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U VOL. 55, NO. 92 NU Alumnus Given High Recognition The Nebraska Alumnus, pub lished by the University Alumni Association, has been awarded high honors In publication competi tion sponsored by the American Alumni Council. The Alumnus was awarded sec ond place for feature articles and honorable mention for appearance. The competion is entered by many of the university and college alum ni associations of the country. Phil Holman Is editor of the Alumnus. The alumni magazine contains news and pictures of the Univer sity, student activities and news of the many alumni associations throughout the country. Several University groups were featured In Alumnus art'cles this year includ ing the All University Fund, Build ers and Kosmet Klub. 'Trouble Spot' The first of two "World Trouble Spot Forums" will be held today in Love Library Auditorium at i p.m. The topic of the first discussion will be Europe. The area and its background, problems and future will be discussed by three mem bers of the University faculty from the departments of economics, po v litical science and geography. The program is an outgrowth of 13 radio programs which were pre viously produced by the Univer-J Members of the panel are Col VJorlu Discussion Sdaddod Tcdav 1 i . i 1 i I Duo-Pianists Stecher and Horowitz, young Am erican duo-pianists, will appear in the Union Ballroom Wednesday as part of the Union Artist series sponsored by the Union and the 1955 Summer Sessions. (Complete story on page 4). bert Held, assistant professor of geography; Carl Schneider, asso ciate professor of political science, sad Wallace Peterson, assistant professor of economics. Jack Mc Bride, assistant television director, Is in charge of the series. McBride said that since there were only two times set aside for the forums, the topics, of neces sity, are quite broad in their scope. The panel memWs will each discuss the phase of the problem with which they are familiar. The next forum will be held July 21 and will concern Asia. F. J. Blakeney, Counsellor of the Australian Embassy to the Unit ed States, will address the 1955 Summer Sessions World Affairs! Preview to be held Monday in the Union Ballroom at 2 p.m. " The topic of Blakeney 's speech will be "Australia's Role in World Affairs." Sir Percy Spender, Australian Ambassador to the United States, had been scheduled to deliver the main address but a trip to Cen tral and South America made it impossible for him to be present as previously arranged. Blakeney is Spender's personal representative and is- second in rank in the Australia's U.S. Dele gation. He is a career diplomat and has served in several coun tries in Australia's diplomatic corps. Following Blakeney's speech, a panel discussion will be held featur ing members of the University's summer faculty. Colbert Held will be chairman of the discussion. He is acting chairman of the depart ment of geography. Other members of the panel in clude Samuel Baron, visiting pro fessor of history; John Morrison, visiting professor of geography, and Frank Sorenson, director of summer sessions. v Blakeney will arrive Sunday aft ernoon by air. He was appointed to his present LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Educators To The University Teachers College in co-operation with the Education al Policies Commission will spon sor a Teachers College Conference on "Strengthening Community Life Through Education" Wednesday and Thursday. Meetings and con vocations will be held in the Union. Main speakers for the two-day conference include: Pearl Wanamaker, superintend ent of public instruction for the state of Washington. She will give tne fourth general address, "Ad ministrator and Teacher Partici pation in Community Develop ment," Thursday at 10 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. Miss Wanamaker is past presi dent of the National Education As sociation and has held her pres ent position with Washington State since 1941. She was the recipient of the American Educational award in 1949. Al Loving of the University of Michigan Summer Staff who will speak at the second general ses sion on "Dynamics of Community Development" Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. He Is a member of the advisory com mittee to President Elliot and Deans of Michigan State Normal College. He has been selected by the Fulbright Foundation to go to India during the 1955-56 school year as a member of the sec ondary project staff. Walter Beggs, University chair man of the department of history and principles of education, will address the opening general ses sion at 1:15 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. He will speak on the subject, "Toward Strong Commu nities." Royce Knapp, director of educa tional research for F. E. Compton and Co. and a former University s setters i-eiiege conference T Start Wednesdoy At Union position by the Australian govern ment in 1953.N He was attached to the diplomatic group in Moscow from 1949-1951 and was stationed in Paris from 1947-1949. In 1946 and recently in 1952 he served with the Australian Department of Ex ternal Affairs in Canberra, Aus tralia. During World War II, Blakeney served with the R.A.A.F. as a nav igator in North America, Europe and North Africa. He was gradu ated from Sydney University and was granted a teaching fellowship in modern history. Blakeney is the third and final nationally or internationally known person to appear on the campus as part of the 1955 Summer Sessions program. Val Peterson, Federal Civil Defense Administrator, and Dr. Howard Wilson, secretary of the Educational Policies Commis sion of the National Education As sociation, have addressed campus groups earlier in the session. International Award Given To Mrs. Manalo Mrs. Primitiva M. Manalo of Quezon City, Philippines, who plans to study at the University next fall, has been named as one of 11 international scholarship winners, sponsored by the Ameri can Home Economics Association. Discuss Community Life faculty member, will speak at the third general session Thursday at 9 p.m. in the Ballroom on "Stu dent Participation in Community Development." Wilbur Murra, assistant secre tary of Educational Policies Com mission, will address the noon luncheon meeting Thursday in Un ion parlors X, Y and Z. He will speak on "Awakening Communi ties to National and World Prob lems." Malcolm Mellott, editor-in-chief of the John C. Winston Co., will be the featured speaker of the Thursday coffee hour in Union Parlors Y and Z at 4 p.m. His commsnts will concern "Comrau nity Education and the Prepara tion of Teaching Materials." Discussion groups and their lead ers for the conference are as fol lows: Group 1, Through Business Edu cation, Mildred Blair, supervisor of business and distributive educa tion of the Omaha schools. " Group 2, Through Language Arts, Floyd Miller, assistant com missioner of education, Nebraska Department of Education. Geske To Lead Trend Discussion Norman Geske, acting director of the University Art Galleries, will discuss contemporary art in the second of a series on "Trends in Today's Living," sponsored by the Union today at 4 p.m. Geske Joined the University staff in 1950 as assistant director of the Galleries. In 1953 he was ap pointed acting director. He is re sponsible for all exhibitions, activi ties and acnulsltlnns allied with the Galleries. Calendar July 7 Swimming sport reels. Union Lounge, 11:45 a.m. -12:30 pjn. World Trouble Spot Forum, Love Library Auditorium, 2 p.m. Trends Discussion, Union, 4 p.m., Parlors A, B and C. Craft shop open. 10 Union Free movie, "So Big," Ballroom, 7:30 p.m. 11 World Affairs Preview, F. J. Blakeney, Union Ballroom, 2 p.m. Book Review, James C. Olson, "History of Nebraska," Union " Book Nook, 4 p.m., coffee hour. 12 Bridge Lessons, 4 p.m. Phi Delta Kappa Luncheon. Handicrafts class, craft shop, 7 p.m. 13 Pi Lambda Theta, Union Room 316, 4 p.m. Stecher and Horowitz, duo-pianists, Union Artist Series, Ballroom, 8 p.m. Teachers College Conference, Union. Aakhus Elected To ASEE Post Theodore Aafthus, professor of engineering drawing, has been elected to the executive committee of the engineering drawing divis ion of the American Society for Engineering Education. Thursday, July 7, 1955 Group 3, Through Mathematics, Edith Greer, director of elemen tary education, Nebraska Depart ment of Education. Group 4, Through Science, R. L. Fredstrom, assistant superintend ent of curriculum, Lincoln Schools. Group 5, Through Social Studies, Calvin Reed, assistant professor of education, University. Group 6, Through Education and Guidance of the Gifted, Julius Hu mann, director of guidance, Lin coln Schools. Group 7, Through Audio-visual Teaching, Wayne Frazer, superin tendent of schools, York. Book Review Scheduled By Author "History of Nebraska," a re cently published book by James Olson, director of the State His torical Society, will be the sub ject of the Union's second Book Review discussion. The book will be reyiewed by the author. The review is scheduled for Monday ar 4 p.m. in the Union Book Nook. A "meet the author coffee hour" will precede the re view In order to provide a break between the World Affairs Pre view and the book review. The public is invited to attend. "History of Nebraska" was pub lished in February by the Uni versity Press. It is the first com prehensive and authoritative his tory of the state for adult readers and the first one-volume by a pro fessional historian. ,
