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Summer Session Kansan
To Reorganize KU Business Bureau In July
In a reorganization effective July 1, the Bureau of Business Research will become the Center for Research in Business.
At that time Dean James R Surface of the School of Business, will also become chairman of the center with Edward C. Nelson, professor of economics, serving as director of research.
The changes became necessary with the request of Paul Malone, director of the bureau since 1948, for return to full time teaching in the department of economics; and the resignation of Horace Harding, assistant director. Mr. Harding will fill the newly created position of director of research for the Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City, Mo. beginning July 1.
Dean Surface indicated the basic functions of assembling and distributing information of current value to businessmen and industry executives and of performing basic research in economic matters pertaining to the state would be continued.
Dr. Nelson has been a member of the faculty for 13 years.
Gives Kansas German Books
Miss Anne Marie Christiansen, instructor of German, Thursday presented a set of 50 German books and a matching case to Governor George Docking, who accepted them on behalf of the State of Kansas.
The same gift is being made to the governors of all 48 states as an expression of appreciation by a private group of West German citizens who have in recent years had the opportunity of participating in the many study and visitation programs of the United States. The books deal with aspects of German culture such as literature, art, music, painting and architecture.
Miss Christiansen, herself a participant in one of the programs, said. "This is not a government-sponsored gesture, but is a means by which many of we Germans have pooled our contributions to make a concrete expression of gratitude to the American people for the opportunity to learn in America."
Credit Personnel To Meet Sunday
The annual fourth district Credit Bureau and Collection Service Management Institute will start Sunday. More than 115 credit bureau and collection service employees from the midwest and Rocky Mountain states will attend the week-long institute.
While at the University they will attend classes at the Union building and be housed in Grace Sellards Pearson Hall.
Harl N. Stokes, Oklahoma City, Okla., is dean of the institute and Carl Rowe, St. Louis, Mo., education director of the Associated Credit Bureaus of America from St. Louis, Mo., and E. A. McFarland, manager of the bureau of institutes, are helping with the planning and arrangements.
Credit bureau and collection personnel attending the institute are enrolled in a four-year curriculum which is designed to study problems of credit and collection and to keep them upon the changes that affect their organizations.
Mitchell To Hold Coaching Clinic
Jack Mitchell head football coach, will hold a clinic on football coaching at 2 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in the theatre room of Allen Field House.
All coaches and students may attend.
Playground Offers Enjoyment For All
"I don't know where all the youngsters come from but they are a grand group of children and we love working with them," said Reginald R. Strait, assistant professor of education and physical education, who directs the evening playground in front of Flint Hall.
This organized playground, held from 7-9 p.m. each evening, attracts as many as 125 youngsters ranging in age from 8 to 14 years.Many of them start arriving early in the evening and stay until the lights are out.
There are games and activities to interest boys and girls of every age. In the group games a student instructor usually supervises.
The playground is actually a laboratory session for the Elementary School Playground Activities class. During the spring and fall semesters the students in this class teach an hour in the Lawrence elementary schools.
During the summer session they receive their practice teaching on the campus playground. Each evening six of the 33 class members, most of whom are undergraduates, operate the playground.
Equipment for almost every playground conceivable is available for the youngsters. The teeter-totter and slide attract the smaller children while the favorites of the junior high age are crochet, shuffleboard, badminton, volleyball, and dodge ball.
There are table games such as box hockey and large play balls roll
and balance and other individual games.
This recreational area appeals to adults as well as children. "We have one of the finest views of the Wakarusa valley from our playground area that can be found anywhere," Prof. Strait said. "Not only do we have an excellent view but this is one of the coolest places in the area on a hot summer night."
Many adults sit around the fringe areas of the playground and enjoy visiting and watching the children play.
Friday night is movie night and benches are provided to seat approximately 200 persons. Travelogues and sport features are the favorite films.
Two films, "Challenge On The Lake" and "Around South America," will be shown about 8:15 p.m. today outdoors just east of Robinson Gymnasium.
To Show Two Films Outdoors Tonight
In case of rain they will be shown inside the gymnasium.
Minnesota's first auto speed law was passed in 1903 and set the maximums at eight mph in towns and 25 mph in the country.
THE BIGGER THE BETTER—An unidentified child plays with one of the large balls furnished on the playground in front of Flint Hall. It may be as big as she is but that is the way she likes it. (Summer Kansan photo by Ron Miller)
Leaves For Australia
Charles D. Michener, professor of entomology, and his family left Wednesday for Australia where Prof. Michener will hold a Fulbright research grant during the coming school year.
The American Society for Metals Foundation for Education and Research, with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, has granted KU a $500 scholarship for the 1958-59 academic year.
Scholarship Funds Granted
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