Page 8
University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 18, 1953
25 Years At KU
Health Director Has Numerous Duties
By LETTY LEMON
Want to keep busy? Try to keep 6,000 people healthy, hale, and hearty. Or, administrate a hospital staffed with six doctors and 20 nurses. Or, direct several full-scale research programs. If you're horticulturally inclined, tenderly nurture 1,000 evergreen trees.
If you really want to keep occupied, do all the above. Impossible? No, because a University personality, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, does them all plus many more.
Dr. Canuteson is president of the American College Health association and the Tuberculosis Association of Kansas. He also serves as the Kansas delegate to the national board of directors in the latter organization.
The Student Health service, under the direction of Dr. Cautesson since his arrival at the University in 1928, is now rated one of the five best in the United States, along with the Universities of Minnesota, Michigan, California, and Cornell.
When the newly-appointed director arrived, the University Health service employed one doctor and one nurse and had its headquarters on Tennessee street.
Although he quit school for three years after his junior year, he was graduated from Galesville High school in Wisconsin and then entered MacAlister college in St. Paul, Minn. He remained there for one year and then left school to join the infantry in World War I.
After the war, he returned to the United States and in 1920 was married to a Galesville girl, Miss Elsie Parker. She persuaded him to return to college and he attended the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota, being graduated from the latter in 1926 with an M.D. degree.
He interned in the Wisconsin General hospital at the University of Wisconsin and entered the health service there, remaining until he came to KU in 1923.
He is a member of the county, state, and American Medical associations. He belongs to the American Public Health association, the American Trodeau association and the American Student Health association. He is a council member of the Mississippi Valley Tuberculosis association.
Sigma Xi, honorary scientific society, and Alpha Omega Alpha, honorary medical fraternity, list him among their members.
Winning Medals a Rough Job, But Just Try Making Them
By LETTY LEMON
Making medals is as difficult as winning them—that's a conclusion almost anyone would reach after a survey of the office of Elden Tefft, instructor in design and the University's chief medal man.
The type of medal referred to is the small, shiny, usually brass coinlike object commemorating an event or given as an award. But though the finished product is small, shiny, and made of brass the beginning of it is often in diameter dull (being composed of plaster) and not brassy at all.
Currently, Mr. Teft is working on a medal to be presented to the winner of the William Allen White award for worthy contributions to children's literature, to be presented in October.
"I usually spend at least six months making up the casts for the finished medal," Mr. Teft said. "I would rather have a year to spend, working as often as my class schedule and time permit."
Four castings have gone into the making of the William Allen White medal, now ready to be scaled down and cast in bronze. Mr. Tefft explained that first he molds a piece of clay approximately 18 inches in diameter. Then, he makes a plaster cast using this die as the impression mold, as shown. This step resembles the impression left in a sandpile by a sandbucket — smooth, indented, and perfectly plain.
Too much clay on the nose of a profile of Victory, for example, could turn her into Jimmy Durante, an excess of clay on the cheekbones could make a portrait of John L. Lewis a facsimile of Sitting Bull.
Next, the face of the medal is added in clay, and another mold is cast for each successive addition. This is very exacting work, for each raised symbol or letter must be engineered to a degree no more or less than that desired in the finished product.
Recently completed by the instructor is a medal commemorating Maurice Crumrine, an early crusader for public health in Kansas. On the face of the medal is a fly, flyswatter, drinking cup, and a brick bearing the inscription, "please don't spit on the sidewalk."
Mr. Crumrine is credited with helping to invent the飞溅water, campaigning against the use of public drinking cups, and persuading a brick company to manufacture bricks bearing the above inscription.
The William Allen White medal is decorated with the face of the Kansas newspaperman, stalks of wheat, books, and bears an inscription commending notable service to the children of Kansas.
After the final casting of a plaster model has been completed, containing all the figures and decorations added after each separate casting, the final mold is sent to a New York
firm where it is reduced from 18 inches to two and one-half inches. The mold then is filled with bronze, and the medal is ready to be awarded.
French Still Hold Indo-China 'Line'
Hanoi, Indo-China — (U,P)— The French command said today that French command wiped out an entire Communist battalion in smashing a bloody bid by 5,000 Red attackers to capture Indo-China's "Maginot line" defenses of Hanoi.
French forces won their biggest Indo-Chinese victory in six months in the savage week end fighting. They regained complete possession of the vital Yen Vi defense works guarding the rich Hanoi rice bowl.
But French observation pilots reported that the battered Viet Minh Communist forces were re-grouping today only a few miles south of the battlefield. It was believed they might launch a new assault soon against the French steel-and-concrete bunker system.
The French high command said the Communists suffered "terrible losses" in the fierce 28-hour battle which took place Sunday morning with a Red retreat.
A French spokesman said the steel-and-concrete line erected by the late Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny to protect the Hanoi delta was back "solidly" in French hands.
The formal welcome was given by the president of the Utopia college, Udo Schmidt of Germany replied on behalf of the foreign students.
Forty-three exchange students representing the University and 16 foreign nation were guests of Kaira Nation's friendship "ship" over the weekend.
Eureka Entertains ExchangeStudents
Yesterday afternoon the departure of the buses was 30 minutes late because of a throng of school children hunting for autographs and farewell messages in vernacular. The children requested chiefly samples of Urdu, Gujarati, Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, and Pakistani writing.
Geoffrey Weston, graduate student from England, addressed the community.
In 1952, 37,600 Americans were killed in traffic accidents.
Medical Center Gets $10,000 Cancer Fund
The Medical Center has received $10,000 from the Damon Runyon fund for Cancer Research, according to Dr. Robert E. Stowell, director of cancer research and professor of pathology and oncology at the Medical Center.
Last year, the Medical center received $25,0000 from the Damon Rumyon fund for the first year's work on this project. The cancer studies are concerned with the underlying function, chemistry, and structure of certain cancer cells.
Others directly concerned with this project at the Medical center are Dr. Chauncey G. Bly, assistant professor of pathology and oncology, and Dr. Harold J. Grady, assistant professor of biochemistry and internal medicine.
It's Too Much For Me!
All this packing and moving!
Can't Bear to look at it . .
BUT...
It's Not Too Much
we do all kinds of moving quickly and reasonably.
for us.
Call Us 46
Ethan A. Smith
Moving and Transfer Co.
11 E. 9th
-Kansas photo by Ken Cou
SAFETY AWARD- The Daily Kansan received a $250 check for second place in a national traffic safety campaign sponsored by the Lumber-mens Mutual Casualty company. Mrs. Lorraine C. Reed, representing the company, presents the check to Rodger Yarrington, former editor of the Daily Kansan. The award was made at the Kansan board dinner
in the ballroom of the Union building Saturday night.
Jeanne Fitzgerald and DeWayne Oglesbee were named the most outstanding seniors in news journalism, and Virginia Mackey and James Murray the most outstanding seniors in advertising.
(Continued from page 1) dent, second, and Lorraine Godding, senior, third place.
McCoy Attacks News Suppression
Bob Stewart received a citation from Sigma Delta Chi, honorary
journalism fraternity, as the outstanding senior man. Miss Mackey and Miss Fitzgerald received Sigma Delta Chi certificates for superior scholarship. They are the upper five per cent in scholarship of the journalism graduating class.
The Henry Schott memorial prize was given to Knudson, the "junior man who showed the most promise for success in journalism."
Light spring fabrics are as delicate as flower petals - for quality work and special handling send them to
LAWRENCE LAUNDRY and DRY CLEANERS
CALL 383