LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Commencement
Shakespearean
Practicing Elizabethan sword are Berny Skalka, Steve Schulti, Sunday night at Pinewood Bowl
play for University Theatre's and Bev Giltner. The show will in Pioneer Park. Curtain time
production of "Twelfth Night" cross the boards Saturday and is 8 p.m.
Summer Production Of 'Twelfth Might'
To Open Saturday At finevmd Bowl
"Twelfth Night," University
Theater's summer production, op
ens Saturday night for a two night
run at Pinewood Bowl, in Pioneer
Park, according to the Lincoln
Civic Singfest Committee, sponsors
of the event.
Admission will be free.
The outdoor show will be the
latest of a series of Shakespearean
productions which has brought
audiences of other summers such
shows as "The Tempest" and
"Midsummer Night's D r e a m."
The current script has been called
by many critics "the greatest com
edy Shakespeare ever wrote," "a
product of a thoroughly mature
comic genius."
The production will contain con
siderable emphasis on the broad
comedy inherent in the script. The
greatest part of the farce attack
will be carried to the audience by
Sir Toby Belch (played by John
Campus
This Week
Thursday
Film shorts "History of Avia
tion" 11:45 Main Lounge of the
Union.
Saturday
Play "Twelfth Night" Pine
wood Bowl (Pioneer Park)
Sunday
Play "Twelfth Night" Pinewood
Bowl (Pioneer Park)
Movie "Take Me Out to the
Ball Game" 7:30 Ballroom of the
Union.
Monay
Clinic: Re-Organization of School
Districts 7:30 Love Library,
Tuesday
Pi Delta Kappa Initiation and
Picnic 5:00 Pioneer Park.
Friday
Summer Commencement 7:80
Mall Theatre.
Swordsters
Crowell), Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(Steve Schultz), Maria (Stephaney
Sherdeman), and Fabian (Andy
Backer).
The brunt of their practical
jokes and general foolery will be
borne, as always, by the egocent-
Vernon Rawie
Recieves Post
At University
Col. Chester Diestel, who has
commanded the 900-cadet Army
ROTC detachment at the Univers
ity for the past three years, has
been reassigned to the post of
deputy commander of the First
Regional U.S. Army Air Defense
Command at Ft. Totten, N.Y.
He will begin his new assign
ment iext Monday.
His successor as professor of
military science and tactics at the
University will be Col. Vernon
Rawie, commander at present of
a Field Artillery Group in Europe.
Colonel Rawie will assume his
new duties prior to the beginning
of the fall semester Sept. 16.
During his duty at the Univer
sity, Colonel Diestel not only super
vised operations which resulted in
the commissioning of 209 Nebraska
graduates but also directed the
conversion of the Army ROTC Unit
from branch type training to train
ing based on the general military
science curriculum.
For Colonel Diestel, the new as
signment represents a career
which has turned full circle. His
service, which has included as
signments in the Philippine Is
lands, the Hawaiian Islands, Eur
ope, and the U.S., began in 1931
with a Coast Artillery unit at Ft.
Totten, N.Y. He is a graduate of
the U.S. Military Academy.
Colonel Diestel, his wife, and two
daughters, Dorothy and Mary
Elizabeth, will leave Lincoln Tues
day.
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ric Lalvolio (Don Montgomery).
Romance is also played up in
Shakespeare's play, as befits a
story which takes place in the en
chanted Illyria. The complicated
love plot involves Olivia (Jan
Boucher), Viola (Beverly Giltner),
Orsino (Ron Kenney), and Sebas
tian (John Hall).
The production is designed and
directed by Harry Stiver, tech
nical director of the University
Theatre. Production manager is
Diane Peters.
Even though "Twelfth Night"
was first presented more than
three hundred years ago, this pro
duction should still have its con
temporary aspects. The characters
are timeless; the audience should
recognize persons in their own
acquaintance who resemble the
roistering Sir Toby, the incompe
tent Sir Andrew, or the lovelorn
Count Orsino.
One of the cast members, Steph
any Sherdeman, pointed out an
other similarity: "The tilings that
are seen in this play are still pop
ular with audiences everywhere.
A lot of the action between Sir !
Toby and his cohorts is like the
action you might see in an anti
mated cartoon. And most movies
are still based on some kind of
love story. The only difference is
that 'Twelfth Night' manages to
include more love stories than most
movies do."
Bridge Technique
Outlines Available
Outlines of the bridge lessons
taught at the Union over the sum
mer are available at the Union ac
tivities office this week, accord
ing to Jim Porter, bridge instruc
tor. Students attending the bridge les
sons indicated that they would
like to have outlines of bidding etc.
Porter explained. The schedules
are available to any interested
student, he said.
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Dr. Harry Burke, superintend
ent of Omaha Public Schools, has
been selected to deliver the an
nual Summer Commencement ad
dress Friday evening, Aug. 2, at
the University, Dr. Clifford Hard
in announced today.
Approximately 350 students will
receive diplomas at the outdoor
exercises to be held at 7 p.m.
on Memorial Mall, east of the
Stadium. The public may attend.
Delivering the invocation will be
Dr. Vance Rogers, newly named
president of Nebraska Wesleyan
University and former pastor of
Trinity Methodist Church in Lin
coln. ,
Dr. Hardin will preside. Music
will be furnished by a gradual, stu
dent, Henry Wiebe, who will sing
The National Anthem and "The
Buiider," with William Bush as
accompanist.
The topic of Dr. Burke's speech
Reorganizing
School District
Discussion Set
The problem of school district
reorganization in Nebraska, called
one of the acute problems in state
education, will be the concern of
the Clinic Monday, according to
Leslie Chislom, chairman.
The Clinic on the Reorganization
of School Districts will be held at
the University Monday from 7:30
to 9 p.m. in Love Library Audito
rium, according to Dr. Frank
Sorenson, summer sessions direc
tor. The purpose of the conference
is to give a brief overview in the
form of the basic ABC's of school
district reorganization, with major
attention focused on problems of
reorganization in Nebraska, Dr.
Chislom stated.
Four educators will deliver ad
dresses, Dr. Sorenson said.
Dr. Allen Burkhardt, super
intendent of Schools at Norfolk will
speak on "A Member of the State
Committee Looks at Education"
at 7:30 p.m.
At 8:05, Dr. Donald Bush of the
State Department of Education will
address the group on "A B C'S of
the K-12 Concepts."
"The Survey Service of the Uni
versity Contributes to Reorganiza
tion", will be the topic of Dr.
Merle Stoneman, professor of
School Administration.
Robert Campbell, a graduate
student, will speak on "The Bene
fits of Reorganization as Seen
Through Pictures".
At 8:40 p.m. Dr. Leslie Chisolm,
professor of school administration
will deliver a speech on the topic
"The Fundamental Characteristics
of an Adequate School District and
an Adequate Reorganization Pro
gram".
The clinic is open to the public,
according to Dr. Sorenson.
Dr. Chislom has published
several books dealing with secon
dary education, including one now
in the process of publication by
the University of Chicago Press
on the subject of District Reorgan
ization. "Every major state organization
working with education in Ne
braska has gone on record favor
ing school district reorganization,"
Dr. Chislom said.
"Nebraska has reduced the num
ber of district by 2,000 since 1949,
but the state still has more dis
tricts than any state in the Union.
'The problem is of importance
to both school personnel and lay
man" he added.
Thursday, July 25, 1957
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will be "Emerging School and Uni
versity Relationships."
Dr. Burke is a noted public
school educator, having been ap
pointed superintendent of the Om
aha schools in 1946. He also has
served as superintendent of schools
at Gothenburg, 1921-32; at Kear
ney, 1933-42; and at Great Falls,
Mor.t., 1942-46.
He has been a contributor to
has served as visiting lecturer at
the University of Nebraska Teach
ers College. Dr. Burke is a mem
ber of National Education Asso
ciation; Society of Advanced Ed
ucation; and Nebraska State
Schoolmasters' Club.
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Monday
Twenty members of the ele
mentary education curn;iaum
workshop at the University will
visit the Naval Air Technical
Training Command at Memphis,
Tenn. Monday and Tuesday.
Purpose of the tour is to ac
quaint the educators with aspects
of the Navy's aviation training pro
military aviation.
The workshop is considering
ways in which elementary school
teachers can bring air-age subject'
matter into their scVools.
Monday the group will leave Lin
coln Air Force Br:" by plane and
arrive at 1 p.m. at the Memphis
Naval Air Station where they will
tour the station and observe a fire
fighting demonstration.
Tuesday the group will tour the
Naval Air Technical Training Cen
ter Schools and return to Lincoln
that evc;ninji.
Those making the trip include:
Mary Ensor, Elizabeth Frantz,
Esther Hafer, JoAnn Hail, Wil
liam Moore, Genevieve Mumford,
Gladys Norton, Katherine Sandin,
Verona Steinmeyer, Melvin Te
Kolste, Josephine Weatherer, Nel
lie Wilb'irn, Charles Elmlinger.
Millard Bennett of the state De
partment of Aeronautics; Claud
ette Eby, Dr. Earl Wiltse. super
intendent of Grand Island schools;
Lloyd TeSelle, rperintendent of
Fremont schools; Pearl Schaaf of
the State Department of Educa
tion; Eugene Rarick, superintend
ent of Superior schools; azd Joe
Young, superintendent of Colum
bus schools.
The tour is being mad possible
by the U.S. NavI Air Training
Command and the North Central
Region of the Civil Ajr Patrol.
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