Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Monday, Oct. 10, 1955.
53rd Year, No. 19
IT'S STILL HOME—Although unfinished, Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall is home for the daughters of the parents in the picture. How the daughters feel about it is shown by the sign. Don't ask who the parents and the Red Pepper girl are, because the pictures were taken by an interested camera bug who was not interested in names.
FEEDING PA AND MA—Parents Day seems to have aroused an appetite in these mothers and dads lining up for chow during their visit to Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall. Names? That interested camera bug still hadn't developed an interest in them.
KU Pharmacists Develop Drug
Two KU pharmacy professors and a former graduate student may have uncovered a compound which will be more effective in controlling epileptic seizures.
The chemical is one of a group of compounds called Uracils, similar in composition to the barbiturates. It now is being developed by the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical laboratories for testing.
Dr. J. H. Burckhalter, professor of pharmacy, Dr. Duane G. Wenzel, associate professor, and Dr. Homer C. Scarborough, a recent PhD. graduate in pharmaceutical chemistry, reported their work in the September issue of the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical association.
Dr. Wenzel, in the pharmacology laboratories, discovered the effect of the Uracils and of certain compounds. Dr. Burchekhalter and Scarborough picked up the study, synthesizing 30 of these compounds.
The study was confined to laboratory animals, hence the necessity of clinical testing.
Barbiturates, of which phenobarbital is one, are used in sedatives, general anesthesia, hypnosis for treatment of insomnia, and for control of epileptic seizures. Use of the Uracil now under study by Parke-Davis could be an answer to better control of the various forms of epilepsy, Dr. Wenzel said.
Engineers To Tour Kansas City Plants
Gerald White of the Kansas City section explained that the student engineer forum would be made an annual project of the Kansas City ASME chapter.
Four KU mechanical engineering students and 17 from Kansas State will be guests of the Kansas City section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers today and toorrow for tours of various industrial and laboratory facilities in the Kansas City area.
Kansas City The students will be guests at the Kansas City chapter meeting tonight. The speaker will be J. A Keeth, vice-president of the Kansas City Power and Light Co.
NYU Historian To Give Humanities Talk Oct.18
Dr. Leo Gorshoy, professor of history at New York University, will speak on the topic, "The 18th Century—A Way Station?" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18, in Fraser Theater. It will be the first general lecture in the all-University program focused on the culture of the 18th century in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Mozart, and the first in the 1955-56 Humanities Series.
Like other Humanities Series lecturers, the New York historian will be on the campus for three days, speaking to classes and holding discussions with various student and faculty groups. Monday, Oct 17, he will talk on Rousseau and the late 18th century period to the History club and its special guests, the staff of Western Civilization and members of the French honor society, Pi Delta Phi.
"Dr. Gershoy is not only a distinguished scholar, but he is also reputed to be a most effective lecturer," said Prof. Elmer F. Beth, chairman of the Humanities committee. "He has been called to several universities as visiting professor, and he has written three books about the tremendous upsurge of democratic ideas in
the 18th century. Anybody who hopes to understand the development of Western civilization should profit from hearing him lecture."
Born in Russia
Dr. Gershoy was born in Russia in 1897, was brought to the United States when he was 6 years old, and was naturalized in 1913. He received the Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1925 and later taught at Long Island University and at Sarah Lawrence College, and has been professor of history at New York University since 1946.
During World War II, he was a consultant to the Office of Strategic Services, principal analyst in the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, and chief regional specialist for France overseas branch of the Office of War Information. He has held three Guggenheim fellowships, a Social Science Research Council fellowship, and a Fulbright research grant.
He has written three books, "The French Revolution, 1789-90," "The French Revolution and Napoleon," and "From Despotism to Revolution, 1763-1789."
Mozart Festival October Schedule
Following are the October events scheduled for the 18th century program of the University's "Age of Mozart" Festival in celebration of the bicentennial of the composer's birth;
University Library—Exhibit of English 18th century literature.
Oct. 18—Humanities lecture by Dr, Leo Gershov, historian.
Oct. 31—School of Fine Arts Faculty recital by Prof. and Mrs. Joseph Wilkins featuring muic of Mozart and his contemporaries.
On Nov. 15, the second Humanities lecturer, Dr. Otto Kinkeldey, Cornell musicologist, will speak about music of the 18th century.
Museum of Art—Exhibit of German rococo art.
Music Therapy Report Published
The complete record of the proceedings of the 1954 annual conference of the National Association for Music Therapy has been published.
Editor of "Music Therapy—1954",
a 275-page volume, is Dr. E. Thayer
Gaston, chairman of the music education
department at the University.
Associate editors are Dr. Marcus
Hahn, assistant professor, and Robert F. Unkefer, assistant instructor.
Included are two research papers by Dr. Gaston and one by Mr. Hahn.
Weather
KANSAS—Generally fair today,
tonight and Tuesday. Little warmer
extreme East today. High today
80-85. Low tonight 40s northwest
to 50s elsewhere.
Poet To Keynote English Parley
Malcolm Cowley, a poet and literary critic, will speak on "American Literature: A Reassessment" at 8 p.m. Friday in Fraser Theater.
The lecture, open to the public, is sponsored by the University lecture series as part of the third annual conference on composition and literature in high school and college.
Mr. Cowley, literary editor of New Republic magazine for 11 years is a frequent contributor to the Saturday Review and is the author of "The Literary Situation" and "The Exile's Return."
The latter is an autobiographical account of his years abroad with the group of "exiles," which included T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John dos Passos.
In 1949 he visited the University as a leader in the writer's conference.
English conference speakers besides Mr. Cowley include Alvin McCoy, Pulitzer prize-winning Kansas correspondent for the Kansas City Star; Dean Kenneth E. Anderson, of the School of Education, and Mrs Natalie Calderwood, assistant professor of English.
"The Role of Practical Politics in Education" will be Mr. McCoy's topic at the conference dinner Friday night. Dean Anderson will speak Friday afternoon on "High School English: Why Not Four Years?" Mrs. Calderwood will speak Saturday noon on "But What of the Teacher?"
Brubeck To Speak In Strong Hall
Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist, will speak at a meeting of the Music Educators National Conference at 5 p.m. tomorrow in 37 Strong. Others interested in jazz as a part of the College music curriculum may attend.
Mr. Brubeck, who will give a concert in Hoch Auditorium tomorrow night, is on a nationwide tour designed to develop an interest in jazz in universities and colleges. He is a graduate of Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.
2,000 Parents Meet Teachers Visit Classes
Approximately 2,000 parents of new students were on the campus at the fourth annual Parents Day Saturday.
Luncheon was served to the parents in the organized houses and in the cafeteria of the Student Union. After lunch the parents were special guests at the Kansas-Iowa State football game.
The parents spent the morning visiting classrooms and laboratory facilities, meeting advisers and teachers, attending an informal reception in the Student Union and visiting points of interest on the campus.
Chancellor Welcomes Parents Before the game, Chancellor Murphy welcomed the parents.
He welcomed the parents as new members of the ever-increasing Kansas University family.
"For 89 years the members of the faculty have not only been interested in teaching the students, but interested in teaching the students to think," he said.
During half-time at the football game, the University band performed several musical sketches as a salute from the students to their parents.
Parents. Children. Symbolized
The band first formed two lines across the football field and played the song, "When You and I Were Young Maggie." Its first formation was a mill wheel from which it played "The Old Mill Stream." This was symbolic of the meeting of two parents. The marriage of the parents was symbolized by the formation of a wedding bell and the playing of "Wedding Bells."
MISSION:
"Walking My Baby Back Home," was played from the formation of a baby carriage. One plus one equals ? was the formation that represented the school days of the parents' children, as the band played "School Days." The romance of the student was represented by a heart and arrow formation while the band played "I Want a Girl."
The chairman of the Parents Day committee was W. Stitt Robinson, associate professor of history Karl Edwards, associate professor of education, was co-chairman.
Petitions Due Oct.20
Pettitions for freshman class officers and All Student Council representatives must be submitted by midnight Oct. 20 for the primary election Oct. 26, Jim Miller, Merriam senior, and ASC election committee chairman, said today.
The petition must include the candidate's name and office and must be signed by 25 freshmen. Only one petition may be signed for each office. If the candidate's name does not appear on the general election ballot, the $1 fee, which must accompany the petition, will be returned.
four class officers, president, vicepresident, secretary, and treasurer, will be elected. Two senators, one man and one woman, two men representatives, and one woman representative for every 150 freshman women ballots will be elected.
The polls will be in Strong Hall rotunda, Student Union lobby, Fraser, Marvin, and Malott Hall, and will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Identification and party cards must be shown to vote. Miller said that no petitions will be accepted after Oct. 20.