SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXI
Col. Washington Will Command Army Program
The Army Specialized Training Program (A.S.T.P.) at the University will be under the command of Col. William C. Washington, Professor of military science and tactics. Other army officers for the army unit of 700 men who will begin study at the University on August 9 have not been announced. Colonel Washington is the commanding officer of all army units or branches at the University.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1943
NUMBER 10
The basic engineering I curriculum (BE-1) to be given here is the first part of the Army Specialized Training Program, stated Raymond Nichols. University executive secretary. After the three 12-week quarters at the University of Kansas, the soldiers will be sent to an institution offering advanced army engineering training. The University of Missouri offers this type of program.
The A-12 tests given in high schools this spring were used to select the men for this program; however some will come from other training programs. It is expected
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Ten Complete Course For Math Certificate
The "refresher" course for teachers who wish to qualify for an emergency teaching certificate in elementary schools will not be repeated, according to officials of the School of Education. The second four weeks course was scheduled to begin this week but enrollment was so small the course was canceled.
"Ten finished the first four weeks refresher" course this week and will be granted an emergency teaching certificate by the State Department of Education, according to records in the office of the School of Education.
Those finishing the June 14 to July 9 course are Mrs. Vesta L. Bahnmaier, Lecompton; Mary Murtry Dews, Lawrence; Geneva McFarland, Lawrence; Edna Elizabeth Meither, Bethel; Mable F. Mieder, Eudora; Emma Luetta Petfish, Lawrence; Helen Louise Summers, Wathena; Myrtle Mae Wiglesworth, Lawrence; H. Faye Wright, Lawrence; and Sophie G. Younglove, Wathena.
Teachers who enrolled July 12,
this week, for the "refresher" course
to renew the emergency certificate
issued last year were Mrs. Elsie
Babcock, Tonganoxie; Leon Monroe
Bain, Oskaloosa; Alma Mathilda
Carlson, Frankfort; Marie Ellen
Class, Virgil; Eva Clare Grinter,
Perry; Elsie Forest Hall, Tongan-
oxie; Maye Heywood, Tongan-
oxie; Mrs. Lillian Hill, Lawrence;
Mrs. Clara Nelson, Ottawa; Lillie
Puckett, Lawrence; and Muriel Evelyn
Railsback, Langdon; and Esther
W. Dick, Perry.
Freshmen, Sophs To See Advisers
Freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and sciences are expected to see their advisers next week to obtain a report of their progress this semester. Names of those students enrolled as freshmen and sophomores are posted with their respective advisers opposite the College office on a bulletin board.
The advising period begins Monday, July 19, and continues until Wednesday, July 21. Office hours of the faculty advisers are listed on the bulletin board.
Almost 100 more registrations are needed by the Red Cross for blood donations for processing blood plasma, the Red Cross office statel Wednesday. So far, 356 persons have offered to contribute, but the goal of the Red Cross mobile unit is 440 pints.
Red Cross Needs Blood Registrants
Any person between the ages of 21 and 60 may register now to donate blood by phoning or calling at the Red Cross office at the Community building. The office is open from 9 to 12 am, and from 1:30 to 5 pm. The telephone is City-640.
Persons between 17 and 21 years of age may register with a written parental permit. Printed forms for these persons may be had at the Red Cross office in the Community building.
The Red Cross mobile unit will collect the donations July 19 and 20.
V-12 Staff Is Adjusting To Our Heat
Lt. Fitzhugh, of Maryland, is Lt.
Mickleman's assistant. He was for-
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Varied is the word to best describe the navy officers stationed recently on the Hill to direct the V-12 program. Differing in backgrounds and interests, they are now busy adjusting themselves to Kansas, particularly the weather.
Lt. Mickelman was born and reared in central Illinois. He obtained his B.A. degree from Illinois Wesleyan, his M.A. degree from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern. His only previous knowledge of Kansas came from seeing western Kansas during the drought of '36. He thinks what he is seeing now is quite an improvement and that the campus here is very beautiful. If he should ever have some spare time, Lt. Mickleman would like to spend it playing golf and bridge.
Lt. Mickleman, assistant commanding officer of the V-12 program, was formerly in business and industrial personnel work in Illinois and Michigan. His position immediately before joining the navy was state superintendent of student personnel work in Illinois.
Australia To Be Subject of Talk In Fraser
"Australia Now," a combined motion picture and lecture program, will be given in Fraser theater at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening by Mrs. Aloha Baker, according to a statement by Raymond Nichols, University executive secretary, yesterday afternoon.
In the lecture and picture, Mrs Baker strives to present a comprehensive picture of the nation "down under." It is a composite picture that continent, its people, its agriculture, and its war effort. It has been produced with an idea of giving Americans a background for better understanding of news from that area.
An American, Mrs. Baker has traveled and lived in 85 countries, and speaks six languages.
In the lecture, Australia is presented, not as a great and barren desert, but as the greatest industrial nation south of the equator. Australia is the world's fourth largest wheat producing country, has rich hardwood forests, many gold mines, valuable dairy and cattle industries, and also contains many interesting and picturesque animals, some of which are shown in the motion picture which accompanies the lecture
Shown also will be Australia's infant aircraft industry, her women in the war, the country's heavy industries producing munitions of war, and Australia's army, which has fought on nearly every front from Java and Singapore and Malaya to Crete and Greece and North Africa.
ASC Transacts Minor Business
The All-Student Council heard the first reading of the Bill on Committees, seated one new member and hear various committee reports at its meeting last Tuesday evening in the Pine room of the Memorial Union Building.
R. J. Atkinson, engineering senior, was installed as Council representative from the Fachacamac party, replacing Harlan Cope.
The new bill was introduced by Clarence Engel, president of the ASC, and will be read for the second time and discussed at the next regular meeting.
Friends and former associates of Philo H. Leibbrand, former chief engineer at the University power plant, received news last week that he had been advanced to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the army.
Leibbrand Promoted Was Chief Engineer At Power Plant
Some of his former co-workers expressed no surprise at his advancement and stated that they
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Herbie Price to Play For ISA Dance
The dance being sponsored by the Independent Student Association in the main lounge of the Union building Saturday night will be one of the highlights of the organization's summer session activities. Students attending will dance to the music of Herbie Price and his 11-piece band.
The dance was originally planned for Friday, but it was postponed until Saturday night in order that the V-12 members might attend.
ISA members will be admitted by their membership cards. The admission for non-members will be 50 cents, with or without dates.
Faculty Concert Monday In Fraser
The final faculty concert of the eight weeks summer session will be given at 8 o'clock Monday evening, July 19, in Fraser Theater, Assisting members of the Fine Arts music faculty will be Miss Frances Robinson of the faculty of the San Jose State College of San Jose, California.
Miss Robinson is a brilliant violinist, according to D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts, and has both her B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of Kansas. She will appear with Professor Waldemar Geltch in a performance of the last two movements of the Bach Concerto for two violins.
Faculty members who will take part in the recital include Allie Merle Conger, piano; Waldemar Geltch, violin; Meribah Moore, soprano; Irene Abeady, mezzo-soprano; and Joseph Wilkins, tenor; and Ruth Orcutt will be the accompanist.
Lindley Hall To Serve NewPurpose
By Paula Reeve
Lindley hall, the new mineral industries building at the southwest end of the campus, was originally intended to provide research laboratories and classrooms for engineering students, but for the duration at least, it will be deserving a more vital purpose—that of housing the army engineers who are to come to the University in August
Since Oct. 12, 1940, when Oscar S. Stauffer, president of the Alumni association, suggested the need for a mineral industries building on the campus, the campaigning for and actual construction of the building has been a slow but gradual process.
At that time, the value of minerals produced annually in Kansas exceeded $150,000,000, and there were two important reasons for the construction of such a building; first, the need to centralize the University services adapted to the industrial development of the state and second, the necessity of pro (continued to page four)
WEC Sets Final Week Closing Hours
Closing hours for all women students during final week will be 11 o'clock on evenings preceding final examinations, according to a decision made by the women's executive committee of the All-Student Council at a meeting Monday at 7 p.m. in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
Doris Bixby, secretary of the AS-CWEC, gave a report of the house rules committee which were sent out to housemothers and town girls regarding the new University closing hours.
"Women in the 16 week semester must also observe these 11 o'clock closing hours during the days of the 8 week session finals." Doris Larson, president of the ASCWEC, started. "This move is necessary to avoid confusion and to have a uniform closing hour for all women students."
The rest of the meeting was devoted to making out the new house rules, which will be formally passed on at the next meeting of the women's executive committee.
Quartet To Be Here For Concert Thursday
The sale of seats for the South- lairnaires, famous radio negro male quartet, continues in a gratifying manner, Dean D. M. Swarthout said yesterday.
The organization is being brought to the campus under the auspices of the University concert series on next Thursday, July 22, as the third and final attraction of the series of three imported events.
The Southernaires are heard by many thousands each Sunday morning in a national coast to coast "hook-up" that has continued for several years and has proved itself to be one of the most popular programs on the air. In this territory, they are heard over Station WREN each Sunday morning at 9:30 in a program of hymns and Negro spirituals. Included on their program here will be a number of the best known spirituals such as "Do You Call That Religion," "Sunday Morning Band," "Were You There," and "Simmer Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass." or the closing number the Southernaires will present a scene from the "Weatherbaten Whitewashed Church," one of the most popular features on their radio program
Cauble_to First Lieutenant
Fort Sheridan, Ill.-Vance C.
Cauble of Fredonia, Kan., has been promoted from second to first lieu-
tenant. He is a battery officer of one of the antiaircraft units stationed here.
Lt. Cauble is a graduate of the University of Kansas. He majored in accounting in the School of Business.