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Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No. 133
Morley Receives Fulbright at Danish Academy
John C. Morley, instructor in architecture, has been awarded a Fulbright lectureship to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at Copenhagen, Denmark, the State department announces.
Mr. Morley received the grant to picture on building construction and industrial design in the Royal Academy's School of Architecture. His is one of approximately 400 grants to faculty members of U.S. colleges and universities for lecturing and research in 1955-56.
He joined the architecture faculty in 1948 in his present position, backed by bachelor's degrees from Rockhurst college and KU, five years of practical architectural experience in the field, and four years during World War II as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy.
In pre-war years he was with the engineering department of Trans- World Airlines, rejoining the firm in 1946 as a co-pilot. The year before his appointment at KU, he became chief draughtsman and designer for Archer, Cowper and Robinson architectural firm of Kansas City.
The 40-year-old native of Ely, Nev., was married in 1946 to Marie Morley of Dormont, Pa. The family lives at 6735 Belinder road in Mission. He also is wing staff commander of Air Wing 88, at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Olathe.
Recommendation by the Conference Board of Associated Research Councils is a prerequisite to the granting of the lectureship. Mr. Morley begins his Fulbright year this summer.
Weather
The weather forecast is for considerable cloudiness and turning much cooler with strong shifting winds west and central and scattered thunderstorms extreme east. Blowing dust west. Clearing and much tonight with diminishing winds. Thursday fair. Cooler east and central. High today 60s northwest, lower 80s southeast. Low tonight 40 northwest, 50-55 southeast.
-Kansan photo by Mike Walter
To Read Poems By U.S. Negroes
Works of NGO poets of the United States will be read by Mrs. Jessica Crafton at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the music room of the Student Union. Mrs. Crafton will begin with Paul Lawrence Dunbar, who she said was the first of the Negro race to receive any acclaim from critics.
WHO WILL IT BE?—The queen of the Inter-fraternity Fledge Council dance Friday, will be selected from these college freshmen. They are (left to right) Jane Johnson, Mary Belle Brown, and Barbara Hauck. The finalists were chosen from 16 freshman candidates.
Wednesday. April 27, 1955
She will read poetry of six or eight poets, including Johnson, Cullen, and Hughes.
I-FPC Names Queen Aspirants
Three freshmen women from North College have been named finalists for the title of "queen of the Inter-fraternity Pledge council" dance Friday.
Wayne Rolley, college freshman and I-FPC president, will crown the queen during intermission of the dance, which is for all members of Greek organizations on the campus.
Jane Johnson, Mary Belle Brown,
and Barbara Hauck were selected by the I-FPC Tuesday night from seven semi-finalists.
Voting will be by those who attend the dance. The ballot will be by ticket, with the name of one of the three finalists written on the back. The ballot is to be given to one of the attendants at the door.
The dance will be from 9 p.m. to midnight in the Student Union ballroom. Tickets are $1 per couple.
Committee Approves Ike's Reserve Bill
Washington—(U.P.)The H ouse Armed Services committee approved by a 31-5 vote today President Eisenhower's compulsory military reserve training program.
The program includes authority for the President to call up one million reservists in an emergency. Under present law the President can call reserves into action only if Congress first specifies how many.
ASC, AWS Vote to Oppose Exchange Student Fund Cut
The ASC and AWS voted in separate meetings yesterday to take action to oppose the bill before the U.S. Senate which would cut appropriations for exchange students from $22 million to $12 million.
The ASC sent telegrams to Sen. Frank Carlson and Sen. Andrew F. Schoepel last night, asking them to vote against the bill which has been passed by the House of Representatives.
Dorothy A. Sheets, education junior and AWS president, said the AWS would oppose the bill but would make a further study before writing to Sen. Carlson and Sen. Schoepel.
that the Senate take whatever action deemed necessary to investigate the student election of April 20 in which 87 ballots were not accounted for at the Fraser poll. No action was taken by the Senate.
In other Senate business, a bill was read for the first time which would shift parking regulation responsibility from the ASC parking committee back to the University administration.
The ASC House of Representatives also recommended last night
Dinner Honors Retiring Members of KU Faculty
Seven members of the University faculty who are retiring this year were honored at an all-University dinner last night in the Student Union.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy introduced the professors and their wives and presented a certificate of service to each of the honorees. The awards were given to Robert McNair Davis, professor of law; John Ise, professor of economics; Jane Jones, professor of applied science; H. Major, professor of medicine; Ellis B. Stouffer, professor of mathematics, and Donald M. Swarthout, professor of piano.
entomology, was unable to attend the dinner because of ill health. He is now at his home in Lawrence, and the certificate of service will be delivered to him.
Raymond H. Beamer, professor of
The certificates resembled small diplomas in blask leather folders with the gold seal of the University. Inscribed on parchment were the words, "In grateful appreciation of ... years of service as a member of the faculty, this certificate is presented to ... Given this 26th day of April, 1955, at Lawrence, Kan." The certificates were signed by the chancellor and stamped with the seal of the University.
Murphy, ASC Unit to Meet On Wage Plan
The committee has estimated that it will take additional appropriations of $3,100 to pus such a law into effect. The recommendation was presented to the University budget committee March 26, but no action was taken.
The ASC labor committee will meet with Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy at 3 p.m. today to discuss the 65-cent minimum student wage law recommended at the ASC meeting April 18.
The ASC committee formulated the recommendation after obtaining information on wages from six other universities and colleges. A detailed report has been prepared showing the number of each type of worker employed by each department of each university and the hourly wage.
The average hourly wages for the universities surveyed are Colorado university, 90.7 cents; Iowa State university, 89 cents; Oklahoma A and M, 77.4 cents; Oklahoma university, 73.1 cents; Kansas State college, 70.4 cents, and the University of Kansas, 72.4 cents.
members of the labor committee are Robert W. Tebow, pharmacy junior, chairman; Robert G. Bush, college sophomore; Ralph M. Jones, college junior; Donna D. Daisie, college freshman; George F. Sheldon, college sophomore; Burton Baldwin, education junior, and Rhoten A. Smith, instructor of political science, faculty adviser.
Students who left their ID cards at the polls during the student election April 20 may pick them up at the dean of students' office, Robert E. Pope, third year graduate, elections chairman, said today.
Students' ID Cards At Office of Dean
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229 YEARS OF SERVICE—The six faculty members shown here who will retire in June include four former deans. They are (front row, left to right): Dr. Ralph H. Major, professor of medicine and former chairman of that department; Dr. Ellis B. Stouffer, professor of mathematics and former dean of the University; Dr. Robert McNair Davis, professor of law and former dean of the School of Law; Dr. Donald M. Swarthout, professor of piano and former dean of the School of Fine Arts; back row: J. O. Jones, professor of applied mechanics and former dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, and Dr. John Ise, professor of economics. Dr. Raymond H. Beamer, professor of entomology, who also is retiring, was unable to be present.