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UNIVERSITY OP NEB& Spring ARCHIVE I See Page 3 Editorial Comment See Page 2 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Tuesday, March 1, 1960 Coed Election Is Tomorrow University coeds will go to the polls tomorrow for the annual All-Women's Election. Voting booths will be set up in both Ag and city cam pus Student Unions. Organizations participating in the election are Associated Women Students, Coed Coun selors, Independent Women's Association and Women's Athletic Association. In addition junior and sen ior women will vote for May Queen from a list of 10 final ists. Skip Harris and Nina Hern don are candidates for the presidency of AWS. Candidates for president of Coed Counselors are Alice Baumgartner and Susan Stan ley. Joan Schultz and Kay Stute are vying for the presi dency of IWA. Union Names Photography Winners Winners of the Student Union's annual photography contest have been announced by the Union arts and exhibits committee, sponsor of the competition. Gift certificates at local de partment stores were awarded to the winners. The prize photos will be on display in the Union's lower hall gallery until Friday. First and second place rib bons in the four classifica tions went to Andris A. Staklis and a tie between I. Didrich sons and Harold Dreimanis for "Human Interest" shots. Didrichsons was first in sports shots and Dreimanis was second. In news pictures, Dreimanis was first and in portraitures, Didrichsons was first and Dreimanis second. Literature Amazes Group . . . Five Observe Ag College Classes "We are amazed at the literature we have seen and collected. Nowhere in the world can we find it as graphic in all fields en abling anyone to carry through programs," said Icyline Seaton, an interna tional extension observer from Jamaica. She is one of five now at the College of Agriculture observing classes and mak ing periodic visits to county extension offices in Daw son, Custer, Saunders, Hamilton and Hall counties and families in Lincoln, Custer, Hall, Antelope. Otoe and Perkins counties. Five Here Three from Jamaica Ivy Lewis, Amy McNeish and Mrs. Seaton Malek Erfan from Iran, So Chen Lin from the Republic of China and Leony Ziebell from Brazil,, arrived Feb. 1. Audubon Screen Tour On Ozarks Scheduled tit Leonard Hall Nursing Grants Senior nursing students who will be graduated in either June of 1961 or at the close of the 1961 summer ses sions are eligible to apply for financial aid Scholarships from the Uni versity Women's Club range from $100-150 and will be awarded to students who are partially or wholly self-supporting. WAA president candidates are Shirley Parker and Ro berta Rock. The runners-up for the of fice of president in each of these organizations will auto matically become vice-president. All women will participate in the AWS, Coed Counselors and WAA contests. Independ ent women will elect the president of IWA. Candidates for senior AWS board positions are Jean Bresley, Jackie Collins, Jeanne Denker, Janet Han sen, Bev Heyne, Carol Kucera, Kitzi Lee, Kay Swo boda, Sherry Turner and Carol Vrmaas. Five will be elected. Junior AWS board member candidates are Sarah Alden, Barbara Anderson, Jo Buck, Caryl Craven, Jantina Dyk sterhuis, Jeanne Garner, Mary Knolle, Gladys Rolfs meyer, Sharon Rogers, Linda Sawvell, Linda Schelbitzki, Nancy Tederman, S u k e y Tman and Clare Vrba. Seven will be elected. Candidates for the seven members of the AWS sopho more board are Jill Beran, Jane Foster, Maureen Cra zier, Pam Hirschbach, Jeri Johnson, Maggie McCracken, Joan Mudgett, Herbie Nore, Claire Roehrkasse, Helen Schmiere, Nancy Suresen, Pat Spilker, Mary Weather spoon and Karen Yost. Finalists for the May Queen title are Marcia Boden, Sharon Fangman, Helen Hoekabout, Angie Holbert, Lynne Myers, Marilyn Pickett, Kathy Roach, Linda Walt, Sandra Whalen and Rychie Van Ornam. One will be May Queen and the first runner-up will be her maid of honor. Mortar Board, senior wom en's honorary, will be in charge of election arrange ments. The group is being spon sored by the International Co-operation Administration of the United States and the individual countries. Mrs. Seaton said that it is much easier to get a de gree here than in Jamaica because the University is much older and better established. A series of courses which are being fi nanced by the Jamaican government has had assist ance from the United Na tions UNESCO program ..which has sent a director for the training. Much Research She said that all mem bers of the group were amazed at the amount of technical research that they had seen. She explained her job as a member of the Sugar Welfare Board as not mean ing charity welfare for sugar growers but rather The fourth in a series of five Audubon Screen Tours will be presented Friday at 4 and 8 p.m. in Love Library auditorium. The tour, which is spon sored by the University Ex tension Division and State Museum, will feature a color motion piciure, "An Ozark Anthology." The "Anthology" was pho- tographed and will be nar rated in person by naturalist and author Leonard Hall, who makes his home on his Possum Trot Farm in the Ozarks of Missouri. The film covers the story of the Ozark hills the land, plants, forests and grasses, the fish and amphibians. Hall explores the waterways by canoe and captures on film the raccoon and opos sum, chipmunk, flying squir rel and whitetail deer. Hall has received numer ous honors for his work as a naturalist and conserva tionist, among them the Con servation Citation of the St. Louis Audubon Society and a honorary Doctor of Laws de gree. He is the author of many books and a columnist in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ITf fT4 II- L rii l!iFH IM(A CALLING ALL COEDS All-Women's Elections are to morrow. Participation organizations are AWS, WAA, IWA and Coed Counselors. Junior and senior women will vote for May Queen and her maid of honor. Voting booths will be set up in both Ag and city campus Student Unions. Chicago Ec Professor Scheduled for Seminar Professor ' Simon Rotten berg of the department of economics at the University of Chicago will be on campus March 10 and 11, for a series of meetings on '"Economic Development." Sponsored by the agricul tural economics and econom ics departments, Prof. Rot tenberg will appear at a luncheon meeting on March 10 in 103 Food and Nutrition Building for a discussion on "Incentives and Response in Underdeveloped Countries." The luncheon beg at 12:15 p.m. A joint seminar oi the two economics departments will be held at the Faculty Club for educational fields. Her particular division is concerned with encouraging each family to have its own house for privacy. Furnishings have been a problem as there are no funds to purchase house hold items. The board is teaching the people fo build necessary furnishings. Many Duties As Home Ec Extension supervisor in Iran, Malek Erfan trains home exten sion agents, develops bul letins, conducts radio pro grams, and in the future will conduct television pro grams and supervise the '4-H club program. She lists the major diffi culties as lack of trained personnel, lack of people in terested in village life, il literacy, Isolation of the vil lages and bad roads, lim ited transportation, no col leges for home economics training, insufficient re search and traditions and belief. As subject matter special ist. So Chen Lin from China prepares visual aids used in teaching mere than 5,600 4-H club girls and more than 6,800 rural women en rolled in Home Improve ment Clubs, and trains su pervisors and township ad visers for teaching. She too has collected many bulletins for future use. Brazil Work Extension work started in 1955 in Brazil. Only 177 of the 2.500 counties are staffed with an agronomist, home economist and a sec retary. It was introduced there in the form of non-Institutional semi-private corpora tions dedicated to rural credit and extension work. Workers received pre-serv-Ice training by American, technicians in temporary stop-gap schools. Ag col leges are not associated with the program. The present homemaking program of Brazil which Leony Ziebell is supervis ing includes food and nutri tion, sanitation, child de velopment and home im provement. All of the women will study or visit at universities in other parts of the nation before returning to their home countries. the same afternoon, begin ning at 3 p.m. The topic will be, "A Strategy Appropriate to the Equalization of Income Distribution in the World." "The Meaning of 'Excess Supplies of Labor' in Low In come Countries" will be the subject of a seminar spon sored by the ag economics department in 308 Dairy Building, March 10 at 1:15 p.m. Prof. Rottenberg has been with the University of Chi cago since 1954 and has been associated with Latin-American Research Centers. He has received several grants and fellowships and Is the author of numerous publica tions dealing with economic development problems. The seminars have been made possible through a grant of the University Research Council. I Hansen To Travel To Turkey Six-Week Jaunt Sponsored By YW Janet Hansen has been one of six girls named by the national VWCA to participate in the Volunteers Abroad pro gram. Miss Han sen, who is president of the Univer sity YWCA will go to Turkey to spend eight w ee k s in working with the Turkish YWCA. A The plan M'ss Hansen includes opportunities in sharing culture and social life of the community and for excursion into the sur rounding territory. Student volunteers will as sist with recreation pro grams, English classes, crafts, music, water projects and other activities with chil dren and young people. Selections were made ac cording to active Interest, participation and leadership in the student Y, ability to work with others, scholar ship, physical fitness and skills in homemaking crafts and camping. The purpose of the pro gram is to give Americans first-hand experience with a person-to-person relationship with the Turkish people and to interpret the American way of life according to ex perience in international liv ing. The program provides for the girls to go in pairs to Turkey, Belgium and Mex ico. . Kathy Roach went to Tur key last summer on a similar program. IBM Count Coeds voting in t'he All Women's Elections Wednes day must cast exactly the right number of votes to have their ballot counted by IBM machines- Williams' Production 'Three On a Horse' To Star Broadhurst University Theatre has an nounced the cast for its next production, "Three Men on a Horse." The play, which will be di rected by Dr. Dallas Williams, will be presented March 30 and 31 and April 1 and 2. The play is a comedy tale about a meek little man, Er- Kerr To Headlight Young Demo Session Senator Robert Kerr from Oklahoma will be the main speaker for the Young Demo crats Workshop to be held in Lincoln April 2. F. D. Roosevelt, Jr. and the administrative assistants of Senators Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy and Hubert Spring Day Positions Are Filled More than 40 people were attracted to apply for 11 openings for Spring Day as sistants Saturday. The assistants selected were: Margie Long, assistant secretary; Mylan Filkins, Steve Takacs and Dave Hum phrey, men's games; Leah Cheuvront and Mary Dee Witcher, women's games; Le roy Bentz, Dick McCoy and Linda Jensen, publicity; Mar sha Kuhr and Margaret Mc Cracken, awards. Dick Newman, publicity chairman, said that all who applied but were not ap pointed as assistants will be contacted for committee work. The entire structure of the committee is different from previous years, ' according to Archie Clegg, chairman of I the annual spring event. Earlier six people were se ' lected to head the four com ; mittees. The chairman and a 1 secretary also were selected. Plans are being made for I new skill attractions includ i ing possibly a 10-mile bicycle race. Workers Needed Builders committees are in need of new workers. Those interested may attend committee meetings this week and also attend a mass gathering of new workers March 9th. Closing I I . I i ' i - -s ' 1 WHAT IS IT? Shooting gallery? No, It's only one of the exhibits in the new art ex position at Morrill Hall. The foreground figure on the pedestal is made of sheet steel, titled "Slow Forms Before Closing Space" by creator Jorge Oteiza. What win, who writes verses for greeting cards. Erwin has an uncanny knack at picking the winners at the local race track, but he never bets on the nags. Hoods looking for a fast buck kidnap Erwin and use his ability for picking win ners. During this time, Er win is worried about his job Humphrey may also be at the workshop as well as Dem ocratic candidates from the estate seeking state or na t tional offices. . Publicity chairman for Young Democrats, Don Fer guson said, "Plans for the workshop are meeting en thusiastic acceptance by i Democratic groups contacted i within the state and from ; other states, also. It prom i ises to be a bigger and better i affair than we originally an- ticipated." Young Democratic clubs at I the Big Eight schools have ! been invited to the work- shopn The workshop is not limited to students, however. Chairmen for the workshop include Dee D o n n e 1 1, ban j quels ; John Abrahamson, publicity; Dick Manill, pro grams, Dick Robson, finan ; ces; Julie Moran, correspond j ence; and Don Gies, Ginger Frazier and Don Ferguson, arrangements. 1 Don Ferguson was recently 1 appointed the leader of the University group for Kennedy I and also as state-wide cam paign chairman for Robert Conrad who is expected to announce his candidacy for governor soon. WAA Board Filings Open Applications for WAA Board are now being ac cepted. Each appticant is re quired to submit an appli cation blank and sign for an interview time. Applica tion blanks and the inter view schedule can be found outside the WAA office in Grant Hall. Applications must be filed by 5 p.m. Thursday. Inter views for the 12 positions will be held from 2-3 and 4-5 p.m. Friday. Space Before Song as a greeting-writer and his boss and others interested in his welfare launch a big search for him. Kent Broadhurst plays the lead role of Erwin and his wife Audrey is played by Nancy Wilson. Frankie and Charlie, the two hoods, are played by Zeff Bernstein and Jim Trester. Mabel is played by Andrea Chicoine and Andrew Wolvin. is cast as Al, the news report er. The other news reporter, Gloria, is Mary Dee Patter son. Mr. Carver, Erwin's boss, is portrayed by Wally Seiler and the elevator operator, Gertrude, is Sharron Pur baugh. Clarence is played by Larry Long. Judith Ross is production manager of the play and Phil Boroff is the assistant to the director. Rockspring Stage Crew 7 Recogi nized Members of the production crews, the people behind the scenes, have been announced for the experimental theater play, "Rockspring." The play will open Thurs day night in Howell Theater for a three-night run. I Included on the crews are: Scenery crew Larry Rod rick, chairman; Richard Wat i kins, James Trester, James j Chingue, Kay Hirschbach and I Richard Marrs, supervisor. Property crew S o n d r a Edens and Luther Frost, sup ! ervisor. Costume crew Jane Cum i mings and Leanne Jensen, supervisor. Light crew Judy Schneid er, Kathy Anderson and James McDonald, supervisor. Publicity supervisor, Judith Ress: production manager, , John Turner and assistant to 1 director, Myrna Ems. ;Art Film Series Viewing Planned The second film of the "Art Film Series" will be shown March 17 in the auditorium of the Student Union. The first film was termed a success by Paul Johns, chairman of the arts and ex hibits committee. Tentatively scheduled are the films "Marcel Duchamp" and "Moods in Motion." seems to be a target is an oil painting called "Song," at the other end of the gal lery. The exposition opened Monday on the second floor of Morrill Hall. There is no admission.