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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1951
KU's Veterans Vanishing; Korea May Bring New Crop
Is the veteran becoming the vanishing American of the K.U. campus? Will white bucks completely replace combat boots on the Hill? According to Dr. E. R. Elbel, director of the veterans bureau, the number of veterans has dropped from 5,500 in 1948 to 1,300 now enrolled.
The veteran has been an outstanding factor in campus life during the last few years. Dr. Elbel believes that service training, maturity, and the fact that most of the veterans had a definite purpose in mind when they entered the University have been responsible for the veterans' grade average being above the university average. Students fresh from high school have found it difficult to meet the standards set by the veterans when they were freshmen.
The veterans, because of their maturity, lent a more sober atmosphere to the campus during the years following World War II, but this did not keep them from participating in almost all Hill activities. Veterans were the backbone of the K.U. Orange Bowl team.
Dr. Elbel as director of the veterans bureau is in charge of carrying out of the program the Veterans Administration. Dr. Elbel claims that his main problem is getting the veterans to fully understand the procedure of the V.A. and to ask questions when in doubt. Misinformation is another of Dr. Elbel's headaches. However, he believes that on the whole the V.A. has done a wonderful job in providing college education for veterans.
Dr. Elbel believes that the veterans are good people to work with; that they are cooperative and grateful, and that most of them have made the most of their opportunities. L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, says, "Our experience with the veterans has been very pleasing. They've done a swell job."
The freshman who looks like a fugitive from a Bill Maudlin cartoon is a rare sight on the campus today, for most of the veterans now
in school are upper classmen. Soon most of them will be gone.
What then? Is the veteran to disappear from Mt. Oread? Dr. Elbel believes that there will be some sort of re-enactment of the G.I. bill for the benefit of the veterans of the Korean fighting. Perhaps next fall the campus will see a new crop of B-15 jackets, combat boots, army OD's, and G.I. raincoats.
Reserve Unit Called Here
Five students and two faculty members will be recalled to active duty on Tuesday, May 1, with the first organized reserve unit to be called from Lawrence in the Korean war.
The unit is battery A of the 758th field artillery battalion. It was organized in Lawrence in June, 1947 and has been meeting weekly.
Capt. Francis H. Heller, assistant professor of political science, is commander of the unit. Others in the battalion are Lt. Harry W. Johnson, assistant professor of aeronautical engineering; Lt. William Adams, engineering senior; Pvt. Gerald L. Hall, engineering junior; Pvt. Stanley C. Harris, engineering sophomore; Sgt. William E. Koch, pharmacy sophomore; and Pvt. Morton T. Yeoman, fine arts sophomore.
The battalion has been meeting three times a week at the Community building since receiving activation notice. The destination of the group after May 1 has not been disclosed.
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X-Ray Technicians Meet Here Today
The Kansas society of X-Ray technicians is holding its state meeting and a refresher course today and Saturday at the University. A registration examination will also be part of the program to be attended by from 100 to 125 technicians.
All sessions will be in the Memorial building.
Schenk Wins Speech Contest
Eloise Schenk, education junior representing Foster hall, won first place in the women's division of the demonstrations speaking contest held Tuesday night.
Lorraine Mather, College sophomore, and Joann Barr, College senior, won second and third places respectively. Both speakers represented Alpha Omicron Pi sorority
Eight of the 15 contestants in the men's division were selected for contest finals Thursday night. They were: John Eulich, special student in business; John Riederer, College sophomore, and Dean Groger, College junior, all representing Phi Gamma Delta fraternity; William Van Almen, College sophomore, independent; Richard Grav, graduate independent; Charles Keith, College freshman, and David Platter, College sophomore, representing Phi Delta theta fraternity, and Gary Lehman, College freshman, Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
The tryouts for the women's contest became the finals as well, since the number of contestants was small enough to allow accurate final judging. William Conboy, instructor in speech and faculty director of the intramural series, said today.
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KU Men To Talk To Studies Group
Two professors and two students of the University will speak before the Kansas Council for Social Studies when it holds its annual spring meeting Saturday at KU.
Dr. Ethan Allen, director of the K.U. bureau of government research, will speak on material and methods for teaching government and citizenship. Prof. Roy Durham of Kansas State Teachers college Emporia, will speak on the same subject.
Dr. Leland J. Pritchard, professor of business, will discuss "Inflation."
of busness, will discuss, "Inflation.
Two foreign students, studying
education at K.U., will tell of so-
ful studies their homeland and
lead an answer-answer session as
during the afternoon. They are Hirohiko
Otsuka of Japan and Liza Maria
Peussa of Finland. Both are graduate
students.
Miss Ruth E. Lichen, instructor in education, is chairman of local arrangements.
Teachers of history, government, economics and related studies in junior and senior high schools and some college personnel will attend the meeting.
Nearly 700,000 World War II veterans entered training for the first time in 1950.
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