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Building Gifts Make Watkins Name Familiar
- Watkins is a familiar name to the KU student. There is Watkins hall, Watkins hospital, and the Watkins nurses home.
All these buildings, and others, have been given to the University by Mrs. Elizabeth M. Watkins in memory of her husband, Jabez Bunting Watkins, noted financier, railroad builder, banker and land owner.
Mrs. Watkins set a course of always attempting to do the most good for the most people. She felt that one way to do this was by helping the university student.
Buildings donated by Mrs. Watkins not bearing the Watkins name are the Lawrence city hall, Lawrence Memorial hospital and nurses home, Miller hall, and the Chancellor's home.
Mr. Watkins was born near Punxsutawney, Pa., June 24, 1845, and was graduated from the Dayton, Pa.
Trig Placement Test Set for 4 Today
The placement exam in trigonometry will be given again at 4 p.m. today, in 203 Strong.
Any student who passes this exam will be exempt from taking math. However, a student who taken the test is not eligible to take it again.
Library Staff Increased by 11
Eleven persons have been added to the professional staff of the University library.
Robert Talmadge, '41, is the new associate director of libraries. He has been administrative assistant to the director of libraries at the University of Illinois.
G. S. T. Cavanagh is the new medical librarian at the Kansas City Medical center.
Alec Ross has been appointed head of the newly-organized acquisitions department at Lawrence.
Joseph Rubinstein has the new position of supervising bibliographer of the department of special collections. Alfred Farley, a recent graduate of the University of California Library school, will work with Rubinstein as a cataloger.
Charles W. Sargent has been appointed librarian of the Kansas collection succeeding Mary Maud Smelser who recently retired. William A. Martin Jr., will succeed Mr. Sargent as stack supervisor.
Patricia Turner and William Shore are new in the acquisitions department. Miss Turner, of Tonganoxie, attended KU in 1949-50. Mrs. Richard W. Wilkie is a new cataloger in the preparations department.
Mrs. Melvin E. Heckt has joined the circulation department. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Library School and was command librarian with the U.S. forces in Austria.
He set up a real estate business in Champaign, Ill., following his graduation, and upon moving to Lawrence engulfed the company.
academy. In 1869 he was graduated from the University of Michigan with a law degree.
From 1883-1890, Mr. Watkins purchased a million and a half acres of Louisiana land and organized businesses. Later, he built one hundred miles of railroad there, which subsequently was sold to the Gould System, a rail monopoly of the time, for one million dollars.
Mr. Watkins was the organizer of two banks, one in Lawrence and one in Lake Charles, La.
He married Elizabeth Josephine Miller, a secretary at the J. B. Watkins Land Mortgage company, and is the co-chairman of now is the Chancellor's home.
Elizabeth Watkins was born in New Paris, Ohio, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. V. G. Miller, a pioneer doctor. At the age of ten, Mrs. Watkins moved to Lawrence with her parents, and then to Boston where Lewin and later KU when Fraser hall was the only building on the present campus.
When J. B. Watkins died, he was the owner of five Louisiana and two Kansas corporations, more than 200 Kansas farms and about 100,000 acres in Louisiana and Texas. His influence, in public buildings erected through his wife's philanthropy, still is felt in Kansas.
Official Bulletin
UCLA Listening Party: Lounge, Record Dance in ballroom of the Memorial, Union
Quack Club; Tryouts, 10 a.m., Robbins pool. Bring own suits, dresses, and shoes. (800) 325-4695; qackclub.com
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University Daily Kansan
LSA: Supper and program, 5:30 p.m. Trinity Lutheran church, 13th and New Hampshire-Mrs. Magda Jensen, speaker. Slides of trip to England, Coronation year.
Gamma Delta, Lutheran students;
Cost supper and meeting, 5:30 p.m.
New student lounge, Immanuel
Lutheran church, 17th and Vermont.
Speaker: Pastor Norman Brandt on
"Using Your Education for Christ."
Interdorm: Meeting 4 p.m., dean of women's office.
KU Chess club: 7:30 p.m., Card room. Student Union.
MONDAY
Soccer: Meeting 5 p.m., 3 Strong F. All welcome.
Entomologists Net 40.000 Specimens
Dr. Charles Michener, head of the department of entomology, and five graduate students, explored most of Mexico this summer and came back with 40,000 insect specimens.
Importance of their collection will not be known until all the insects have been pinned, a job that will take nine months to a year. Making the trip besides Dr. Michener were Dr. Stephan Wood, Wallace LaBerge, Erwin Slesnick, Albert Robinson, and Eugene Wittake.
A collection of books presented to the Watson library by the University of Kansas press are now on display at the library.
University Books on Display
Included in the group are "Therapeutic Meal Plans: A New Diet Manual," edited by Ruth Gordon and others from the KU department of nutrition and dietetics; Florence L Snow's "Pictures on My Wall: A Lifetime in Kansas," and "Across the Years on Mount Oread," by Robert Taft, professor of chemistry,
an account of campus activities since its founding.
It's the most logical thing in the world to call corsets and brassieres "foundation garments," say fashion manufacturers, calling attention to a dictionary definition of "foundation." "That upon which anything is founded." describes perfectly, the fashion experts say, the function of the corset and brassiere as the basis of the outer fashion.
You're "sitting pretty" behind the wheel
Take this Bell Air model. First thing you'll notice is the quality of the interior. Rich-looking appointments. Roomy seats with foam rubber cushions. Turn the key to start the engine and you're ready to go.
An easy nudge on the pedal brings smooth, positive response right now! Chevrolet's improved brakes are the largest in the low-price field.
You can see all around
You look out and down through a wide, curved, onepiece windshield. The panoramic rear window and big side windows provide a clear view in all directions.
And it's the lowest-priced line
Biggest brakes for smoother, easier stops
A demonstration will show you that Chevrolet offers just about everything you could want. Yet it's the lowest-priced line in the low-price field.
I figure this demonstration saved me many hundreds of dollars!
I expected to pay that much more for a new car until I discovered I was better off in every way with this new Chevrolet!
Let us demonstrate all the advantages of buying a Chevrolet now!
MORE PEOPLE BUY CHEVROLETS THAN ANY OTHER CAR!
You get greater getaway with the new Powerglide*
A lot finer performance on a lot less gas. That's what you get with the new Powerglide automatic transmission. There's no more advanced automatic transmission at any price.
You get more power on less gas
That's because Chevrolet's two great valve-in-head engines are high-compression engines. In Powerglide$ ^{\circ}$ models, you get the most powerful engine in Chevrolet's field - the new 115-h.p. "Blue-Flame." Gear-shift models offer the advanced 108-h.p. "Thrift-King" engine.
It's heavier for better roadability
You're in for a pleasant surprise at the smooth, steady, big-car ride of this new Chevrolet. One reason is that, model for model, Chevrolet will weigh up to 200 pounds more than the other low-priced cars.
*Combination of Powerglide automatic transmission and 115-h.p. "Blue-Flame" engine optional on "Two-Ten" and Bel Air models at extra cost.
SEE YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER FOR ALL YOUR AUTOMOTIVE NEEDS!
Conveniently listed under "Automobiles" in your local classified telephone directory