Monday, October 22, 1951 University Daily Kansar
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Hunting Trip Is Beginning of Dyche Museum
Vision and enterprise might be called the foundations of the Museum of Natural Science.
The dim beginnings of the Museum are traced back to Francis H. Snow. Ten days before the University was to open its doors, 85 years ago, Snow had been hired as a professor. Chancellor Oliver suggested that he hunt game to pass away the time until school opened.
Snow followed the chancellor's advice. He became so interested in birds of Kansas that he began a catalog on them. After classes had begun, he organized a class in zoology and instituted a bird survey. Among Professor Snow's students was Lewis L. Dyche.
In the course of his study under Snow, Dyche became so interested in natural history that he decided to devote his life to the study. He was made a professor at the University after he graduated.
Before long Professor Dyche became famous for mounting the larger mammals of the West in natural life-like backgrounds of their original habitat. Over 100 mounted specimens were displayed in the
Kansas building of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
In 1895 he became even more widely known for his part in the rescue of Commodore Robert E. Perry who was stranded in the Arctic. A year after the rescue Dyche returned to the Arctic to make collections. Later he went over the state giving lectures of the places he had seen, illustrating the talks with three dimensional pictures.
These lectures and Dyche's mammal displays attracted so much attention, that Snow, by then K.U. chancellor, asked the Legislature for an appropriation to build a museum. The Museum was completed in 1902 at a cost of $75,000.
The 'Food Man' Is A Popular Fellow About 10 p.m. At Greek Houses
In 1932 it was condemned as a fire
The food man is a popular figure In sorority and fraternity houses on the campus.
Each house is visited by Kenneth Dubach, pre-med senior, or by one of his associates on Sunday through Thursday between 8:30 and 11 p.m. Dubach and company sells an assortment of food. Sandwiches, do-nuts, soft drinks, and potato chips head the list of fast selling items.
Ken's associates are Paul Bartho-
low, College senior, and Bill Frizell
Jr., and Larry Cheatham, College
sophomores.
pronomies.
The men obtain the food wholesale, and they have a contract with each of the wholesale food concerns they buy from giving Dubach a monopoly. The food wholesalers will not sell to anyone else wanting to buy food for the same purpose.
Mrs. Josephine Fuel, cook at the Chi Omega sorority house, prepares the sandwiches sold by Ken Dubach and Company.
Ken is taking only 12 hours so he has plenty of time to spend on his job. He says it is profitable, but will not say how much so. He recently bought a car to aid him in the transportation of the food.
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sary to make part of the second floor into storage rooms.
hazard; the entire interior of the building torn out and a steel framework with concrete floors put in. From 1320 to 1941, the depression period in Kansas; the Museum remained closed for lack of funds to finish the interior.
Extensive remodeling and improvement of the building, enlargement of collections, and development of research are continuing today in the Museum. Because of lack of storage space, it has been neces-
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Many of the displays on the second floor, the bird floor, are temporary. Gradually the birds will be taken from the cases and replaced after the creation of imitation natural habitats.
But the Museum will never be completed. It will keep striving for the vision and enterprise of its founders and keep on building for tomorrow.
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