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Bv JAMES R. SQUIRES
'Heart' Of Wood, Metal
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Man's attempts to duplicate the organs of the body have been crude. Various parts, such as bones, vessel walls, and the kidneys, have been duplicated in plastic, but few, if any others.
Only recently has man duplicated the human heart in function. Successful heart operations have been performed by using a mechanical heart to assume the load of blood circulation while the living heart is relaxed to permit surgery on its structures.
The department of physiology has designed and built a mechanical heart, J. E, Kendrick, a graduate student in physiology now working under a U. S. Public Health grant, is the heart's designer, and Fred Johnson, machinist for the department, assisted in building it.
Difficulty Encountered
Kendrick has been working on the heart for three years.
One of the difficulties encountered in developing the mechanical heart was the problem of designing valves to handle the wide range of blood output which can vary from none to many units a minute.
five quarts The mechanical heart (see picture) consists chiefly of a two-cylinder pump. With this pump are four glass reservoirs which are similar to the chambers of the heart. Because the blood must still be aerated by the lungs, large mechanical respirators and oxygen tanks are close at hand.
The 'heart' is designed in such a manner that at no time does the blood actually come into contact
with the pump mechanism itself as it does in the human heart. Instead, mineral oil fills the cylinders of the pump. The necessary pressure is than transmitted to the blood through the mineral oil.
Uses 'Heart' Differently
Cardiac output depends on the emotional condition of the body and is therefore not constant. Kendrick is interested in the effects of drugs on the vascular system when supplied by a constant supply of blood. This is made possible by the use of the mechanical heart which is easily adjustable to any blood volume output.
The primary purpose of the 'heart' is to take over human heart duties during surgery, but Kendrick uses his 'heart' in a slightly different manner.
Work such as Kendrick's is-improving man's knowledge of the artificial heart. His machine of wood and metal is a giant steel toward trouble-free heart surgery.
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Mrs. Robert Kennedy, the former Letty Lemon, 1955 journalism graduate, has been presented the leadership award as the outstanding Delta Delta Delta in the nation.
Former Student Wins Award
Dance Tryouts Slated
A noted sculptor, 80-year-old Carl Milles, died last night in Stockholm. The Swedish-born artist had become a United States citizen in 1945 and worked in this country from 1929 to the end of World War II, when he moved to Rome.
Swedish Sculptor Dies
Her other activities included rush chairman and president of Delta Delta Delta, vice president of Panhellenic Council, freshman class president, president, varsity debate, AWS assistant dean-for-a-day, vice president of Delta Sigma Rho, forensic fraternity; Forensic League, Quill Club, and Stateswomen's Club.
She has been awarded a silver serving tray and a trip to the 1956 Tri-Delt national convention at Coronado, Calif. The Theta Omega chapter here received a silver punch bowl, tray, and ladle inscribed with her name. This traveling trophy will remain at the KU chapter for one year.
While at the University, Mrs. Kennedy was on the dean's honor roll and secretary of Mortar Board. She's a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She is also a member of Theta Sigma Phi, journalism fraternity for women, and served as society, news, editorial, managing, and executive editor of the Kansan.
Tryouts for membership in Tau Sigma, modern dance organization, will be held at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow in Robinson Gymnasium.
Mrs. Kennedy was chosen for the award on the basis of her scholarship and leadership on the campus and in the chapter. She is now living in Arlington, W. Va., where her husband, also a 1954 graduate and member of Sigma Nu fraternity, is serving in the Navy.
One of the main attractions offered to visitors by the stately structure is the view of the American flag and KU banner on the twin peaks of the building. The KU banner has more than once been the object of raids by students from other schools before Saturday football games.
University Daily Kansan
The building was completed on Dec. 21, 1872. It is made of native limestone and originally contained 54 rooms. However, the 54 rooms have been split up into more than 70 and fewer older graduates would recognize the interior of the building now.
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1955
graduation exercises which were held in June 1873 for four students. The dignity of the occasion was "seriously impaired," when pranksters lowered a skeleton belonging to the zoology department through an opening in the ceiling of the auditorium just as Chancellor Fraser was delivering the main address.
Fraser Once Largest School Building In U.S.
By LOUIS STROUP
First Graduation
Old timers remember the first
When Fraser Hall was built 83 years ago it was the nation's largest educational building.
At that time Chancellor John Fraser, for whom the structure was named, predicted the building would be adequate enough to meet the needs of the University for the next 50 years. He did not foresee the construction of more than 20 other buildings now in use at KU.
Fraser will get a relief from the heavy load when the School of Education moves into Bailey Hall sometime in January. In two years University Extension plans to move into Blake Hall, which will be remodeled.
Fraser is the home of the School of Education, University Extension, English department, German department, home economics department, Latin and Greek, the teacher appointment bureau, the visual instruction division and the Wilcox Museum.
Home Of Many
Going farther back into time, graduates may recall when the chancellor's office, the library, University Press, drawing rooms, and the departments of physics, astronomy, mathematics, mechanics, engineering, geology, botany, zoology, philosophy, political science, law and many others were in the building.
More than 300,000 students have added to the wear and tear on the structure, but maintenance crews keep the building in top condition.
KU Graduate Gets YW Secretaryship
Kathryn Taylor, a 1951 KU graduate, is the new executive secretary of the YWCA.
For the past four years, Miss Taylor has been field director for the Maricopa Council of Camp Girls in Phoenix, Ariz. Her work has been the recruiting and training of adult leaders.
Mrs. William H. Allaway, wife of the YMCA general secretary here, held the post last year.
A native of Dodge City, Miss Taylor attended Park College at Parkville. Mo., until her senior year. She plans to do graduate work in social work at KU in addition to her executive duties.
Dr. Frank C. Foley, director of the State Geological Survey at KU and a director of the National Water Well Association, will speak at the annual meeting of the Kansas Water Well Drillers' Association, Inc., Oct. 21-22.
Dr. Foley To Speak At Drillers' Meeting
Dr. Walter H. Schoewe of the geology department will show colored slides at the meeting in Salina.
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