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Mother Nature's Handiwork Imitated At Museum
Manufacturing tree leaves is a task usually considered to be outside the realm of man's creative ability. But George Young, taxidermist at the Museum of Natural History, occasionally finds it necessary to imitate mother nature's handiwork.
In addition to mounting and displaying birds and animals, Mr. Young and his student assistants duplicate leaves, twigs, branches, and entire bushes and trees.
In the taxidermy workshop on the top floor of the Museum, Mr. Young selected five green leaves for reproduction. He laid a sheet of glass on a work bench, and placed a wooden frame on it. This dam, as he called it, was slightly smaller in area than a sheet of typewriter paper and about one and a half inches deep.
Keeps Natural Form
Into the dam he poured about an inch layer of molding plaster. Then he placed the leaves, back surface up, onto the wet plaster.
"In order to retain the natural crinkles and curls we don't press the leaf into the plaster, but we work the wet plaster carefully up underneath the leaf surface," he said.
When the plaster had hardened, Mr. Young trimmed the edges of the slab close to the embedded leaves, then he coated the entire surface with shellac. After the shellac dried, he greased the surface and edges with a mixture of steric acid and kerosene and placed it back in the center of the floor of the dam.
Molten Metal Used
To mold a negative impression of the leaves, perfect to the smallest veins, he filled the dam with a mixture of molding plaster and pumice.
Mr. Young baked this mold to complete dryness in an oven. Next he poured molten linotype metal into the depression. When the metal had hardened there was an exact reproduction of the leaves he had first placed into the wet plaster.
Transparent Leaves
Next he blackened the metal in the flame of burning turpentine and molded wet modeling clay against the sides, building the dam up an inch above the metal surface. Into the depression he poured more linotype metal, creating another negative mold of the leaf's underside.
After cleaning the soot from the two halves of the mold, he fastened them into opposite platens of an electrically heated hydraulic press. On the lower half of the mold he placed a sheet of rubber, cut from a tire inner tube. On top of this he put a sheet of clear cellulose acetate .0075 of an inch thick. After a few minutes of heat and pressure the sheet of acetate was removed and given to one of the student workers who began cutting out transparent leaves.
As more sheets came off the press, workers cemented the leaves to pieces of wire. These were then wrapped with cotton and transformed into twigs.
Then the plastic, wire, and cotton were soldered together into foliage. Next, all of these elements were sprayed with three or four coats of paint.
From the work shop the leaves were taken to the second floor of the museum. There the finished product was installed in a bird habitat exhibit." When the foliage was partially installed in the exhibit, one worker used oil paint and a brush to touch up the veins and surfaces of the leaves.
"In order that the elements look completely natural, we do the final painting in the exact artificial light in which the exhibit will be seen," Mr. Young explained. ___
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State Budget Review Starts
TOPEKA —(U.P.)— Gov. Fred Hall announced that he will begin reviewing budgets of Kansas state government agencies Fridav.
The nearings will be appeals of the agencies from reductions in their budget requests for fiscal 1957, which begins next July 1. Gov. Hall disclosed last week that budget requests of state agencies total some $55,480,000 for the 1-year period, up more than 30 per cent from estimated expenditures of the current fiscal year.
He said it will take about three weeks of half day and evening sessions to complete the hearings. Sitting in will be Martin M. Kiger, director of the state department of administration; Sen. Willfrid Cavaness, (R-Chanute), and Rep. Robert Anderson, (R-Ottawa), chairman of the Senate and House Ways and Means Committees, and James Bibb, State budget director.
Gov. Hall will have the final say on all budget requests to be submitted to the 1956 Legislature convening in January.
Gamma Delta Picks Region President
Ormand Corces, Fowler sophomore, was elected president of the six-state Rocky Plains region of Gamma Delta, collegiate student organization of the Immanuel Lutheran Church, at its convention at Stillwater Okla., last weekend.
Other KU delegates to the convention were Delbert Meyer, Girard junior; Gail Gerling, Mission freshman; Lovee Albert, Paola freshman; Fred Rueter, Scott City junior; Walter Hauffer and Herbert Hauffer, Vassar freshmen; Vern Beilker, Westphalia sophomore; Ronald Lenser, Fremont, Neb. senior and Marilyn Banolhor, Rochester, Minn. sophomore.
Lenser, who is national treasurer of Gamma Delta, and Cordes, will attend a meeting of the organization's board of governors in Chicago in November.
Since 1845, by act of Congress, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November is the date for choosing presidential electors.
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KU Grad Sings For Queen
The chance to sing and study in many foreign countries has come to Gregory Sinms, a former KU Fine Arts student.
He is working in Italy and planning concert tours in Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy. He has studied in Paris and hopes to study in Brazil next year.
"A few days ago the Queen of Belgium was in attendance at a concert in which I was the only singer," he said in a letter to Joseph Wilkins, professor of voice and his former teacher. "There was a cocktail-reception after, where she also was. Such graciousness directed toward myself I have never experienced. She insisted that I be at her side in each picture; that I be her guest whenever in Belgium and that I make a recording of American songs for her.
"I imagine me sitting on a Count's love-site chatting with a queen! Fairy tale? Not a bit! Maybe I am just still terribly Kansas Provinicial, but I can't resist being a bit impressed by some of the things that happen to me.
"Singing in the studio the other afternoon, there was also the conductor of the Radio Madrid Symphony who asked me to record two concerts with him when I sing in Spain this fall. I will do one concert of arias from 'Lost in the Stars' and 'Porgy and Bess'; the other concert of Negro spirituals."
Simms studied in Paris on a grant from the John Hay Whitney Foundation. He then attended the University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy and is now in Siena where he has a fellowship at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana.
He is from Newton and was graduated from KU in 1950.
Red Peppers Meet Thursday
The Red Peppers, freshman women's pep organization, will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday in the Student Union ball room.
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Moreau Addresses K-State Law Club
He discussed the history of the chancery courts and the functions of the legal system.
Dean Frederick J. Moreau of the Law School, spoke to the Kansas State Chancery Club last night in Manhattan. The club is composed of students interested in law study.
Dean Moreau speaks at K-State each year, and the club then comes to KU to visit the Law School.
There is a movement to nationalize the Chancery Club, which began at K-State under the direction of A. D. Miller, professor of government and political science.
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