University Daily Kansas
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Thursday. Oct. 13. 1960
Engineers' Employers Seek Diverse Traits
Good scholastic standing, initiative, extra-curricular activities and thoughts of the future...these are the things an employer looks for in student engineers.
This is the opinion of Ken Shriver,
an interview representative from
Denver, Colo., who is visiting KU
to interview engineering students
Representatives from major engineering companies, with jobs to offer, are now interviewing engineering seniors by appointment at the placement office at Hoch Auditorium.
"GOOD SCHOLASTIC standing ability to express oneself, attitude, appearance and alertness, as well as initiative are major factors. I also like to see some indication that the student- has been thinking of
Post-Graduation Plans Told for 428
Wonder what those lucky seniors are going to do next year after graduation? Here is the summary of post-graduate plans taken at fall enrollment.
Some 195 of the 428 asked said the plan to continue their study in post-graduate work, 105 are entering the professional schools. This break down into 65 for medicine, 28 for law, 3 for theology, 6 in medical technology, 2 in dentistry and one in pharmacy.
Thirty-three are going into military service while 86 will be working. Eight students will be married and not working. Thirty-eight plan to study abroad.
his future," Mr. Shriber said.
Mr. Shriber explained what he meant by initiative.
"Employers want inquisitive people," he said. "They want to know whether this person will tackle a problem on his own or whether he will have to be pushed into it.
"During interviews students do not know how much initiative to display. Those with initiative will take the lead in beginning the conversation. Others will sit and wait for me to say something."
MR. SHRIBER stressed the importance of extra-curricular activities because they indicate leadership and self discipline.
"Although there is little necessity for athletics in engineering, if a student participates in sports it shows that he disciplined himself to make the most of his time," he said.
Mr. Shriber urged students preparing for an interview to relax and act normal during the interview. Tension on the part of the student does not aid the student or the person interviewing him, he said.
Dentist to Patent Cows' False Teeth
DALLAS — (UPI)— Don't send Bossy to the slaughter house. Get her a date with a dentist and a new set of choppers.
Dr. Nelson Cruz Arias, a dentist from Cali, Colombia, attending the Pan-American Livestock Exposition at the Texas State Fair, said he is visiting the United States to get a patent on a method of making false teeth for cattle.
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Baptist Student Union evening, devotional period. 5 p.m., Student Center, 1221 Dread. Rev. Roy Brown, selected passages in John.
TODAY
Der deutsche Verein wird sich am Donnerstag, dem 13. Oktober, um 5 Uhr treffen. Wir wollen in einer Diskussion das amerikanische und das deutsche Erschußung vorgestellt vergleicht. Erschubungen. Wir einen gleich denim im Studenthaus.
American Society of Tool & Manufacturing Engrs., KU student Chapter No. 30, 7 p.m., Oct. 13. Room 300. Fowler-Speaker: Dr. Warren G. Snyder, Midwest Research, Kansas City, Mo. His topic will be "Applied Research in Lubricants."
Pi Lambda Theta. 7:30 p.m. English Room, Kansas Union. Pledging ceremony.
Episcopal Evening Prayer. 9:30 p.m. Dunforth Chapel.
TOMORROW
Catholic Daily Mass. 6:30 a.m. St. John's Church, 12th, and Kreutzky.
Episcopal Morning Prayer and Holy
Candlefast follows. 6:45 a.m.
Church of the Nativity, Huntington, New
Newman Club. Daily in October, 12:35 p.m. Parlor A. Daily Rosary.
Catholic Services, 8 and 10 a.m., Fraser Theater. Masses at 8 and 10 a.m. for students. Coffee social at Union following 10:00 Mass.
SUNDAY
Regier to Meeting
Herold G. Regier, instructor in education and director of teacher placement, is attending a meeting of the Kansas Association of Teacher Placement Officers today in Manhattan. Mr. Regier is president of the group.
A 3,000 book gift from the library of Wallace E. Pratt, a 1909 KU graduate, has been received by the KU library.
Library Receives 3,000 Books
Mr. Pratt is a former vice president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and a former president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pratt are KU graduates. They are residents of Carisbad, N. Mex.
The gift includes professional journals and books collected by Mr. Pratt as well as Mrs. Pratt's collection of English and American literature.
The gift is the largest to come to KU since the Ralph Ellis ornithological bequest in 1945.
R. C. Moore, professor of geology, said Mr. Pratt's files of technical journals will be useful because many are difficult to find and purchase today.
Mrs. Pratt's literature collection will be useful to students in several areas, according to Robert Vosper, librarian.
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly—Pertran Russell
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