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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 3, 1955
Medical School Professor, Retired Botany Head Die
William Chase Stevens, retired professor of botany and former chairman of the botany department and Dr. Peter Thomas Bohan, professor emeritus at the University School of Medicine, died over the weekend. Mr. Stevens was 94 and Dr. Bohan 82.
Born Feb. 21, 1861 at Princeton, Ill., Prof. Stevens came to Lawrence with his parents in 1867. He attended public schools here and was graduated from the University in 1885 with a bachelor of science degree, later receiving his master's degree.
He was the author of several books on botany. He spent 12 years in field works preparing the book, "Kansas Wild Flowers," published in 1943.
Dr. Bohan Dies
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ada Stevens of the home; four sons, Francis H. Stevens, associate editor of the Post-Record at Sydney, Nova Scotia; Ralph P. Stevens, and Philip F. Stevens, Kansas City, Mo; Richard P. Stevens, Lawrence; a daughter, Mrs. Rachel S. Van Kelcunburg, and a brother, James B. Stevens of Franklin, Ind.
The cause of Dr. Bohan's death apparently was a heart attack from coronary artery failure, about which Dr. Bohan was a student and teacher for decades.
Private funeral services were held at the home Saturday, followed by cremation.
Dr. Bohan served in 1933 on the Missouri State Board of Health. In 1949 he was president of the Kansas City Cardiac Club, organized for the study of heart ills by physicians. He was vice president of the Missouri State Medical Association
He had been active recently and planned to attend the conference starting today of the Kansas City office of the American Society, of which he was president.
A portrait of Dr. Bohan painted by his wife, is in the gallery of past teachers at the University. A Bohan lectureship, established by alumni who were his students, brings a distinguished speaker to the medical school each year.
Urged Better Hospital
Dr. Bohan, interested in the public aspects of medicine, wrote to a Kansas legislator in 1919 that the medical school hospital was a shack, and that the state should begin building a better school that now is the University Medical Center.
Services will be held at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Stine & Mc-Clure chapel, Kansas City, Mo.
S. F. Harris, Ottawa Publisher, Dies
OTTAWA—(U.P.)-Sidney F. Harris, publisher and editor of the Ottawa Herald, died last night in a Kansas City, Kan., hospital. Funeral services will be held in Ottawa to-morrow.
Mr. Harris underwent heart surgery in Philadelphia about three months ago.
He and his brother, John P. Harbis of Hutchinson, operated the Harris Publishing Co., of six newspapers and a radio station
Mr. Harris was a student at the University in 1922 and 1923. His wife, the former Virginia Stowers, attended the University from 1920 to 1923.
Mr. Harris and his brother gave a $30,000 tower to the campus radio station KANU in 1950 with other transmitting equipment.
Albert T. Reid, 82 Suffers Fracture
Albert T. Reid, 82, retired political cartoonist, was reported in good condition tonight at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York. Mr. Reid suffered a broken hip in a fall about a week ago.
Mr. Reid is a native of Concordia. In 1830, Mr. Reid presented a part of his collection of original cartoons to the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, where they are on display in the William Allen White Memorial Reading Room.
Jewelry Class To Meet Tomorrow
The first class in jewelry and enameling will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the craft shop of the Student Union.
Students will receive instructions from Jim Stoner, a Book Store employee, every Tuesday night throughout the school year in the Craft shop on the cafeteria floor. There is no charge.
During the hours the Union building is open, students may use the modern equipment in the craft shop at any time, said Miss Katherine Carr, Student Union Activities adviser.
Late Saturday Class Ended
WELLESLEY, Mass. — (IP.) — Classes at 11:40 a.m. on Saturdays have been abolished at Wellesley College. This decision to abolish the last hour of morning classes was reached by the Academic Council after over a year of research and discussion on the problems of weekend cutting. The education committee of college government worked with the Faculty Curriculum Committee compiling and appraising the information which led to the ration.
Dean Ella Keats Whiting said, "Throughout the study of the problem the education committee and college government have given me invaluable help.
The study showed real cooperation and interest by students. Informal discussions showed that students desired to keep the six-day academic week. By ending classes at 11:40, the pressure of football weekends and other afternoon engagements would be greatly alleviated. The responsibility for attending class will, as always, remain with the individual.
Flint Funeral Tomorrow
(Continued from Page 1) of slovenly work, hope sheepish that Daddy Flint won't see it."
Born in 1875
Prof. Flint was born in Thayer Oct. 8, 1875. He attended Lawrence High School and was graduated from the University of Kansas with a major in philosophy in 1897. He was principal of Olathe High School and taught in Lawrence High School.
In 1901 he purchased half interes in the Manhattan Nationalist and served as editor until 1905 when he became the first general secretary of the KU Alumni Association, and editor of the Graduate Magazine in 1916.
Wrote Three Textbooks
He is the author of three textbooks,"Newspaper Writing in High Schools,""The Editorial," and "Conscience of the newspaper." He has also written a history of the journalism department which is being prepared for possible publication.
Among his accomplishments in Kansas journalism are the organization of the annual conference for high school editors in 1920, and the annual meetings of Kansas editors.
In 1931 he organized the Kansas Editors Hall of Fame. He was president of the American Association of Schools and Departments a Journalism, past president of the KU Alumni Association, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
He was a member of the Kansa Editorial Association and organize the KU Press Club and the Kansa Council of Teachers of Journalism
Building Named For Flint Flint Hall, home of the Willi Allen White School of Journal and Public Information was named in his honor June 17. A bronze plaque in his honor will be placed in the building on Kansas Editor Day Nov. 5. The plaque was financed by contributions from alumni.
The KU chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma, national professional advertising fraternity for men is called the L. N. Flint Chapter.
Survivors are Mrs. Elizabeth Flint, his wife; three sons, Maurice B. Flint, Kansas City, Mo., Robe L. Flint, Manhattan Beach, Cali., George M. Flint, La Grange, III and five grandchildren.
(An editorial, "L. N. Flint, End of An Era." Page 2.)
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