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SUMMER NEBRASKAN
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A chain of letters stretching , about a graduate scholarship and
across the plains of Nebraska to
the highlands of Scotland will bring
a Scottish Miss to the University
this fall for a year's study.
Kirsteen Paterson s name was
listed on the roster of The Inter
national Friendship League eight
years ago when Harriet Cook,
University graduate then attending
Esrr Jr. High in Grand Island,
dfcided to join the League by send
ing in 10 cents for five names and
addresses of students in foreign
countries. I
(Miss Cook was graduated from
the University ir 1954 and was a
member of Alpha Chi Omega and
Delta Phi Delta. She was enrolled
in the College of Arts and Sci
ences.) The following paragraphs are
from a story in the Grand Island
Daily Independent, June 27, 1955
written by Frances Becker.
"The two girls enjoyed corres
ponding with each other and, long
after the others were dropped, they
ktpt up their letters
In 1952, while Mr. and Mrs. W
G Clayton were planning a trip to
Europe, Harriet, anxious to find
out what her pen pal was like, sug
gested that the Claytons meet the
Petersons in Glasgow.
Scottish Visit .
When the families met, Mr. and
Airs, faterson and Kirsteen pro
vided their British car, and their
intimate knowledge of the beauti
fui upper western part of Scotland
for three days of a tour of eight
countries.
Mr. Paterson is in the wholesale
shoe - business and is associated
Tith the company founded by his
grandfather with a tannery in the
highlands of Scotland in 1869.
The Claytons thorougnly enjoyed
their visit with the Patersons, and
determined thee to do what they
could to get Kirsteen over to the
middle cf the U.S.A. to see what
real, genuine, midwestern, salt-of-the
-earth folks could be found here.
NU Contacts . . .
War and an unfavorable balance
of trade made foreign travel or
study all but impossible for citi
zens of the British Isles A British
subject could have only about $15
to take out of the country no matter
how much he or she had in the
home bank.
From 1952 until May 1955 letters
mere written, contacts were made
for scholarships and the progress
CI Kirsteen Paterson was closely
watched. Officials of the Univer
sity of Nebraska were encouraging !
some organizations such as the P.
E.O. Sisterhood took ar interest ir.
the project. No Scottish sutdent
had been able to come to the Uni
versiy of Nebraska for 15 years
or more.
In May 1955 decisions were made
and because of the stiff competi
tion and the few scholarships to be
had, Kirsteen could not be awarded
a scholarship. After that more
phone calls were made to other con
tacts and one day. when Clayton
was discussing the difficulties of
red tape and foreign bureaus and
the disappointments of the last
year's efforts, his listener, Edgar
Reynolds, said that he and his wife
would like to provide the scholar
ship. Help Given ...
Later Chapter C. K. of the P.E.O
Sisterhood of Grand Island agreed
to pay Kirsteen s room rent in Lin
coln for a semester.
Then the Grand Island manager
oi Roberts Dairy, Jerry Roberts,
established a scholarship with the
University of Nebraska Foundation
for her full board and room ex
pense for half the year. Roberts is
the son of one of the founders of
the company and the award was
named for all the Robertses in
the company.
Visa troubles developed from mis
understandings in the Scottish con
sulate end Congressman A. L. Mil
ler helped in straightening them
out. Cry: jrnor Victor Anderson sent
Kirf . ? i a personal welcome and in
vited tit r visit him in the Capitol
building at Lincoln. University
dean also extended personal greet
ings to the. lassie.
A signed petition from all of the
members of the Grand Island Ro
tary Club to the officers and mem
bers of the Glasgow Rotary Club
started a wave of calls and interest
ir, Kirsteen in her home town.
Delegations called on the family
and were very helpful in ironing
out some of the governmental re
quirementf and details.
August Arrival . . .
All this has been done but the
negotiations are not yet completed.
Kirsteen Paterson will come to Ne
braska, although she will have to
be em frugal and resourceful as her
ancestors who came to this coun
try as immigrants many years ago.
Kirsteen will arrive in Montreal
Aug. 2 on board the Canadian Pa
cific steamship Ivernia. She will
be met there by Mr. and Mrs. Clayton."
. The Summer Nebraskan
Member: Associated CB elate Press
IatercoDetfate Press
Representative: National Advertising Service,
Incorporated
Editorial Staff
ditor Sam Jensen
Assistant Editor Roger Wait
Business Staff
Business Manager Barbara Eicke
From-
The Editor's Desk
While in Des Moines over the
weekend, I had the opportunity of
visiting with Loren Soth, editorial
page editor of The Des Moines
Register. Soth was the originator
of the idea to exchange agricultural
delegations with Russia.
A Register editorial of Vtbr,
10, 1955 advanced the idea of
bringing Russian agriculturists to
the U. S. to see how American
farmers produces hogs, wheat and
cornr The Russian farmer pro
duces only enough food for three
persons while the U.S. farmer pro
duces enough for 17 persons ac
cording to U.S. News and World
Report.
Soth said that in making his pro
posal he was primarily interested
in Iowa and its agricultural pro
ducts. The Russian Minister of Ag
riculture accepted Soth's proposal
and an informal note was sent to
i President Eisenhower. The Presi-
' dent approved the plan and for
i malities were than undertakes to
! obtain visas for both groups. The
selected.
The Russian Group will arrive
in the U. S. on July 17. and the
American delegation including Soth
and the University's Dean of Agri
culture. W. V. Lambert, will ar
rive in Russia July 15 (Friday).
The groups will never come in con
tact with each other.
Soth said that the exchange might
"possibly improve relations be
tween the U. S. and Russia." Few
Russians have the chance to see
what life in the U. S. is like, he
said.
He stressed the fact that the Rus
sians would visit individual family
farms and would see the workings
of average farm units. Seeing these
things, he said, "should shake
Russia's dogmatic ideas of agri
cultural organization."
"No one," Soth said, " is deluded
into thinking that this is an over
night change in the cold war."
A change in Russia's agricul
tural methods might improve Rus
sia's food output which is to the
advantage of the U.S., Soth said.
A rise in food production might
place less emphasis on military af
fairs and rearmament in Russia,
he stated.
The Summer Nebraskan's "Op
portunity" feature this week con
cerns The Lincoln Chiefs. The op
portunity that exists at Sherman
Field will be available often be
fore the session closes (The re
maining home games are listed on
the article.)
It's quite easy to become inter
ested in the sport and avid fans
have been created after only a
few games. I firmly believe that
everyone should visit the ball park
once or twice before they leave
Lincoln and this particular "oppor
tunity."
Incidentally, Dick Hall, the Lin
coln pitcher mentioned in the ar
ticle, attended Swarthmore College
and was elected to Phi Beta Kap
pa while attending classes and
playing baseball.
As my economics professor says,
there seems to be greater demand
for the services of good baseball
players than there is for the serv
ices of good economics professors
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick tibler
"Your term paper is sloppy, bad spelling, bo organization, poor
topic but 111 accept iC I want to finish grading these papers so teO
mother I'll be little late for supper."
The Changing Role
Thousands Study
By Correspondence
By KAY NOSKY
If anyone has the idea that cor
respondence study is only a poor
relative to the class room high
school education, he should see a
chart in the offices of the Uni
versity's
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tension divi
sion. In the
fiscal year of
1954 -55, the
number of high
school stu
dents who
were enrolled
in correspond
ence course
students; in its
infancy in 1930,
14 students had enrolled.
Correspondence study for high
school students got its start back
in the 1920's, when Dr. Frank Hen
zlck, dean of Teachers College,
and Dr. Knute Broady, director of
the extension division, then profes
sors of school administration, de
cided that something was needed
to improve and increase the edu
cational offerings of small schools.
Correspondence study on the high
level had been used in Australia,
New Zeland and Canada, but in
the United States no program ex
isted. Experiments which proved to be
reasonably successful were made
through the school at Crook ston,
Neb., and in 1930, 14 students were
enrolled for a few courses as an
experiment. As a result, in the
fiscal year of 1930-31, the actual
correspondence study program was
set up.
Although the original purpose of
the program was to enrich high
school programs, the number of
uses for correspondence study has
grown with the program. It is used
by homebound persons such as pol
victims, by persons in geographic
ally isolated places (300 students
in Alaska are taking University
The program enables high school
students to complete work faster
and helps the better students to
go farther in their educational pur
suits. It is interesting to know that
tests have shown that students
learn just as much from correspon
ence study as they do from courses
in the high schools.
This summer, correspondence
study is the subject cf the summer
sessions seminar led by Dr. Gayle
B. Childs. The purpose of the semi
nar is to bring together a group
of teachers who would prepare
correspondence materials and work
with the editorial staff of the ex
tension division to improve cor
respondence study.
At the beginning of the summer
a conference brought to the cam
pus Dr. Fred T. Wilhelms, corres
pondence study specialist, and cor
respondence .study directors from
many of the surrounding states for
the purpose of discussing improve
ments in correspondence study in
struction. The eight teachers en
rolled in the seminar are taking
up where the conference left off.
What are some of the problems
involved in correspondence study?
! In the seminar, specific courses
such as chemistry, French and
earth science are being discussed.
The laboratory work in chemistry
has presented a bugaboo since
materials have been in the past ex
pensive and bulky. Now teachers
are working on semi-micro tech
niques, the use of smaller equip
ment and smaller quantities of
materials. In the French course,
tapes are being used to permit a
two way discussion between student
and teachers.
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