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MSL Vol. 47 No. 61 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Tuesday, January 7, 1947 iLQ)UT5uiJrt) wflons Emanuel Wishnow to Direct University Orchestra Sunday Presenting three soloists Sunday at 4 p. m. in the Union Ballroom, the university orchestra will offer its second concert of the season, under the direction of Emanuel Wishnow. - Soloists are Donald. Wenz laff, clarinetist; C 1 e v e Genz linger, baritone, and Ernest Ul mer, pianist. Beth Mr. Genz linger and Mr. Ulmer have appeared in graduate re citals this se mester and will receive their lary. Prof. tyr se Wishnow Lincoln Journal. master's degrees 1n Mr. Wenzlaff will join school of music faculty be- eiT-ims wnn me summer iei rn. Earn saw military service during 'th war. Selections Q particular interest among the variety of selections is the con temporary composition which Mr. V.hzlaff will play, "Serenade for Slate Rural Music Is Topic Of Magazine Vlusic in Nebraska schools is the topic of three articles in the current issue of ' Education Music" magazine and the inside cover has a full-page picture of the chorus of the Nebraska Music Educators' Clinic held last month at the university. SJavid Foltz, assistant professor of music, has written about a new course of study for Nebraska rural spools developed by a committee wUich he heads. The group was named by the state department of publ;c instruction to aid the rural school music system in Nebraska. Mr. Foltz article is "Diagnosis and Cure." Mildred Ohslund, music teacher In the Havelock Central school, and a graduate student at the university during the summer, wrote on "Music a La Xylophone." She told of the enthusiasm and activity which resulted when she brought her fifth graders a xlyo phone she had made. The class constructed several of the instru ments, and his given xylophone programs. Veterans' Wives To Have Home Making Classes Twenty wives of war veteran students will hold joint evening meetings Jan. 13, IS and 22 with members of the university meth ods class in adult home-making ed ucation. The meetings, which will be held" at Teacher's College, are p'rt of a luiivcrsily-sponsored program to help veterans' wives solve housekeeping problems. The di rector Is Mrs. Rhea Kceler of the university's department of voca tional education. Answer Questionnaires. Topics for the meetings are being chosen from answers to questionnaires distributed to the veterans wives. Those in biggest demand at present are: Making the present' home attractive; en tertaining on a shoestring; easy, quick; meals; , budgeting time, monpy and energy. The questionnaires are being distributed by Mrs. Keeler. For further information or for a check shoe call Mrs. Rhea Keeler, Dept. Voc. Ed. Thono 2-7261, extension 237, ring 2 or 5-90C8. Clarinet and Strings," written by Homer Keller, now doing ad vanced graduate work at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N. Y. Accompaniment for the first of three numbers which Mr. Genz linger will sing has been arranged by Conductor Wishnow for string orchestra. The song is "Turn Ye to Me,'- a traditional Scotch air. An aria by Verdi -and a song by Richard Strauss are his other selections. Appearing as the third soloist, Mr. Ulmer will play the complete Mozart "Concerto in D minor" with the orchestra. The program as it will be given Sunday is: Toocntft Fre.TohnWi-Kinriler Serenade for Clurincl and Strings. . .Keller Mr. WenzlafI Turn Y to Me Scotch Air ri rrovena II mar ("Ia Travlata"). Verdi Zueignung Strauss Mr. Genlinger Concerto in D minor (K. Mozart Allegro Romane Allt'Kro naiiai-Rondo Mr UlmT and Orchestra Man-he Mitiluire Francaise (Suite Algerlcnne) Saint-Saens Orchestra Goss Tells Additions to Grad Faculty Dean R.W. Goss of the gradu ate college recently announced that 15 members of the univer sity staff have been added to the faculty of the graduate college. They are Dr. Cecil T. Blunn, assistant professor of animal hus bandry; Dr. Boyd G. Carter, as sistant professor of romance lan guages; Dr. Benjamin Boyce, pro fessor of English; Dr. Frederic D. Garrett, assistant professor of anatomy, college of medicine; Dr Ephriam Ilixson, professor of en- entitledJfomoogy. Dr. Harold C. Lucth. dean of the medical college and professor of medicine; Dr. Jesse E. Living ston, assistant plant pathologist and assistant extension patholo gist; Dr. John Roger McHenry, assistant professor of agronomy; Dr. RufuSl. Moore, assistant pro fessor of horticulture; Dr. Otto Muller, instructor in physiology and pharmacology, college of medicine. Dr. Carl Olson, jr., professor of animal pathology and hygiene; Dr. Edgar E. Palmer, professor of statistics; Dr. Ian W. Tervet, as sociate professor and associate plant pathologist: Dr. Harold E. Wise, associate professor of sec ondary education, and Dr. Walter F. Wright, assistant professor of English. Clmrlcs W. Hook Joins Electrical Engineers' Staff Cl-arli's W. Rook, member of the University of North Dakota electrical engineering department since 1041. will become associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Nebraska February 1. Much of Mr. Rook's work at the University will be in electronics courses, according to O. J. Fer guson, chairman of the electrical engineering department. Mr. Rook took his bachelor's degree at the University of Colorado in - 193(5, and did graduate work at Iowa State College. The new faculty member work ed for the Western Elloctric Com pany in Denver from 1937-39, and at the West infc house Research lab- catoiics at Pittsburgh la the summer of 1045. Noted Author Deliberates War, Peace Vincent Sheehan, noted author and foreign correspondent, spoke on the problems of peace in the light of the recent war, in a Town ' ' ' V - I ' " f - J y : '"X.- i - : (Courtesv TJnroln Journal). VINCENT SHEEHAN. Hall lecture, sponsored by the Jun ior League at St. Paul's Metho dist church last night. Mr. Sheehan, a veteran of both wars, is noted for his unusual range in experiences connected with the war. Possessing sharp insight as an onolyist, his discus sion covered interesting views re garding the U. S. -Russian rela tions. Challenged Hitler. Arriving in Germany at the time Hitler started his eastward expansion, Sheehan created inter national sensation by challenging some of Hitler's fabulous claims. He covered the march to the Su detenland and broadcast regularly from Prague. After covering the war in Spain, he was assigned duty with the plans division of the air staff in Washington. He later served' as .an observer for many missions flying over the Hump in the C.B.I, theatef. Sheehan was placed on inactive duty late in 1944 and immediately went abroad as a correspondent with Patton's Third army. Since the war he has retired to his Maine home to write a new book on the problems of the war and the peace. DeadlincNcars OnKosmetKlub Show Scripts With the deadline for entry of scripts for the Kosrnct Klub show on Feb. 1 and final examinations intervening, time is short for the preparation of the musical comedy manuscripts. Fifty dollars will be awarded to the student or students who submit the winning entry for the Klub spring show. Kosrnct Presi dent John Dale announced that would-be playwrights who did not announce their intention to sub mit a script before Christmas va cation may still enter a remedy in the contest. A number of students have announced that they plan to submit a musical comedy to the Klub. Dale said. Scripts submitted should beJ adaptable for presentation by an all-male cast, should contain a pony-chorus scene and i mist in clude songs with original words and music. Air Reserves All Air Reserving are re quested to attend the Thurs day, Jan. 8 meeting in Union 815. where Information of top importance will be presented, Fritz Craig announced today. BY GEORGE MILLER The Nebraska Cornhuskers, fighting back from a 27-17 halftime deficit, upset the mighty Oklahoma Sooners in a Big Six contest before 6,500 partisan fans at the coliseum Monday night. Coach Harry Good's hoopsters caught up with the Sooners after 14 minutes of the second half when Claude Retherford sank a free throw to Twenty New Huskcrville Units Ready Twenty more apartment units at the Lincoln Army Air Field have been made available for veterans at the university and their families, according to L. F. Seaton, operating superintendent of the university. Fifty-three apartments have al ready been completed, which brings to 73 the total ready for occupancy at Huskerville. About fifty are already occupied. An other 25 apartments should be finished in two weeks, to give nearly 100 by mid-January, Sea ton said. Apartments Materials for converting the buildings into apartments are be ing received more rapidly and Seaton hopes to have all 253 apartments ready by the end of summer school. Dormitory space for single veterans has been avail able since last fall. The low cost apartments are furnished and in clude kitchen, dinette, living room, bath and two bedoorms. Several dormitories have been converted into temporary two room apartments for dormitory residents who have married. There is room for 250 men in the dormitories, but only about 70 rooms are occupied. If more dc mand for dormitory space is not evident after the second semester begins. Max Swan, Huskcrville manager, said more dormitory rooms may be utilized as apartments. Robert Slcinmoiis Wins Top Honors In Design Contest' Robert Slemmons won first place in the "Modern 'American Church design problem recently completed by Prof. Ben T. Hemp hill's architectural design class. Second place went to George Fox and George Kuska. The proj ect was adopted to stimulate the use of current developments in materials and methods of con struction in church design. The Rev. John O. Wichelt and the Rev. Alvin Petersen were guest judges. Assisting them were Professors B. E. Graf, H. Skaret and M. Johnson of the architec tural department staff. The entries are now on exhibi tion in architectural hall. Former Nebraska Student Featured In 'Look' Artiele Stanley G. Martz, '45 graduate of the Engineering College, is fea tured jn a four-page article in last week s Look Magazine. The picture and story featured the work and social life of a stu dent engineer at General Electric. Martz has been working for Gen eral Electric for one year and ex pects to become sales engineer after three more years of train ing. Graduating with the class of 1945, Martz was a member of Sigma Chi and Sigma Tau, knot the score at 39-all. Jack Landon and Bill Waters shoved the visitors back into the lead with a pair of gift tosses, but Rether ford conected on a short side shot to bring the Scarlet back into con tention. During the last four minutes of the game the visiting Sooners failed to score. At the same time the scrappy UI quintet was build ing up a narrow margin which proved to be enough. Joe Loisel (jotted a charity toss, Joe Brown did the same and then Retherford ended the scoring on another free throw with 24 seconds left in the game. Playing without regular center Don McArthur, the Huskers amazed the crowd as well as the Sooners with a steady second half advance Omaha's Dick Schleiger took over the pivot post and did right well, scoring nine points himself and limiting the Okla homa hot shot, Gerald Tucker, to a similar total. Tucker left the game on fouls late in the second half. Retherford topped the Husker (See SOONERS, Page 3) Theatre Sets 'AngclStrcct9 Tryout Dates First tryouts for the University Theater's third production of the year, "Angel Street," will be held tomorrow night from 7 to 9 p. m. in room 201 of the Temple, ac cording to Max Whittaker, di rector of the play. "Angel Street," Patrick Hamil ton's Victorian thriller, is sched uled to open February 26 for a four night run with a Saturday matinee on March first. The play, set in a gloomy living room of a four-story house in London in the late 1800s, has a cast of three women and two men. Story. The story of the play is cen tered about the Manninghams of Angel Street. Mr. Manningham, suave and authoritative, is at tempting to torture his wife into insanity as part of his diabolical scheme to obtain a hidden fortune, Mrs. Manningham, who reflects by her haggard, wan and frighened ir hat her husband's plan is suc ceeding, is helped to retain her sanity by Rough, a fricidly de tective, who suddenly appears upon the scene, suspicious that Mr. Manningham is not the respec table gentleman he appears to be. 'Characters. Nancy, a self-conscious, pretty, cheeky girl of nineteen, is the maid of the house who enlivens her working hours with parlor flirtations with the master. Eliz abeth, a stout, amiable, subser vient woman of fifty, is the house keeper and cook. Additional tryouts are scheduled for Thursday aftenroon from 3 to 5 p. m. and from 7 to 9 p. m. Final tryouts will be announced later in the week. Any student in the university who is carrying 12 hours or more and is in good standing is eligible to try out. Mr. Whittaker stated that students must attend at least two of the scheduled tryouts to be considered for a part.