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Summer Session Kansan
Friday. June 24.1960
WEEK-IN WASHINGTON—Fred Morrison, Colby senior, chats with Rep. William H, Avery (R-Kan) and Paula Wildgen, a junior at Kansas State, during the recent non-partisan educational "Week in Washington." The statue is of George Washington Glick, one of two men from Kansas enshrined in the Hall of Fame at the Capitol Building.
National Art Group Opens 50th Anniversary Conclave
The Golden Jubilee National Convention of Delta Phi Delta national art fraternity, opened last night in the Kansas Union. The convention will continue through Sunday.
Kansas Alpha chapter, the mother chapter of the national fraternity, is hosting delegates from throughout the country for meetings, conferences and an art film festival.
The theme of the convention is "An Eye to the Future," commemorating 50 years of service by the fraternity, which was
'60 Graduate Wins Award
Cora Lee Price, a 1960 graduate of the University, is one of nine students selected for fellowships in the Graduate Program in the Humanities at Stanford University.
The fellowships are for $1,005,
covering tuition costs, or $2,500,
depending on the student's financial
need.
Miss Price is the daughter of Prof. and Mrs. G. Baley Price. She received the degree bachelor of arts with highest distinction from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, where she majored in German.
In addition to her current award, she also holds a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Stanford.
2 Science Grants To Departments
Henry Horak, associate professor of astronomy, is doing research on a project entitled, "Computations in Radiative Transfer and Theoretical Photometry." The National Science Foundation has granted $9,600 for the research for a period of one year.
"Origin and Significance of Reverse Drag Fault Flexure Displacement" is the study being done by W. Kenneth Hamblin, assistant professor of geology. The project has received a $17,000 grant for 18 months from the Foundation.
The National Science Foundation has announced two grants to the University for research in the geology and astronomy departments.
Construction is the largest industry in the United States, accounting for some 15 per cent of total employment.
started on the KU campus in 1910.
A highlight of the convention will be an art exhibit by members of the various national chapters.
Bernard Frazier, sculptor-inresidence at the University and a member of the fraternity, will design and cast a medallion to be awarded to the chapter having the best art exhibit.
Since the founding in 1910, Delta Phi Delta has grown to include 36 chapters in the United States carrying on service projects in the fields of art. The newest chapter to be chartered is Alpha Phi, at Lafayette (Ind.) College.
One of the goals of the 3-day meeting is the organization of a $50,000 Alumni Scholarship Foundation to be used as an aid to students in the field of art and design.
Included among the fraternity's members are artists, sculptors, designers, decorators and art educators—totaling more than 18,000 in all. Many of them will be on campus for a banquet tomorrow night.
"The Kansas Alpha chapter has looked forward to getting together with the alumni and members of Delta Phi Delta for this meeting," says Russ D'Anna, chapter president. "We believe everyone will gain a lot from trading ideas and talking over our progress and hopes for the coming years."
Two University scientists have described recently the capture of three rare specimens of a bat made known to science 145 years ago from an unknown part of the world and never since found alive.
Alumni in the University area are invited to contact the chapter about attending the convention functions.
KU Scientists Relate Capture Of Elusive Bat
Poodle Doesn't Know How Dogs Should Behave
The specimens of the Red Figeating Bat (Stenoderma Rufum) were captured on St. John Island, Virgin Islands, in 1957 by James W. Bee, instructor of zoology at KU.
Dr. E, Raymond Hall, professor of zoology and director of the Museum of Natural History, and Bee describe their find in the March 1960 issue of "Mammalia," published by the Museum D'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
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Previously, the Red Fig-eating Bat had been known only from one skin with skull reported in 1816 from an unknown location, and from a group of fossil fragments found 100 years later in a cave in Puerto Rico.
Bee trapped the elusive bat with mistnets stretched between two large trees when he was on St. John Island from July 6 to September 4, 1957.
St. John Island is the site of the newly established Virgin Islands National Park. The Museum of Natural History at KU was asked by the National Park Service to find out what kind of native mammals still lived on the island.
As for food, the animal munches on raw onions no matter how strong, and eats apples and grapes.
All have been killed off by nonnative kinds introduced by the Spanish, except for the bats, the KU zoologists reported.
Mammals introduced to St. John Island by man are the black rat, house mouse, dog, cat, mongoose, burro, horse, hog, white-tailed deer, goat and sheep.
"Now that Laurance Rockefeller and his family have turned over most of St. John Island to the federal government to be a national park, the original vegetation is coming back and the supposedly extinct Red Fig-eating Bat has a good chance of continuing to exist," Dr. Hall said.
This particular species of bat probably is a tree-dweller, he added. Five other kinds of bats also were discovered on the island.
Etienne St-Hilaire Geoffroy first described the bat in 1813 in a work on Egypt which did not indicate the bat's habitat. Later workers thought its New World origin could not be doubted.
The specimens obtained by Bee on St. John Island are especially significant since the best extant skull of the bat was destroyed in 1958 when it was shipped on loan to the Museum of Natural History at KU from the American Museum of Natural History.
It was "packed with such care as to be safe from any damage short of being run over by the dual tires of the rear wheels of some huge express truck," the KU scientists note in their article, "This is exactly what happened and the skulls were reduced to dust and so remain."
According to legislation by Congress, the foremost function of a national park is to preserve natural conditions unimpaired for the benefit of future generations.
"St. John Island therefore seems to be getting off to a good start, considering the drastic changes made there by Europeans and Africans following the voyage of discovery in 1492 by Christopher Columbus," Dr. Hall said.
Philadelphia Firm Gives Grant to KU
The University of Kansas has been awarded a scholarship grant of $400 for the 1960-61 academic year by the Presser Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa.
The grant is made annually to the University to assist students working in the field of music.
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