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Thursday, March 7, 1974
University Daily Kansan
KU Student Encounters Difficulty Marketing Invention
By MIKE FITZGERALD Kanyan Staff Reporter
Looking for a good summer or part-time job? Why, not invent something?
poi Why not have a dog?
Russell Hustead, Leawood senior, did just.
that when he invented the anesthesia stethophone, a simple electronic device used during surgery when a patient is under anesthesia.
Hustead, a doctor's son, invented the
anesthesia stethophone in 171 when he was a senior in high school. He combined his interest in electronics with his father's interest in photography, so he was the which his father considers to be necessary.
Robinson Expansion Plans Studied
The University of Kansas may soon build a larger health, physical education and
All members of the health, physical education and recreation department staff were to meet at 7:30 this morning in Robinson Gymnasium to discuss preliminary plans to more than double the size of Robinson Gym.
The staff met with the Robinson II committee and Allen L. Wiechert, assistant to the director of facilities planning and operations.
The committee comprises 10 members including one male and pre female student.
including one male and one female student. Wayne Gagne, chairman of the Robinson II planning committee and professor of physical education, said the staff favored the committee because it received unfavorable comments from the staff, he said, the committee will recommend the proposal to William Bailour, vice chancellor for student
"The staff felt that virtually all of the needs of the department would be taken care of."
Lack of Signs Delays Marking Of Bicycle Paths
Three months ago the Lawrence City Commission approved three bicycle routes to and from the University of Kansas and authorized international picture signs to mark the routes. But the signs haven't been installed.
Leonard Hoover, director of the Lawrence Traffic and Safety Commission, said yesterday that the delay was due to a "materials problem."
A total of 125 signs are to be installed, he said, but he can't do anything because he has not received the blank plates that the sighs will be painted on.
"As soon as we get them, we'll put them up, even if we don't get them all," he said. Officers of the Mt. Oread Bicycle Club, with its officers, said paths, could not be reached for comment.
"The city is just sitting on its hands," he said.
Offerer, Steve Keller, former club officer and number of the bicycle club said to him that he had been a
KU Security and Parking has placed large signs at the entrances to the campus.
George Williams, director of city public works, said no additional routes were planned.
Williams said special lanes hadn't been painted on the streets because the roads weren't wide enough to accommodate lanes.
Hover wasn't able to estimate when the signs would be up, but said he hoped they would be.
"Right now we have about 60,000 square feet of usable space." Osmann said. "According to guidelines that are used in determining how much space is required on university should have, the University of Kansas should have 186,000 square feet."
If adopted in its entirety, the plan would add 71,000 square feet of usable space to the Robinson Gym. The plan under consideration even from preliminary plans drew a total of 54,396 square feet of construction. The first phase was completed and the gym opened for use in 1966.
Ossness said more classrooms were necessary because of changes in teacher certification which required expanded training of health teachers. He said that a proposal to meet the health education needs would be accepted by the department and that it would be submitted to Ambrose Saricka, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
The building proposal allows for additional use of Robinson Gym by women, or girls.
*Within the last five years we've seen women's use of the facility expand seven or more*
Oldfather to Retire from KU
University Attorney Charles Oldfather said yesterday that he would retire June 30 from his post and from all other University duties.
Oldfather has been the University's attorney since 1970. He is also professor of law and a member of the Athletic Board. He has been at KU since 1950.
He said he was retiring because he was tired and not because he had experienced any problems with the leadership in the KU Athletic Board at the School of Law or the KU Athletic Board.
Oldfather, who is in his early fifties, said he had no plans to enter private law practice. He said that he and his wife, Hortense, plan to retire to their 123-acre farm near Lawrence and to visit their children and women who are in Hawaii, Louisville and Boston.
A native of Lincoln, Neb., Oldfather graduated from Holtkiss Preparatory School in Connecticut in 1937. He attended Harvard for two years, earning letters in track and cross country, and then transferred to the University of Nebraska. He returned to Harvard in 1941. He returned to Harvard and graduated from the law school there in 1948.
Before coming to KU, he practiced law in a Milwaukee law firm.
Oldfather also has been a member of the University Senate Executive Committee and, in 1968, helped organize the present system of student government. He was a member of the chancellor search committee that selected former Chancellor E. Laurence Chambers Jr.
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The anesthesia stetohopne is a type of microphone which, through the use of a small open bell placed on the throat of the patient, picks up both heart and breathing sounds, amplifies them and reproduces them audibly through a loud speaker.
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After receiving a little free publicity and exhibiting his invention at several medical conventions, Hustead was contacted by the 3M Company.
Hustead finished the invention his freshman year at Yale University. He exhibited the device there and appeared on the "Young Scientist," a nationwide documentary on ABC television. He then came to the University of Kansas as a premed student and a major in electrical engineering. Hustead worked for the next year and a half improving and refining the anesthesia stethoscope until he "came up with it."
"Then the Concare Company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, contacted me. They said they could easily build my device, since their main product is microphones. But they had no inside medical markets or interests, so they had to get it from them. Their problem was they were too small."
"They wrote me a letter this summer saying how interested they were in my invention, he said. "Later, they flew me up to the plant, took me out to dinner and stethoscope. Then I visited their stethophone. After all this, they decided they couldn't use my invention because they considered it not marketable. They said there are only so many operating rooms in the country and each room needs only one. But the company was too big to market my product.
Husted has sold seven of the unique $475 devices around the country. However, he
has had many problems marketing his invention.
"I can't get a patent on the stethophem that's my main problem," he said. "According to law, there can be no patents on a patent, but there can be many of an inventor has only ordinary skills in the field of his invention, he can't get a patent without a patent, I have no legal property to it."
market my invention, but I can't sell them
at the price we sell to all the tell-
tonephones individually.
"I'm interested in any company to
Hustead, who plans to graduate next winter, said he hoped he wouldn't have to work in New York. "I'll probably be a teacher."
"I last summer I worked about 800 hours on the stethophores and probably ended up making pennies an hour," he said. "I really wanted to do something that will put you through school."
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