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MR. KU HONORED—Fred Ellsworth, emeritus alumni secretary of KU who retired last June after 39 years of service, and Mrs. Ellsworth stand before the $2.6 million Fred Ellsworth Hall which was dedicated Sunday.
By Greg Swartz
Ex-Alumni Secretary Urges Men to Excel
Fred Ellsworth, former executive-secretary of the KU Alumni Association, yesterday challenged the men of the residence hall named after him to become the most outstanding living group on campus.
Ellsworth's remarks followed the dedication of Fred Ellsworth Hall, KU's newest and largest residence hall, by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe on Ellsworth's 68th birthday.
"We're looking forward to you men becoming the most outstanding living group on campus," Ellsworth said. He especially called upon the students to be at the top of the scholastic rolls of the University.
ELLSWORTH, who served the Alumni Association 38 years, said he hoped his name would only be a symbol of what the alumni has done for the university.
Chancellor Wescoe said no one has represented the energy, dedication, and loyalty that characterizes the KU family as has Fred Ellsworth. The chancellor said Ellsworth had selflessly established the KU Alumni Association.
WESCOE SAID he was proud of the residence halls for their efficiency and economy of operation. He said housing was a limiting factor in the University's growth.
Ellsworth singled Mrs. Gertrude Sellards Pearson out of the crowd of about 700, who, with her husband, has made many gifts to KU.
The crowd was then invited into the $2.3 million structure by J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, to view its facilities.
The guests were shown through the building by its 350-400 residents.
LARRY DEMAREA, Kansas City, Mo., senior and Ellsworth Hall president, presented Ellsworth with a bound letter signed by all the 670 residents stating the ideals and future plans of the residents. Mrs. Ellsworth was presented with a large bouquet of red roses.
With the Ellsworths were their two sons, Robert and Stephen who are KU graduates, and Ellsworth's sister, Miss Maud Ellsworth, a retired professor of art education at KU.
Monday, Oct. 7, 1963
Wescoe Elected to Board
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has been elected to the board of directors of the American Council of Education (ACE).
The chancellor returned from Washington, D.C., Friday from the ACE's three-day meeting there. The 18-man board plans the council's official policy and is in charge of administration and business activities. Chancellor Wescoe said.
THE RECENT ACE MEETING, which was attended by representatives of 2,000 colleges and universities, made two resolutions:
- Favoring equality of opportunity of education.
- Favoring federal aid for facilities for higher education.
The chancellor flies to New York City this afternoon for a meeting of the board of higher education of the Lutheran Church, of which he is a member.
Both are re-affirmations of policy.
He said he considers private colleges very important in the educational system of America.
The meeting will last one and a half days. The chancellor is expected to return to KU Wednesday.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Daily hansan
61st Year, No. 17
KU Child Research Bureau Receives $2 Million in Funds
By Tom Coffman
The largest research grant ever received by KU totalling nearly $2 million over a seven-year period, has been made to the KU Bureau of Child Research by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Dr. R. L. Schiefelbusch, head of the bureau, will direct the research, which he described as a study of the social communication behavior of mentally retarded children.
SCHIEFELBUSCH explained that the grant came through the program projects branch of NIMH, which handles long-range, large-scale projects. The program projects branch has awarded only five other grants since it began five years ago.
The allocation for this year is $281,745. Schiefellbusch expects a $19,800 grant to be awarded soon for the renovation of Varsity House, 11 Indiana, as a research center.
Research will be done at three locations: Parsons State Hospital and Training Center, Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC) at Kansas City, and the Bureau of Child Research here.
PARSONS, WHICH has a large number of retarded children, is considered by Schiefelbusch to be the outstanding behavioral research center in the country. Existing facilities there will continue to be used for research and demonstration purposes. Clinicians and teachers in mental retardation will be granted stipends by Schiefelbusch to attend short, intensive study demonstrations at Parsons.
A research building in an underprivileged area in Kansas City is planned in connection with the KUMC branch. "Children will begin very young—right after infancy
—at the research center," Schiefelbusch explained. "By training and education we hope to make up for the short-comings of their homes and communities, and reduce the incidents of mental retardation."
Children not attending the day school will be studied, and a comparison of the two groups is hoped to reveal the affects of community problems on children, Schiefelbusch said.
THREE LABORATORIES will be set up in the Varsity House at KU. A speech science laboratory will enable the study of responses to sound and speech. The other two will facilitate the study of infant and preschool children and group behavior among children.
Dr. R.L. Schiefelbusch
In those laboratories sound can be controlled, and they will be equipped with observation mirrors and sound pick-up for observers outside the laboratory.
"A laboratory is nothing more than a carefully controlled environment in which the children can be studied." Schiefelbusch said.
The project is so broad in scope that it would be fruitless without team cooperation. The research team will include sociologists, speech pathologists, and five types of psychologists-comparative, social, experimental, developmental, and educational, he said.
"THE FINDINGS of any one of these areas are almost meaningless unless related to the work of the other man." Schiefbusch said.
Twelve researchers, called senior investigators, will be spread over the three areas, with five at Parsons, three at KUMC, and four at KU. "They are a young group," Schiefelbusch said, "but have four years of research experience on the average."
"Communication and social behavior can cover anything from a gesture to a tantrum," Schiefelbusch said. "We are interested mainly in knowing how these children relate to other people."
"THIS RESEARCH is not limited solely to mentally retarded children," he said. "Normal children will be studied for standards of comparison to the varying degrees of mental retardation." Most of the work at KU will involve study of normal groups.
"Part of the program will train other expert researchers," Schiefel-busch explained. "There is a great need for more men, and this may be the most important thing we do."
Study of the learning processes and language developments of both normal and retarded children is a major goal of the project, he said.
"PROBABLY most important, we want to understand the interacting (Continued on page 7)
Weather
Continued warm weather will prevail today and tomorrow. Slightly cooler temperatures are expected, with the low tonight in the 50s and a high Tuesday in the 80s.
"We have hot dogs, baked beans, German potato salad, sliced tomatoes, apples, cupcakes, coffee, and about 500 bottles of pop," he said.
The Most 'American' Americans Entertain 350 Foreign Students At Sunday Picnic
By Charles Corcoran
About 350 KU foreign students attended a picnic at Potter Lake Sunday afternoon sponsored by the Lawrence International Friendship Enterprise (Lawrence LIFE) and KU People-to-People. They expected to meet Americans, but few imagined they would meet the most "American" Americans.
Brightly costumed, wrist and ankle bells jangling, a group of students from the Haskell Institute exhibited war and social dances of various American Indian tribes. The Indians asked the KU foreign and American students to join them in the "49," a dance they said is popular among Indian teenagers.
THE LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL baton twirlers also presented a demonstration of their football half-time routines.
Joseph Travlor, acting chairman of Lawrence LIFE, said that the organization is composed of Lawrence residents who want to present a friendly town to foreign visitors.
He said that the organization is supported by money from the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce's United Fund.
Frank Burge, chairman of the picnic, said that Lawrence LIFE wanted the picnic to present "a typical U.S. Sunday afternoon get-to-gether."
"We hope the food is good and that the picnic promotes fun and fellowship."
BIRGITTA SLADEK. Austrian graduate student, said that she thought the picnic was a success. "I particularly enjoyed the Indian dancers," she said. "Having everyone join in the dancing brought all of us closer together."
Wei-pang Kao, Republic of China graduate student, said that the dances were similar to the ones
Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika junior, said that he would have liked a smaller gathering. "I would much prefer to be able to picnic with one or two Lawrence families or a small group of students. These large parties are a fine way to meet people, but not to get to know them," he said.
done by tribes on Formosa. "They appeal to me because they are so much like what is done at home," he said.
INTERNATIONAL CONVERSATION—(from left to right) Milan Loupal, Czechoslovakia graduate, Milly Yumang, Philippines sophomore, Kant Ajmera, India graduate, and Bertrand Fau, France graduate, enjoy candid conversation at LIFE picnic.