Ends 60-year span
Old Haworth to fall from Mount Oread
By MONROE DODD Kansan Staff Writer
Clothed in the tenacious ivy that, vulture-like, clings to the majority of KU's more decadent buildings, "Old" Haworth Hall stands atop Mount Oread. Most inhabitants are unaware of the impending doom of one of the Hill's oldest structures.
Haworth, having lived its life on Jayhawk Boulevard, finds it duties—and its inmates—gone to happier surroundings, the Center for Experimental Biology and Human Development, "New" Haworth.
Meanwhile, the end approaches for the crumbling building, fashioned from native stone as part of a 1909 Legislative spending spree.
Shortly after the turn of the century the Kansas State Legislature benignly eyed KU (student population: 2,000) and decided to grant the relatively bare Lawrence campus $200,000 for the construction of engineering, mining and geology facilities.
From Legislature
From the Legislature's fertile mind sprang Marvin Hall, which took $150,000, and Haworth, which got the remaining $50,000.
In 1910 the construction company etched "Geology and Mining" just out of sight above Haworth's corneia and declared it ready to accept KU's geology and mining departments and the Kansas Dept. of Geology.
Rockhounds trod the now-creaking stairs and dusky halls wainscoted with dark oak for 35 years, stopping occasionally to ponder the plaque that dedicates the building to "Erasmus Haworth, professor of geology 1892-1920, pioneer geologist, inspiring teacher, loyal friend." (It is interesting to note that Haworth was nicknamed "Daddy" in an era when professor-student relationships were apparently not so tenuous as today.)
However in 1945 the geologists were able, through some sort of political magic, to have Lindley Hall erected. They quickly made off with the tools of their trade and Kansas' largest mineral collection, leaving Haworth to first-year medical students.
During that time, according to the Daily Kansan, Haworth was plagued by a fire—believed to have been started by a cigarette flung from a window onto an awning—causing a meager $20 damage.
Haworth survived the attack upon its dignity but was helpless to withstand the onslaught of medical students and their odorous cadavers.
Med school picks Pharmacy head
Harold N. Godwin has been named director of pharmacy at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. He came from the Ohio State University Hospitals in Columbus, where he was assistant director of the pharmacy.
A native of Ransom, Kansas, Godwin grew up in Ness City and earned the B.S. in pharmacy at KU in 1964. He earned the M.S. in hospital pharmacy in 1966 at Ohio State and since has been supervisor and instructor as well as assistant director in Ohio's pharmacy department.
Godwin also will be a teaching associate in the School of Medicine and assistant professor of pharmacy on the Lawrence campus.
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The medical students stuck it out until 1962, when the last Lawrence medical courses were transferred to Kansas City, but the smells remained as the College's departments of anatomy, biochemistry and physics moved in.
Along with the assigned departments, Haworth served as the receptacle for various overflow classes.
Haworth's fate was finally sealed by the University's 10-year Master Plan, which called for the razing of Haworth and the adjacent Robinson Gymnasium to make room for a proposed new humanities building (today's Wescoe Hole).
Scheduled to have been demolished by now, Haworth clung to life after it was pressed into service to accommodate more maverick classes unable to find room anywhere else.
due to be levelled before the end of the 1970 spring semester.
The "old" building, now designated as such by a gilt-lettered sign attached above its name, is
Sign Distinguishes It
At the foot of the hill is Haworth's $3 million replacement, just completed and boasting eight stories of bright, sterile cubicles.
The campus will not note Haworth's passing—except for those students with tender nostrils laced by fumes from anatomy classes—yet perhaps some alumni may recall in the coming years the benches where groups of people rested, directly in front of a symmetrical rockpile named incongruously "Geology and Mining."
BLACK LUNG
FRANKFORT, Ky. (UPI) — Kentucky plans dust quality testing in coal mines in an effort health and mine officials hope will lead to control of black lung and other respiratory diseases.
Conducting the program will be the State Department of Health and the Department of Mines and Minerals. Kentucky is the first state to initiate extensive research on black lung.
HOMECOMING WEEKEND IS DR. PEPPER TIME!
Anytime is a good time for Dr. Pepper . . . especially Homecoming Weekend. Check the Dr. Pepper schedule below for weekend activities.
FRIDAY:
- Homecoming decorations at the living units will be on display from 5 to 11 p.m.
- At 8:20 p.m. the University Theatre will present "Die Fledermaus" in Murphy Hall.
- SATURDAY:
- Homecoming decorations will be on display in the morning.
- At 10:30 a.m. there will be a one hour general homecoming reception with the three homecoming queen finalists in the Kansas Union Lobby.
- 1:15 p.m. begins the pre-game show with the Marching Band in Memorial Stadium.
- Kick-off time will be at 1:30 p.m. between the Jayhawks and Colorado Buffaloes.
- Steppenwolf and the Turtles concert at 8 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Men's Wear
Jayhawk Headquarters
The Jayhawk Blazer ... $50.
The Jayhawk Tie ... $ 6.50
The Jayhawk Stadium Blanket ... $20.
The K.U. Blue Rain Hat ... $ 4.
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