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University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 17, 1954
-Kansan photo by Richard Lloyd
THANKS FROM MANY—Miss Carlotta Nellis, center, is shown greeting Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, at the tea held in her honor yesterday at Battenfield hall. At the left is Ronald Sammons, college senior, proctor at the hall.
Son of Hope College Head Carries Off Church Money
Holland, Mich.—[U.P.]—A college president's son "piously" walked out of two churches with the collection plates during morning services yesterday.
Police said that Irwin Lubbers Jr., son of the president of Hope college, had admitted the thefts, in which he obtained $100 at the Third Christian Reformed church at Neebely Zealand and $500 at the Garfield Park Christian Reformed church in Grand Rapids.
Mr. Lubbers, 29, an architect and a Yale graduate, has been living at his father's home here with his wife and their two children. The college president said his son suffered a nervous breakdown two years ago and had been undergoing treatment since.
Al Boss, Zeeland police chief,
said Mr. Lubbers entered the church
there shortly after the Rev. John
Guichelaar finished the sermon,
"Yield Not to Temptation."
"He grabbed the collection plates and walked piously out and no one suspected anything until it was all over." Chief Boss said. "The two regular ushers thought he had been appointed an usher by the minister before the services."
The Rev. Harold Leestma, pastor
of the Grand Rapids church, was in the middle of his sermon when Mr. Lubbers entered. Members of the congregation said he listened to the minister about 15 minutes and then, while heads were bowed in prayer, walked off with the collection.
Student Directory Staff to Be Named
The editor and business manager for the 1954-55 Student Directory will soon be selected by the Student Publication Board of the ASC. Written applications for either of these positions should be submitted to Bob Worcester, engineering junior, chairman of the Student Publication Board, at 1245 West Campus road, before noon, May 24.
Djakarta, capital of the young republic of Indonesia, now has a population estimated at 3,000,000 and is the largest city in southeast Asia.
Battenfeld Supervisor Honored on 14th Year
Bv GENE SHANK
A beaming Mother Nellis had nearly 300 visitors at a tea yesterday-300 visitors who came to congratulate her for her 14 years as a housemother on the campus.
Miss Carolina Nellis, better known by the University as Mother Nellis, will retire this summer after 10 years at Battenfeld hall and four years at Templin and Carruth halls. She spent a full afternoon shaking the hands of admiring University, Lawrence, and Topeka friends as well as many former residents of the three halls who came back to honor her.
Since then, she has made her home at Battenfeld, helping "her boys" with the household chores of running the hall. The scholarship hall system, of which Battenfeld is a member, is based on a co-operative type living that Mother Nellis has furthered.
Fourteen years ago, Mother Nellis came to KU as the housemother for Templin and Carruth halls in the year that the men's residence scholarship halls first were established on the campus. Four years later she took over the housemother duties at Battenfeld hall following the resignation of Mrs. R. D. Montgomery.
Running a home of 52 fellows each year for the past 14 years, Mother Nellis has a long record of memories and good times she has enjoyed while working with her many sons and providing a University home for them.
Last Christmas she received 100 Christmas cards from former Battenfield hall residents alone. A deluge of mail each week keeps her posted on her large, world-scattered family.
Before coming to KU, Mother Nellis started her first job in 1903 as a dietician at the Municipal Sanatorium for Tuberculosis in Orange county, N.Y. In 1915 she supervised the YWCA cafeteria in Oakland, Calif., for six months before returning to Kansas. During World War I she worked for 19 months at the Hostess House in Ft. Riley, run by the YWCA. At the end of the war, she became a dietician at Christ's hospital in Topeka and remained there for 19 years.
Mother Nellis will remain in Lawrence following her retirement and will make her home at 430 Maine st., with Miss Margarette Perkins, who is a retired children's librarian from the Lawrence Public library.
Special recognition will again be given Mother Nellis at the annual Battenfeld Alumni dinner at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the ballroom of the Student Union. All the alumni of Battenfield, Templel, and Carruth are invited to the dinner.
Bindery Department Cares For Worn Library Books
By JAMES HATHAWAY
One of the most unknown departments in Watson library is sindery and repair.
Although over 80 per cent of the bindery work is sent to the State Printer's office in Topeka, the library maintains a corollary department in the basement.
Chester Bullinger, journeyman binder, heads a staff of four other fulltime employees and students working part-time. From 1200-1500 books are bound and approximately 3000 more receive some kind of temporary treatment or repair every year.
One of the biggest problems is to determine the proper treatment for old or badly worn books. If the book is not rare, it is often a great deal cheaper to buy a new copy than to have it rebound.
"However, it is absolutely necessary that library materials be given protective treatment," said Robert Quinsey, chief of reader services. "The binding and repair function has a two-point objective—to make the books more conveniently usable and to provide a means of preservation."
Binding costs have steadily increased over the past few years and the cost now stands at almost $4 for an average volume of periodicals. As an answer to this problem, the library has started to use a half cloth, cut-f flush type of binding, costing only one-fourth as much for materials that are not expected to receive extensive use.
More on Prejudice-
'Others Boycott Us,' Student Says
(Editor's Note: This is the last of four articles by the Jayhawk Brother-who represents the views neither the Daily Kansan nor its staff).
The three previous articles of this series have presented statements received by the Jayhawk Brotherhood on the general topic of what it is like to be a Negro student at KU and in Lawrence. In this concluding article are some additional responses which are somewhat more general in nature, expressing the over-all view of some Negro students to their situation here.
"I stay in a co-op. I have been very happy with my stay. My contact with white and foreign students has been very beneficial to me. I have had the opportunity to familiarize myself with various attitudes concerning the race problem, and also I feel that I have done much at least to alter various misconceptions which I have found to be commonly prevalent among members of the white race."
A freshman in journalism wrote: "I soon found that the students in my various classes tended to throw a ring around not only me but others of my race. That is, they seemed reluctant to sit near Negroes or to associate with them at all. I have talked to several of my friends who have encountered the same situation. They seem to think that for the most part a lot of students practice this boycott for fear of what their friends would say. There were
a few students who would actively engage in friendly conversations in class and on the campus, but these students were in the minority in my classes."
The first man to introduce the famous Hereford cattle in the United States was the statesman, Henry Clay, according to the 16th annual Farmer's Handbook and Alamance published by the B. F. Goodrich company. In 1817 Clay imported a Hereford heifer and young bull to his Kentucky farm.
Wrote another: "I tended to shy away from any activity in the town at all, except those which were necessary, for example, the shoe repair shops and drugstores. As of now, I still do not frequent any business establishments in Lawrence because I do not want to be subjected to the embarrassment and humiliation that was handed to other Negroes at the University."
"Of course there isn't a great deal of opportunity for any students to really enjoy themselves," stated one writer, with unconscious humor. "But for the Negro students there is nothing. No one appreciates being forced to accept segregation. But segregation isn't necessary."
"There exists a great problem." concludes one writer, "but it is not without answers or solutions. Of course there is a great need of research to reach any conviction as to the best method of working."
In no sense do the editors of this series imagine that this series has presented a "scientific" or objective appraisal of the problems of Negro students at KU. We realize fully that every individual's life experience—regardless of race—is in some respects a unique experience. It is, in fact, the very uniqueness of every person that we prize. Our hope is that by presenting the individual
views of several students who know what they feel and have felt here at KU, we may encourage others to approach their fellow students as individuals, not as representatives of any special group.
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