Old Bach, Young Blonde Make Concert Enjoyable
Hj JIM HAMPTON

the opening pieces by Bach,

close second.

Men-

delssohn and Brahms, was rather
Memorial Hall rcverbrated Sun- lacklustre.
day afternoon as the University
It consisted mainly of flashes of
Symphonic Band rippled, thund- melodic brilliance Interspersed
ered and occasionally wandered a among periods during which the
bit aimlessly through a repertoire band played as If marching hip-deranging from Bach to Debussy.
In molasses.
A sparse audience of perhaps 200
The program opened with Bach's
persons heard Conductor Bernard "Prelude and Fugue In D minor,"
Fitzgerald, head cf the Department a composition rich with orchestral
of Music, lead his bandsmen contrasts. The woodwinds' softer
through a program that left me passages were caught up and amwith two Impressions:
plified in a majestic crescendo by
1. The band played and Fitzthe brass.
gerald conducted with precision,
This was followed by Mendelsfreling and a carefully controlled sohn's "Overture for Band," which
blend and balance that was per- I though was the highlight of the
fect. 2. The program itself, after concert, with the Bach running a
Editor-in-Chi-

The overture began with a
pastoral theme,
in
the horns, and progressed into a
galloping fortissimo that was piquant and entertaining. It built up,
with long runs by the woodwinds
and Increased gusto in the brass,
to its blazing finish with a flourish
of trumpets.
My notes on the rest of the program were as follows:
"Two Chorale Preludes": Brahms.
First one called "A Lovely Rose
Is Blooming." Pastoral. Excellent
woodwinds, horns.
Pretty blonde, age 5, sitting in
front of me. With mother. Turned
to look at my notebook. Frowned

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trumpets.
Liked
winds,
both.
Finale ends with flourish of brass,
much pageantry In tone. Decided it
was symphony's only salvation.
Stuck out tongue at little girl.
She turned , around, whispered
something to mother.
Followed by Dvorak's "Legend."
Band sounds good, but don't care
for composition. Next Is "La Bouby Rossini-Respigh- i.
tique Fantasque,"
passages excelAllegro
lent, but too much chaff between
nibbles of wheat. Little girl, mother
turn to me, glowering. I smile
innocently. They a bit piqued.
Concert concludes with Debussy's "Petite Suite," In four parts.
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quizzically. I smiled. She wrinkled
nose at me.
Next prelude called "O God,
Thou Holy God." Fluid, rather
somnolent melody. Ending was
booming
yet controlled. Music
serene, yet somehow powerful and
appealing. Little girl stares at

notebook again. I blush, think:
"Next time will stick out tongue
at her."
Now playing Fauchet's "Symphony In B flat."
Two parts,
scherzo and finale. Scherzo lyrical,
with rather mysterious melody in
lower brass. Little girl staring
again.
Finale begins. Spirited, vigorous,
followed by lovely melody in wood

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Grades

Mid-Ter- m

Available April
grades will be
available Wednesday. April 1. the
Registrar's Office said yesterday.
Dr. Charles Elton, I'K registrar
and dean of admissions, asked
desiring
students
grades to report to their academic
advisers, (trades will not be sent
to the students or their parents,
he said.
Mid-semest-

The deadline" for UK instructors
to submit
grades is
March 25.
The process works like this:
IBM cards were sent to each
I K instructor for each student in
his class. The teacher gives the
grade and returns the cards to
the registrar. The grades are then
compiled, classified and returned

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Kernel Gets $600
In Contest Awards
totaling

Awards

for the Army.

$600

Kernel's two first places in a

pre-Christm-

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national highway safety contest were presented Friday.
Thomas I. Ball, Loubville insurance agent for Lumbermen's
Mutual Casualty Co., Chicago, contest sponsors, presented checks for
'i00 and $1C0 to Jim Hampton,
f.
Kernel
The $500 award was the paper's
first-plac- e
entry in the
.division. Andy Epperson,
former Kernel chief news editor,
also won $1C0 for the best feature article in the contest. Hampton accepted the check for Epperson, who
recently entered the
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Don Sturgill, state commissioner
of public safety, was also present

at the informal Journalism

Build-

ing ceremonies. Speaking of the
Kernel's showing in the contest, he
said: "It is good to jee a newspaper
devoted to something as important
as the campaign for safety.
"The newspaper is the strongest
agent in solving the problem of
traffic accidents," Sturgill said,
"because it brings the information
into more focus and reality."
The safety commissioner then
presented a commission as an honorary colonel in the Kentucky
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Mystery Handbills

Here is one of the handbills which appeared on campus Sunday
night. A Kernel reporter brought one of the anti-liqusheets In
yesterday and a reproduction was made. University officials in
the SUB say the organization mentioned n the handbill is not
a recognized campus organization.
or

The $500 Smile

Jim Hampton holds a $"00 check and a commission as an honorary
finish in a nation-widcolonel in the Kentucky State Police, results of the paper's
safety contest. At left is Thomas I. Kail, insurance executive representing the contest sponsors, who presented the (heck. Don Sturgill, right, state puhlic safety commissioner, present
ed the colonels' commissions to Hampton and Andy Epperson, former chief news editor.
prize.
Epperson won an additional $100 feature-writinIUlilor-in-Chi- ef

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Mystery Handbills

Appear On Campus
The handbills found on campus
early yesterday morning were evidently inspired by a Kernel editorial, "Lesh Have
which
appeared in last week's Thursday
edition.
The tongue-in-chee- k
editorial
pointed out that Kentucky law requires the presidents of every
academy, college and university to
"have presented for a period of 30
minutes to the entire student body
in assembly, at least on two occasions each term or semester . . .
the scientific, social and moral aspects of alcoholic beverages, stimulants and narcotics."
Printed by a group callimj themselves the "Carrie Nation Chapter,
Students for the Abolition of
Alcohol," the handbills demanded
temperance lectures and called on

the University to "obey the law."
The SUB Program Director's Office reported that such a group is
not included on its list of campus organizations.
Assistant
Dean of Men John
said yesterday he had
Proffitt
heard rumors in the men's dormitories last week that such a "prohibitionist" movement might be
underway.
However, he added that he knew
nothing either about the handbills
or the group
which had them
printed.
A Kernel reporter noticed the
handbills as he returned to his
night and
home late
Sunday
brought one of them to the Kernel
office yesterday so that an engraving could be made of it. He
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Jim Heil Is Elected
New IFC President

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Jim Heil, Lambda Chi Alpha,
been elected Interfraternity Council president for 1959-6Heil, a Junior from Mt. Healthy,
Ohio, has served as treasurer of
the Southeastern IFC. He is presently supervising plans . for the
group's convention to be held here
on April 17 and 18.
Other officers elected last week
are Phil Austin, Sigma Nu, vice
president ; Jerry Shaikun. ZBT,
secretary and Charles Schlmpeler
Sigma Phi Kpsllon, treasurer..
IFC announced plans for an installation banquet on April 6. At
that time the new officers will
take over.
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to the student's adviser.
Dr. Elton said the purpose of
grades is to help the
will be
held
will me held
campus-wid- e
next fall for the 1960
spring semester.
grades are almost
mandatory for
Dr. Elton said.
He said several instructors have
already submitted grades to the
registrar and he expected University instructors to meet the deadline.
may not get their
Students
grades through the registrar, he
said, but can only receive them
through their student advisers.
Grades would be received quicker
if the student would not go to the
registrar for grades, he added.
Dr. Elton said the giving of
grades also would help
the student to realistically evaluate
his academic status.
"Students are very unrealistic,"
he safd, "especially about their
grades."
Many instructors, he pointed out,
question the importance of
grades. Many teachers do
not give enough material in the
first half of the semester to represent what a student would finally
receive, he explained.
mid-semest-

WE DEMAND COUNSEL
ON THE EVILS Or DRINK

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Schimpeler, the new treasurer,
presented the final report1 of the
IFC rush committee at last Tuesday's meeting. The rush committee proposed that rush be open a
few days before Welcome Week.
Under one plan presented by
Schimpeler, rushees could come to
school a few days early and take
part in an "early rush" program.
Another rush period would begin,
after classes had begun.
IFC has not adopted a final ruh
program for next fall, but Schimpeler presented several variations,
one of which will probably be
adopted.

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