Friday, July 24, 1959 Summer Session Kansan
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I will be waiting for you.
MIXED EMOTIONS—Nancy Johnson, summer band camper from Burlington, packs her clothes with mixed emotions, as do most of the 600 campers who will leave Sunday.
Varsity Velvet "ALL STAR"
Feature Flavor for August
FRESH PEACH
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202 West 6th
Engineering Pay Up, Totals Down
Phone VI 3-5511
Better pay and high demand do not always bring greater supply. At least not when the items of supply are human beings who must first be conditioned by four or five years of technical and scientific education.
"Good employment conditions for engineers graduating in 1959 contrast sharply with the decreased enrollments," according to Dr. John S. McNown, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
Starting salaries continue to rise steadily because of general inflation and the short supply of engineers, Dean McNown said. Yet nationally the number of engineering freshmen dropped 11 per cent last year. At KU the decline was 17 percent.
Based on voluntary returns from about three-fourths of the engineering students graduating from KU in June, the average starting salary
was about $500 a month. This is $100 more than in 1955.
Dean McNown believes the dearth of freshman engineers is cause for national concern. The Engineers Joint Council gives three reasons for the lag: 1) the publicity given to limited layoffs and cut backs in the short and shallow depression of 1957-58; 2) the rigors of the engineering curricula; and 3) the diversion of potential engineers to other scientific fields.
Dean McNown believes an upgrading of requirements in mathematics had something to do with the fact KU's 1958 freshman engineering class was down more than the national average. There is statistical evidence to show that 1958 freshmen were significantly better prepared in mathematics than 1957 freshmen. Hence the loss may have been mostly
from the more poorly prepared students.
"However, we'll have to wait until 1962 to be certain about whether the smaller but better prepared 1958 freshmen will produce as many graduates," Dean McNown added.
Many of the June 1959 graduates have gone to work in this area. Greater industrialization of the region helped provide jobs for 19 students in Kansas and 13 in Kansas City, Mo. Another 20 remained in the midwest. Ten went to California. Eastern companies that formerly hired large proportions of the KU graduating class obtained only eight of 75 reporting from the June class. The new Sperry Gyroscope plant in Salt Lake City, Utah, attracted four KU seniors. Only Raphael Diaz, who is returning to his native Cuba, accepted foreign employment.
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Summer Suits
- COTTON CORDS, $20 Values ... $16.95
- DACRON-COTTON, $40 Values 31.95
- DACRON-WOOL, $50 Values 36.95
Sport Coats
- DACRON-COTTON, $30 Values ___$19.95
- DACRON-ORLON, $32 Values ... 22.95
- WOOL TWEEDS, $35 Values ... 24.95
Slacks
- COTTON SLIM PIPERS, $6 Values ___ $ 4.75
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- DACRON-WOOL, $16 Values ... 11.95
Sport Shirts
- SHORT AND LONG SLEEVE
- BUTTON-DOWN and REGULAR COLLARS
$4 Values -- $2.95
$5 Values 3.70
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841 Mass. St.