University Daily Kansan, April 21, 1982
Five to get highest KU honor
By DEBBIE DOUGLASS Staff Reporter
Five Distinguished Service Citation awards will be given at the All-University Supper during commencement weekend.
The awards, which were established in 1941, are the highest honor given to KU graduates and honorary alumni by the University of Kansas and its alumni association. They recognize life careers of movement and service to mankind.
Award recipients are Lewis Coriell, Moorestow, N.J.; J Joe Engle, Houston; Takere Higuchi, Pierre C. Kermit Boudreau; Robert S. Stone "Stoney" Wall, Amarillo, Texas.
This year's recipients join a group of 255 people, 13 of whom are honorary alumni. Nearly 10 percent of the award presents have been women in past years.
Cortell is a physician recognized nationally for testing gamma globulin in prevention of poliomyelitis, a disease that in its acute forms attacks the central nervous system and causes paralysis. He has been director of the Institute for Medical Research of Camden, N.J., since 1953.
Coriell received his bachelor's degree from the University of Montana and his master's, doctorate and medical degrees from KU.
He now serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics advisory council to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is a consultant with the American Medical Association council on drugs.
Engle was commander of the second flight of the space shuttle Columbia. The historic November flight came nearly 25 years into his Air Force career. He earned his official astronaut rating on June 13, 2007, when the astronaut-support crew for Apollo 10 and as a backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 14.
Engle was named the Air Force Association's Outstanding Young Officer in 1964 and received the Air Force Award for Flying Cross then, and again in 1978.
He received his engineering degree from KU and worked two years as an engineer with Cessna Aircraft Corp. in order to begin beginning his Air Force career.
Higuchi is the Regents Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy and is chairman of the KU department of pharmaceutical chemistry. He is also co-principal investigator at the Center for Drug Design.
The center on West Campus is the only such program developed by the National Institute of Health to pioneer development of new drugs and to improve existing ones through basic research.
Higuchi came to the University from the University of Wisconsin, where he was on the pharmaceutical chemistry faculty for 20 years. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California-Berkeley and his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin.
Phelps was a clinical psychologist until he retired in 1978. For 26 years, he was chief of psychology services at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in
Kansas City, Mo., and he served as its associate chief of staff for education for three years before retiring.
He 'has tungt at the Lawrence campus and the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., at Avila College, the Kansas Vocational School.
Phelps was the first black to earn a doctorate in psychology and was also the first black professor of psychology at KU.
He received his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees from KU.
Wall is retired after a 55-year career with oil and gas companies. He began his career in 1927 with West Texas Gas Co. of Lubbock, Texas, which later was consolidated into Pioneer Natural Gas Co.
In 1976, he was recognized by his peers at the International Petroleum Exposition as the "Big Man of Oil." He when he redefined what he was chairman of Pioneer Natural Gas Co.
Wall received a bachelor's degree from KU and attended law school for a year before being chosen as a pitcher for a St. Louis Cardinals farm club. An injured shoulder kept him from a career in athletics.
Contemporaries remember Wall as the field goal kicker who broke the tie in the final seconds if the 1925 Kansas-Missouri football game in Lawrence.
The Distinguished Service Citation awards will be presented after the commencement supper at 6:30 p.m., May 15, in the Kansas Ballroom.
Nominations for the awards were solicited from alumni and faculty. Finai students were made by a tree of nine, alumni and three KU faculty members.
There are about 350,000 books in the University of Kansas libraries that students and faculty cannot easily find because those books are catalogued only by the author's name, Jim Ranz, the dean of libraries, said recently.
"They aren't immediately available and they aren't available unless the author's name is known." Ranz said.
THE LIBRARY has not been able to fulfil catalog those books because over a period of time, the growth of the library's finances for purchasing material has outstripped the library's stock of that material, according to Ranz.
Book treasures remain undiscovered
"Over a 20- to 30-year period, the cataloging staff was not large enough to
normally, the library catalogs books by author, title and subject, and sometimes by subtitles, joint authors, if these categories are applicable
"The faculty and students don't know what they're missing," he said.
the Kenneth Spencer Research Library and was first started in the 1960s.
**STUDENTS WHO** find out through the author's name that a certain book is in the collection can ask librarians to check it, or they can wait for hourly waiting period, Malinowsky said.
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
The library has about 2.1 million volumes, including the 350,000 books cataloged only by author. Because those 350,000 books can be found under the database in the card catalog, Ranz said, many people did not know they existed.
The library now receives about six to 15 requests a day for books in the collection, which has not been added to since 1976.
Clint Howard, acquisitions librarian,
said that although access to the books
was poor for KU students, it was almost
for people outside the University.
MANY OF KU'S books are available to other libraries because the books have been placed on a shared computer system and no other people to see what books KU has.
process all the books that were being received," Ranz said.
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You Can't Afford Not To Care...
The Reagan administration has proposed extensive reductions in federal funding for many student aid programs for federal Fiscal Year 1983 (academic year 1983-84). The American Council on Education has estimated that under the Reagan proposals approximately $17,695,708 less federal student assistance funding would be available to Kansas students in academic year 1983-84 than was available in academic year 1980-81. This would mean that only 54% of the money available to assist Kansas students last year will be available in the 1983-84 school year. At the same time, the cost of attending a Kansas college or university is expected to increase by 20 to 25 percent.
Final Congressional action on these proposed cuts is not expected for several weeks. You have several options: You can ignore the proposed cuts and hope that someone else will speak up for you; you can hope that the state legislature will pick up the difference in the cuts; you can allow aid programs to be discontinued . . . OR, you can write or call your representatives in Washington and ask them to pass the resolution. You may have on your ability to complete your education. You will join thousands of other students from throughout the nation who have joined together to fight the cuts. You can make a difference!
What's the Outlook?
The University of Kansas Student Senate is sponsoring a Forum on Financial Aid. This is your chance to have your question about financial aid answered by representatives from the Department of Education, the State Legislature, the Kansas University Office of Financial Aid, and the Associated Students of Kansas. All students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend.
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