The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, July 01, 1954, Page Page 4, Image 4

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SUMMER NEBRASKAN
Thursday, July I, T954
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Dane Artist
Daniel Nagrin, pictured
above, will star in the Sum
mer Artist Series perf or-
mance of the Dance, Drums
and Piano Trio at the Union
Summer Series
Wednesday night. Nagrin has
had leading parts in Broadway
musicals "Annie Get Your
Gun," "Lend and Ear," and
"Touch and Go."
Dance, Drum, Piano Ensemble
To Perform At Union July 8
A unique combination of
dancer, percussionist and pianist
will perform at the Union Wed
nesday, July 7, as another of he
Summer Artist Series sponsored
by the Union.
The Dance, Drums and Piano
Trio, composed of Daniel Nagrin,
Ronald Gould and David Sha
piro, will present in solo, duet
.and trio a variety of original
dance portraits, rarely heard
French compositions for percus
sion and piano and several full
ensemble works especially cre
ated for this tour.
NAGRIN HAS been the leading
dancer in three major Broadway
musicals, including "Annie Get
Your Gun," "Lend An Ear," and
George Abbott's "Touch and
Go."
He created the wild dances of
the Hollywood picture, "His Ma
jesty O'Keefe," filmed in the
tropical South Sea islands of
Fiji. With over 100 Fijians as
his dance company, he faced the
task ' of creating fierce var
dances for a people whose own
spear and club dances were too
tame and reserved for the neces
sities of the film's script.
COULD, WHO plays on 22 dif
ferent percussion instruments,
has been a member of the North
Carolina Symphony, the New Or
leans symphony, Victor Borge
and his orchestra and Billy
Rose's production, "Violins on
Broadway," and has recently
completed a tour with Percy
Faith and Tony Bennett.
Four To Receive
NU Scholarships
Four recipients of University
1954-55 scholarships were an
nounced today by Dean J. P.
Colbert, chairman of the commit
tee on general scholarship
awards.
The scholarships and recipi
ents are:
$200 Putney Award for students
worthy of financial assistance,
Thomas Iwand, senior in Busi
ness Administration, and Mari
lee Nyquist, Arts and Sciences
junior majoring in chemistry.
$100 Katharine M. Melick
Scholarship, awarded to junior
women majoring in English and
worthy of financial assistance,
Barbara Clark, enrolled in Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, and
Susan Olson, enrolled in Teach
trs College.
At present he is percussionist
with the New York City Center
Ballet Company anad tympanist
and head percussionist of the
Orchestra Society of New York.
Shapiro was the producer and
musical director of the Comic
Opera Players which presented
Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Old
Maid and the Thief," on a twelve
and one-half thousand mile tour
in the summer of 1953.
At present he is the assistant
conductor of the Little Orchestra
Society of New York and has ar
ranged and orchestrated special
material.
THE PROGRAM, which begins
at 8 p.m., will open with a
"Tune-Up" number in which the
three men enter the stage casu
ally, the dancer stretches, the
drummer tunes his tympani, and
the pianist plays a complex
scale. Gradually the three are
involved in a demonstration of
three virtuosi in visual and ryth
mic counterpoint. ,
Other ensemble works include
"The Up-Beat vs. theDown-Beat,"
a survey of percussion from the
cave man, through Stravinski to
Spike Jones and climaxed by the
Indian Dance from "Annie Get
Your Gun."
Real Business Of Schools To Make
Community Better Place- Cocking
The real business of the school
is to make the community a bet
ter nla to live in. Walter D.
Cocking, editor of The School
Executive, told over 250 teachers
attending the opening session of
the Teachers College Conference
Tuesday.
Coekinz snoke on "National
Trends in Community Educa
tion," The school exists for
more than teaching abstract sub
ject matter, he said, but a ma
jority still holds fast to the prin-
cinle that the only function is to
teach knowledge.
He pointed out that this ma
inHtv maintains that the tradi
tional system is automatically
the best way to improve com
munities. '
COCKING SAID that school
nrnwums and procedures have
become standardized. Latin, he
pointed out as an example, was
introduced to the school system
as a vocational subject. It has
been retained while the need for
it does not necessarily remain.
He listed as components of the
community people, social organi
zations and natural and physical
resources. To improve the com
munity, therefore, ue said, we
must improve each of the three
components.
COMMUNITY EDUCATION
does this through work in such
fields as canning, vegetable gar
dening, contour gardening, and
experiments with livestock.
Cocking's address was fol
lowed by an address by William
E. Hall, professor of educational
Beatty Speaks On UNESCO
At Conference Coffee Hour
At an informal coffee hour in
the Union Wednesday, Willard
Beatty discussed his experiences
in UNESCO House, Paris, before
a group of educators attending
the Teachers' Conference at the
University.
Beatty is the former chief of
fundamental education for UNE
SCO and supervisor of the inter
national training centers at Patz
cuaro, Mexico, and Sirs-el-Lay-
yan, Egypt.
UNESCO, SUCCESSOR to a
former cultural committee of the
League of Nations,s is one of ap
proximately 10 agencies which
promote world aid and under
standing, Beatty explained. It
was organized in London in 2945
and now has headquarters in
Paris.
Beatty stated that 62 countries
are members of UNESCO and
finance the organization. Like all
other United Nations organiza
tions, he said, UNESCO runs on
a pitifully small budget for what
it is trying to do.
BEATTY DISCUSSED and ex
plained the language difficulties
and the various departments of
UNESCO. The education depart
ment, with which he was con
nected, educates the youth and
adults-of the world.
" The department is working to
re-establish education in Korea
and also to re-establish education
in certain educational institutions
in Western Germany. A clearing
house has been established in the
department which acts as an in
ternational agency for world lit
erature. THE UNESCO department of
natural sciences, he said, is in
vestigating the possibilities of
tranforming desert lands into
food-producing regions through
their arid zone research program
In conclusion, Beatty stressed
the fact that UNESCO cannot op
erate in any country with a re
quest from that county for the
organization to perform a spe
cific service. The countries ini
tiate the activity and have full
veto power on the activities, he
added.
Grant Of $2000
Presented To NU
The University Foundation ia?
announced the presentation of
$2,000 by the Police Officers' As
sociation of Nebraska to the Uni
versity. The money is to be used
in the employemnt of a research
assistant for two years in the
department of sociology,
According to the grant agree
ment, the graduate assistant,
who will work with Dr. James
M. Reinhardt, professor of crimi
nology research data, will be
selected by the professor of
criminology and dean of thhe
graduate college, in consultation
with the secretary-treasurer of
the Police Officers' Association.
Skiing Shorts Planned
For Union Series Today
Two skiing pictures, "Ski Hol
iday" and "Ski Thrills," will be
featured on the Sports Shorts
program Thursday from. 11:45
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Union
main lounge.
The ' series are .sponsored by
the-Union and the physical edu
cation department.
0E!iKi16i16r
Students
Prices
You Sell Your Used
Textbooks
Regents
Bookstore
just north of love library
nsvcholoev at the University. He
spoke on "Local Experiments in I
Community Education."
HALL POINTED out that com-
munity change cannot be accom-
nlished in a short time but takes
long-term work and planning.
Community workers must noi
only develop skills in dealing
with the community, he said, but
also have a real emotional in
volvement and interest in the
good tf the community.
He said that the continual influx
of new ideas and interest is
necessary to community change,
and that personal contact and
sincere interest in the potential
ities of everyone in the com
munity is the key to community
education.
IN OUR culture we tend to
educate and think in the bulk,
and individualism is not stressed,
he continued. However, after
encouraging this type of educa
tion and thought, we expect in
dividuals to produce something
significant even though they
have not been trained to do so.
Hall said.
Dr. Hall is director of the
Newman Grove and Lincoln
community projects, engaged in
attempting to develop the human
resources of the community to a
greater extent.
Following the two addresses, a
panel asked questions of the two
speakers during a discussion session.
Main Feature Clock
(Schedule Famished by Theaters)
Lincoln: "Gorilla At Large,"
1:12, 3:19, 5:26, 7:33, 9:40.
Stuart: "The Student Prince,"
1:00, 3:12, 5:17, 7:29, 9:40.
Nebraska: "Fireman Save My
Child," 1:00, 3:59, 6:58, 9:57. Til
Get You," 2:29, 5:28, 8:27.
Varsity: "Johnny Guitar," 1:00
3:07, 5:14, 7:21, 9:28.
State: "Southwest Passage,"
2:04, 4:40, 7:16, 9:50. "Murder
Without Tears," 1:00, 3:36, 6:12,
8:50.
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