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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY SEPT. 28,1949
Four Students Get Medical Awards In KC
Four students in the University School of Medicine have been awarded prizes and scholarships for outstanding work in medical studies, Franklin D. Murphy, dean of the School of Medicine, announced today. The four are enrolled at the K.U. Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
The Porter scholarship of $300 was awarded to Robert C. Fairchild. He is the senior with the highest class standing for his first three years in medical school.
Alexander C. Mitchell, Medicine senior, will receive the A. Morris Ginsberg prize in medicine of $100. This prize is for the student with the best record in courses given by the department of medicine.
As the senior student who made the greatest improvement during his junior year, Theodore Batchelder, will receive the $100 L. L. Marcell prize.
Robert L. Brenner, Jr., is the winner of the $100 Charles T. Thompson prize. He is the junior who made the greatest improvement during his sophomore year.
The K. U. Endowment association is the custodian of funds for these awdrs and will forward the prizes to the winners.
Former Student Killed In Crash
Lt. Robert Black, 26-year-old brother of former University basket-ball star Charlie Black, and former K.U. student, was killed Monday night near Talihina, Okla., in a plane crash which took 13 lives.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Black. 1709 Louisiana street, and brother of James Black, engineering junior. He is survived by his wife, the former Betty June Craig, '45, and two sons, Michael, 3, and Robert Brooks, Jr., 16 months.
After graduating from Liberty Memorial High school in 1945, Mr Black attended K.U. from 1945 through the summer of 1947.
He was piloting a B-29 Super-bomber on a non-stop navigational training flight from Smoky Hill air base, Salina.
President And Adviser Elected For Sour Owl
Richard Barton, journalism senior,
were elected editor, and Charles
G. Pearson, instructor in journalism,
was re-elected adviser of the Sour
Owl, campus humor magazine,
Tuesday. A business manager will
be chosen this week.
The magazine is published by Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity.
Fred S. Montgomery, assistant professor of education and director of bureau of visual instruction, uses 60 pairs of dolls representing the dress of different countries to make visual education more vivid. Professor Montgomery is shown holding the two dolls representing Yugoslavia. The dolls are 12 inches tall.
An American colonial room furnished in the style of the 17th century, used by the visual instruction department to instruct teachers and students.
Business Seniors Get Job Prospects
Job prospects for mid-term School of Business graduates are not known, but the business placement bureau has had many requests from companies for interviews with graduating seniors, Frank S. Pinet, director of the bureau, said today.
Fields in which job offers come include sales, accounting, production, finance, personnel, and industrial management.
Business school seniors who are to be graduated in January will meet in Strong auditorium 3 p.m. Friday to hear Mr. Pineit and Keith Weltmer, assistant director of the bureau, explain the functions of the bureau and answer questions concerning it. Business seniors interested in making use of the bureau will be given a chance to register.
Companies will begin interviews with graduating seniors around Saturday, Oct. 15. Last spring about 10 per cent of the business school graduates obtained their jobs through the bureau.
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Students Urged To Fill Out Cards
Joseph Wilson, University business manager, urges all students to fill out rent survey cards. This pertains particularly to students who have had a substantial rent increase recently. Cards are available in the offices of the dean of men, dean of women, business manager, and Veteran's administration.
Dolls, Ships, Children Aid In Visual Education
Sixty pairs of dolls, five scale model ships, and three children of his own give Fred S. Montgomery, assistant professor of education, and director of bureau of visual instruction, plenty of chances to try out new ideas in visual education.
The 120 dolls are dressed in traditional costumes of the country they represent. Standing in pairs
The 120 dolls are dressed in to they represent. Standing in pairs about 12 inches high, the dolls faithfully portray dress of both sexes of the country lettered on a platform base.
Professor Montgomery, a teacher for 25 years and quite sure that he has the most interesting job in the world, uses the small army of dolls to instruct education students and teachers. So helpful have the dolls become for instructing purposes, that now Professor Montgomery regards them with a special fondness almost as if they were his children.
The hand-made dolls were paints-takingly carved, painted, and dressed by artists under the W.P.A. and N.Y.A. programs between the years 1936 and 1939. They are complete in detail to facial expression and racial characteristics. Similar pairs of dolls sell for as much as $50.
The "Mayflower" and an Egyptian galley ship with oars make up the flotilla anchored in Fraser hall about 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean.
A model of the Viking war boat "Thor" is lined on each side with rows of tiny shields and has a canvas canopy to protect its captain from the sun. An unusual figurehead juts out from the bow to cast fear into the hearts of Viking enemies.
Four scale model ships are used to instruct land-locked Kansan children in the lore of the sea. Largest of the fleet is the completely rigged whaling ship "Wanderer." She measures about 28 inches from bow to stern and her mast is 18 inches high.
Columbus' flagship, "Santa Maria," is duplicated and is usually exhibited with a motion picture showing the building of a full size "Santa Maria."
Other aids in the visual instruction program include a colonial room with furniture and fireplace. A bird cage hangs near the window and clay dishes fill the cupboard. The room represents colonial America in the 17th century.
A replica of Mount Vernon and a hand loom, common in America 100
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years ago, shows the differences in dwellings and occupations of the past. A model of the first reaper, scaled an inch to the foot and guaranteed to excite the interest of any boy between 4 and 80 years of age, has tiny gears and chains that turn in the same manner as the original.
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Professor Montgomery believes that visual instruction is the most effective method of teaching children.
"Over 50 per cent of what we learn, we learn visually as children through sensory perception," he declared. "Teachers try to bring the abstract into the classroom too soon."
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"We send educational films to schools in 39 states." Professor Montgomery stated. "We have diaramas, displays and other material in 300 Kansas schools."
Professor Montgomery has three children: Susan, 15, Sally, 10, and Andrew, 7, When a new idea for visual instruction comes up, it is usually tried out on one of them. The new spelling program was tested in Sally's classroom. The method was so successful that it has been widely adopted.
Quietly and effectively, Professor Montgomery and his staff are bringing important aids to Kansas schools for the betterment of education.
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