JULY 30, 1959
SUMMER NEBRASKA
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Men From Mars 'Invade' Campus
The kids were having a
partya costume affair.
Some came, as spacemen,
some as green-skinned men
from Mars.
But underneath the colored
paper and the grease paint,
they came as future citizens
f a country that will soon be
sending a man to the moon
and advancing a pioneer
movement into outer space.
The kids that were having
the party were fourth, fifth
and sixth graders from Park
School.
The party was their reward
for attending a six week ses
sion of summer school called
the Air Age Workshop. There
were 45 of them who volun
teered to come to school dur
ing this summer.
Frank Christensen, director
of the workshop and princi
pal of Park School, had these
comments about the purpose
of the workshop:
"The workshop is the way
grade school teachers are
learning to make science
mean more to a child than
a ponderous book of compli
cated diagrams."
"We're trying to make ex
citing things that are excit
ingspace ships, airports,
jets."
"When a child goes on to
the more complicated aspects
of the subject in high school
Coffey Named Editor
Of Nebraska Alumnus
Dick L. Coffey 0f Lincoln,
associate editor of both the
Nebraska Farmer and Colo
rado Rancher and Farmer, has
been named editor of the Ne-
d r a s k a
Alumnus, the
monthly
magazine of
ttie Univer
sity of Ne
b r a s k a
Alumni As
sociation, ef-
c t i v e
Aug. 1.
Arnold
Magnus-
n, executive secretary of the
Association, made the an
nouncement this week.
Coffey, who is a 1951
graduate of Rushville High
School and a 1955 graduate of
the University, will succeed
Miss Sally Adams of Aurora.
Miss Adams resigned earlier
to accept a similar position
at Washington State College
Coffey has been a staff
member of the Nebraska
Farmer since 1955 and
worked during the summer of
1953 at the Alliance Daily
Times-Herald. While a stu
dent at the University, he
Coffey
Law Student
Wins Contest
A University of Nebraska
law student has won the 1959
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law
Foundation Essay Contest.
Lawrence E. Murphy of
Scottsbluff, Neb., received a
$400 cash prize from the foun
dation. John P. Akolt, founda
tion president, Ken E. Barn
hill Jr., executive director, a
R. Lauren Moran, Riverton,
Wyo., contest chairman, an
nounced the winners this
week..
Second place winner is Wil
liam Evan Jones, Miles City,
Mont., a student at Montana
State University law school.
He received $200. Robert II.
Sonheim, Boulder, University
of Colorado law student, took
third prize of $100.
Murphy will attend the ifth
Annual Rocky Mountain Min
eral Law Institute at the Uni
versity of Utah in Salt Lake
City July 30-Aug. 1 to receive
his award certificate. His es
say will appeal in the volume
of proceedings from the institute.
was feature editor of the stu
dent newspaper, and a mem
ber of Nebraska University
Council of World Affairs,
YMCA, and Young Republi
cans. A native of Rushville, he Is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
D. Coffey.
and college, we want Mm to
look forward to H."
"We have tried to stress
the peaceful potentialities of
scientific discoveries rather
than their war potential."
During the summer the
children's studies were con
ducted using a wide range of
text books, films and many
excursions to the University
Planetarium.
Instruction extended over
the composition of jet engines,
the problems of a rocket ship
in space and the history of
the air age.
In addition the workshop
gave elementary teachers an
opportunity to become ac
quainted with materials and
techniques to help enrich their
regular teaching patterns con
cerning the air and space age.
The children were divided
into three groups. The space
age was approached from a
different viewpoint in each
group, keeping in mind, in all
groups, that the subject
would be something which
teachers will want to teach as
an integral part of the regu
lar curriculum and not as a
separate subject.
Some of the features pre
sented ca this space program
were top flight teachers from
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various parts of the midwest,
who were awarded scholar
ships from the Link Founda
tion and the Air Force Asso
ciation to attend the Aero
space seminar.
Teachers participating in
the workshop were Hazel
Palmer of Lincoln, Eileen
Dlouhy of Lincoln, Bernice
Brochtrup of Columbus, Osa
Conde of San Antonio, Tex.,
Jesse Kadel of Jefferson
County, Colo, and Margaret
Scott of North Kansas City,
Mo.
Bridge Winners
Given Trophies
Winners in the annual sum
mer bridge tournament have
been announced by Jack Tim
mons, director of the tourna
ment and the summer bridge
instructor. They are first
place, Bernard Harris and
Jim D. Gordon and second
place, Arvin S. Quist' and Ron
Bambury.
Trophies were presented to
the winners of the duplicate
tournament, which was spon
sored by the Student Union.
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