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55th Year, No.138
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, May 2, 1958
PROF. D. RUTH THOMPSON
LOUIS LACOSS
DR. HENRY K. BEECHER
BURTON MCCOLLUM
MRS. GERTRUDE S. PEARSON
5 Alumni Get Citations For Service To Mankind
Five alumni of the University have been named to receive the citation for distinguished service to mankind given by the University and the Alumni Assn. Joint announcement was made today by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and Paul J. Adam of Kansas City, Mo., president of the association.
The five to be honored are: Dr. Henry K. Beecher, class of 1926, world-renowned anesthesiologist and professor at Harvard University; Louis LaCoss, class of 1911, Pulitzer-prize winning editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; Burton McCollum, class of 1903, pioneer petroleum geophysicist of Houston. Tex.;
Mrs. Gertrude Sellards Pearson, class of 1901, who with her late husband significantly advanced the University's student housing program, Corsicana, Tex.; and Prof. D. Ruth Thompson, class of 1920, chemistry teacher at Sterling College in Sterling.
Dr. Beecher earned an A.B. degree in 1926, and an M.A. degree in 1927. He earned a M.D. degree cum laude from Harvard in 1932. After study in Copenhagen, Denmark, he became anesthesiologist-in-chief of
The citations were voted by a committee on the basis of the individual's contribution to the welfare of mankind. KU does not grant honorary degrees and the citation, which will be conferred during Commencement exercises, June 2, carry a similar distinction.
Massachusetts General Hospital. He became a teacher at Harvard in 1936 and was named Henry Isaiah Dorr professor of research in anesthesia.
During World War II he served with the Army. Since 1946 he has been consultant to the Surgeon General of the Army, and at one time was also consultant to the Navy and Air Force.
Started With Kansan
Mr. LaCoss joined the Globe-Democrat as a special writer in 1923 and by 1941 had become editorial page editor. In 1952 he became vice president of the Globe-Democrat. He won the Pulitzer prize for his
Mr. LaCoss gained his first newspaper experience with the University Daily Kansan. He has worked for the San Diego Sun, the Kansas City Star, the Parsons Sun and the Associated Press.
editorial, "The Low Estate of Public Morais."
Mr. McCollum founded McCollum Geological Explorations, Inc., which later became McCollum Exploration Co., in Houston, Tex. and became one of the leaders in the use of the reflection seismography in prospecting for oil.
McCollum is also president of Mc- Collumn Laboratories, Inc., Pantano Petroieum Co., and Lignol Chemical Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Pearson, in 1945, began a series of gifts to KU which have made possible the construction of two scholarship halls and three dormitories. When Joseph R. Pearson Hall is completed in the late fall, the Pearsons will have made housing possible for more than 1,000 students.
Heads Chemistry Department Miss Thompson earned an MA
degree from KU in 1920 and returned to her undergraduate alma mater, Sterling College, to become professor and head of the chemistry department. It has been a one-woman department for all but two years of the 38 years she has held that post. During this time the proportion of her students who have gone on to graduate study in chemistry or related fields is unusually high and they have had outstanding professional success.
The National Academy of Science has prepared a report which reveals that Sterling College, over a 5-year period, ranked 41st in the nation in the number of graduates who went on to get Ph.D. degrees in chemistry. Her students have attributed this record, unique among schools the size of Sterling to her clear and inspired teaching.
Pay Your Debts, Seniors
Seniors who owe fines or fees to University departments will be in for a disappointment on June 2 if they don't pay soon.
They'll get to "walk down the Hill," but once they get to the stadium they'll be given a dun instead of a diploma.
H. I. Swartz, accountant at the
business office, said the various departments will start sending out final reminders soon. If the seniors don't meet the deadlines for paying, they'll meet a cashier from the business office at the stadium.
Before they can get into the stallium they must pay their senior class dues at the business office. These dues entitle them to caps and towns and receipts for diplomas.
THE CHOICE BY LAW—One of these three finalists will be chosen law queen tonight at a dance in the Hotel Eldridge. From left, Colinda Austin, Salina freshman, Kay Miller, Leavenworth and Celia Welch, Herington, sophomores.
The amount of the class fee, including money for the senior gift, will be decided at the senior breakfast Friday.
The deadline for paying overdue library and traffic fines and hospital and house bills at the departmental offices will be about a week or ten days before finals, Mr. Swartz said. If the bills are not paid at that time, the departments send lists of debtors to the business office.
But they find out how serious it is when they are refused a diploma, he said. As a last resort a temporary business office is set up under the west end of the stadium on commencement night. If a senior still owes money when he files through for his diploma, he will be told to "break rank" and go to the cashier's window.
"Most seniors show up here by the last deadline, but some don't seem to realize the seriousness of letting the bills go unpaid. There are usually about 25 or 50 seniors who think they can dodge fines when they get this close to graduation," Mr. Swartz said.
Letters of a "most urgent" nature are then sent to students and a new "late date deadline" is set for about a week before commencement. During this time all bills must be paid at the business office.
"Most seniors eventually realize that by holding out they are only hurting themselves. Very few run bills and never pay them. The amount of money lost on bad debts is always small but the extra bookkeeping become costly." Mr. Swartz said.
All seniors must pay class dues and "walk down the Hill" unless they are excused by the Chancellor. Graduate students and medical students receiving degrees are not required to pay the dues.
Seniors Vote To Give Fountain To University
Five-hundred students representing the senior class of 1958 voted to give the University a fountain for the courtyard of the new Music and Dramatic Arts Building at a senior coffee at 10 this morning.
Wally Strauch, Elmhurst, Ill. senior and chairman of the gift committee, presented the idea of the fountain to the seniors and presided over a discussion of this and other gifts.
Sachem Elects 14 Juniors
Fourteen juniors have been elected to Sachem, KU chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa, national honor society for senior men. Selection is on a basis of scholarship and leadership.
They are:
Robert G. Billings, Russell; Daniel L. Casson, Topek; R. P. Claiborne, Amarillo, Tex; John G. Feighner, Wellsville; Phillin G. Heinsheel, Smith Center; Stephen H. Hill. Lawrence; Stewart R. Horejsi, Salina; Lynn K. Kindred, Emporia; Patrick D. Little, Wichita; Lynn H. Miller, Dodge City; David A. Ontjes, Hutchinson; Richard P. Patterson, Kansas City, Mo.; Douglas A. Scott, Ottawa; Chester B. Vanatta, Bartlesville, Okla.
Weather
Scattered showers and thunderstorms in northeast Kansas tonight and Saturday, ending Saturday forenoon. Highs expected Saturday 70-75, low tonight 50s.
A scholarship or loan fund had several speaking supporters. The feeling of these seniors was that there was nothing beneficial or useful about a fountain and a loan fund could be put to more use.
- Members of the class discussed several other ideas.
"We thought of that," said Strauch. "The main objection to that is that 20 or 25 years from now the class of 1958 would like to be able to point out what it gave to the University.
"It would be a little hard to pull out the files, look up a scholarship, and say 'we donated' that 25 years ago."
The cost of the fountain has not been determined yet, Strauch said. "The senior class fund can put up $2,000 to $2,500. The administration will back the donation with an equal or larger amount to see it built.
"The s is something the University wants," he said.
Asked where the 'administration's part of the donation would come from, Strauch replied that he was not sure.
"Where does the senior class fund come from?" someone asked.
Strauch replied that the main source of the donation would be from senior class dues paid by each member of the class.