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University Daily Kansan ___ Thursday, April 19, 1956.
IBM Representative Speaks At Pi Mu Alpha Banquet
Pi Mu Alpha, national honorary mathematics fraternity, held its annual banquet Wednesday in the English Room of the Student Union.
Dr. John Forman, applied science representative for the IBM Corporation, was the principal speaker. He talked on the need for mathematicians and told of the machines used at IBM.
G. W. Smith, professor of mathematics who will retire at the end of this semester, was given the title "member extraordinary." The award was also presented to three professors who have already retired: E. B. Stauffer, J. J. Wheeler and H. A. Jordan.
Election of officers was held, and 10 members were initiated.
Officers are Jack Hafferkamp Lawrence, president; Harry Nelson, Topeka, vice president, and Robert Woodruff, Prairie Village, recording secretary, all graduate students; Wealthy Babcock, associate professor of mathematics, corresponding secretary; Kathleen O'Donnell, instructor in mathematics, treasurer, and Gilbert Ulmer, associate professor of mathematics, librarian.
Initiates include Miguel Cardenas, Chihuahua, Mexico, John Irwin, Indianapolis, Ind, Harry Nelson, Topeka, Clyde Rinker, Silver Lake, David E. Wilson, Meade, and Robert Woodruff, all -grdauate students; Margaret Mary Green, and Joseph Robb, Lawrence, and David Lehmann, Halstead, all juniors, and Betty Gross, Lee's Summit, Mo., senior.
Israeli Group To Give Program
The Oranim Song and Dance Group of Haifa, Israel, will present songs and dances of the country at the Israel Independence Day program at 8:15 p.m. today in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union.
Israeli Vice-consul I. D. Unna will speak on the "Birth and Heritage of a Nation."
Members of the Oranim Group have recently toured the United States and two members have appeared on television. Miss Rachel Hadass is a singer who is noted for her interpretations of Israeli folk songs. Avraham Elber is making his second visit to the U. S. dancer and choreographer.
Journalism Professor In Press Workshop
For the fifth straight year, Emil L. Telfel, associate professor of journalism, will conduct the newspaper section of the Interscholastic Press Workshop at the eighth annual Headliner Week of the Lincoln University School of Journalism in Jefferson City, Mo. The workshop began Wednesday and will end Saturday.
The photography section of the workshop will be in charge of Lee S. Cole, instructor in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information from 1945 to 1950, and now an associate professor at Lincoln University.
Wells New President Of Gamma Alpha Chi
Gamma Alpha Chi, national honorary advertising fraternity elected Nancy Wells, Kansas City, Mo., junior, president for the coming year.
Other officers elected are Marilyn Eaton, Kansas City, Kan., vice president; Jane Harrison, Downs sophomore, corresponding secretary; Virginia Jennings, junior, record secretary, Carol Barker, sophomore, treasurer, both of Independence, Mo., and Betty Jean Stanford, Admire junior, reporter.
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Parking Regulations For The Weekend
Persons holding parking permits for Zone D will be unable to park their cars there from noon today to noon Saturday. An Engineering Exposition display will be set up in the lot. During this time those with Zone D permits may park in Zone C or Zone G.
Schultz, James
House Of Representatives Elected to the House of Representatives were;
Parking will be allowed on south side of Jayhawk Drive from Hoch Auditorium to the Chi Omega fountain starting Friday morning.
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District I (social fraternities) — Bill Woo, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Dick Harris, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Jack Brown, Liberal senior; Dick Bond, Mission junior; and Bill Witt, Garden City sophomore (POGO); Ralph Varnum, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore (AGI).
District II (social sororities)—Mary Belle Brown, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Barbara Messer, Olathe sophomore (AGI); Anne Compton, Westfield, N.J., sophomore (POGO).
District III (men's University dorms)—Dick Gillespie, Topeka sophomore, (AGI).
District IV (women's University dorms)—Creta Carter, Jennings freshman (AGI).
District IV (freshman women's dorms)—Susie Stout, Wichita freshman, (AGI).
District VI (professional fraternities and co-ops)—Allen D. Smith. Topeka sophomore (AGI).
District VII (unorganized students) -Ted J. Barnes, Salina senior (AGI).
Longfellow got the information for his poem, "The Song of Hiawatha," published in 1855, from an Indian historian who lived at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Representatives at large: Jody Hobbs, Wichita junior.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
LEARNING FROM NATURE-A group of sixth grade students from Cordley School in Lawrence take a field trip with John Jacques, Lawrence senior in art education. The children are observing an evergreen west of Flint Hall before returning to class to make chalk paintings of trees and colorful flowers. The group visited the campus Wednesday afternoon and is one of nine from city schools which are cooperating in the art teaching program.
in the art teaching program.
Near Selection Of Graham Jury
DENVER (UP)—Attorneys began questioning the 102nd prospective juror today for the sabotage murder trial of John Gilbert Graham.
The prosecution and defense were tentatively agreed on 10 jurors, but each side had 11 peremptory challenges remaining.
Thirteen jurors must be selected—12 to hear and decide the case and one alternate, who would vote on a verdict if one of the regular jurors fell ill or was otherwise unable to serve.
Graham is accused of blowing up a United Airlines DC-GB last Nov. 1 in a plot to collect insurance on his mother, Mrs. Daisie King. She and 43 other persons died when the plane was blasted from the sky over Longmont, Colo.
Sigma Alpha Iota Initiation May 1
The initiation date of five pledges into Sigma Alpha Iota, national honorary music sorority, was changed from May 2 to May 1 last night in a weekly meeting in Strong Hall. The change was made due to a conflict in school activities.
The pledges are: Mary Beth Spena, Lecompton, Sharon Regier, Newton, Margaret Throm, Overland Park, and Janetha Schmalzried, Dighton, sophomores; Marilyn Jo Wiens, Belle Plaine freshman.
Murphy To Appear On TV Program
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will be the narrator of the third "Highroads to Health" program to be televised Sunday, April 22 over station KMBC-TV.
Chancellor Murphy will report on the progress of the Rural Health Program of Kansas since it was started in 1949. Documentary films will be shown describing medical care in five Kansas towns.
Dr. Herman Hiesterman and Dr. Carl Gunter, both KU graduates and now living in Quinter will be on the "Doctors for Kansas" program, describing how they became interested in practicing medicine in rural Kansas.
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