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Tuesday, August 2, 1960
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Summerfield Awards Go to 12 KU Students
Twelve undergraduate men will join the group of Summerfield scholars at the University for the 1960-61 academic year, James K. Hitt, registrar and chairman of the Summerfield committee, announced yesterday.
The new appointments to the highest honor KU can confer on an undergraduate man include five sophomores, five juniors, and two seniors.
Each of the 12 new scholars has a grade point average around 2.75 (B is 2.0, A is 3.0) and has demonstrated campus leadership and exceptional promise of future usefulness. Hitt said.
Summerfield scholars are normally selected by preliminary and final examinations of Kansas high school seniors. Each year some students already enrolled at KU are selected because of their outstanding records at the University.
The Summerfield scholarships are made possible by an annual grant from the Summerfield Foundation, established in 1929 by the late Solon E. Summerfield, KU alumnus and a New York manufacturer.
The original grant of $20,000 annually, recently increased to $25,000, provides stipends based on need to the scholars, who are selected wholly on merit.
The stipends vary from a small honorarium to full support. One of the 12 new scholars already holds another scholarship and will continue to draw support from it, adding the honor of designation as a Summerfield scholar.
The 12 new scholars are:
Sophomores—Thomas D. Beisseker, Topeka; William H. Breckenridge, Louisburg; Lovell S. Jarvis, Winfield; Kenny L. Peterson, Topeka; Paul C. Schaich, Topeka.
Juniors—Theodore E. Batchman, Great Bend; David R. Gray, Lawrence; John R. Guth, Iola; David C. Trowbridge, Prairie Village; Richard M. Weinishbiloum, Augusta.
Seniors—Donald G. Popejoy, Ulysses, and Jack D. Salmon, Elkhart.
Seminar Set For Campus
About 90 medical technicians, receptionists and other doctors' assistants will attend a three-day Medical Assistant Seminar at the University Friday through Sunday.
That meeting will be just one or several institutes and workshops scheduled for the campus in August to keep the University active during the one-month lull period.
Also scheduled for the month are a Boy Scouts of America, Finger Lake Council meeting Thursday; an Advanced Cosmetology Institute; a Regional Workshop on Supervisory Training for Vocational Rehabilitation Personnel, and an Advanced Driver Education workshop. These latter three meetings all will begin next week.
The Medical Assistants program will include a discussion of public relations, grooming and personal appearance, music therapy and law and economics in the medical office.
Dr. Victor B. Buhler, M.D., instructor in pathology at the School of Medicine and clinical professor of pathology at the University or Kansas City School of Denistry, will deliver the initial address: "Communications in Medicine."
Summer Session Nears Wind-up With 3,000 Scheduled for Finals
GHOST TOWN—The campus will assume somewhat of a deserted appearance next week after the 1960 Summer Session comes to an end. Of course it may not be as deserted as this.
Reds Seek New Talks
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—(UPI) The Soviet Union asked yesterday that heads of government be invited to a United Nations General Assembly Summit Conference starting Sept. 20 to discuss disarmament and other major world issues.
Soviet Ambassador Arkady Sobolev made the suggestion in rejecting an American move to reconvene the 82-nation disarmament conference which has been inactive since it turned the disarmament problem over to an abortive meeting of a 10-nation group in Geneva.
Chou Offers Peace Plan
Sobolev, in a letter to Luis Padilla Nervo of Mexico, chairman of the U.N. 82-nation disarmament commission, said a pre-assembly meeting of the group "can only aggravate the situation and hinder the fruitful discussion of this most important issue . . . at the forthcoming general assembly."
TOKYO — (UPI) — Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai proposed yesterday a non-aggression pact, among the major powers including the United States, and a creation of a nuclear free zone in Asia and the western Pacific, radio
Chou made the proposal at a reception given at the Swiss Embassy in Peiping in celebration of Swiss National Day.
Chou's proposal was broadcast by radio Peiping beamed at Japan in a Japanese language broadcast.
Temperatures will average near normal today through Saturday. Normal high temperature range in the lower 90s. Above normal temperature at beginning of period with some cooling later.
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Orientation Program to Open Fall Semester Flurry Sept.12
With the departure of Midwestern Music and Art campers and the coming of finals later this week the KU campus has taken on a new look this week.
Actual enrollment schedules have been condensed into two days this fall instead of the normal two and one-half days.
The campus will officially come back to life Monday, Sept. 12, with the opening of the orientation period.
However, prior to that time many students will return in order to get the organized houses in shape and to conduct rushing programs.
Missing entirely are the more than 700 high school students who participated in the six-week music, art and science divisions of the annual summer camp on the campus. And many students have gone into seclusion in preparation for finals which will be given normally during the final one or two class sessions this week.
Registration and enrollment will run Thursday, Sept. 15, and Friday, Sept. 16.
As a guide for those returning for the fall semester, students are reminded that admittance to the Kansas Union for enrollment will be 'H through 'Sm' on Sept. 15 and 'Sn' through 'G' Sept. 16.
With the exception of the School of Law and various workshops and institutes on the campus, most University work will end at 6 p.m. Saturday.
The campus will not be completely deserted during August, however. Building projects will continue at a rapid pace as the Kansas Union addition and the new mathematics offices in Strong Hall near completion.
Institutes sponsored by University Extension and other University divisions will be as numerous as ever.
More than 3,000 students were regularly enrolled for the 1960 Summer Session. Many others took Western Civilization or English Proficiency examinations.
Kansan to Cease Publication Until Fall
Today's issue of the Summer Kansan is the last of the semester.
The next issue of the Kansan will appear Sept. 15 with daily publication resuming Sept. 19.
Research Program Soars
Outside financial support for advanced research and training programs conducted by KU faculty members of the Lawrence campus increased for the sixth consecutive year to an all-time high of about $2,700,000 for the 1959-60 fiscal year.
University research moves increasingly toward a golden era of national recognition and support as the 20th century progresses, figures released by the Graduate School of the University of Kansas indicate.
In addition, an estimated $1,250,000 was contributed in the same period for research and training projects at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
At the Lawrence campus, the total of outside grants administered through the Graduate School
was $2.507,251 for the 1959-60 fiscal year. About $200,000 more was administered through other KU offices.
The Graduate School total of grants made in the one fiscal year of 1959-60 is only about $500,000 short of half the total for all the 13 fiscal years between 1945-48.
Federal agencies supplied $2,332,409 of the $2,507,251 total. The National Science Foundation leads the list of donors, with grants totaling almost one million dollars, followed in order by the U.S. Public Health Service, Atomic Energy Commission, Department
Federal agencies contributed most of the funds granted in the 1959-60 fiscal year, according to the report issued by William J. Arngersinger Jr., associate dean of the Graduate School.
of Defense, U.S. Office of Education and other federal agencies.
Non-governmental foundations contributed $138,292; state agencies of Kansas $26,050, and industry $10,500. University projects are for fundamental rather than applied research.
Although the amount of nonfederal funds seems relatively small, Dr. Argersinger pointed out that they increased more than 100 per cent over those of the preceding year.
The total amount increased about 10 per cent over that of the preceding year, despite the large equipment grant for the mass spectrometer in the 1958-59 fiscal year.
Dr. Argersinger, also professor of chemistry, is in charge of re-
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Hectic Opening Expected in Fall
Although formal Orientation Period activities do not begin this fall at the University until Sept. 12, the fall semester will be considered open with a New Student Convocation at 3 p.m. Sept. 11 in Hoch Auditorium.
That evening a New Student Induction Ceremony will be held in Memorial Stadium with the students marching down into the stadium from the Campanile-a trip most of them will be aiming at repeating in the spring of 1964.
For all new students who did not participate in Preview Sessions this summer, the first placement examination will be given at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 12. The second exam will be given that afternoon at 1.
A watermelon feed sponsored by the YMCA will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sept.12; the Jayhawk Nibble and Activities Carnival will be held in the Kansas Union the next evening, and a "Transfer Treat" for women transfer students with all independent upperclass women invited will be held at Potter Lake Sept.14.
Socially, the new students will be offered a packed schedule.
Registration and enrollment follows for all students Sept. 15 and 16 and the first home football game matching Kansas and Texas Christian University—will be staged in Memorial Stadium Sept. 17.
During the orientation period the students will be given opportunities to hold individual conferences with faculty advisers and may take placement examinations in such fields as foreign language, chemistry and biology.
Classes will begin Monday, Sept. 19. But the annual opening exercises of the University will be held that day and thus morning classes will be shortened.
This fall's entering class will be the University's 95th. KU first opened its doors in 1866.
Voting Spots Open Until 7 Tonight
Students are reminded that this is primary election day in Kansas. It is hoped that all in the University family will exercise their right to vote.
If you are a resident of Kansas away from home, you may get an in-state absentee ballot at any polling place in Lawrence, although students are urged to use the Allen Field House voting facilities. Polls are open until 7 tonight.