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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, June 16, 1961
CAMPUS NOTES
English Proficiency Regulations Given
Students who have signed up for the English Proficiency examination should be in the rooms of their assigned buildings by 10 a.m. Saturday.
The building and room to which each student is to report are listed on the English Proficiency registrar's card they received during enrollment.
Each student is allowed to take a pen and a dictionary for the two-hour test. Students also must bring their registrar's card.
K.U. Receives Grant For Mental Study
KU has received a $10,500 gram from the U.S. Office of Health, Education and Welfare to expand its graduate program in the education of the mentally retarded.
The grant, one of only three or four made to institutions this year, will be used as partial support for a research associate in mental retardation, guest lecturers, teachers' workshops and other aspects of the program.
The present program offers studies leading to the teaching of the educable mentally retarded, trainable mentally retarded, orthopedically handicapped, emotionally disturbed, deaf, and the gifted and talented; and in studies leading to work as a speech correctionist, hearing conservationist, school psychologist and school social worker.
R. A. Loch to Manage KU Center in Colby
Ronald A. Loch of Oklahoma City, assistant instructor of speech, will manage the KU Center in Colby beginning about July 1.
He succeeds Philip J. Stockton, manager of the Center for the past five years, who has accepted a position as counsel with the Vocational Rehabilitation Division of the State Board for Vocational Education.
Loch received the bachelor of arts degree from Oklahoma City University and will receive the master of arts degree in theater from KU when he completes his thesis. He has played leading roles in "Death of a Salesman," "Antigone," "The Rope Dancers," "Tartuffe," and "Caine Mutiny Court Martial" at OCU and at KU and has a principal role in the Douglas County Centennial Show, "Hello, Kansas!"
Dean Taylor to Take Part in OU Meeting
Emily Taylor, dean of women, will be one of four visiting consultants at the fifth annual housemothers and resident directors conference June 25-July 1 at the University of Oklahoma.
The meeting is designed to offer assistance to housemothers in fraternities and sororities and house directors in men's and women's residences. It also will provide training for those who may desire to enter this field.
Journalism School Honor Roll Listed
The spring semester honor roll of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information includes seven students.
They are:
Thomas Turner, Montgomery, Ala.
junior; Alan Wuthnow, Hope senior; Allen Braungier, Raytown, Mo., senior;
Marlin Zimmerman, Mullinville senior;
Joseph Riley, Kansas City junior;
Larry Rickey, Kansas City senior;
and Rosa Lina, Lawrence senior.
Oxman Receives $100 Prize
Michael A. Oxman of Milwaukee, Wisc., a graduate student in Pharmacy, has received honorable mention in the Lunsford Richardson Pharmacy Awards program sponsored by Richardsen-Merrell, Inc. and its pharmaceutical units. He will receive $100.
Burrows Gets Post In Business Office
Charles M. Burrows of Topeka has been appointed chief accountant in the KU business office effective June 19. He comes to this newly created position after 20 years with the Kansas Department of Post-Audit.
Burrows will supervise the accounting activities in the business office with primary emphasis on internal auditing and control.
A native of Ottawa, the 42-year-old Burrows attended Ottawa University for two years and received the B.S. degree in business from KU in 1941. After graduation he became a junior accountant, and in 1944 senior accountant, in the State Budget Department, which later became the Department of Post-Audit.
Mrs. Burrows is the former Beverly Jean Pope of Ottawa. They have four children: Ann Elizabeth, 14; Dee Elen, 12; Gary Charles, 8; and Jean Elaine, 8 months.
Brazil Trip Is Part Of Springer Grant
George Springer, professor of mathematics, has received a National Science Foundation grant that will take him on a special mission to Sao Paulo, Brazil in August and September. Then he will go to the University of Wurzburg, Germany, on a Fulbright fellowship.
Prof. Springer will organize and conduct an institute for teachers of mathematics at the Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo and will present a series of lectures on higher mathematics. He also will analyze the materials used in the training of mathematics teachers in Brazil.
University Receives Fellowship Renewal
KU has received a $2,500 renewal of a travel fellowship for direct exchange students to Germany and Switzerland.
The gift was made by the Max Kade Foundation, New York City, which first established the grant two years ago. It enables students of German to study in Germany and Switzerland under the exchange arrangements of KU with German and Swiss universities.
At present, KU has such arrangements with five institutions in Germany and one in Switzerland.
KU Specialists Receive Grant
A $15,117 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service will support one year of study of the vocal learning of infants for two KU specialists.
Mel Adams, assistant professor of journalism, has been chosen to receive the WIBW-TV fellowship for study this summer.
Adams received a B.S. in Journalism from KU in 1947 and returned to the University in 1960 to teach advertising.
The project's co-investigators are Harris Winitz, research associate at the Bureau of Child Research and assistant professor of speech and drama, and Dr. Joseph E. Spradlin, research associate in child research at the Parsons State Training School.
The fellowship provides for an eight-week on-the-job study of radio and television operations.
Mel Adams Given Fellowship at WIBW
Karl Detzer, Reader's Digest roving editor, had a famous career in fiction before he took up article writing. The Digest has so far published 185 of his articles.
Five Writers To Head Meet
Five versatile writers will teach in the University of Kansas Writers' Conference June 27-30.
The short story leader, Susan Kuehn Boyd, is currently working on a novel. So is the poetry leader, Edsel Ford. Children's writing leader Mary Francis Shura is known for her articles and stories for young adults and young married couples.
John Alexander of the Kansas City Star, feature writing leader, has written verse and advertising copy in the past and is the author of magazine articles, including a recent one in the Saturday Review about Dr. Cora Downs, K.U. bacteriology professor.
The Conference leader, Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism, teaches nonfiction courses at the University but has written one novel and is working on another. She may be addressed for information about this year's conference at 203 Flint Hall.
Cassandra Ritter Awards Go to 3
A June graduate and two graduate students are 1960-61 recipients of the Cassandra Ritter Award for outstanding work in bacteriology.
They are Mary Kristine Martin, Hutchinson, who graduated this month, Patricia J. Ellis, Scott City graduate student, and Gordon R. Dreesman, Lawrence graduate student.
Recipients are chosen on the basis of papers discussing some aspect of their work in bacteriology. The award consists of books chosen by the students and a plaque.
The prizes are supported by income from a fund of $1,500 established by friends and members of Cassandra Ritter's family as a memorial to her.
Professor to Study Animal Behavior
Dr. Edward L. Wike, associate professor of psychology, has been awarded a National Institutes of Mental Health grant of $2,300 for experimental studies of animal behavior.
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The grant, made through the U.S. Public Health Service, will support one year of research entitled "The Effect of Reinforcement Schedules on Secondary Reinforcement."
Dr. Wike, who has been involved in similar research since 1954, said the study is an attempt to discover some conditions under which neutral stimuli acquire reward value. Rats will be used in the experiments.
Research assistant this summer is John R. Platt, Topeka sophomore.
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KU, Lawrence to Meet Miss America Today
Lawrence and KU will roll out the red carpet for Miss America today.
Nancy Anne Fleming of Montague, Mich., who walked away with top honors in last September's Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, will arrive in town at 11:30 a.m. and will be greeted by city and university officials in a ceremony at the Eldridge Hotel.
Then she'll parade down Massachusetts Street following presentations by Lawrence Mayor Ted Kennedy, KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, Miss America chairman Mrs. Vic Harrod, and Haskell student. Miss America will be on the campus sometime in the afternoon to speak to the 400 Girls Staters currently in session here.
She'll dine on buffalo meat in Eudora at 6 p.m. before returning to KU to attend the nightly showing of "Hello, Kansas!"
In other Centennial activities, the mammoth outdoor historical spectacular, "The Kansas Story," was
Nitrogen Studies Subject of Grant
Dr. Calvin VanderWerf, professor of chemistry, has received a $11,700 contract renewal from the American Petroleum Institute for fundamental studies on the chemistry of nitrogen compounds that occur in petroleum.
Dr. VanderWerf, who will become chairman of the chemistry department in the fall, said a goal of the research is to determine how nitrogen compounds, considered harmful in petroleum, can be utilized or converted into useful products. The study will begin its seventh year next month.
rained out its first two nights at Topeka's Mid America Fairground. It is scheduled to run through June 25. The production will be held in Wichita July 4-16.
"The Kansas Story" has a 1,000 member cast working on seven separate stages, a symphony orchestra, chorus, sound cast of 12 movie actors, 400 National Guardsmen, and many well known singers.
Meredith Willson, author of "The Music Man" and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," currently on Broadway, is co-author of the musical score.
The fairground also is the site for the World Food Fair, which opened this week and will run until June 25.
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