff writer
The fame of a former University of Kansas couple is beginning to spread over the world and has
recently seeped back to Lawrence from Germany.
Don Scheid, assistant dean of the School of Fine Arts, recently received a letter from Bremer-
New professorship honors businessman
An endowed professorship in excess of $100,000 has been established in the KU School of Business honoring Carl A. "Skip" Scupin of Abilene, former president and chairman of the board of the United Utilities, Incorporated.
Income from the endowment will be added to the regular salary paid by the state to the professor in business administration who is named to the Scupin Professorship.
Principal underwriter of the endowment is United Utilities, Inc., a Kansas corporation whose holdings include the United Telephone System, second largest of the nation's independent telephone systems.
Scupin served with United Utilities for 45 years prior to his
retirement as chairman of the board in 1966. He continues as director of the company.
Scupin is also a director of the Kansas Power and Light Company, City National Bank and Trust Company, Kansas City, Mo., the Abilene National Bank and is a trustee of the Eisenhower Foundation.
Scupin was active in encouraging other members of the United States Independent Telephone Association (USITA) to recognize the need for a special management development course for telephone executives and administrators. Due in part to his efforts, the USITA Management Development Program was established at KU 12 years ago, and has since produced 521 graduates.
Proposal to lower voting age favored
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Nixon administration Tuesday warmly endorsed a proposal to let Americans start voting in national elections at age 18 and termed today's youth "better equipped" for it than ever before.
interests now are in raising their three children. She is a mezzosoprano and is originally from Salisbury, Mo.
NEW YORK—One in every 107 cars registered in the United States was stolen in 1968, reports the Insurance Information Institute. A total of 777,800 thefts represented an increase of approximately 18.8 per cent over the 1967 figure.
But Deputy Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst, speaking on behalf of President Nixon, said the voting age should be lowered only for the election off Presidents and members of Congress, leaving states with the discretion in local contests.
AUTO THEFT ODDS
Kleindienst testified before a Senate judiciary subcommittee considering proposed constitutional amendments to lower the voting age to 18. He was followed to the witness table by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who went a step further than Kleindienst by urging adoption of an amendment that would give 18-year-olds the right to vote in all elections—national, state and local.
Kleindienst told the panel that the President after "careful study and consideration" had concluded the lower voting age was desirable.
The Sooters speak German like natives and are full members of the German community. They are wonderful American ambassadors of good will, and reflect much credit on their schools, families, and American home communities, Capt. Rahil wrote.
A few minutes after Clark finished speaking, a group of angry women interrupted the hearing by shouting demands that Congress pass a constitutional amendment guaranteeing equal treatment under the law for men and women. About 15 members of the group, called the National Organization of Women (NOW), held up posters reading "we demand equality" and "equality now."
haven, Germany, telling of the advancing career of Edward Sooter and his wife, the former Sharon Tebbenkamp.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., presiding over the hearing, promised to talk with the demonstrators later and they finally agreed to leave the room. The same group recently interrupted a hearing on birth control pills.
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"However," he added, "in recognition of the proper role in which the states are called upon to play in our federal system, and
While students at KU, both Sooter and his wife were winners of the district Metropolitan Opera auditions.
in order to make possible prompt ratification of the proposal, the President feels that an amendment permitting 18-year-olds to vote in national elections only is the best solution of alternative extreme positions—those which would leave the matter to each state on the one hand, and one which would provide the right to vote in state as well as national elections on the other."
sic from KU in voice in 1964. He is employed by the Bremerhaven Opera Company at the Stadttheater, where he sings leading tenor roles in such operas as "Samson and Delilah," "Manon Lescaut" and "Carmen." His home was Wichita.
"My purpose in writing this letter, as the senior U.S. military officer in this German-American community, is to provide a report to those among your readers who know Ed Sooter and his charming wife Sharon Tebbenkamp," wrote Capt. G. W. Rahill of the U.S. Navy.
"I have great admiration and respect for this talented young couple for the contributions they are making toward enriching the cultural and spiritual lives of many Germans and Americans," Rahil said.
He described the 10 million Americans aged 18 to 21 as "better equipped today to be entrusted with all of the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship. . .
Kleindienst said the experience of the four states which allow voting by those under 21 indicates this would be beneficial for the nation as a whole. The voting age is 18 in Kentucky and Georgia, 19 in Alaska and 20 in Hawaii.
"Our young people are involved in the political process as no other generation has ever been. We need look no further than the Peace Corps, Vista or the most recent national political campaigns to know this is true," he said.
After their graduation from KU, both Mr. and Mrs. Sooter studied for two years under scholarships at the Conservatory of Hamburg in Germany.
Joseph Wilkins, KU professor of voice, has been keeping in regular contact with the couple during the time they have been in Germany. He said this letter is the latest that has been received. Wilkins taught the couple in voice when they attended KU.
Sooter received a master of mu-
Mrs. Sooter, who received the bachelor of music degree in voice from KU in 1963 and a master of music degree in 1964, also sings with the company. Her primary
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