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Summer Session Kansan
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Tuesday. June 11, 1957
Chairmanship Change In Five Departments
Changes in the chairmanships of five departments within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have been announced by George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The shifts became effective July 1.
Dr. Frank C. Foley, professor of geology, state geologist and director of the State Geological Survey, will assume the duties of chairman of the department of geology. He will succeed Dr. M. L. Thompson, chairman the past three years, who resigned to join the Illinois State Geological Survey as director of research.
To assist Dr. Foley in his broadened administrative duties, Dr. William W. Hambleton, associate professor of geology, will be associate director of the State Geological Survey; and Dr. Charles W. Fitrat, assistant professor of geology, will be assistant chairman of the department of geology.
Dean Waggoner said, "We feel this move of more closely integrating the university's teaching department with the State Survey, one of the nation's largest state service and research units of its kind, will add to the effectiveness of both.
Dr. Ronald L. McGregor, associate professor of botany, will become acting chairman of the department of botany, succeeding Dr. Robert W. Baxter, associate professor, who requested relief from administrative duties, and who will remain on the
teaching staff. Dr. McGregor, a KU alumnus, has been a member of the faculty since 1951.
Dr. J. Neale Carman, professor of Romance languages, will succeed Dr. William H. Shoemaker as chairman of that department. Dr. Shoemaker goes to the University of Illinois as chairman of the Spanish department. Dr. Carman,a KU alumnus, has taught here for 39 years.
Dr. David Paretsky, associate professor of bacteriology, will become chairman of the department of bacteriology, replacing Dr. E. Lee Treece. Dr. Treece, who is approaching the mandatory retirement age for administrators, asked early relief because of his health. He will continue on the teaching faculty.
Joseph F. Meisels, associate professor of social work, will become chairman of that department, succeeding Miss Esther Twente, who has been chairman since the organization of the separate department. Miss Twente requested relief from administrative duties. Professor Meisels was acting chairman during Miss Twente's recent leave to hold a Fulbright lectureship in Australia.
Kansas City Man To Head Alumni
Paul J. Adam, partner and manager of the Kansas City office of Arthur Young & Co., accountants, will be president of the Uuniversity Alumni Assn. for the coming year.
The election of Adam and other officers was announced at the annual meeting of the Associations June 2. They were chosen in a mail ballot election in which 3,740 paid members voted, a new high for an election in the association.
Mrs. Stearns N. (Clarice Sloan) Belden, Topeka, was named vice president. She is a member of the class of 1935. Adam was graduated from the School of Business in 1933. Both will serve one-year terms.
Clyde M. Reed, Jr., publisher of the Parsons Daily Sun and retiring president of the Alumni Assn., was elected to a 5-year term on the board of directors, as was Dr. Galen W. Fields of Scott City.
William R. Hogan, Kansas City, Mo., is the retiring vice president. Leaving the board of directors are Maurice L. Breedential, Sr., Kansas City, Kan., and Paul O. Masoner, Garden City.
At the Cameron Creek ruins, in southwestern New Mexico, archaeologists found a series of "burial jars" used by the Mimbrenes Indians. These prehistoric people placed a large jar in the grave of the deceased and then drilled a hole through the base so the spirit of the jar would escape with the soul of the dead.
Promotions in academic rank for 82 members of the University of Kansas faculty have been announced by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy. Thirty-five of the promotions are for faculty on the Lawrence campus and 47 are at the KU medical Center in Kansas City.
KU Faculty Members Receive Promotions
The promotions on the Lawrence campus, each being from the next lower rank:
Robert Ridgway, education; Richard Rundqist, education; Charles Saunders, business; Richard Sheridan, economics; Rhoten Smith, political science; Harrison Tordoff, zoology: EWike Wide. psychology.
To Professor: Miss Agnes Brady, Romance Languages; William E. McEwen, chemistry; George Springer, mathematics; Miss Joe Stapleton, physical education.
To Associate Professor: Dwight Burnham, drawing and painting; William Conboy, speech and drama; Louis Dellwig, geology; William F. Donoghue, mathematics; James Dykes, journalism.
Ronald McGregor, botany; Joseph Meisels, social work; Franklyn Nelick, English; Floyd Preston, petroleum engineering; Domingo Ricart, Romance languages.
William Gilbert, history; Edward Grier, English; Henry Horak, physics and astronomy; Robert Johannsen, history; Clayton Krehbiel, music education.
To Assistant Professor: Irwin Baird, anatomy; Roger English, design; George W. Forman, mechanical engineering; Miss Muriel Johnson, home economics; Kevin Jones petroleum engineering; Arno Knapaper, secretarial training; Charles Staley, economics; James Serritt, architecture; Edward A. Maser, art history.
Prof. Page Receives Award
Richard T. Page, associate professor of civil engineering, has received the Meritorious Achievement Award for 1957 of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. He was cited as a member of the Industrial Ventilation Committee. The group was recognized for their research and preparation of an industrial ventilation manual which has received worldwide distribution.
Wood warblers, tiny jewels in their bright spring feathers, feed on caterpillars and other foliage-eating insects. Swallows, which catch their food on the wing, await a time to move north when insects are flying.
In the United States, cats outnumber canines by almost 4 million, according to a study conducted by a pet food manufacturer. The firm estimated there are more than 27 million cats in the country today.
Assistant Dean Added To Staff
The appointment of Miss Patricia Patterson as an assistant dean of women was announced Friday by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Miss Patterson will be an addition to the staff. Miss Emily Taylor is dean of women and Miss Mary Hardman is the other assistant dean. The enrolment of women at KU is nearly 2,300 with an increasing proportion living in university-operated housing for which the dean of women's office has counseling responsibility.
Miss Patterson, whose home is Pittsburgh will receive the master of science degree in education
PATRICIA PATTERSON
this month from Indiana University. She will assume her duties July 1.
For the past two years Miss Patterson has been a women's residence hall counselor at Indiana University and this year was named assistant in the central counseling and activities office of women's residence halls.
Received B.S. from University of Nebraska
After graduation from Pittsburgh High school; Miss Patterson attended Colorado Women's College and Baker University and received the B.S. degree in education from the University of Nebraska in 1951. She was an airline hostess from Braniff International Airways for two years and taught first grade in the Kansas City, Kan., public schools two years before undertaking graduate work at Indiana.