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University Daily Kansan Friday. November 10, 1961
A Kansan Profile:
Prof. Beth Visited KU, and Stayed
Ey Walt Blackledge
Elmer Frederick Beth came to KU in 1940 as a visiting assistant professor in journalism. He never made it back to the University of Idaho, where he had taught since 1830. He stayed, and has made a lasting impression on KU.
Just one year later he became acting chairman of the department of journalism and served in that position until the fall of 1948. During those seven years, he had a hand in bringing about sweeping changes in the journalism department and in the University.
THE JOURNALISM department became a school during his acting chairmanship, the University developed the Western Civilization and Humanities programs under the direction of committees on which he served, and the Faculty Club was created through the activities of a committee of which he was chairman.
Prof. Beth also made plans for the conversion of the Fowler Shops into Flint Hall, which now houses the Journalism School.
He helped guide the University Daily Kansan through the difficult years of World War II. In 1942 a telephone news service from the International News Service Kansas City Bureau was brought to the UDK and in 1945 full leased-wire services from United Press were contracted.
In 1942, the UDK showed a loss for September of $122.50 and the cash account was overdrawn $135-13. At the end of Prof. Beth's chairmanship in 1943 the paper was showing a profit of $1,355.40 and a cash balance of $1,200.63.
Legacy Showing Opens Sunday
Legacy of the Land, an exhibition starting Sunday at the University of Kansas Museum of Art, will feature a selection of American landscape paintings from the museum collection. The exhibition will be shown on the lower floor of the museum. There will be a special preview from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday.
The exhibition will be in honor of the Conference of the American Association of Land Grant Colleges. It will be presented from Nov. 12, through Jan. 15.
Gerald Bernstein, curator of the Museum of Art, stated: "The exhibition is an attempt to utilize the museum collection and place the paintings in their proper historical setting. I feel that it is one of the finest exhibitions ever presented at the museum and hope the students take advantage of the opportunity to view the paintings.
"The history of American landscape painting is one of tradition and experiment," said Mr. Bernstein. "It developed from the American artist's desire to record the conquest of the wilderness. Although the first painters of the American landscape turned away from European tradition and sought an art form expressive of the new land, later generations of artists returned to Europe for inspiration and direction."
He continued:
"To the painters of the early Republic, the land was a national symbol to be expressed in poetic terms. America presented a seemingly endless variety of landscapes. They strove to record the grandeur of the virgin continent and to infuse their art with a sense of bounty and potential greatness. Each then interpreted what he saw, combining his training, experiences and personal feelings for this continent. These early landscapes were extremely popular and, by the nineteenth century, had replaced portraiture as the leading subject for American artists."
Mr. Bernstein has been responsible for the organization of the exhibition and the editing of its catalogue. Marilyn Stokstad, acting director of the museum, also has contributed to the catalogue.
There was also a reserve fund of $10,000 put aside for Daily Kansen equipment for the new journalism building.
FROM 1942 TO 1948. Prof. Beth was editor of the Journalism Bulletin, quarterly publication of the American Association of Teachers of Journalism. Since 1948 he has served as secretary-treasurer of AATJ (now the Association for Education in Journalism) and the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism. He is also director of the teacher-placement bureau sponsored by AEJ.
In 1941 he became the University press-box statistician for KU home football games.
He has not missed a home game since. He compiles all the statistics of the game for the press and radio. While he watches the plays and keeps track of the figures, T. C. Rythe, assistant professor of journalism, and assistants set type. At half-time and the end of the game, statistical summaries are run off and sent to the press and radio.
IN THE SUMMER of 1945, Prof. Beth served an internship at radio station KMBC in Kansas City. He spent most of his time in the news department of the station.
In 1947 he spent the summer
working in the business departments of the Kansas City Star.
Prof. Beth was a visiting professor at Time, Inc., New York, during the summer of 1953. He studied and analyzed all the departments of Time, Life, and Fortune magazines.
Since 1952, Prof. Beth has been chairman of the KU Humanities Committee. He has served on the committee since its beginning and considers it one of his most important jobs.
HE ALSO HAS been a member of the Western Civilization committee from its beginning. He was chairman of the University Senate Advisory Committee for one year.
Prof. Beth was born Dec. 8, 1902, in Chicago, and grew up in Two Rivers, Wis. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1927, where he also earned his master's degree the following year.
He married Ella Dewey Aug. 13, 1928. The couple had two children, Lois and Roger. Lois married Leo M. Arms Jr. and is now living in Park Forest, Ill. Roger died in 1956.
Prof. Beth was an instructor at Washington State College, in Fullman, 1928-1930. He was a one-man journalism department at the University of Idaho 1920-1940.
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Correction Listed On UP Candidates
Controversy to the election results published in the Kansan Thursday, the University Party has not dropped Kenny Kahmann as one of its candidates in the men's large dormitories district in the general election.
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Also, the UP candidate polling the most votes in the men's large dermitories district was William (Joby) Jobson, not William (Goby) Johnson.
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First Photo-Finish
NEW YORK-(UPI)—Horse racing's photo-finish camera was devised and first operated by John C. Hemment, who mounted a camera atop the stands at Brooklyn's old Sheepshead Bay track in 1890.
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