Page 12 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 23, 1956
Campus Chest To Aid Fight Against Diseases
(This is one of a series on the organizations aided by the Campus Chest.)
Multiple sclerosis, heart disease, and cancer, three of man's most dangerous diseases, will all be represented in the Campus Chest Drive Feb. 29-March 6.
Each of the national foundations for the three diseases will receive five percent of the total amount of money collected on the KU campus.
Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system. In the United States it has attacked some 250,000 people, 70 per cent of whom are between the ages of 20 and 40.
Physical therapy, proper diet, and avoidance of emotional stress and overfatigue are some means by which the condition of a multiple sclerosis victim can be improved. However, money is needed to further clinical research.
The American Heart Association uses the money primarily to conduct research seeking the causes and the cures of heart ailments. Interest in the research of this disease has increased because of the growing number of deaths caused by heart ailments.
The cancer foundation will use its funds for research and care of patients. Over 50 per cent of the total number of cases could be saved if the persons went to a doctor soon enough. Early diagnosis is vital until research develops a cure for the disease.
Clinics are providing a big Help in fighting cancer, but this is not enough. More money is needed for research.
Local AAUW To Celebrate
The 50th anniversary of the Lawrence branch of the American Association of University Women will be celebrated at a dinner at 6:30 p.m. today in the Student Union Kansas Room.
The program will feature a production of "Then (1906) and Now (1956)," written by Mrs. Frank Stockton and produced and directed by Mrs. Deal Six.
Mrs. Magda Jensen, education librarian at Watson Library, is chairman for the dinner. Her assistants are Mrs. Alita Cooper, Miss Hazel Anderson, and Miss Ruth Cady.
Special dinner guests will include Miss Agnes Thompson, at whose home the first meeting was held in 1906; Mrs. B. A. Gessner, state president, and Dr. Minnie Miller, regional president.
A whale can "hold its breath" for as long as 50 minutes, but like all other mammals, can drown if water gets in the lungs.
We Beat NU 50 Years Ago
1906 on Mount Oread found our grandparents doing many of the things we carry on today. Excerpts from February issues of the Daily Kansan 50 years ago include:
KU beat Nebraska's championship basketball team while on a ten day tour.
Two young women fainted in Professor Haworth's geology class Monday morning after he announced phone calls to the course harder than ever before.
Jayhawkers had a holiday Feb. 22 to commemorate the birthday of the father of our country.
The boys are telling a good one on Forrest Allen as a result of the recent basketball trip. He went into a barber shop for a shave while in Chicago and the olly-tongued individual inside persuaded Allen that a petroleum shampoo was just the thing. It cost him just one dollar to learn the ways of the city.
"Sunset Surprises" are the curved movement of a celebration, brought to life with music. We list them here.
The nomination of Judge J. W. Green for governor of Kansas was discussed at a Democratie banquet in Topeka. Such action came as a surprise to "Uncle Jimmy."
An ad offered clothes cleaned, repaired, and pressed, $1.50 per month.
Lawrence Camera Club To Meet
The regular meeting of the Lawrence Color Camera Club will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the classroom of the Lawrence Community building.
Miss Rebekah Leibengood and Miss Lenore French will each show 50 slides taken during the past year.
U.S. Foreign Policy Attacked
H. Baumgartel, assistant professor in human relations and business, said today that the administration's foreign policy has possibly alienated many people from the U.S. The military approach "should be re-thought about and replaced with a social approach of sympathy, friendliness, and support." He said, also, that the carry-over of segregation policies in Lawrence is shameful.
HOUSE GOING UP—A caterpillar from the Green Construction Co. Lawrence, is shown breaking ground for the new Alpha Omicron Pi sorority house at 11th St. and West Campus Road. Completion date on the new house is scheduled for August. (Daily Kansan Photo)
FINISHING TOUCHES—From left to right: Del Meyer, Girard junior watches Bill Field and Jiggs Kring as they install bright green handrails on the recently completed steps leading to Malott Hall. Wires are also being strung to light posts in the area—(Daily Kansan Photo)
Retiring Math Professor Plans On 'Goin' Fishing'
"Goin' fishin', no special plans, just goin' fishin'", said Guy W. Smith, professor of mathematics, of his coming retirement this spring.
"I'll probably live in Lawrence and take care of my hobbies—fishing, gardening, and golf. I can spend a lot of that wonderful time taking on anyone over 70 in a game of golf. Phog (Dr. Forrest C. Allen) and I play together most of the time."
Dr. Smith has won the Lawrence Country Club championship twice. "My game is as good as it ever was. Wish I were out there this afternoon," he said, swinging an imaginary club at an imaginary ball.
"Ive outlasted three chancellors," he said of his teaching career at KU. "I first walked up this hill 36 years ago."
Dr. Smith came to the University as an assistant professor in 1920. In 1927 he was promoted to associate professor and in 1933 to professor.
A bachelor of science graduate from the University of Colorado in 1908, Dr. Smith received his master's degree there in 1909. After instructing at Colorado for several years he worked at the University of Illinois as an assistant and received his doctorate the same year from that university.
He was chairman of the department of mathematics from 1945-1951. In 1951, at 65, he was retired from administrative work.
Eight KU Students Receive Awards
The KU group is Paul J. Adam, Jr., Kansas City, Mo.; Peter D. Arrowsmith, Kansas City, Mo.; George L. Baurle, Hoisington; Edward D. Grandle, Pittsburg; James H. McLaughlin, Omaha, Neb.; Gene E. Morgan, Lawrence; Donald E. Park, Lawrence, and James G. Tissue, Lawrence, all seniors.
Eight seniors will be awarded honorary associate memberships in the Kansas Engineering Society at its annual meeting in Wichita today and Friday.
Nine engineering seniors at Kansas State College also will be honored by the Society. The students selected by their respective schools.
The oldest National Guard unit in the country is the 182nd Infantry of Massachusetts, organized as the Middlesex Regiment in 1636 to fight the French and Indians.
G. W. SMITH
Dr. Smith taught one year at Beoit College, Wis., and one year at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, before coming to Kansas.
"I was a mountain guide during the summer when I taught at Colorado," he said. "I guess that's what you might call my 36 years on The Hill. I've been a mountain guide."
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Children Like Special Concert
"Singing Strings" and "Dancing Strings" made approximately 10 little heads keep time to the music Wednesday afternoon in Hoch Auditorium. The occasion was a special concert for Lawrence school children by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Thor Johnson, conductor of the orchestra, selected a program which gave each section of the orchestra a solo part.
He described the functions of the strings, the woodwinds, and the brasses, then led the orchestra in "London-derry Air." Stix's "Playing Around," and selections from Bizet's "Carmen."
The highlight of the program was a musical biography of Mozart, "A Little Boy Who Had Melodies in His Head." Many a little boy in the audience had music in his head, if not melodies, for more than one could be $c_{v}$ imitating Mr. Johnson's conducting.
The program closed with a "Westward He" theme featuring "On the Trail" from the "Grand Canyon Suite." One member of the orchestra sketched scenes which the music suggested on a large board on the stage.
1st Lt. Dorcas Stearns of the Woman's Army Corp Headquarters, 5th Army, will visit the campus Monday, Feb.27, to discuss opportunities of a direct commission for women college graduates.
WAC Lieutenant To Visit Campus
College juniors may apply for a probational army appointment by taking a six-week training course Ft. McClellan, Alabama this summer. Lieutenant Sterns may be reached during her stay by calling Lt. Col. Justice Neal, professor of military science.
Women graduates between the ages of 21 and 28, who qualify, are commissioned as second lieutenants and those 28 to 33, who have civilian career experience, are commissioned first lieutenants.
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