University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Page 14 Football, American food, and root beer amazed Rudi Hofman, Gisela Poch, and Ekke- hard Wicher (left to right), three German ex- change students. Ekkehard, in fact, drank root beer for the first time while he was in Harlem. It tasted like toothpaste, he commented, but I like it. New York proved so fascinating that a ten-minute stroll turned into a three hour tour from 124th Street to 41st. This young architect from Wiesbaden thinks Kansas is much nicer than New York, although he ' d heard that no grass grows in the state, only corn . Both eating and preparing American food interests Gisela Poch, who, living at Miller Hall, takes her turn at cooking and menu planning. Pretty and vivacious, this English major from Dusseldorf enjoys the university advantage of close con- tacts with other students. Rudi Hof- man (left) was impressed by the practical education in journalism afforded by a school newspaper in comparison to the more classical emphasis in Europe. Football games, the band, cheerleaders, and the spirit of the team, were hard to un- derstand at first, but Rudi hasn ' t missed a game.

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' Unita Bradshaw may not be a bookworm, but she ' s all booked up for male attention in her conservative checked wool jumper and wide velvet belt. Bob Shyne is the admir- ing male in a casual tweed sport jacket. College wouldn ' t be college without the sweater and skirt, but 1950 means a change even in this. The password is neat as exemplified by Pal Edson and Bob Sham (right),

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Page 15 Dang The Binh, one of the University ' s most interesting overseas students, comes to Kansas from Hanoi, Indo-China. This distinguished-look- ing young lawyer spent his first year in the U. S. studying at Yale University in Connecticut. Dang, who is working toward a master ' s degree in eco- nomics, was surprised to find such well-read people here in the Middle West. He had heard that Kansas grew nothing but wheat and staunch isolationists. As a student of economics, Binh was also surprised to find that a midwestern univer- sity should use as fine a text as Dr. Ise ' s Econ. This young citizen of the Viet-Nam Republic ob- served that when he had spent two weeks in this country, he knew all about the United States. In one month, he knew a little less; and now that he has been here a year, he knows nothing. Dang said that he was amazed by the American custom of sending greeting cards. Each occasion seems to have its individual card; it all was so strange to me, he said. Binh will tell you that he was probably most amazed by t he American custom of driving autos just for the fun of it. Of course, he adds, you have such fine cars, it must be fun. Amazed at the close contact between the stu- dents and teachers at the University, (lark-haired Ilse Hofbauer related that in Austria the dean must be addressed as Your Respectability, the Chancellor as Your Magnificence. You never get to see them, she said. They are too high. The twenty-year-old Viennese added that in Austria when the professor enters the lecture room, the students stamp their feet; and if they like his lecture, they increase the tempo of this European applause. A journalism and French major, Ilse worked at the Paris fashion show this summer. She would like to be a professional re- porter and has already had articles published in France. She likes the informality of life at K. U., and found the campus very beautiful Kansas is supposed to be flat, she laughed, but I like it very much.