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Summer Session Kansas
Friday, July 22. 1960
Matzke Family Safe In Uganda Town
The wife and two children of a University of Kansas professor of anatomy doing research in the revolt-torn Republic of Congo have been evacuated to safety in Uganda, it was learned in Lawrence Wednesday.
Mrs. Howard A. Matzke and the children, Judith, 15, and Charles, 11, are staying at the Imperial Hotel in Kampala, Uganda. Prof. Matzke was expected to join them in a few days.
A letter dated July 16 from Mrs. Matzke to Harold Scheve, cashier at the Douglas County State Bank in Lawrence, contained the information.
Mrs. Matzke and the children
'Ham' Operator Fails in Effort
The news that the family of Howard Matzke, professor of anatomy at the University, was safe in Uganda this week likely will give a KU student a bit more time to study in summer school.
Since reading of the concern expressed over the welfare of the Matzke family several weeks ago, Ron Blackburn, Lawrence junior, has been attempting to make contact with amateur radio enthusiast friends in the Congo region.
But despite spending up to four hours a day in attempting to make contact with stations he earlier this year had talked with, Blackburn's efforts, much like that of the U.S. State Department, proved fruitless.
"I tried to make contact with some friends of mine there." Blackburn said, "But there's been no one 'on' since the start of the uprising. I haven't even had my normal contact with operators in South Africa for about two weeks."
Blackburn's last contact with operators in the Congo region came before summer school began.
"I hadn't tried to talk with them since then until I read about Dr. Matzke," he explained.
Blackburn estimated that there are as many as 300 amateur operators in the vicinity of Lwiro, the town in the remote mountainous area of the Congo where Dr. Matzke was working.
He has received letters from some of them following radio contacts.
$250 Award Goes To Larned Soph
The Pawnee County alumni scholarship to the University has been reviewed for Robert Dean Berryman of Larned.
A sophomore this fall, Berryman also held the $250 award during his freshman year at KU. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Berryman.
Berryman is majoring in mechanical engineering.
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were flown to Uganda by a chartered plane evacuating women and children from the area around Bukavu, a town 25 miles from Lwiro where Dr. Matzke was conducting research on the central nervous system of mammals at the Institute for Scientific Research in Central Africa.
"Things have happened so fast here that we can hardly believe it ourselves." Mrs. Matzke wrote.
Mrs. Matzke and the children were evacuated with the wife and two children of a U.S. Army captain who also was doing research at the Institute.
Capt. Donald Price and Dr. Matze are bringing the scientific instruments from the Institute to Uganda in a truck owned by Price, the letter stated. They were scheduled to leave the Institute on Monday or Tuesday, July 18 or 19, "at the latest."
Mrs. Matzek expected them to complete the overland trip in four or five days, arriving at Kampala, Uganda, today.
"We both are very disappointed that our work at the Institute had to be stopped," Mrs. Matzke wrote, but she expressed hope that the research might be continued at Makerere College in Kampala.
Otherwise, she said the family will probably fly back to the United States soon after Dr. Matzke arrives in Kampala.
The Congo situation became "too close for comfort," Mrs. Matzke wrote. "When all the Europeans were told to leave the Institute, we thought it was time to leave, too."
Conditions for research became "impossible," she added. "The natives were frightened and no animals were being collected."
When Mrs. Matzke and the children reached Bukavu, 25 miles from the Institute, to begin their evacuation flight, she found the town deserted. More than 1,000 people had left, she wrote. No men were being evacuated at that time.
Food was getting short at the Institute because Bukavu had been the source of supply, Mrs. Matzke wrote.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe of the University of Kansas requested a diplomatic check by the State Department about the well-being of the Matzke family on July 11, but Dean C. Arden Miller of the KU School of Medicine learned that the State Department could not get information into or out of rural areas of the Congo.
Apparently, the evacuation of the women and children from the Institute was accomplished through the efforts of the men working there.
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Other students who participated in the program (most of them are still working on campus) included:
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The three films to be shown in the regular series at 7:30 Friday night just east of Robinson Gymnasium will be "The River of No Return," "The High Road" and "One Road."
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Alvin Moody, Whitewater, anthropology; Gordon Patterson, Clifton Hill, Mo., and Thom McGivern, Highland Park, Ill., biochemistry; Ann Ruppenthal, McPherson, and Curtis Robinson, Kansas City, botany; Dan Heldman, House Springs, Mo.; Patricia Sue Zogleman, Norwich; Jim Donaldson, Derby; Karen Lynn Stevenson, Wichita, and Russell Brown, Wichita, chemistry;
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Kay Rankin, Richards-Gebaur AFB, Mo., entomology; Michael Winn, Kansas City; Wilson Morris, Lake Charles, La., and Sharon Sutton, Eldon, mo.; physics; Bill Berg, Muster, Ind.; Gene DeFelice, Levitown, N. Y., and Lorraine Raiske, Idaho Falls, Idaho, psychology:
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Paul Edwin Holt of Caney has been named the second P. F. Walker Memorial scholar in engineering at the University, Dean John S. McNown announced yesterday.
Holt will enter the KU School of Engineering as a freshman this fall. He will receive $400 from the scholarship, established by the late Mrs. Charlotte Walker in memory of her husband, Perley F. Walker, who was dean of the KU School of Engineering and Architecture from 1913 to 1927.
The nine-member group led by 26-year-old Spencer Apollonio of Rockport, Me., leaves here tomorrow aboard the Canadian icebreaker D'Ilerville for Devon Island in the Arctic on the first lap of the expedition which will continue through 1962.
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MONTREAL — (UPI)—A Maine biologist prepared today to lead scientists from Canada, the United States and Britain into the far north on a rugged research mission aimed at speeding economic development of one of the world's last frontiers—Canada's frozen northlands.
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The scientists will be joined by retired U.S. Marine Major Vernon (Buck) Boyd of Siteamboat, Nev., a veteran explorer who toured the Antarctic with the late Adm. Richard E. Byrd. They are the vanguard of an expedition sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America, a private research organization supported by Canadian and U.S. industries, foundations and colleges.
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