TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Election To Mortar Board An Honor For KU Woman
By ANNE SNYDER
Election to Mortar Board society is the highest honor w. University woman can receive in her junior year.
At the recent Honors convoitation, Chancellor Deane W. Malott read the names of the junior women who had been chosen for outstanding work in scholarship, leadership, and service to the University.
The new Mortar Boards had been secretly "tapped", informed of their election, at night a week before and had met the morning of the Kansas Relays with the old chapter for a breakfast at the home of Dean and Mrs. L. C. Woodruff. This is the only secrecy left in the organization, which was at one time all secret.
Torch society, with standards and aims similar to those of the national Mortar Board society, was formed on the K.U. campus in 1912. Members were elected in their junior year and worked in secrecy throughout their senior year until the chancellor announced their names at a spring convocation.
On the stage of Hoch auditorium, the old members in the traditional black jackets and skirts placed their tasseled mortar board caps on the heads of the new members and sang the Mortar Board song to them.
The Torch "believed its purpose could best be obtained if the identity of its members was not made known until the end of the senior year," said a 1920 clipping from the University Daily Kansan.
Dr. W, Albert Noyes Jr., chairman of the department of chemistry of the University of Rochester, gave the third annual Frank Burnett Dains memorial lecure Monday in 205 Bailey Chemical laboratories.
Memorial Talk Given
Dr. Noyes spoke on "The Study of Free Radicals in Photochemical Systems." Free Radicals are extensively utilized in the chemical operations used in the manufacture of plastics. Photochemical systems are those systems activated by illumination by ultra violet light.
The lecture is supported by funds set up in a memorial trust by Mrs. Dains following the death of her husband in January 1948. Dr. Dains was a faculty member of the chemistry department at K.U. from 1911 until his retirement in 1941.
Dr. Noyes is a former president of the American Chemical society and an adviser to the government on chemical problems.
Six Watkins hospital staff members and a former staff member, attended a meeting of the South Central section of the American College Health association April 28, at Kansas State college.
Members of the chemistry department and of Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemistry fraternity, honored Dr. Noyes with a banquet.
Hospital Staff To Health Meeting
Those who attended were Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of University Health service; Dr. M. E. Gross, Dr. Beatrice Lins, and Dr. Olie B. Styri, physicians at the hospital; Mrs. Orpha Kiesow, secretary to Dr. Canuteson; Mrs. Elma Stauffer, head nurse; and Mrs. Grace Scott, clinic nurse now retired.
Dr. Canuteson gave a report on the last national meeting of the association, and Dr. Gross took part in the discussion on athletic injuries.
Fort Worth, Tex.—U.P.)—Harve Saling was out 55 cents because Rusty took a taxicab home after a night out. Rusty, a police dog, spotted a cab driven by a Mrs. LaVerne Mattson and jumped in when Mrs. Mattson opened the door to pet him. When he refused to leave, Mrs. Mattson saw the address on his collar and drove him home, where Sailing paid the fare
Gay Dog On The Loose
However, in 1924 the Torch society became the Torch chapter of Mortar Board, a national organization which had been founded in 1918 at Syracuse, N.Y., by representatives of senior honor societies from four different universities. Mortar Board now has chapters at 83 universities
All junior women at the University are considered for membership if their grade average is three-tenths of a point higher than the all-University average for the past five semesters. A list of all junior women is sent to the heads of University departments, who check the students they consider worthy of membership.
The final selection is made by the active and honorary members of the organization. A unanimous vote is necessary for a woman to be chosen. By national standards the chapter must have between 5 and twenty members each year.
Today is the deadline for entries in the Hattie Elizabeth Lewis essay contest. A $100 prize will be awarded the best essay on applied Christianity, with a second prize of $75 and a third of $50.
Essay Contest Deadline Today
Essays should be left at the chancellor's office, 223 Strong hall. They must be between 3,000 and 10,000 words long and must concern the application of the teachings of Jesus to some present-day problem.
Judges are Miss Mattie Crumline, assistant professor of Romance languages; Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism; and James E. Seaver, assistant professor of history. Prizes will be awarded before the end of the semester.
Sociology Department Head Is Honored By Society
Chairman Carroll D. Clark of the department of sociology and anthropology has been elected a representative of the Midwest Sociological society to serve on the executive board of the American Sociological society for two years.
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AlumniBeingConsideredFor Outstanding Service Award
Information on alumni nominated for distinguished service citations is being reviewed by a committee appointed by Alumni President Dolph Simons.
The awards are presented each year at Commencement exercises and are made on the basis of outstanding achievement in the professions. Eighty citations have been made since the first awards were presented in 1941.
Alumni in industry lead in the number honored. Nineteen awards have been given to engineers and industrial managers. Sixteen educators have received awards as have seven doctors and scientists, four lawyers, four editors, four bankers, two architects, two Kansas supreme court justicees, two publishers, two army officers, and two college presidents.
Awards were also made to a government official, an actress, a navy officer, a paleontologist, a mammalogist, a zoologist, a news commentator, a college dean, a home economist, a foreign minister, an insurance executive, a symphony director, a Broadway producer, a missionary, a United States budget director, and a former Kansas governor.
Five women have received awards.
If a person selected is unable to attend Commencement exercises, arrangements are made to have the citation awarded at an alumni meeting near his home. Two persons died before receiving the award. They were Theodore O. Alford, correspondent for the Kansas City Star in Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Ruth Ewing Hanson, missionary in Tsing-ton Shantung, China.
Nominations may be submitted to the alumni office by anyone. Once nominated, persons are considered by the committee for two years. If at the end of two years they have not been selected to receive an award or renominated, they are retired from the committee's list.
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