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Speaker Praises Evolution In American Architecture
University Daily Kansan
Americans are discontented. They build, alter, tear down, and re- build.
This evolution is progress, George H. Miehls said in a lecture yesterday morning at Fraser theater.
Mr. Miehl, president of Albert Kahn Associated Architects and Engineers, Inc., Detroit, spoke at the second of two scheduled lectures this week. Attending the lecture were about 200 students and faculty members of the School of Engineering and Architecture. Dean T. DeWitt Carr introduced the speaker.
Discussing building, Mr. Miehs said, "the construction industry is the oldest known to man." He described food and shelter as the two basic elements of survival. To provide these basic elements, we must turn to the business of construction, he said.
Mr. Miehls said he hoped we would never see architecture known as the American period. When that happens, he said, we are on the decline. We must build, alter, tear down, and rebuild.
Building a new product that is no better than the old one is a waste. If we can improve something however, to discard the old one is not waste, but the conservation of energy.
Explaining the difference between waste and the conservation of energy. Mr. Miehlls said, "history will undoubtedly refer to our era as one of waste and discard." He considers forcing a productive man into retirement a waste.
Discussing the ethics of prospective engineers and architects, Mr. Miehls said respect for the dignity of man and respect for the Ten Commandments is necessary.
He said opportunity has the uncanny ability to favor those who make an effort to find it.
PWO Speaker Lived in India
Miss Janet Hodson, headmistress of the Mary E. Chatterjee school for girls in India, will speak at a supper meeting of the Presbyterian Women's organization at 5 p.m. today. Miss Hodson has been visiting the Topeka-Highland Presbyterial.
The Golden Plover is one of the most outstanding of all migrating birds. It nests on the Alaskan tundra in summertime, and with the approach of cold weather, makes a nonstop flight of 2,400 miles to Hawaii. In late spring it returns to Alaska.
Jayhawk Follies Chairmen Set
Harold Harvey and Gene Courtney, Lawrence alumni, have been named chairman and assistant chairman of the Jayhawk Follies by Dr. William Conboy, homecoming chairman.
Dr. Conboy said that in former years alumni have helped greatly in making the show a success. "We're fortunate to return to this tradition with two such talented men," he said.
The talent and variety show will be given following the varsity-freshman basketball game in Hoch auditorium Friday, Nov. 5.
After earning the M.A. degree, Mr. Harvey was an instructor in the speech department from 1949 to 1952. He is now employed by the Centron corporation in Lawrence as a motion picture director. He has worked in more than 20 productions as an actor, director, and designer of stage sets.
Galiffa Returns to 49'ers
Having also earned his M.A. degree at KU, Courtney was a speech and drama instructor from 1949 to 1951. He appeared in several theater productions and is now a writer and director for the Centron corporation.
San Francisco — (U.P.) — Former Army quarterback Arnold Galifia, inactive since he broke his hand in a game last month, today was removed from the San Francisco Forty-Niners' injured list. The National Football league team also announced the signing of Frank Cassara, former fullback and linebacker at St Mary's (Calif.).
Stations Get New Secretary
Radio stations KANU-KFKU announce the appointment of Mrs. Beverly Garrett as secretary to R. Edwin Browne, station manager.
Mrs. Garrett, formerly general secretary to the director in the Aids and Awards office, will begin at the station Nov. 1. She is replacing Mrs. Esther Price.
Many rigs used in drilling for oil and gas cost more than $500,000.
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Homecoming Follies Will Be Rehearsed
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Rehearsal for the Homecoming Follies will be held at 7 p.m. today in the Student Union Ballroom. All skit members and individual acts must be present to determine the length of the production and make script changes.
David Horr, college sophomore and member of the Follies committee, announced that the program will have a central theme which contains everything from football to ragdolls and Charlestons to "cat-dances." The Homecoming queen will also be announced at the Follies.
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1954
--docked 12 hours late yesterday, the Queen mother went directly to Sir Pierson's estate in nearby Riverdale, where she dined with her host and hostess. Sir Pierson is Britain's permanent delegate to the United Nations.
New York—(U.P.)After a quiet evening in the suburbs, Queen Mother Elizabeth fulfills today the first social engagement of her three-weeks visit to the United States.
Queen Mother to See Play
Her schedule calls for a lunch in her honor given by the Canadian club. She might go sightseeing in the afternoon before returning to to seven-acre estate of Sir Pierson Dixon, her host, for dinner tonight. Later, she and her party planned to attend the Broadway musical "Pajama Game."
When the liner Queen Elizabeth
American photographers and reporters, carefully briefed in advance on royal protocol, which included no questions and no approaching near the Queen mother, watched their etiquette except on the bridge.
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