Page 8 University Daily Kansan
Friday, Jan. 4, 1957
TOYS FOR CHRISTMAS—Dick Gillespie, chairman of the Alpha Phi Omega toy collection drive on campus, delivered over 2.000 toys to the Marine Corps Reserve in Kansas City, Mo. Lt. Col. R. B. Reighard, instructor with Naval ROTC unit in Kansas City, Mo., and Lt. Col. G. M. Dawes, inspector of the Marine Reserves in Kansas City, Mo.. accent the toys.
Toys Bring Bright Christmas
"Supplying the basic ingredient for a real children's Christmas is a wonderful Christmas project."
These words of praise by Lt. Col. G. M. Dawes, inspector-instructor for Marine Corps Reserves in Kansas' City, Mo. described the "Toys for Tots" program that was conducted at KU shortly before the Christmas holidays.
The project, sponsored jointly by Alpha Phi Cenga, national service fraternity, the Inter - fraternity Council and the Parhellenic Council, collected approximately 2,000 new toys for underprivileged children.
The toys were collected at parties sponsored by fraternity and sorority
"Your gifts helped the Marine Reserve supply 24 orphanages and welfare agencies," said Col. Dawes. "I extend the sincere appreciation of not only the Marine Reserves, but the hundreds of children who had a bright Christmas as a result of the contributions of KU students."
houses, residence and scholarship balls.
This was the fifth year the program has been conducted at KU, and the third year the toys have been given to the Kansas City Marine Corps Reserves for distribution.
The total number of toys collected this year was slightly below that of past Christmases, but still very good, said Dick Gillespie, Topeka junior, chairman of the drive.
Math Department Program Alleviates Teacher Shortage
Teachers are scarce. From the grade school to the university level the pinch is being felt everywhere and schools across the country are seeking ways to ease this scarcity.
Washington University is using television and movies to instruct its undergraduate students. Also undergraduate students grade papers and answer questions.
Similar steps are being taken at KU. The University now employs 10 undergraduate assistants to senior staff members in the mathematics department.
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"These assistants are not just paper graders," G. Baley Price, head of the mathematics department, said. "They are actually assistants to the senior staff members. By employing them we are allowed to make more extensive use of our staff and allow more students to take courses from the instructor they desire."
Some schools have solved the instructor shortage problem with huge class sections, some numbering over 150 students.
Too Many Students
However, in doing this, the instructor cannot always teach the way he wants. He has far too many students to be able to offer personal guidance and answer questions. The instructor loses the all-important personal contact with his class.
Prof. Price feels that not only is the teacher shortage problem alleviated but the assistants, through the experience gained in this program, may decide that they want to become teachers.
Benefits Education
"The big contribution of this type of program," said Prof. Price, "is to education. Although the assistant is not in charge of a class he gains the very best possible type of experience."
The undergraduate assistants are chosen for their scholastic ability
and their proficiency in mathematics.
10 Assistants
Fraternity Plans Initiation For 21
The assistants in the mathematics department are: John E. Beam, Ottawa junior; Edmond V. Chan, Hong Kong, China senior; Charles Christenson, Kansas City, Kan, junior; Joseph Hanna, Dighton sophomore; Richard Hinderliter, Wichita junior; David Ontjes, Hutchinson sophomore; Arlan Ramsay, Dodge City sophomore; Joseph Robb, Lawrence junior; Laurian Seeber, Irvington, N.Y., sophomore, and James C. Shanahan, Lawrence senior.
Twenty-one men will be initiated in Phi Epsilon Kappa, professional physical education fraternity, at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Student Union Pine Room.
Dr. C. L. Wear of the University of Nebraska, past national president of the organization, and Charles Miller, district counselor, will be present, Walter J. Mikols, assistant professor of physical education, said.
Men to be initiated are Henry Shenk, associate professor of physical education and recreation; Walter Schmidt, Barto, Pa.; John Burke, Mission, sophomores; Glenn Swenges, Lawrence, Verlyn Schmidt, Hays, Bernard Gay, Gardner, juniors.
Ray Cox, Lawrence, Charles Edwards, Pooria, Illia, Galen Wahlmeier, Jennings, Jerome Barland, Beloit, Donald Lamb, Leon, Edwin Dater, Garden City, Jan Howell, Marksville, Harry Solter, Eugene, Ore, Thomas Rupp, Hays, John Drawtzky, Wichita, John Merriman, Marysville, Larry Friesbie, Zenith, and Donald Clement, Emil Haar, and Robert Preston, Lawrence, seniors.
The objectives of the organization are to elevate the standards, ideals and ethics of those engaged in the teaching of health, physical education and recreation, said Prof. Mikols.
Kansas definitely is not interested in luring North Carolina State's Jackie Moreland, 6-8 freshman basketball star to KU Coach Dick Harp said this morning.
'KU Doesn't Want Player'
Moreland's recruitment was something on the order of Wilt Chamberlain's when it came to publicity and recruitment battles.
School On Probation
Because of their methods of recruiting, North Carolina State was placed on probation by the NCAA for four years. Now the Atlantic Coast Conference of which North Carolina State is a member has declared Moreland ineligible for competition in league games.
A Charlotte, N. C., writer called Coach Harp about a rumor that Kansas was courting Moreland to come to Kansas. Mr. Harp said that he was always interested in good athletes and good students but did not say Kansas wanted Moreland. The paper quoted Coach Harp as saying he is interested in Moreland.
No Thought About Moreland
Coach Harp's statement was that he had no thought about Jackie Moreland and had never contacted him by letter, telephone or by any other means since he went to North Carolina State. He said that he did not know about Moreland's status until the Charlotte writer called him.
IT'S JUST BEEN FIRED—The Hermes A-3, a general Electric research missile, was photographed from 15 miles with Signal Corps telephoto lenses. Heat and pressure built up at a speed of Mach IV, or 4,348 feet a second in air, causes severe heating and partial disintegration.
Less than 500 reserved seat tickets remain for the Iowa State game Feb. 2 and all the tickets for the Kansas State game Jan. 12 have been sold, E. L. Falkenstien, athletic department business manager, said. Seats for other games are going nearly as fast, he said.
Tickets to see the Kansas Jayhawks play in Allen Field House are going fast.
No Tickets For K-State Game
High school students can get tickets for 50 cents for seats in the south or north bleachers except for the Kansas State and Iowa State games. These seats are also sold as reserved seats when the others are sold out, he explained.
Tickets are available for wives or husbands of students for $3 a semester.
Mrs. F. E. Kester, vice president of the Democratic Womens Club of Douglas County, said KU students are welcome to attend a reception for Gov.-elect George Docking.
News Analyst Dwight Cooke To Visit University Tuesday
Dwight Cooke, Columbia Broadcasting System foreign correspondent and news analyst, will visit the University Tuesday.
Docking Reception Open To Students
The reception will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m., Tuesday, at the Eldridge Hotel.
He will address the Radio-TV Speaking class at 10 a.m. and will
McGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE, N. J. — (UP) — "Operation Safe Haven," the airlift of 9,700 Hungarian refugees to the United States, was completed late Thursday.
'Operation Safe Haven' Completed
The last planeload carried 35 passengers.
Yesterday's final arrival marked the finish of the history-making military airlift which began Dec. 11 with the departure from Munich of planes carrying 199 Hungarians. The daily average over the 24-day operation period rose to above 500.
Neareo Score In Miami
MIAMI, Fla — (UP) — A federal judge's ruling here that the "Montgomery decision" overthrew Florida bus segregation laws gave Negroes today their first new legal breakthrough in a 2-state move for the right to sit where they please.
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attend a luncheon at the Faculty Club with journalism and radio-television faculty members.
At 2 p.m. there will be an informal session with student station KUOK staff members. An allstudent convocation is scheduled at 3 p.m. in 205 Flint.
Mr. Cooke's CBS broadcasts have included "Cross Section USA." "Dwight Cooke's Guestbook" and "Dwight Cooke Interviews Asia." In 1954 he released his first book, "There Is No Asia."
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DWIGHT COOKE
During World War II he operated the shortwave station, WRUL, directing its 22-hour-a-day schedule of broadcasts in 26 languages. After the war he became a CBS television commentator and chairman of its "People Platform."
Mr. Cooke was a writer and editor for Time magazine and the movie and radio feature "March of Time." He also produced the "Charley McCarthy Radio Hour" in Hollywood.
Docking Appoints Wichita Man To Post
TOPEKA — (UP) — Gov-Elect George Docking today named William E. Murphy of Wichita as director of the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
Murphy will take over the post now held by former Gov. Fred Hall's appointee, Charles Pratt, after Docking's inauguration Jan. 14.
Dangerous Assignment
NEW YORK—(UP)—Policeman John H. Loughlin, who has won five citations for bravery in action, went on the ice to rescue a stranded dog. The dog bit him and scampered away. Loughlin fell through the ice. Four of his citations were for subduing men with guns. In these actions he never received a scratch.
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