UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Enrollment Instructions Fall Semester,1955
Undergraduate students will call at the Registrar's Office, 122 Strong Hall, to pick up registration materials, clear financial obligations, and have identification pictures taken before reporting to the Union Building for enrollment. Students may call at the Registrar's Office for their materials at any time on Friday, September 9, Saturday morning, September 10, and Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, September 12, 13, and 14.
Registration materials must be secured in Strong Hall and filled out completely before the student can be admitted to the Union Building for enrollment.
Enrollment in classes will be conducted in the Student Union Building. Enrollment hours are 8:30 to 12:00 and 1:30 to 5:00, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, September 12, 13 and 14. Students will not be admitted to the enrollment floor to begin enrollment after 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Admittance to the Union Building for enrollment will be according to the following letter schedule, for students who have previously secured registration materials at Strong Hall:
MONDAY September 12 TUESDAY September 13 WEDNESDAY September 14
L ... 8:30 Sn-Sz, T ... 8:30 D, E ... 8:30
Ma-Mc ... 9:30 U, V, Wa-Wil ... 9:30 F ... 9:30
Md-Mz, N ... 10:30 Wim-Wz, X, Y, Z, A ... 10:30 G ... 10:30
O, P, Q ... 1:30 Ba-Bo ... 1:30 Ha-Hi ... 1:30
R ... 2:30 Bp-Bz, Ca-Ch ... 2:30 Hj-Hz, J ... 2:30
Sa-Sm ... 3:30 Ci-Cz ... 3:30 K ... 3:30
Classes begin on Thursday, September 15. Enrollment on or after this date is permitted only on payment of a late fee of $5.00 in addition to the regular fees.
Detailed instructions covering the procedure at the Union Building are printed in the Schedule of Classes.
Graduate Students call first at the Graduate Office, 227 Strong Hall.
PAYMENT OF FEES
Fees will be paid after enrollment, according to the following schedule:
A, B, C, D, E, F Monday, September 26 G, H, I, J, K, L Tuesday, September 27 M, N, O, P, Q, R Wednesday, September 28 S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z Thursday, September 29
A penalty of $2 per day for late payment of fees goes into effect beginning on Friday, September 30. The enrollment of any student whose fees are not paid by Monday, October 3, will be canceled.
Identification cards will be issued to students at the time fees are paid.
Registrar's Office, August 1955
Oldfather Leaves KU For A Year
Charles H. Oldfather Jr., ballad-singing law professor, will take a year off from his duties at KU to teach at the University of Wisconsin this year.
Prof. Oldfather, associate professor of law, will assume teaching duties here in the 1956-57 school year.
He came to KU in 1950 and made his first appearance as a ballad singer by accompanying himself on his guitar at a local picnic. His singing and strumming were a hit, and since that time he has sung and played at functions in Lawrence and other cities.
Regan Singing In Navy
The 35-year-old professor began singing and playing American folk songs while serving with the Navy during World War II. His father, Charles H. Oldfather Sr., had been a ballad singer and guitar player while dean of the College
Prof. Oldfather appeared at the Washington Day rallies of 1954 and 1955 in Topeka, The Rock Chalk Revue, Alumni club meetings, and at many other functions throughout the area.
Prof. Oldfather spent his first two years of undergraduate work at Harvard University then switched to Nebraska, where he was graduated in 1941. He then spent five years in the Navy, returning to Harvard in 1946. He was graduated from that institution in 1948 and entered private law practice in Milwaukee.
of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Nebraska University.
Appeared Many Times
His last appearance at KU was as a featured performer at a get-together of foreign students now in session here.
Nearly one out of every ten cars now is assembled on the West Coast.
Alumnus Assigned By Marine Corps
Marine 2nd Lt. James D. Van Pelt, who was graduated from the University this spring, has been assigned to duty at Quantico, Va. following completion of the officers' basic course at Quantico.
State Corn Crop Smaller This Year
Lieutenant Van Pelt, whose home is Lemont, Kas., was graduated from the basic course in ceremonies held in Quantico August 6.
Kids talk more
Iowa City,—(U.P.)—Mildred Templin of the Institute of Child Welfare, University of Minnesota says children are talking more than their parents did when they were young. She told a speech conference that children now are encouraged to speak up, and parents have dropped the adage that "children should be seen and not heard."
Topeka —(U.P.) The smallest Kansas corn crop in 18 years has been forecast by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The department, whacking its August estimate by 31 percent, predicted Kansas will harvest only 29.88200 bushels of corn.
Caused by heat and steadily worsening drouth, the drop was one of the most severe one month changes in corn prospects ever recorded in Kansas.
Yield per acre, based on conditions Sept. 1, is expected to be only 16.5 bushels, compared with 24.0 bushels to the acre forecast a month ago.
The production estimate is the smallest since 1937 and less than half the 10-year average of Kansas corn crops 1945-54.
Another heavy slash in prospects was listed for Kansas sorghum grain—37,000,000 bushels compared with 59,200,000 bushels in August.
9 Students Get Summerfield Appointments
Appointments as Summerfield scholars have been made for nine upperclassmen at the University, it was announced by Dr. Dennis Trueblood, director of aids and awards.
Each has distinguished himself in scholarship and activities and with a 2.7 grade point average or better, ranks well above the minimum required of Summerfield scholars. The minimum is 2.5, based on 3.0 for A's and 2.0 for B'.
The nine new Summerfield scholars are: Peter Arrowsmith, engineering senior; Minter E. Brown, engineering sophomore; Donald M. Coyne, engineering sophomore; John A. Davis, Jr., engineering sophomore; Warren L. Gay, engineering sophomore.
Summerfield scholars are chosen through statewide competitive examinations from among senior boys in Kansas high schools. However outstanding upperclassmen are named to fill vacancies or are accorded the honor when the $20,000 annual grant from the Summerfield Foundation permits.
James Gilbert Tissue, engineering junior; Gary Allen Williams, engineering sophomore; Charles E. Winters, engineering sophomore; John Frederic Zoellner, College sophomore.
Summerfield scholars receive the amount needed beyond their own resources to attend KU without working part time. Those who need no aid receive only a small honorarium and the honor, Dr. Trueblood said. Several of the new scholars already hold other scholarships and the Summerfield committee will not duplicate that assistance.
Activities Unit Lists Fifteen
Fifteen University students have been named to the Student Statewide Activities board for the 1955-56 school year.
Student Statewide Activities, sponsored by the University's Alumni association, is a strictly student organization for spreading good will for KU and for letting prospective students and their parents know of the opportunities for development in scientific and cultural fields at KU.
Projects include high school assemblies, providing University yearbooks to high schools, personal letters to high school seniors, window displays, parties and receptions, a home-town newspaper correspondent project, and the "Jayhawk Jubilee," in conjunction with the Kansas Relays.
The new board members are:
General chairman, Steve Schmidt,
Salina junior; County club chairman,
Sally Rice, Abilene sophomore;
County club assistant, Bruce Smith,
Stockton sophomore; County correspondent chairman, Kay Wright, Columbus sophomore;
County correspondent assistant,
Mickey Mills, McPherson sophomore;
Correspondents' advisor, Jane Pecinovsky, Kansas City Mo., junior;
Secretary-treasurer Jim Schultz, Salina sophomore; Secretarial committee chairman, Jo Rouse, Wichita junior; Secretarial assistant, Jane Ratcliff, Atwood senior; High School host committee chairman, Mike Grove, Larned sophomore; Jayhawker committee chairman, Janet Hanneman, Washington sophomore; Jayhawk jubilee chairman, John E. Rodgers, Paradise junior;
Poster board chairman, Dale Flanagan, Columbus sophomore; Publicity chairman, Jo Scholes, Council Grove junior and Publicity assistant, Kent Porter, Wichita sophomore.
Tickets Own Car
Edinburg, Tex. —(U.P.)—Policeman Jeas Perez doesn't play favorites. Perez ticketed his own automobile when he found it parked by a meter with no time left on it. He had lent the car to his sister to do some shopping.