Monday. Dec. 1, 1952
Theater Plans Christmas Play
University Daily Kansan
Rapidly establishing a tradition, the Laboratory theater for the third year will present another Christmas production, "The Second Shepherds' Play," the outstanding English miracle play dating from the 14th century.
The cast includes Max Zent, college sophomore, as the first shepherd. Coll; Bill Means, business junior, as the second shepherd. Gib; Ernest Dade, college sophomore, as the third shepherd. Daw; Mark Gilman, education junior, as Mak; Shirley Strain, college senior, as Gill; Maurice Casey, education junior, as the angel, and Mary Rigor, fine arts freshman, as Mary.
In 1850 "Nativity Play," a compilation of several 16th century church plays, was produced. Last year the speech and drama department and the German department jointly presented a 16th century German Nativity play.
It will be performed at 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the faculty Christmas party in Strong auditorium and twice in the Little theater in Green hall. Dates for the latter performances will be announced later.
Tom Shay, in charge of Lab theater, is directing the play. The cast also includes an a cappella choir of six to eight voices.
The Second Shepherds 'Play.' is so named because it was the second of several plays dealing with the birth of Christ and the adoration of the Shepherds found in an old manuscript in Yorkshire, England.
Toowoomba, Australia — (U.P)
Sister Elizabeth Kenny was buried beside her mother and sisters in a quiet rural cemetery today.
Simple Rites At Kenny Burial
The nurse, world famed for her treatment of polio, died at her home here yesterday at the age of 66. A new drug flown from the United States failed to dissolve a blood clot in the brain.
Hundreds of her fellow queens-
landers packe d Toowoomba's
Methodist church for simple last
rites.
All business activity in this city of 27,000 halted. Newspapers throughout the nation printed expressions of deep mourning.
Coatless and perspiring in sultry summer heat, thousands stood along the 27-mile funeral route to Little Nobby cemetery.
The casket was draped with a Union Jack on which lay chrysanthemums and red roses. Other floral tributes were banked knee-deep around the casket.
Six of Sister Kenny's nephews acted as pallbearers.
In a brief final ecology, the Rev J. Tainton said that those who disagreed with Sister Kenny "nevertheless recognized the honesty and sincerity with which she pursued her goal of achieving long battle to achieve professional medical approval of her polio treatment.
A special shipment of the drug Trypsin, a clot-dissolving enzyme, arrived by plane Saturday night from Jewish memorial hospital in New York. Injections were administered, but proved futil.
Churchill's Cigar Tops 78th Cake
London — (U,P)— Prime Minister Winston Churchill celebrated his 78th birthday yesterday with a 40 pound cake on which there was one candle— in the shape of a big cigar.
The four seasons were depicted on the cake in icing along with the verse:
"While the earth is dressed in solemn white.
A distant bird may start to sing. "Your counsel in peace or strength in the fight.
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Shall guide us to a new spring." Churchill had a busy birthday. In the morning he worked in his office at 10 Downing street.
63 Fulbright Scholars
More than half of the 121 foreign students now studying at the University are here on Fulbright scholarships, a record for this year. A total of 63 students, 10 per cent more than last year, have the State department grants.
Shall guide us to a new spring."
A foreign student applying for a Fulbright scholarship to this country does so at the university where he is studying. The application goes to a bi-national board in that country for screening.
Final decisions are made by the Board of Foreign Scholars, appointed by the President of the United States. Universities here participate in the final selection of foreign students which they want.
Of the Fulbright students here, eight each are from Austria, Germany, and Japan; five each from India and Norway; four each from France, Italy, and Greece; two each from Cyprus and Iran, and one from the Philippines, China, Belgium, Pakistan, Saar, Luxemburg, Finland, Turkey, Thailand, Denmark, Malaya England, and the Netherlands.
On the other side of the ledger.
"more Fulbright awards have been granted to KU students than ever before," Prof. J. A. Burzle, campus Fulbright adviser, said.
Out of 38 applications received last year, 10 awards were given to University students: Two each to Australia and France and one to England, Austria, Belgium, Luxemburg, India, and Egypt. Between 800 and 1,000 Fulbright scholarships are granted in this country every year, Prof. Burrze said.
About 1,300 seniors still have not had their pictures taken for the 1952-53 Jayhawker, Kenneth Dam, Jayhawker editor, said today.
1,300 Seniors Need Annual Photos Taken
The Jayhawker editor stressed the importance of making appointments at Estes studio immediately to avoid the Christmas rush. The deadline for having pictures taken is Jan. 1.
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Thirty-six applications for 12 countries were received this fall, which are now in the hands of the National Selection committee in New York and Washington, Prof. Burzle said. Results will be known sometime in April.
Two scholarships a year are also awarded by a state committee in each state, going to the best-qualified students requesting Fulbrights. Since the inception of the program, the university has had one student selected for Kansas' quota each year, Prof. Burzle said. Last year it was Bruce Joseph, now studying medicine in France.
Art Exhibition to Feature
Paintinets by Wichita Artists
The next monthly exhibition of the Museum of Art will feature a group of paintings, largely water colors, by Wichita artists, Raymond Eastwood, director of the museum, said today.
The paintings, assembled by William Dickerson of the Wichita Art association, will be ready for display today, Mr. Eastwood said.
Stanolind Seeks Engineering Grads
P. D. Manning Jr., division engineer for the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company, will be on the campus Thursday to interview engineering students.
Mr. Manning is interested in interviewing petroleum, mechanical, chemical, and electrical engineers. Engineering activities at Stanolind are highly diversified, including reservoir engineering, well spacing, proration, drilling and production practices, and many others.
At the University, Stanolind sponsors a fellowship in the field of mechanical engineering. Students interested in talking with Mr. Manning may make appointments by signing the interview schedule in the office of the School of Engineering.
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At Du Pont, men with many types of training translate laboratory developments into full-scale production
Roger Jones, B.S. in Chem, Haverford College 752 (right), and operator check temperature control in the conversion of furfural to furan.
It takes ingenuity of a high order to translate a small-scale laboratory operation into all-out commercial production. Design engineers cannot always use purchasable equipment to scale up research findings, even with considerable adaption. About half of the time at Du Pont, entirely new equipment must be designed because of the novelty of the process developed by research.
Among the most interesting fields for engineers at Du Pont is the design of plants and equipment.
For example, a number of unusual problems were involved in designing the equipment and plant for a process in which hexamethylenediamine, one of the intermediates for nylon, is made from furfural, derived from such agricultural by-products as corncobs and hulls of cottonseed, oats and rice.
In this conversion, these steps are involved:
$C_{4}H_{3}OCHO$
furfural $ \xrightarrow[\text{catalyst}]{\text{Heat}} C_{4}H_{4}O $
furan
2H2 $ \xrightarrow[]{} $ C4H8O
tetrahydrofuran
2HC1 $ \xrightarrow[]{} $ C1(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>4</sub> C1
dichlorobutane
2NaCN $ \xrightarrow[]{} $ NC(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>4</sub> CN
adiponitrile
4H2 $ \xrightarrow[]{} $ H<sub>2</sub>N(CH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>6</sub> NH<sub>2}$
hexamethylenediamine
Here are some of the special problems that were encountered:
1. Design of equipment with close temperature control for converting furfural to furan. The design finally settled on employs a large number of tubes containing a catalyst, with a coolant circulated around them. Special sequence
Scale model of a part of the plant where adiponitrile is made from furfural.
timers were devised for operation of the valves controlling production and regeneration cycles.
2. Design of high-pressure agitated autoclaves for the hydrogenation of furan to tetrahydrofuran.
3. Selection of corrosion-resistant equipment for the hydrochlorination of tetrahydrofuran to dichlorobutane at high temperatures.
4. Design of a unique five-step distillation train to obtain high-grade adiponitrile without trace impurities.
Although most of these problems involve a great deal of chemical engineering, also needed on the designing team were mechanical, electrical, civil, metallurgical and industrial engineers. Thus design work at Du Pont is open to men with many types of training, and there is abundant opportunity for all.
E. W. Griffin, B.S. in M.E., Duke; M.S. in Ind. Mgt., Georgia Tech '52 (right), instructs operator in handling of vapor-tight horizontal vacuum filter used in separating adiponitrile from sodium chloride.
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