KU Gets 20,000 Photo Negatives
Bv WILLIAM E. STANFILL
A collection of 20,000 photographic negatives which will form the "J. J. Pennell Collection" has been donated to the University.
The negatives comprise the life work of J. J. Pennell, a Junction City photographer, and were given by his son Joseph Stanley Pennell, a KU graduate.
The negatives give a pictorial history of Junction City and the Fort Riley area from 1880 to 1922. They also provide historical background of the U.S. Cavalry and allied arms during World War I.
Included in the collection are photographs of President Theodore
Roosevelt speaking at Junction City, General George S. Patton as a second lieutenant, and a portrait of General John J. Pershing.
The majority of the negatives are of Junction City citizens. Because of this Robert Taft, professor of chemistry, believes that the collection will serve as costume plates depicting clothing of the late 19th century.
Dr. Taft will supervise the sorting and storing of the negatives. He will also check each negative to determent, identify, and quantified and included in the collection.
He estimated that approximately 2,000 of the negatives will make up the collection. They will be chosen in accordance with their historical
and cultural value. The remainder will be stored and preserved for possible future use.
They are now stored in the basement of Watson library where work on sorting and cataloging them has begun. Dr. Taft estimated that the total cost of sorting, cataloging, filing and printing the negatives will be approximately $2,000.
Most of the work will be done by the University Photographic bureau and will be supervised by Robert Rose, director of the bureau.
Most of the negatives are of the old dry plate glass negative type, but there are some of the more common film negatives.
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KU'S MEMORIAL CAMPANILE will take part in its first Homecoming celebration Saturday. Special tours and programs will highlight the activities. The photo shows the arrival of some of the carillon's 53 bells last spring.
Campanile To Make Debut As KU Homecoming Feature
By JIM POWERS
The Memorial Campanile, dedicated to the KU men and women who lost their lives in World War II, will be playing its first part in Homecoming activities since its completion the past May.
In addition to four Homecoming recitals on the $78,000 carillon, special tours through the campanile will be conducted for alumni and guests, according to Ronald M. Barnes, carillonneur.
The Jay Janes will conduct tours from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday as well as the weekly Sunday tours from 1 to 2:45 p.m. and from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
The instrument itself slightly resembles the keyboard of a piano or organ, with the top row of keys representing the black keys on a piano and the bottom row white. A row of foot pedals plays the brass bells.
The KU carillon's 53 bells rank behind the 55-bell instrument at Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls, Canada. Only five carilons in North America have a tone range wider than KU's four octaves.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott accepted the gift of the campanile from Justice Hugo T. Wedell, president of the Memorial association, at the dedeication ceremony May 27, 1951.
The carillon is fourth largest of the 72 carillons in North America. Riverside church, N.Y., and University of Chicago chapel possess the largest with 72 bells each.
The KU carillon is the first in the world to be tuned electrically, thus giving it an unusually accurate tone. The instrument was completely assembled and tested in England before being shipped to America.
The bells were cast by the John
The Faculty Follies will be presented at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13 in Fraser theater, it was announced in the AWS house of representatives meeting Tuesday.
AWS House Plans Faculty Follies
The largest bell, weighing nearly seven tons, is 7 feet 2 inches in diameter and has a tone of F sharp. It had to be turned on its side to allow it to pass through the door of the campanile, only $6\frac{1}{2}$ feet wide.
Allen Crafton, professor of speech,
will be master of ceremonies. The
program will consist of a 9-act play
in 10 minutes, a carnival show, quartet
numbers and imitations.
Taylor foundry in England. They do not move, but instead are sounded by clappers which travel only two inches or less to strike the inner rims.
If there are any faculty members who would like to contribute their talent to the show, they are urged to contact either M. C. Slough, director of the Follies, or Barbara Allen as soon as possible.
Not long ago a rumor was circulating that the Campanile was leaning slightly to one side, although no
The proceeds from the Follies will go to the AWS Memorial Scholarship fund.
The engineers disclosed that the tower has a $9\frac{1}{2}$-inch taper on each side near the top to prevent the optical illusion of the tower being top-heavy.
Memorial Drive around the crest of Mt. Oread is nearing completion and passes directly in front of the $175,000 campanile.
one seemed to know in which direction. It was checked by engineers who designed the structure.
THIS OLD PRINT is from one of the 20,000 negatives in the J. J. Pennell collection of historical and cultural photographs. Mr. Pennell was a Junction City photographer from 1880 to 1922. The collection was donated to the University by his son, Joseph Stanley Pennell, a KU graduate.
Flood Work Replaces Homecoming Displays
By KATRINA SWARTZ
One of the first things a Homecoming visitor to Lawrence will notice is the absence of the traditional house decorations.
Nineteen fifty-one is a landmark in Homecoming history because of the missing decorations but it is not the first time students at the University have responded to need for relief after a flood on the Kaw.
After the devastation of the July flood students realized the need for help in North Lawrence. Early in October the Inter-Fraternity council approved a relief and clean-up project and voted to donate the time and money usually spent on homecoming decorations to needy families.
Panhellenic council followed the fraternity's lead by also voting out Homecoming decorations. As part of their work the sorority members served lunches to the men working in the actual cleanup.
Despite the mud and occasional heavy rains, the mass IFC cleanup project on Oct. 7 was a huge success. Seven hundred members from the 24 fraternities participated in cleaning up and repairing the damaged area.
Trucks were borrowed from Winter Chevrolet and Morgan-Mack motor companies.
in the event, Equipment, simply a shovel in most cases, was furnished by the workers themselves or the Union Pacific railroad, which loaned more than 250 shovels to the IFC. Buildings and Grounds also loaned shovels.
Crews of students from the University Co-op houses spent Oct. 20
in North Lawrence continuing the flood clean-up work initiated by the IFC. In many cases the houses had simply been abandoned after the July flood.
The need for more help was emphasized. The Red Cross disaster relief center had a list of over 700 families affected by the flood. KU organizations had reduced this number by 150 by Oct. 20 but more help was needed.
Students who worked explained that there were many jobs which could not be done in a single week-end, so the University scholarship halls and co-operative residences decided to take part in an over-all plan to cleanup by pooling their time, effort and money.
Sixty men and women from the scholarship and resident halls began the work in spite of the cold on Nov. 3.
The most extensive work was done at 417 North Ninth street where the students cleaned a barn belonging to Virgil Ball.
"We plan to go back in groups of five or six when the weather is nice and finish the work," Clum said.
Lewis Clum, publicity director of the ISA, said that the six houses where they worked that day were chosen because the reconstruction was too extensive for the owners to manage alone.
Bureau Issues Films To 41 States
By LORENA BARLOW
Forty-one states receive educational films from the bureau of visual instruction at the University according to Fred Montgomery, bureau director.
The films, purchased by the bureau, are provided for use by schools, colleges and organizations. During 1950-51, 23,162 sound films and 685 silent films have been distributed throughout the country. In classes on the campus 2,337 films have been seen.
"Functions of the bureau," Mr. Montgomery said, "are to supply films and teaching material to schools and teach the instructors the best methods of using it.
"On the campus," he continued, "films and projectors are provided for visual education in University classes."
The devices of motion pictures make it possible for students to see things that otherwise would be impossible or impractical. Mr. Montgomery explained that slow motion photography permits the viewer to see, for example, plays of a football game, which ordinarily would be hard to watch, play by play.
"The growth of a plant which requires ten weeks to complete its cycle can be shown in ten minutes through the medium of time-lapse
photography," Mr. Montgomery said.
Items that cannot be seen at all are brought to life by animation. Miniature photography is used to bring to
FRED S. MONTGOMERY, director of the bureau of visual instruction, replacing a film in the bureau's film library. Kansas photo by Lee Shepeard.
the screen such things as the relation of the earth to other planets, he said.
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"On the other hand," he continued, "cell processes which are too small to be seen are produced by enlargements."
Things too far away and too dangerous to be observed by students are also brought to them by motion pictures, Mr. Montgomery said.
The results of visual education, which have been proved by tests, are that more is learned, the knowledge is retained longer and more library work is done, he stated.
"The last point is further explained by the fact that before the film, 'David Copperfield' was shown in Cincinnati, libraries there had 37 dust-covered copies of the book," he said. "Afterward an additional 800 copies had to be purchased to keep up with the demand."
Other tools of visual education are blackboards, maps, charts, graphs, pictures, globes, scale models and stereoscopic slides, he stated.
Mr. Montgomery explained that audio-instruction also plays an important part in education. Phonographs, radios and television are tools for education as well as visual aids.