University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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RADIO ,4„-ianager. s and assist.: Most of the over Mount Oread have been considerably agitated in cent years as the comparatively modern phenomenon of radio has taken root in educational soil. Through the facilities of four ferent organizations at the University each one designed for a specific purpose students may get profession- al radio training, they may learn as they earn, or they can simply indulge that whim to be on the air. The latest corner to campus radio is KDGU, a wired wireless station with studios in the Journalism building. KDGU has been in operation ftfur hours a day Monday through Friday since September 14. It is a student laborat, y station, connected by a leased t- hone wire to its area of recepti , orbin an North College halls These two h were chosen becau e they housed :- most students could be re h from a sing transmit ' bt pl s call for evefltual expansion. The deral„eOmmunic ons C ha o control ov a statio if the no perceptib radio , ave than 300 feet from the radiating edium. So the red wireless, g•ned by FC has more fr ' edom for enta ' on. KDGU is t result of sever year of y members of he ,:j- School i Journalist . A professional partment of speech and drama nd ,thee ro degree of Bachelor in radio can ► w be obtained by those by the of Jour- ion. Don of speech program. e training of- fered by KDGU ' s set p will develop initiative, because students actually manage and opera the station and by El L EEN FOLEY can -xperiment wit gramming while can receive tn. ' side by sel st Lyn manager app6intecr departure i heads are ro, led course 176, which pro- v des hat in an ad- : or anag ial capacity at the on get credi . corresponding to the mount of wor done. hese stude is include David Hicks, Carolyn West, Patricia Mitchell, Jo Anna March, college seniors; Eileen Foley, journalism senior, and Joan Mc- Clure, college junior. Other staff members are Ed and Ward Ferguson, college seniors; Glen Yancey, business juni Russell . Wigglesworth-rpirnalism junior, and Jim Doherty, engineering sophomore. Gene Reynolds, instructor in speech, is faculty adviser. During the week preceding the tion opening, KDGU ' s staff members spent most of their time in the studios, Rooms 217 and 220 Journalism. KDGU became their home away from and, Mary Kin gra strut he curriculum administe illiam Allen White Sch alism and Public Inform Dixon, associate ,professo and drams-directs the n Prof. Dixon believes o- also ommercial me. KDGU staff members and advisers discuss policy. Pictured: Pat Mitchell, Dave Hicks, Eileen Foley, Joan McClure, Lynn Osborn, Mary Kinnane, Don Dixon, Caroline West, Russell Wigglesworth. 19

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Punjab, he is now in his second year at KU and works toward a doctorate degree in economics. As a veteran for- eign student he hands on the torch of foreign student tradition to the new foreign students this year. from Africa . • • And 7000 miles across the Atlantic lies the Diamond City of Kimberley in Cape Province, South Africa. This is Joyce De Vos ' home town. A grad- uate of Rhodes University College and the University of Capetown, she gave up her position with the South African Iron and Steel Company in order to continue her studies in per- sonnel welfare. Osamu Kametsuki crossed the Pa- cific on the Japanese liner Hikawa- the only Japanese liner at present in commission. Son of a Buddhist priest, he is a graduate of Tokyo University, where his studies were interrupted during the war when he was drafted as an officer into the Japanese Navy. When he returns home he will teach at Shimane University. Richard Walters flew from his home in Auckland, New Zealand, to San Francisco in 36 hours. Educated at the University of Bristol and Oxford in England, he has since been studying at the University of Auckland and will return there after the completion of his studies in psychology at KU. At Lima, capital of Peru, in South America, Ricardo Fernandez studied at the Escuela Nacional de Ingenieros. An engineer in the International Pe- troleum Company, he pays his second visit to the United States in order to study engineering at KU. Sirpa Tomari graduated with a di- ploma in economics at the Swedish University at Turku the oldest city in Finland. She has attended the Uni- versity of the Sorbonne in Paris, stayed in England, worked in a silver and china shop in Sweden and as a secre- tary for the XV Olympiad Committee in Helsinki. She left her position at the French consulate in Turku to come to KU. refugee Karel Cibulka was born in Czecho- slovakia and graduated from the Ma- saryk University, Brno. He escaped from the Communist regime and has lived in Sweden, Germany, France, and Switzerland. Fluent in five lan- guages, he works for an advanced de- gree in social science. And there are many other stories which are untold from China, India, the Russian-zone of Austria, and all other parts of the world. But my space is limited. However, a final thought. The price of learning is a high price. Raden Ismaoen from Central Java, In- donesia, has left behind him a wife and eight children the youngest was born on the day he left. He has not yet seen her. But the price is not too high when we listen to Ryoji Kumagawa ' s story. From 10 miles outside the city of Hiroshima he witnessed the onslaught of the atom bomb. Surely this is a sufficient reminder to every student that the advance of international co- operation and understanding must be the study of each one of us. Ryoji witnessed a sight which must be witnessed no more. IT ' S LIKE RUGBY—but not quite, Wayne Replogle, freshman gridiron coach, explains to a group of foreign students learning about the American game of football.

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STATION BREAK at KDGU is given by Alan Young, while another announcer, Paul Gellens, stands by at the table. home. They worked on programming, continuity, news, traffic, engineering, advertising, and still they typed on— and on—and on. Their unspoken mot- to was a carbon for everyone. Finally, at the first formal meet- ing, Prof. Dixon wisely suggested that formats be established—and that some of the endless typing be eliminated by standard station breaks and fewer script copies. Little by little problems were being solved and work was becoming easier. When classes in continuity writing and radio news and special events were able to submit scripts as part of their laboratory activity, the show was well on the road. Later, radio speaking, acting, and dramatic script writing classes were scheduled to present live broadcasts. Until then, more than 5,000 records from the Lang-Worth transcription service formed the background of the station ' s programming. Popular music is featured, since it is believed the stu- dent audience prefers that type of en- tertainment. Many visitors to the studio remark that it is larger and better equipped than many full-time commercial sta- tions. The KDGU headquarters in- clude two studios, an announcer ' s booth, a large control room, and the general office room. Radio students are proud to show guests through after all, look what they have !—and it ' s all theirs. ancestor: KFKU But the grand-daddy of radio at KU is the University ' s educational sta- tion KFKU with studios in the elec- trical engineering building behind Marvin hall. KFKU was established in 1942 as an experimental station for electrical engineers. Then when the University realized radio ' s importance in modern communications, KFKU and Lawrence station WREN agreed to share air time. Previously on the air only nine months, this year marked the begin- ning of a full year of AM broadcasts on KFKU one hour a day. KANU-FM, which operates from 1:45 to 9:15 p. m. Sunday through Friday, was inaugurated Sept. 15, RADIO Players tape a show: Gene Reynolds, Max Zim- rnerman, Terry Strong, Dave Hicks, and Geoffery Weston vocally emote for the great unseen audience. 20