Page 5
Visiting KU Professor Terms Moon Trip a 'Pipe Dream'
By Phil Magers
Carl O. Dunbar is a professor emeritus of Yale University, a distinguished alumnus of KU, recognized authority in the field of paleontology, and a scientist who thinks putting a man on the moon is a "pipe dream."
Prof. Dunbar is a visiting professor of geology at KU this year. He retired from Yale last year after 29 years of teaching.
In a recent interview he said, "I think that KU is one of the two or three best universities in the country. It has grown quite a lot since I was here in 1909," he said.
ASKED WHETHER geologists will ever get to explore the surface of the moon he said, "I don't think geologists nor anyone else will even set foot on the moon."
He said he believed that the environment of the moon will make life for a man miserable even in a pressure suit. The moon also has a rugged surface in many regions and deep dust layers into which a man could easily sink.
The recent flights of astronauts are great achievements, he said, but they are quite different than a flight to the moon and back. He also said he thought the other planets were out of the reach of man forever.
Prof. Dunbar grew up on a farm in Cherokee County, Kan., and received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1917. He has written 12 books about his field and they are still widely read in universities.
HIS TWO MOST important books are "Historical Paleontology" and
FREE DELIVERY Call before 4, Delivered after $3.00 or more except cigarettes VI 3-4516
COOPER DRUG
Carl O. Dunbar
“Principles of Stratigraphy” which he co-authored.
Both of these works have also been "pirated" by the Russians, Dr Dunbar said. "The Russians have no copyright laws and they think that they honor a person when they print his book," he explained.
"The main source of information for my books has been my years of
teaching. I had taught twenty years before I wrote my first book," the professor said.
838 Mass.
FOR 17 YEARS Prof. Dunbar was director of the Peabody Museum at Yale, along with his regular teaching chores." I was a very busy man in those days," he recalls.
JIM'S CAFE
OPEN 24 hrs. a day
At KU in 1960 he was among eight men who were cited for distinguished service.
BREAKFAST OUR SPECIALTY
Presently, besides teaching at KU Prof. Dunbar is an assistant editor of the American Journal of Science. He also belongs to many organizations connected with his field.
"I love my work and teaching has made a very happy life for me," he says.
"The field of geology is a wide open field for those who are interested, but I would not recommend it to everybody."
IN THE LAST FEW years the fields of geophysics and geology on the ocean floor have opened new frontiers, he added.
About future plans, Prof. Dunbar said, "I am now in the process of writing the first of a 15 volume series." In the first book he plans to write about the earth and how life developed. He plans to title the book "This is Our World."
STUDENTS
Grease Jobs . . $1.00
Brake Adj. . . . 98c
Automotive Service
Motor Tune-Ups, Wheel
Balancing
7 a.m.-11 p.m.
PAGE CREIGHTON
FINA SERVICE
1819 W. 23rd
Kansan Classified Ads Get Results!
University Daily Kansan
Wednesday. Oct. 10, 1962
KU Math and Science Day May Attract 4,000 Sunday
Addresses by an eminent University of Chicago astrophysicist and a KU Watkins distinguished professor of entomology will highlight the eleventh University of Kansas Science and Mathematics Day Saturday.
About 4,000 junior and senior high school students and teachers from a 250-mile radius of Lawrence — 800 more than last year — are expected to attend, Chairman L. Worth Seagondollar, professor of physics, said.
The speakers will be S. Chandrasekhar, distinguished professor of astrophysics at the University of Chicago, and Charles Michener, professor of entomology.
PROF. CHANDRASEKHAR holds the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and similar awards. He will speak on the rotation of cosmic bodies, both at the Saturday convention and at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Lindley Hall.
Prof. Michener has been a Guggenheim fellow in Brazil and a Fulbright scholar in Australia. His special field is the study of bees.
Some 42 exhibits and demonstrations will be on display all over the campus. They will include;
A demonstration of neutron activation with the nuclear reactor, at the Nuclear Reactor center; a mass spectrometer, an $85,000 machine which shows the molecular weight of gaseous molecules, in Malbott Hall; a series of exhibits demonstrating how plants move, spread and/or react to their environment; an exhibit featuring mathematical games and brain teasers, and a model of a distorted room and a movie showing some effects of visual perception, sponsored by the department of psychology.
Silverware Contest Held Today in Union
Cwens, sophomore women's honorary society, is sponsoring a silverware opinion contest today in the Pan American Room of the Kansas Union for college women.
Towle Silver Company pays the Cwens a dollar for each person who participates in the contest.
whatever the weather...
Natural and Olive
Tailored of fine cotton poplin, the Cruiser is handsome, comfortable to wear, and boasts exclusive 3rd Barrier construction for assured rain protection. With fly front, center vent, brightened by a smart tartan lining and matching tartan under pocket flaps, the Cruiser is the one coat you need for any weather . . . it's a Maincoat $^{20}$ by London Fog.
34-44 Reg. & Long
$25.95