1963_03 The Daily Collegian March 1963

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Un-^S&teTCuhiire Boom' Is In Infant Stage
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S»tlr*i«l reporter.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—There
u,. 1,352 symphony orchestras In
lM United Slates, And last year
; ..in' persons listened to concerts
[bat attended All the baseball
rtoj-s played In the major and
olnor leagues.
That I* the favorite statistic
ind statement or persons who
proclaim American has come of
.-,. in the arts and Is enjoying a
boom In culture that Is only In
infancy. The figures bear them
out. The number of books pub-
li-!-."l In the country In 1962 ex¬
ceeded by 3.TJD0 those orthe pre¬
vious !"■'••*; Httle theaters have
become almost as common an the
county courthouse: Amerlcann
pow buy Almost 1600 million
worth of musical Instruments and
jhwi music a year.
Sociologists use the phrase "cul¬
tural explosion" 10 describe what
i, happening, but actually It was
more gradual than violent. Most
Mperts think American!
heard themselves denounced for
rears   as   cultural   morons,   now
have shaken off Ihelr inferiority
complex.
Take A Ue-ulnj*-
- In the procesa they took a bad
-*«■-.■;. H. U Mencken made a
reputation and considerable mon¬
ey by clouting Americans on the
head once a month with a -j,...
*ine called The American Mer¬
cury: "The general average of
intelligence, of knowledge of
competence, ot --elf respect . . . |i
so low that any man who knows
his trade, does not [ear ghosts
and has read 50 good
■lands out as brilliantly as
on the head."
Europeans jeered at the Ameri¬
can aavagea when Henry .Tames.
one or this nation's best novel-
lais. decided his native climate
was unsuitable to creative effort
and went to London and took out
British cltlsensblp. British authors
were held In such high esteem
by the brow-beaten Americans
that Charles Dickens made a kill¬
ing on a lecture tour here And
went home lo tell jokes about
the people who paid to hear him.
Oscar Wilde. landing In New
York to reap some lecture money
from the yokels, was asked by
the customs inspector if he had
anything to declare. "Nothing but
my genius." Wilde replied And'
Americans Accepted without ques¬
tion his own estimate of himself.
They spent their money freely to
hear him talk while the poetry
or Walt Whitman and the novels
or James Fenlmore Cooper went
largely unread and almost unsold.
Become Discou raged
Over the years American ityrk-
era In the arts became discour¬
aged and a beller grew up that
they would be better ott It they
acted like foreigners. Miss Lucy
Hlckenlooper, a talented pianist
In Texas, waa going nowhere with
Recommends Military Service For Coeds
Retired Officer To Teacher
To Student-No Problern'
Ity NORSM WALLACE
Students who rear that a hitch
i the armed force* will Interfere
[with   their   edu<
take
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City Posts
Attract 4
FSC Grads
Four persons connected with
the college are seeking seats on
two government agencies In
Fresno.
Wallace D. Henderson, associ¬
ate professor of political science,
and Paul G. Wasemiller, a for¬
mer FSC atudent. are seeking re¬
election to the Fresno City
Council.
Dr. Ann Leavenworth, wife of
Assistant Professor Russell E.
Leavenworth, and Robert E. Cree-
ils, a member of the Advisory
Hoard, are running for the Fres¬
no Unified School Diatrlct Board
of Education.
Mrs. Leavenworth, who re¬
ceived her doctorate at the Uni¬
versity of Colorado, was a teacher
of American history and political
science .at Hanover College and
Trinity University ln Texas. In
1960 she was Gov. Edmund O.
Brown's appointee to President
Dwlght Elsenhower's While House
Conference on Children and
Touth. She served as chairman
of ihe Elementary Schools Study
Committee for the Fresno Cltl-
hob Committee on   Education.
She has three children.
Greolla, a 1939 graduate, re¬
ceived the first outstanding
alumni association award In 1953.
Be was president of the alumni
association In 1948 and of the
Bulldog Association from 195*
to 1958.
Married to a former FSC coed,
he Is the father of two children.
He Is a partner In a Fresno insur¬
ance firm. '
officer now l-.ji.l-
e as student anil
such    fears    un*
double
teacher find
grounded.
In fact. Joseph Safer, who
tired with the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel After 27 years experience
In the United Slates Army Artil-
U-ry. declared, "It would do most
r>r the younger students good lo
he in any one of the services.''
Safer divides his academic tine
between Fresno Slate Coilep-c.
where he Is working toward a
master's degree in business ad*
mloUt ration, and Fresno City
College, where he Is leachlnt; five
classes in business machine data
processing, statistics and business
mathematics.
He suggested that coeds might, who remembered me rrom Egypt."
benerit rrom military training i Safer related. "He told mo all
too. "All the services have pro- the official photographs of the
grams for women, ami some are \ Third Royal had been destroyed.
quite   interesting,
bound
he  said
"Of course, it  depends a great
.deal on the Individual, but many
Safer
who   have   been   in   the
think it has helped them.'
amended.
Makes History
One accidental result of Baler's
military experience is that pic¬
tures he took while Attached as
an observer tn the Third Royal
Horse Artillery in Egypt during
part of the second World War
An now tho official record of
thai unit's role in (he Arrlcan
campaign,
"Alter the
Ish   ofllcer   a
so  I  gave them  mine."
Travel-*   World
While in the army Safer was
stationed In many parts of the
United States, including Alaska.
He also served In Japan, Korea.
Europe and Africa, collecting
what he describes as "only tho
usual decorations you accumulate
after a lot of years In the service."
He received a BA degree from
the University of Florida. He
plans lo receive on MA In June
and  wilt  continue  lo  teach.
Safer Is married  and  has two
daughters.     One.    Joanne,     is    a
I sophomore English major al  FSC
Ii.it-; and   a   member  of   Kappa   Alpha
Fort   Sill,   Okln.,: Theta sorority.
Dusty Shoes \
Sidewalk Improvements Must Wait
Education Group
Elects Lester Roth
Dr. Lester J. Roth, an assocl-
Bte professor of social science
ud education, haa been elected
President of the Phi Delta Kappa
Delta Field chapter for 1963-St
replacing   Stewart   Brown   of
*r. Roth serrc-d as vice presi-
-ent for programs during lhe
»st year. Dr. jAmes Fee. nn as¬
sistant professor of education. Is
the new vice president for com¬
missions for the field chapter of
the national professional ed uca-
Uon fraternity for men. Tho out¬
going president. Brown. Is a gen¬
eral   supervisor   in   the    Fresno
County   Schools   Office.
Cement sidewalks and street
lights are still ln the distant fu¬
ture for students who make the
dally trek back and forth from
the new Greek row to the college.
Further improvements to thi
newly-tald oiled path along Dar-
stow Avenue between MHIbrook
and Cedar Avenues will be de¬
layed until funds are available,
according to Executive Dean Orrln
B.  Wardle.
"The oil on the path and the
footbridge across the Irrigation
dltjh were put In by the college
maintenance department in
ognltlon of the problem faced by
the   Greeks."   Dean   Wardle
"However, money for side¬
walks, curbs and street lights
must be obtained from the state
general fund, and that might
take a while."
The path crosses part of 60
acres of college-owned land re¬
served for future expansion or
the physical education depart¬
ment. According to Dean Wardle,
playing fields, softball diamonds,
a baseball  park, and   possibly a
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stadium, eventually will be built ! lies wilh the property owners, ne¬
on this land, | cording to Fresno's Department
Although the city may set mini- or Public Works. This rule ap-
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her career, but when she changed
ber name to Olga Samaroff things
picked up Immediately.
Ernest Hemingway decided he
could write better In Paris and
Havana than he could on Ameri¬
can soil. In the twenties young
writers flocked to Paris to ait al
the feet of Miss Gertrude Stein,
who had shaken the dust of Penn¬
sylvania from her shoes but still
wanted Americans to buy her
books and Acknowledge that she
was saying something profound
when she wrote "A rose ts a rose
Is a rose." and "Pigeons on the
glass,  alas."
The cultural Inferiority com¬
plex of Americans became more
traumatic when they received a
one-two' punch in 1920 an! 1921
from Sinclair Lewis with his
novels "Main Street" and "Bab¬
bitt." One of them, depleted the
American small town as a cul¬
tural wasteland where the Inhabi¬
tants talked about nothing except
crops and the weather. "Babbitt"
was an Indictment of the Ameri¬
can business man as a dull rellow
who did nothing but chase money
and boost hla home town.
Things Change
The big Depression of 1929
changed things, and the circula¬
tion ot Mencken's magailne  fell
Americans were at grips with
problems larger than small town
culture and home town boosting.
John Steinbeck's novel "The
Grapes of Wrath"—the story of
an Oklahoma* family driven from
Systematic Six' Take On
K-MAKE Dribblers
(Continued from Page 1)
atlc Six" will  not announce tbe
tlnc-up until game time. Six girls
will start.
Staring line-up for tho Drib¬
blers Includes "Mangier" Morgan
at center. Frank "Tip-in" Terry
and Fred "Key-hole" Klemel at
forwards, "Sunny Gunner" Price
and Tom "Speed Ball" Maul at
Ihe guards. Dave "Big Northern
From Canada" McCormlck, Rob¬
ert "Fullcourt" Prescott, Jim
"Jumping" Mitchell, Chuck "Big
Bucket"-" TKomaa and—Robert
"Sure   Shot"   Scholi   round   out
their    farm    by    dust
caught the mood of the dsy.
Most sociologists think World
War II was the turning point for
the American patient and hla in¬
feriority complex. U.S. soldiers
discovered that people ln Europe
were not pre-oeenpled with cul¬
ture, hut with the problem or
dally existence. Millions of Eng¬
lishmen never have boon to
St rat ford-On-Avon nnd never will'
go. Frenchmen do not spend All
day In sidewalk cafes arguing
about poetry; Italians do not de¬
vote All their time to strolling
the streets singing opera tie arias.
A post-war do-it-yourself erase
developed, and Americans discov¬
ered It did not hAve to be lim¬
ited to using woodworking tppls.
You could put on plays, organise
orchestras, paint pictures, play
the violin and have fun without
Journeying to the BroadwAy the¬
ater, the Louvre or the Metro¬
politan Opera House.
Radio and television began to
bring culture Into your living
room. The phonograph was de¬
veloped lo the point where even
the most carping critic could hear
faithful reproductions of famous
orchestras playing good music.
The heroine or Sinclair Lewis'
"Main Street" was named Carol
Kennlcott and in 1912 she mar¬
ried and moved to.Gopher Prairie,
Minn. In revolt Against the dull¬
ness of her life, she exclaimed to
a school teacher friend: "It's a
relict to have somebody to talk
something besides crops. Let's
make Gopher Prairie rock to Its
foundations. Let's have afternoon
tea instead  of arternoon  cofree."
Today Carol would turn tbe
television dial and drink her tea
as she listened to the Festival of
Performing Arts.
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