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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 16, 1956
KU Student Born In China, Lived Under Japanese Rule
Few people born in the Chinese province of Kwong Tung can claim American citizenship, but Gilbert Jan Po Chun, an engineering freshman, holds that distinction.
Gilbert, although born in China of Chinese parents, has been an American citizen all his life. His home now is in Hololulu, Hawaii.
His father, Wun Seng Chun was taken to China but later went to China to marry.
Gilbert was born in China after his father returned to Honolulu. The Japanese occupation prevented Gilbert and his mother from joining Mr. Chun and it was not until 1949 that Gilbert was able to go to Honolulu. His mother joined his father and him in 1951.
After attending Punahou High School in Honolulu, where he was chosen the outstanding senior boy and ranked 16th in his graduating class, he came to come to KU on the advice of several Punahou faculty members.
A resident of Pearson Scholarship Hall, Gilbert had a 2.2 grade average last semester.
"Food was scarce in those years," is the thing Gilbert remembers most about the years he spent in China. "My mother and I farmed a very small piece of land and planted rice. We grew vegetables in a square box on the roof of our house.
"We had lived for a short time in Canton, a city of a million and a half people," he said. "Here I personally witnessed people dying from hunger and disease. Men would go about the street pulling a little black cart, picking up the dead lying on the sidewalks."
Gilbert speaks English fluently and studied French several years in high school. He is in the Army ROTC and hopes to be commissioned when he graduates.
Nearly 70 War Brides To Take KU Course
Nearly 70 foreign-born war brides living around Junction City have applied for non-credit classes in naturalization, which are conducted by the Bureau of Correspondence Study of the University Extension Service. The classes will begin March 1.
The class is the only supervised correspondence class the University offers. It is conducted by members of the USO.
The class meets at least twice a week to study government, citizenship, and American customs and thus prepare the women for their naturalization examinations.
Detroit is farther from Houghton, Mich., than it is from Baltimore or Washington, D.C.
GILBERT CHUN
Menton Speaks To Spanish Club
Seymour Menton, assistant professor of Romance languages, discussed and showed colored slides of Guatemala at the Spanish Club meeting Wednesday.
Prof. Menton taught at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala last summer.
Four University persons, who were studying in Guatemala when Dr. Menton was there, appeared in the slides. They are Ann Hartfield, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student, and assistant instructor of romance languages; Carolyn Boyd, romance language department secretary; Margaret Mealing, Leavenworth sophomore, and Sheila Dye, Wichita junior.
AWS Candidates To File Petitions
Petitions for the Associated Women Students Senate election must be filed at a candidates' meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Student Union Jayhawk Room.
Material for a test Feb. 21 which candidates must take concerning AWS rules and history will be given to them at the meeting. After the test, the names will be presented to the senior committee which will select the candidates to appear on the balot.
**items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the Public Relations office 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring Bulletins to Dally Kansan. Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function.**
Official Bulletin
Fees for the spring semester of 1956 are due and payable at the business office. Please pick up in the basement of Strong Hall according to the following schedule:
Schedule of Fee Payment
S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z
Thursday.
A penalty of $2 a day for the late payment of fees goes into effect beginning on Friday. The enrollment of any student from Monday to Friday by Monday, Feb. 20, will be canceled.
Students whose fees are paid from scholarship funds, or from other out-of-state sources, must bring them to the business office according to the above schedule, to avoid payment of the late fee penalty, or withdrawal from school for nonpayment of fees.
Students who are withdrawn for nonpayment of fees must pay a restatement fee of $5, a late fee penalty of $6, to the regular fees, to be re-enrolled.
CCUN steering committee, 4 p.m., office, Student Union.
International Club meeting, 7:30 p.m.
615 Louisiana St., (home of Prof. J. L.
Wortham). Colorslides of Lawrence and
Davenport down and can be ordered.
Refreshments.
Today
YM-YWCMA Bible study, 4 p.m., Oread Room. Speaker: Mr. L. S. Florence. "The Spirit as Recognized by a Jehovah's Witness." Everyone welcome.
Poetry Hour, 4 p.m. Music room. Students in Lowell. Read: Natalie Calderwood
Chess Club, 7:30 p.m., Oread Room.
Student Union. Beginners to experts.
Psychology Club, 7:30 p.m., Parlor A. Student Union. Speakers:Mr. and Mrs. John Gullahorn. "American Students in France." Everyone welcome.
Sigma Xi—Kansas chapter, 7:30 p.m.
Speaker: Prof. G. Jenkins.
"Genesis of a life"
Le Carce Francais se reunira feuilà qui heures et quarre un jour. Strong insults fera une causserie sur Paris. Tous ceux qui s'interessent au francis sont invites.
AWS, 4 p.m., Pine Room, Student Union.
Pi Lambda Theta, 5 p.m., home eco-
nies dining room. Pledging service.
Der deutsche Verein, 502 Donnerstet, 502 Fraser. Muskalschule programm erfrischend.
KuKu election meeting, 7 p.m., 9 Strong basement. Attendance required. Engineering Council, 7:30 p.m., dean's office.
Films on art, 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Museum of Art lecture hall. "Vist to Plicasso." "L'Affaire Manet," "Georges Braque."
KU Medical Dames, 8 p.m., Museum lounge.
AIEE-IE meeting, 7:30 p.m.: 201 EEL
Speaker from Bendix. Dinner preceded meeting.
See Marion Moon for dinner arrangements.
Newman Club choir practice, 7:30
p.m. St. John's Church, Rosary, 5:10
Freshawk's, 7:30 p.m. Student Union.
Writing important meeting. Attendance
ASC House and Senate meeting, 7:30
p.m., Activities Lounge, Union.
Newman Club, mass: 6:30 a.m., missa
of St. Michael's Church, 5:10
p.m. Stations of the Cross, 5:
p.m. Stations of the Cross, 5:
Morning prayer. 6:45 am. Danforth
Chapel, Holy Communion. 7 a.m.
Fridav
Morning meditations, 7:30-7:50 a.m.
Danforth Chapel. Everyone welcome.
Psychology Club To Hear Talk Uses Wife's Cash For Sheep
The psychology club will meet at 7.30 p.m. today in the Student Union, parlor A. Mr. and Mrs. John Gullahorn will speak on "American Students in France." Mr. Gullahorn is a visiting assistant professor of sociology.
DETROIT, Mich. (O.P.)—Mrs. Inez Stringer filed for divorce yesterday, charging that her husband William took $500 of her money to buy a herd of sheep.
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