Tuesday, December 19, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Heart patient failing
Miracle transfusion ordered
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — (UPI)—Doctors today ordered a "miracle transfusion" treatment in the battle to save pioneer heart transplant patient Louis Wash-kansky.
Dr. M. C. Botha told newsmen a call had gone out for large numbers of donors so the 55-year-old patient can begin receiving massive doses of healthy white blood cells "within hours."
Washkansky told doctors today he felt "a little better." But hospital sources said his condition was causing "great concern."
Botha, one of the doctors who transplanted the heart of a 25-year-old woman traffic victim into Washkansky, said, "It seems likely a process of rejection is taking place."
George C. A. Boehrner, 46, professor of history, died Monday morning at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He had suffered from heart trouble.
Prof. Boehrer dies; burial Wednesday
Boehrer was a history professor at the University of Kansas since September, 1965. His special area of interest was the history of Portugal and Brazil. He was a participant in the Latin American area program at KU.
Before coming to KU, Boehre was cultural affairs officer for the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, for three years.
Boehrer had taught at Dunbarton College and Georgetown University, both in Washington, D.C., the University of Maryland, and Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis.
He was graduated from Boston College in 1942 and received his master's in 1943 and Ph.D in 1951 from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Boehrer had received the Pennfield travel fellowship in 1948; was a Georgetown University Alumni Grantee for Portugal in the summer of 1957; a grantee of the Joint Committee of Social Science Research Council; and a fellow in the American Council of Learned Society in Brazil from 1960 to 1961.
Boehrer is survived by his wife, Joanne Boehrer; a daughter, Anne of the home; and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Boehrer of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church. The services will be conducted by Father Michael Moriarity. Burial will be in Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
"This process may be affecting his own tissues such as his lungs and his white blood cells," Botha said.
Rejection by Washkansky's body of the new heart was the reaction most dreaded by doctors treating the grocer.
The treatment called "miracle transfusion" involves doses of healthy white cells, doctors said. Botha said it has given "quite remarkable" results in some cases.
Johnson flies to Australia
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson was flying today to Australia for memorial services for Prime Minister Harold Holt and possibly to visit troops in Vietnam. But the White House discounted speculation about a possible Asian summit conference.
Both said the medical term for Washkansky's latest ailment is "auto-immune disease." The disease is not attacking the new
Monday, Botha said he did not believe the "miracle transfusion" would be helpful for Washkansky. But observers said the patient's decline since Monday resulted in a decision to try it.
The new crisis came after doctors had reported hopefully that Washkansky has passed the point—about two weeks after the transplant surgery—when the rejection would be expected to occur.
heart but is reacting against
Washkansky's own tissue. he.said.
At one point they had been so encouraged by his progress they predicted he would be home by Christmas.
Johnson is due in Canberra about dawn, local time, on Thursday. Philippine sources said a Vietnam summit meeting would be held in Canberra that day, the day before the Melbourne memorial for Holt, Johnson's friend who drowned Sunday.
In response to rumors of a summit session, a White House spokesman commented: "We would expect there would be an opportunity for bilateral talks, but there is no planning for any multilateral or group meetings whatsoever."
In addition to summit reports from Manila, the newly installed acting Australian prime minister, John McEwen, hinted at such a session at his swearing-in today.
McEwen said the "high caliber" of leaders attending the services for Holt would probably lead to "discussions" of mutual interest.
A local World University Service (WUS) committee has been formed by 16 KU students to promote internationalism on a local scale.
WUS group formed
This year the committee plans to concentrate on foreign student housing, Elizabeth Boyd, Mankato graduate student and committee chairman, said. The committee also plans to hold either an international bazaar or an auction to raise funds for contributions to international WUS projects.
The committee hopes to work with People-to-People and various other international committees hoping to promote better housing facilities for foreign students.
WUS is an international organization which coordinates contributions of students and educators towards the material and intellectual advancement of the world university community.
WUS funds provide lodging and living facilities for students by constructing WUS Centers. These Centers provide hotel accomodation, health clinics, library and reading rooms, a student cafeteria and a bookstore.
Funds are used for individual scholarships and loans or book scholarships for student refugees and student victims of racial discrimination and natural disaster. They also finance student health and educational facilities.
Kansan Staff Photo by Gene Wee
PHIL "FROG" HARMON SHOWS JUMPING SKILL
Phil Harmon shows why he's nicknamed "Frog" as he pulls a rebound away from Stanford's Mal McElwain. Watching the action are (from left) Stanford's Bill Halligan, referee Pat Haggerty, KU's Jo Jo White, Rich Bradshaw and Vernon Vanoy (behind McElwain) and Stanford's Bill Palmer. See story, page 5.
Degrees take work
Getting a degree from KU is not all academic ability. Sometimes it takes perseverance.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences sampled every tenth graduate of last June, and discovered that the 47 transcripts revealed a wide range of collegiate experience.
One of the 47 had been graduated with "highest distinction," two with "distinction," and 26 had been on the honor roll, nine of them for six semesters or more. But 14 of them had been placed on probation at least once during their undergraduate careers, seven more than once, and four had been dropped for poor scholarship.
To play old instruments
A concert of centuries-old tunes played on ancient instruments including cornetts, shawms and recorders will be held at 2:30 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The music program, held every semester, includes compositions by John Dowland, Claudio Monteverdi, Lupus Hesidn, Franz Haydn, John Hilton, Paul Peuerl
and several others of unknown origin. Three medieval British Christmas carols will close the concert.
James C. Thomson, associate professor of music history and instruments, and J. Bunker Clark, assistant professor of music history and voices, will direct the program.
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