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University Daily Kansan Monday. April 13. 1950
HONOR GUEST—Mrs. Joseph R. Pearson is flanked by KU officials at dinner Saturday marking formal dedication of Joseph R. Pearson dormitory. From left, Fred Ellsworth, Alumni Assn., executive secretary; Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy; J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, and L.C. Woodruff, dean of students.
Typhoid Brought Benefactors to KU
Joseph R. Pearson Hall might be called "the house that typhoid built," said Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy Saturday night at the dedicatory dinner in Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
The dinner was the highlight of a weekend open house where Mrs. Joseph R. Pearson, a widow and noted contributor to four of KU's residence halls, was honored.
The chancellor said:
"In 1885, Dr. A. B. Sellards and his brother were on their way to Denver when they heard there was a typhoid epidemic near Lawrence. They stayed to help fight the epidemic and later settled in Kansas.
"Dr. Sellards had heard there was a likely-looking college near Lawrence.
"Now many of our students are infected with the KU virus, and they never get rid of it. It's a life-long disease."
"One of Dr. Sellards' girls is our very special guest this evening. It is not given to me the kind of words needed to describe this person. I will only say I give to you a lovely and noble lady whom we honor this evening with the memory of her noble husband." Chancellor Murphy said.
The guests and students stood and applauded Mrs. Joseph R. Pearson
James P. Kirk, president of the dormitory council, said, "Mrs. Pearson, special guests...I would like to thank you very much for giving us a wonderful place to live."
Mrs. Pearson wore a blue shantung silk suit with a white orchid, given by the residents of the dormitory, on her left shoulder. She wore a white flowered hat complemented with a pearl necklace and earrings.
In an interview Sunday afternoon. Mrs.Pearson said:
"Mr. Pearson thought students would be happier in school if they had nice homes. I think a student who comes to KU and makes many friends here will never forget his university."
Mrs. Pearson said that during the dinner Saturday night she noticed one of the boys looking at her, "I know he wanted to sit."
"I knew he wanted to talk to me, she said. "I went over and asked him if he was one of the boys who had given me this corsage. He said he
Ex-Kansan Editors Find Steady Work
Three former members of the University Daily Kansan staff are again working together—but not from choice. They are now staff members of the Fort Wood Sentinel, a weekly, off-set publication at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
Daryl Hall and Dick Walt, class of 1957, are serving as editor and managing editor of the newspaper, and Bob Hartlev, a 1958 graduate, is a reporter. All three had been Daily Kansan editors.
was, and he thanked me for helping to give him and his fellow students such a nice place to live."
During the dedicatory dinner, L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, said:
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"Today's universities are more concerned with the housing of students while yesterday they were not."
He gave a brief history of yesterday's universities in the Old World, explaining that only the academic part of education was emphasized.
He said England's universities first dealt not only with the academic but the cultural and political sides of education.
"It was quite natural that our universities should follow England's pattern." He then reviewed the rise of concern for educational housing, citing the 1802 food riots in the East.
"They were called 'pantry raids,' he explained.
"Regardless of the cost, I'm sure Joseph R. Pearson Hall will have a greater effect on the students than the football coach or the professor of biology." Dean Woodruff concluded.
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Two KU faculty members said Friday at the Current Events Forum that fall-out from nuclear testing is not an immediate danger to the American people.
L. Worth Seagondollar, associate professor of physics, and John Weir, associate professor of zoology, spoke on the limits of radioactive fall-out and possible damage to human cells.
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Prof. Seagondollar said that the average amount of radiation fall-out a person would receive from fall-out is one-tenth of a roentgen over a thirty year period (a roentgen is
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More than 400 persons attended the opening exhibition of the works of Grant Wood yesterday afternoon at the Museum of Art.
"In the laboratory I receive one tenth a day, so I am not too worried. A quantitative amount like that is not bad," he said.
an international unit of quantity of X-rays).
400 Attend Grant Wood Exhibit Opening Sunday
A public reception launched the exhibit of Wood's works, to be shown here through May 30. Associated Women Students members assisted at the reception.
Prof. Weir said we must be aware of the possible effects of extremely dangerous radiation.
He said he was concerned about the possible damage to germ plasm which would affect future generations.
"I think we had a very fine turn-out for the reception considering the weather," said Mrs. Martha Remick, assistant to the Museum director.
Prof. Seagondollar said the alpha and beta particles, if received externally, would do no damage.
"The opinion seems to be that 'Parson Weeens' Fable' is the favorite picture in the exhibit. People like this story of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree the best," Mrs. Remick said.
The Wood exhibition includes 54 works taken from the East and West coasts and from midwestern collections. It is the last in the series of the works of the three regionalist painters. The other exhibitions showed the work of John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton.
In connection with the Wood exhibition, a special sales exhibition of lithographs by Curry, Beenton, and Wood has been arranged by the Museum.
A display of 19 original signed lithographs by these three artists, loaned by the Associated American Artists Gallery in New York City is in the small gallery on the second floor of the Museum. These prints are for sale to the public.
The Museum receives no commission from the sale. It organized it because of the great demand noticed each year among persons wanting to own works by the three regionalists.
"It is the gamma rays, both internal and external, we have to worry about. They are the main source of body damage," he said.
He said the solution would be to stop anything that is putting gamma rays into the air.
"But it is not this simple. It is necessary that we have atomic testing. It doesn't appear that any trust between the United States and Russia exists, so we must maintain a retaliatory force," he said.
Prof. Seagondollar, quoting a report from the National Academy of Sciences, said that spontaneous mutations resulting from radioactive fall-out could be the cause of certain diseases.
"But we must discount the harm of atomic testing by presenting the advantages," he said.
Prof. Weir said that spontaneous mutations are almost all harmful.
"The price of accumulated mutations is genetic death. Some good can occur with the bad, but most mutations are dangerous," he said.
Prof. Weir said that the United States could work at discontinuation of atomic testing to prevent dangerous effects of fall-out.
"Bold moves and gambles may be necessary," he said.
The instructors agreed that fallout is not the only source of radiation.
"Until fall-out becomes a much greater problem, we will do nothing." Prof. Seagondollar said.
Prof. Weir suggested that the public be more truthfully informed about atomic testing and the effects.
"Because some think the safest way is to 'classify' information, the press releases are misleading," he said.
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