University Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 20, 1958
WILL THEY FLY?—From left to right, Larry Fowler, Atchison freshman, Harriet Ann Pierce, Hutchinson freshman and Miss Barbara Mulvaney, assistant instructor of design.
'Go Fly A Kite,' She Said
"Go fly a kite," said Barbara Mulvaney, assistant instructor of design, to her class.
And that's exactly what they are going to do for the final project. The problem is to design an original kite. There are no restrictions as to size, materials used or construction. The only requirement is that it fly. The design of the kite is of secondary importance to its function.
The twenty students are now building an assortment of kites that are quite different from the ones most kids fly. Complex shapes, brilliant color panels and moving parts are being used.
The final test for the project will be Wednesday afternoon. The group will meet outdoors to fly their kites. The performance of the kites will show how well the students have filled the assignment.
Gets $36,000 For Study
Dr. A W. Kuchler, professor of geography, has been granted $36,500 for three years by the National Science Foundation to continue his study of "Natural Vegetation of the United States."
Dr. Kuchler began his study two years ago and has made considerable progress, especially in the western half of the United States. He had a sabbatical leave of absence from the University in 1956-57, but made his headquarters at KU while traveling to different parts of the country.
On his trips, Dr. Kuchler examine vegetation types and talks with experts of the U.S. Forestry Service agriculture departments and forestr
TV Show Sunday On KU Premiere
An oratorio, "The Invisible Fire," which received its world premiere New Year's Eve at KU as part of the quadrennial National Methodist Student Conference last winter, will be telecast nationally by the Columbia Broadcasting System on Sunday.
The program will originate in New York at 10 a.m., Eastern Daylight Savings Time.
The oratorio, based on the lives and experiences of John and Charles Wesley was commissioned for the conference at KU. Text is by Tom F. Driver, New York City, and music by Cecil Effinger, Boulder, Colo. The premiere was conducted by Thor Johnson of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
The average American home today has the equivalent of 40 servants in the electric utilities the homemaker uses.
companies to gather source materials.
This summer Dr. Kuchler will work in the area from the Dakotas to New England. The grant enables him to have two graduate assistants.
Sociology Major Gets $150 Grant
William L, Reed, Kansas City, Mo. junior, has been awarded the Seba and Kay Ruth Eldrige Scholarship of $150 for the academic year 1958-59.
The award is in memory of Prof Seba Eldridge, a member of the KU sociology department for 33 years who died in 1953, and Mrs. Eldridge who died in 1951. The award is for outstanding undergraduate majors in sociology.
Reed's field of special interest is criminology. He is active in the Prairie Village-Mission Hills Police Department and expects to assume a civilian position on the juvenile squad this summer with the Kansas City, Mo. Police Department.
2 Senior Recitals Today, Wednesday
The last two senior recitals will be presented tonight and Wednesday night at 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building. Admission is free.
Compositions by John Spears, Ottawa, will be featured tonight. The compositions will be played by groups of students and faculty. Spears is a student of L. E. Anderson, professor of theory.
Cellist Alan Harris, Lawrence, will present the final recital Wednesday night. He is a student of Raymond Stuhl, associate professor of cello.
A total of 32 different groups will hold conferences at KU during the summer with persons attending from all over the United States.
Most persons coming for conferences will be housed in Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, and will have their eating facilities in the Kansas Union cafeteria.
KU To Host 32 Groups This Summer
University dormitories will be used when there are more persons than can conveniently be housed in GSP. This will happen when about 2,500 Boy Scouts belonging to the Order of the Arrow arrive for a conference.
The KU Summer Theatre, the National Science Foundation conference, and the KU Driver Education program will be on campus most of June and all of July.
Conferences to be held in June include: Girls State, Bank Management Clinic, Kansas Writers Conference. Big Eight Dean of Students Workshop, Hospital Administrator's Workshop, Health Education Workshop and the Elementary Education Workshop.
July conferences will include: 4-H Judging School, Life Insurance Marketing Institute, L-P Gas Service School, Kansas Highway Patrol In-Service Training School, and the Kansas Peace Officers Training School.
In Other Words- He Is Conceited
Two students were sitting in the basement of Strong Hall when a professor, well known for his high opinion of himself, walked by.
One of the students, turning to his companion, said, "There, but for the grace of God, goes God."
Federal Service Applications Due
May 29 is the last day applications will be accepted for the last Federal Service Examination of the season, which will be June 14.
The exam is for college juniors and seniors in the fields of business administration, law, library science, accounting, physical education and public administration. Positions are GS-5 to GS-7. $3.670 to $4.525 a year.
Announcements and application forms may be obtained from Mr. Bamber at the Post Office.
Blitch said there are some trees which bear peaches and plums around the chancellor's home. The wife of former chancellor Deane W. Malot asked that they be planted.
There are no apples for the teachers, but they, as well as the students, help with the annual October pear harvest at the west end of the campus.
Fruit For Students As Well As Teachers
Trees Planted For Flowers
Last year the gardening crew thought they were getting some help in cleaning up the fruit that was left on the ground. A group of young boys gathered up two or three bushels of pears. But instead of disposing of them, they threw them into the Chi Omega fountain. Then the campus policemen, and not the gardening crew, guided the boys to the right righ disposal place.
Everyone passing Lindley Hall gets to enjoy the spring blossoms along "fruit tree row," but the first people who pass by in the fall get to enjoy the fruit on the trees.
James R. Owen, instructor of architecture and one of the University landscapers, said the 15 pear trees were planted along the sidewalk "for the pretty spring blossoms."
There are other pear trees close to the main campus. The site of Stauffer apartments was once an orchard and there are still pear trees there.
"If students aren't worried about belly aches, they're welcome to the fruit. No one has priority to the pears. I've seen a few students and teachers eating them, but not many. Most of the fruit goes to the birds. The trees aren't sprayed to produce fruit, they're just trimmed to look pretty this time of year. Usually the pears are pretty buggy by the time they're ripe."
Blitch said, "Some people are afraid to eat them because they think pears must be picked and wrapped for 10 days before they are good, but these are a soft pear that can be eaten right off the tree."
Other Fruit Trees On Campus There are a few other fruit trees on the campus, but the area in front of Lindley is the only part that even resembles an Oread orchard. Most of the other fruit trees are of the flowering variety—such as the cherries and crab apples.
The curving row of white "flowers" was planted in 1947. Harold E. Blitch, landscape foreman, said the trees could produce "very heavily," but only a few pears mature because the gardeners keep thinning them out to keep the branches from breaking.
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Joe Skillman, campus police chief, said today that the toll lot permits parking by both guests and students, while before the gate went in students weren't permitted to use the lot at all during school hours.
The parking lot across from the Kansas Union is achieving its purpose.
Chief Skillman said similar lots are used at Northwestern University, and the universities of California and Illinois.
One early trouble with the gate mechanism has been corrected, Chief Skillman said. Some small foreign cars were too light to operate the treadle before, but the machine has been adjusted and will now operate for any size car.
Toll Parking Lot Achieves Aim
The lot is open for free parking from midnight Saturday to midnight Sunday.
Statistics on the amount of traffic through the gate will be compiled this summer, he said.
Sandra Falwell, Kansas City, Kan.
senior, received a trophy as the
outstanding senior in the jewelry and
silversmithing department. Max
Dunlevy, Emporia junior, was
awarded $25 as an outstanding person
majoring in jewelry and silversmithing.
Outstanding Senior In Jewelry Named
The awards are donated annually by a Kansas City, Mo. jewelry firm. Winners are selected and approved by members of the design department faculty.
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