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Dallas Williams, director of the
University Theater, isn't really
worried.
Although the price of the season
tickets to the theav has dropped
rom $6.50 to $5, Wnliams says he
is confident that the theater "will
at least break even."
A season ticket now entitles the
holder to reserve seven seats dur
ing the season, any number of
which may be used at any one per
formance of any play.
Williams explained that under
this plan a student could bring six
.friends to the initial show, "The
Desperate Hours" on his one tick
et. "This would use up the ticket,"
he added.
"I think this plan is an excellent
idea for a couple of reasons," the
director noted. "Primarily, it is
a saving of over 100 per cent for
the student who would otherwise
pay $10.50 for individual seats."
He said that it means the plays
will have to be good. "If the quality
of the plays is not up to the par
the University can expect, we
won't sell tickets. The University
of Nebraska like any other great
University, can hope for outstanding
drama in its theater. We'll attempt
that this year."
..-'Williams has scheduled such
lays as "King Lear" and "The
r'Garden of Asclepius" for the 1956
57 season.
"Lear will be out toughest. But
it's the kind of challenge sincere
drama students deserve," he ad
ded. , "The Garden of Asclepius" is
pn original drama . written by Os
car Mandel, professor of English
t the University. "As this has
never been produced before U will
be a challenge technically as well
. as dramatically," Williams stated.
The schedule of productions is as
follows: October 16-19 "The
Desperate Hours" by Joseph
Hayes. This play was an outstand
ing Broadway success which was
also a motion picture.
It is the dramatization of a best
selling novel which tells the story
of a typical American family held
hostage by three vicious and
frightened escaped convicts.
November 16-17 "The Garden
of Asclpius" by Professor Mandel.
This is an original three-act play
which tells the story of a popular
Greek legend.
December 4-8 "Dark of the
Moon" by Howard Richardson and
William Barney. Set in the great
Smokey Mountains of North Caro
lina and based upon one of the
many versions of the. legend of
Barbara Allen, this play tells of
868 Cadet Wing:
Marvin M c N e i e e has been
named cadet wing commander of
the University Air ROTC unit for
the coming year, Col. Carter Dun
can, professor of air science, an
nounced today.
A senior in the
College of
Busin ess Ad
m i n stration,
he will have
the r a n k of
cadet colonel.
Second
in command of
t h e 868-cadet
wing will be
Cadet Lt. Col.
William Bed-
Bedwell
well, an
electrical engineering
major.
Both McNeice and Bedwell are
in the pilot training phase.
Other cadet members of the
wing staff are: Maj. Francis Ost
diek, personnel; Maj. John Mor
row, operations; Charles Sum
mers, materiel and inspector;
Capt. Walter Gerlach, Jr., ad
jutant; Capt. James McConnelL
information; 1st Lt. James Oehm,
cq), assistant personnel.
The cadet group commanders
re: Maj. Marshall Nelson; Maj.
Doyle Hulme, and Maj. Emmet
Wier, Jr.
Group adjutants: Capt. Marlow
Patton; Capt. Ronald Hoel, and
Capt. Gary Kelly.
Squadron commanders: Capt.
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Death:
Bess Steele, Ex Home Ec
Teacher Dies In Oregon
Miss Bess Steele, 67, University
lome economics department staff
member for more than 30 years,
died Saturday at her home in
Portland, Ore.
Miss Steele was associate pro
fessor of home economics and
head of the design division from
'Multi-Jet' Summer
Ends For Bourne
Richard Bourne, associate pro
fessor of economics, returned to
the University this week after
spending the summer at Boeing
Airplane Company's Wichita, Kan.,
Division, where he took active part
in multi-jet bomber production.
During his stay at Boeing, Pro
fessor Bourne along with thirty-one
other professors from various
campuses worked with company
personnel, carrying out engineer
ing and other technical assign-
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a witch boy who becomes human
for the love of Barbara Allen. .
January 15-19 "The Corn is
Green" by Emlyn Williams. This
play tells of an English spinster
who settles in a Welsh mining
village and open a boys school. It
has been a successful play, motion
picture and television production.
March 12-16 "King Lear" by
William Shakespeare. This tragedy
is known as one of Shakespeare's
greatest plays. '
April 26 and 27 rtThe Dead Day"
by Ernst Barlach. This play is an
allegory which concerns a mother's
passionate and selfish love which
is bent on keeping her son from
knowing God and helping human
ity. May 14-18 "Harvey" by Mary
Chase. This was a successful
humorous play and motion picture
about a lonely man who created a
friend in the form of a six foot
rabbit named Harvey.
Theater:
Whitalcer
Releases
Play Cas
The cast for the first Univer
sity Theater play of the season,
"The Desperate Hours," has been
announced, by Max Whitaker,di
rector of the production.
The" leading role of Dan will be
played .by John Crowell, that of
Glenn . by Skip Weatherford and
Cindy by Trudy Scriven.
The play, which was an outstand
ing Broadway success, was Writ
ten by Joseph Hayes. Humphrey
Bogart and Frederick March star
red in it when "The Desperate
Hours" was produced in Holly
wood. A dramatization of a best-selling
novel, the play tells the story of a
typical American family held hos
tage by three viscious and fright
ened escaped convicts.
The play will be presented on
the stage of Howell Theater Oct.
16-20.
Other members of the cast are
Bard, Don Montgomery; Winston,
Bob Griffin; Eleanor, Bonna Tebo:
Hank, Charles Richards; Robish,
Joe Hill; Chuck, Clancy Croft;
Carson, Steve Schultz; Fredericks,
Bob Morrison; and Mr. Patterson,
John Thompson.
McNEICE
Keith Arndt; Capt. Walter Blore;
Capt. Stephen Davis; Capt. James
Fager; Captv Ronald Schneider;
Capt. Neil Miller; Capt. Thomas
Olson; Capt. Dennis Brune and
Capt. John Sc anion.
Squadron adjutants: 1st Lt. John
Ball; 1st Lt. Depnis Hruby; 1st
Lt. Joy Klaasmeyer; 1st Lt, Rob
ert Kelley; 1st Lt. Robert Mar
pies; 1st Lt. Richard Swanson;
1st Lt. Lenny Schropfer; 1st Lt.
Keith TeSelle, and 1st Lt. Ronald
Yost.
1938 until her retirment in 1954.
She was a past president of the
Lincoln Artists Guild.
A native of Meadville, Pa., she
joined the University staff in 1921
after teaching art in Washington,
Pa., and Long Beach, Calif.,
schools.
She received her Bachelor of
Science degree in 1925 and her
Master of Arts degree in 1936 from
Columbia University. She also had
studied at the International School
of Art in Vienna, Austria, and
the University of Gaudalajara,
Mexico.
Miss Steele was a member of the
American Association of Univer
sity Professors, American Home
Economics Association, Western
Art Association, Nebraska Art
Association, Lincoln Weavers
Guild, and Omicron Nu, honorary
home economics society.
She had contributed articles to
the Journal of Home Economics
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Shapiro, Students Discuss
New English professor, Karl
.Shapiro and ' English"- students,
Mrs. Ellie Ashida, Bruce Brug-
Poet At NU:
, By NANCY COOVER
Copy Editor
Karl Shapiro, Pulitzer prize win
ning poet who has joined the Uni
versity English Department this
year, is impressed with the literary
climate in Lincoln and at the Uni
versity. After facing his first class in
literature Monday he stated that
the students always seem to
laugh in the right places.
Shapiro, who will hold the rank
of professor, will tach classes
in the creative writing ('. poetry
and fiction, an introduction to lit
erature, and modern po'try.
A Montgomery Lecturer at the
University in 1953, Shapiro Said
he visited quite extensively in the
city and was pleased with the in
terest in literature he' found. He
credits that interest and the Prair
ie Schooner as the factors which
drew him to the University.
Shapiro will succeed Dr. Lowry
Wimberly, a member of the
University faculty since 1917 and
founder of the "Prairie Schooner,"
as editor of the "Prairie Schoon
er."
Wimberly has requested that he
be placed in retirement because
of ill health. Dr. A. C. Brecken-
ridge, dean of faculties, said Wim-
berly's request will be presented
to the Board of Regents at its
next meeting Saturday.
Wimberly served as editor of
the "Prairie Schooner" for more
than a quarter of a century and
on the University English faculty
as instructor, assistant and asso
ciate professor, and as a full pro
fessor since 1928.
During Wimberly's tenure, the
Prairie Schooner" achieved na
tional stature as one of the leading
literary quarterlies in the coun
try. Wimberly is credited with
the "discovery" and first printing
of such authors as Eudora Welty,
Loren Eizley, and Mari Sandoz. i
Wimberly stated that he got the
idea for the "Prairie Schooner" j
from a student in one of his class-
Yearly:
Dietetics
Scholarship
Established
A yearly scholarship, valued at
$300, has been established at the
University's department of home
economics by the Standard Market
of Lincoln to encourage women to
enter the field of dietetics.
The announcement was made
Wednesday afternoon by Stanley
Sands of Standard Market at a
party honoring University and Ne
braska Wesleyan University house
mothers and members of the Lin
coln Institutional Directors and
Dietitians Association.
The scholarship will be awarded
each spring to a senior woman in
home economics to assist her in
her fifth-year internship in a hos
pital or institution for training as
a dietitian.
The senior must be in the divi
sion of foods and nutrition and
must have an outstanding scholas
tic record. The scholarship com
mittee of the department of home
economics will select the recipient,
Dr. Florence McKinney, chairman
of the department of home eco
nomics, said.
Miss Evelyn Berger of Chicago,
chief of home economics and die
titians of Wilson and Company,
kpok ai Mm Wednesday parw
ingfish
To Edit
mann and Marv Breslow discuss
the University during an in
formal session. Shapiro is show
Department Adds Shapiro
'Prairie Schooner', Teac
es. He said that its chief function
is to encourage young people who
are interested in writing profes
sionally and to encourage creative
thinking among amateur writers
Wimberly suggested that the
"Prairie Schooner" could be im
proved to interest more people.
He added that such a magazine
can always improve its quality.
Wimberley plans to try his hand
at writing, but he has no definite
plans as yet.
Wimberly has already contrib
uted to many magazines and au
thored and edited several books
and anthologies. Among his pub
lications are books on folklore
and ballads of England and Scot
land and books on writing.
In addition to his writing and
research, Wimberly was widely
known for his courses at the Uni
versity in advanced literary com
position.
"It is quite a responsibility to
follow a man like Dr. Wimber
ly," Shapiro said. "He made the
'Prairie Schooner' what it is."
Shapiro plans to make several
slight changes in the magazine,
such as redesigning and revising
the cover and modifying the name
to "Schooner." He also plans to
include more poetry and book re
views to make the magazine like
some of the other university's
quarterlies.
Shapiro said that it is impossible
to tell right now exactly how much
or along what lines the "Prairie
Schooner" will change that will
depend chiefly on the contribu
tions received.
He also plans to improve circu
lation and publicity, among the
improvements Wimberly suggest
ed, but he doesn't plan "to make
it a best-seller because if a mag
azine has a comparatively small
circulation, that is usually an in
dication of high quality."
Shapiro said that the intellec
tual climate among the professors
at the University is a wonderful
thing. He has bought a picture
painted by LeRoy Burket, asso
ciate professor of art at the Uni
versity, to hang in his office.
Asked if there appeared to be
an increasing interest in poetry,
he replied that the "audience for
modern poetry has gotten very
big."
He credits this interest to ed
ucation in poetry, which is becom
ing widespread, and, to a lesser
degree, the interest generated by
mass forms of communication.
The noted poet remarked, "You
will never have everyone reading
poetry and it would probably be
an awful thing if you did. Nothing
else would get done." Shapiro lists
Eliot, Auden, Thomas, and Whit
man among his favorite poets.
Shapiro says he became inter
ested in teaching because "Uni
versity teaching is the only place
for people like me it is close to
the sources of writing."
The author of nine books, he is
currently working on two more.
One is a collection of poems, sev
eral of which already have been
published. The other is a textbook
on creative writing.
Born in Baltimore, Shapiro pub
lished his first volume, "Poems,"
in 1935 before enrolling at John
Hopkins University where he la
ter served as an associate pro
fessor. During his Army service from
1941-45," he wrote four additional
volumes, including "V-Letter and
Other Poems," which netted him
the Pulitizer Prize.
He has received a number of
other awards and honors for his
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
ing Mrs. Ashida an autographed
copy of a first edition by James
Joyce.
Courtesy Lincoln Star
WIMBERLY
Davis prize, 1S42; the Levinson
prize and the Contemporary Po
etry prize, 1943; The American
Academy of Arts and Letters grant,
1944; the Shelley Memorial prize
in 1945, and a Guggenheim fellow
ship, 1945-46.
In 1954 Shapiro studied in Rome
as a Guggenheim fellow and lec
tured on American poetry in In
dia and Ireland during the next
summer.
He served as an associate pro
fessor of English at the Univer
sity of California last year and
gave a series of lectures at a grad
uate seminar at the University
of Indiana this summer.
Flying:
AFROTC
To Offer
Pilot School
Colonel Carter Duncan an
nounced Tuesday that pilot training
will be offered to senior Air Force
ROTC students at the University
this fall.
The University will be one of
38 colleges and universities in the
nation to provide the flight pro
gram. Cadets who take the light-plan
pilot training will receive 35 hours
of flight instruction and the same
amount of ground school. The ac
tual flying training will be given
in light aircraft from 65 to 200
horsepower.
Colonel Duncan sajd the new
program has received full ap
proval of the Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration which will actually
operate, administer and supervise
the program.
Flight instructors. will be certi
fied by CAA who also will ad
minister flight checks of cadets
and recommend elimination action
for students deficient in flying.
The flying operation and training
will be conducted by private
civilian flying schools and Air
Force ROTC instructor personnel
will teach the ground-school
courses as part of the . regular
AFROTC curriculum, Colonel Dun
can said.
The majority of the ground
school training includes navigation
and weather subjects, courses
which are already offered in the
Air Force ROTC curriculum.
Successful completion of the
flight course will qualify the
AFROTC cadet to apply for
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Freshmen:
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The University's Junior Division
announced Thursday that 2,003 new
students have taken placement
tests for enrollment compared with
1,870 last year at this time.
Dr. Charles F. Warnath, chair
man of New Student Week, said
between 30 and 50 new students
will probably be added to this
figure during the coming week.
This will bring the total fresh
man figure for this fall to about
2,040, compared with a final total
of 1,896 last year, he said.
The new student figure does not
include upperclassman transfer
students, Dr. W.arnath explained,
since they do not take placement
tests upon entering the University.
In spite of the overall increase
in enrollment, the College of Agri
culture showed a slight decline in
enrollment up to Friday. However,
final figures are expected to show
enrollment at about the 1955-56
level.
Biggest gains were made by the
College of Engineering, with Arts
and Sciences, a perennial favorite,
second. Dr. Warnath attributed the
engineering increase to the much
publicized shortage and the high
starting salaries in that field.
Dr. Warnath also attributed the
enrollment increase, which came
in spite of Nebraska's worst drouth
in the last decade, to a general
realization that a college educa
tion is more necessary for success
in all fields than it was twenty
years ago.
Corn Cobs, Co-ed Councilers, In
nocents and Mortar Boards were
praised by Dr. Warnath for their
part in making New Student Week
the success that it was. "Without
Comedy:
YWCA
To Ho!
"This Is Your Life," a comedy
sketch, will be presented by the
YWCA Thursday, 7:15 p.m. in Love
Library Auditorium. The program
is especially for freshmen students
and the sketch will feature the life
of a prominent Nebraska Univer
sity student whose name will be
disclosed Thursday evening.
Barb Sharp, as master of cere
monies, will present guests out of
the subject's life. Gifts will be
presented to the subject at the end
of the sketch.
Also included in the program of
the evening will be a debate on the
subject, resolved: That college is
a waste of time.
Debaters will be, negative, Helen
Snyder, Dean of Women and Dr.
Robert Knoll, professor of English;
affirmative, Bruce Brugmann,
president of Student Council and
Dr. Rex Knowles, Presbyterian
Congregational student pastor.
YWCA commission leaders will
be introduced during the evening.
Thota Sigma Phi
Meet Changed
The Theta Sigma Phi women's
journalism fraternity meeting orig
inally scheduled for Tuesday will
be held Friday at 3 p.m. in Union
Room 313, according to Bev Deepe,
president.
Dr. William Hall, new director of
the School of Journalism will dis
cuss plans with the group. Luci
gace Switzer, vice president, will
report on the national convention,
and plans for the coming year will
be made, Miss Deepe said.
Students Meet
Dr. William E. Hall, new
chairman of the Department of
Journalism, discusses his plans
for the department with Susan
Sauvan, sophomore in Arts and
Sciences, and Russell Rasmus
sen, freshman in Arts and Sci
ences, at the Nebraska Open
liousa ' held Friday. ht O-ea
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the help of upperclassmen New
Student Week would have been im
possible," he stated.
Actual preparation for New Stu
dent Week began last April 16 and
continued in rising frenzy until
September 9. The work included
locating 130 advising rooms and
6 convocation rooms, and required
.the help of over 200 upperclassmerl.
Brugmann:
Council
To Try
Changes
The philosophy that the student
body should have the privilege, if
not the right, to be concerned with
all that affects or influences the
general welfare of the student
body will be
e x p e rim ent
ed with this
year, accord
ing to Bruce
B r u g mann,
Student Coun
cil president.
The idea,
which is an off
spring of the
student tribu
nal, discussed
during the
Brugmann
spring semester, is not really t
new one, Brugmann said.
"The structures of the Student
Council, the IFC, and the Panhel
lenic Council, are all places where
students take an active and im
portant part in government,"
he stated.
He claimed that the philosophy of
student participation has not been
extended to its logical conclusion
of insuring student participation in
activities which affect their well
being and that of their education
such as student discipline, the ath
letic program and many faculties
which dispose of student problems.
"This does not mean we are
pushing for more control. We wish
to assume the position that we are
willing and able to have a voice
in," Brugmann said.
"The important thing is not that
this authority be arbitrarily vest
ed with the students but that he
students themselves are willing to
accept these important responsibili
ties." This means, the Council presi
dent added, that students must
be willing and able to dispose of
their own discipline problems, serve
on key faculty committees, enter
into discussion of institutional pol
icy and, if necessary, to fight for
the support of honest convictions.
Student organizations must be
reflections of student opinion and
guide it into constructive channels
of high scholarship, qualified per
formance and a well-balanced col
legiate program, Brugmann stated.
The Council must reflect the
"splendid principles of academic
freedom," he said.
He concluded, "Only by pledging
the ideals of our campus organiza
tions to these objectives can we
demonstrate our potentiality to
have an effective voice in all that
affects our general welfare and the
future and integrity of the Uni
versity of Nebraska."
Cob Meeting
Sophomore men interested la be
coming Corn Cob workers and
have not yet signed up may attend
the Corn Cob meeting Tuesday,
5 p.m. in Union Room 315. Tick
ets for the pep section will b re
served at that time.
Chairman
House was planned to acquaint
new students with The Nebras
kan staff members and the Pub
lications Board and to encourage
new students to work on The
Nebraskan. The Open House also
enabled journalism students ta
become acquainted with the aew
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