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University Theater Reconstruction
Scheduled For Completion In Spring
South Half Of Temple Bpilding To Be Modern;
Renamed Howell MemofVial Theater By Regents
By LOWELL VESTAL
Staff Writer
Reconstruction of the Univer
sity Theater in the Temple
Building will probably be fin
ished sometime in the spring of
1954, according to Charles F.
Fowler, director of the Division
of Buildings and Grounds.
Rebuilding was started ap
proximately two years ago in
the paper stage. In order to get
large Crowd
Attends Carol
Presentation
University Singers presented
an annual Christmas carol con
cert to two capacity audiences
Sunday.
The program, under the direc
tion of Dr. Arthur Westbrook,
professor of music, consisted of
Christmas carols representing the
yuletide music contributed by
nations all over the world.
THE SONGS described the
spirit of Christmas in music. The
stage setting brought the concert
theme out throught a background
of blue-lighted Christmas trees
and lighted candelabra. Convey
ing the feeling of an altar, a
table with candles and a cross
was placed in the center of the
stage.
Soloists with the Singers were
Shirley Rasmussen, Marshall
Christensen, Marian Brinkman
and David Mullin. In contrast to
the choral numbers, a string
quartet presented a modern har
mony and muted string arrange
ment of "Gesu Bambino." Mem
bers of the quartet are Joan
Szydlowski, Sheila Brown, Har
old Welch and Charles Klasek.
THE PROGRAM finale was
"Fantasia on C iristmas Carols"
by Williams with Dale Ganz, as
sistant and professor of voice, as
soloist. Jan Fullerton, pianist,
and Julia Turpen, organist, were
accompanists for the group.
The concert was sponsored
jointly by the Union activities
committee and the School of Mu
sic. Military Ball
Successful;
Shows Profit
The 1953 Military Ball, now
history, was managed well
enough by the COA and the three
KOTC departments to show a
definite net profit.
This profit was made in spite
of expenses totalling nearly $1,
900, including a fee of $865 paid
to the University for the use of
the Coliseum.
Well over 1,000 tickets were
sold, including regular dance
tickets and spectator tickets, and
nearly 200 guests were present.
AH told, an estimated 2,400 peo
ple attended the opening of the
formal season.
"I FEEL that the 1953 Military
Ball was a tremendous success,"
stated Mac Bailey, president of
COA and over-all chairman of
the Ball.
"As long as the people at
tending enjoy themselves, I feel
confident the Military Ball has
been and always will be worth
while undertaking," she said.
"At this time," he concluded
in a statement to the Nebraskan,
"I would also like to thank all
those people who gave so freely
of their time and energy for a
job well done."
AAUP To Hear Tollman
At Thursday Meeting
Nebraska Chapter of the
American Association of Uni
versity professors will hold a fall
semester dinner meeting Thurs
day at 6:30 p.m. in the Union.
The annual election of officers
will follow the dinner. J. P. Toll
man, dean of the College of
Medicine, will speak on "Current
policies and Plans of the College
,t Medicine."
Weather Takes Over
Conversation Front
Temperatures Puzzle Experts
By MARY SIIELLEDY
Staff Writer
Simmering in 100-degree wea
ther one week bundling up in
coats and mittens the next. Typi
cal Nebraska weather. Or is it
more than just Nebraska wea
ther? Weathermen say that the wea
ther in the last year has been un
usual. Tornadoes ripped up parts
r,l the country from Arkansas to
Mass. Texas and the Midwest
suffered one of the worst
droughts since the 30'. But New
York and the east coast were
bailing out from severe rain
storms. What's the deal?
THE CHIEF of the U. S. Wea
ther Bureau, Francis W, Reicbel
derfer, in an interview in U S
News & World Report, says that
meteorologists have no real ex
planation for the upsets.
The atomic bomb tests are def
initely not to blame. It would
take three atom bombs every
second to equal the energy re
leased in a moderate rainstorm.
Tornadoes are even more pow
erful, compared to the atom
bomb. Nor do the efforts of rain
rnakeri teem to have much ef
fect. The weather is changing,
though. Winters have been get
ting warmer every year. The
mean temperature has risen from
2 to 18 degrees in the Northern
Hemisphere. Alaskan and Green-
critical constrjAlfon materials,
the theater haoTo be temporarily
reclassified as a speech labora
tory, FOWLER SAID the Temple
was built around 1905, primarily
as a student activities building.
In the following years, it has
housed student pastors' offices,
YM-YWCA offices, a cafeteria,
Regents' Bookstore and other
non-academic activities.
Later the speech department
was assigned one room and has
since been expanded to include
most of the building. At the
present time, the north half of
the building is used by the
speech department. The south
half, occupied almost entirely
by the University Theater, is the
portion being rebuilt.
THE THEATER and equip
ment will be completely modern
and up-to-date. The entrance,
which will open on 12th Street,
will have modern glass doors.
Inside, color will be used ex
tensively in the lobby and halls.
Tile similar to that used in the
halls of Burnett and Ferguson
will cover the floors.
Fowler said the renovated
portion of the old building will
be simple, but distinctive. The
first floor will contain a box of
fice, a place to display billings
of future plays, a director's of
fice and a small coat-check room.
Each end of the lobby steps
will lead to the balcony and
third-floor rooms.
On the second floor will be
two entrances to the balcony, a
Omahan's Fish Fossil
Earns Museum Display
Specimen Found
A split-tailed fish which swam
in the oceanic waters covering
most of Nebraska a quarter of a
billion years ago has been put
on display at the University
State Museum in Morrill Hall.
THE FISH, fossilized in Pen
nsylvania shale, was donated to
the Museum by David Brown,
15, of Omaha, who discovered
the fossil while on a field trip
near Plattsmouth with the Ne
braska Mineralogical Society.
Brown and John E. Hufford of
Omaha, society secretary,
brought the fish to the Museum.
Dr. C. Bertrand Schultz, Mu
seum director, said the specimen
is one of the most complete and
best-preserved fossill fish ever
found in Nebraska. Other such
fossils have been found near
Plattsmouth, he said, but none
which would match the com
pleteness of this find.
Brown discovered the eight
inch long fossil after he struck a
piece of shale with nis pick axe.
The shale split easily revealing
the embedded fish. Schultz said
the fish was trapped in the
oceanic mud which later turned
into shale.
THE FISH is the ancestor of
today's fish in Nebraska, and the
type is easily recognizable by its
split tail and scales on the upper
half of the tail fin.
Dr. Schultz said the find will
Visiting Alum,,
To Lecture At
Dr. Walter Kollmorgen, chair-1
man of the geography oepart
ment of the University of Kan
sas, will visit the University this
week for a series of lectures.
He also will appear before the
Nebraska Co-ordinating Com
mittee for Missouri Basin Re
sources Development Wednesday
at 3 n.m. in the Governor's
hearing room, state capitol. He
will speak on "Hoods nam
Planning."
HIS CAMPUS schedule In
cludes:
Wednesdav. 11 a.m.. Room 105,
Geography Building "Recent
Settlement and Agricultural Ad-
land glaciers are snrinKing sev
eral yards each year.
ONE THEORY to explain the
changes is that the warm air
masses and cold air masses are
continually in conflict. A little
change in the amount of sun
light can warm up a whole con
tinent, or cool it off.
Dr. Harry Wexler, of the
Science Services Division of the
Weather Bureau, thinks that the
decline in volcanic activity has
something to do with it. Less
volcanic ash in the air lets more
sunlight get through, he says, so
the weather is getting warmer.
So even the weathermen are
left guessing.
And it seems that no matter
how much people worry about
atom bombs and politics, they
still talk about the weather.
4-H Award Given
To NU Freshman
Patsy Lee Woodman, 'fresh
man in the College of Agricul
ture, was one of eight national
winners at the 1953 National
4-H Home Improvement Awards
Program.
During the 32nd National 4-H
Club Congress in Chicago, Miss
Woodman received a scholarship
check for $300 from the presi
dent of Sears Roebuck and Co.
She also received on all-expense-paid
trip to the Congress
from the S r i f "'; Foundation.
large classroom and another
small room. The lobby walls will
be painted yellow and contain
recessed drinking fountains.
On the third floor there will
be five small rooms, each with a
window overlooking the stage.
These windows will be above
the second-floor balcony.
THE THEATER itself will
slope sharply toward the stage
to insure visibility from all
points of the audience area. The
ceiling slopes at approximately
the same angle as the florr, di
recting attenion to the stage. The
balcony will have eight seating
levels.
The total cost of approxi
mately $380,000 will include all
equipment such as curtains,
lights, light and sound controls,
make-up equipment, audience
seats, storage space and plumb
ing. RECENT ACTION by the
Board of Regents has renamed
(permanently, this time) the
University Theater the Howell
Memorial Theater. Architects
are now designing an appropriate
sign to be placed over the en
trance. While no definite plans have
been made for rebuilding the
north half of the Temple, all
work on the south section is
being done in such a way that
it will not preclude similar work
on the north half at some later
time. Fowler explained the
building is structurally strong,
but the woodwork has become
badly worn through the years.
Near Plattsmouth
stimulate further work in the
Plattsmouth area to learn more
of the little-known ancestry of
modern fish.
"It is interesting to note," Dr.
Schultz added, "that this find
coincides with the 150th anni
versary of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition, which found north
of what is now Omaha the first
fossil uncovered in this area, a
fish."
Thirteen Receive
NU Pep Awards
-OOv mecP ro- SHR SHRDDL
Awards for outstanding con
tributions to University pep
were presented during the half
time of the Nebraska -Minnesota
basketball game.
Cheerleaders Gary Hild, Dan
ny Fogel, Bruce Riley, Lou San
chez, Marilyn Eaton, Norm Veit
zer, Don Orr, Joan Pollard, Judy
Wiebe and Bob Kirkendall were
given recognition for the sea
son's work by Rocky Yapp, Stu
dent Council president.
Cal Kuska, president of Corn
Cobs, was given a certificate for
the job the Cobs did this year
and Sue Reinharda, president of
Tassels, accepted recognition for
the women's pep organization.
Phyllis Colbert, 1953 Home
coming Queen, was also recog
nized during the ceremonies.
Geographer
Capitol. NU
justments in the Central Great,
Plains."
ttiiirtrlav R a.m.. Room S.
Geography Building "Prospects j
in the Hard winter wneat kc.
gion."
Thursday, 5 p.m.. Room 206,
Geography Building "Regional
Research Programs of the Kan
sas Department of Geography."
ALL SESSIONS which are
snonsored bv the University
committee on convocations and
the department of geography are
opfn to the public.
Dr. Kollmorgen, a native Ne-tiT-Hf-kfin
rpceived his M A. from
the University in 1933. Recently,
Dr. Kollmorgen, in colbboration
with another staff member, pub
lished "A Geographical Study of
population and Settlement
Changes in Sherman County,
Kansas." For this work he was
awarded a citation of meritor
ious contributions to the field of
geography.
Feb. 1, 1954, he will travel to
Germany for a year's study un
der a Fulbright Research Schol
arship to investigate problems on
farm mechanization.
Crosby Gives
Goss Fulbright
Appointment
Robert W. Gross, Dean of the
Graduate College, has been re-'
appointed to his second term on i
the State Fulbright Commission
by Governor Robert Crosby.
Dan Goss, with the three other
members of the state commis
sion, will screen the two appli
cants recommended by each col
lege and university In Nebraska
and select the top four. These
four applications will then be
screened on a national basis and
bo subject to foreign approval.
FULBRIGHT GRANTS are
given for study abroad and are
open to graduating seniors and
first year graduate students.
Each state Is entitled to at least
two awards. Two nominees from
each college and university
within a state are submitted to
a state commission, and the four
recommended by each state are
subjeett o approval by commit
tees In New York, Washington
and abroad. '
THE NEBRASKAN
Art Faculty Members
Win Exhibition Honors
Faculty members of the Uni
versity art department have re
ceived recognition at a number
of exhibitions held recently.
Rudy O. Pozzatti, instructor,
received first purchase award at
the 7th Annual Exhibition of
Oil Paintings by Artists of the
Missouri Valley at the Mulvane
Art Museum, Washburn Univer
sity, Topeka, Kans. Assistant pro
fessors Manford L. Keiler and
LeRoy Burket received honor
able mentions in the same ex
hibition. Pozzatti's engraving "Duomo"
NU Foundation Funds
Used For Microscope
Seacrest Heads
Purchase of the new $22,000
electron microscope was made
possible through efforts of the
University Foundation.
Organized by Chancellor Bur
nett in 1936, the Foundation is
a non-profit corporation whose
purpose is to promote and main
tain high standards at the Uni
versity. The foundation is incorpo
rated in the state of Nebraska
and is headed by J. W. Sea
crest, class of 1919 and pub
lisher; Earl Kline, Lincoln law
yer, and John K. Selleck, act
ing chancellor. Perry W. Branch
is director-secretary.
HERB POTTER, assistant to
Branch, said that over the 17
years the Foundation has been in
existence, it has purchased many
outstanding pieces of equipment
one of the most recent being
the electron microscope. He
said that it has given outstand
ing students in every fieM
scholarships for further educa
tion and study.
The Foundation receives its
funds from solicitations from
graduates of the University and
from gifts by other interested
groups.
POTTER WENT on to say that
the gifts are usually of three
basic types. First is the unre
stricted gift that is given the
Foundation; second, with the un
derstanding that the Foundation
will invest the principle and use
only the income from it to spend,
and third, a gift given for a spe
cific purpose and use. Many
gifts of property are also given
to the Foundation.
AS FOR work the Foundation
does, Potter said most of ' the
French Cldb To Hear
Moon At Tuesday Meet
Mrs. Margaret Moon, instructor
of French, will speak to the
French Club following a business
meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in
Union Room 316.
Mrs. Moon will speak on
"Christmas in France Variance
of Customs and Adaption of Ger
man customs in Alsace-Lorraine."
She studied and taught in
Bordeaux, France, and served
on the U. S. Education Program
in New York and Louisiana.
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has been accepted for exhibition
in the "Young Printmakers of
American Exhibition" at the
Museum of Modern Art, New
York City. His print, "The
Twelve," will be included in
the National Annual Print Show
at Bradley University at Peoria,
111.
Assistant professor Gail H.
Butt has been awarded the first
purchase award for his wood
cut, "Three Pears," at the Ohio
Print Exhibition, 1953, at Co
lumbus, Ohio.
Non-Profit Group
money is used for research and
equipment for departments and
for scholarships.
He also said that anyone in
terested in finding out more
about the Foundation and its
functions is invited to visit the
Foundation office, 106 Love Li
brary. Potter said he will be
glad to discuss any phase of the
work.
Imagination
'Only Limit'
Of Contest
"What will life in the US be
like in 100 years?"
This is the theme of the first
College Science Fiction Contest
sponsored by If magazine.
For the best 10,000 to 12,000
word novelette written by un
dergraduates in American and
Canadian colleges who are not
professional writers, If magazine
will pay $1,000. Five hundred
dollars will be given to the sec
ond place winner and $100 for
the next seven places.
Manuscripts should be mailed
to College Science Fiction Con
test, If Magazine, Kingston, N. Y.,
before midnight May 15, 1954.
IF MAGAZINE said "writing
ability will be considered, but
of primary concern are original
ity, ideas, and imagination. Any
subject, theme or theory may be
used as a premise.
"Politics, science, literature,
economics, semantics, sports,
medicine any classroom or per
sonal subject may be used as a
basis for projecting the story.
The only limit is the author's
imagination."
THE AUTHOR'S full name, ad
dress, name of college and class
should be in the upper left-hand
corner of the first page of the
typewritten manuscript. A self
addressed envelope should be
enclosed.
A male shopper, browsing
around a department store,
squeezed a doll and it hollered
"Mamal"
He squeezed another and she
yelled "Floorwalker!"
Last year a survey of leading colleges
throughout the country showed that
smokers in those colleges preferred
Luckies to any other cigarette.
This year another far more extensive
and comprehensive survey supervised
by college professors and based on more
than 31,000 actual student interviews
shows that Luckies lead again over all
other brands, regular or king size... and
by a wide margin! The No. 1 reason:
Luckies taste better.
Smoking enjoyment is all a matter of
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NUers Entertain
At Vets Hospital
RCCU Sponsors Talent Show Radio
Program, Card Games For Patients
By NAT KATT
Staff Writer
Entertainment in the form of
talent shows, ward recreation,
radio programs and card games
is provided each week at the
Veteran's Hospital by 125 Uni
versity students.
The students are members of
the Veteran's Hospital Commit
tee sponsored by the Red Cross
College Unit. Fran Locke, com
mittee chairman, is responsible
for all entertainment presented
at the hopsital by college stu
dents. EACH WORKER visits the
hospital at least once a week to
talk to and entertain ward pa
tients. Twenty-five girls are
present at the hospital on Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday
evenings.
Ward heads on these evenings
are Rosemary Fehr, Tuesday;
Miss Locke, Wednesday, and
Virginia Wilcox, Thursday. Sun
day afternoon 15 other workers
visit the hospital. Ruth Klein
ert is in charge o this group.
Workers tour the wards where
patients are bed-fast and un
able to attend the auditorium
shows and entertainment. Talk
ing, playing cards and writing
letters are the major activities of
these workers.
HALF-HOUR and fifteen
minute radio shows are broad
cast for the patients by Univer
sity students every afternoon
from 2 to 5 p.m. The program,
broadcast on the exclusive Vet
erans station, includes quiz
games, disc jockey shows, inter
views, musicals and request pro
grams. Don Rosenberg directs the
shows and is assisted by both
radio majors and non-majors.
Acts from the Union Talent
Show were presented last week
as part of the auditorium enter
tainment. Future plan's include
stage shows, wrestling matches
and a ping-pong tournament.
"These shows are well at
tended by both the walking and
wheel-chair patients," Leigh
Cartwright, director of the audi
torium entertainment, said.
TUESDAY EVENING a spe
cial type of ward entertainment
is presented to bed-fast patients.
The entertainment consists of in
dividual and group acts which
travel through the hospital.
Some of the acts are: Pat Sy
fert, soloist; Janet Murphy, Mary
Ann Vosit and Donna Heinz,
trio; Phi Delta Theta quartet
consisting of Ron Smith, Bob
Knapple, Howard Thrapp and
Pete Anderson; Alpha Omicron
Pi song and dance trio, and Nick
Amos, soloist.
Nancy Kiger is ward enter
tainment director.
ALL THE ACTS are well re
ceived by the patients," Miss
Locke said, "and the students
enjoy performing for them."
The traveling acts are com
posed of volunteer students. Any
Owe'
Tuesday, December 8, 1953
individual or group interested in
performing at the hospital should
contact either' Miss Locke or
Miss Kiger.
Veteran's Hospital committee
was one of the original projects
of the Red Cross College Unit
and has grown in number each
year. The committee now has a
sufficient number of workers,
Miss Locke explained. She emphasize-;,
however, that mora
workers may be needed at the
beginning of next year.
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