SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Friday, August 2, 1957
45th Year, No.15
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
ELMO R. RICHARDSON
ROBERT G. COLODNY
Assistant Prof, Instructor Join History Department
Dr. Robert G. Colodny will be visiting assistant professor of history and Dr. Elmo R. Richardson will be instructor in American history at the University effective September 1.
Dr. Colodny will take the place of Dr. Oswald P. Backus III, who will hold a Fulbright fellowship in Finland. Dr. Colodny received the Ph.D. degree in 1950 from the University of California at Berkeley. He since has taught at San Francisco State College and at Wesleyan University in Middletown. Conn.
Dr. Richardson received the Ph.D. degree last month from the University of California at Los Angeles. He earned the master's degree from the
University of Illinois in 1952. His major research interest is the conservation movement.
The latter appointment enables the history department to re-assign courses and fill the vacancies resulting from a leave given to Dr. Robert W. Johannsen, assistant professor, as chairman of the Western Civilization committee.
Dr. Johannsen, who has taught at KU since 1954, will be visiting professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, teaching courses in recent American history and the Civil War period.
Nuclear Program Grows
Faculty appointments that will strengthen the chemical engineering teaching program in nuclear techniques at KU were announced Thursday by the Chancellor's office.
Dr. Russell B. Mesler, assistant professor and project engineer since 1955 for the University of Michigan's nuclear reactor project, will be associate professor. Dr. Harold F. Rosson, a heat transfer specialist with experience in atomic energy work both in the Air Force and at Rice Institute, will be assistant professor. John Lohrenz, a candidate for the Ph.D. degree at KU will be an instructor. Dr. Frank C. Fowler of Kansas City, Mo., a consultant to industry and to the Midwest Research Institute, has been re-appointed visiting professor for the coming year.
Dr. Mesler, whose home was Kansas City, Mo., received the B. S. degree from KU in 1949 and for two years was employed in the Colgate-Palmolive plant in Kansas City, Kansas. In 1951-52 he attended the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology and in 1952-53 became a teaching fellow at the University of Michigan where he earned the M. S. degree, in 1953, and the Ph.D. degree in 1955. He joined the Michigan reactor project in 1953. His doctoral dissertation dealt with influence of superatmospheric pressures on nuclear boiling. He has had published numerous articles dealing with nuclear chemistry and reactors.
Dr. Rosson is completing his degree work this summer at Rice Institute. He earned the B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Rice in 1949. He worked with a U. S. Air Force electronic team on a special weapons project. In 1951 he entered the Air Force as a private and was released a first lieutenant in 1954. For two years he was a nuclear officer, responsible for surveillance and maintenance of nuclear weapons.
Lohrenz earned the B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Kansas State College in 1952. For a year he was a chemist for the Ethyl Corporation in Baton Rouge, La., and then studied for the M. S. degree from the University of Oklahoma. In 1954 he came to KU to work for a doctorate degree and held the Phillips Petroleum Company fellowship. For the past two years he has been in the U. S. Army.
Dr. Fowler holds degrees from the University of Illinois and University of Michigan, where he received the Ph.D. in 1943. He had three years of industrial experience with the Phillips Petroleum Company and for six years was professor at the University of Oklahoma. Since 1952 he has been a consultant with headquarters in Kansas City, Mo.
Student Returns From Tour
selected from finalists representing ten engineering schools.
John M. McCann, Shawnee senior in civil engineering, returned this week from an extensive tour of major civil engineering construction projects in eastern United States. The six-weeks all expensepaid trip was part of the award he received last spring from Armco Drainage and Metal Products, Inc.
"The tour was designed to enable us to acquire practical experience in heavy construction and to meet important people in the field of civil engineering," McCann said.
McCann was one of two winners
The men traveled from Armco's home office in Middletown, Ohio, through the eastern states by plane.
6 KU Students Given Foreign Study Awards
Foreign study scholarship appointments for six KU students have been announced by Dr. John H. Nelson, dean of the Graduate School.
Robert Hugh Masterson, Pittsburg, has been appointed a Fulbright scholar to study physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. Masterson earned the B.S. in physics degree from KU in June. The Fulbright award, made by the President's Board of Foreign Scholarships, provides transportation, fees and maintenance for the 1957-58 school year. He had previously been named KU's exchange scholar to the Institute of Technology in the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Jesse M. McNellis, Deerfield, has been named the University's exchange scholar to the Institute of Technology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, replacing Masterson. McNellis received the B.S. in geology degree from KU in June and will do graduate study in geology in Zurich.
JoAnn Jersild, Brooklyn, N. Y., will receive a "thank-stipend" from the Federal Republic of Germany for study at the University of Freiburg. The award, created to express West Germany's gratitude for post-war rebuilding aid from the United States, is aimed at furthering cultural ties between the two nations. Miss Jersild, who received the A.B. degree in June with a double major in English and philosophy, had been appointed KU's exchange scholar to the University of Munster.
Sally Frances Barta, Kansas City Mo., will hold the University's exchange scholarship to the University of Munster, Germany. She received the A.B. degree in June, majoring in chemistry.
Zelda Penzel, Brooklyn, N.Y. graduate student, has been awarded a French government assistance grant and a Fulbright travel grant to attend Le College Sophie-Germain in Paris, where she will study French language and literature. She previously had been appointed KU's exchange scholar to the University of Clermont-Ferrand.
Sally Schroeder, who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from KU, has been appointed the exchange scholar to Clermont-Ferrand, which is in southern France. She lives in Lawrence.
Women Surpass Men In Scholastic Standings
KU women held a considerable edge over KU men in scholarship during the 1956-57 academic year, according to an undergraduate scholarship report issued by the registrar and director of admissions.
The all-women's average was reported at 1.69, while the KU males trailed below the all-University average with a 1.36. The all-university average was 1.46.
Organized houses with the highest grade point averages were scholarship halls for women. Douthart Hall, with a membership of 51, was the highest of all organized houses on the hill with a 2.18. Second was Miller Hall, with a membership of 55, a 2.15; third, Watkins Hall, 50, with a 2.11.
Kappa Alpha Theta Is Fourth The fourth highest grade point average for organized houses was held by Kappa Alpha Theta, national social sorority, with a 2.07. Sellards Hall, a University Scholarship hall for women, and Pi Beta Phi, national social sorority, tied for fifth with 2.06.
Foster Hall, a University scholarship hall for men, was sixth with a 2.00. Stephenson was seventh with a 1.92.
The highest grade point average for any group was 2.68, held by Phi Alpha Theta, honorary fraternity for men in history. Second highest for any group was 2.65, Phi Beta Kappa; third was 2.63, Pi Delta Phi, honorary French fraternity; fourth was Omicron Nu, 2.56, and fifth, Pi Sigma Alpha with a 2.55.
Of the professional fraternities and sororites, Phi Delta Kappa was first with a 2.52; La Confrerie second with a 2.48, the Owl Society third with a 2.11, and Phi Mu Alpha fourth with a 2.07.
Highest among University dormitories for men was Carruth-O'Leary Hall with a 1.27. Among the coops, Hill Co-op was highest with a 1.79, and Rochdale Co-op second with a 1.45.
Callery To Move Office
Callery Chemical Co., which recently established a new plant at Lawrence, announced it will move its national administrative office from Callery, Pa., to a new building at Commodore Perry Square, Pittsburgh, August 1.
Weather
Asiatic Flu Virus Vaccine Has Been Ordered By KU
Fair and continued hot except for widely scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms extreme northwest portion this afternoon and tonight. Low tonight 65 extreme northwest to 70-75 elsewhere. High today 95-100.
Enough vaccine to innoculate the entire campus population against the Asiatic flu virus has been ordered by the University Student Health Service, Dr. Maurice Gross, acting director of the service said Thursday.
Dr. Gross said that the regular influenza inoculations which are given to the students during the regular semesters would not be effective against Asiatic flu, and that a special vaccine is needed.
He was not sure what the cost of the Asiatic flu inoculations would be, but that "we hope it will be no more than the regular flu shots." Flu shots last year cost the students a dollar each.
An epidemic caused by a new virus dubbed Asiatic or Oriental flu has been sweeping the Far East for several months. There have been scattered outbreaks of the highly contagious illness in this country in the past couple of months. No deaths from the virus
have been reported in this country.
Health Service experts have said there is a chance of a widespread sweep of influenza in this country this fall. They have said repeatedly, however, there is no prospect of a repetition of the terrible flu epidemic of 1918 which killed hundreds of thousands here and abroad.
Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the U.S. Health Service made a comprehensive report to the nation Thursday on the flu situation. Burney outlined plans drawn up by the Health Service in case a major epidemic breaks out in the U.S.
Dr. Gross of the KU Health Service said the Asiatic flu is not so serious as the 1918 type, and that it causes sickness for only three or four days.
Dr. Burney's announcement was aimed at calming those who feared the flu situation was getting out of hand. It also sounded a warning against over-compacility.
KU Prof Gets Exchange Grant
Dr. Edward H. Taylor, professor of zoology at KU, has received a United States Educational Exchange grant, under the Fulbright Act, to lecture during the 1957-58 year at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand.
EDWARD H. TAYLOR
Dr. Taylor, a KU alumnus and a faculty member for 31 years, is an internationally known authority on reptiles. He currently is serving a two-year term as president of the 900-member American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
While in Thailand Dr. Taylor will also collect specimens of snakes and other reptiles. He will be returning to a part of the world in which he made extensive exploration and collections 45 years ago when he was a school supervisor and later chief of the division of fisheries in the Philippine Islands. He since has assembled one of the finest collections of reptile life from Mexico and neighboring areas.
Last winter Dr. Taylor completed publication of a four-volume. 1.100-page study of herpetological life in Costa Rica.
McClung Accepts Job At Univ. Of Georgia
Dr. Norvel M. McClung, assistant professor of botany at KU, has accepted appointment as associate professor of bacteriology at the University of Georgia, effective September 1.
Although Dr. McClung will officially be changing teaching fields, his research interests in micro-organisms have required major use of bacteriological techniques. For the past year he held a $6,300 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service for study of fungus disease that attacks man and animals. Last fall he was invited to give a paper at the Asia and Oceania regional conference on electron microscopy, held in Tokyo, Japan.
Dr. McClung joined the KU faculty in 1948. He holds the A.B. degree from Glenville, West Va., State College, the M.S. from the University of Michigan, and the Ph.D., in 1949, from Michigan.