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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 15, 1952
Maxon Quits As Head Of KU Art Museum
Dr. John Maxon, director of the Museum of Art, has resigned to become director of the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of design at Providence R.I. on Nov. 1.
A successor will be chosen in the "near future" to fill Dr. Maxon's position, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor said today.
Dr. Maxon, who has been director
of the Kansas museum since Sept. 1, 1948, and chairman of the department of history of art since 1951, was acting curator of decorative arts at the Rhode Island School of Design and assistant curator in textiles at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts before coming to KU.
He attended Lawrence schools and later Cooper Union Day Art School in New York City. He received a certificate in painting and illustration with honors in illustration and murals painting from the school in 1938.
He received a bachelor of design degree from the University of Michigan and was named one of two honor students in 1941. He received his Master of Arts degree from Harvard in 1945 and his Ph.D. in art history from Harvard three years later.
JOHN MAXON
Here at the University he has directed remodeling of the museum and has started the annual accession program. Also he has set up a museum advisory council and completed the agreement with the Metropolitan Art museum in New York City which allows the New York museum to send paintings to KU for a loan period of one to two years.
Medical Center to Assist In Nuclear Cancer Study
The Medical center is one of the 17 schools throughout the country selected to cooperate with the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies in doing cancer research.
Dr. Galen M. Tice, chairman of the radiology department of the Medical center, spent part of the summer in Oak Ridge participating in the formation of a teletherapy valuation board which will test new multi-curie radiation sources, now becoming available for the first time through the nation's atomic energy program. Teletherapy deals with the treatment of cancer by externally applied radiation.
Medical authorities predict that the appearance of new radiation sources would be a powerful stimulus to cancer research and treatment.
Radiation and surgery are still the two principle treatments for cancer with early diagnosis a major element in either case. Refinements in either type treatment would be of great value.
As presently planned, the board will authorize the building of a single teletherapy unit at Oak Ridge which will undergo comprehensive tests. As the bugs are worked out certain of the participating medical schools will purchase units for a complete testing program.
The medical schools participating in the teletherapy program in addition to the KU Medical center are:
Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest college.
Medical College of Virginia.
University of Mississippi Columbia university.
60 Persons Attend Water, Sewage School
More than 60 persons attended the 22nd annual Water and Sewage Works school at the University Sept. 3-5.
Roy Binder, superintendent of the sewage treatment plant at Hays, received the Arthur Bedell national award for outstanding work the past year. Binder is the first Kansan ever to receive this annual award bestowed by the National Federation of Sewage Works.
The Kansas Sewage Works association elected Hugh Ramage of Lyons as president at its annual meeting during the three-day institute. The vice president will be the Vice President Terry Metzler, chief engineer for the State Board of Health stationed at KU, is the secretary-treasurer.
University of Arkansas.
University of Nebraska.
Duke university.
Baylor.
Emory university.
Medical College of the State University of New York, Syracuse.
New York university—Bellevue Medical center.
University of Texas.
Vanderbilt university.
University of Tennessee.
University of Louisville.
M. D. Anderson Cancer Hospital
Medical College of Alabama.
New Scholarship Dorms Completed
Completion of two new scholarship dormitories and revamping of other University dormitories and 186 Sunnieside apartments were included in the program carried on this summer under direction of Bill Chestnut, dormitories director.
This year the dormitories alone will have a capacity of 1,211 students, the most in history. Over 600 members of faculty families will again live in the Sunnyside apartments.
The pride of the group are the three scholarship halls on the east
houses 50 men.
painting, repapering and other repairs.
Sunnyside, the housing units which were erected following World War II, has to be repaired each year. The foundations have been repaired on nearly all of the units this summer.
In opening the two new halls, the dormitory group has halls that are similar in design and accommodations, but differing in that Pearson is as strikingly masculine as Sellards is feminine.
slope of Mt. Oread. Each of the halls, Stephenson hall, given by Mrs. Lyle Stephenson of Kansas City, and Pearson and Sellards halls given by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pearson of Corpus Christi, Tex. cost $150,000 and will house 52 students. Stephenson and Pearson halls will both house men students, while Sellards hall will be for women.
Stephenson hall was occupied during the spring semester, but the other two halls were not completed until this summer by the contractor, the Martin K. Eby Construction firm in Bloomington and grounds department along with the dormitory crew finished the projects.
Another scholarship hall which has undergone considerable remodeling this summer is Jolliffe hall. New tile flooring was put in the basement recreation room and on the second floor and the first floor was completely re-painted. Jollife
BOB CHESTNUT
General repair work was also done on Sterling, Oliver, Battenfield, Locksley, Hopkins, Kanza, Hodder, McCook, Oread, Corbin and North College dormitories. This work includes plumbing repairs, re-
Templin and Carruth halls, near the new buildings, were given replastering jobs. In Miller and Watkins halls, scholarship dormitories for women left by the late Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins, new furnishings have been provided.
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