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New honor society gains ground
By MIKE BELT
Staff Writer
The University of Kansas chapter of the Phi Kappa phi honor society is just two years old, but it's wasting no time establishing itself nationally and locally.
Earlier this month, Kent Stallard, Lester of the University of California and two 20 members in the nation chosen to receive a $3,000 Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship Award. The money can be used for a variety of projects.
"We were so new and just getting started last year that we didn't even send in any names," Howard Smith, associate dean of engineering and president of the KU chapter, said recently. "I think this is a bellwaite blower in KU's can."
The 20 winners were selected on the basis
of grades and extra curricular activities by a national panel of Phi Kappa Phii members in Ann Arbor, Mich. There were 185 students that nominated students for scholarships.
Stallard said he was pleased and surprised at being chosen for the scholarship. He said, he planned to attend KU's School of Law.
Stallard also received a $100 scholarship from KU Phi Kappa Phi through the James Blackston Memorial Fund. The fund was awarded last year's death of a charter member.
Smith, who founded the local chapter with Nell Salkind, assistant professor of education, admitted that the two had some early attempts getting the chapter recognized.
Smith said only 114 of 299 invitations to last year's first initiation ceremony and 380 of 596 were accepted.
However, at this year's banquet, he said,
174 invitations were accepted. That was nearly all the invitations that were mailed,
he added.
"I think that shows people are finding out just what the Phi Kappaphi is." Smith said. He was a longtime Darwin, assistant professor of civil engineering and the chapter secretary. Darwin, a winner of the Phi Kappaphi Fellowship Award while attending Cornell in 1987, said the chief purpose of the society was to gain some recognition to the best students.
"At a university level," Darwin said, "what you're here for is studying, and an
Tour highlights Lawrence history
Staff Writer
By CHRISTINE TYLER
Many times the history of a time or place can only be experienced through the pages of a book. But area residents will have an opportunity Saturday to view the history of Lawrence through some of its historic buildings and houses.
The tour is a fund-raising project for the organizations.
The tour will be unstructured so persons with tickets may tour the buildings anytime between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Tickets will be on sale through Saturday afternoon for $4 at Kahls Museum, 1047 Massachusetts, and Lawrence Arts Center, 8th and Vermont.
The Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum, the Lawrence branch of the American Association of University Women and the Altruza Club, a professional women's service club, are sponsorship buildings, law library buildings and five historic homes.
THE HOUSES ON the tour were selected because they offered a broad range and a cross-section of styles, according to Susan Alderson, coordinator for the tour.
A dispatcher and a secretary of the Lawrence Police Department have been suspended pending disposition of criminal charges that they illegally bought stolen property.
The few students who are selected each year to receive that recognition are subject to heavy scrutiny, according to Carol Rich, the chapter's public relations officer.
John Demby, 18, the dispatcher, and Debra Armann, 20, the secretary, were charged Monday against Court Contract proba-
gment Gene S. Planker, 19, was also charged with the offence. All three reportedly live at 1908
fourth, and all were released on $1,500
dollars.
Armann and Demby were suspended Friday by Police Chief Richard Stanwix who was charged with the crime, which were made after. Flanker . . . arrested for possession of stolen property.
Two employes are suspended by police chief
The person who had allegedly sold the property to John S. Lawrence freshman, turned himself in to the policy Monday. He was charged with felonious theft and released on his own account.
Police think Goff has sold several citizen's band radios that were taken from the Malls TG&Y store where he worked. Police said that they didn't know the exact date of the thefts that they had recovered four or five radios. Not all were stolen, but they were both another person who police think may have been involved no longer lives in the area.
Stanwick said that their jobs wouldn't be filed until further action was taken on the case.
County Attorney David Berkowitz said the cases of Armann and Demby were unrelated to his pending investigation of alleged criminal activity in the police department, but suspension was the result of an internal police department investigation, he said.
honor society gives you recognition for that.
I like to think of it as an extra bonus."
Neither Armarmn nor Demby were commissioned officers on the force. Armnm joined the department on Sept. 11, 1975. Demby joined on Nov. 3, 1975.
Preliminary hearings for Armann, Panker and Dembih have been set for May 5, 2016.
The buildings on the tour were constructed between the 1860s, immediately after Quantrill's Raid, and the 1920s. The tour is designed to stress the diversity of Lawrence architecture, Alderson said yesterday.
Arthur Townsend, director of Watkins Museum, said the tour was designed to make residents aware of the importance of historical preservation so they could help develop Lawrence as a "living historic community."
Worth said the organization's committee officers met two or three times a year to decide criteria and review names of nominees, she said membership was 10 percent and 10 per cent of graduate students and the top 5 per cent of undergraduates.
"Sometimes a museum has to go out beyond its walls," he said. "We can't bring something inside the museum so we must protect it where it stands. These buildings are examples of that kind of nonportable history."
One of the houses on the tour was built by Col. James Blood. He came to Lawrence to find a townite for settlers from the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society who came to Kansas to keep it from becoming a slave state.
Another house on the tour, the John Palmer Usher house, 1425 Tennessee, was built in 1872-73 in an Italianate villa style to resemble his former house in the East.
THE BLOOD HOUSE, 1015 Tennessee, was built in an italianate style with a shallow roof, tail and even spaced windows, and intricate arches along the house's front. Nachman Aronszag, professor of art at M.I.T., said which will be open only until 1 p.m. Saturday.
Uther was Secretary of the Interior under Abraham Lincoln. An item of particular interest in the house is the single-piece, a wooden chest given to him by other cabinet members.
The fifth house on the tour is built of stone in a style native to Kansas. There is no known builder, but the house was built simply to accommodate a family, according to Alderson. The house at 92% Indiana and is currently owned by Jim Owens.
The Tisidale house, 647 Tennessee, built in 1881 in a French barnicor style, has been converted into apartments. The house is rich with ornamental iron work, brick chimneys and French gothic bibles. It is currently owned by Mrs. M. N. Penney.
The house is currently owned by the Beta
Theta Pi Fraternity.
THE MOST RECENTLY built house on the tour, at 1135 W. Campus Road, was built by Harry M. Stucker in 1926. It was completed in the winter under a circus tent. The one-story house was quite unusual for the time because its asphalt shingles were lined with wood. And it had a swimming pool in the basement. The house is now owned by Mrs. Stucker.
The four other buildings on the tour are the Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont; the Douglas County Courthouse; the Old Lawrence City Library, 8th and 10th floors; and the currently the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts.
The Douglas County Courthouse, old Lawrence City Library, John P. Ushers office, national bank and the Col. 300th Station all located at the National register of Historic Places.
The buildings are regularly open to the public.
The nonmimes are received from every school in the University, Worth said, with the exception of the KU Medical Center, which has its own honor society.
For those students who join Phi Kappa Phi, Smith said, he thinks there is a possibility that ego plays a large part in getting them where they are.
"A lot of people go to college to get a job, and earn some money when they get out." Smith said. "Sill, there are others who want it," he added. "The material things. They just want to do well."
Smith said many people were surprised that a Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society hadn't been started sooner at KU, especially with the need to train faculty and administrators who were members.
One of them is Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, who was chosen by the society in 1958 while doing graduate work at the University of Tennesse.
Smith said that he and Salkind had to do the leg work to get a society chapter started at KU, including locating people and circulating a petition.
"It was a lot of hard work," Smith said. "It took two years to get it started."
The Phi Kappa Phil Honor Society was originally formed in 1887 at the University of Maine. The motto of the organization is "Let the love of learning rule mankind."
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