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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Mav 16, 1952
After 51 Years, He Plans To Relax, Do Research
He has taught for 51 years.
This tells the life story of Floyd O. Russell, associate professor of education, who will retire at the end of the year.
Prof. Russell has served the past 28 years at KU as associate professor of education. Before this he spent 23 years as a teacher and administrator in the public schools of Ohio.
He was one of the Ohio schoolmen instrumental in establishing the Ohio School Code in 1920.
FLOYD O. RUSSELL
Work at KU has included work on the curriculum research room in Bailey Hall. Recently he has served as administrative assistant to Dean Kenneth Anderson of the School of Education. Prof. Russell has taught both campus and Extension courses.
Dean Anderson estimated that Prof. Russell has counseled about 6,000 students during his years at KU.
When asked about future plans, the tall grey-haired man smiled and said. "I may just as well tell you what I have told everyone else.
Old Rocking Chair
"When Mrs. Russell and I were first married, we bought an old type wooden rocker which we have carefully preserved. Since then, we have saved enough money to buy another one.
In the summer, she and I will sit on the east porch in the afternoon and the west porch in the morning. In the winter, we have a register in the living room and one in the dining room to spend our time in front of."
At this point he sat up in his chair, "Things won't be quite that way," he said.
To Study. Write
"I want to do some curriculum research," he said. "And I would like to study and do a little writing."
"Besides this, I like to putter around in my vard in the summer."
Prof. Russell received his A.B. degree from Defiance College in 1915 and his M.A. and Ph. D. degrees from Ohio State University in 1918 and 1922. He came to KU in 1929
Banquet To Honor Foreign Students
A farewell banquet honoring the foreign students leaving the United States after this semester will be held at 6 p.m. Friday in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union.
A picnic will be held at Lone Star Lake following the banquet. Tickets may be purchased at the Student Union ticket booth.
International Club Elects New Officers
Pierre Bonnavaud, Fejetin,
France, graduate student, has been
elected president of the International
Club for next year.
Other officers are Ali Hossaini, Basra, Iraq graduate student, vice president; Byron Hershey. Florence. Ala. senior, secretary; and Panayotis Panayotopoulos, Athens, Greece, graduate studie, treasurer.
There are 20 million acres of public property in California, including four national parks, eight national monuments and 18 national forests.
History Instructor Will Study Peru
Thomas M. Gale; instructor of history, will spend July and August studying the colonial history of Peru at libraries on the East and West coasts.
He will study the I. Gasco papers for a month at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Cairn., and the Harkness collection for three weeks at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
His study will be in preparation for a paper on early city planning in Latin America, which he may read at the Southern Historical Assn. meeting this fall.
Faculty Plans Summer Jobs
Three members of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information news-edited faculty will work for newspapers this summer.
Emil L. Telfel, associate professor of journalism and Daily Kansan adviser, will be copy editor and part-time assistant news editor for the Rochester (N.Y.) Times Union, for the fifth summer.
Calder M. Pickett, assistant professor of journalism, will work as a copyreader for the Kansas City Times. Mr. Pickett will leave KU next year on sabbatical leave to study for a Ph.D. in journalism at the University of Minnesota.
Jimmy Bedford, instructor of journalism, will work on the photography staff of the Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia, 1,250 miles long, is the world's largest coral structure, the National Geographic Society says. Like an iceberg, most of the reefs 80,000-square-mile area lies underwater. A loose chain of shoals, reefs, and lonely islands betrays the stupendous mountain of submerged coral.
Joe climbs stairs twice as fast as Jim. They go up an escalator which is going down, and in going from one floor to the next, Joe takes 50 steps while it takes Jim 75 steps. How many steps are there between the floors?
Eager? Want More To Do?, Try Mathematics Seminar
The group now meets at 4 p.m. each Monday in 203 Strong. About 20 students have been attending the meetings this year. The meetings consist of a lecture on a mathematical topic and a discussion of the lecture.
This is an example of the mathematics problems worked out and discussed at meetings of the undergraduate mathematics seminar.
Frosh Start It
"They came together on their own and are very enthusiastic about their work."
"The seminar was started last year by a group of freshmen who wanted to learn more about interesting topics that they didn't get a chance to learn about in the classroom," said George Springer, associate professor of mathematics and head of the seminar
"At first the lectures were given by members of the faculty on sue-
cial elementary topics. Later, the students started to give talks," Prof. Springer said.
Talks Simplified
Problems are given to students each week to think about until the next week, when the problems are worked out and discussed.
As far as math knowledge goes we don't ask for much more than what is learned in college algebra." Prof. Springer said. "Talks are given so that freshmen can understand them. The seminar was originally set up for freshmen, but now students of all classes, freshmen through senior, attend the meetings."
He said his main duties as head of the seminar are to help find interesting lecture topics and problems.
"We are always interested n having more people come to our meetings," he said. "anyone who is interested is welcome."
After Turkey defeated Yemen in World War I fighting broke out between the Yemeni and Saudi Arabian chieftains over possession of Arabia's wide open spaces. The disputes were settled in 1834 by an Arab-unity peace treaty.
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