Conference will honor Anderson
George L. Anderson was not given a watch or plaque when he retired as chairman of the KU department of history in 1968, but the history faculty has planned a Conference of the History of the Trans-Mississippi West in tribute of Anderson's 19 years leading the department.
The conference to be held Thursday and Friday in the Kansas Union will feature some of the most outstanding history scholars in the field, a history department spokesman said.
Twenty scholars from Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, New York, California, Oregon, Washington and Kansas will attend the conference to give tribute to the history professor who has served the past 19 years as chairman of the department.
Anderson said although he plans to retire, he will continue teaching for another five or six years.
Exam results given
The College Foreign Language Proficiency Committee has announced the names of 18 students who passed the September proficiency examinations.
They are:
French: Kathleen S. Bowen, Chevy Chase, MD., freshman; Nancy Carol Assad, freshman; freshman Assad, Raffoul, Tripoli, freshman, freshman, Marilyn S. Smith, Iowa, lowa
German: Scott D. Adams, Hinsale, Illinois; Katie L. Brooks, Topeka senior; Kristin Iris Goff, lawrence junior; Rae Rae Lampe, Alexandria, Va.; junior; Evan S. Smith, Lawrence freshman, and Rich H. Stein, Overland Park sophomore
Latin: Steven R. Osa, Shawnee Mission Washita; Wathema freshman; Gregory W. Williams, Prairie Village junior, and Joanna Wathema freshman; Spanish: Myla J. Clark, Nashville, Teen; junior; Joseph P. Flore, Kanaka; Spanish: S. Schmitz, Manhattan freshman.
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George L. Anderson
Sputnik fired by Soviets
MOSCOW (UPI)—The Soviet Union has fired three manned spaceships into orbit in the past three days. Tuesday, an unmanned Sputnik rocketed into space.
The official news agency Tass said the latest space shot was carried out under a program of joint cosmic exploration by the communist East European countries.
Tass said all instruments were functioning normally.
It said Intercosmos I carried scientific equipment made in the Soviet Union, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, hurled into orbit by a Soviet rocket.
The seven cosmonauts aboard the three Soviet spaceships carried out a series of photographic, navigational and maneuvering assignments in "close cooperation," Tass reported earlier.
Auto deaths up
OSLO (UPI)—Ninety-two persons were killed in traffic accidents in Norway in the first three months of 1969, compared with 81 in the corresponding period of 1968.
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Governor among speakers at KU institute dedication
Governor Robert B. Docking will speak at the dedication of the ALZA Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry which will be dedicated at 2 p.m. Thursday in the University Theatre.
Other principal speakers will be Nobel prize winner Dr. Arthur Kornberg, the chairman of the department of biochemistry in the Stanford University Medical School, and the Dr. Hans Selye, director of the Institute of Medicine and Experimental Surgery, University of Montreal.
Dr. Alejandro Zaffaronie, president and chairman of the ALZA Corporation, Palo Alto, Calif.; Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. and Dolph Simons Sr., president of the KU Endowment Association will make brief remarks at the dedication.
An open house for the public will be held after the dedication from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the new
Institute building, 2201 W, 21st St.
The ALZA Corporation was formed in 1968 to apply modern technology to the development of advanced drug delivery systems. The half million-dollar plus research laboratory was built at KU because of the work of Dr. Takeru Higuchi, Regents Professor of chemistry and pharmacy at KU.
Higuchi is the director of ALZA Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, which is located on land owned by the Endowment Association near the KU laboratory.
Higuchi was appointed to the new Regents professorship in 1967, coming from the University of Wisconsin where he became known as "the father of physical pharmacy."
Foreign fellowships offered
Foreign Area Fellowship Programs applications are available in the Office of International Programs, 224 Strong, for graduate students who have completed all requirements but the Ph.D. dissertation.
There are 150 fellowships in the areas of Latin America, Caribbean, South Asia, Southeast and East Asia, Africa, Near East, Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe.
Along with increasing the number of scholars competent in the mentioned areas,the program is interested in training and research proposals submitted by graduate students.
Students may apply at the Office of International Programs or write directly to the Foreign Area Fellowship Program, 110 E. 59th St., New York, N.Y. 10022. Application deadline is Nov. 1 and results will be announced April 1.
He has attracted a large number of graduate students and research associates and several grants for his KU work. In his work with the ALZA Institute, Higuchi will be directing a professional staff in fundamental studies aimed at discovering methods of bringing useful drugs to their sites of action under optimal conditions and speed.