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Emil L. Telfel Dies Of A Stroke
Emil Luke Telfel, associate professor of journalism and a newspaper and public relations man for more than 35 years, died this morning following a stroke. He was 53 years old.
Prof. Telfel was news adviser to The Daily Kansan. He lived at 2500 Montana St. with his wife, Mrs. Helen Anita Telfel
Prof. Telfel came to KU as an assistant professor of journalism in 1946 and was appointed associate professor in 1950.
Taught Western Civ
He first became adviser to The Daily Kansan in 1947 and served in that position until 1949. He was adviser again from 1950 to 1951, and took over his third adviser term in 1955. Under his direction The Daily Kansan won several All America ratings.
Prof. Telfel at various times taught courses in reporting, editing, radio and advertising. He was teaching Reporting II and Editing II this semester and was an instructor in Western Civilization, a position he held for three years.
In recent years Prof. Teitel nat become a widely sought lecturer on public relations matters for trade and professional groups. For six consecutive years he was a speaker at the Headliner Week of Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo.
Born in Hungary
Born in Budapest, Hungary. Nov.
20, 1904. Prof. Telfel received his
A.B. in journalism (magna cum
laude) from the University of Notre
Dame in 1311 and his A.M. in
EMIL L. TELFEL
political science from St. Norbert College, West Dew Pere, Wis., in 1935.
After his first job in 1923 as a reporter for the Newark (N.J.)
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The Professional
The University Daily Kansan, like most afternoon newspapers, comes alive early in the morning.
The United Press teletype begins its steady clatter as early as 4 a.m., hammering out the day's news. By 8 a.m. the office is filled with the noises and voices of reporters and editors as they bend to the task of shaping today's newspaper.
Other operations are going on, too. Back in the newspaper's composing room, the linotypes clatter as the operators tap out the words of the first story to be set in type. Salesmen are out on the streets, convincing, cajoling; selling the revenue-producing advertisements which are the lifeblood of the paper. The pressmen make the first adjustments on their monstrous child, the press which prints the paper.
This sounds like the description of any newspaper's procedure, doesn't it? It is, with one notable exception.
Many of the staff members of the paper, particularly the reporters and editors, are young men and women who never saw the inside of a newspaper office before they came to work for The Daily Kansan.
They are the youngsters who give the journalism school its purpose—making men and women of journalism out of them.
It takes a lot of teaching to make a competent reporter from a farm boy. It takes a lot of explaining before those first stumbling words become simple, beautiful sentences which tell the news in a straightforward manner.
It takes a heap of yelling, too, before complacent, lazy, and woefully ignorant youngsters "shape up" into reasonable energetic newspapermen.
For want of a better term, we'll call him adviser. Advise he must, in great heaping doses. The advice comes softly at times. But when enraged over errors of fact or sloppy writing, you should be able to hear his voice above the power plant whistle.
The teacher for such a job obviously must be a professional newsman—one who loves the news and doesn't give a damn about being the most popular professor on the campus.
Without that advice, the newspaper is almost dead; a mediocre student publication. With it, the old Daily Kansan sometimes gets up and gallops like a quarter horse, a real professional among newspapers.
As the morning goes on, the newspaper takes form. The "floor men" shift handfuls of type to make them fit into the forms. In the newsroom, the editor for the day chain smokes as he worries over page layouts.
By 2 p.m. the last type has been "locked up," the last correction made. The flat pages of type are taken down to the pressroom and locked into the belly of the press.
When all is ready, a pressman throws a switch and the huge machine begins to roll. Ink rollers dart in and out as the newsprint begins to slide by. Slowly at first, then faster, the great cylinder slides over the type. Gradually the huge machine gains momentum until it is thundering along at a steady continuous roar. The newspapers pour from it in the thousands and once again a newspaper has repeated the daily ritual of going to press.
The Daily Kansan went to press today, but it was a headless, heartless, operation.
Emil L. Telfel, associate professor of journalism and news adviser of the University Daily Kansan, died at 8:40 a.m. today. He was 53. More than 34 of those years had been spent as a newsman.
—The Editors
Daily hansan
Monday, March 24, 1958
55th Year, No.113
Survey Indicates Faculty Wants Funded Plan
Eighty-three per cent of the responses to a questionnaire sent to KU staff and faculty members indicated they would prefer changing to a contributory, funded retirement plan.
The survey is being conducted by a committee of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors. The committee will present its findings to the chapter at a meeting on April 30.
Prof. Krogh said the faculty at Kansas State had approved the plan, and that the K-State administration is figuring costs to present to the Board of Regents.
Harold Krogh, associate professor of business administration and chairman of the committee, said Friday the committee had received 342 replies to the questionnaire, with 283 approving a change. He said the committee was anxious to get as many as possible of the unreturned questionnaires before April 30.
The AAUP is to present the results of the poll to the administration for consideration after the April 30 meeting.
The other three colleges are considering surveys similar to the one here, Prof. Krogh said.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Under the present retirement plan, called the Regents' Proposal, a faculty member's maximum retirement pay is $2,782 a year. Under a tentative plan worked out with the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Assn., maximum for a person in the "middle income" bracket would be 50 per cent of his highest annual income.
Under the Kansas State proposal, mentioned in the questionnaire, each participant would contribute 5 per cent of his pay toward the retirement fund, and the amount would be matched by the school.
In today's Daily Kansan George Anthan, Kansas City, Kan, senior and sports editor, discusses on pages 4 and 5 the sudden and surprising fall of Kansas State College in the NCAA tournament in Louisville, Ky., Friday and Saturday.
Prof. Krogh named several advantages of the contributory plan, including higher retirement pay and that all contracts would be individual and transferable if the member went to another school with the TIAA plan. He said 750 schools in the United States have the TIAA system.
Other members of the committee are L. E. Anderson, professor of organ and theory, Howard Baumgartel, assistant professor of business administration, Kenneth Beasley, assistant professor of political science, Russell Bradt, assistant professor of mathematics, and A. H Turney, professor of education.
Anthan Reports On K-State's Fall
Anthan was accompanied to Louisville by Eldon Miller, sports editor of the K-State Collegian.
Clear to partly cloudy tonight. Tuesday increasing cloudiness west with scattered light rain likely by evening, clear to partly cloudy elsewhere. Warmer over state and a little colder southeast tonight. Low tonight 25 to 35. High Tuesday 45 to 55.
Weather
Panel Reviews KU Progress
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy told 150 alumni and friends of the University Saturday one of KU's goals is that "in 10 to 15 years the faculty will include at least two Nobel Prize winners."
Chancellor Murphy spoke at the end of a panel discussion in which deans and professors told of progress and developments in their schools and departments in recent years.
He told the audience, at the end of the day-long review of the University's achievements, that they must not be afraid to dream in large terms, and must believe that what they dream can come to reality in Kansas.
The guests, who arrived from several states, heard the panel members tell some of the things made possible by private endowments and gifts to the University.
Deans Address Group
Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe, dean of the School of Medicine, spoke of research work on polio viruses and on crystallization of enzymes, and the development of the nation's largest postgraduate course in medicine. These were all made possible through private funds, Dean Wescoe said.
John S. McNown, dean of the School of Engineering, showed a high speed oscilloscope built at KU which measures phenomena in billionths of a second. Such a device, he said, might be used in studying atomic explosions and in improving radar systems.
Francis Heller, associate dean of the College, explained the gifted student program at KU, in which selected students may progress at a faster rate. He emphasized that the gifted student program was "just one part of teaching all our students to the level of our capacity and theirs."
Chancellor Murphy added at this point that, "Everyone who comes here should be forced to the outer limit of his ability," but added that requirements "should never be so high that the average motivated student cannot get a first-class education."
M. C. Slough, dean of the School of Law, said the school planned to start a course, working with the School of Medicine, in medical law. Other courses to be started will be in agricultural law and in water law, he said.
More Basic Than Research
Phillip Mitchell, associate professor in the department of Scandinatian languages, said that the ability to communicate, which is learned through languages and literature, is more basic in education than research.
Robert Vosper, director of libraries, told the alumni how KU obtained a set of encyclopedia last year which was printed in Czarist Russia, and a copy of a 15th century printing of the Justinian code.
Withdrawal Confuses ASC Political Race
The campus political picture was further muddled Friday when Mary Olson, Wichita freshman, announced her withdrawal from the race for vice-president of the student body.
Miss Olson and Ed Prelock. Cleveland, Ohio senior, had filed for president and vice-president on a nonpartisan ticket Wednesday. They were the only opponents for the Allied Greek-Independent ticket of Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Mo., and Sharon Sue Stout, Wichita, both juniors
Miss Olson formally withdrew Sunday by notify ing John Downing, Kansas City, Mo. junior and chairman of the Elections Committee.
She said her withdrawal would make for "a better campus political situation." She said her decision was not due to pressure.
Prelock Still In
withdrawal came when she told him.
Prelock, when told Sunday that Miss Olson had officially withdrawn, said he still intended to run if possible.
Of Miss Olson, he said "I think it's unfortunate she has withdrawn. I certainly think there has been pressure on her to do so."
Jim Austin, Topea sophomore and president of Vox Populi, campus party, said he had not called Miss Olson or talked to her. He said the first news he had of her
Joel Sterrett, Topeka senior and president of AGI, also said he had not called Miss Olson. He indicated he had been careful not to call her because he felt there would be controversy over the last-minute filing of the Prelock-Olson ticket.
Opponent Needed
Patterson, speaking of Prelock's decision to stay in the race, said "I don't know what the decision of the Election Committee will be. I hope there will be an opponent, in the interests of better student government."
He had no comment about Miss Olson's withdrawal.
Constitution Unclear
Miss Stout said she had spent the weekend at home, and din't know what the situation was.
Downing said the All Student Council constitution was not clear in this situation, and he would talk with Grant Napier, Wichita third year law student, of the Student Court, to determine whether Prelock could run without a vice-president or whether he could file a new vice-presidential candidate for his ticket.