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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 12, 1962
Around the Campus
KU Receives Math Grant
Research in the "new mathematics" necessary in the aerospace age will be conducted at KU under a $44,000 one-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
G. Baley Price, chairman of the KU mathematics department, will direct the studies on complex variables and related topics. Four professors and a sizeable group of graduate students will comprise research teams for intensive studies next summer.
Prof. Price said some graduate students may be appointed to get work underway in the spring semester. ___
Sterritt Wins $600 Award
James A. Sterritt, assistant professor of architecture, has received a $600 cash award for his sculpture entered in an exhibit of Southwestern American art at the Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City.
PROF. STERRITTS work, "The Pole," was one of five selected as a "purchase prize" to become part of the center's permanent collection. It was constructed of steel and copper.
The exhibit consisted of 106 pieces, selected from 730 entries by artists from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Arkansas.
Dorothy Miller, curator of the New York Museum of Modern Art, also chose three other KU artists to participate in the event.
They were John Brewer, Wichita senior, who entered an oil and collage called "N. College"; Jon E. Gierlich, Lawrence sophomore, an oil, "Alert," and Curtis Rhodes, Kansas City graduate student, an oil, "Embryonic Landscape."
GUF Issues Ninth Annual Honor Roll
The KU Greater University Fund has issued its 9th annual Roll of Honor listing the names of more than 11,000 alumni, students and friends making gifts during the 1961-62 year.
Total gifts to the KU Endowment Association during the fiscal year were $1,985,585, an increase of about $500,000 more than the record high of the last fiscal year. The total included $359,862 in gifts to the Greater University Fund and related annual programs of the Endowment Association.
Seniors Plan More Study
Fifty-eight per cent of the seniors in the KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences intend to continue their educations in a graduate or professional school.
That's what a recent survey conducted by the College Placement Bureau discovered.
Among the 420 seniors surveyed, 143 plan to do graduate work while 101 plan to enter professional schools.
Medicine is the goal of 49 while 40 intend to study law. Other professional fields represented are: medical technology, 5; theology, 5; and dentistry, 2.
Of the seniors surveyed, 125 said they plan to take jobs after graduation, 26 plan to enter the armed forces, 21 are undecided and four say they will be married and not working.
Among the 143 planning graduate study, English is the most popular field, attracting 17. Chemistry is the preference of 15, mathematics 13, history 11, psychology 8, philosophy 8, and sociology and anthropology 7. A total of 25 fields of study were mentioned.
Law Students Elect 14 to Class Offices
Fourteen KU students in the School of Law have been elected to class offices for one-year terms.
Third year students elected Gary Cooper, Colby, president; Dan Dreiling, Junction City, vice-president; Stephen Blaes, Wichita, secretary-treasurer; and Tony Morrow, Kansas City, Mo., Student Bar Association (SBA) representative.
Second year students elected Alan Endacott, Lawrence, president; Edward Prelock, Abbetsford, Wis., vice-president; Richard Moberly, Wichita, secretary-treasurer; and Henry William Hopp, McPherson, SBA representative.
First year students elected John Hoffman Johntz Jr., Wichita, president; Clarence Bender, Lawrence, vice-president; Frederick J. Petzold, Leawood, secretary-treasurer; C. Douglas Miller, Salina, SBA representative; and Marshall Crowther, Salina, alternate SBA representative.
Student Bar Association officers are James A. Pusateri, Kansas City, Mo., third year law student, president; Tony Morrow, vice-president; William Hopp, secretary; and Alan Endacott, treasurer.
International Club Plans Mexico Tour
A Christmas trip to Mexico will be discussed at International Club at 8 p.m. today in the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union.
Last year during the Christmas holidays approximately 100 club members boarded buses at Lawrence and toured Mexico for 10 days.
The club has employed two students to make arrangements for the tour this year.
The meeting is to be followed by a dance and refreshments.
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