Kansas State Historical Society
Toroka, Ks.
Women In Engineering Not A Joke
By JERRY RENNER
Dina Gaskell, a black - haired, dark-eyed woman, set a precedent this fall when she became the first woman to enroll in the department of mining metallurgy in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
"I'm really serious about it," Dina said, "but it began as a joke back in high school when I got a high engineering rating in an interest test." It was a standing joke around school that my girl friend, Phyllis Sims, who is on campus in the architecture department, and I were going to be engineers."
The principal of the school heard about the girls' idea and encouraged it. After Dina graduated, she entered the School of Engineering.
Metalurgy is divided into the processing field which deals with extracting, smelting, and refining ores and the physical field involving welding, forging, heat effects, and microsonic study.
"I was in geological engineering at first; but I wanted more chemistry so I decided to switch to metallurgy." she said.
Employment possibilities for women in engineering are unlimited, Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering told Dina.
Dean Carr said.
Dina will be in the class of '54. She plans to either work in industry or obtain her master's degree.
Engineers are urgently needed; companies want women because they are draft exempt. They are paid on the same wage scale as men,
"I don't think the engineers mind a girl in class except when the professor won't tell jokes because I am present." Dina said.
Prof. Kenneth Rose, chairman of the mining and metallurgy department, said that Dina may do further work on several projects already begun or choose one of her own if she continues for a master's degree.
Twenty hours of physics, calculus, geology and American people keep her busy this semester, "I don't mind because I like the course," she said.
UNIVERSITY DAILY
9th Year No.65 Tuesday, Dec.18,1951 hansan
Rules Announced For Final Exams
Registrar James K. Hitt announced today several instructions to students and teachers concerning the final examination schedule.
"We have set up a schedule that should be followed in order to avoid confusion." Mr. Hitt said. "In case of undue hardship students should write a request for change to the calendar committee."
The requests should be given to Mr. Hitt, chairman of the calendar committee, 122 Strong hall, not later than Friday, Jan. 4.
There were one or two asterisks placed after each class sequence listed in the copy of the examination schedule printed in the Kansan Monday. The one asterisk after the Monday, Wednesday, Friday sequences meant that three and four hour classes which hold classes on some or all of those days are to take their finals also at the time scheduled for the 3 hour courses.
The following instructions are directed to instructors:
Two asterisks after the Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday sequences meant that two and one hour classes meeting Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday also are to take their finals at the time scheduled for the 3 hour courses.
"Where a departure from the regular examination schedule is advisable, the request of the instructor must be submitted in writing to Mr. Hitt by Jan. 4.
"Regular classes with laboratory
The calendar committee may approve such a change only if it causes no conflicts for the students involved and provided that the revised time for the examination falls within the regular examination period.
work only will be examined as other classes except that the hour may be any one of the several hours scheduled in the laboratory period. The choice is to be made by the instructor after consultation with the students and with other instructors concerned.
"Irregular appointment classes and appointment laboratory classes will be examined at the time set by the instructor after consultation with the students and with any other instructors concerned.
"In case of mixed courses in which the laboratory work does not come at the same hour as the class work, the examination may be scheduled in either of the following ways:
"(1) A single examination covering both the class and the laboratory work at the time scheduled for the class hours.
(2) Two examinations, one for the class work at the time scheduled for the class hours, and one for the laboratory work, at the time scheduled for the laboratory periods.
"The School of Law is authorized by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, to make its own examination schedule provided that it takes care of all non-law students with causing conflicts with other examinations.
"The School of Medicine, not including pre-medical courses, is also authorized to set its own schedule provided that it takes care of all non-medical students without causing conflicts with other examinations.
Delta Chi Excels In Decorations As Houses Display Yuletide Spirit
Indoor Christmas decorations predominate in organized houses this season. Outstanding among outdoor decorations is the roof outlined with multicolored lights at the Delta Chi fraternity house at 1245 West Campus, just west of Potter lake.
On the campus the revolving Christmas tree in Strong hall rotunda is one of the main attractions around which carols are sung every year by the A Cappella choir. The carols will be sung this year on Wednesday.
Santa Claus, his sleigh and reindeer are also depicted on the house. Two eight foot greeting cards on both sides of the doorway are part of the main indoor features.
Christmas trees may be seen at both entrances to the Union and also in the cafeteria. Members of Student Union Activities decorated a tree in the lounge and the Hawk's Nest. Ropes of evergreen have been fastened along the baseboards.
Blue lights illuminate the front of Danforth chapel showing more distinctly the north side and stained glass windows of the limestone
sanctuary.
Multi-colored lights on brightly decorated pine trees are the favorite stand-by for the season. Among the houses which display the Yuletide tradition are Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Phi Alpha, Miller hall, Chi Omega, Monchonsia hall and Kappa Alpha Psi.
Santa and his pack, electrically wired to wink at pedestrians and motorists on Tennessee street, may be seen upon the roof the Pi Kappa Alpha house.
Red and white is the theme for decorations at Alpha Omicron Pi at 1144 Louisiana street. A five feet snowman and snowwoman are indoor features. Greenery sprayed with white along the stairway and red and white mantle decorations complete the scene.
Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer, with Santa and his sleigh are featured on the Alpha Delta Pi house roof.
A snowman which has little danger of melting may be seen in the yard of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house. The figure is made of papier mache
Here's A Correction On Final Schedule
The Daily Kansan wishes to make a correction in the final examination schedule published in Monday's paper.
All sections of French 1, French
2, German 1, and German 2,
Spanish 1, and Spanish 2, will be
examined from 8:9:50 a.m. Saturday,
Jan. 19, instead of 8:30-9:30
as stated Monday.
An explanation of the asterisks used in Monday's copy of the schedule appears in the final examination story on this page.
Grange Cancels Banquet Talk
Laurence "Moon" Mullins, Kansas State college athletic director, will replace Harold "Red" Grange as the speaker at the annual gridiron banquet of the Lawrence Downtown Quarterback club at the Community building Wednesday night.
College Faculty To Meet
Officials of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, sponsoring agency of the Quarterback club, were notified over the weekend that Grange had been hospitalized and would be in bed for a week. The nature of his aliment was not made known.
Recommendations of several new courses will be made today at the College faculty meeting, Dean Paul B. Lawson said.
Banquet tickets, which sell for $2.50, may still be purchased at the Chamber of Commerce office, Eighth and Vermont streets. The general public is invited to the dinner and attendance is not restricted to Quarterback members.
The meeting will be held at 4 p.m. in Strong auditorium.
A major feature of the event will be the presentation of the Ormand Beach memorial trophy to the outstanding senior on the KU team, and the premiere showing of the film highlights of the 1951 Kansas football season.
DINA GASKELL, engineering sophomore, uses a metallograph in studying the micro structure of a mineral. Miss Gaskell is the first woman student to enroll in department of mining and metallurgical engineering.-Kansan photo by Don Sarten.
Nativity Play To Open In Green Wednesday
A 16th century German Nativity play, "Die Heilige Nacht," will be the feature of a Christmas program to be presented jointly by the German and speech departments at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Little Theater in Green hall.
The play, like the English plays of the Middle Ages, is characterized by a minimum of scenery, use of vernacular language, much hamming, and a naive charm.
The play is a reproduction of the original Nativity play which was first produced by the German townspeople who acted out their occupations in real life as parts in the play.
In addition to the Nativity play a m u s i c a l program will include: "Movement from Trio in G minor" (Brahms) played by Martha Heck, pianist; Donald Stewart, violinist, and Robert Stewart, cellist. "Virgin's Slumber Song" (Reger) will be song by Jeanne Aldridge. The Lawrence Junior High German club will sing two German Christmas carols.
Members of the cast are: Julia Bolas, narrator; Mary McClelland.
WEATHER
Cloudy and windy tonight with occasional light snow mostly in north portion; blowing snow in northwest portion late night with strong northerly winds 30-35 mph. Warmer east and central tonight. Low 5 to 10 above zero northwest to 20-25 southeast. Wednesday partly cloudy with snow flurries except light snow in northeast changing to snow flurries before noon. Colder west and central Wednesday and turning colder over rest of the state in the afternoon. Strong shifting southeast winds tonight 30-40 miles an hour. Shifting to northwest Wednesday. High Wednesday 10 to 15 northwest, 34 southeast.
Anita McCoy, and Nathalie Sherw-
wood, three singing angels; Mary Gayle Loveless, the Angel Gabriel;
Charlene Foerschler, Mary; Hans Winder, Joseph; William Spomer,
the innkeeper; Maizie Harris, the innkeeper's wife; Dennis R. Dahl,
the devil; Leonard Durocle, Neil Kloterman, Donald Horttor, and
Frank Newby as shepherds.
Laura Lee Calkins and Justine Anderson, angels; John Gagliari, Herod; Bruce Bailey and Donald Pearson, servants; Levi Barnes, Richard Wood and Victor Baptiste, wise men, and Judith Veatch, conscience.
Members of the German departmentmen choir are: Kurt Asamer, Lois Beth, Lorena Barlow, John Coffman, Warren, Diefendorf, Ruth Elser, William Enoch, Ralph Flowers, Isa Gerecke, Orinne Gray, Frances Hanna, Mary Jane Harder, Maizie Harris, Gertrand Kaps, Rita Lang, Wallace LaBerge.
Robert Learned Jr., Walter Lewin,
Joan McCamish, Mary McClelland,
Anita McCoy, Donald McCoy, Paula
McVay, Ronald Meeker, Betty
Parks, Dwight Patton, Myrl Dean
Powell, Maxine Ratzlaf, Bernard
Rickers, K. Dell Rising, Louise
Steuber, Esther Storer, Nathalie
Sherwood, Helga K. Vigliano, Sue
Wilson, and Klaus Wrede. William
Oldham, education junior, will direct
the choir.
Members of the Russian choir are: James Conkin, Nathalie Coutbrod, Eugene Hurwitz, Myrl Dean Powell, Kurt Klein, Marijane Lynch, Dune Nelson, Vladimir Sajkovic, John Timko, and Helga K. Vigliano.
Big 7 Differ On Scholarship Listings
The universities of Oklahoma and Colorado are the only members of the Big Seven which have not expressed an opinion on publishing lists of athletic scholarships granted by the schools.
Kansas and Kansas State both have stated that they do not plan to reveal the information concerning the scholarships.
Larry "Moon" Mullins, K-State director of athletics, has said, "as far as publicizing scholarship lists is concerned, we haven't done it in the past and I will follow that policy until my superior authorities want it changed. Actually it makes no particular difference to me one way or the other. To me it's not that important."
A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg, KU's director of athletics, has gone on record against publishing the list as he sees no reason for it. He emphasizes. "We have nothing to hide at Kansas."
Chancellor Gustavson said, "There
The University of Missouri has made public the names of students receiving athletic scholarships, the total amount and the source of income. Iowa State officials said Monday that they have "no objections" to publication.
At Lincoln, Chancellor R. G. Gustavson of the University of Nebraska has said that a list "will be made available." His statement reverses an earlier announcement by NJU's director of athletics, George "Potsy" Clark.
is no reason whatsoever for not publishing the names of the individuals. If the circumstances will not stand the light of day, then there is something wrong."
Missouri was the first conference school to make the move following the meeting of conference officials in Kansas City Dec. 7th and 8th.
Figures revealed by Don Faurot, MU's athletic director and head football coach, show that the school's annual athletic scholarship budget is $85,000, of which $50,000 comes from inter-collegiate funds. The remaining $35,000 is from alumni sources, an educational foundation and profits from concessions at games.