VOL 55, No. 94
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Featured Speaker
Mfflard Bell, pictured above, is of schools sit Wilamette, Illinois
the featured speaker at the "Clinic and win speak - on the topic of
on Home-School Relationships'" "Basic Education for Today's Chu-
which is to be held Monday at the dren" at the Monday convocation.
University, Bell is superintendent ((Complete stery St right.)
Ten Dollar Kike. . . --
A "Clinic on Home-School Re
lations," sponsored by Teachers
College and the Nebraska Congress
of Parents and Teachers, win be
held at the University Monday and
will feature Dr. Millard Befl, Super
intendent of Schools, Wilamette, HI.
Dr. Bell wffl address the first
general session, a noon luncheon
meeting, in Uxon Parlors Xand
Y He win speak on "Basic Edu
cation for Today's Children.
Dean F. E. Henzlik of Teachers
College win introduce the speaker
and Galen Saylor, chairman of the
department of secondary education
ar.-d President of the Nebraska Con-
gress of fee Parents and Teachers,
wi3 preside at the luncheon meet-i
ing. !
At the afternoon session which
begins at 2 p.m. in Love Library
Auditorium, Dr. Bell will deliver
the address, Trends in Home
School Relations." Calvin Reed,
assistant professor of elementary
education is chairman of the second
session.
Following the address the follow
ing persons win participate in a
discussion period:
Madison Brewer, professor of
eiexnentary education, moderator.
Anne Christensen, principal, Ban
croft School
Mrs. Gladys Haas, chairman,
PTA-College co-operation.
Pearl Schaaf, principal, elemen
tary schools of Grand Island.
Robert Lantz, District Superin
tendent of Schools at Lampoc, CaL
C A Lindsay, Superintendent of
Schools at Nocoma, Tex. I
Persons attending in the clinic,
are urged by the Summer Sessions
office to make reservations for the
noon luncheon as soon as possible
in Room 312 of Teachers College
or by calling University exten
sion 2135.
A native of Nebraska, Dr. Ben
was graduated from Peru State and
received his Masters Degree from
the University. He received his
doctorate in 1C39 from Columbia
University and was appointed to
bos present position in 1942.
Increase
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A $10 increase- per semester in
student fees, effective Sept. 1,
19f6, at the University was ap
proved Monday by the Board of
Regents.
The entire increase which will
bring student fees to $90 per se
mester will be used to finance s
new $500,000 Student Health build
ing and a $1,000,000 addition to the
Union building.
In addition, the board approved
a $30 per semester increase in fees
for students enrolling in the Col
lege 4?f Dentistry, effective Sept
1, 1956. This increase win affect
approximately 130 students.
The three story addition is es
timated at around $1,000,000 with
an additional $200,000 being plan
ned for improvements to the ag
ricultural Uniou building at the
Agricultural campus.
The City campus addition win
allow for more complete recrea
tional facilities far the students
and a ballroom - auditorium which
win seat some 2,200 persons. Con
struction is planned for some time
next year and will take two years
to complete.
The new Student Health building
$500,000 wUl be two stories the
first, for out-patient treatment and
the second, for a 30-bed hospital
Ernst Marned
Experiment Head
George Ernst, chairman of the
department of civfl engineering,
has been appointed director of the
engineering experiment station by
the Board of Regents.
Roy Green, dean of the College
of Engineering and Architecture,
has been serving as director in ad
dition to his other duties since
1845.
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Tentative site is east of Bancroft
Hau, at 14th street between U and
Vine streets.
At present, the Student Health
Center is a temporary barrack
type building. '
Dean Bert L. Hooper said that
the present fee vl $355 is not suf
ficient because of the rise in price
of equipment. He explained that
of the present fee $200 is used for
the cost of items 'such as text
books, supplies, dental instruments
and equipment issued to students,
and for laboratory breakage, laun
dry, and other expendables.
The $30 increase wiU be used for
these items, he said. The new in
crease along with the general tu
den increase of $10 will bring
the total per semester fee for dent
istry students to $395.
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at t p.m. Wednesday in Howell
Theater.
The last in the Union-sponsored
Summer Artist series, the produc
tion wffl also Toe given outdoors
July 30 and 31 in Pinewood Bowl
in Lincoln's Pioneers Park.
Admission is free to the comedy
in which a fairy queen falls in
love with a man with an ass's head.
The "Incidental Music to a Mid
summer Night's Dream'" by Felix
Mendelssohn will accompany the
play's performance.
Director Dallas Williams said
fairv clot involves Titania. the
fairy queen. Puck, the mischief
maker, and Oberon, Williams said.
And the rude mechanicals' plot
has to do with six craftsmen who
put on a play within the play. The
scenes of the play are laid in the
Athens and a nearby wood of the
mythological age. , i
Although the play was written
with five acts. Williams said it
win be put on with "continuous
acting" with one intermission.
Major characters are Lysander,
Ronald Kennev: Demetrius. Melvin
Davidson; Htrmiia, Stephanie
A University operating budget of
$1L578,919 for the 1955-56 fiscal
year was approved Monday by
the Board of Regents.
The budget represents an in
crease of $1,197,518 over operating
expense for the past fiscal year,
ending June 30.
Chancellor Gilford M. Hardin
said $be twstdget increase provide
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demic classified, and non-classified
staff; the University's share in So
cial Security payments; and devel
opment items, including modest
increase in the research program.
The largest single expense in the
budget is the College of Medi
cine in Omaha which received $1,
815,227, or an increase of $174,397.
Other principal items are: Agri
cultural Extension, $1 ,347,476, an
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that the comedy springs from the jGorsline; Helena, Barbara Coon-
four-part plot which gets in its
own way during the play. It unrav
els itself and the play ends on a
happy note, he said.
A love potion which is sprinkled
in the lover's eyes results in 'mix-
istaken identities. Wil
liams said.
rad; Bottom, the ass, James Toma
sek; Obevon, Milton Hoffman:
Titania, fairy queen, June Rich
ards, and Puck, Doris AnncGrow
cock. Other characters are Theseus,
Don Montgomery; Hipployta, Mar
garet Libody; , Egeus, Don Leon-
The first plot, he said, is the ard; Fhilortrate, Ronald Lauts;
TheseuB-Hippolyta plot between j Quince. William IQamm; Flute,
the Duke and his bride-to-be. The j WiUard MrKeag; Snug, Brice Be
lovers' plot, Williams continued, I lisle; Starveling, Joe Hffl.
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-. A "Square Dance Fun Round
up" win be hxM today and Fri
day on the University campus in
the Union Ballroom.
This is the first time that such
a program has been offered in the
state.
The "Pvound-up" wffl be both
nature. The afternoon sessions wffl
be concerned with the "education,""
They wffl be held from 4 to
pan. today and from 50 to S;30
p.m. Friday. Separate rooms wffl
he used for sessions on learning
to square-dance, call, or teach
square dancing.
The recreation will take place in
the evening sessions, from 7; 30 to
8 pm. today and from 7:30 to 10
p jn. Friday. Teaching wffl be held
to a minimum The evenings pro
grams wffl consist of squares,
rounds and mixers. Guest callers
wffl caB the turns and assisting
head couples will insure smooth
synchronization within each
square.
The "Round-up Is spnosored by
the department of physical educa
tion for women and the Nebraska
Folk and Square Dance Associa
tion. Members of the steering com
mittee from the University are
Mrs. El vera Berck, assistant pro
fessor of women's physical educa
tion; Dr. Dudley Ashton, chairman
of the women's physical education
department; Lloyd Collier, gradu
ate student in geography, and Mrs.
Jessie Flood, who furnishes music
for classes in square and social
dancing.
Mrs. Flood's orchestra wffl play
for the "Round-up.
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Commencement
Approximately 320 tadents wiU
receive degrees at the liniverwtj '
summer coiameawinent exercis
es at 7 p.m. Aug. 5 in front f
the LiiKt Stadium.
Dr. Leland Forrest, chanctllwr
ui Nebraska Weslea Uaiveritjr
ia lie the fMincipal speaker. His
topic will he: "If Tmorrw
Comes . . Chancellor Clifiurd
M. Hardin wtH preside.
la case f rain, the exercises wiTJ
be Toeld In the Coliseum. The puh-lk-
is invited i attend.
Student participants 'in the erpr
cises will meet at C:30 p.m.. on t'.-
mala floor f the Coliaetsm. di
plomas wHJ be picked up imme
diately after the cereisaoiues la the
Coliseum.
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