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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1950
Earth Sciences At Home In Well Equipped Lindley
The department of geology at the University is equipped with the finest physical plant available. Lindley hall is especially designed for the earth sciences.
Members of the geology staff have done much to improve their program. They are directly responsible for a new seismograph now receiving finishing touches and their field trips have done much to improve practical knowledge of geological structures.
A new award is now given to outstanding geologists and the department maintains museums and an extensive library, thus giving students as well as professionals a constant source of reference material.
The geology field camp is actually a part of the University campus although it is located 13 miles north of Canon City, Colo. Six modern
used in conjunction with other seismological stations to compile a comprehensive map of earthquake activity.
cottages are maintained there to house male students who enroll in the five-week course. Last summer two sessions were required to handle the 70 men who took part.
The field camp is designed to give geology majors practical experience in the field which constitutes a major part of every geologists' life. Students study various earth formations and collect specimens of rocks and minerals for further study when they return to Lawrence.
The department has installed a seismograph which is undergoing final adjustments. The machine, located on the first floor of Lindley hall, is designed to pick up and record earth tremors. It will be
An alumni news-letter is to be mailed sometime during January to more than 500 geology alumni, many of whom are prominent in professional geology work.
The department has recently added the Erasmus Haworth memorial award, given annually to the outstanding senior, graduate, and alumnus of the geology department. The Haworth award is named after an outstanding geologist who graduated from the University and pioneered new developments in Kansas geology. A large plaque is located in the north hall of the third floor of Lindley hall. The name of each person who receives the award is
engraved on an individual nameplate which is placed on the plaque.
The hall display cases in Lindley hall designed by the geology department, contain many features of geologic interest, including maps, polished agates, various fossils, and other geological specimens.
The department of geology offers three undergraduate curricula as well as extensive graduate training leading to the master's degree and to the doctorate. On the undergraduate level, curricula can be followed leading to the bachelor of arts, bachelor of science in geology, and bachelor of science in geological engineering.
A geology library operated by full-time, trained librarians is located in Lindley hall. There is a collection of more than 25,000 bound and unbound volumes on geology
and related subjects. The library has a large, well-lighted reading room, shelves for current journals, and several map repositories.
The University of Kansas paleontological museum in Lindley hall includes thousands of specimens of invertebrates collected during the past fifty years. There are also large numbers of vertebrate specimens stored and on exhibition in the museum of natural history. The mineralogical museum includes a large collection of minerals, rocks, and ores from selected localities throughout the world.
The University of Kansas department of geology is rated as one of the top schools of its kind in the world. It has ten permanent staff members, including experts in almost every major field of geological endeavor.
One-World Santa Claus Proposed For Children
Hollywood (U.P.)—Personnel executive John Dumbrille thinks the United Nations and the Crusade for Freedom are concentrating too hard on adults—and forgetting about the children of the world.
"Why not send a Santa Claus around the world even behind the Iron curtain?" he suggests.
"Let Santa go from country to country carrying Christmas joy and the good wishes of American's children to the children of the world," said Dumbrille, a family man. "If we adults can't unite this world, maybe the kids can.
"It would be a great thing if Joe Stalin would let down the bars to allow a Santa Claus from America into Russia. If Stalin refused—boy, what a heel he'd be! He'd be booed all over the world as the man who turned back a Santa Claus."
Dumbrule said he'd had his idea for a one-world Santa Claus for more than a year. He reports that while the venture will cost very little, he can't seem to find anybody interested enough in Santa Claus to sponsor the trip.
"Everybody tells me: 'Wow! What a swell idea!' but they don't do anything about it. I can afford it personally or I'd pay his way myself."
"You'd think it would be easy to send Santa Claus around the world. But there's so much red tape in the world it's almost impossible; you have to have the backing of some organizations like the United Nations, Crusade for Freedom or CARE.
"But they're afraid Santa Claus might say something that would make propaganda for the Communists.
"I say Santa doesn't have to say
Actor Likes US Beauties
Hollywood—(U.P.)-Walter Pidgeon tangled with a British strip-teaser todav—6.000 miles away.
The pride of MGM just got nome from a year in London, he said, and just heard those stories from England about British girls being better built than American beauties.
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The lady who ruffled Pidgone's feathers was one Wanda Alpar, a London chorus girl who says she has a beautiful complexion all over and poses with nothing on in the "Folies Bergeres" to prove it.
"That," the romantic grandpa declared, "is absolutely asinine."
"Why, if they just stood on stage, absolutely immobile like we do, the customers would begin yawning.
"Who wants to waste time looking with only American girls in focus?"
Well, for one, Pidgeon said, he would!
"I just heard about this," he growled. "But I am something of an expert on the problem. Generally speaking, British girls are not as beautiful as American girls. No country in the world produces women who can compare with those in the United States."
anything. All he has to do is laugh and bounce the kids on his knee and hand them a pamphlet in their own language telling them what it's all about.
"He'll get all their names and addresses too. Then when he comes back he'll give one name to each American child, and the boy or girl here will write and send presents to the child overseas. The real spirit of Christmas is giving, not receiving."
Dumbrille said such an American envoy of peace and goodwill would dress and look just like the jovial character of myth-fat, red suit, white beard and hair and all ex-armor of his apparel and no time to conform to the different Santa Claus traditions of the various countries.
He wouldn't travel by reindeer, of course, but by airline. Dumbrille, who admits he's too short and slender for the job, has his Santa all picked out and ready to go—a fat, jolly professor from U.C.L.A. The professor who speaks five languages, doesn't want his name mentioned.
"We ought to do the itselves before Stalin gets the idea and sends one out of Siberia to make propaganda over," Dumbrille said.
Chester E. Bullinger, head of the book-binding department of University libraries, estimates that 2,000 volumes pass through his hands each year for repair. He works with two assistants in the sub-basement of Watson library.
Photographic Bureau: Bob Rose
Mr. Bullinger has been a bookbinder for 28 years. He has been at the University for three years.
Much of the binding consists of sets of magazines and newspapers which are bound for the library's permanent files.
BEAT NEBRASKA
Extension Is Recognized As 'Best' By Many Experts
One of the outstanding branches of the University of Kansas and one that is recognized by many authorities as the best of its kind in the country is the University Extension service.
Extension classes were first started at the University in 1891 but the Extension division was not formed until 1909 when Richard Price was appointed its director. Mr. Price was here four years and then went to the University of Minnesota where he organized an extension service.
In 1947 the name was changed to the University Extension service and a dean was placed in charge. A director had always been in charge of it before.
The present dean, Frank Stockton, was appointed when the name was changed in 1947. He has at one time or another been dean of three different schools. Before coming to K.U., he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of South Dakota and then in 1924 became the dean of the University of Kansas School of Business.
The Extension service is divided into seven departments. They are: extension classes, correspondence
KU Medical School Ranks High
By LEE SHEPPEARD
Since its organization in 1899, the University of Kansas School of Medicine has grown into a leader among medical schools.
Franklin D. Murphy, dean of the School of Medicine since 1948, has stated the responsibilities of the school and the Medical Center: "Education, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels; research; excellence of patient care; leadership and participation in programs designed to improve the general health of our people."
Dean Murphy is author of the widely known "Kansas Plan" for the extension of more adequate medical facilities to rural areas. He is vice-president of the American Association of Medical colleges and was chosen by the United States Chamber of Commerce as one of the nation's ten outstanding men in 1949.
Until 1905 the School of Medicine offered only the first two years of medical instruction. Then the Kansas City Medical college, the Medicochirurgical college, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons were merged into the last two years of a four-year medical course under the direction of the University of Kansas.
The nurses' home was completed in 1928, and a ward building opened in 1929. Seven buildings have been added since 1934: a warehouse, Hixon laboratory for medical research, a children's pavilion, a clinic, a connecting corridor with x-ray quarters, and a 50-bed Negro hospital unit.
In 1948 the Kansas legislature appropriated $3,862,000 for an expansion program which, when completed, will almost double the physical plant of the school. To this has been added $660,000 of federal funds. The result, by 1953, will be a 651-bed hospital.
The present site of the medical school on Rainbow boulevard in Kansas City, Kan., was obtained in 1920. In 1924 the first unit of the hospital and medical plant was completed and occupied.
The appropriation included $477,-000 for the construction of two additional floors on Eaton hospital and the outpatient clinic. This work has been completed.
Two four-floor buildings, each 60 by 100 feet, are to be constructed. The basic science building, housing the departments of pathology and malacology will cost $754,760. A service building, a lodge which will also provide housing for interns and residents, will cost $812,000.
Construction has begun on a $40,-
000 research building, to be leased by the United States Public Health service, and on a $432,000 women's residence hall. This hall, which is to house nurses, students, interns,
and residents, will double the capacity of the present nurses' home.
Also planned are two $491,000 hospitals, each holding 100 beds. One will be for the study of tuberculosis and other chest diseases, the other a neuropsychiatric clinic.
The amount of research in the school has been tripled in the last two years. At present 51 research projects are being carried on by staff members. The United States Public
Most students do not begin studying medicine until they have their A.B. or B.S. degree in the college. At present, medical students spend one and one-half years on the K.U. campus and two and one-half years in Kansas City. At the Medical center much of the work is done at the bedside where students may observe methods of diagnosis and treatment.
Health service has allocated $200,000 for cancer research, and a $25,000 electron microscope, contributed by the Damon Runyon cancer fund, was installed last December.
Approximately 150 student nurses are working for degrees, granted by the School of Medicine under a new system begun last year. Student nurses may now spend two years in college studying a general academic program before entering the department of nursing.
The school's preceptorship program, in which each student spends one quarter of the school year with a practicing doctor in a small Kansas town, started last March. The program attracted nationwide attention, and Look magazine carried an article on it in August.
The School of Medicine has been selected to cooperate with the Oak Ridge institute for Nuclear studies. Doctors of the school who are taking graduate or post-graduate training can study the application of atomic energy to medicine at the institute.
Last year the University of Kansas School of Medicine became the first in this country to regularly employ television in medical teaching. The image is piped by coaxial cable from the surgical amphitheater to the clinic auditorium, where several hundred observers see a close-up of the operative field projected onto a 5 by 7 foot screen.
study, extension program of medicine, visual instruction, lecture and concert artists' division, extension library, and radio station, KFKU.
The extension classes have a wide coverage throughout the state with principal concentration in Wichita, Topeka, Kansas City, and Leavenworth. Most of these off-campus courses are non-credit and are for adults with special interests.
There are a wide range of classes offered including subjects for bankers, lawyers, pharmacists, court reporters, insurance men, highway fleet operators, and health educators to name a few.
The correspondence study of the Extension service ranks among the top 10 in the country. The enrollment in the service is anywhere from 2,000 to 2,500 students. This branch of the Extension is largely composed of credit courses and is headed by Miss Ruth Kenny, who has held the position since 1927.
The medical program of the Extension service is one of the outstanding ones in the country. It was started in 1927 by Harold Ingham who was at that time director of the extension division. It reaches more than 1,000 doctors, nurses, and technicians a year through circuit courses and short study programs.
The department of visual instruction has one of the largest film libraries in this region. Every year almost two million people view films that are distributed by this department. One of the major services of the visual instruction department is supplying educational films here at the University.
The lecture and concert division of the Extension service provides programs for schools, clubs, and other organizations throughout the state. About 2,600 programs are supplied each year. This is one of three such departments operated by state universities over the entire country.
The Extension library supplies book loans, art prints, and other material to borrowers who want material for lectures, reports, or programs. Almost every country in the state is reached by this department.
KFKU is on the air one hour a week and provides three major types of programs: school programs, general programs, and music.
In one form or another the University Extension service reaches over three million people a year. The reception throughout the state to the various functions of the service has been very encouraging. Through the Extension service, the University has grown to the point where it is a statewide school.
Its Been A Long, Long Time
Leavenworth (U.P.)—Apparently the owner wasn't coming back, so a North Leavenworth resident called police to report a 1934 model car parked near his home. Asked how long the vehicle had been left on the street, he replied: "Oh, about two and a half years."