Tuesday, March 27, 1956. University Daily Kansan
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Clearing Paraguay Forests 'Beastly Hard Work,' He Says
ults.
By RAY WINGERSON (Of The Daily Kansai Staff)
Clearing forests in Paraguay was "beastly hard work from morning to night every day." A. W. Kuchler, professor of geography and vegetation mapper, told The Daily Kansas in an interview.
Chopping down forests 20 years ago was Prof. Kuchler's livelihood while he lived in Paraguay "to see what was there." He was "just curious" and wondered what the country and people were like, so he went there to see. While working for the United Fruit Co. in Jamaica he had "asked around" to find out what Paraguay was like, but no one could tell him.
"They could tell me all about Uruguay and Bolivia and all the others, but no one knew anything about the others," he said.
Graduation Present: Jamaica Trip Prof. Kuchler was in Jamaica because his father offered him a one-way ticket to any place in the world as his graduation present. A German-born American, Prof. Kuchler lived in Germany then. He chose Jamaica because it is without tropical diseases, does not have too severe a climate, and because English is spoken there, he said.
About 10 years ago, Prof. Kuchler started making vegetation maps. He, she, said, mark the po-
tentialities of a region by indicating soil conditions and qualities and climatic conditions.
Today he has one of the most complete collections of these maps in the United States, including those of the United States Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forestry Service.
There are so few authorities in the vegetation mapping field, Dr. Kuchler said, that at an international colloquium in Europe only 20 persons attended. Prof. Kuchler was one of them, representing North America.
Eniovs Flowers
In his backyard at 2151 Owens Lane Prof. Kuchler has a portion of the midwestern prairie—ihe pretty portion.
"Beautiful flowers grow on the prairie without irrigation, hoeing, or fertilization," he explained. "There's no reason why they shouldn't grow that way in my backyard. This way I get a maximum of fun for a minimum of effort."
His backyard is four-fifths of an acre, and in it he also grows his own lettuce—he prefers his own to the supermarket variety because he likes lettuce "with some flavor in it."
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Isn't it crowded in his backyard?
"Oh no," he replied. "It's quite spacious."
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Kappa Beta, 5.30 p.m., Myers Hall, Cos.
summer.
Book review, 4 p.m. Music Room, Student Union. "Henry Adams," by Elizabeth Stevenson. Reviewer: Walter Meres.
Tau Sigma, 7:15 p.m., Bailey Auditorium.
ASC, 7:30 p.m., Parlor C, Student Union
Social Work Club, 4 p.m. Sociology library. Election of officers. Speaker: Paul Hudebackt, assistant director of vocacula; Director of Topeka Members required, to attend.
Alpha Phi Omega: 7:30 p. m., chapter
academic committee meeting. All
officials are invited.
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, honorary earth science society. Frank Foley, Frank Foley, director of Kansas Geological Survey, "Opportunity," an initiative of federal and Federal Surveys. Public invited
Kind Lady, 8 p.m. Fraser Theater
Studio Music tickets 50
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Wesley Foundation coffee and vespers
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*Holy Week* meditations, 7:35-7:50 a.m.
Methodist Student, Center.
Jay James, 5 p.m., Pine Room, Memoria
Lincoln.
Faculty Room luncheon, noon, English Room, Student Union. Speaker: Edwin Stone Philippe-American-MCA office, before 5.p.m. Tuesday. KU 227.
Gamma Alpha Chi meeting, noon, 205 Flint. Girls bring sack lunches.
CCUN steering committee, 4 p.m., office. Union.
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Hillel-Passer Seder, 7:30 p.m. First Baptist Church, 801 Kentucky. Call Bergers, VI-0414, for reservations. All are welcome.
Poetry Hour, 4 p.m. Student Union
Room, 602 Mordard, John Holmes
Reader: Dion Benson
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Der deutsche Verein 5:00 Dennasterg.
502 Fraser Don Hortier spricht über das Leben des americanischen Soldaten in der Erfrischungen. Alle sind willkommen.
Collegiate Republicans, 7:30 p.m. Room 306. Student Union, Election of officers.
4 Named To Staff Of Kansas Engineer
They are Minter E. Brown, Topeka sophomore, joke editor; Edward L. Odell, Mission sophomore, copyreader; Phil W. Coolidge, Topeka senior, illustrations editor, and George A. Gribble, Great Bend sophomore, photographer.
Four staff appointments to the Kansas Engineer were announced Monday night by Bill Franklin, Topeka junior and editor.
Students near German Consul Approximately 30 foreign students were entertained by the Lawrence Rotary Club Monday at a luncheon at the Hotel Eldridge. Hans Schweigmann, the German consul from Kansas City, Mo., spoke to the group on the present conditions and recent developments in Germany.
Students Hear German Consul
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Servis, Van Doren and Hazard, Topeka consulting engineers have established four $100 scholarships in the School of Engineering and Architecture to be awarded freshmen entering the school next fall.
This year the celebration is in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Kansas Modern Language Association, for which the department of Germanic and Slavic Romance languages are co-hosts.
Cervantes Day April 14
Freshmen in civil, mechanical or electrical engineering with grades which are average or better will be considered for the scholarships. Selections will be made by a faculty committee.
Topeka Firm Gives 4 Engineer Awards
A banquet in honor of Jose M Osma, professor of Romance languages, a founder of Cervantes Day, will be held Friday evening in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union. Mr. Osma is retiring from the faculty in June after 39 years of service.
Cervantes Day, established more than 30 years ago by the department of Spanish, will be celebrated on Saturday, April 14.
Cervantes Day is the 340th anniversary year of the death of the author of "Don Quixote," Cervantes Saavedra.
L. R. Lind, head of the Latin and Greek department, will attend the installation ceremonies of Robert Eli Long, new president of Park College at Parkville, Mo., on Wednesday April 11. Mr. Lind will represent the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Official roadside signs disclose without fanfare that the population of El Segundo, a southern California community, is 11,111.
Lind To Attend Installation
3-30
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