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A Little Boy Rides In A Big Wheel Chair
By MRS. ELIZABETH S. WALKER
(Editor's note: Mrs. Walker, wife of a former KU. professor of Latin, was in Watkins hospital while Ronnie was recovering)
A little boy in a big wheel chair goes up and down the hall here in Watkins hospital. One of his grandparents is with him, but Ronnie, himself, defly manages the chair.
Daily he comes to visit me. His ♥
Daily he comes to visit me. His chair is nearly as wide as the door, but he insists on backing out. When I caution him about pinching his fingers, he measures the distance and says, "Maybe I better come in again." He comes back in several times, but never gives up. When he finally makes it he grins triumphantly and goes on his way.
On Mother's day he had a white carnation pinned to his pajamas. On other days he wears a shining star showing that he is a Hopalong Cassidy fan. He is very proud of that star.
old enough to realize to the fullest extent, the changes it will make in his future life. He speaks of his Daddy and Mother, his life at Sunnyside, and his playmates. He said wistfully, "I'm not going back there anymore."
He is a bright and cheerful youngster and full of pep. He has been told of the tragedy, but is hardly
He has the faculty for readjustment, and is happy and contented here at the hospital, but he is look-ward to his new life with his relatives.
He said one day, "I can't walk now, but when my leg is well, I'll run like the other kids."
Anyone who is blue, whose morale is at low pitch, who thinks life hardly worth living, and that he is
RONNIE
getting more than his share of hard luck, should spend a few minutes with a little boy called Ronnie.
UNIVERSITY DAILY
8th Year No.152 Tuesday, May 22, 1951
Lutheran Minister Will Deliver 1951 Baccalaureate Address June 3
The Rev. Walter H. Traub of Omaha will deliver the sermon at bacc laurate services for the 1951 senior class at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 3, in Memorial stadium. The glee club of the class of 1926 will sing.
The Rev. Mr. Traub has been pastor of the Kountz Memorial Evangile Lutheran church, largest Lutheran church in the nation, since 1931.
A native of Pennsylvania, he is a graduate of Susquehanna university at Sellinsgrove, Pa., Lutheran Theological seminary at Gettysburg, and Pennsylvania State college, State College, Pa., from which he earned an M.A. degree in literature and history.
For three terms he was a member of the board of education of the United Lutheran church in America. In that capacity he was a colleague of Dr. George L. Anderson, chairman of the K.U. history department.
An invitation to preach in Germany this summer has been extended to the Rev. Mr Traub by the U.S. Air Force, for which he is a preacher-at-large for the mission for chaplains and men.
In case of rain at either Commencement or Baccalaureate the services will be moved to Hoch auditorium.
KU Graduate Gets Fulbright
James Marshall Parks, Jr., '48 has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship for a year's study of geology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
He is the seventh K.U. person known to have received a Fulbright award, which covers transportation, educational, and subsistence costs, thus far in 1951. Five were students and two were alumni.
Parks took his undergraduate work in geology at the University of Kansas. He is now finishing work for the Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin, where he also is a research assistant.
There are approximately 750
works for the 1951-52 year. Funds
the awards are foreign currency
realized through surplus property
 sales abroad.
Commencement exercises will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, June 4, in Memorial stadium. The Commencement program will carry between 2,200 and 2,300 names of persons receiving degrees or certificates since the 1950 commencement. The 1950 program listed 2,438 names.
THE REV. WALTER H. TRAUB
Closing hours for women students during final week and the week of graduation activities have been announced by Associated Women students.
Sunday through Wednesday,
May 30, closing hours will be 11
p.m. Thursday, May 31, through
Sunday, June 10, closing hours
will be midnight.
Wednesday and Thursday closing hours will be 11 p.m. Closing hours Friday will be 12:30 a.m.
and Saturday will be 1 a.m.
About 1,300 persons may complete
Closing Hours Set For Final Week
Regular closing hours will begin again on Monday, June 11.
requirements for degrees in June,
not quite as many as in 1949 and
about 150 fewer than in 1950. However,
444 completed courses the last
Summer Session and 511 more
finished in January of this year.
3:30 p.m. Meeting of board of directors of Alumni association, alumni office.
The schedule of events for the 79th annual Commencement season is as follows:
3 p.m. Alumni registration opens,
Union lounge.
Saturday, June 2
6:30 p.m. Informal buffet supper for alumni, Union.
9 a.m. Endowment association trustees' breakfast. Union.
8:30 a.m. Mortar Board reunion breakfast, Union.
12-12:30 p.m. Class reunions—Gold Medal club, west dining room, cafeteria floor, Union; '01, English room, Union; '11, Ball room, Union; '26, Kansas room, Union; '41, Corbin hall dining room.
Sunday, June 3
3-5 p.m. Tea for seniors and parents, department of design, 308 Strong hall.
12:15 p.m. Carillon recital, Sidney F. Giles.
4 p.m. Outdoor concert by University band, Myers hall lawn.
5 p.m. Commencement supper for alumni, Union.
7:30 p.m. Baccalaureate services, Memorial stadium.
8.30 a.m. Senior breakfast, Union.
1 a.m. Organ recital, Spooner
lall.
Monday, June 4
3 p.m. Reception for seniors and parents, Union.
2:30 p.m. Phi Beta Kappa annual meeting, Kansas room, Union.
6:45 p.m. Carillon recital, Sidney F. Giles.
WEATHER
7 p.m. Commencement exercises, Memorial stadium.
Kansas: Partly cloudy, with occasional light rain extreme east portion ending tonight. Cooler tonight with scattered light frost in northwest. Low tonight 38 northwest, elsewhere 45 to 50.
Ronnie's Fund Goes Over $3,000 Mark
Ronnie Ewert can go to college. The scholarship fund went over the top today with $3.033.08.
The K.U. Mennonite fellowship gave $35 Monday to the scholarship for the 6-year-old boy whose mother, father, and sister were recently killed in an automobile accident. His father, Prof. Walter E. Ewert, was the founder and sponsor of the Mennonite fellowship.
Edward Chapin, chairman of the steering committee, said "We wish to thank everyone for their contributions for little Ronnie's education. The success of this drive rested on the generosity of K.U. students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the University. The extent of that generosity was demonstrated by the short time in which the money was collected."
The final amount contributed to the fund will be placed with the Endowment association to be invested, Chapin said. In 12 years the fund will be over $4,000, and when Ronnie is 18 he will get $1,000 a
year for four years wherever he goes to school.
Ronnie suffered a fractured pelvis and jaw and a brain injury in the accident and is recovering in Watkins hospital. He is up and playing now, and his doctor said that, as far as they know now, he will make a complete recovery.
Those who have contributed $5 or over and have not been previously listed include R. W. Hemenway, Reinhold Schmidt, Division of Sanitation employees, John C. Emick, Henry C. Turk, Elmer F. Beth, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Stratton, Sigma Kappa sorority, Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Dessa Jane Bush, and Foster and Locksley halls.
Men scheduled to take the Selective Service college qualification test Saturday whose last names begin with the letters A to L should report to take the test at Hoch auditorium. Those whose last names begin with the letters M to Z should report at the Military Science building.
Men To Report For Tests Saturday
The test will begin at 8:30 a.m.
Men must bring their admission card, a pen or pencil, and their notice of classification card or draft identification card.
Winners were chosen by vote of students in Business Communication classes at the five schools. Kansas received 251 votes.
Motor-In, Morgan Mack Ford dealers, Jayhawk motors, Robert Revenew Liquor store, Shields Standard Service station, and the Corn Studio of Beauty.
The University of Kansas took first place in a business letter writing contest with four other colleges, Robert Morrison, instructor in economics, announced today. William Lacy and Clarence Renne, business seniors, wrote the two winning letters from K.U.
KU Tops In LetterContest
The contest, sponsored jointly by the five schools, posed a problem in business communications. Seventy-five students were asked to write a solution.
Other schools and their vote totals were University of California at Los Angeles, 142; University of Maryland, 94; Loyola (California) university, 90; and San Francisco State college, 83.
Former Student Killed Over Korea
The Journal-World fund to pay Ronnie's hospital expenses has reached $1,742.31. This money is now on account at the two Lawrence banks, and will be used by the banks to pay Ronnie's hospital expenses and any incidental expenses which occur as he grows up.
Lieut. Marion T. Dragastin, an engineering student at the University in spring, 1950, was killed in action over Korea May 18.
Lieutenant Dragstan had been in action in Korea since March 27. He was one of three pilots from this area cited by the Navy for an attack on a Chinese troop concentration in the recent offensive.
Dragastin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Dragastin, Kansas City, Kansas, entered the University in 1949 and finished the spring semester of 1950. He was recalled to active duty in July, 1950.
Music Faculty Increased By Appointments
The appointments of Dr. Milton Steinhardt as associate professor of musicology and Ronald M. Barnes as instructor in music history and University carillonneur were announced today by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
Mr. Barnes will assume his duties at the start of the summer session and Dr. Steinhardt will report next fall. The regular schedule for recitals on the carillon will not be decided until after Barnes' arrival, but it will probably include about one a week.
Dr. Steinhardt is a native of Coffeyville. He studied violin with Prof. Waldemar Geltch of K.U. in 1926-28 and for the next five years studied in New York, Paris and Germany. He received bachelor and master of music degrees in 1936 and 1937 from the Eastman school of music, University of Rochester.
He taught at the Central Washington College of Education for four years before the war, served three years in the Army signal corps, and then began graduate work at New York university which resulted in award of the Ph.D. degree in musicology in 1950. He was assistant professor of music at Michigan State college 1948-50 and comes to K.U. from Ohio university where, he was associate professor.
Barnes, a native of Lincoln, Nebr., will observe his 24th birthday June 11. He attended schools in that city and received the bachelor of music degree from the University of Nebraska last June.
From 1946 to 1950 he was carillonneur at the First-Plymouth Congregational church in Lincoln. During 1948 he studied carillon with Robert Donnell dominion carillonneur of Canada at Ottawa. He has been a member of the North American Guild of Carillonneurs since June of that year.
Korean Veterans Return
San Francisco (U.P.)—The transport General Mitchell docked at Fort Mason today, bringing home 1.485 veterans of the Korean war. This was the third group to return to San Francisco under the Army's rotation plan from Korea.
Malott Story' Appears Today On Pages 6 And 7