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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 17, 1962
Mrs. Hashinger to Take Part In Dorm Dedication Sunday
A generous benefactress of KU, Mrs. Margaret Hashinger of La Jolla, Calif., will be guest of honor Sunday at an open house for a new 444-capacity residence hall named for her.
A reception for the general public will be held in the seven-story, $1,900,000 structure at 15th and Engel Road. Mrs. Hashinger and her husband, Dr. E. H. Hashinger, longtime KU staff member and former acting dean of the KU Medical Center, will assist KU Chancellor and Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe in welcoming the expected 3,000-5,000 guests.
The new residence hall, with 120,672 square feet of floor space, is the third large dormitory to be constructed at the west end of the campus. Templin Hall for men opened in September of 1959 and Lewis Hall for women opened in September of 1960. Both structures house 431 students and cost approximately $1,750,000 each.
HASHINGER HALL was financed by 40-year revenue bonds totaling $1,300,000 and $600,000 from state dormitory building fund. The dormitory is presently being used for women, but it can be divided into separate wings so that both men and women can be housed.
The building has identical stairs and elevators and if enrollment fluctuates in the future a partition can be installed easily to divide the two wings.
IN 1940, MRS. HASHINGER, then the wife of the late J. R. Battenfeld, founder of the Battenfeld Grease and Oil Corp. of Kansas City, Mo., and her husband established Battenfeld Hall. It was named in memory of her son, John Curry Battenfeld, who died in an automobile accident in 1939 while a KU student.
Her other son, Dr. Jesse R. Battenfeld, Jr., a surgeon, also died in an accident. He was killed in 1945 in a Navy airplane crash. After the death of her husband in 1947, Mrs. Battenfeld gave KU funds to build an auditorium in the Continuation Center at the Medical Center in Kansas City in honor of her older son.
Other benefactions include support of the J. R. Battenfeld Foreign Student Scholarship and establishment of the Flower Fund through which memorial contributions from friends of the University provide short term emergency loans to students.
NSF Sponsors 50 Freshmen In Experimental Math Class
Some 50 freshmen at KU will have the chance to be guinea pigs for an experimental mathematics course with broad liberal arts appeal.
In fact, the course is so new that G. Baley Price, professor of mathematics and chairman of the department, and his staff are just developing materials for it. Their work is being financed by a two-year National Science Foundation grant of $71,600.
The course is unique in that it will include material especially relevant to the biological, management and social sciences. Prof. Price explained that examples from genetics, for instance, will be incorporated into the subject matter, rather than examples applicable to engineering and physics.
THE NEED FOR modern-day liberal arts students to be familiar with computer principles also will be considered. Besides including a two-week study of computers, the whole course will emphasize mathematics applicable to computers.
Part one of the two-semester course is numbered Mathematics 11 and will include studies on probability and matrices. Three years of college preparatory mathematics is prerequisite.
From 25 to 30 students will be allowed to enroll in each of two sections of Mathematics 11. It will
KU Station Plans A New Feature
University of Kansas administrators and professors will be the featured guests of a weekly program to be presented on the KU FM radio station KANU, (91.5 megacycles) beginning Sept. 30.
The program, "University Journal," will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Sundays and will feature comments on world, national and local events. Guests will also give personal insights from their own fields of specialization.
THE NEW series will be one-hour broadcasts at first, but may be longer, depending on other broadcast events.
Editor-in-chief for the "University Journal" is R. Edwin Browne, assistant professor of journalism and director of KANU-KFKU.
be taught by Prof. Price and by John B. Johnston, assistant professor of mathematics.
Part two, to be offered next semester, is numbered Mathematics 12 and will emphasize calculus, a subject usually geared for students in engineering and the physical sciences. The two parts may be taken separately, Prof. Price said, although students will be encouraged to enroll for both.
HOUSTON—(UPI)—Nine young men who have been secretly training for months stood ready to claim officially the title of "Astronauts' today. Their destination—the moon, in five years or less.
Nine New Astronauts Ready For First Public Appearance
THE NATIONAL Aeronautics and Space Administration said it would reveal the new spacemen-elect to the world today in Houston, the new "space center" where they will prepare for their glamorous but dangerous missions of the future.
To one of the nine is expected to go the most coveted role in America's multi-billion-dollar manned spaceflight program — commander of the nation's first manned expedition to the moon.
For the rookie astronauts, action should come fast. They will move into NASA's manned spaceflight program alongside the seven "Mercury" astronauts who have carried America's banner into space in two sub-orbital and two three-orbit flights.
Only one of the present astronauts, LeRoy Gordon Cooper Jr., could meet the 35-year age limit set for the new spacemen. The rest range up to 41 years for astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., who made America's first orbital flight last Feb. 20.
"They will be younger so they can fly longer." said Walter J. North, chief of the crew operations division of NASA's manned spacecraft center here. The implication is that the days of the "original seven" Mercury astronauts as active space pilots are limited.
SELECTION OF THE new team reflects a drastic shift in the human element for the forthcoming maninto-space programs called "Gemini" and "Apollo" — a heavy emphasis on youth combined with as much experience as possible.
The fledglings will have the spaceflight experience of the Mercury program to spare them the nerve-wracking agony of suspense and often indecision that bugged Mercury in its early days.
THE NINE WERE selected from an original volunteer list of more than 253 that was compiled in response to a NASA invitation early this year. Many of the 253 were immediately tabbed as "patently unqualified" because they failed to
meet the rigorous standards set up at the time;
Maximum age, 35; maximum height, six feet; maximum weight, 190 pounds; experience, at least half of their flight time in high-performance iet aircraft.
The volunteers were narrowed down to about 70, then again to 32. From these came the nine — whom, incidentally, NASA chooses to lump into a "spacefight personnel pool" rather than calling them astronauts. That they will be called astronauts, however, is certain.
The nine have been in spaceflight training for months — undergoing the crushing rigors of centrifuge rides which shot their weights up to more than 10 times normal, flying jets through huge arcs to experience "zero gravity" for a minute or two, jockeying spaceflight "simulators" which juggle the senses to the point of nausea, and sitting for endless hours in pressure chambers and "hot rooms."
SCIENTISTS PUTTING their rookies through the paces knew what they were doing. The flights of Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom, of John Glenn and M. Scott Carpenter, have provided a solid picture of the fearsome physical and psychological problems of flying into space.
Manned Gemini spacecraft, powered by the new Titan II booster rocket, will thunder into the skies from Cape Caneral, Fla., starting
The first spacefights of the new nine probably will be on board the Gemini capsule, a spaceship built for two.
Five Members Added To Chemistry Faculty
Five new faculty members will join the chemistry department this fall.
They include Benjamin Chu, post doctoral fellow from Cornell University; Robin T. M. Fraser, of the University of Ottawa, Canada; Marlin D. Harmony, post doctoral fellow from Harvard; John A. Landgrebe, recent graduate of the University of Illinois; and Harold L. Jackson, past member of the DuPont Jackson Laboratories.
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in late 1963 or 1964. It is possible the early flights will include one member of the veteran Mercury team and one of the new members.
After Gemini will come Apollo the program that America will support to the tune of $20 billion to $40 billion during the next few years. Apollo spaceships, powered by a thunderous Saturn C5 rocket now in the development stage, will carry teams of three astronauts to the vicinity of the moon.
FROM AN ORBIT around the moon, two of the three will ride down on a "landing bug" to set foot on the lunar surface — hopefully, ahead of the Russians.
He won't know it for awhile, but the head of that historic mission was doubtless here today and doubtless waited nervously for the nation's space chiefs to toll off his and other names to a waiting world.
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