Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950 STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Expert On Southern Asia To Address Convocation
The current situation in southern Asia, considering the Communist victory in China, will be discussed by Phillips Talbot, one of the nation's outstanding experts on southern Asia, at 10 a.m. Friday in Fraser theater.
Mr. Talbot will address a joint convocation of the William Allen
Public Information, the department of political science, and the department of history. He will be introduced by Chancellor Deane W Malott. The public is invited.
As a member of the Chicago Daily News foreign service, Mr. Talbot has spent most of the time since 1938 in Asia. He recently returned to the United States after spending several months covering developments in Pakistan, India, Southeast Asia and the Far East.
At present, Mr. Talbot is a senior associate of the Institute of Current Affairs assisting assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
Phillips Talbot
Beach Memorial Trophy Awarded To 'Bud' French
Clarence "Bud" French, a four-letter half-back on the University football team received the first annual Ormand Beach memorial trophy Wednesday. Mrs. Beach gave the trophy to the University in the spring of 1949 in memory of her husband, one of K.U.'s all time great backs, who was killed in an accident in 1939.
Head football coach J. V. Sikes said the presentation is based on sportsmanship, leadership, and ability.
French's trophy is a replica of a permanent trophy given to the University of Kansas Athletic association by Mrs. Beach. Each recipient's name will be inscribed on the association's trophy.
Beach, rated by Mike Getto, assistant coach, as the greatest defensive pack he has ever seen, was captain of K.U.'s team of '33 which played Notre Dame to a scoreless deadlock. After that game Knute Rockne raised him as the greatest back he had ever seen.
A product of Pawhuska, Okla.
High school, Beach enrolled at the University after getting a look at the school while competing in the relays of that year. He competed in a special 16-pound shot-nut event.
E. H. "Red" Lupton, '16, was so impressed with Beach's performance that he gave him a watch inscribed with Beach's name and the event.
her her husband's death, Mrs.
gave the watch to Mr. Lup-
ton. The watch, along with the K.U. Notre Dame game football is now in the Phi Gamma Delta house, Beach's fraternity.
After his graduation, Beach worked for the Sarnia Imperial Oil company of Canada. Beach maintained his football reputation in Canada where he was rated as one of Canada's best in their brand of football by officials and coaches there. Beach was killed while inspecting a new installation of storage tanks when one of the tanks exploded.
Graduates Head Medical Society
Dr. Charles L. White of Great Bend, who graduated from the University School of Medicine in 1936, was today named head of the general practitioners' section of the Kansas Medical society, the United Press reported. The group met at Wichita.
Dr. Albert C. Harms of Kansas City, who graduated from the School of Medicine in 1938, was named vice-president of the society.
Newly elected vice-president of the eye, ear, nose and throat specialists of the society is Dr. Will D. Pitman of Pratt, who graduated from the School of Medicine in 1925.
—Kansan Photo by Ed Chapin
CHARLES "BUD" FRENCH receives the Ormand Beach memorial trophy from Mrs. Mike Getto. The award was established in 1949 by Mrs. Beach in memory of her husband, one of K.U.'s all time football greats. From left to right: E. C. "Ernie" Quigley, retiring K.U. athletic director, Bud French, Mrs. Getto, and head football coach J. V. Sikes.
Activities Group To Meet Tonight
A meeting of students interested in working for Student Union Activities on special projects durethe 1950-51 school year will be held at 7:2) p.m. today in the Palm room of the Union.
The reorganization of the activities organization and its special projects will be explained.
Any student who wishes to apply for chairman of one of the four committees — announcements, K-Union, secretarial, and entertainment—may do so at the meeting.
Scientists Win Research Prizes
For development of a unique microscope using ultra-violet rays to determine the amount of nucleic acids in cells, Gordon Wiseman, University graduate student, received $500 in the second annual contest of the Kansas division of the American Cancer society Tuesday, May 16.
Awards were made at Kansas State college in Manhattan where Sigma Xi, national scientific honorary society, was host. Second and third prizes in the contest awarded predoctoral students and two prizes given men with doctor of philosophy degrees went to University graduates and faculty.
Leon Berube, freshman in medicine, received the second pre-doctoral prize of $300. Third prize of $100 went to Robert C. Hiltibran, graduate student in bio-chemistry. The three winners were chosen from nine contestants.
Dr. Hisaku Yokoyama and Dr. William M. Harsha, both of the K.U. Medical center in Kansas City, were selected for the post-doctoral awards. Candidates must have received Ph.D degrees within the last five years. Research must have been done in Kansas by all contestants.
The "microspectrophotometer" completed, in 1949 by Wisman, is the first developed of its kind. Only two similar instruments, which measure nucleic acid amounts by the manner of light absorption in cells, exist. Wisman said. One is in Stockholm, Sweden, while another is nearing completion at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he explained. His microscope is being used in cell research in the Department of Oncology at the K.U. Medical center.
Berube, working under the $500 Barney Goodman scholarship for the project, plotted isodose curves. Used by radiologists in x-ray treatment of cancer, the charted curves determine the total dosage of x-ray to cancer tissues at any point below skin surface.
The study of cancer in bone in relation to radium deposited there was the basis of Hiltibran's research. Working under the Navy Research program, set up in February, 1847 with Hiltibran in Hiltibran's radium deposition in rats given kickets and metabolism of radium in bone.
Dr. Yokoyama's winning paper was "The Evaluation of Histochemical Techniques of Alkaline Phosphase". Dr. Harsha presented "The Evaluation of Quantitative Determination of Sulphybryl Groups in Cancerous and Non-Cancerous Serum."
KANSAS—Partly cloudy today, occasional thundershowers beginning late today and ending Friday noon. High today 85; low tonight 65; high Friday 75 to 80.
The American Cancer society aims to stimulate research through presentation of such awards.
THE WEATHER
Ellis Stouffer To Retire As Dean
Ellis B. Stouffer will retire as dean of the University Friday, June 30, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today. However, he will continue teaching courses in mathematics for five years.
—Kansan Photo By Hixon
Ellis B. Stouffer
Six Alumni To Get Citations
Six alumni of the University will receive the Alumni association's award for distinguished service, it was announced today by Henry A. Bubb of Topeka, president of the association.
The awards will be given at the University's annual commencement supper Sunday, June 4. Those present to receive awards will participate in a discussion of "the place of the University in the future" at the alumni meeting the same day.
Those chosen by a secret committee for the 1550 awards are:
Jerome Beatty, 1900, top free lance writer for magazine feature articles once a reporter on newspapers and publicity director for two film companies.
Frank L. Carson. '13, civic leader and chairman of the board of the First National bank of Wichita, native of Ashland, and a trustee of the Endowment association.
Paul J. Neff, '06, graduate degree in engineering in 1914, since 1946 president and chief executive officer for the Missouri Pacific railroad, St. Louis, Mo., and organizer of Missouri Pacific trailways.
Edward W. Tanner, '16, first graduate of the University department of architecture, and in part responsible for the Southwest residential district and the Plaza shopping center in Kansas City, Mo.
Justice Walter G. Thiele, '10, member of the Kansas Supreme court since 1933, previous Alumni association president and director, and president of the Kansas Judicial council.
Justice Hugo T. Wedell, '15 law
'20, president of the World War II
Memorial association and member of
the Supreme court for the past 14 years.
This year's election brings the citation number to 87 awarded since the plan was started in 1941.
Dr. Roy G. Hoskins, '05, will be present to receive the citation voted him several years ago. Posthumous presentations of the citation have been made to relatives of Solon E. Summerfield, Raymond Clapper, Theodore O. Alford, John M. Brentlinger, and Fredrick WoodK
No successor to Dean Stouffer has been named. Chancellor Malott pointed out that when Dean Stouffer was appointed in 1946, the post of dean of the University was being created for the emergency peak years "without necessarily implying that the office will be continued.
"In the retirement of Dean Stouffer as dean of the University I am suffering a loss in my own office organization which is a matter of serious regret to me personally," said Chancellor Malott. "His unfailing loyalty, his careful and judicial appraisal of every problem of administration, and his vast knowledge of the complex details of the University have made him an extremely valuable member of the administrative staff."
"In returning to the field of teaching and research in mathematics, however, he goes to an area of work in which he has long been distinguished in which he has kept up tirelessly through his administrative years."
Dean Stouffer came to the University in 1914 as an assistant professor of mathematics. He has been chairman of the budget committee since 1923 excepting a period in 1926-27 when he did research work in mathematics in Italy on a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. He became chairman when E. H. Lindley, late chancellor of the University, appointed him assistant to the chancellor.
From 1922 until his appointment as dean of the University, Dean Stouffer was dean of the Graduate school. He served as chairman of the mathematics department for five years starting in 1941.
He has done research papers on "Projective Differential Geometry," and "The Determinant Theory of Invariants." Dean Stoufler received his bachelor of science, master of science, and doctor of law degrees from the University of Illinois. Dr. Doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Illinois. Urbana.
A 16th century Shrovetide play by Hans Sachs and Scottish dances done in native costume were given at the annual German club picnic recently at Potter lake. Forty persons attended the picnic.
Dean Stouffer belongs to Sigma Xi, national honorary scientific research fraternity; Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity; and Gamma Alpha, graduate science fraternity.
Shrovetide Play Given At Picnic
Those participating in the play were: Esther Storer, College freshman; James Lovett, College sophomore; and Richard B'Collins, College junior. Collins and Sam F. Anderson, instructor in German, performed the highland fling and the Scottish sword dance in kilts.
Miss Marlies Kornfeld, assistant instructor in German, and Eugene Azure, education senior, led the group in square dances and German waltzes. Dr. John Newfield, director of the University of Kansas City Playhouse, and Mrs. Newfield, were guests of the club.
Veterans Asked To Wear Uniforms
All veterans and reservists are urged to wear their uniforms Saturday, Armed Forces day, Capt. W. R. Terrell, commanding officer of the University Naval R.O.T. unit, said today. Captain Terrell is project officer for Armed Forces day in this area.