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46th Year, No.8
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
KU PREVIEW—Students who plan to enter KU Kansas Union Ballroom Monday and today. this fall take placement examinations in the (Summer Kansan photo by Bill Irvine)
3 Faculty Additions Made
Three men have been added to the KU faculty, one in the English department, one in the School of Engineering and one in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
Melvin Mencher, a 1952-53 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, has been appointed assistant professor in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, effective September 1, the chancellor's office announced Monday.
To Be Kansan Adviser
For the past four years Mr. Mencher has been investigative reporter, book page editor and special interviewer for The Fresno (California) Bee.
Prof. Mencher will teach advanced courses in editing and reporting and be news adviser to the University Daily Kansan, filling the position left vacant by the death of Prof. Emil L Telfel last March.
Prof. Mencher, 31, attended public schools in New York City, but has lived in the west and southwest since 1943 when he entered the University of New Mexico. He earned the B.S. degree in journalism from the University of Colorado in 1947.
For the next seven years, except for the fellowship at Harvard, Prof. Mencher was employed in New Mexico by the Albuquerque Tribune, the United Press Santa Fe
bureau, the Albuquerque Journal as statehouse correspondent, and the Santa Fe New Mexican. In 1950 and 1954 he served pre-election terms as director of public relations for the New Mexico Republican State Central Committee. For three years he wrote a political column for nine New Mexico weeklies and dailies.
To Teach, Write
James E. Gunn, managing editor of the alumni publications for the past three years, has transferred to the public relations office as assistant director and instructor of English.
Mr. Gunn will develop a feature service for news outlets, concentrating on the type of stories that emphasize the actual teaching, research and service activities of the University and staff. He also will continue as a contributor of feature articles to the Alumni Magazine as well as teach classes in freshman and sophomore English.
He Graduated From KU
Mr. Gunn earned the B.S. degree in journalism from KU in 1947 and the M.A. degree in English in 1951. He is a science fiction writer and as a free lance writer has had feature articles published in many newspapers and magazines.
The American Alumni Council recently conferred a special citation on the KU Alumni Magazine for a series of "Day in the Life of..." articles interpreting the work and problems of different teachers, staff members and students. Mr. Gunn originated and executed this series.
To Be Associate Dean
Donald Metzler, a 1939 KU engineering graduate, assumed his duties this week as professor of applied mechanics and associate dean of the School of Engineering.
Mr. Metzler was a professor of mechanics and hydraulics at the State University of Iowa and member of the Iowa faculty since 1945. He will be concerned primarily with administration at KU. He will devote nearly full-time to scholarships, counseling, placement and activities, said Dean John S. McNown of the School of Engineering.
Attended Lawrence Schools
Prof. Metzler is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Metzler, 637 Ohio, Lawrence. He attended Lawrence schools, and after receiving his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering here, he earned his M.S. degree in hydraulic engineering in 1948 from the State University of Iowa.
For two years after leaving KU he was in the engineering department of the Phillips Petroleum Co. then a year in the automotive division of the Philadelphia ordinance district of the War Department.
MELVIN MENCHER
JAMES E. GUNN
DONALD METZLER
First Preview Group Here
"Would you like to come to Lawrence this summer for two days of preliminary orientation to KU?" is the way Carl G. Fahrbach Jr., assistant director of admissions, begins his letter to persons who will enter KU as freshmen this fall.
Grant Made To Study Bacteria
Their work is supported through a new two-year contract with the Office of Naval Research for $15,314. The project is entitled "Host-Parasite Interrelationships in Rickettsial Infections."
A study of the physiology and biochemistry of the highly infectious disease producing bacteria, rickettsiae, is being made by Miss Cora M. Downs, professor of bacteriology, and David Paretsky, associate professor of bacteriology.
Prof. Downs and Prof. Paretsky will study the processes in the rick-ettsial cell and from this knowledge hope to learn how the bacteria cause disease, and from this how to combat it.
The two have been doing research on rickettsiae for several years and with their graduate student assistant, Richard Consigli, of Brooklyn, N. Y., are cited in the significant science progress section of the 1958 Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook for their discoveries.
The three bacteriologists not only succeeded in growing the organisms outside a living system for the first time in the world, but grew them in a medium whose chemical constituents are exactly known, enabling scientists to study the organisms under rigidly controlled conditions.
Prof. Downs and Prof. Paretsky also are continuing with this research supported by the U.S. Public Health Service.
Prof. Downs is traveling in Europe this summer, and on Aug. 1, will take part in the International Congress of Microbiologists in Stockholm.
Weather
More than half of the students take him up on his invitation and 107 of the approximate 1,000 entering freshmen are now participating in the first of six "KU Preview" programs. Most of them checked in Sunday evening and were assigned rooms at student dormitories.
During the previews the entering freshmen will get firsthand information about KU and at the same time will get their placement examinations, physical examinations and arrangements for housing out of the way instead of waiting until orientation week.
Monday morning all the new students reported to the Kansas Union Ballroom. After a brief welcome, part of the group began taking placement examinations and the others reported to Watkins Hospital for their physical examination.
During the afternoon the students were divided into groups according to the school they plan to enter and met with the dean of that school.
Kala Lou Mays, Lyons junior,
was mistress of ceremonies at the
preview dinner in the Union Ball-
room Monday evening. Clayton
Krehbiel, associate professor of
music education, led the group
singing. Marlan Carlson, Wayne,
Neb. senior, played a violin solo
and George B. Smith, dean of
the University, greeted the students
on behalf of the University. Ray
Nichols, Lawrence sophomore,
welcome the group on behalf
of the students of the University.
Faculty members in charge of the program went to the various dormitories Monday night and treated the entering freshmen to cokes and answered questions that came up during the day.
Today the students will again report to the Union Ballroom with the program reversed. Those taking physical exams Monday take placement exams today.
The students will spend the remainder of the day visiting various schools and departments in the University and asking specific questions about their future course of study.
13 Men Receive Summerfield Honor
support.
Thirteen men have been appointed Summerfield scholars, James K. Hitt, registrar and chairman of the Summerfield committee, announced Thursday.
Selection as a Summerfield scholar, the highest honor KU can confer on an undergraduate man, is wholly by merit. Each of the 13 has a grade point average at KU well over 2.5 and has demonstrated campus leadership and exceptional promise of future usefulness.
The Summerfield scholarships are made possible by an annual grant from the Summerfield Foundation, established by the late Solon E. Summerfield, KU alumnus and a New York manufacturer. The grant was recently increased to $25,000 annually. It provides stipends based on need to the scholars varying from a small honorarium to full
Several of the 13 already hold other scholarships and will continue to draw support from them, adding the honor of designation as a Summerfield scholar.
The 13 are:
John E. Brown, Lawrence; Bruce R. Barrett and Norman R. Greer, Kansas City, Kan.; John D. Mover, Hamlin; Lee R. McGimsey, Salina; Ronald Andreas, Abilene. All are freshmen.
William Harrison, Hoisington; Dennis E. Hayes, Washington; Ivan Eastwood, Summerfield; Ross V. Barton, Winchester; John A. Rupf, Ottawa; Fred J. Ritter, Junction City. All are sophomores.
Richard A. Kraus, Arlington junior.