Niles Program Called 'Highly Interesting'
By WAYNE SMITH

John Jacob Niles, performer, collector, and composer
ef American folk music, gave a highly interesting and
entertaining program Monday afternoon to begin the
SUB Fine Arts Festival.
The personable Dr. Niles presented a program of both
lecture and song to illustrate the beauty and value of
folk music. His comments preceding each ballad or folksong gave the many listeners some insight into the background r.d history of the music.
Ir. Niles possesses a unique voice for a performing
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artist. The male alto voice in which he sings Ms folk
music Is at first distracting, but then its quality gives
the music a delightful variety of sounds.
Truly a master performer. Dr. Niles punctuated his
lecture with both humor and personal experiences.
His comment that there is "too bloomin" much lecturing in the classroom was well accepted by the primarily
student audience. He also Jokingly advocated that professors should compose a few sonnets to teach the class
lesson.
Dr. Niles truly brought out the serious parts of the

folk music as well as the more frequent .humorous portions.
After the close of the concert, the applause was so
great that pr. Niles had to return to the platform and
play an encore.
Included" in the performance were such familiar folk
songs and ballads as "Go 'Way From My Window," "I'm
Coin' Away," and "The Farmer's Cursed Wife."
Considered one of the country's foremost authorities
on American folk music, Dr. Niles, through his performances all over the rountry, has done a great deal to
promote folk music and its appreciation.

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No. 90

Stars In The Ntehf
To Be Held Toni ght
The annual Stars in the Nizht
program, I'ponsoied by the Women's Administrative Council, will
be held in Memorial Hall at 7:30
o'clock tonight.
The puipoe of the program U
to recovniire UK women who are
receiving awards or are being tapped for honoraries, according to
Sharon Hall, adviser to the Women's Administrative Council.
Taking part In the honor program are 23 organizations.
Kay Evan, chairman of the
Stars in the Night Program Planning Committee, will serve as
master of ceremonies.
Judy Pfnnebaker, acting president of Theta Sigma Phi, will present an award to the outstanding
freshman woman in Journalism.
The Cornell Award, sponsored by
Phi I'psilon Omicron, will be pre- -

scntcd by Wilma Rasham, presi- dent of the organization.
Mrs. Leslie Baker, president of
the alumni association of Pi Beta
Phi, will present the Freshman
Woman Award.
The YWCA is sponsoring two
awards, one to an outstanding
freshman and one to an outstanding upperclassman. Both will be
announced by Jane Brown, a member of the YWCA.
Alpha Xi Delta will sponsor the
Creative Arts Award, to be presented by June Allen Byers, president of the group.
Jane Connell, president of Chi
Omega, will announce the Peggy
S. Henry Award, sponsored by Chi
Omega.
The Alfred Zembrod Award
sponsored by the Department of
Modern Foreign Languages, will

Trimester Plan For UK

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be given by Dr. Hobart

Ryland,
professor of romance languages.
The Fhl Delta Kappa Award
will be announced by Dr. William
McCubin, associate professor of
physical education.
Margaret Gaddie, president of
Zeta Tau Alpha, will present the
Zeta Tau Alpha Book Award.
Three awards, service, best
and professional, will be
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all-arou-

UK Coed

Receives

Scholarship
Joan McGee, a graduate student from Lexington, was recently
awarded a Fulbright Scholarship
to study musicology at the Uni-

versity of Vienna in Austria.
Miss McGee was selected by the
Board of Foreign Scholarships
whose members are appointed by
the President.
In addition to shortening the
The students eligible for grants
time needed to attain a degree, the are recommended by the campus
plan would allow students to re- Fulbright committees and by the
main out of school and work dur- Institute of International Educaing any of the trimesters.
tion.
At yesterday's meeting, which
During the 1960-6- 1
academic
opened the study of the plan, Ker- year, 900 grants for graduate study
nel Editor Bill Neikirk and Mana- abroad are being awarded under
ging Editor Bob Anderson brought the International Educational Exup some points which prompted change program of the State Dethe Kernel editorial and presented partment.
their own views on the plan.
Foreign currencies or credits
The committee plans to get the owed to or owned by the U.S.
opinions of faculty members and Treasury are used to finance the
students and information from exchange students.
other schools which have considered the trimester plan before makn
una mi iima mm. im am
i(twf. ,
ing any recommendations to Dr.

Under Consideration

The Committee on Schedules of
the Univcsity Faculty yesterday
bt'Kan studying the possibilities of
instituting a trimester plan here.
Meeting at the request of UK
President Frank G. Dickey, the
committe will present its recommendations on the plan to the
president by May 15.
Dr. Morris Scherago, committee
chairman, read a letter from Dr.
Dickey in which the president cited
an editorial in the Feb. 21 Kernel
railing lor consideration of a trimester plan for I'K.
The tditorial pointed out that
students could complete their college wort in two years and seven
Dickey.
months.

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Tau Sigma Shoiv
To Be April
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Folk Singer

John Jacob Niles, folk and ballad singer, played and sang various
folk songs at the first program in the Fine Arts Festival Monday.
He also explained the background of the songs.

SU Board Selects
Five New Members

The Student Union Board chose
five of 10 students to serve on the
1960-6- 1
board Monday night.
Members named for next year
are Kathy Songster, Elizabeth-towMyra Tobin. Harned; Elsie
Barr, Lexington; Dave Stewart,
g.
Louisville; and, Bill Crain,

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Miss Songster, Miss Tobin, and
Crain are sophomores; Stewart is
a graduate student, and Miss Barr
is a freshman.
The other five members of next
year's board will be elected from
10 nominees
in a campus wide
election on Friday, April 1. Voting
will take place at the SUB ticket
booth from 9 a.m. -- 5 p.m.
Nominees are Sharon Chenault,
sophomore, Fern Creek; Steve
Clarke, Junior, Maysville; Linda
Coffman, sophomore, Frankfort;
Dave Graham, sophomore, Belle-vuCaroleena Hernandez, sophomore, Lexington.
Tat Jarvis, r junior, Frankfort;
Barbara Johnson, freshman, Ashland; Kris Ramsey, junior. Pike-villSandra Tattershall, sopho
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more, Ft. Mitchell; and Larry
Westerfield, freshman, Hartford.
Miss Chenault's activities include the varsity debate team, Alpha Gamma
Delta
altruistic
chairman, and SUB Topics Committee. Clarke is pledge trainer of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon and served
on the SUB Personnel and Recreation Committees.
Miss Coffman served on the
SUB Personnel Committee and Is
AGD activities chairman. Graham
is assistant treasurer of Phi Delta
Theta and a member of the SUB
Social Committee.
Miss Hernandez served as SUB
publicity chairman this year and
as editor of the senior section of
the 1960 Kentuckian. Miss Jarvis
served on the P.VB Topics Committee and is a member of the
English Club, Social Work Club,
AGD sorority, and the YWCA.
Miss Johnson served on the SUB
Social Committee and is 'a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority,
Wesleyan Foundation and SuKy.
Miss Ramsey is Alpha Xi Delta
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iivj blues and jazz; My Sin. with
girls lost in
its air of small-tow- n
the big city; and the musty scent
of Sortie!ene, calling upon the

the annual spring eonteit of
tlif University inotli'rn dance
organization, will he presented powers of witchcraft.
The allure of Intimate seeks the
in the lCutlul
at S p.m. April
privacy of new love; the rhythmic
Avenue Ihiiltling.
beat of Bay Hum leaves an exotic

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The piot; ram will be based upon
interpretative depictions of intriguing pci funics and the various
expressions of love.
Perfumes to be depicted include
Woodhue, with a fragrance insight -

Veterans' Cheeks
Signing dates for veterans'
checks are April 1, 2, and 4. Veterans signing after these dites
will ret rive their checks late.

aroma; and the freedom and

fresh-

ness of spring escape from April
Showers.
The dancers will express the
moods and feelings of original love
as found in the Creation in the
lives of Adam and Eve, the hurt
and disappointment of cruel l)ve,
and the comfort of the greatest
love in the crucifixion of Christ
and the grief of Mary.
Narcbsiin, self love, will ihow
the involvement of a person in
himself even in a crowd. Love of
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LKI) Slccrin Committee
Till year's Little Kentucky Derby Steering Committee members are, first row, from left, Billy Joe
Moore, Sidney Crouch, Cynthia lteadell, Dick Warren, and Dee Mills. Second row, from left, Wayne
Smith, Linda Cotton, Sue Harney, and Jim Stuckert. Third, row, from left, Jim Daniels, Norman
Harned, and Suau King.

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