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University Daily Kansas
Monday. Feb. 4. 1957
New Student Loan Fund Established At University
The establishment of the John E. Selig Student Loan Fund at the University has been announced by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy. The fund was created by a gift of $1,600 to the Endowment Association from Mr. and Mrs. August L. Selig of Houston, Tex., in memory of Mr. Selig's father who was in the food merchandising business in Lawrence for many years.
Mr. Selig attended KU in 1893 and 1894. He died in April of 1950. All five of his children are graduates: John in the class of 1924, Delo in 1929, Hope (Mrs. F. H. Biewener) in 1924, Frances (Mrs. Clifford Wilbur) in 1918, and August in 1920.
in expressing gratitude for the gift Chancellor Murphy said, "Many factors—among them high prices, a growing enrollment, increasing demands of the classroom on the time of our students, and in the past several years, the dry weather and consequent reduced incomes of the
families of many of our students--make student loan funds one of the greatest needs for which the University must look to its friends and alumni, and we are especially grateful to have the fund in memory of Mr. Selig available for helping deserving students at the beginning of the spring semester."
Loans will be made from the fund to worthy students who are approved by the University loan fund committee. The amounts of loans and the conditions on which they are to be granted are to be at the discretion of the committee.
KU Gets Research Grant
The Air Research and Development Command has awarded an additional $1,1950 to the University of Kansas to expand research in progress at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska
Jerome P. Schmidt, Atchison, graduate student, is doing research on the incidence of upper respiratory disease among the military population in Alaska. His investigations of influenza, streptococcus and common cold infections have been made at Ladd AFB, but now will be taken to other air bases in the area.
Three To Attend Education Parley
Three University faculty members will participate in the 39th annual meeting of the Council of Administration Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Wichita.
Dean Kenenth E. Anderson of the School of Education will be chairman of the meeting of administrators of North Central Association High Schools. Dean Anderson also will be a member of a college section panel, "A State-Wide Approach to the Problems Facing Higher Education."
E. A. McFarland, director of the Lawrence center of University Extension, will preside at meetings of the Kansas Adult Education Association.
Dr. Alfred H. Moore, assistant professor of education, will address the Kansas Society for Exceptional Children on "Special Education and Its Meaning to School Administrators."
Biochemistry Head On Sabbatical Leave
Dr. Russell C. Mills, professor of biochemistry, will do research in the department of physiological chemistry at the University of Minnesota during the coming year.
Dr. Mills took a sabbatical leave from KU to accept the appointment and he and his family left two weeks ago for Minneapolis. Dr. Dwight J. Mulford, professor of biochemistry, will act as department chairman during Dr. Mills' absence.
Dr. E. L. Treece, professor of bacteriology, who is directing the project for the University, said the new amount brings to $6,944 the total for the 10-month contract. Schmidt will complete his work in August.
The rppect was originated by Dr. Theodore Metcalf, former associate professor of bacteriology at KU, now at the University of New Hampshire. He remains as an adviser on the project.
Bacteriology GrantBoosted
A 3-year-grant allowing $15,875 each year has been made by the Public Health Service for research in the University department of bacteriology.
Dr. David Paretsky, associate professor of bacteriology, and Dr. Cora Downs, professor of bacteriology, will conduct investigations on the relationship of the parasite rickettsial organism and the host. The rickettsiae are minute bacteria which cause such disease in man as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus and rickettsial pox.
The scientists will study the organism which causes rickettsial pox, attempting to discover how it causes the infection and how it alters the host in causing infection. The laboratory host will be an embryonated chick egg.
The new project is a continuation of studies supported for the past three years by the University.
Chemists Renew Work On Cancer
Of the 258 Popes, only one. Nicholas Breakseare, was born in England. He reigned as Adrian IV from 1154 to 1159 A.D.
University pharmaceutical chemists are beginning a new attack on cancer—by way of substances that cause cancer.
They will make variations of the artificial sex hormone, diethyl stillbestrol, which may induce cancer in certain susceptible individuals, but has been used successfully to treat cancer in other persons. The chemists hope to improve the activity of the hormone by changing its chemical makeup.
Some research to find drugs suitable for treating cancer has been conducted for several years in KU laboratories directed by Dr. Joseph H. Burckhalter, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry. Nearly 200 final products were submitted recently for testing by the National Institutes of Health.
The KU research is being supported by Parke, Davis and Co. of Detroit, which makes an annual grant to be used at Dr. Burckhalter's discretion. The 1956-57 grant of $6,000 provides fellowships for John Durden, of Phoenix, Ariz., who is working on the cancer project; William Brinigar of Wichita, and Robert Leib of Lawrence, who are preparing drugs for treating amebiasis, or amebic dysentery. All are graduate students.
Engineering Prof To Illinois Post
Dr. Hubert E. Rissser, assistant professor of mining and metallurgical engineering, will become a mineral economist for the Illinois State Geological Survey, July 1.
Dr. Risser, a teacher at KU for seven years, earned both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees here. The latter, received last June, was in economics and his research concerned the economics of the coal industry, which is a major factor in the economy of Illinois.
Before coming to the University, he was a mine superintendent for the Alabama By-Products Corp., an engineer for the National Safety Council, and during World War II was a major in the Army Corps of Engineers.
Faculty Pianist A Convention Soloist
Marian Jersild, assistant professor of piano, will be a soloist on the program of the American Music Session of the Music Teachers National Association convention Monday, Feb. 11 in Chicago.
A former University faculty member, Katharine Mulky Warne, is the composer of one of Miss Jersild's selections, "Loneliness," from "Suite in Three Moods." Miss Jersild will also play 'Sonatina' by Kent Kennan.
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Mr. Robert Gutzmer, California Representative, will be at Campus West the entire day Tuesday, February 5th with the entire line.
Caffeine, a stimulant, can be altered so that it may become useful as a tranquilizing drug, Joseph H. Burkhalter, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, believes.
Caffeine Seen As Useful Drug
Dr. Burckhalter is conducting a Public Health Service project in which compounds are being prepared for testing as a side in treating hypertension and heart ailments. Among these compounds are those made from Caffeine derivatives.
Dr. Peltier's study concerned how droplets of fat entering the blood stream from broken bones can be dangerous. The work was done at the University of Minnesota, prior to his recent appointment to the staff of the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
$1,000 Award To KU Doctor
The announcement was made Jan. 30 at the academy's annual meeting in Chicago. The award is supported by Kappa Delta sorority, which sponsors a benefit program for crippled children.
Guidance Bureau To Test Navajos
Dr. Leonard Peltier, new chief of orthopedic surgery in the School of Medicine, is the recipient of a $1,000 annual award made by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons for outstanding research.
Developing a test for measuring the social development of Navajo students is the current project of the University in fulfillment of a contract with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The project, to be carried out by Dr. E. Gordon Collier, director of the guidance bureau, and Cecil L. Williams, a research assistant, will measure social skills and attitudes to see how the Navajo students are adjusting to the white culture.
Testing subjects will be the adolescent and young adult Navajos enrolled at Sherman Institute, Riverside, Calif., Sherman Institute one of the off-reservation boarding schools in the special Navajo program, has a five-year curriculum planned to give the Navajos an education to help them earn a livelihood.
Rochester, N. Y., was once called the Four City because of its milling industry, but is now known as the Flower City because of its many beautiful public gardens.
The National Heart Institute of Public Health Service has renewed its grant to KU to continue the project, which Dr. Burckhalter has administered for three years. Amount of the renewal is $8,145.
Research assistants on the project are Cecil Caldwell of Walnut Grove, Miss, and Dale Dill of Yates Center, graduate students.
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