University Daily Kansas Wednesday. Feb. 10, 1954
Nine Speakers Named For Religious Week
The names of the nine men who will fill speaking engagements during Religious Emphasis week were announced today. The "week" will be from Sunday, Feb. 21 through Thursday, Feb. 25.
Organized houses and student extra-curricular groups may request any of the speakers for talks at meetings and "bull sessions."
Dr. John C. Schroeder will be on campus until noon Wednesday, Feb. 24. He became chairman of the department of religion at Yale university in 1946. Unlike most of the other speakers, who will be sponsored by campus religious groups, he is to be brought here as a part of the University-backed Humanities lecture series.
The University's Christian Fellowship group will sponsor William Raimer, a member of the Inter-Varsity staff. He travels among schools in Kansas, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, visiting student Inter-Varsity groups.
Another speaker will be Dr. John M. Tutt, a teacher of Christian Science from Kansas City, Mo. His appearance is to be sponsored by the campus Christian Science group.
The Rev. Harry R. Heeney of St. David's Episcopal church, Topeka, is to be sponsored by the Episcopal student group. In the Episcopal diocese in which Topeka lies, he is chairman of adult education, a member of the diocese executive committee, and a member of the board for examining chaplains for the diocese.
The Methodist student organization will bring Dr. Thomas Bradley Mather to the campus. He has been a member of the study committee of the American section of the World Council of Churches for the last five years, and has held several pastorates in Missouri.
Dr. G. Edwin Osborn, professor of practical theology at Phillips university's graduate seminary, Enid, Okla, is to be the Lutheran speaker. He is one of the delegates to the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches to be held at Northwestern university, Evanson, Ill. this summer.
The week's Presbyterian speaker will be the Rev. William E. Phifer, moderator of the synod of Missouri. He is pastor of the Central Presbyterian church of Kansas City, Mo., and has been president of the Kansas City Council of Churches.
Jewish students on the campus are to sponsor the Rabbi Abba M. Fineberg, who will be here only Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 24 and 25. He lectures under the auspices of the Jewish Chautauqua society, which provides speakers to college campuses seeking information about Judaism.
The Rev. G. Thomas Fattaruso will be sponsored by the Baptist student group.
Bids to Open On New Hall
Bids will open February 26 on $100,000 in bonds to help finance the construction of a new 48-student women's residence hall, Hubert Brighton, secretary of the State Board of Regents has announced.
The dormitory, to be known as Grace Pearson hall, will be an exact duplicate in reverse of Douthart hall on the corner of North and South Douthart on Louisiana street.
The hall will be financed from the bond sale and from direct gifts.
State Architect John A. Brown has advertised Feb. 24 as the date for opening the construction bids on the building.
DamSets Pace In Business
Kenneth W. Dam, business senior,
was the only student in the School of
Business to make all "A" grades last
semester. Twenty-four other students
on the School of Business honor roll were announced by Jack Heysinger, assistant dean.
The nine seniors on the list equalled or exceeded the required 2.3 average. Sixteen juniors achieved a 2.2 standard.
The business seniors on the list are George Ellis Breckenridge, James Eben Burgess, William Alan Chance, Kenneth W. Dam, Robert Allenr Elmore, Jacqueline Mog, Frederick Stephen O'Brien, Kay Lehmmann Taylor, and Warren Arthur Zimmerman.
The juniors on the honor roll are IrE. Baker Jr., Robert H. Blanchard, William Winston Deacon, David Hanschu Jr., Colleen Louise Helmlinger, Harlan G. Henderson, Gary Don Irish, Jerry Clark IVie, Mary Ann Kaaz, Lloyd Lee Kirk, Leon Verne Mason, Gary Watson Padgett, James O. Perkins, Farrell J. Rader, Marlene Stayton Warkoczewski, and John Q. Wimmer.
Rescue Try Futile; Boy Dies in Fire
Wichita—(U.P.)—A 4-year-old boy burned to death and a teacher from a nearby school suffered minor burns in a fultile attempt to rescue him from a blazing garage late yesterday.
Exploding paint, gasoline, and oil fed the flames and Billy Dean Lilly, one of nine children of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lilly, died before help could reach him.
Erle M. Beattie, teacher at a nearby school, and Johnny Napier. 12-year-old student, rushed 65 yards to the combination garage and workshop and ripped boards from the building when they were unable to enter through the door. Heat and continuing explosions prevented their reaching the child.
Union Conference To Begin Friday
The Association of College Unions, composed of more than 35 staff members from 15 colleges and universities, will meet here Friday and Saturday. This will be the annual conference which includes the states of Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas. Members of the staff at the University of Oklahoma will also attend.
Marilyn Hawkinson, college senior and president of Student Union Activities, and Frank R. Burge, director of the University Student Union, are on the conference committee.
The conference will open with a welcoming address by Franklin D. Murphy at the luncheon Friday. Dr. Earl H. Harper, State University of Iowa, will give the keynote address.
Mr. Burge explained that the purpose of the conference is to promote a better student union here and on every campus represented.
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Ex-Convict Admits Murders
New York —(U,P)— The vagabond dishwasher who gave poet-novelist Maxwell Bodenheim and his wife, Ruth Fagan, a skid-row roof over their heads confessed their murder today, police announced.
Harold Weinberg, 25, the scarf-faced former convict in whose furnished room the Bodenheims' bodies were found Sunday, was arrested in a basement room less than 10 blocks from the scene.
Police said he apparently had been hiding there.
The search for Weinberg, an itinerant dishwasher, had been centered in the down-and-out joints of Manhattan and Brooklyn after police apparently discarded earlier leads that he was hitch-hiking to Florida.
Weinberg was taken to the station house for questioning shortly before funeral services for Bodenheim, whose first wife, divorced from him 16 years ago, came out of his past
o arrange the pennille poet's burial
n her own family plot.
Eastman Company Offers Fellowship
Special Workshop For Housemothers
A one-year fellowship in the University department of chemistry was announced today for the 1954-55 school year.
The donor, the Eastman Kodak co., will give a graduate student in the final year of study for a doctorate in chemistry $1,400 and will pay all fees. In addition the University will receive $1,000 for equipment and supplies for research.
The fellowship is rotated among several universities each year. The Eastman award was last made at KU in 1950-51.
The brand of the XIT ranch stood for "10 counties in Texas."
Dr. S. A. Hamrin, professor of education at Northwestern university, will conduct a special workshop for housemothers of the organized houses at the University, Feb. 11-12.
Dr. Hamrin, an authority on the growth and guidance of young people, will stress the ways house-mothers can help their students as personal friend and adviser. He conducted a similar workshop here three years ago and is being brought back by popular request, according to Dean Martha Peterson.
Although Texas is famed as a cattle-raising state, since 1930 the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported more sheep on Texas ranches than beef cattle.
Van Gogh - Sailing Boats at Les Saints-Maries
A Room With A View
You can change any room into a room with a view if you rent a painting from the Student Union Book Store. You can choose your painting from the Book Store's large stock which includes all periods and styles of painting. If you wish your rental fee can be applied toward the purchase price.
Homer "Fog Warning" Slate Mat 22"x28" $2.50
Cezanne "In The Woods" Light Grey 10"x14" $1.25
Picasso "Mother With Child" White Mat 12"x16" $1.25
Klee "Vigilant Angel" White Mat 12"x16" $1.50
Miro "The Moor" White Mat 12"x16" $1.50
Cezanne "Still Life With Fruit" Black Mat 24"x30" $2.50
Campgli "The Friends" Yellow Mat 12"x16" $1.25
Lautrec "At The Moulin Rouge" Light Grey Mat 12"x16" $1.50
Lautrec "At The Moulin Rouge" Black Mat 24"x30" $3.15
Van Gogh "Fishing Boats" Slate Mat 22"x28" $2.00
Van Gogh "Sunflowers" 16"x20" $1.50
Lautrec "Moulin De La Galleta" Light Grey Mat 12"x16" $1.25