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Specialist on Japan To Be AUSF Speaker
Willard A. Hanna, American Universities Field staff specialist on Japan, will arrive here today for a week of scheduled lectures. Mr.Hanna.43,has been a teacher in China,a naval officer,and after the war,a member of the U.S.information program.
Born in Cross Creek, Pa., Mr. Hanna did his undergraduate work at the College of Wooster, his master's degree at Ohio State university and his doctorate in English language and literature at the University of Michigan. Under Navy sponsorship at Columbia, he earned a second M.A., in international administration. During the war he also was graduated from the U.S. Navy Japanese Language School at the University of Colorado. His postwar studies included a year at the National War college.
After his graduation from Wooster, Mr. Hanna spent four years in China as an English teacher. He returned to the United States in 1937 to complete his graduate studies, and then taught English at Michigan State Normal college until the United States entered World War II.
He served with the Navy from 1942 to 1946, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander. He landed on Okinawa with the occupation forces and stayed on until nine months after the end of the war as chief of the Military Government Office of Education and Cultural Affairs.
From 1947 until 1954 Mr. Hann held senior posts in the U.S. government information program During this time he served for a year in the Philippines as cultural officer, and for five years in Indonesia as chief of public affairs officer. He attended the National War college in 1952-53 and then was assigned to Tokyo as chief public affairs officer for Japan, a post he held until August, 1954.
Among Mr. Hanna's published works are "Destiny Has Eight Eyes," a novel based on events in China in the late 1930s, which appeared under Harper's imprint, and several sections of the U.S. Navy Military Government Handbook for the Marianas, Caroline, and Palau Islands.
Long to Address Medical Students
Dr. Esmond R. Long, director of the Henry Phipps Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, will deliver the sixth course of the Clendening Lectureship for the KU School of Medicine.
Dr. Long will lecture on "The Chopin" today, in Malott hall auditorium. Tomorrow at 4 p.m. he will speak in the Battenfeld auditorium of the Student Union-Continuation center in Kansas City. His subject will be "The Therapy of Tuberculosis from Hippocrates to Modern Times."
The finishing touches are being put on the new acoustical tile ceiling in the under graduate reading room in Watson library by employees of the department of building and grounds.
WILLARD A. HANNA
Work on the ceiling began last summer and is expected to be completed in the near future. Approximately half the ceiling is covered with the new tile now. New aluminum and glass doors have also been installed in the library entrance.
Acoustical Ceiling Installed in Library
Renovation of the interior of the home economics practice house and painting in the aeronautical engineering department is also nearly completed.
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Students who passed the Chi Omega fountain on the way to classes this morning were astonished to find green water gushing.
Chi O Fountain Spouts Chlorophyll
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Joe G. Skimman, chief of the campus police, said a dye containing a green dye was recovered from the fountain early today. He said the bag apparently was a rescue device such as those used by the Air Force for downed flyers. The device usually is found on rubber life rafts, and is used to mark the place where a plane has crashed.
He was a member of the calendar committee of the University Senate, the Summerfield committee, the scholarship committee, and was in charge of readings on the Western Civilization committee. He was president of the Lawrence Co-op, president of the University Housing association, and a member of the Southwestern Social Science association. He wrote "Consumers and Producers."
Hilden Gibson Dies April 1
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Veda Gibson of the home, 1629 Barker ave; a daughter, Hilda Margaret Gibson of the home; a son, Carl Russell Gibson of the home; his father, Julius T. Gibson of McPhrerson, and a half brother, Niles Gibson of McPhrerson.
Dr. Hilden Russell Gibson, chairman of the human relations department and a professor of political science and sociology, died April 1 at the KU Medical center, following brain surgery there four days previously. He was 44.
He was on leave in 1946-47 with a fellowship in human relations at Harvard. Last year he held a Ford foundation fellowship at Colgate.
He returned to KU in 1938 as an instructor in political science and sociology. In 1940 he was made an assistant professor and an associate professor in 1945.
The widely known human relations expert, known especially for his use of case material in classes, was made a full professor in 1949. He joined the faculty in 1938.
He was born Sept. 10, 1910, at McPherson. In 1933 he received the A.B. degree at the University. While a student he was a Summerfield scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science fraternity.
He earned the Ph.D. degree in 1940 at Stanford university. While there he was an assistant in political science, an acting instructor, and an instructor.
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Professors Praise 'Rich Life'
A memorial service for Hilde Gibson, chairman of the department of human relations and professor of political science, was held on Sunday, April 3 in Fraser theater.
Dr. John Ise, professor of economies, paid tribute to Dr. Gibson. "The University is poorer today," he said. "for we have lost a gallant and intrepid member of our community. For the shortness of his life there is only the great but insufficient compensation that it was so richly and generously lived, and that in the truest sense it has not ended and cannot end."
Dr. Fritz J. Roethlisberger, pro-
lessor of human relations at Harvard Business school, said, "Dr. Gibson's outstanding characteristic was his sensitivity to other people while at the same time he maintained his own individuality and integrity."
Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano, played two of Dr. Gibson's favorite numbers: "Impromptu" by Schubert, and Bach's "Coral Prelude."
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SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: NO. 3
Once again the makers of Philip Morris,men who are dedicated to the betterment of American youth, have consented to let me use this space,normally intended for levity,to bring you a brief lesson in science.
It is no new thing, this concern that the makers of Philip Morris feel for American youth. Youth was foremost in their minds when they fashioned their cigarette. They were aware that the palate of youth is keen and eager, awake to the subtlest nuances of flavor. And so they made a gentle and element smoke, a suave blending of temperate vintage tobaccos, a summery amalgam of the most tranquil and emollient leaf that their buyers could find in all the world. And then they designed their cigarette in two sizes, king-size and regular, and wrapped them in the convenient Snap-Open pack, and priced them at a figure that youth could afford, and made them available at every tobacco counter in the land.
That's what they did, the makers of Philip Morris, and I for one am glad.
The science that we take up today is called astronomy, from the Greek words astro meaning "sore" and nomy meaning "back." Sore backs were the occupational disease of the early Greek astronomers, and no wonder! They used to spend every blessed night lying on the damp ground and looking up at the sky, and if there's a better way to get a sore back, I'd like to hear about it. Especially in the moist Mediterranean area, where Greece is generally considered to be.
Lumbago and related disorders kept astronomy from becoming very popular until Galileo, a disbarred flenser of Perth, fashioned a home made telescope in 1924 out of three Social Security cards and an ordinary ice cube. What schoolboy does not know that stirring story - how Galileo stepped up to his telescope, how he looked heavenward, how his face filled with wonder, how he stepped back and whispered the words heard round the world: 'L'etat, c'est moi!"
Well sir, you can imagine what happened then! William Jennings Bryan snatched Nell Gwynne from the shadow of the guillotine at Oslo; Cancellor Bismark brought in four gushers in a single afternoon; Hal Newhouser was signed by the Hanseatic League; Crete was declared off limits to Wellington's entire army; and William Faulkner won the Davis Cup for his immortal *Penrod* and Sam.
But after a while things calmed down, and astronomers began the staggering task of naming all the heavenly bodies. First man to name a star was Sigafoos of Mt. Wilson, and the name he chose was Betelgeuse, after his wife Betelgeuse Sigafoos, prom queen at Michigan State College from 1919 to 1931.
Not to be outdone, Formfig of Yerkes Observatory named a whole constellation after his wife, Big Dipper Formfig, the famed dirt track racer. This started the custom of astronomers naming constellations after their wives - Capricorn, Cygni, Orion, Ursa Major, Canis Major, and so forth. (The Major girls, Ursa and Canis, both married astronomers, though Canis subsequently ran off with a drydock broker named Twaithe Daphnis.)
After naming all the heavenly bodies, the astronomers had a good long rest. Then, refreshed and brown as berries, they undertook the gigantic project of charting the heavens. Space is so vast that it is measured in units called "light-years." These are different from ordinary years in that they weigh a good deal less. This, of course, is only relative, since space is curved. As Einstein laughingly said, "E=mc²."
Well, I guess that covers astronomy pretty thoroughly. But before we leave this fascinating topic, let us answer one final question: Is there life on other planets?
The answer is a flat, unequivocal no. Recent spectroscopic studies have proved beyond a doubt that the atmosphere of the other planets is far too harsh to permit the culture of the delicate vintage tobacco that go into Philip Morris Cigarettes . . . And who can live without Philip Morris?
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