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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 13. 1956
600 Students Benefit From Pearson Gifts
New housing for almost 600 University students has been made possible through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Reed Pearson, and their generosity has set a pattern for the future in providing living quarters for students. $ \textcircled{4} $
The donations of Mr. and Mrs. Pearson, which exceed $500,000, have enabled the University to build four residence halls. Sellards, finished in 1952, houses 54 women, and Pearson also completed in 1952, houses 52 men. Both are scholarship halls.
Graduated In 1901
Grace Pearson, a dormitory completed in 1955 housing 48 women, and Gertrude Sellars Pearson, a dormitory finished this year housing 443 women, also were built with the Pearson's contributions.
Gertrude Sellards of Lawrence was graduated from the University in 1901. In 1903 she went to Arkansas City to teach and met Joseph Pearson, who then was a railroad employee. They were married in Lawrence in 1905.
Before going to Texas to work in the oil fields in 1922, Mr. Pearson worked in the insurance business in Wichita and in business promotion in Denver. In Texas, Mr. Pearson was a leader in the establishment of propration, by which the industry cooperates with government in limiting the rate of oil production to prevent excess depletion and waste.
KU Needed Funds
The Pearson's established a permanent residence in Corsicana, Tex., but visited Lawrence frequently, especially while her parents were alive. In 1927 Mrs. Pearson was in charge of her class reunion.
Former Chancellor Deane W. Malott spoke to an alumni meeting in Kansas City in 1944 which the Pearsonrs attended and he gave an account of the development and needs of the University. The next year a check for $201,000 for residence halls came from the Pearsonrs. The gifts from the Pearsonrs, which have made the four halls possible, have been supplemented by money from the Watkins brud and by bond issues, a plan Mr. Pearson felt was sound. The Legislature has now recognized and adopted it.
Mr. Pearson visited many campuses to study dormitory planning and financing, in order to help plan the building and equiping of the halls. The Pearsonspent a great deal of time searching for special drapes, pictures and other furnishings which would make the dormitories as pleasant as possible.
W. B. Henderson, head of the insurance agency for which Mr. Pearson worked from 1905 to 1912 wrote to Mrs. Pearson concerning his memory of Mr. Pearson, "He had an intense desire to do big, generous, constructive things. I interpret his generous contributions to KU to have been prompted by that spirit. I am sure that you had a prominent part in the KU gifts."
Art Museum Works To Be Returned
Works of art loaned by the University of Kansas Museum of Art to the "Century of Mozart" exhibition at the Nelson Rockhill Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Mo., will be returned this week.
On loan for the exhibition were sculpture, the French terra cotta "Diana", the marble "Glorification of St. SIGmund" by Hegenauer and the wooden figure "Bacchus" by Permoser. Also ornamental carvings owned by Edward A. Maser, museum director, and two 18th Century Italian tables owned by Chancellor and Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy.
Faculty Tea Set For Today
The Canterbury Association will give a tea for the KU faculty at 4:30 p.m. today at the Canterbury House. Franklin C. Nelick, associate professor of English, will present the "Faculty Papers of the National Council of the Episcopal Church," and lead a discussion on "American Literature and the Christian Tradition" following the tea.
The world's largest privately-owned gun collection and western art exhibit is located at Claremore, Okla.
Col. Summers Rated As Command Pilot
Col. Thomas B. Summers, professor of Air Science, has been awarded the rating of command pilot by the U.S. Air Force.
Command pilot is the highest aeronautical rating which can be awarded to Air Force pilots. It is awarded on the basis of demonstrated proficiency and flying experience, and requires at least 15 years as a pilot and a minimum of 3,000 hours of flying time.
Official Bulletin
Student Union Activities officer and board applications may be picked up in SUA office in the Student Union beginning this week. Applications will be due Friday, April 13, and may be returned to the SUA office.
Institute of Aero Sciences technical paper; compere 11-11:15 a.m.; 7:15 p.m.
Todav
Book review j music Room, Student
University John Guntin ' inside Ad-
员 Student John Guntin ' inside Ad-
员
Alpha Phi Omega, 7:30 p.m. office.
Exec committee meeting. All officers
and staff.
Kappa Beta, 5:30 p.m., Myers Hall
Guest night for foreign students.
Social Work Club, 6:48 p.m., North end of Cornelius Reed. Attendance required. Cornelius Reed. Attendance required.
Sunday at 1 p.m. Ronaldson, Johnson
Pre-School Club
Pre-School nurse with film,
Speaker: nurse with film, Re-
pre-school
ASC house and senate, 7:30 p.m., Activities Lounge, Union.
SUA talent tryouts, 7:30 p.m., Jayhawk Room, Student Union
Wednesday
Gamma Alpha Chi, noon, alcove, Student, Union, Cafeteria
CCUN Steering Committee, 4 p.m., Office Union.
Education Club, 4 p.m. Bailey Auditorium. Speaker Mr. Wolfe, superintendent of Lawrence public schools Look for When Hiring A New Teacher."
Foreign student meeting, 7 p.m., Jayhawk Room, Student Union, Discussion of plans for the 1956 Foreign Student Festival.
Morning meditations, 7:30-7:50 a.m.
Danforth mission, everyone welcome.
Danforth mission, everyone欢迎。
Gamma Alpha Chi, noon, alcove, Student Union Cafeteria.
dent Union Cafeteria.
Jay Jones, 5 p.m., Pine Room. Old and
Jay Jones, 5 p.m., Pine Room. Old and new officers meet.
Engineering Council meeting, 7:30 p.m.
116 Marvin.
Student chapter of AICh. E meeting
of the American Association of Stainless
Prot. Rose, *Corrosion of Stainless Steel*
Thursday
YM-YWC4 Bible study 4 p.m. *activ-
tive lounge* "Using the gospel of John"
*Women's Book of Christian Writ-
ing*.
Poetry hour, 4 p.m. Student Union
Room 1208. Dr. Robert Cawdor,
Residency: Albert Kitzlahm.
Lecture. 7:30 p.m. 426 Lindley Hall. Speaker: Victor H. Cahalane. "Wilderness Areas of Alaska." Public welcome.
Christian Science organization, 7:30
pac., Danff逊 Chapel, Students, faculty.
Der deutsche Version 502 Fraser D honnert.
Kaffeelutsch Erfrischungen.
Mittelschule.
Baptist Student Union, 12:30-12:50 p.m.
Danforth Chapel. Devotions and prayer
Phi Chi Theta initiation, 4 p.m., Chi Omega House. Attendance required
Sigma Xi, 7:30 p.m., 123 Malott, Dr. Amita Balsy, Biological Plant Studies of Biological Multiplication
Chemistry Club, 8 p.m., 233 Malott Hall Street, Sheffield Steel, Kensington, KC. "Steel Production Methods," and Frank Robby, "Lab Procedure." Everyone welcome.
KU Medical Dames, 8 p.m., Museum lounge.
Austrian students open house, 8 p.m.
Jayhawk Room.
Fridav
Spare Time Activities Of Aged Exhibited
The Conference on Aging being held at the Student Union today and Wednesday is placing an emphasis on "Science Activities for the Older Person."
University Players, 7-8 p.m., English Room.
Examples of various craft work done in homes for the aged throughout Kansas have been sent to the conference for exhibit.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
A COED'S DREAM—Floyd Weinberg is caring for one of the more than 600 orchid plants in the greenhouse. As the picture shows, many of the plants are in bloom.
Greenhouse Orchids Bloom Bananas Slowly Ripen
Bananas in Kansas?
Floyd Weinberg, in charge of the tropical greenhouse behind Flint Hall, hopes so. In about $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $months the fruit on a banana plant in the middle of the greenhouse will be ripe enough to eat.
This is not the first time Mr. Weinberg has picked bananas off a greenhouse plant, but it takes two years to grow them. One bunch is grown on each plant.
Grows From Stump
"After the fruit is picked I break of the trunk of the plant and from the stump another one grows," Mr Weinberg said. "In two years the new plant will be ready to bear fruit again."
The greenhouse might be considered a coed's paradise, for its glassy walls are lined with about 600 orchid plants, many of them in bloom.
Orchids Were Gi
"The art and design students stay to paint or sketch flowers," Mr Weinberg explained, "while the science students spend only about an hour touring through."
The orchids were given to the greenhouse several years ago by a botanical garden in St. Louis. They are kept for display and observation by the students. Odddy enough, it is the art and design, not botany and biology, students who spend the most time in the greenhouse.
University Acquires Bust Of T. S. Eliot
A bronze bust of the British poet T. S. Eliot will be installed in the Music Room of the Student Union at a program marking the end of the Poetry Hour series May 17.
Now on display at the Museum of Art, the over life-size bust by Sir Jacob Epstein was acquired by the Endowment Association to honor the Poetry Hour, organized by the English department and held weekly during the academic year. Mr Eliot's play, "Murder in the Cathedral," will be read at the May 17 program.
Maser Named As Judge
Edward A. Maser, director of the Museum of Art, will be one of the judges for the 16th annual Oklahoma Artist Competition sponsored by the Philbrook Art Center of Tulsa, Okla. Mr. Maser will leave for Tulsa Friday.
A 154-pound halibut landed by rod and reel near Pacific City, Ore., is believed to be a record catch for that fish.
Law Fraternity Initiates Eight
Eight students were initiated by Phi Alpha Delta, professional law fraternity, in ceremonies Friday at the Douglas County Court House.
The initiates are: Alvin D. Herrington, Wellington; Howard A. Maddux, Deerfield; Darrell O. McNeil, Peabody; Gerald L. Rushfelt, Lawrence, and Roger Lewis Tuttle, Kansas City, Kan. All are first-year law students.
Loy W. Kirkpartick, Council Grove second-year law student; Carleton M. Crick, Pittsburgh, Pa.; and John Grant Napier, Wichita seniors.
Guests at the initiation were William R. Scott, associate professor of mathematics; Dan Hopson Jr., assistant professor of law, and Don White, county attorney of Franklin County.
3 To Gamma Delta Regional Meeting
Three KU students will attend the five-state regional board meeting of the Rocky Plains Region of Gamma Delta, Lutheran organization, in Topeka Saturday.
The students are Ormand L. Cordes, Meade sophomore and Gamma Delta regional president; Waldo W. Anderson, Traer spohomore and chapter president, and Norman T. Brandt, Lawrence graduate student and Lutheran student pastor.
Western Civ Preliminaries Set
Harrison Madden, assistant director of the Western Civilization department said yesterday, "Students enrolled in Western Civilization will be able to take a trial examination either April 10 or 11 without worrying about their grade."
The test will have no bearing on the student's grade, but will be scored in order to help the student determine his progress. Students will be able to take the exam either night.
Any student including those not enrolled in the course may take the examination. No one will be required to take it.
This is the second semester that the course has been divided into small discussion groups. Every sophomore enrolled in the college must enroll in the discussion groups.
The final exam will be given 12
The exam will be divided into two sections. The first covering units one through five and the second covering units five through ten. Students may choose the one they prefer or both.
Students enrolled in the course are given one hour of credit for each semester enrolled and are graded on their participation. When they take the final exam, they are given five more hours of credit.
Graduate Student Schedules Recital
Dale Moore, Olathe graduate student, will present his graduate recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Strong Auditorium. He is a bass baritone.
He has sung leading roles in many productions, including "Carousel," The Merry Widow," and "Die Fledermaus." He spent last year at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, as a Fulbright scholar. During the season he sang with various European pean opera companies, and gave concerts in Germany and Austria.
Included on the program Wednesday will be a cantata, "Ingrata Lidia" by Vivaldi, a group of songs by Schubert and Chausson. "Fetes Galantes" by Debussy, and six songs from "The Pilgrim's Progress" by Vaughan Williams.
Gamma Alpha Chi Pledges 8 Members
Gamma Alpha Chi, national professional advertising fraternity for women, pledged eight new members Sunday.
They are Nancy Dangerfield, Mission; Betty Stanford, Admire; Beverly VanDusen, Wichita; Jane Peedinovsky, Kansas City, Mo., and Lois Alberg, Topeka, all alumni; Ann Kelly, Leavenworth senior; Patricia Hanger, Stafford sophomore, and Nancy Woodson, Kansas City, Kam, freshman.
He's Really 'Very Pleasant'
ORANGE, Conn. (UP)—Dr. George D. Whitney said today "our friends have been avoiding us like the plague" since the family pet escaped in the house. Whitney, a veterinarian, said the pet is a "very pleasant" three-foot boa constrictor
KANSAS CITY (UP)—The Dayton, Ohio, and Bunker Hill, Ind, Air Forces bases are under consideration as possible sites where the American Olympic Basketball team will train.
U.S. Team May Use Air Bases
It's nice to have friends visit you in the hospital but the practice once brought up a difficult problem.
In 1931, the year after Watkins Hospital was completed, it was required that all students be accompanied by a chaperone when visiting the opposite sex who was in the hospital. So great*was the problem that it took a meeting of the joint committee on student affairs to settle the question.
Chaperone Necessary In 1931
The controversy arose when the men's student council (they separated them in those days) adopted a resolution to do away with the practice of having chaperones in the hospital. The adoption was followed by a confirmation by the women's assembly the next day but the administration refused to hear of such an outrageous failure.
The matter was finally left up to Dr. Cauteson, director of the health service. He ended the controversy by supporting the University administration. He said the chaperone system would remain.