951 FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1951 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS PAGE FIVE Alumni Association Keeps Records Of Over 75,000 Former Students Bv DOROTHY OGLESBEE Have any questions? Then ask the alumni office. They have records on everybody. One of those little cards you fill out at enrollment goes to them, and they keep track of you until you die. Beside you, and you, and you, they have records on 75,000 University alumni and former students. Their records include up-to-date addresses for 33,000 former Jaywalkers, folders of biographies, news clippings, and photographs. During World War II the association kept records on University men in the service. A "gold star file" contains pictures and biographical material about 276 University men killed in World War II. There are files for three men who have died in the Korean war. A collection of books written by university alumni and former students is beginning to overflow the large bookcase in which they have been kept. Record keeping is just a small part of the work of the Alumni association office staff. Nine times a year they publish the University of Kansas Alumni magazine. Public Misunderstands Modern Art, Prof. Says Membership dues includes a subscription to this magazine. Annual dues are $4, and a life membership may be purchased for $60. The machine age is causing much confusion over the meaning of modern art, Gerald Davis, assistant professor of architecture, believes. The office answers numerous requests each year for information Professor Davis, whose painting Line-Form-Space-Color" is in a month exhibition in the Newark, N. J. Art museum, says that the modern plastic arts are not truly understood by the public. The Alumni association was incorporated in 1908, and is governed by a board of 10 directors and the officers. The largest and most recent undertaking of the Alumni association funds to build the memorial campain will be dedicated Sunday, May 27. Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the Alumni association, is appointed by the board of directors. Dolph Simons, publisher of the Lawrence Journal-World, is the assistant director of 1950-51. Miss Midred Cloftefer and Marvin Small are assistant secretaries of the association. "It is the spirit in art which gives beauty," insists the painter. "Painting should be based on the idea instead of representation." By this is meant painting based on the inner urge of the artist rather than a scene in nature or a model, said. "There is much confusion today on plastic arts," he contends. Its meaning seems lost. Doubt of its sincerity drives the public to run the so-called modern movement." Professor Davis, who decorates his office with examples of his artistic theories, has been an advocate of the modern movement since its earlier visit to France. He attended the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris and the Academy Julian, and as exhibited in many Parisian alums. He does not restrict his efforts to modern works alone. He has drawn scenes in nature, landscapes and portraits. Art is as natural as a tree he believes. "The public does not know where you look, however." he says. "Mechanization in our machine age may be the reason for all the confusion. The soul of man counteracts his search or freedom. The machine itself is a product of man's intelligence. Man directs it—its aim is man's material welfare." During the war Professor Davis, along with other young artists, opened a gallery in Newark to further their cause. After two years the enterprise dissolved and the partners split. Professor Davis became a member of the architecture department. Teaching architecture, he explains, has been an aid in developing his artistic efforts. He accents with vehemence the freedom which is necessary in art, but insists that this freedom is distinct from the typical meaning of the word. The artist should seek true freedom, he believes. "Invention, individuality, freedom is the artist's soul today," he says. "This does not mean that it has more to say today than in the past. The mode of life is different. There is no school or great master as in the past. The artist and the public have a more difficult time today. But if they are alert, they will find what the are looking for—true freedom." Here's One Chef's Recipe For Hubby's Breakfast Egq London—(U,P)—How long should you boil a soft-boiled egg? "Weigh the egg, find out its width from a slide rule, work out the cubic root, multiply by one and three fourths, add one, and you have the answer in minutes." This is the formula given British housewives by a London television chef. Doctors Hope New Blood Will Save Boy Who Has Bled For Two Weeks Houston, Texas U.P.P.—A new, experimental blood derivative may save the life of Wayne Gideon, 7, who has been bleeding for two weeks, doctors said today. Anthemophilic globulin, flown here from St. Louis, was injected into the boy Saturday, and the family physician said the boy's wound汁 bleeding at noon yesterday. Wayne punctured his throat two weeks ago when he fell while carry-ing a stick in his mouth. The wound closed by itself several times, but each time re-opened within a few hours. and hemorrhaged Saturday it closed again Sunday after he was given a 33rd transfusion. The boys physician said he received a call from "a Boston specialist" who has been using a drug called Fibrinogen, one of the components of clotted blood. Wayne's concerning alumni and former students. Doctors said the globulin has been known to stop bleeders, but that Wayne has not definitely been diagnosed as a hemophile, though he does have a rare aliment that presents his blood from coagulating. However, attendants said last night they would hold up on the Boston offer to see if their experimental blood derivative worked. doctor said the specialist wanted Wayne flown to Boston for a treatment, but the boy was too weak. Attendantsa said an adequate supply of the globulin was on hand and further injections would be administered if the bleeding started again. When a fire destroyed the Acacia fraternity house recently the fraternity compiled new records from the Alumni association files. A short time ago Miss Clodfelter was surprised to receive a call from the Ralph Edwards' Truth or Consequences radio show. Mr. Edwards was trying to trace a man who had been separated from his sister for 50 years. She was able to give Mr. Edwards the name of a relative of the man, who was a graduate of the University. The requests are not always so unusual, but all are faithfully filled, even a request for Jayhawk decals to put on an alumnus' new station wagon. Troops In Korea To Rotate Soon Washington (U.P.)—Army secretary Frank Pace, Jr., announced plans today to rotate army combat personnel in Korea starting about the middle of this month. Preference normally will be given to those who have served longest in the front lines, the secretary said. The plan will be started on a comparatively small basis and will be accelerated gradually until it reaches about 20,000 individuals a month. He said it is planned to return as many individuals as possible directly to the United States in the first rotation. Later some of the men may be assigned temporarily to garrison duty in Japan or elsewhere in the Far East command before being returned to the United States. Pace thought this level can be reached by early summer. But he added that it will depend not only on the arrival of replacements from the United States in Korea but on the intensity of the fighting. Returning personnel will dock either at Seattle or San Francisco, Pace said. All will be given a chance to go on leave before reporting for their next assignment. A process of "admission to the bar" for architects, similar to that for lawyers, should be established, Prof. Paul Weigel, head of the department of architecture at Kansas State college, told members of Tau Sigma Delta, honorary architecture fraternity, Tuesday. Architects Initiate 3 Professor Weigel spoke at the initiation dinner of the fraternity. Fifty persons were present, including 20 members of the Kansas State chapter. Some standard for professional practice after graduation should be set up, Professor Weigel urged. He pointed out that graduates are not often fully qualified for professional work right after graduation. Theodore Arensberg, engineering junior, and Dudley Wallace Benton and Richard Jordison, graduate students, are the new initiates. Read The Daily Kansan Daily Air Line and Steamship Reservations all over the World. - All Lines - Exclusively Travel - Not a side line. 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