SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXI
NUMBER 14
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1943
Rear Admiral To Visit Station Today
Rear Admiral William Brent Young, Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts and Paymaster General of the Navy, will visit the Naval Training School at the University this afternoon. Admiral Young is scheduled to be in Lawrence only a short time.
Admiral Young makes frequent inspections of the supply activities in the field because he likes to see things for himself. Recently returned from a 24,000 mile flight to the Pacific and South Pacific areas, he flew with Admiral Halsey and conferred with the highest ranking officers in Australian and New Zealand.
Admiral Young is responsible for clothing and feeding our sailors; for procuring and delivering all the fuel used by our vessels; and for purchasing, warehousing, shipping, and issuing virtually all the supplies and materials used by the entire naval establishment, except certain items of ordnance, munitions, and medical stores.
The magnitude of that job may be indicated in part by the fact that the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts awarded contracts during 1942 for materials totalling approximately fourteen billion dollars.
19 Of Faculty Are Promoted
Six members of the University faculty in Lawrence have been advanced in rank and 13 members of the staff of the School of Medicine at Kansas City have received promotions, the Chancellor's office revealed this week.
At Kansas City, Frank D. Dickson,
associate clinical professor of surgery has been advanced to clinical professor, and promoted to associate professor were H. L. Jones, assistant professor of medicine, Sara Patterson, assistant professor of nursing education, and Paul Lorhan, assistant professor of surgery.
Advanced from the rank of assistant professor to associate professor were P. O. Bell, mathematics, Roy A. Bowers, pharmacy, E. Thayer Gaston, public school music, and E. O. Stone, political science.
Promoted to assistant professor from instructorships were H. H. Barschall and L. N. Liebermann, both of the physics department.
A. T. Steigman, associate in neurology, and John Aull, associate in pediatrics, have been promoted to assistant professorships.
Advanced to the rank of associates (continued to page four)
Graduate Publishes Poems
Edward R. Schauffler, B.A., '10,
newspaper writer and former army
officer, published a book of verse.
It contains 42 brief poems, written
over a period of 20 years.
300 Engineers Sign For Y Membership
Changes will be made in the personnel of the YMCA cabinet sometime during the remainder of this week owing to three cabinet members going into the services, according to Harry O'Kane, executive secretary of the Y.
Kenneth Olson has left school and gone to the army, Ned Small expects to go soon, and Don Diehl is a member of the University V-12 unit. These three men will be replaced before next Monday, O'Kane said.
Nearly 300 engineering students, both Navy and civilian, signed YM CA membership pledge cards at enrollment Tuesday, O'Kane reported.
Fine Arts Vespers Sunday
The first of the Summer Session All-Musical Vespers, to be given on Sunday evening, will begin at 8 p.m., rather than 7 o'clock as previously announced. The summer session a capella choir of seventy voices under the direction of Dean D. M. Swarthout will be heard for the first time as will also the faculty string trio, and quartet.
"Carillon" (Vierne), Laurel Everett Anderson, organist; "Trio in D Minor, Op. 49" (Mendelssohn), trio by Ruth Orcutt, piano, Waldemar Geltch, violin, D. M. Swarthout, cello; "Domine Jesu" (from "Requiem" by Verdi), vocal quartet with Meribah Moore, Irene Peabody, Joseph Wilkins, David Lawson, and Lila LeVan Loadwick, piano, L. E. Anderson, organ.
The complete program as given out today from the School of Fine Arts office is as follows:
"Quintet, Op. 44" (Schumann), quintet with Waldemar Geltch and Donald Michel, violins, Barbara Huls, viola, D. M. Swarthout, cello, Jan Chiapusso, piano.
The choir will then sing four numbers under the direction of Dean Swarthout—"O Vos Omnes" (Vittoria), "As Torrents in Summer" (Elgar), "America, My Own" (Noble Cain), "Climbin' Up De Mountain" (spiritual arranged by Noble Cain).
A new set of closing hours was adopted by the women's executive committee of the All-Student Council at a meeting Tuesday evening after the regular ASC meeting.
Beginning Wednesday, July 14,
the following closing hours will be
effective: Monday, Tuesday, and
Thursday, 10:30 p.m.; Wednesday
and Sunday, 11 p.m.; and Friday
and Saturday, 1 a.m.
New Closing Hours Adopted Tuesday
The remainder of the summer will be a trial period to determine whether or not these new hours will extend into the winter, according to Doris Larson, president of the women's executive committee.
Letters are being sent out to the (continued to page four)
Chancellor Will Welcome V-12's Monday In Hoch
Members of the V-12 unit will be welcomed to the University at a convocation to be held next Monday at 10 a.m., in Hoch auditorium, Raymond Nichols, University executive secretary, said yesterday. Chancellor Deane W. Malott will deliver the welcome.
The summer session band, under the direction of Prof. Russell L. Wiley, will play two numbers to open the convocation and will be followed by Prof. Joseph F. Wilkins, head of the Fine Arts voice department, leading the audience in singing the "Star Spangled Banner."
Lt. A. H. Buhl, commanding officer of the machinists mates school, Leonard Axe, professor of economics and University housing administrator, and Lt. C. A. Mickelman, commanding officer of the V-12 unit, will be introduced by Professor Wiley to those present at the convoction.
Following Chancellor Malott's address, Professor Wilkins will lead the audience in singing the "Alma Mater."
Thirsty? 35 Coolers On Campus
by Dolores Sulzman
Any student—freshie, medics, sailor, engineer, or technician trainee—will admit that there's nothing like a shot of good ol' H2O after a 50-minute session of summer book-learning in a stuffy classroom and—well, yes, perhaps a dry lecture.
With a pencil stub, scratch pad, and a little calculation Harold Eberhart, plumber foreman of the University, chalked up a total of 35 water fountains on our campus. Ten of these are electric fountains and are cooled by refrigeration. They were installed within the past few years.
The other 25 fountains are the familiar, gray, tub-like affairs. And here the icemaker takes over. For the 25 ice-cooled fountains on the campus, two men from Buildings and Grounds distribute about 1,250 pounds of ice a day. Every morning before 9 o'clock a chunk of ice weighing between 45 and 50 pounds is put in each fountain.
The fountains in Watson library and several others located in the "heavier drinking" spots are re-
heaven drinking glass you (continued to page three)
All engineering students are required to attend a meeting at 1:30 Saturday afternoon in Hoch auditorium, according to an announcement by the School of Engineering and Architecture.
Engineering Assembly
The meeting has been called by the enrollment committee, and changes in the engineering schedule will be announced at that time.
Graduate Honored With Flying Cross
Staff Sgt. Dell A. Love, former student at the University and resident of Lawrence, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievements in the European theater of operation, the War Department has reported.
Love went into the army in January, 1941. He was a senior in the School of Business at the time he left the University to take his training in Georgia. Since then he has been in England, North Africa, and the Middle East. He is a radioman on a bomber.
Advisory Period Announced For Underclassmen
The mid-semester advising period for freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be held Monday, July 19, through Wednesday, July 21, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College, has announced.
The names of all freshmen and sophomores in the College together with the names of their advisers are posted on the bulletin board in the hall opposite the College office. The office hours of each faculty adviser are also posted on the list.
Students who desire a statement concerning their standing in the middle of the semester may obtain it from their advisers, said Dean Ulmer. All students enrolled as freshmen and sophomores in the College are expected to see their faculty advisers within the period mentioned above, since it is the only way they can obtain their mid-semester reports, he added.
"During the advising conferences the students can not only learn of their scholastic standing, but they can also plan their next semester's work with their adviser and discuss their progress towards satisfying distribution requirements," said Dean Ulmer.
Reports are mailed to the parents of freshmen and sophomore students who have as many as five hours of "F" or are reported as unsatisfactory in over 40 per cent of their program.
Juniors and seniors who have unsatisfactory work will have reports of it mailed to them as soon as the grades of the freshmen and sophomores reach their advisers.
ASC To Check Status of Military
Status of service men on the campus in relation to student government is now being investigated by a committee appointed by Clarence Engl. president to the All-Student Council, at a regular council meeting last Tuesday evening at 7:30 in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
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Senate Moves For Uniform Fall Semester
By the K.U. News Bureau
BY THE K.U. NEWS BUREAU Synchronization of the starting time of the winter semester for civilians with that of the Navy's V-12 engineers was effected Tuesday when the University Senate approved a change in the calendar to open the winter term on October 31, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced.
The University will officially open on September 23 as scheduled, Chancellor Malott said. A five week term for both freshmen and upperclassmen will open on September 23 and continue until the last week in October, and during this period courses will be available in all divisions of the University. Included in this period will be psychological examinations and orientation programs for new students as well as sorority and fraternity rushing activities.
The move, University officials believe, will further accelerate the speeded up program of the University in its all-out war cooperation. Particularly in the college, Dean Paul B. Lawson indicated, will this be true. With five hours available during the fall term and with the average load of 16 hours during the winter semester, it will be possible for a freshman entering in September to achieve sophomore status by
To Collect Blood July 19 And 20
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A Red Cross mobile unit will be in Lawrence July 19 and 20 to collect blood for the processing of blood plasma for use by the armed services, and any person who wishes to become a donor may call the local Red Cross office to register his name.
Persons between the ages of 21 and 60 need only to register by telephone and can give their blood when the unit arrives in Lawrence. Persons who wish to give blood but who are between 17 and 21 years of age must have written permission from their parents before they will be allowed to donate, according to local Red Cross officials. A printed form may be secured at the Red Cross office in the Community building and can be presented at the dfnitao mfoteiao f F- oitem time of donation, they state.
Registration of donors began last Tuesday and office hours are from 9 to 12 a.m. and 1:30 to 5 p.m. The telephone number of the Red Cross office is City-640.
Local officials state that Lawrence's quota will be 500 pints of blood, in comparison to the national quota of 4,000,000 pints.
Sgt. Dan Aul, former law student at the University, is home on fur-lough. He has been stationed at Davis Mothman Field, Tucson, Arizona.