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Jansen, UK English Professor
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Dr. William II. Jansen. assistant professor of English and the nar-

rator of this year's Founders Day program which will be at 8:15 p.m.

Thursday in Memorial Coliseum, decided to specialize In folklore while
he was in graduate school at thetnlrersity of Indiana.
"I thought forbore was nothing unusual until I discovered In graduate school that men devote their entire lives to the study of it.
"My grandparents, who came to America directlv from Ireland.
reared me. My grandfather told me Irish legends from as early as I
can remember. Folklore was a perfectly natural thing for me," Dr.

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Addition to the Founders Day
program set for 8:15 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Coliseum will
include guitar accompaniment
throughout the reading of the dramatic narrative relating the history of folk music in Kentucky.
Lucien Rouse, sophomore in the
College of Commerce, will provide
the background accompaniment
behind Dr. William II. Jansen, I'K
folklorist, as he reads the narrative.

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Founders Day

Honored at the Founders Day
program, highlighting the 90th
birthday of the University, will be
two UK alumni who have achieved
outstanding success in the field of
folk music.
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They are Miss Jean Ritchie mow
Mrs. George Pickow) and Tom
Scott.
Participating in the program
Thursday night will be the Uni
versity Symphony Orchestra; a
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male Quartette from thp Mnctc n
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gradual that at-ntime did he kick or struggle.
Charles Sims. Sally Hoffman, and
This nesv oxygen equipment will be constructed to allow veterinar- - r Phyllis Jenness, all music majors;
ians to carfy the machines in their automobiles. It can also be used the University Choristers; and Tau
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DR. WILLIAM JANSEN

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The Speech Department sent tw
debate teams to the A.elea Drb.
tournament at Spring Hill Collect
neur Mobile. Ala . Thursday.
Members who participated in tho
debate were Jane Snyder and F.lls-s- a
May, affirmative; Lester Wise;
and Mike (lanji. negative.
This fear the debute teams hnvo
won four out of five tournament
which include the Tau Kapp.i
Alpha Regional at Cincinnati. O;
Morris Harvey tournament at
Charleston. W. Va ; Kentucky
tournament at A.sbury .College,
Wilmore. Ky.: and the Ohio stalo
tournament at Columbus, o.
The Maid ive Islands are in the
The question debated was:
Indian Ocean.
that the I'nited States'
Fernando Magellan, rortumiese should extend diplomatic recogninavigator, discovered the Philip- tion to the Communist government
of China."
pines on March 16. 1521.
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countries.
Before coming to UK in 1949 he taught for 12 vears at the University of Indiana.
This year's Founders Day program, written and narrated by Dr.
Jansen. will place Kentucky in relation to American folk music.
Kentucky is a stronghold of British folklore.. The ancestry of eastern Kentuckians is nearly pure Anglo-SaxoBecause of the rugged
geography, very few immigrants settled in the mountains after the
original pioneers. wh6 were overwhelmingly English, crossed through
Cumberland Gap.
The music scale used in the mountains is based on stringed instruments rather than the piano. Kentucky is the last place in the western
world that this type of scale can be heard.
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The selections to be presented at the program are primarily ballads
or white spirituals. The theme of this year's Founders Dav will salute
two University graduates, Tom Scott and Jean Ritchie. Both Scott and
Miss Ritchie are leaders in the field of folk music.
A UK commerce student and ballad singer, Lucien Rouse, is a late
addition to the program. Rouse will play background music on a guitar
during Dr. Jansen's narration.
Five Kentuckians who are tlosely connected with local folk musle
will be guests at the program. They include Buel Kazee, the first Kentucky folk singer to receive national recognition; composers John Jacob
Niles and Lewis Henry Horton, who is now connected with Transylvania
College; Pleaz Mobley, ballad singer from Manchester; and John Lair,
originator of the Renfro Valley programs. Many of Kazee's and Mob-ley- 's
recordings are In the Library of Congress.

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Dr. Jansen has traveled in the Near East, Italy. France. Canada,
and the United States doing research on his specialty. He taught at
the National University in Istanbul, Turkey, from 1951 to 1953. He was
on a Fulbright fellowship the first year and was sponsored by the State
department his last year in Turkey.
He was with the Army intelligence during; World War II as a lecturer on the Balkans. He is an expert on Balkan folklore. Dr. Jansen
wrote the Army textbooks dealing with the sociology of the Balkan

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erary tnagartne. The bct poem
and the best proe selection submitted to the magafine will win
the awards.
Manuscripts for the spring Issue of Stylus mut be turned In
to the English office, second
floor. McVey Hall, by .March 10.
' Additional Stylus awards of $25
and $15 will be given to
contributors.
The editorial staff will meet
on the second floor of the Journalism Ituilding at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Jacqueline Avcrill Is edltor-ln-chieand Dr. John Cutler Is
faculty advisor.

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childhood stri ped in the rich lutkijiouud of Irish Uvu
stimulated an UK English professor to make tin- study of folklore, his
work.

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UK Debaters

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Stylus To Awanl
Two 82.1 Prizrs

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newspaper:
"Dear Sir, I sec by the paper that Touhy's Toggery is going to
give a complete wardrobe to the student picked as the best dressed

man on campus. What a ridiculous idea!
"Obviously, to be the best dressed man on campus, you must first
have a lot of clothes. And if you have a lot of clothes, what do you
need with another wardrobe?
"Touhy's Toggery should give a new wardrobe to the u oi b t dressed
Wan on campus. Me, for instance. I am an eyesore. There Isn't a crow
in town that will come near me. Three times this month the Salvation
Army salvage truck has picked me up. Knuirc has cancelled my
subscription.
"I submit that a vote for nie is a vote for reason, a vote for equity,
in fhort, a vote for the American way."
With a flourish, I signed the letter and sent it Off, somehow feeling
certain that very soon I would, be wearing a complete new wardrobe.
And I was right because two weeka later 1 was drafted.
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