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Humanities Series Begins 15th Year
By E. F. Beth Professor of Journalism
The Humanities Lecture Series, now widely recognized as foremost among continuing lecture programs in American universities, will open its 15th year on Tuesday, October 10, with a lecture by Dr. Henri Peyre, Yale scholar in French literature. He will speak at 8 p.m. in Fraser Theater.
Four other visiting scholars have been scheduled for 1961-62. They are: Dr. Walter Kaufmann, Princeton philosopher, who will speak on November 14; Dr. H. Bentley Glass, Johns Hopkins biologist and humanist, February 20; Dr. A. Closs, German literature scholar at Bristol University, England, March 27; and Dr. Tom B. Jones, Minnesota professor of ancient history, in April or May.
ON TUESDAY, January 9, a Humanities Series lecture will be given by a K.U. scholar, Dr. Mary Grant, associate professor emeritus of Latin and Greek. She will be the 14th Kansas faculty member to lecture in the Series since 1948. Last year, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe spoke on "Preparation for a Profession."
Since the Humanities Series was begun in 1947 under the chairmanship of Dr. Charles B. Realey, 75 lectures have been presented by 69 American and foreign scholars in fields included in or closely related to the humanities. Dr. Peyre and four other speakers were invited to speak a second time; Dr. Peyre was here in 1950.
TWO FEATURES of the Series make it outstanding among continuing lecture programs. One is that our visiting lecturers stay on the campus for three days, speaking to classes, clubs, faculty gatherings, and other groups such as Student Union Activities matinees. The other feature is that speakers "cut across departments" as much as possible. At least two speakers, for example, met with several groups in engineering and architecture; several have spoken to classes in the sciences; and many have lectured to classes in the social sciences. It is not unusual for a Humanities visiting scholar to meet with groups in four or five departments generally classed as being in the humanities field.
The largest audience attracted by any Humanities lecturer since 1947 flooded the University Theatre on
Nuclear Threat Is Panel Topic
The first in a series of panel discussions on "Humanity and the Nuclear Crisis" will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. in Strong Hall Auditorium. The Lawrence Unitarian Fellowship is sponsoring the discussions.
Three University of Kansas faculty members and a KU graduate student will present the scientist's view of the subject. The speakers will be F. S. Rowland, associate professor of chemistry; John A. Weir, associate professor of zoology; Harold Rossen, assistant professor of chemical engineering and H.F. Franzen, graduate student in chemistry.
Other viewpoints will be presented on subsequent Sundays.
The public is welcome to the meetings. Mr. Franzen, head of the college group of the fellowship, said students interested in Unitarian activities can reach him at VI 3-1495.
First Lauterbach Scholar
Leon Eldon Roulier, Colby, was designated today as the first recipient of the August and Sophia Lauterbach Fellowship. It provides $500 annually, with possible renewals for up to three more years. The fellowship was created by the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Colby in memory of the late Mr. and Mrs. August Lauterbach, founders of the bank and parents of State Sen. August W. Lauterbach.
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April 5, 1960, to hear Aldous Huxley speak on "Visionary Experience." At least 1,500 crowded into the theater, and hundreds were unable even to find standing room. Dr. S. I. Hayakawa also drew an overflow crowd when he spoke on February 21, 1961.
AMONG FOREIGN scholars who have visited Kansas as humanities speakers are Charles Sterling, curator of paintings at the Louvre in Paris; Federico Ghisi, musicologist at the University of Florence, Italy; Nabih Amin Farin, historian at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Ernest L. Stahl, German scholar at Oxford, England; Ronald Syme, historian at Oxford, England; Luis Pericot y García, ancient history scholar at the University of Barcelona, Spain; A. L. Rowse, historian at Oxford, England; Maurice Ashley, journalist and editor in London, England; and Bruno E. Werner, dramatics scholar from Leipzig.
Among the most illustrious American lecturers who have visited K.U. as Humanities lecturers are Alexander Meiklejeh, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Mead, Walter R. Agard, Gilbert Highet, Morris Bishop, Vladimir Nabokov (six years before "Lolita"), Loren C. Eiseley, Thomas Hart Benton, William F. Albright, Germaine Brée, Henry Margenau and T. V. Smith.
The Humanities Committee, headed by Professor Beth since 1952, includes Drs. Cyrus DeCoster (Romance languages), William Gilbert (history), Charleton Hinman (English), Austin Lashbrook (classical languages), Ian Loram (German), Edward Robinson (philosophy), Milton Steinhardt (music), and Marilyn Stokstad (art).
McKnown Touring European Posts
John S. McNown, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, was in Yugoslavia to participate in the meeting of the International Association for Hydraulic Research, September 3 to 7.
At the Dubrovnic meeting, McNown was chairman of a special session and presented a paper, "Runoff from Impervious Surfaces."
Before returning to the United States late in September, McNown will visit the Polish Academy of Sciences and Engineering Institute in Warsaw, Poland. Enroute home, McNown will also visit research laboratories or universities at Stuttgart, Germany; Paris and Grenoble, France; and London, England.
Prof. Dance, who was elected at the society's summer meeting in Buffalo, N.Y., will serve for a three-year term. The publication is devoted to an interdisciplinary approach to the study of communication in human relations.
Frank E. X. Dance, assistant professor of speech and drama, has been elected editor of "Journal of Communication," quarterly publication of the National Society for the Study of Communication.
Dance Is Speech Mag Editor
What we anticipate seldom occurs,
what we least expect generally happens.
—Benjamin Disraeli
K.U. Barber Shop
In order to faciliate full campus coverage this year, the Daily Kansan makes this plea for help.
Help!
You need not be enrolled in the School of Journalism to join the staff of the UDK.
Staff reporters to cover social events, intramurals, clubs, religious organizations, professional fraternal orders, and special purpose organizations are wanted.
If you are interested in writing for print contact Kansan City Editor Kelly Smith at VI 3-7874.
Board of Regents Governs Colleges
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The "middle men" between all state colleges and universities and the Kansas government is the Kansas Board of Regents.
This group is comprised of nine leading Kansas citizens who serve as the governing body for all state-supported colleges and universities.
Chairman of the group is Whitley Austin of Salina, editor of the Salina Journal.
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Other members of the board are George B. Collins of Wichita; Clement H. Hall of Coffeyville; Charles V. Kincaed of Independence; Leon N. Roulier of Colby; Clyde Reed of Parsons; Ray R. Evans of Fairway; and W. F. Danenbarger of Concordia.
As the governing body of the state school system, the regents meet normally once a month, usually in Topeka. It is their responsibility to approve or reject the individual school recommendations as designated in the state constitution. These include budgetary recommendations, building plans, personnel increases and promotions, conferring of degrees and establishment of general or specific school policies.
In usual operation, the regents will hear recommendations from the various school presidents, chancellors and advisers, then present their judgment on the matters concerned.
In some cases, like budgets, they make their recommendations based on those of the school administrations, to the state legislature, which takes final action.
Kansas University is one of seven centers chosen by the U.S. State Department for orientation of foreign students coming to the United States for study each year
Rites Today for Mrs. Waggoner
Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Louise Waggoner, wife of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean George R. Waggoner, will be held at 10 o'clock this morning at the Rumsey Funeral Home. Interment will be at the Sexton Oak Hill Cemetery.
MRS. WAGGONER, 47, died Tuesday at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. The cause of her death was listed as cancer.
Survivors other than her husband include three daughters, Jane, a fifth grader; Margaret, an eighth grader; and Sarah, a third grader, all of the home.
MRS. WAGGONER was active in numerous University and community projects, including the PTA. She also was a member of the League of Women Voters and had served on that organization's local board.
Mrs. Waggoner received her A.B. degree from Kansas University in 1935. She taught high school at Eudora, Stanley, and Olthea. She was born Jan. 17, 1914, at Olathe, She and Dean Waggoner were married in 1941.
The family requests memorial gifts be given to the Kansas University Endowment Association for the benefit of the Medical School.
Smissman Grant Renewed
Edward E. Smissman, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, has received a one-year renewal grant of $13,100 from the U.S. Public Health Service for fundamental research or aromatic biosynthesis. The study was initiated last year under a $23,100 grant.
Federal Speech Grant Continued
A continuation grant of $21,774 has been awarded the University of Kansas by the United States Office of Vocational Rehabilitation.
The grant is to be used for a teaching and training program in adult speech and hearing correction.
Students working for master's degrees are being trained under the four-semester program initiated to increase the supply of personnel who handle adult speech problems. Eventually five trainees at K.U. will receive support under the 1961-62 grant.
Two students who enrolled in the program in the spring semester of 1960-61 will continue under the new grant. They are Steven N. Angell, Kansas City graduate student, and Roy J. Timmons, Waterloo, Iowa.
Trainees entering the program this fall are Mary Sue Poppe, a 1959 graduate of K.U., whose home is Kansas City, and Loretta Weikelman, a graduate of Kansas State University, from Manhattan.
Dr. James N. Neelley, instructor in speech, is the project coordinator. James McLean, instructor in speech and drama, is the project supervisor and is directly concerned with the clinical training of the students.
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