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Summer Session Kansan Friday, June 21, 1957
10 Receive Engineering Awards
The fourth annual award of the Schlumberger Collegiate Award to a student at KU has been announced by T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The recipient of the $500.00 sum for the school year of 1957-58 will be Richard G. Hinderliter, Wichita senior.
Selection of the scholar is on a competitive basis, taking into consideration high academic standing, and that the student earn 12 hours of credit in the study of electricity.
In addition the Foundation gives the School of Engineering and Architecture $500.00 annually to be used for the welfare of the school for matters for which state funds are not provided.
Hindderliber has a grade point average of 2.4. He has been on the Dean's Honor Roll four semesters and has been elected to Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Tau, national honorary engineering fraternities.
Bruce F. Bird, Kansas City, Kan.
sophomore, has been awarded the
Alfred M. Myers Scholarship donated
by the Kansas City Structural
Steel Company of Kansas City. He is majoring in Civil Engineering.
The award is $500.00 annually for a freshman student in civil engineering, and provided the recipient meets the terms of the scholarship,
it will be renewed for a maximum of five years.
The George E. Nettles Scholarship for the year 1957-58 has been awarded to Gary L. Thompson, Wellington sophomore.
The scholarship for the sophomore in the Engineering School is for $650 annually for four years provided that the student maintains a high grade point average.
Selections are to be made to worthy students, with preference given to engineering students. They are selected on the basis of financial need, character, scholarship and future usefulness to society.
The Howard A. Fitch Scholarship donated by the Kansas City Structural Steel Company of Kansas City, Kan. to Robert Fessenden, a sophomore in civil engineering from Mission, Kansas, has been renewed.
The award is $500 annuity for a student in civil engineering at the University of Kansas.
The scholarship is intended to create interest in civil engineering and the structural steel industry. The student recipients are offered summer employment in the Kansas
City plant in addition to their scholarship during the academic year
If the recipient meets the terms of the scholarship it will be renewed for a maximum of five years.
Fessenden was graduated from Shawnee Mission High School in 1956 with an outstanding academic and extra-curricular record. He has a grade point average of 1.83 out of a possible 3.00.
Gerald M. Simmons, Parsons junior, enrolled in Chemical Engineering has been awarded the Cities Service Oil Co. Scholarship.
The award for the 1957-58 school year is worth $600.00 in cash to the student. Cities Service Oil Co. of Bartlesville, Okla., makes the award to a student who will be a senior in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The winners are selected from the departments of chemical, civil, electrical, geological, mechanical, and petroleum engineering by the respective chairmen of departments and the dean of the school. Selection is on the basis of scholarship, extra-curricular activities, personality and ability to get along with associates.
The students are also offered summer employment at the conclusion of their junior year with the oil company.
Simmons has a grade point average of 2.75 out of a possible 3.00. He has been on the Dean's Honor Roll every semester at KU and is a member of the Navy R. O. T. C.
The award of three scholarships called the Ahrens Scholarships in Engineering has been announced. These are the second annual award of the scholarships.
Each of the three students, who are all entering freshmen, will receive $250 each for the 1957-58 school year.
The Ahrens family of Paola endowed the scholarships for graduates of public high schools in Miami County. Criteria for selection includes scholarship, leadership, character and need for assistance.
The recipients will be: Donald Lee Homrighraime, Paola; Gary F. Read, Osawatomie, and Edward Arthur Simons, Rock Creek. Usually only two Ahrens scholars are appointed, but the accumulated income permitted a third award this year.
The renewal of the Kansas Contractors Association, Inc., Scholarship to Robert Larson Luce, Ottawa sophomore, in civil engineering has been announced.
Dean Carr said the award was made to Luce for $500 and is renewable for two additional years provided he meets the scholastic requirements. Luce was first awarded the scholarship in the fall of 1956 and was the first student to receive the scholarship.
The award was made to Gordon L. Culp, Lawrence freshman. The award is for $500.
This is the second year a freshman has been selected. An additional freshman will be selected each year under the above conditions until eventually there will be a maximum of four of these outstanding scholarships in the school.
The second annual award of the Kansas Contractors Association, Inc. Scholarship to a freshman has also been announced.
The scholars are selected by the freshman engineering scholarship committee on the basis of academic ability and financial need. Preference is given to residents of Kansas and graduates of Kansas high schools who are planning to major in civil engineering.
Culp was graduated from Lawrence High School last spring and was valedictorian of a class of 209 students. His activities in high school include membership in the Science Club.
Outdoor Movies To Be Shown Today
The KU Summer Recreational Program will include the showing of free movies outside Robinson Gym each Friday at 8:00 p.m. In case of rain the films will be shown inside. The films to be shown tonight are "Folk Festivals in Germany," "Africa Fauna," and "Death Valley National Monument." Total running time for the 3 films will be approximately one hour.
Barn owls are valuable rat catchers and are seldom seen because they carry on their activities at night.
Thomas A. Edison's claim to being sole inventor of the incandescent lamp was upheld by the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
MAGNOVOX HI-FI from $3950 up
Student STUDY FANS
A must this summer $995
Hotpoint Air Conditioners
SMITH-HODGSON
729 Mass.
FREEMAN Moccasins
Brown or Black — Sizes AA to D to 13 $1295
Royal College Shop
837 Mass.