University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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New Students Five days of campus activities, students completing the yearly move back to school, and the semesterly melee of registration and enrollment . . . Separately these events are components of KU orientation week, September 13-17; combined they mean a fast-paced beginning to university life. The New Student Convocation and Induction Cere- mony in Memorial Stadium started the annual week of advisors ' conferences, enrollment, and parties which also earns the yearly title of Country Club Week. The Cwen picnic for freshman women at Potter Lake, SUA ' s Activities Carnival, and the Traditions Rally and street dance rounded out activities. A total enrollment of 14,605 on the Lawrence cam- pus saw 3,200 freshmen, 2,900 sophomores, 2,700 juniors, 2,450 seniors, 178 special students, 3,080 law and graduate students ply the awesome course of numbers and arrows through the IBM-land of fall semester enrollment. By the week ' s end a weary stu- dent body fondly contemplated the comparatively less- hectic schedule of next Monday ' s classes. —Chuck Stewart FOLLOWING HIS SEMESTERLY ENCOUNTER with the maze of enrollment lines, a student in the crowded Book- store stops to re-examine his textbook needs. 9

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PART OF THE FIRST CLASS of KU ' s second century traditionally passes by the Campanile to the Induction Ceremony in Memorial Stadium. ABOVE, LEFT. Upperclass rushees group in front of the Gamma Phi Beta house while sorority members meet briefly inside to discuss the next party. RIGHT. During the annual SUA Activities Carnival, KU-Y officers answer questions about their organization. 8

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New Students Freshman Scholars 10 TOP. Carol Shapely, a Presidential, National Merit, and Watkins Scholar, from Wichita. BOTTOM, Donald Jenkins from Kansas City, recipient of Scholarship Hall and Educational Opportunity Grants. Freshman scholastic honors are of two kinds: the financial or invitational. scholarships, and membership in the Honors Program of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Both provide students of marked ability with op- portunities for intellectual achievement of the highest distinction. The Summerfield and Watkins Scholarships represent the highest aca- demic honor the University can offer a Kansas high school graduate. This year seventy-eight men received the Summerfield Scholarship, and thirty- nine women, the Elizabeth M. Watkins Scholarship. The other scholarships include the University of Kansas Honor Scholarship (101), the Greater University Fund Scholarship (59), the Emily V. Berger Scholarship for women (29), the Jennie M. Donnelly Scholarship for graduates of Lawrence High School (17 ), the U. G. Mitchell Scholarship in Mathematics (27), and the Edwin Emery Slosson Scholarship in Science ( 16). Invitations to participate in the College Honors Program are extended to students who reach the final selection test for the Summerfield, Watkins, and National Merit Scholarship competitions, and who have indicated their intention to study in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The program began in 1955 with thirty-one freshmen, and, using increasingly rigorous criteria for selection, it has grown to 192 in 1966. According to Honors Pro- gram Director Aldon Bell, several students come to KU specifically because of the program ' s benefits. —Diane Childers