21, 1947
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Here's News Of Alumni From All Over The World
University of Kansas alumni from the Philippines to Germany and from New Jersey to California are carving out careers ranging from Broadway playwright to corporation president.
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the alumni association has reported news of 35 of the graduates to the University Daily Kansan.
Margaret Eberhart Shanklin, has published recently, "The Use of Native Craft Materials," a book explaining the making of objects from Kansas clay, rushes, cattails, grasses, corn husks, and wheat straw. Miss Marjorie Whitney, of the University department of design, has endorsed it as a simple, complete, and well written book for the amateur.
Werner Bruckmann, former German exchange student, has been appointed presiding judge of the Civil division of the Hamburg, Germany, higher court.
Juan Napkii, '22, first president of the Philippine Institute of Architecture, and chairman of the board of examiners for architecture, has recently visited the University as a member of a Filippino planning board studying American architecture.
Robert B. McKay, '40, has been awarded the Ambrose Cherim prize for his international law paper, "Security Functions of the U.S." Harvard University made the award.
Reginald Brack, '35, has recently been appointed traffic and sales manager of Braniff airlines. He went to Branifu in 1944 as a district traffic manager in Kansas City.
Karl Kuersteiner, University associate professor of fine arts from 1925 to 1944 is now the dean of the School of Fine Arts at Florida State university.
J. C. Nichols, '02, Kansas City realtor, has recently developed the Country Club district. The area, housing 50,000 persons in $10,000 to $250,000 homes, has a Spanish type shopping center. Mr. Nichols' work has been a model for planning in many cities.
The first Negro to receive a Ph.D. degree from the Jullaird School of Music in New York is a University alumnus. He is Lorenzo Fuller, '41. bass-baritone currently starring in the Broadway production, "Finian's Rainbow."
John W. Berkebile, '34, has bought a half interest in the Wellington News. Mr. Berkebile has worked on the Pratt Tribune and was with the Chanute Tribune five years.
Joseph Taggart, former Business school professor, has joined the School of Business Administration at Rutgers university. Newark. N.J.
Donald R. Welty, a student in 1943, is managing editor of the Temple City. (Calif.) Time and News.
Pluto, the last planet discovered, was found and named in collaboration with other scientists by a University graduate, Clyde Tombaugh, 39. Mr. Tombaugh was an assistant at Lowell observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., when he discovered the new planet in 1920.
J. R. Shipley, '39, has been appointed chief engineer of the Sohic Pipeline company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil company of Ohio.
Brock Pemberton, '08, who has been producing and starring in the Broadway production "Harvey" since 1944, has received the following comment from Ward Morehouse, noted New York critic:
"Pemberton, as the rabbit-loving Elwood P. Dowd, is surprisingly effective. I'll be amazed if the summer of 1948 doesn't find him guest-starring in the vicinity of New York."
Ross Miller. '35, was appointed
A good imagination may not you a first or second prize during the Union Activities contest. "What Does a Jayhawk Sound Like to You?" at the close of the Hullabaloo variety show 10:40 am. Saturday.
Earn $15 Making Noise Like J-Hawk
city manager of Berkeley, Calif. recently, even though he was not an applicant for the position.
Mrs. Martha B. Hallowell, K.U.'s oldest living alumnus who was graduated in 1875, has been located by a circular sent from the Memorial association. She is living in Oakland, Calif.
Irene Tuebner Puell, '34, and her husband, Hainz Werner Puell, German exchange student in '34 and '35, know the realities of post war German conditions.
A faculty committee will judge the contestants and present the $15 first prize cash award and $5 second prize credit card award, good at the Union fountain, for the most original Jayhawk cry.
Mr. Puell is a Russian prisoner of war and Mrs. Puell, who lives in Augsburg, Germany, has to provide for her four sons. They are 12 year-old twins and two other boys, 8 and 5 years old.
Paul Aiken, '29, replaced Gael Sullivan as second assistant postmaster general recently. Mr. Aiken has served in a number of government positions prior to his appointment to this office.
Dean Sims, '45, has been named editor-in-chief of Electrified Farming magazine. The monthly publication, which is published for the rural electrical consumers in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois, made its debut Oct. 1.
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Kiesow Attends Meeting Of Hospital Association
Mrs. Orpha Kiesow, secretary to the director of the student health service, attended the Kansas Hospital association meeting in Wichita Thursday.
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