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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 11, 1957
NORTH WOODS AT KU—In a lively north woods setting, two stuffed moose lower their heads in battle behind a plate glass window at Dyche Museum. The scene is part of a wildlife
panorama now under construction at the museum. Stretching around four walls of the main floor, the panorama portrays wildlife and vegetation from the arctic climates to the subtropics.
Panorama Presents Lifelike Scenes At Dyche Museum
Four years of reconstruction, including a state-wide search for buffalo grass, was completed on June 1 when the Museum of Natural History in Dyche Hall reopened four sections of the North American Mammal Panorama in conjunction with commencement activities.
The 550 foot panorama is composed of sections representing the life zones in North American from Alaska to Panama. Two sections, the tropical and the southwestern desert, have been open to the public. The sections representing the arctic region of North America will be reopened later.
The four sections opened on June 1 represent the middle and northern sections of the United States and the southern and middle sections of Canada.
Panorama Contains a Lake
Taitokana Contains a Lake
In the center of the panorama a small lake, fed by water from the mountain background, is the setting for a beaver dam. In the background Rocky Mountain goats and elk stand on seemingly precarious perches against the sides of the mountains. A baby buffalo stands perched against the sides of the mountains. A baby buffalo stands near its parents; moose, wolves, mink, white tailed deer, and otters also help compose the scene of North American animals and vegetation.
The larger animals in the panorama are from the original collection of Professor Lewis L. Dyche. The animals were shown at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. After the fair they were returned to KU and in 1901 Dyche Hall was built to house the collection.
There is a suggestion of a Kansas prairie breeze on the Great Plains section as a small current of air moves the grass. The roar of the water as it falls from the rocks can be heard in the quiet of the museum.
Work on the original panorama was started more than 60 years ago. When present reconstruction is finished on the final four sections of the exhibit, the museum will have the largest and most complete panorama of North American animals in the world.
Leafy material in the exhibit was made by hand. The woody material, the mosses, and the lichens were taken from life. One support beam is covered by 20,000 individual leaves to make it appear a natural part of the exhibit.
Long Search for Buffalo Grass
A search for buffalo grass needed to complete the Great Plains section of the panorama, yielded nothing until last fall when one field of the grass was found near Santanta, Kansas. Several hundred gallons of water had to be poured onto the field to moisten the sod before it could be cut. The cutting and loading of the sod was completed the day before the first snow storm of the season. This sod, with the stalks of grass still standing is now a
permanent part of the exhibit.
A second view of the panorama may be seen through a newly opened horizontal window on the second floor of Dvche Hall.
The basement, mezzanine, and three floors of the museum are open to the public without charge from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Sundays and holidays when they are open from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Now Back To The Pickles
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — (UP) — A novel plea got Mrs. Margaret Reneister, 49, out of a pickle Saturday. A judge, after finding Mrs. Renmeister guilty of drunkenness, waived a jail sentence and imposed a $10 fine when she said that a barrel of pickles soaking at home would spoil if she went to jail.
Damage and injury claims paid by the Arkansas Highway Department in 1955-56 amounted to $171,241.
Biology Instructor Receives Fellowship
Donald J. Nash, assistant instructor in biology, has been named recipient of the $2,500 Iowa State College Alumni Achievement Fund Fellowship for graduate study at Iowa State College.
He received the master of science degree from the University this month. His undergraduate work has been in the field of zoology. The Iowa State College Alumni Achievement Fund Graduate Fellowship is one of the top awards at the college and is granted to students in competitive examination all over the United States.
In Love Like Anvone Else
CHEMAN, England — (UP)— Lan Seager, 38, and three feet tall, was married Saturday to Anne Burrough, 23 and five feet six inches tall. "We are in love and our hearts and hopes are like those of anyone else," Seager said.
Application for paroles in Arkansas in 1956 totaled 1,035, of which 876 were granted.
Third Dowell Award Given
Arnold L. Kash, Lawrence senior,
will receive the third annual Dowell
Incorporated Scholarship in the
School of Engineering and Architecture.
He is majoring in petroleum
engineering.
Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School said the award made by the Tulsa, Okla. company is worth $500 for the year, 1957-58.
Kash is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence L. Kash of Lawrence. He has been on the Dean's Honor Roll twice and is a member of Sigma Gamma Epsilon.
In addition to his scholarship the company will give the Department of Petroleum Engineering $200 to be used as the Department wishes.
Nature has carved hundreds of bridges and arches in Utah and Arizona, but Rainbow Bridge dwarfs them all. Rising 309 feet to a graceful, arching span of 278 feet, it is almost broad enough to frame the United States Capitol, says the National Geographic Magazine.
Trustees Re-elect Fund Officials
All principal officers of the Kansas University Endowment Association were re-elected at the annual meeting of trustees June 2.
They are Maurice L. Breidental, Kansas City, Kan., president; Charles B. Holmes, vice president; Irving Hill, treasurer; and Irvin S. Youngberg, executive secretary, all of Lawrence.
Executive committee members will be Lloyd H. Ruppenthal, McPherson; Byron T. Shutz, Kansas City, Mo.; Dolph Simons and A. B. Weaver, both of Lawrence. Weaver replaces Alvin McCoy of Prairie Village.
New trustees chosen were J. L. Constant, Lawrence contractor; Paul Endacott, Bartlesville, Okla.; Dean A. McGee, Oklahoma City, OKla., and Clyde M. Reed, Jr., publisher of the Parsons Daily Sun, Parsons.
Adam Lavenski 34, was fined $150 in district court for driving without a license, then fined an additional $50 when police discovered his license had been revoked 15 years ago.
Weaver's Swimsuit Shop—Second Floor