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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.
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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
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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.
