KU Chemists Host First Visiting Experts Since 1904
The University department of chemistry is currently host to its 6irst visiting professors and postdoctoral research fellows since 1904.
During 54 years in old Bailey hall physical limitations prevented these valuable additions to the teaching program, Dr. Ray Q. Brewster, department chairman, explained. Now with facilities among the nation's best in new $3^4$-million Malott hall, the department has four guests for the 1954-1955 year.
Dr. Joseph Kenyon, professor of organic chemistry at the University of London and a fellow of the Royal Society, is substituting for Dr. Arthur W. Davidson who has a Fulbright lectureship at Turku University in Finland.
Dr. Osman Hilal, professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Alexandria, Egypt, is a research associate and visiting lecturer in inorganic chemistry.
Dr. Elizabeth Wilson Baumann, from the research laboratories of the DuPont de Nemours company, is a post-doctoral fellow in physical chemistry.
Dr. Barbara Tildesley, who received the Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University in England in 1954, is a research associate in inorganic chemistry.
Residence hall scholarships valued at $2,000 have been awarded to 13 University women for the spring semester. Dr. Dennis Trueblood, director of aids and awards, announced today.
Scholarships Go To 13 Students
The newly-enrolled scholars are: Valerie Nanning, Marilyn Elledge, and Mary Ann Jones, college freshmen; Carol Ann Graves and Sandra Frye, college juniors, and Jayne Marie Witt and Helju Aulik, college sophomores.
New scholars already attending KU are: Dolores Reifel and Laura Willan, college freshmen; Patricia McFadden, college junior; Sheila Trull, fine arts sophomore; Jane Steinle and Viola Mitchell, fine arts freshmen.
The sixth annual Art Education conference, open to teachers and prospective teachers, will be held on the campus Friday and Saturday.
IFC to Help Clear Centennial Park
Seven women entering KU this semester and six women already enrolled received awards. Scholarship halls are operated on a cooperative share-the-work-and-costs plan. Residents receive board and room for about $150 a semester less than normal cost.
Dr. Alice A. D. Baumgarner will be the guest lecturer, speaking twice Friday and once Saturday. Dr. Baumgarner is the state director of arts education in New Hamshire. Her lectures will be "Art or Activity." "The Art Teacher and an Environment for Creative Expression," and "P's for Q.'s."
Dr. Baumgarner, who holds degrees from Pennsylvania State university and Columbia university, began her teaching career in a one-room country school in Pennsylvania. She subsequently has taught in elementary, junior and senior high schools and colleges of several eastern and New England states. She regularly writes a page for the nationally circulated School Arts magazine.
Visiting teachers will be given time to view special exhibits. Children's art from first class cities in Kansas will be shown in the Student Union. The Museum of art and departments of design and drawing and painting also will arrange special showings.
Art Education Unit to Meet On Weekend
Mr. Whitson said that first year teachers who do not have an overload of children and are employed by a principal who has hired previous beginning teachers should be happy and successful.
The IFC voted last night to cooperate with the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and the Panhellenic council in clearing the underbrush from the newly purchased Lawrence Centennial park located southwest of the intersection of Highways 10 and 24. The park was purchased by the community with the profits made on the Lawrence centennial celebration last year.
The new officers are Cheryl Brock, junior, president; Martha Poor, junior, vice president; Ruby Schaulis, junior, secretary, and Melba Austin, senior, treasurer.
Arts magazine.
Miss Maud Ellsworth, head of the art education faculty, is director of the conference.
Student Gets Court Job
The date of the help-out day was set tentatively for March 5, which would link it with the Greek week festivities the following week end.
"It is a grand profession to be in,
provided you like children," he stated.
In other action, the IFC also voted to award two $250 scholarships to deserving sophomores who meet the scholarship qualifications set up by the IFC scholarship committee.
Education Club Elects Officers
The first officers of the new education club were elected yesterday afternoon at a meeting in the Pine room of the Student Union. Following the election, Mose Whitson, assistant to the superintendent of schools in Topeka, spoke on "What to Expect as a First Year Teacher."
Clarence E. Maddy, graduate student, began working this week as new Lawrence police court clerk. Maddy, public administration student, is from Fonda, Iowa.
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Tuesday, February 8.1955 University Daily Kansan
Ad Planners Win Contests
Four University students have been announced as winners in two advertising contests in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
Kenneth Winston, journalism senior, won a $25 savings bond in the advertising campaign course competition sponsored by the James Dishwasher manufacturing company of Independence, James E. Dykes, assistant professor of journalism, teaches the ad campaigns course.
Bill Slamin, journalism junior; won first place in competition in the direct mail advertising course.
Sasnak Elects Ralph Moody
Ralph Moody, education junior, has been elected president of Sasnak, physical education major's organization, for the spring semester. Other new officers are Helen Haize, education junior, vice president; Mary Ann Tinkler, education sophomore, secretary, and Dick Laptad, education sophomore, treasurer.
Students in the course, which Dykes also teaches, devoted the semester to individual projects to solve some of the advertising, merchandising and sales problems of a Lawrence motel.
Second-place winner in both competitions was Bill Taggart, journalism senior. Taggart tied with Taylor Rhodes, graduate student, in the direct mail competition.
THE TREEHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON
Spring is just around the corner, and with spring, as always, will come tree-sitting contests. This I applaud Tree-sitting is healthful and jolly and as American as apple pie. Also it keeps you off the streets.
Tree-sitting is not, however, without its hazards, as you will presently see when I tell you the dread and chilling tale of Manuel Sigfafoos and Ed Pancreas.
Manuel and Ed, friends and room-mates, were walking one day past the folk music room in the School of Dentistry and Fine Arts. Suddenly they stopped, for coming through the door of the folk music room was a clear and thrilling alto voice singing the lovely folk tune, I Strangled My True-Love with Her Own Yellow Braids, and I'll Never Eat Her Sorghum Any More.
When the last shimmering notes of the ballad had died away, Manuel and Ed rushed into the room, and there they thought their swelling hearts must burst asunder. For the singer was as beautiful as the song! Fair as the morn she was, doe-eyed and curvilinear.
"My name is Manuel Sigafoos," cried Manuel Sigafoos, "and I love you madly, wildly, tempestuously!"
"My name is Ed Pancreas," cried Ed Pancreas, "and I love you more than Manuel Sigafoos."
"My name is Ursula Thing," cried the girl, "and I've got a jim-dandy idea. Why don't you two have a contest, and I will go steady with the winner?"
"A tree-sitting contest." cried Ursula Thing. "Natch!"
"What kind of contest?" cried Manuel and Ed.
"Done and done," cried Manuel and Ed, and they clambered up adjoining aspers, taking with them the following necessaries: food, water, clothing, medicaments, bedding, reading matter, and most essential of all—plenty of Philip Morris cigarettes.
We who live on the ground, with all the attendant advantages, know how important Philip Morris cigarettes are. Think, then, how much more important they must be to the lonely tree dweller — how much more welcome their vintage tobaccos, how much more soothing their mild pure flavor, how much more comforting to know as one sits in leafy solitude that come wind or weather, come light or dark, Philip Morris will always remain the same dependable, reliable, flavorful friend.
But Ed had a surprise coming. For Manuel, though he did not know it himself, was a druid! He had been abandoned as an infant at the hut of a poor and humble woodcutter named Winthrop Mayhew Sigafoos, who had raised the child as his own. So when Manuel got into the tree, he found to his surprise that he'd never felt so at home and happy in his life, and he had absolutely no intention of ever leaving.
Well supplied with Philip Morris, our heroes began their contest – Manuel with good heart, Ed with evil cunning. The shocking fact is that Ed intended to win the contest with a Machiavellian ruse. It seems that Ed, quite unbeknownst to Manuel, was one of three identical triplets. Each night while Manuel dozed on his bough, one of Ed's brothers – Fred or Jed – would sneak up the tree and replace him. Thus Ed was spending only one-third as much time in the tree as Manuel. "How can I lose?" said Ed with a crafty giggle to his brother Fred or Jed.
After four or five years Ed and his brothers weared of the contest and conceded. Ursula Thing came to Manuel's tree and called him to come down and pin her. He declined. Instead he asked her to join him in the tree. This she could not do, being subject to acromegaly (a morbid allergy to woodpeckers) so she ended up with Ed after all.
Only she made a mistake - a very natural mistake. It was Jed she ended up with, not Ed.
Ed, heartbroken at being tricked by his own brother, took up metallurgy to forget.
Crime does not pay.
This column is brought to you by the makers of PHILIP MORRIS cigarettes, who suggest that if you are ever up a tree when trying to find a gift, give PHILIP MORRIS. They're sure to please.
$ \textcircled{C} $Max Shulman, 1955