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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 13, 1950
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Psychology Research Group Awarded $25,971 Grant
A University research project comparing Lawrence and Oskaloosa as living places for children has received renewed support from the U.S. Public Health Service.
The sum of $25,971 has been granted for the project launched last year under the direction of Dr. Herbert F. Wright, professor of psychology. This will be the second year of a proposed 3-year undertaking.
Lawrence and Oskalooa are moving as areas for research into the difference the size of a community makes in the lives of its children. Lawrence, with its population of about 23,000 is the "city" area and Oskalooa, a community of about 725 located 22 miles north of Lawrence, is the "town" area. The study may be expanded this year to include other Kansas towns about the size of Oskalooa, Dr. Wright said.
In delving for the facts of how town and city life differ for children, Dr. Wrigt and his associates observe children's activities and situations as they occur in everyday life. No laboratory experiments or psychological tests are made. Instead, research workers interview the children, their parents, teachers and group leaders and visit the places where children spend their time—school, church, recreational and business areas. Children participating in the project are under 12 years old.
The continuing staff has included Dan Ragle; Cufford Fawl; Charles Dabley; William Wiest; Mrs. Anthony J. Smith; Mrs. Herbert F. Wright; all of Lawrence, Mrs. Don Simon of Oskaloosa and Mrs. Charles D. Ward of Lecompton. All are graduate students.
Yom Kippur Services Friday
Yom Kippur services for Jewish students will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at the Jewish Community center. All out-of-town students who wish to eat should call Dr. Robert Sakal, assistant professor of entomology, at KU 514.
Museum Gets 320 New Specimens
A field trip-vacation to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado produced 320 specimens for the University Museum of Natural History and the addition of eight species to the list of those known in the park.
Sydney Anderson, zoology instructor and assistant curator of mammals at the museum, his wife, who skinned the specimens, and the children, ages two and three, camped out and collected specimens from Aug. 5 to Sept. 9:
Some of the species not previously known in Mesa Verde National Park are the lump-nosed bat whose long ears give it a rabbit-like appearance; the big brown bat, the fringed Myotis, a bat with a delicate fringe on the edge of the lower membrane; the wandering shrew, the long-tailed meadow-mouse, and the montane meadow-mouse.
On the way home the Andersons attended the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists Union in Denver. Others from the University at the convention were Dr. Harrison Tordoff, assistant professor of zoology and assistant curator at the Museum; Robert Mengel, bibliographer for the Ellis Collection, and Mrs. Mengel; John W. Hardy, Murphyshore, Ill., and Philip W. Ogilvie, Long Beach, Calif., both graduate students in zoology.
The state of Kansas is almost a perfect rectangle, 411 miles long and 208 miles wide. The only irregularity is the northeast corner where the boundary is determined by the winding Missouri River.
School Of Air Starts Monday
The Jayhawk School of the Air, a series of elementary school classes which are educational aids to Kansas teachers, will begin its 16th year Sept. 17 from radio stations KFKU and KANU. Miss Mildred Seaman, program director, will again be in charge.
"Art by Radio," the first half-hour class program on the School of the Air, will be offered by Miss Alice Schwartz, instructor in art education. She will replace Miss Maude Ellsworth, associate professor of art education, who founded the series and conducted it until this year.
Miss Joie Stapleton, associate professor of physical education, will conduct "Playtime," a program of games, stunts, rhythms and folk dances, and Mrs. Harold Harney, Lawrence, will be the story-teller for "Time for a Story." Both will be half-hour periods once a week.
For the first time, quarter-hour programs have been scheduled, Miss Seaman said. She will present "Adventures in Music Land" for upper elementary grades, with a science class, also a School of the Air "first." as the second offering.
School of the Air programs are offered to any station in Kansas which wishes to make them available to schools in their area. Requests from city and county school systems should be made to the local stations, Miss Seaman said.
A University graduate, Dr. George H. Lowery Jr., received the Brewster Award given by the American Ornithologists Union at their annual meeting in Denver last week.
KU Graduate Gets Award
The award, given for outstanding work in the field of ornithology, was presented to Dr. Lowery for his doctoral thesis, "A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds," published in 1951 by the University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History.
Dr. Lowery received his Ph.D. degree from the University in 1949 in zoology. He is now professor of zoology and director of the museum of zoology at Louisiana State University. Dr. Lowery is the author of "Louisiana Birds," now on the best-seller list in Louisiana and in its second printing.
Dr. Lowery was appointed "Boyd Professor" at Louisiana State University in 1955, an honor given faculty members for national or regional distinction in teaching, research or other creative achievements.
Physicals To Be Given Again
Persons who failed to keep their appointments for physical examinations on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday may receive examinations Saturday morning by making an appointment at Watkins Hospital. A penalty fee of $5 will be paid by students who take the physical examination after Saturday.
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Wesley Party 7:30 Friday
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A freshman get-acquainted party will be held by the Wesley Foundation at 7:30 p. m. Friday. The party has as its theme "September Holiday" and will include a carnival, square dancing, old fashioned movies and refreshments.
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