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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 15, 1957
After 30 Years-
Still No Day-Stretcher For Retiring Director
After 30 years as director of the bureau of correspondence study Miss Ruth Kenney will retire from her post at the end of this fiscal year.
At her desk in her Fraser Hall office, with a stack of letters still before her to be answered before her day could close, Miss Kenney reviewed the growth of the correspondence program since she became director on April 1. 1927.
"Over 7,000 people all over the world are now taking 174 courses offered by this bureau," she said, "for high school and college credit and for noncredit. We send out from 300 to 400 catalogues a month to people who write for information."
Supervises 79 Persons
Under her supervision is a staff of 79 part-time instructors who grade and return lessons promptly to students. The courses are prepared by staff members of the various departments of the university.
"We try to answer every letter that comes, every day," she said. "That helps to keep the students pepped up."
A native Kansas, Miss Kenney was graduated from the University with a major in history and a minor in mathematics. She also received her masters degree here in history. Before accepting her present job, she taught in high school and had experience as an assistant office manager and as an assistant accountant.
Student Reaction
From 1939 to 1943, Miss Kenney served as national treasurer of Pi Lambda Theta, honorary fraternity for women in education.
When asked how students feel about correspondence courses, she replied, "Some students feel correspondence is an easy way to get credit, but I usually warn them that in a correspondence lesson they must answer every question, which they do not do in class. Many students have received much value from correspondence courses, but others have trouble applying themselves in this atmosphere of reduced pressure."
Miss Kenney is especially proud of a project just completed by the bureau in which staff members worked with men in the natural
7 Women Students To Be Initiated
Seven students will be initiated today into Sigma Alpha Iota, women's honorary fraternity. A dinner will follow the initiation in the Student Union.
They are Sondra McIntosh, Chapman freshman; Joan Swanson, Hopkins, Mo. junior; Ruth Pyle, Armstrong, Mo. junior; Janice Morwitz, New London, Mo. junior; Hazel Bauerrichter, Quincey, Ill. junior; Lois Hays, Norton freshman, and Loretta Nauman Lawrence freshman.
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gas industry to revise a course in natural gas.
The necessity for persons in industry to take additional courses in their field, she said was aptly summed up by Dr. E. H. Lindley, former chancellor of the university, when he said, "Things change so fast - you have to run like anything to keep where you are."
Meeting and talking with people who did the same type of work at the National Extension Division conventions was one of the most enjoyable parts of her job. Her only regret about her 30 years service is that she was never able to invent the proverbial "day-stretcher" to get everything done she needed and wanted to do.
Senior Gets Fulbright Aid
Robert Neil Schimke, Leavenworth senior, has received a Fulbright scholarship at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn, Germany. He will study theoretical organic chemistry.
Schimke is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Scimke, Leavenworth. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, national honor society, a Summerfield scholar, and ranks in the upper 10 per cent of the senior class.
Murphy To Jewish Meeting
The scholarship is financed by foreign currencies or credits owned to or owned by the Treasury of the United States.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy was in Washington Monday and Tuesday attending a meeting of the commission on Government Security of which he is a member. He will attend a meeting of the American Jewish Council in Kansas City, Kan. tonight.
Applications may be submitted now for the position of assistant editor of the Student Directory.
Jim Davies, Dodge City junior and director editor, said that all applications should be made to him, either by letter or by calling him at VI 3-4811. Davies said that interest in the job is the main prerequisite for the position.
Position Open On Directory
This is the only position open on the Student Directory staff. The job consists of helping Davies with general administrative duties.
2 Attend Planning Session
Kenneth E. Anderson, dean of the School of Education and Cloy S. Hobson, professor of education, attended a planning session for the School Health Conference at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City Tuesday. The Conference will be held in Kansas City in the fall of 1957.
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Methodist Group Initiates 9 Women
Kappa Phi, Methodist women's organization, initiated nine women at Wesley House recently.
Those initiated were Ruth Ann Pyle, Armstrong Mo, ,min; junior; Shirley Spohn, Newton, and Jackie Ayers, Winfield, sophomores; Janet Jackson, Martha Saunders, Lawrence, Sonja Hushaw, Scott, Mary Karen Smith, Delphos, Carol Allen, Leavenworth, and Marilyn Shore, Wichita, freshmen.
The gross hourly earnings of Ford Motor Co., hourly employees during 1956 averaged $2.48.
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