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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 25, 1954
Alumni Group Launches Membership Campaign
An East-West membership campaign is the newest alumni drive for the University, Richard Wintermote, field secretary for the Alumni association, said yesterday.
A dividing line through "neutral" Shawnee county separates the United States into equal halves so far as the number of alumni who may be contacted is concerned, Mr. Wintermote explained. Otto Schnellbacher, Topeka, is chairman of the East division, and Dean Ostrum of St. Louis, formerly of Topeka, is West chairman.
The West, having obtained 310
new members, is at present winning the drive, which is "a good will competition to get the most new members," Mr. Wintermote said. The East division, to which Lawrence belongs, has 194 new members now. Chairmen are appointed in every town or county where there are more than five alumni, and these persons furnish supplies and list new members, as well as contacting alumni and selling memberships.
There are 332 chairmen in the West division and 234 in the East group. Lawrence alumni held a breakfast at the Eldridge hotel May 18 and will close their drive May 31. Total membership in the Alumni association is 10,300 at present. Membership dues are $2 for five years after graduation, then $4 annually, and $60 for life membership or $80 for husband and wife.
One-seventh of the total number of KU alumni, recorded as 44,000, were reached through alumni meetings since last June. Mr. Wintermote said. Sixty-eight meetings were held in Kansas, and 46 were planned outside the state. Forty-five University officials, including administrative and athletic officials and academic personnel, have attended meetings throughout the country.
Organized clubs having regular meetings and elected officers total 79 within the state and 64 outside Kansas. Chairmen have been appointed in every Kansas county. Prospective students are invited to attend alumni meetings, and alumni officials and speakers visit high schools and junior colleges.
Alumni are active in many other activities, such as establishment and operation, with the Endowment association, of the Greater University fund. In Wichita, McPherson, and Hutchinson alumni clubs sponsored and financed the University band and orchestra. On campus, State-wide Activities and the Jayhawk Jubilee are alumni association projects.
The class of 1954 headquarters is in the alumni office, where plans for commencement and class activities as well as the publishing of the KU calendar center. Radio broadcasts and TV appearances are a part of the Alumni association's work toward public relations.
Burzle to Advise Dictionary
Dr. J. A. Burzle, chairman of the department of Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures, is one of more than 300 language scholars of the world to be consultants on the second edition of the Britannica World Language Dictionary.
Senate Revises 1955 Calendar
A change in the spring vacation recess next year has been approved by the Senate advisory committee of the University, but the remainder of the calendar will be as originally scheduled.
Spring vacation will begin at noon Saturday, April 2, 1955, instead of Wednesday, April 6, and classwork will resume at 8 a.m. Tuesday, April 12, instead of at noon Wednesday, April 13. The approved calendar:
Summer Session, 1954
June
10 Orientation period begins
11 Registration and enrollment begin.
12 Registration and enrollment end.
14 Classwork begins in all departments.
August.
7 Summer session ends at 6 p.m. Final examinations will be held in the last regular class period of each course.
August
Fall Semester, 1954
All preparatory school credentials and college credentials for advanced
University not later than this date
September
september 8 Orientation period begins.
13 Registration and enrollment begin.
15 Registration and enrollment end.
16 Return to registration.
In enrollment end:
16 Classwork begins in all departments.
November.
23. Thanksgiving recess at 6 p.m.
24. classwork resumes at 8 a.m.
Decemer
18 Christmas recess begins at noon.
January
3 Classwork resumes at 8 a.m.
6 Semester examination ends.
27 Semester examination ends.
Spring Semester, 1955 January
31 Orientation period begins; registration and enrollment begin.
Fobuers
2 Registration and enrollment end.
3 Classwork begins in all departments.
Apr1
2 Spring vacation at noon.
3 Classwork resumes at 8 a.m.
May
26 Semester examinations begin June
2 Semester examinations end.
5 Baccalaureate.
6 Commencement.
6 Commencement.
Education Professor Speaks
Dr. Karl Edwards, assistant professor of education, recently gave the commencement address at Enterprise, Kan., High school. Dr. Edwards was superintendent of nursing in 1946, pointing the faculty at KU in 1946. The title of the speech was "Where is the Top?"
Summer Session Exam Set For Western Civ Students
Any student not enrolled in summer session may make arrangements to take the Western Civilization examination Saturday, July 31, by writing to the Western Civilization office between July 1 and July 18 and declaring his intention to register for the exam.
Upon receipt of letter and check, the Western Civilization office will send the student a receipt and a registration card indicating time and place of the examination. Both the registration card and the receipt must be taken to the examination for identification.
A check for $5, payable to the University to cover the fee for taking an examination when not in residence, should be enclosed.
Books used in the Western Civilization course may be borrowed during the summer from the Ex-Students students living outside Lawrence.
The loan period will be two weeks, and no extension of time will be granted in any case, Mrs. Virginia Maddox, director of the Extension library said.
The borrower should give both title and author of the book in which the desired reference is found. Second choices should be included in case first choices are not available.
Address all letters directly to the library service, Uni-
Yorkshire, of Kensington.
Manuals may be purchased from the Student Union bookstore.
Social Security Bill Approved By Committee
The committee scheduled a secret session to take a final look at the measure. It may be taken up by the House next week.
The measure, as tentatively approved by the committee, would add about 10,000,000 persons--including farmers, doctors, lawyers, business people and保安- to cityalls and would boost benefits by $5 to $23.50 a month.
At the present time, some 48,000,- 000 workers are covered by Social Security.
The committee yesterday voted down a proposal by Rep. John W. Byrnes (R-Wis.) to pay old age insurance benefits to all retired persons over 70 regardless whether they have paid any Social Security taxes.
But it voted to add about 1,300- 000 additional farm laborers to the Social Security rolls.
OT Instructor Appointed
Mrs. Phyllis Harmon, '50, director of occupational therapy at the Rehabilitation Institute of Kansas City, Mo., has been appointed as an occupational therapy instructor at KU next year, it was announced today.
Graduating Students May Obtain Receipts
All students participating in commencement or baccalaureate exercises must obtain receipts for their caps and gowns at the business office, H. I. Swartz, accountant, said yesterday.
Washington — (U.P.)— The House Ways and Means committee has given tentative approval to President Eisenhower's recommendations for extending the Social Security system.
Seniors who are receiving their bachelor's degree must pay class dues of $3 on obtaining their receipts. All students who are receiving their second degree, such as doctors, lawyers, or masters, may pick up their receipts without charge.
Fulbright Award Money Achieved by Treaties
28 Students Practice Teach
Twenty-eight education majors have registered to do student teaching the first seven weeks of next year, Karl Anderson, assistant professor of education, said today.
The students and their special field are Helen L. Anderson, and Patricia Lewis, seniors; Susan Baird, John M. Dodd, Maralyn Eyler, Dorothy Gerber, Sandra Puller, Alberta M. Blair, Kathryn Siler, Carolyn Smith, and Alice J. Worthington, juniors, all in elementary education.
John Pattison, senior, and Janet Dougherty, and Gladys Tiemann, juniors, language arts; Wes Santee, senior, physical education.
Anne Smith, senior, and Marguerite Vance, junior, home economics.
Mary Fuller and LaVette Orme
seniors, and Margaret Waddeli,
junior art.
Many students have been asking what the Fulbright scholarship program is and where the money comes from for the awards.
Floyd Chronister, Connie Eikelberger, and Norma Wahl, seniors, and George Dueksen, Edith Nicholson, Tate Emily, Emily Wolteron, lions, music
Mary Elizabeth Welter, junior business education.
All education majors in the state of Kansas must do student teaching for seven weeks before they receive their degrees and must be seniors at the time.
9 Chosen to Proctor Western Civilization
Selected on the basis of their academic records and personal interviews, nine students have been appointed Western Civilization proctors for next year. Each of the students made an A on the Western Civ examination.
The students are: Walter Ash, Barbara Becker, and Julia Oliver, all college juniors. Stanley Berger, James Elliott, George Kohlik, Cyrus Samii, Dan Ragle, and James Shellenberg, all graduate students.
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Under executive agreements with foreign governments, exchange programs are being carried out which are designed to promote individual knowledge in special fields of study, and to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The program also provides opportunities for foreign nationals to study in American colleges and universities, and for an exchange of teachers, lecturers, research scholars, and specialists between the United States and more than 70 foreign countries.
Approximately 1,000 grants for graduate study abroad in the academic year 1954-55 are being provided under the United States Educational Exchange program.
Exchange programs are being carried out for the academic year 1954-55 with the following 25 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Burma, Ceylon, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
Awards are made in the United States under the provisions of Public Law 584, which is the Fulfillment act passed by the 79th Congress.
As provided by the act, all students are selected by the board of foreign scholarships, the members of which are appointed by the President Students are recommended by the campus Fulbright committees and by the Institute of International Education
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