SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
45th Year, No.13
Friday, July 26, 1957
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
3 New Profs Fill Vacancies On Geology Staff
Dr. Wakefield Dort, Jr., and Dr. Elliott Gillerman have been appointed associate professors and Dr. Kenneth Hamblin assistant professor in the department of geology, the Chancellor's office announced Thursday.
Dr. Gillerman holds A.B, and M.S. degrees from Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., in 1934 and 1937 respectively; and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas, in 1953. He was with the U. S. Geological Survey for nine years before serving on the University of Texas faculty. He has given intensive study to florspar deposits in the Southwest and to uranium deposits in New Mexico.
Dr. Dort comes from Pennsylvania State University, where he has been assistant professor since 1950. He earned the B.S. degree from Harvard University in 1944, the M.S. from California Institute of Technology in 1948 and the Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1952. He has served with the U. S. Geological Survey, taught at Duke University two years, and was a geomorphologist at Stanford from 1950 to 1952. Oil and gas geology, water supply and glacial and arid regional geomorphology are among his specialties.
Hamblin From Michigan
Dr. Hanblin earned the B. S. degree from Brigham Young University and has just received the Ph.D degree from the University of Michigan, where he has been a part-time teacher the past three years
The three fill vacancies on the faculty. Dr. M. L. Thompson, former chairman, has become principal geologist for the Illinois State Geological Survey. Dr. Walter L. Youngquist has taken a professorship at the University of Oregon. Dr. Oswald C. Farquhar, assistant professor, is going to the University of Massachusetts where Dr. H. T. U. Smith, who left KU in 1956, is chairman of the geology department.
In the realignment of departmental duties Dr. Frank C. Foley, director of the State Geological Survey, has added the position of department chairman and Dr. Charles W. Pitrat, assistant professor, has been made assistant chairman.
Extra Preview Is Scheduled
Late season demand has brought about the scheduling of an additional KU Preview for Friday and Saturday, Carl G. Fahrbach, Jr., assistant director of admissions, said Wednesday.
Enrollment for the sixth preview Monday and Tuesday had to be cut off at 210. Fahrbach said. Already about 80 have applied for the additional event.
Overnight housing for a maximum of 200 each session is arranged and meals are served in the Student Union cafeteria.
At KU Previews, new students accomplish placement examinations, the physical examinations and confer with their advisers. This reduces their load during orientation week in September.
Fahrbach said 803 freshmen and advanced standing students attended previews in 1956. Registrations this year have passed that figure. However, because the previews are a voluntary program they do not provide an accurate measure of September's new student total, he said.
—Photo Bureau
FOREIGN STUDENTS — Dr. J. A. Burkle, professor of German and director of the KU Foreign Student Orientation Center, greets two new arrivals at the center. The students are (from left) Marciano N. Patolot, Philippines,
and Miss Mohini Chaddah, Kenya. KU is the Midwest center and one of nine such centers established throughout the U. S. by an act of Congress in 1950.
3 Physics Profs Appointed
Dr. R. C. Sapp, Dr. Francis W.
Prosser, Jr., and Dr. William R.
Wright will become assistant professors of physics in September, it was announced Wednesday by the Chancellor's office.
The addition of the three brings to 11 the number of professors on the physics faculty at KU. One vacancy remains, left by Prof. Max Dresden, theoretical physicist
Dr. Prosser, a native of Wichita, was a Summerfield scholar at KU while earning the B.S. degree in engineering physics in 1950. He received the M.S. degree from Kansas in 1954 and the Ph.D. in
1955. He held a National Science Foundation fellowship for two years. His field is nuclear physics and for the past two years he has been a research associate in that field at Rice Institute, Houston, Texas.
Dr. Sapp, who earned the Ph.D degree from Ohio State University in 1955, also has been research associate at Rice Institute for two years.
Dr. Wright received the Ph.D degree in theoretical physics from Harvard University last month. He also earned the A.B. degree in 1951, and the M.A. in 1952 from Harvard.
—Pnoto Bureau
SEIZE AND SEARCH—Members of the Kansas Peace Officers Training School undergo instruction in methods of searching suspects for weapons. Sgt. Richard O. Hooper, Kansas City, Mo., (center) instructs as Don Pickett, Great Bend, practices search methods on his brother, Jim Pickett, Ellinwood.
methods on his brother, Jim Pickett, Ellinwood
Concerts
The final concerts presented by the Midwestern Music and Art Camp will be Sunday, July 28. Guest conductors will be Lloyd Pfautsch, University of Illinois choral music director and Victor Allessandio, conductor of the San Antonio Symphony.
Orchestra-Ballet-Chorus
Sunday, July 28, 3:30 p.m.
Hoch Auditorium
Theme Song: Irish Tune from
County Derry, Grainger.
Orchestra: The Impresario, Overture. Mozart.
Ballet and Orchestra: Petite Suite de Concert, Coleridge-Taylor, Choreography by Robert Bell. Gwen De Jong and Ernst De Jong, Guest artists.
ry of the Karander Prince Rimsky-Korsakov, Mr. Carney, Conducting. Chorus: The Heavens Are Telling from "The Creation," Haydn, Judy Mayhan, Emporia, soprano; Kent Hirst, Leroy, tenor; Tom Schroeder, Ellinwood, baritone; Calvert Shenk, Osage City, organist; Mr. Krehbliel, Conducting. The Lobster Quadrille from Alice in Wonderland, Fine; The Lamb, George; Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite from Samson," Handel; Mr. Plausch, Conducting; accompanist: Evelyn
Orchestra: Scheherazade, The Story of the Kalander Prince Rimsky-Korsakov, Mr. Carnev, Conducting.
Band-Chorus
Sunday, July 28, 8:00 p.m.
KU Outdoor Theater
Theme Song: Irish Tune from
County Derry, Grainger.
Band: William Tell, Overture, Rossini, Mr. Wilev, Conducting.
Chorus: Brazilian Psalm, Berger.
Mr. Krehbiel, Conducting; Ave Maria, Bruckner; Riddle Me This-Answer: The Cow, Bergsma; Free At Last, Pfautsch, Mr. Pfautsch, Conducting; O God Our Help in Ages Past, Hatten, Mr. Krehbiel, Conducting.
Band: Chorale and Alleluia, Hanson; Psalm, Marcello; Largo and Minuetto from Symphony 88, Haydn; Excerpts from the Manzoni Requiem, Verdi, Mr. Allessandro, Conducting.
Announcement of Awards: Dean Thomas Gorton, University School of Fine Arts.
Band: Overture 1812, Tschakowsky, Mr. Wilev, Conducting.
Theme Song.
Planning Starts For $3,000,000 KU Dormitories
Preliminary planning and site testing now is underway at the University for the construction of two huge dormitories, each housing 432 students, in hopes that they can be completed by 1959, in time to alleviate the rapidly growing housing problem at KU, Joseph J. Wilson, director of dormitories, said today.
Cost of the project will be approximately $3,000,000. Financing will be from gifts, from KU's share of the $1/4-mill statewide dormitory fund levy, and an anticipated $2,400,- 000 loan from the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency.
The two dormitories will be located on "the Daisy field" property of the KU Endowment Association. The hilltop meadow is west of the main campus. It is bounded on the west by Iowa Street, which carries the US 59 by-pass, by 15th Street on the north, by Engel Road on the east, and by the property of Prof. Emil B. Dade on the south.
Donald R. Hollis, Kansas City, Kans., has been named associate architect for the project, working under John Brink, state architect of Kansas. Hollis will prepare plans for the unit to be known as Lewis Hall for men and will be responsible for developing the site. Brink's office in Topeka will draft plans for the second hall, which is unnamed.
Lewis Hall will be named for the late L. N. Lewis, a Lawrence merchant who made a substantial bequest to KU.
Hollis is making a study as to how many halls can be built on the site, how they can best be arranged and how the drives, walks, parking and recreational areas can be laid out.
Wilson said use of the second hall will be determined by whether the need for men's or women's housing is greater at the time.
The halls will resemble the $1,600,000 Joseph R. Pearson Hall for men on which construction will start next month. The frame will be re-enforced concrete, with block interior walls. Rooms will be 2-man capacity.
Each hall will be an elongated "I" with lounges and other common facilities at the center, which is the pattern of Carruth and O'Leary Halls. The office of the state architect has used the pattern as a prototype in planning dormitories at all state schools. The plan permits the housing of enough students to gain efficient operation, Wilson said, but keeps the number in each corridor small enough for desirable living groups.
Each building will have seven floors with no basement. The bedrock foundation makes excavation costs prohibitive. Wilson explained.
Free Outdoor Movies Tonight
The final Friday night movie, "The Golden Twenties" will be shown tonight at 8:00 p.m. east of Robinson Gym. It will be moved inside in case of rain.
Weather
Mostly cloudy this afternoon. Scattered thunderstorms extreme east tonight and over state this afternoon or evening. Little change in temperature. Low tonight in 60s except 70 southwest and extreme south, High today near 90.