SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, July 21, 1959
47th Year, No. 12
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
REHEARSAL—Tommy Baumgartel, Lawrence freshman (class of 1969), Joanna Featherton, Kansas City, Kan., senior and Moses Gunn, St. Louis graduate student (left to right), are shown practicing for the forthcoming production of "The Member of the Wedding." The play is being produced by the University Theatre and will be given July 23 and 24.
Orientation Center to Begin Here for Foreign Students
Fifty foreign students beginning a year's study at universities and colleges in the United States will attend a six-week orientation center here starting Thursday. J. A. Burzle, professor of German, is director of the Center.
The session includes academic work, activities, and opportunities for various impressions of the American people. Field trips will be taken by the students to towns, cities, and points of interest in the Lawrence area.
Special guests including University faculty will present lectures over a range of topics designed to acquaint the foreign student with the "American way of life."
Daily orientation lectures will be given on American education.
Fleet Admiral Leahy Is Dead
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Fleet Adm. William D. Leahy, wartime chief of staff to President Roosevelt, died here Monday. He was 84.
American politics and political rights, and community life. Entertainment and social life will be covered with special programs and events such as a "get-acquainted" party. A film series will be a part of the orientation process.
Death came at the Navy Medical Center in nearby Bethesda, Md., the Navy reported.
Leahy was the man who, as chief of naval operations from 1937 to 1939, sold Congress on the idea of building a big Navy.
A cerebral vascular accident was listed as the cause of death. With him was his son, Rear Adm. William L. Leahy, commander of the Norfolk Navy Ship Yard at Portsmouth, Va.
Douthart Hall Women Lead All Houses in Scholarship
Disease Center Lease Is Signed
A 10-year lease for a communicable disease center to be constructed in Kansas City, Kan., has been signed between the General Services Administration and the University Endowment Assn.
The building will be operated by the Public Health Service, according to Franklin G. Floete, GSA administrator.
Annual rental of the building will be $62,060 and will be paid by the government. The building will have 18,643 square feet of floor space.
Maurice L. Breidenthal of Kansas City, association president, says of the lease:
"The Endowment Assn. is pleased that it is to proceed with the construction of the laboratory which will benefit the University of Kansas Medical Center as well as the work of the Communicable Disease Center of the U.S. Public Health Service, since the facility will further extend health services and research (or the entire state and area."
The building will be constructed across the street from the Medical Center on land owned by the association. It will replace facilities in the center now used by the federal service. The building now used by the public health service agency was constructed 10 years ago by the association.
Meserve Named Fulbright Fellow
Dr. Walter J. Meserve Jr., associate professor of English at the University of Kansas, has been appointed a Fulbright fellow in the United States Educational Exchange program to lecture on American literature at the University of Manchester, England, during the 1959-60 year. He previously had been given sabbatical leave by the University for this purpose.
The appointment is one of aproximately 400 made for college and university faculty members.
Dr. Meserve has been a KU teacher since 1951.
Residents of Douthart Hall, a women's scholarship residence, led all University of Kansas housing groups in academic standing for 1958-59 with a 2.11 grade point average. They also were the only group to exceed a B average last year.
All Is Not Lost— Get a Directory
Still puzzled about where that pretty blonde who sits in front of you in your history class lives? And horrors! You've lost the Summer Session Directory. Or spilled iced tea on it, Cheer up. Things will get better. Extra copies of the Directory which was published in the June 16 issue of the Kansan are available in the Business Office, 111 Flint.
Aide to Dean Is Appointed
Miss Janet Noel will become an assistant to the dean of women at KU effective Aug. 1. She will fill the position of Miss Donna Younger, who is transferring to the position of head resident of O'Leary Hall so that she might make more rapid progress in her candidacy for the master's degree.
Miss Noel holds the M.A. degree from Ohio University where she prepared a thesis on student government. She earned the A.B. degree from the University of Wichita where she was president cf the student council and a member of Mortar Board. She also was a member of the Y.W.C.A., of the yearbook staff, of Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science society, and of Kapa Delta Pi, honorary society in education.
Topeka Mercury Lowest Since '88
TOPEKA — (UPI)— Topeka recorded its lowest temperature for this date since 1888 Monday, and temperatures over the state made comparable plunges in the unseasonable cool spell.
The Topea reading and the overnight low for the state was 58 degrees. The previous low for Topea on this date was 59, recorded in 1888.
The undergraduate scholarship report released today by James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, shows averages based on a system of an A grade as 3.00, b as 2, C as 1, D as 0 and an F as -1.
Women again did markedly better than men. The all-women's average was 1.61, but was down from 1.64 of a year a.o., and compared to 1.32 for all men, who lost .01 from the previous year. The all university was 1.41.
Although differences are but a few hundredths of a point, the all-undergraduate marks were a five-year low. One assumption is that standards of grading have risen, for other studies show that during the period the quality of entering students also has gone up. Simultaneously there seems to have been an increase in the attention of students to academic matters.
Pi Beta Phi won the scholarship cup among sororites with a 1.98 average. Kappa Alpha Theta was second with 1.92, a reversal of their positions a year ago. Chi Omega was third with 1.88 while Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Kappa Gamma were fourth and fifth with 1.74.
Beta Theta Pi again won the fraternity scholarship trophy with 1.84, but Alpha Tau Omega with 1.76 posed the strongest challenge in several years. Phi Delta Theta was third with 1.60 followed by Sigma Chi, 1.58 and Upsilon I. 1.55.
Jollife topped the men's scholarship halls with a 1.89 average.
The all women's scholarship hall average for four halls was 1.98, nearly all B; for five men's scholarship halls, 1.79; for 13 sororities, 1.72, and for 29 fraternities, 1.36.
The average in women's residence halls was 1.35 and in men's residence halls it was 1.20.
Pointing up the slight downward trend in average grades: 6 of 9 scholarship halls fared worse in 1958-59 than in the previous year; 8 of 13 sororites had declines, while 16 of 29 fraternities fell off.
Ike to Meet Reporters
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— President Eisenhower will hold a news conference Wednesday morning, the White House announces.
LET'S BE RIGHT!!!—State highway patrol recruits are shown undergoing class room instruction in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union. They are listening to a 50-minute lecture on uniform traffic laws, one of 14 lectures they will have on that subject. The 21 recruits (not all pictured) started training July 13 and most will graduate Sept. 20. Classes start at 7 a.m. Monday through Friday and finish about 9 p.m. In the background is instructor-trooper Joe Murphy (in uniform) and Lt. Carl Gray.