TO DELAY CONSTRUCTION SIX WEEKS—Winds ranging up to 70 miles an hour caused the steel framework for the $2,600,000 Science building to collapse Wednesday afternoon. The accident caused $30,000 to $40,000 damage and will delay construction from a month to six weeks. The building was to be completed by the spring of 1954. Kansan photo by Jack Long.
WORKMEN INSPECTING THE DAMAGE—Workmen are shown inspecting the damage caused when high velocity winds blew down three skeletal frames of structural steel for the new Science building. Many of these same workmen were pouring concrete where the beams collapsed an hour before the accident. Kansan photo by Williams Zimmerman Murray.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
49th Year, No.109
Thursday, March 13, 1952
Soprano To Give Recital Monday
Jeanne Aldridge, graduate student, will give a voice recital at 8 p.m. Monday, March 17, in Strong auditorium. I-D cards will admit students.
Miss Aldridge, a soprano, received a bachelor of music degree from KU in 1950. She is a student of Miss Alice Moncrieff, professor of voice.
R. C. Broadstone, fine arts senior, will accompany Miss Aldridge at the piano.
She was president of the A Capella choir and of Mu Phi Epsilon, professional music sorority, in 1950
As a member of the Light Opera guild she has played leading roles in "The Gondollers," "Sweethearts" and "The Pink Lady." Last year she had a leading role in "Listen Children" at the University of Kansas City.
Murphy Is Bank Director
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy was elected a director of the InterState bank of Kansas City recently. He attended the first meeting of the new board Tuesday afternoon.
Dean Peterson To Speak
Miss Martha Peterson, acting dean of women, will speak at a Kayette Inquet in Effingham Tuesday, March 18.
JEANNE ALDRIDGE
HAJAS Stag Party To Be March 28
Hap Arnold Junior Air society members at a meeting Wednesday night set Friday, March 28 as the date for a stag party. The party originally was set for March 14, but the Rock Chalk Revue caused a change in plans.
Members agreed to form a committee to arrange for distribution of Easter food baskets to needy families in Lawrence.
Arnold Air Society Initiates 28 Advanced AirForceCadets
Twenty-eight advanced Air Force ROTC cadets were formally initiated into the Arnold Air society last night at ceremonies in the Military Science building.
nuts are served.
The initiated cadets are Dick
Lt. Col. J. J. Hausman, faculty advisor of the group, welcomed the initiates with a short talk, and Bob Springer, adjunct recorder, spoke on the symbolic meanings of the colors in the American flag.
Following the initiation ceremonies, there was a business meeting after which coffee and doughnuts were served.
Charles Bether, executive officer of the society, gave a short history of the society, and the oath was administered by Richard Wood, commanding officer.
Powell, David Cordell, Robert Taylor, Jack Stonestreet, and Jim Hershberger, college juniors; Charles Scanlan, Ray Pierson and James Perry, college sophomores; Edward Osborne, Henry Neumann and Damon Simpson, engineering seniors.
Clayton Anderson, Eugene Nelson, Leland Duvall, Keith Mclvor, Bill Luckfield and Ray Lawrence, engineering juniors; Holland Mcintosh and Howard Moore, engineering sophomores.
Rock Chalk To Open Friday
The Rock Chalk Revue, a series of eight skits on campus life, will be given Friday and Saturday at 7:45 p.m. in Hoch auditorium. The revue is sponsored by the Y.M.C.A.
Robert Knightly, Fred Bell, Kenneth Bowen, Walter Beck, George Gordon, Donald Muir and Clay Roberts, business juniors; Charles Burch, journalism junior, and George MrKonic, education junior.
Skits will be presented by eight different organized houses. The organizations, the skits and directors are as follows:
Sigma Kappa, "Kaw River Slow Boat," directed by Katie Cole, college freshman; Delta Gamma, "Bulletin Bluffs," directed by Donna Hobein, education junior; Delta Delta Delta, "Coed Clock," directed by Mary Loveless, fine arts sophomore; Kappa Kappa Gamma, "How You Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm When They've Seen KU?" directed by Jean Dennnan, college sophomore.
Alpha Tau Omega, "Smell Bound," directed by Murray Trelease, college senior; Kappa Sigma, "Space Professor," directed by Russell Dade, college freshman; Theta Pi, "24 Centuries Age—Last Saturday" Here, directed by junior and William Nulato, college junior and William Nulato, college junior; Kiappa Alpha, "Greek Tragedy," directed by James Ross, college sophomore.
songs between skits will be offered by Ray Murray who sang at the Matt Murray Benefit dance, Sylvester Heath, fine arts sophomore and Charles Kynard, fine arts freshman. The Albilrus trio will also perform.
Injured Student To KU Medical Center
Tickets for the revue are 75 cents each. They will be sold at the Information booth and the Student Union through Friday and also at the door.
Junior Clarke Gleason, pharmacy sophomore, was moved by ambulance yesterday to the KU medical center in Kansas City, Kan., for repair of a fractured jaw suffered in an automobile accident near Topeka.
Gleason, who is from Bird City, was brought to Watkins hospital from the Vail hospital in Topeka Tuesday afternoon. He is to return to Watkins after treatment at the medical center.
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Science Building Framework Falls
The hospital has not released information on his condition.
A worker collapsed on the new Science building at 9 a.m. today but was not seriously injured. An ambulance took him to Memorial hospital.
The five-story skeleton of beams fell to the top of the ground floor section of the center wing, where 20 men had been pouring concrete an hour before. No one was injured.
The winds also damaged other parts of the campus. Eleven windows in Marvin hall were shattered and one door was blown off its hinges.
The worker, Maurice Bell, fainted on the top story of the building while preparing to move some electrical equipment, contractors said. They said that he hit his head but that he was "not hurt badly."
The 200-ton steel framework for the upper floors of the new Science building collapsed at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday during winds estimated at 75 miles an hour.
Worker Collapses At Building Site
The vespers is one of four presented annually by the School of Fine Arts. The University Symphony orchestra directed by Prof. Russell L. Wiley will open the program with Weber's "Overture to Des Freischutz."
111th Vespers To Be Sunday
More than 350 students will participate in the 111th All-Musical vespers to be presented Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. in Hoch auditorium.
The Women's Glee club directed by Clayton Krehbiel and the Men's Glee club directed by Prof. Joseph L. Wilkins will sing. The A Cappella choir directed by Dean-emeritus D. M. Swarthout will also sing. Soloists for the choir are Gretta Reetz, fine arts freshman, and Harriet King, fine arts sophomore.
The University band led by Professor Wiley will conclude the program with Brahms" "Variations on a Theme by Haydn."
WEATHER
Fair tonight, somewhat colder in the northeast. Friday partly cloudy and warmer, low tonight 15 northwest to 35 southeast. High Friday 40-50 north to 55-60 south.
Several windows also were reported smashed in Strong hall. No one was injured in either building.
Guttering was ripped off the west side of Watson library and slate shingles were torn from the front part of the roof of Snow hall by the fierce gusts.
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A large tree in front of Watkins hospital and a smaller pine tree in front of Strong hall were uprooted. The roof of an old warehouse in the buildings and grounds area was severely damaged.
Although the work on the two side wings of the new science building was not interrupted by the winds, Ross Patterson, project superintendent for the B. A. Green Construction company, said the collapse will delay completion of the building about a month to six weeks. The damage was covered by insurance.
It was estimated Wednesday that damage was between $30,000 and $40,000. However, this morning, Basil A. Green, contractor, would make no speculation on what the damage was. He said that he had summoned experts to investigate the damage but so far no accurate figures are available.
There was no damage reported on the other sections of the building. The ground floor was protected by concrete and the first floor was not affected by the fall.
Counseling Service Offers Study Aids
The six-story framework for the center section was completed in January.
Individual counseling on personal study problems is being offered by the education clinic as a new student service.
Counselors will work with a limited number of students on personal reading and study problems such as note-taking, reading methods, preparation for exams, study procedures and vocabulary development.
In the past, small groups of 15 or less have met for help in study problems. These groups will continue to meet, but this new service enables the clinic to have a more personal interest in the student than the group method.
This service is not tutoring, but specific help in personal problems. It is free to all students in the University, but carries no credit.
Students may enroll in this program between 3 and 5 p.m. on weekdays in room 18 of Fraser hall.