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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 5.1950
Spanish And Portuguese Were His Specialties
"I am looking forward to retirement so that I may be free to continue my research on Calderon de la Barca without interruptions," said J. M. Osma, professor of romance languages.
Prof. Osma will retire this spring after having taught in the romance languages department at the University for 39 years. He teaches Spanish and Portuguese.
Prof. Osma was born and raised in Barcelona, Spain. He attended school in Barcelona and also at Paris, France.
His first teaching position was in Costa Rica, where he taught eight years. He also taught for several summers at the University of Southern California as a visiting professor.
During his 39 years at KU, Prof. Osma has noticed many changes. The changes have been not only in the growth of the size of enrollment and the increase in number of buildings, but also the intellectual growth of the University.
With travel as his hobby, he has seen most of the United States, Europe, and South America. He picks California and particularly northern California as his favorite of the 48 states.
"I like it best because it is most like my home country," he said. Coming from an artistic family, he is interested in the arts and painting in particular.
Following a trip to Spain in the very near future, designed not only to see his home land again but to also continue his research, he plans to return to Lawrence to live.
"My retirement will not be a severance of the old ties of the University," said Prof. Osma. "But rather it will be a continuation of them through my research."
Rhee Rejects Third Term
SEOUL, Korea (UP)—Aging President Singman Rhee unexpectedly turned down his party's nomination for a third term today and then hedged on the decision when his supporters begged him to accept it.
"I have decided not to run this year," he said.
The 80-year old Mr. Rhee sent his rejection to the Liberal Party Convention only a few hours after it had endorsed his nomination unanimously.
He told them to go out and "collect public opinion" on the choice of a candidate.
The party refused to believe it and immediately sent a 50-man delegation to the presidential mansion to persuade Mr. Rhee to change his mind.
"I would like to retire and have some other more energetic and younger person than I take over the presidency," he told the party.
If the decision is final it would throw the Republic of Korea's political scene into a turmoil. No figure of Mr. Rhee's stature has risen in either of the two major political parties.
His message did not mention his choice of a successor. It did not even refer to National Assembly speaker Lee Ki Poong whom the party had nominated for vice president.
Phi Delta Phi Pledges Four, Initiation Near
Four students were pledged by Phi Delta Phi, professional law fraternity, in ceremonies Thursday in Green Hall. They are Jay H. Bundy, Tucson senior; Carl W. Eisenbise, Wichita 1st-year law student; Donald Hortor, Centerville 1st-year law student, and William Raymond, Ketchum, Idaho, 1st-year law student.
Fifteen fall semester pledges will be initiated March 27 at the Douglas County Court House. Lyman Field, Kansas City, Mo., lawyer, will speak at a banquet following initiation.
Almost 40 per cent of all radios built in the United States are designed for automotive use.
Engineers Visit Price Tower
Thirty-five students in the School of Engineering and Architecture and an instructor viewed the Price Tower, at Bartlesville, Okla., on a field trip Saturday.
The students, in small groups of conducted tours, studied the Tower for two hours. It is one of the newest in architectural design.
Students who attended were Leo Williams, Lawrence senior; Charles Winters, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore; Charles Jones, Winchester sent, Paul Krause, Kansas City, Mo.; student Dug Smith, Topeka junior; Bob Babco, Jackson, Michigan senior, and Ron Young, Eudora senior.
Bob Hines, Leavenworth freshman; Joe Terrill, Ottawa senior Kenneth Vellharticky, Salina freshman; Charles Munson, Garnett senior; James Hogue, Topeka senior; Delpha Battle, Leavenworth sophomore; Gene Hosford, Lawrence senior; Prissie Schartz, Ellinwood sophomore, and Warren Bates, Lawrence senior.
Jim Grady, Washington, D.C. senior; Richard Armor, Independence, Mo. junior; John Boerger, Sedgwick senior; Jack Bloom, Kansas City, Mo. senior; Mary Jo Schlotterback, Ellis senior; Calvin Ellis, Okulmgee, Oka; junior; Bruce Poteet, Fairway sophomore; John Krekovich, Hickman Mills, Mo., freshman; Don Trent, Lawrence junior; and James Harris, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore.
DeRos Hogue, Dodge City sophomore; Ron Clark, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; Jerry Harris, Memphis. Tenn. freshman; John Wilson, Madison. Wis. junior; Jim Mitchell, Kansas City, Kan. senior; Stan Krug, Kansas City, Mo. senior; Bob Guenter, Lawrence senior; Bill Cole, Holton sophomore, and Bob Duncan, Thrall sophomore.
Curtis Besinger, instructor in architecture, accompanied the students.
Educators Seek Changes
CHICAGO (UP)—The nation's top educators called today for imaginative reforms to meet the on-coming surge of college students
The bumper crop of classroom candidates dominated discussions of more than 1,000 administrators and faculty members from 450 colleges and universities attending the 11th national Conference on Higher Education.
The educators are also scheduled to examine the racial segregation problem in southern institutions and to hear speeches by Encyclopaedia Britannica Publisher William Benton and economist Beardsley Ruml during their three-day session.
The meeting gained added significance because of President Eisenhower's announcement that he will appoint a group of distinguished educators and citizens to make recommendations on higher education problems. ___
The nation's largest protestant church organization is preparing to lay out a record sum for electronic Eugangelism. The National Council of Churches spent $1,400,000 for religious radio, television and film production in 1955. A major increase is in prospect for 1956.
Electronic Evangelism Due
Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba,
claims Canada's largest bonspiel,
or curling meet. In the sport of curling,
players slide heavy stones across an
ice-floored arena, somewhat after the
manner of bowling. Team members
with brooms frantically sweep ice in
the stone's pathway, thus affecting
its speed and direction.
AWS Will Visit Freshman Dorms
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A panel sponsored by Associated Women Students will visit freshman dormitories during the next two weeks to inform freshmen about housing next year.
Members of the panel are Dorothy Sheets, Topeka senior and president of AWS Senate, Susan Frederick, Glendale, Mo, sophomore, Nancy Fujisaki, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, Joan Sherar, Paola senior, Ruby Schaulis, Clay Center senior, Elizabeth Shankland, Kansas City, Kau, freshman, Judith Hulse, Topeka freshman, and Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women.
The panel will discuss the possible types of housing for freshmen, whether students will be independent and live in an upper class dormitory, a scholarship residence hall, or a private home, or whether they plan to go through ush week.
Other points to be discussed are how many housing vacancies there are, how much they cost, qualifications for membership, how the various houses are organized, customs and rules regarding studying and social life, and the answering of any questions that freshmen may have.
The panel will be at Corbin tonight, North College Thursday, and Gertrude Sellars Pearson Monday, March 12.
Teenagers Like Science
CHICAGO (UP)—A high proportion of the nation's brightest high school students want to become scientists or engineers, a survey showed today.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation released the figures and commented that the nation has a pressing need for gifted newcomers in these fields.
The organization is the nation's largest scholarship organization and has been conducting tests among 60,000 high school seniors. The results will determine the winners of $3,000,000 worth of scholarships.
The NMSC said 56 per cent of the boys and 16 per cent of the girls among the 5,078 semi-finalists plan to make science or engineering their career.
The rest of the preferred careers dwindled down to such listings as poultry manager, diamond cutter, interpreter, and the armed services. One of the boys said he thought it would be nice to be a general.
In addition, 36 per cent of the most promising girl students would like to be teachers—another profession currently suffering a shortage of new talent.
Linda Lemon, Salina sophomore was elected vice president of the AWS House of Representatives Thursday.
Linda Lemon Named New AWS Officer
Other officers elected were: Phyllis Barham, Topeka sophomore, secretary; Kay Davis, Kansas City, Mo., junior, treasurer, and Joan Ryan, Prairie Village junior, representative from the House to Senate. President of the House, who is vice president of the Senate, will be elected in the AWS Senate elections Thursday, March 15.
The kangaroo family has more than 50 members, the National Geographic Society says. Some are called by other names—wallaroo, wallaby, euro, and pademelon. They range from the foot-long musk-rat kangaroo to 7-foot red and great grays.
Architecture Tops His List In 40 Years Of Teaching
"We're just chatting, you understand," Joseph M. Kellogg, professor of architecture, said several times during the interview. "I'm not one of those people who like publicity."
Colorado A&M Argues Vote Age
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (ACP)—A bill has been introduced in the Colorado Legislature which would grant 18-year-olds the right to vote. It has created controversy and the Rocky Mountain Collegian of Colorado A&M college recently carried some pro and con statements by professors and students.
Two history professors said that the 18-year-old citizen has not sufficient stake in the community to warrant lowering the voting age. One of them, Prof. William Irwin, pointed out that an 18-year-old soldier must be a daredevil. The same traits in a voter would prove disastrous, he said.
Randall Reuchelle of the English department said "age should be no criteria, but if it is, then 21 is surely a better age." Examining the argument which says that if 18-year-olds are old enough to fight, they are old enough to vote, he commented, "If this is true, then when a man is too old to fight he is too old to vote."
One Colorado A&M student agreed with the professors, Barbara Koch of Golden said: "Although at 18 interest in elections is great, I feel that persons of this age are swayed more by personal interests than by actual reasoning concerning the candidates' qualifications and interest in the country as a whole."
However, student Larry Nash said, "18-year-olds are mature enough because of political and government courses they have taken in high school and in college.
Nash also said that radio and television can inform the youth of today more thoroughly than the youth of a generation ago.
KARACHI, Pakistan (UP)—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arrived here today for an eight-nation conference called to strengthen the free world's fight against the new communist offensive in Southeast Asia.
Dulles Arrives In Pakistan
He immediately plunged into a round of talks with U.S. and Far Eastern officials in preparation for the three-day Southeast Asia Treaty. Organization conference which starts tomorrow.
Sec. Dullees drove to the residence of U.S. Ambassador Horace Hildreth for a quick briefing. Then, two hours after he landed, he went into a conference with Pakistani Gov. Gen. Iskander Mirza and Premier Chaudri Mohamad Ali on relations between the U.S. and Pakistan.
1st Russian Hot Rods Seen
Moscow reports that Russian hotrodders may soon be scooting along the Moscow-Minsk-Warsaw Highway in the first Soviet sports cars. It's said that Soviet engineers are testing the first Russian sports car—with a plastic body only one-third as heavy as any metal body. This is the first time the Russians have shown interest in producing sports cars, which even in western countries are strictly a luxury item.
Prof. Kellogg, who is retiring this semester after 40 years of teaching, hasn't had much publicity, and certainly deserves some.
As head of the Department of Architecture from 1928 till 1945, he has seen many of his graduates achieve top notch positions in the country. He said one of them is even working for a firm in Venezuela and commutes between Caracas and New York.
Prof. Kellogg is a KU man himself, but as there was no department of architecture when he came in 1903, he did not receive his degree here.
"I played around for several years like all students do," he said chuckling. "Then I went into the engineering school because it seemed more practical."
"Ive taught practically every course in the department, but architectural design and architectural history are my principal fields," he said.
With a B.A. and an M.A. in architecture from Cornell University Prof. Kellogg taught at the University of Illinois and Texas A&M before returning to KU in 1922.
Asked if students had changed much since he first started teaching, Prof. Kellogg said, "Of course not." Students are always alike, but the best students Ive had were the World War II veterans. They knew what they were after, and they really worked.
Photography occupies most of Prof. Kellogg's leisure hours. In the seven trips he has made abroad, he took many slides and shows them to his classes to illustrate various architectural forms.
"All monuments have their place," he said discussing ones he had seen, "You can't compare a Gothic cathedral with a Greek temple. I have always tried to teach my students they shouldn't draw conclusions of that sort, but neither should they take accepted viewpoints of the greatness of anything."
Prof. Kellogg plans to remain in Lawrence after his retirement so he can "be near a library." He is now working on a time schedule of cultural epochs with an emphasis on the medieval period.
He has been a bachelor all his life.
"I'll probably get out to visit my relatives in California," he said, "but I like Lawrence, and I want to stay here. I suppose I am attached to the place after being here so long, and I'd miss the students if I left for good."
Study Desks Ready In Bailey Hall
Study desks have been made available to education graduate students in 408 and 409 Bailey, Dean Kenneth Anderson said today. Students working on doctorate degrees will be given first choice on the rooms, then other graduate students may sign for the facilities.
Located in Room 12 Bailey in the basement is a student lounge, where students may rest or study between classes. The room will also be used for education conferences and club meetings.
Having hurdled the sound barrier, airplane designers now face a thermal barrier. Even in the thin atmosphere of 30,000 feet, air resistance would heat plane surfaces to 300 degrees at twice the speed of sound.