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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Jan. 14, 195
Professor Conducts Anaphylaxis Research
A research project concerning what happens in a physiological phenomenon known in medical circles as anaphylaxis is currently being conducted by Dr. Parke H. Woodard, associate professor of physiology, and two graduate fellows in the department of physiology.
Richard White, instructor in physiology, and Robert L. Robinson, assistant instructor, are investigating specialized phases of the anaphylactic reaction. Assisting Dr. Woodard in the laboratory is Ann Pendleton, college junior.
Anaphylaxis is a form of allergy, but Dr. Woodward pointed out that it is only a very small part of the allergy field and that the two terms should not be confused.
Dr. Woodard explains anaphylaxis as a reaction which is very likely to occur when an animal receives into its body a foreign protein to which it has previously been made oversensitive. It doesn't always happen, though, and one of the purposes of this research is to find out, if possible, why.
Anaphylactic shock is characterized by an extreme drop in the animal's blood pressure or a marked lengthening of the time its blood requires to clot, or both. In addition, the animal may acquire the ability to transfer a passive sensitivity, that is, to create a similar hypersensitivity in another animal of its own kind through a blood transfusion.
The anaphylactic reaction has caused some serious difficulty with immunization programs in the armed services and in other places, because
Alumnus Named Dean Of Junior College
Miles G, Blim,'20, has been named dean of Kansas City Junior college. He has been assistant dean at the school 15 years and has also been director of the evening and summer sessions at the college for many years.
He received his B.A. degree from the College of Emporia and his Master's degree from the University. In addition, he has completed two years of graduate work at the Universities of Chicago, Colorado and Denver.
The 54-year-old educator was vice principal at Atchison High school before joining the staff of the Junior college as a history teacher in 1922.
Dean Blim succeeded Arthur M Swanson, who will retire Jan. 23.
Educators to Attend Meeting
Educators to Attend Meeting Dean Kenneth Anderson of the School of Education, and J. W. Twente, professor of education, will attend a high school principal's conference at Otis, Saturday.
some persons develop a hypersensitivity to horse serum, from which many immunizing serums are made.
The blood plasma of horses contains some protein materials which are not found in human blood. Most animals will acquire, through a process similar to active immunity, a hypersensitivity to at least one of those proteins. When the foreign protein is reintroduced into the animal's body, the anaphylactic mechanism starts working, manifesting itself in a number of ways.
It is thought that changes which occur in the blood, and possibly in the body tissues, are responsible for the anaphylactic reaction. Dr. Woodard's study is an effort to determine what happens to the blood and tissues of the animal that causes these conditions to appear.
A course in elementary spoken Japanese will be offered by the College next semester, Dean Paul B. Lawson announced today.
College to Offer Spoken Japanese
The course will be taught by Osamu Yamashita, Fulbright scholar studying American and English literature. A professor of English literature at Kobe university in Japan, he has had several years of experience there in teaching Japanese to American personnel.
There are no prerequisites for the 3-hour junior-senior course.
Chemistry Professor Gives Research Paper
Dr. Paul W. Gilles, associate professor of chemistry, presented a paper at the recent annual national meeting of the American Physical society. The meeting was held at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
The paper, "The Dissociation Energy of Fluorine," was the result of research carried on by Dr. Gilles and Dr. John Margrave, a former KU student. It was an outgrowth of work on an Atomic Energy commission grant.
California B-50 Crash Probed by Air Force
Gridley, Calif.—(U.P.)-Air Force investigators were on their way here today to look for the failure that caused a B-50 Superfortress to crash, killing 12 crewmen.
Officials were being sent out from Wright-Patterson Air Force base Dayton, Ohio, to conduct the investigation.
The Strategic Air Command plane, on a "routine navigational flight" out of Castle AFB, Merced, Calif., crashed in a flooded rice field 12 miles west of here yesterday.
Its entire crew of 12 men died. Bodies of the men were being removed to a funeral home at nearby Marysville, Calif. Names of the victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin.
The B-50, a modified version of the wartime B-29, was on a training mission over the Sacramento valley with three other Superforts.
It was not in communication with any airfield at the time of the accident and Air Force officials said that the cause of the crash mediated the cause of the crash.
The huge craft "pancaked" to the ground on a ranch about one mile from a highway running between Gridley and Colusa.
The only apparent witness to the
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