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University of Nebraska No. 6 Tuesday, July 18, 1967 Theatre Workshop Presents Original Play The comedy "Loosebough the First," featured event of a three-day Theatre Work, shop, will be presented at the University Theatre on July 31 and Ai'g. 1. Dr. Harold C Crain, visit ing professor from San Jose State College, Calif., will di rect the play, an original script written by Joseph Bald win, professor of speech and dramatic art at the Univer sity of Nebraska. Guest lecturer and critic at the workshop will be Dr. Mari an G alia way, professor of speech and director of Uni versity Theatre, the Univer sity of Alabama. Dr. Galloway will lead d i s cussions on several topics in theatre in seminars which will be open to the public, July 31 and Aug. 1. On Aug. 2, she will give a critique of the writing and production of 'Loosebough the First." Dr. Crain is at the Univer sity this summer as visiting professor in speech and dra matic art, teaching courses in advanced acting and ad vanced directing. Schooling A native of Humboldt Iowa, lie attended Morningside Col lege, than took his M.A. de- N.Y. Judge To Speak Thursday ""American Cities Aflame" is the topic New York State Supreme Court Judge Henry J. Latham will discuss in the second half of the World News and Views series Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in Love Memorial Library auditorium. The judge lives in a large city with all the problems of youth, and many of these problems end up in the courts, said Dr. Frank E. Sorenson, director of Summer Sessions. The Honorable Henry J. Latham is serving his ninth vear as justice of the New York State Supreme Court He completed requirements for his Pre-law degree at SL John's University and for the L.L.B. and L.M. degree at Brooklyn Law School. In addition, Justice Latham holds a Honorary L.D. degree from St. John's University. He was admitted to practice law , in 1932 and from 194142 he served as a member of the New York State Assembly. The following three years he was an officer in the U.S. Navy. For 14 years beginning in 1945, Justice Latham was a member of the UJS. Congress serving for the last seven years of this period as a member of the Rules Com mittee. Presently he is In the Ready Reserve of the U.S. Navy, a member of the Technical As sistance Board of the Link Foundation and a rated pilot, land and sea. Justice Latham has been associated with Edwin A. Link, distinguished aeorspace scientist and undersea ex plorer, in studies pertaining to deep sustained diving op erations and archeology as re ported in t h e National Geo graphic Magazine and Smith sonian Reports. Hiimniiiiiiiimiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimm I Inside You Will Find i I 1 WORDS Few people recognize even six per cent of all the words in the English language due to the concen- f trated growth of specialization and the resulting jargon - - ...Page 2 g " s TIME Nebraskans have many answers to the question 1 'What do you think or Daylight Savings Time?" la a poll many people expressed their opinions oa this contra- 1 versial issue - - Page J 87 GRADUATE White Cloud Smith, a 1897 graduate from the University of Nebraska, tells about Ms life In Nebraska from toe early years up to the present . Page 3 gree at Syracuse University and doctorate at Iowa State University. He has taught at Buffalo State College, N,Y Syracuse University, Iowa State Uni versity, as well as in his present position. Well-known in academic theatre circles, Dr. Crain is currently a mem ber of the Board of Gover nors of the American Educa tional Theatre Association. Supported by the Ford Foundation, he spent the aca demic year, 1952-53, on leave teaching to study the topic: "Training and Preparation of Playwrights.'" His investiga tions were carried out in New York and London. Known chiefly as director and teacher in college thea tre. Dr. Crain earlier acted in Federal Theatre, in a profes sional touring company, and in a touring musical comedy company. He also had direct ing experience in some of these groups. He is ee-aather, with Gladys Lynch, of the text book, "Projects in Oral In terpretation," used in Ameri can colleges. Joseph Baldwin has earned many playwriting credits. He won the Texas Playwrights Award from the Houston Lit tle Theatre in 195L the Theo dore Marbug Award from Ag Lab To Efficiency University ofNebri -a plant breeding, production and soil research operations will be consolidated in one building, and greater ef ficiency will result when a $240,000 agronomy seed lab oratory is completed in the spring of 1968, NU Professor of Agronomy John W. Schmidt says. Twelve sections of the ag ronomy department will have office, work and storage areas in the one story, brick, fully air-conditioned structure to be located northwest of the Ani mal Science Building on the East Campus. The building will be in use year-round, Prof. Schmidt said. In addition to providng in creased working area for some project groups, the new building will also permit the groups to make maximum use of equipment available in the agronomy department, Prof. Schmidt said. "It will improve working conditions for our staff and he a factor in the recruitmeut of f u t n r e employees," he added. Among units to he housed in the building are those studying wheat, corn, sor ghum, alfalfa and clover, gras6 and pasture, oil crops (soybeans, castor beans and Hax); weeds and soil. Plant Genetics, Outsfate Testing, Extension and In structional Aids and Produc tion units also will occupy the building. The Production unit studies such subjects as row spacing, seeding rates and plant popu lation. E E MHinuuin Johns Hopkins University in 1952 and the Birmingham Fes tival of Arts Playwriting Award in 1958. Many Awards More recently, Baldwin tied for first place for the Stanley Drama Award at the New York City Writers' Conference at Wagner College in 1964. This year - he won the SL Louis Poetry Center Award for verse drama. "The Wind in the Willows," - a dramatization of Kenneth Grahame's novel, is one of his three-act plays and was pub lished in 1965. Baldwin has several pub lished one-act plays including "I Married Irene Because She Has Eves Like Abraham Lin coln's,"" "Free Bus to the Shopping Center," "The Finer Things," "Bachelor of the Year," "Almost Two Many" and "Committees Forever." His play "Loosebough the First" was first presented by the University of Alabama in 1965 and a troupe from there toured the U.S. Third Army with the play. Three of Baldwin's one-act plays were presented to the public by AH-State this sum mer. At least eight other Baldwin plays have already been presented at the Univer sity of Nebraska. Continued: Page 2 Bring Increase In labs, small quantities of seeds, plant materials and soil samples from University stations and farms throughout the state are cleaned, weighed, ground and tested for various qualities. Prof. Schmidt explained. Selected seed samples are re-packaged for planting. After completion of the new building, the first floor of the present Crops Laboratory building will be occupied by the sorghum physiology sec tion of the agronomy depart ment, Prof. Schmidt said. The wheat quality and statistics labs will continue to occupy the second floor. Little or no space will be freed in Keim Hall, the ag ronomy building, as almost all of the units win move from the Crops Lab. Contracts already awarded by the University's Board of Regents are: general con structionWalter Broer Con struction Co. of Lincoln, $129, 774; mechanical work New- ' berg & Bookstrom of Lincoln, $44,816 and electrical work Energy Electric Co. of Lin coln, $19,650. The architectural design was executed by the Univer sity's physical plant. Prof. Olson Heads UN Ag Project Prof. R. A. Olson, Univer sity of Nebraska agronomist, has taken over as head of the Freedom From Hunger ferti lizer program of the United Nations' Food and Agricultur al Organization. He, bis wife, and youngest son, Patrick, left Lincoln for Rome, Italy headquarters for the international agency for promoting improvement in agriculture in underdeveloped countries. He will be on leave from the University for the next year and one-half. Olson is an internationally known expert on soils and soil fertility. He has been much in demand as a speaker at national and international meetings, the most recent a soil conference in Vienna, is chairman of the Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition division of the American So ciety of Agronomy and also . ciety chairman of North Central Region Agronomists in asso ciation with the National Plant Food Institute. New Educational Concepts Develop with Space Age The world is making tre mendous advances in aero space and yet some teachers are still involved with horse and buggy concepts, said Dr. Milton W. Horowitz, profes sor of psychology and educa tional research at Queens Col lege in New York. "Beginning right here in Lincoln with the Title III Project we are trying to bring people kicking and screaming into the twentieth century," Horowitz began. He is one of the project advisors this summer. The first stage i the Aero space Curriculum Develop ment Project began in the spring of 1966 w hen represen tatives from the cooperating school systems met to plan an eight-week workshop seminar which was to be conducted during the University of Ne braska 1966 summer session. The workshop seminar, en titled "Aerospace Education for Teachers," provided the opportunity for 55 elementary teachers to study the air space environment surround ing the earth and roan's rela tionship to it. Guides Prepared Teachers utilized this knowledge in the preparation of aerospace curricu lum guides. '"These guides are not in tended to add another subject to curriculum, but rather to merge where it fits and works in naturally with other sub jects such as in science, math, vocational industrial arts and social science," said Mrs. Jean Rademacher, project supervisor. "Through this project teachers will be better equip ped and prepared because they are updating themselves. However, every year a new orientation is needed. "We cant stop for one year or the whole project will fall behind the times," Horowitz empha sized. The first year the project was concerned only with de veloping guides for the ele mentary level, this year ju nior nigh teachers have joined the group and next year senior high teachers will be added. Objectives The original proposal out lined the following major ob ject i v e s of the aerospace project: To develop for each grade in the elementary school, teacher resource units to be used in science instruc tion which would include con cepts and ideas relating to aerospace research and de velopments. To develop for the ele mentary school in all aca demic disciplines, a series of concepts and enrichment ma terials related to aerospace content and to the primary implications and adjustments for mankind resulting from the research and develop ments of the Aerospace Age. To develop, with the as sistance of elementary school instructional materials so cialists, a supplemental edu cational services center with satellite units in the elemen tary schools that will feature instructional materials to augment the aerospace edu cation described above. The cooperating schools participating In the project are from Omaha Westside Community, Grand Island, Hastings, Kearney, Chadron and the University of Ne braska in addition to the Lin coln schools. A mobile unit filled with science equipment, aircraft and space models, charts and posters will be taken to each of the participating schools throughout the school year. Demonstrations Dr. Lloyd George, in charge of the mobile unit, will demonstrate aspects of science in space flight. 1 will help teachers to re late aerospace to whatever subject they are teaching through demonstrations, ex periments and other activi ties,' Dr. Oeorge said. "1 am convinced that what we find in space will surpass previous events of man's cr quest in mature. The Indus trial Revolution will pale be side new developments," said Horowitz thinking of the fu ture. The fallout of research will benefit our lives in every way and the most important event of this age is the con quest of .space." v V?" ' K , Wife tt (I i- u r v IK . I V. V ,j r XTg 3 ' It " ( !- ) sms p. ii i iiiifc.ii MiajiuiiijnMl..j ii Jtex? Vr - . ,11 .. f Ji.: -.7 ' --kSh : i , . -7 - - V - -' " boe, Drs. Frank E. Sorenson (left), Iilton W. Horowitz and Lloyd Corre look at one of the aerospace charts on display. Below are pictured scale models of the Manner space probe and the Nimbus weather satellite. State Senator Discusses Recent School Legislation By Aneeta Spelts Nebraska Association of School Administrators stepped out of their school houses last Thursday and came to the c a p i t o 1 city to become better acquainted with state legislation. Senator Calista Hughes of Hubbell. addressed the group and identified herself with the legislature "w h i c h is asked to do a super human job in short time." Mrs. Hughes, who lived abroad for 25 years, returned to Nebraska "very disap pointed in the public school pystem:" "T h e common school in Nebraska needs a complete overhaul, from enrollment to finances" she stated. "The fault lies in many laps t h e public, teacher's, and legisla tor's." In an attempt to correct the situation, Senator HuChes recently introduced LT565 into the Unicameral, which Rosenberg Earns NATO Grant A University of Nebraska agricultural scientist. Dr. Nor man J. Rosenberg, is one of 20 U.S. researchers selected for receipt of a NATO senior fellowship. The fellowships are granted through the National Science Foundation to encourage the exchange of research infor mation among scientists in member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organ ization. Dr. Rosenberg, an agricli matologist, has been conduct ing studies in Nebraska on the influence of shelters on the moisture balance of grow ing crops. The NATO award will cov er the cost of Dr. Rosenberg's travel to Europe early next year. Additional support from the University of Nebraska Research Council will enable him to "visit research centers in "the Netherlands and in Is rael where agriclimatological studies similar io his are un der way- requests a survey of public schools which will bring about legislation to improve weak areas. Public Schools The Senator pointed out the importance of good pubLc schools and their relations with higher education in Ne braska. "Our Universities, col leges and junior colleges car only be as strong as the stu dents we put in them." Senator Hu ghee teaches French in the Hubbell schools and charged Nebraska's su perintendents and principals to upgrade the teaching pro fession in the state. She reminded them that there are many people in Ne braska, particularly men, who dislike school adminis trators. They think you're out to make money, instead of being interested in educa tion.'" "Get tough with your tee hers and weed out the weak ones," insisted the Sen ator. -"Because if you don't teaching will go down. 1 hope and expect you to prove your critics wrong,' she con cluded. One school administrator asked, "How can we as ad ministrators work with the state legislature?" Influences 'Throufh your professioral conduct, you can influence people," Senator hughes an swered '"Admin jrators jan change the minds of the pub lic who know little about leg islation.' Last year Senator Hughes was invited to participate in the Master's "Wee! at the Uni versity of Nebraska. "1 con fronted students from small schools who realized that their high schools were not up to tiie standards of i h e largest schools in the siate. And they asked me, "Whit can we dr about it in our own towns?' " "My suggestion to them and to tou is that yon dont hesitate to talk about the sit uation. Take your "business Into your social affairs. Throw back your shoulders, state your case and state 11 iur the children she said- According to the legislator, fear has prevented much progress in the state's educa tion plan. "Everyone's been, afraid to demand reorganiza tion where it is needed, and senators don't speak out be cause they're afraid of being not re-elected." "'Have courage of your con victions, though don't be so rigid that you will not admit a mistake when it's yours,1 spoke Senator Hughes. Dr. Mielenz Will Retire Dr. Mary L. Mielenz, the only w oman member of the faculty to receive the Univer sity of Nebraska Foundation's Distinguished Teaching Award, will retire Aug. L af ter 30 years here. Dr. 'Mielenz, professor of secon2-y education and su pervisor if English at Univer sity High School, joined the University faculty in 1838, af ter teaching at Nebraska high schools and Wayne State Teachers College. She was given the Foundation award in 1962. During the past several years, Miss Mielenz has been active in "Project English,' a University of Nebraska pro gram developing English study units for public schools. The program has become popular nationwide. Retirement will provide a change of activity for Miss Mielenz. In November, she wM make presentation at the convention of the Nation al Council of Teachers of Eng lish In Hawaii "I'm going to get my breath and reaDy live sow," she said. Rarnan To Play Audun Ravnan, associate professor of music at the University of Nebraska, will present a faculty piano re cital at 3:30 p.m. Wednes day, July 18 in the auditori um of the Sheldon Art Gallery. 4
