Tuesday. March 23. 1954 University Daily Kansan Page 3
Five Students Receive Fellowships in Science
Five KU students will receive predoctoral fellowships in science from the National Science foundation for the 1954-55 academic year, Dr. John H. Nelson, dean of the Graduate school, said today.
They are Norman Paul Bauman,
graduate student in physics; Forrest
Earl Ladd Jr., graduate student in
psychology; Francis Ware Prosser
Jr., graduate student in physics;
Mary Ruth Dawson, graduate student
in paleozoology; and Kenneth
Gene Wernicke, senior, aeronautical
engineering.
The National Science foundation is an official agency of the federal scientific progress and the training of personnel.
All predoctoral fellows receive allowances for fees and dependents. The stipends for fellows are $1,400 for first year, $1,600 for intermediate years and $1,800 for the terminal year of graduate study.
The foundation gave 657 predoctoral awards after screening 2,865 applicants. Each candidate took a competitive aptitude and achievement test. His test scores, academic record and recommendation were in consideration by a panel of outstanding scientists for his particular field.
Of all the schools in the Big Seven and Missouri Valley athletic conferences, only one other had as many students receive National Science Foundation fellows as KU. That was Iowa State College, which led with 7.
Robert Rex Brownlee of Zenith and Edwin Dale Hornbaker of Louisburg, both of whom finished their studies at KU in 1951, are also known to have received predoctoral fellowship. Mr. Brownlee is studying physics at Indiana university and Mr. Hornbaker is taking chemistry at the University of Virginia.
Because of the merit of their applications, the foundation accorded honorable mention to some candidates. Among them were these KU students; Paul Ralph Ehrlich, graduate student in zoology. Elbert Abner Welzer, graduate student in mathematics; Wesley Bruce Ewbank, graduate student in physics; R. Lynn Cobb, graduate student in chemistry; Darrell Quentin Brown, graduate student in biophysics; and Ronald Jene Clark, graduate student in chemistry.
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Douglas Hike Nearing End
Fort Frederick, Md.-(U.P.)-Supreme court Justice William O. Douglas and his thinning band of hikers neared the half-way point today in their trek along the Chesapeake & Ohio canal which Mr. Douglas wants preserved for nature lovers.
The hikers hoped to cover 22 or 23 additional miles of the grueling hike from Cumberland, Md., to Washington by nightfall. If they make it, they will have covered more than 90 miles of the 189-mile distance.
They were scheduled to set out this morning for the Potomac Fish and Game club near Williamsport, Md., after camping out last night in temperatures that dropped to near 20 degrees. They cooked their own dinner and rested their weary bodies in sleeping bags spread on the ground.
Only 15 of the 54 persons who started the hike Saturday from Cumberland remained. The hike was the growth of an editorial in the Washing Post & Times-Herald advocating construction of a modern highway along the historic canal.
Wednesday (MARCH 24)
Mr. Douglas, an inverteate hiker, said in a letter to the editor he could prove, if the editorial writer went hiking with him, that the route was
Thursday
(MARCH 25)
Friday
(MARCH 26)
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CCUN Executive and Model Assembly
Companies, 4 p.m., Office, Memorial
Union.
TODAY
*Vets*, "Drag Picnic", 5 p.m. Chin-
chung, 10 a.m. and 12 noon
Kanna, 5:30 p.m. Myeon, 8 p.m.
Kappa Beta executive council, 12 noon, Cafeteria, Memorial Union. All members be present for nomination of officers.
Alpha Phi Omega, 7:30 p.m. Room 306 C, Memorial Union. Inimation. All activities be present. Ritual team be there by 7:15.
KU Dames, 7:30 p.m. Card room. Student Union. Bridge group.
Phi Mu Alpha, 9 p.m. 131 Strong.
Short business meeting. Actives only.
TOMORROW
Le Cerce Francais se returna mercredi à la 30. Strong. Programme de la Société des Écoles Français.
Colloquium conducted by Dr. Lois Murphy, 7:30 p.m., room 9. Strong. Sponsored by the Psychology club. Refreshments.
AWS House and Senate meeting, 4 p.m. Student Union. Installation of officers and Senate. Recognition of AWS women students welcome. Refreshments.
THURSDAY
Der deutsche Verein, 5 p.m., 502 Fraser. Dr. Thomas, Vice-Counsel of the Federal Republic of Western Germany in Kansas City, speaks.
No Damage From Fire In Library Saturday
Smouldering papers in a steam tunnel leading to Watson library were extinguished by firemen from the Lawrence fire department about noon Saturday.
The fire caused no damage. It was reported by Robert Vosper, director of libraries, who smelled the smoke while working in one of the towers of the building. No one left the building and the fire was put out with no disturbance.
Merlo Pusey, the editorial writer,
and his boss, Robert H. Estabrook,
took up the challenge.
too beautiful to be invaded by a highway.
Personnel Manager of Time To Speak at Matrix Dinner
Margaret McConnell, personnel manager for Time magazine, will speak at the annual Matrix Table of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary professional fraternity for women in journalism, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas room of the Student Union.
Miss McConnell interviews women each year for the three regular on-the-job training programs for office girls, business trainees, and editorial research trainees.
Miss McConnell was born in California and attended the University of California at Los Angeles where she worked part time in the registrar's office and specialized in student problems. After completing college she went to New York where she worked as a researcher with an advertising agency and was a secretary for Fortune magazine where she eventually became office manager.
The dinner is being given jointly by Epsilon chapter here at KU and the Topeka alumni chapter.
Epsilon chapter will honor an outstanding woman in Kansas journalism at the dinner.
In 1946 she took over as head of Time's letters department for five years before coming to her present position. At the dinner she will speak on "Women Behind the News."
Elizabeth Wohlegemuth, journalism junior, is Matrix chairman. Others on the committee are Nancy Neville and Amy De Yong, journalism junior, Susanne Berry, journalism senior, and Irene Coonfer,
college sophomore.
In World War II, the Japanese lost 130 submarines and the Germans 782, while the United States submarines sank 214 naval and 1,178 merchant vessels in World War II.
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