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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. March 18, 1958
HOUSE OF FLOWERS—Ed Howe, buildings and grounds employe, displays one of the blooms in the KU tropical plant greenhouse. Three KU greenhouses produce flower "crops" during the winter for planting on the campus during warm weather. (Daily Kansas photo)
(Daily Kansan photo)
Campus Greenhouses Produce Our Posies
Visitors and students alike may be appreciative of the colorful flowers and shrubs which will abound on the KU campus this spring. Many of these people would be surprised to learn that the propagation and growing of the plants is among the duties of the buildings and grounds department.
Three greenhouses are maintained by the department on the south side of Mt. Oread under the supervision of Harold E. Blitch, a foreman of the buildings and grounds department. One greenhouse is for propagation of trees and shrubs as second for growing flowers and the third is used for storing grown flowers ready for use. The storage greenhouse is now full of flowers to be planted when warmer weather comes.
The flowers are used by various University departments for decorative and ceremonial uses, and in addition for outdoor planting done by the buildings and grounds department. Each department has funds for its flowers.
The art and botany departments frequently use the greenhouses for classes and some students spend
There are three flower "crops" a year produced in the greenhouse: snapdragons, geraniums and chrysanthemums. During the peak of the season there are plenty of flowers for everyone, but often there are not enough to fill requests at other times.
City Clerks School Here Wednesday
KU will be host to the eighth annual city clerks school, to be held Wednesday through Friday in the Union.
City clerks from approximately 60 Kansas towns will study insurance, federal funds, revenue sources and other phases of city business. The school is sponsored by the City Clerks Assn. of Kansas, the KU governmental research center and University Extension.
Speakers at the school include Harold E. Horn, Lawrence city manager; Freda Dixon, director of community relations for the Kansas City, Mo. police department; Fred W. Rausch Jr., assistant state attorney general, and Arden Ensley, Topeka, research attorney for the League of Kansas Municipalities.
Ethan P. Allen, director of the governmental research center, is the chairman of the city clerks school.
many hours after class drawing and studying the plants.
A greenhouse would seem a warm place in which to work during the winter. Actually, the temperature is kept at only 65 degrees, too warm for a coat and too cool for just a shirt.
Mr. Blitch said that despite the greenhouses' expanse of exposed glass, there has been little trouble with vandals. A rock is thrown through a pane once in a while, he said, but not often enough to cause much inconvenience or expense.
Mr. Blitch said he did have trouble last winter with something considerably bigger than a rock. A car had been parked, facing downhill, sometime during the night in a driveway west of the power plant. Apparently the parking brake had not been fully set, because the car rolled down the driveway into the greenhouse.
"It made quite a mess." Mr. Blitch said, "and the fact that I had to get out of bed at 4 a.m. in 5-below-zero weather made it even worse."
Color TV In Union Monday
Five color television sets will be available in the Kansas Union Monday. March 24, for viewing the Hallmark program, "Little Moon of Albrin," from 8:30 to 10 p.m. The arrangements were made by Student Union Activities in cooperation with Hallmark.
Martin B. Dickinson, class of '28, and past national president of Delta Tau Delta social fraternity, will speak at the Greek Week scholarship banquet at 6 p.m. in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
Mr. Dickinson, a Kansas City, Mo. lawyer, has held several positions in the fraternity since 1928. From 1933-1934 he was president of the Western divisions and in 1942 he was supervisor of scholarship. He is a Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr. Dickinson has practiced law in Kansas City, Mo. since his admittance to the Missouri bar in 1927. He was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court in 1936.
Trophies will be given to the fraternity and the sorority with the highest grade averages and to the woman with the highest individual average. The fraternity pledge class with the highest grade average will receive a plaque.
Guests at the banquet will be chapter honor initiates, scholarship chairmen and the chapter presidents.
Trophies and plaques will be awarded by the Panhellenic and Inter-fraternity Councils, sorority and fraternity governing bodies respectively.
Chairmen for the banquet are Mary Alden, Hutchinson junior, and Harry J. Reity, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore.
His son, Martin Jr., is a KU soph- more.
Scenes from seven well-known plays will be presented by a Theatre workshop group at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday and Friday in the Experimental Theatre. There is no admission charge.
Theatre Workshop enables students in directing classes to produce scenes from plays, with the aid of student actors and technicians. Four scenes will be given Wednesday and three on Friday.
To Produce Scenes From Seven Plays
Production directors are Sandy Blankenship, Great Bend, Ruth Hicklin, Kansas City, Mo., Ken Baker, Helmetta, N. J., juniors; Roger Brown, Topeka, Vera Stough, Lawrence; Caroline Ransopher, Manhattan, seniors, and Victor Hyden, instructor of speech, drama and journalism.
St. Pat Irish? Blarney!
Alumnus Will Be Greek Week Dinner Speaker She's An 'Old Pro In Amateur Golf
It's hard to shake the loyalty of an Irishman to St. Patrick, but a KU sophomore with the un-Irish name of Pugliesi may have managed to do it, Monday.
Two Monsanto Grants Renewed
The Irishman is Mike Quinlan, Kansas City, Kan. junior, and the sophomore with the un-Irish name (first name Joe) is from Brooklyn.
The Monsanto Chemical Company of St. Louis, Mo. has renewed two $1,500 fellowships to the University for the 1958-59 academic year.
One grant-in-aid will be for a graduate student working for a Ph.D. degree in the department of chemistry. The other grant is for a graduate student studying with Dr. Joseph H. Burckhalter, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry.
Pugliesi saw the gaudy green shamrock-clay pipe combination worn by Quinlan and tapped him on the chest.
Anne Hibbins hanged as a witch in Salem, Mass. in 1656.
"What's the green for?" the Brooklyn non-Irishman asked the Kansas City son of Erin.
"That, me boy, is a bit of green shamrock, and 'tis in honor of St. Patrick that I'm wearing it," Quinlan replied with dignity.
"What for?" Pugliesi demanded. "Don't you know that St. Patrick was born in Napoli, Italy, that his name was really Pasquale, and that he adopted green for his color because it's in the Italian flag?"
Competitive golf tournaments are "a lot of fun" for Sean Ashley, Chanute sophomore and an enthusiastic amateur golf champion.
Three-time winner of the Women's Tri-State Tournament, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas and former Kansas amateur champion at 16, Jean attributes her interest in golf to her "golfing family."
Jean was taught to play golf by
Jean was taught to play golf by her father and was encouraged by her uncle, Dick Ashley, a winner of the intercollegiate championship when he was attending KU.
In 1956 when Jean was runner-up for the state championship, her younger sister, Joan, was Kansas junior champion, her mother was fourth flight winner in the tournament and her older sister, Judy, also a KU sophomore, was third flight winner.
Jean has taken professional lessons for the past three years, and usually practices about ten hours a week during the summer. Her busy amateur schedule sometimes conflicts with the first few weeks of school at KU, but Jean has maintained a 2.3 over-all average in her schoolwork.
She has played an exhibition match with professional champion Patty Baerg, and in tournament, with Faye Crocker, former national open champion, Marilynn Smith and Jackie Pung.
Jean's winning amateur career began with the Chanute Country Club Championship when she was 14. For three successive years she won the Tri-State Tournament, and twice won the Southeast Kansas Championship.
At 16, Jean was the youngest player ever to win the Broadmoor Women's Invitational in Colorado Springs, Colo., and by the widest marginal score—10 and 9.
Jean played in the semi-finals o both the Western Junior Championship in Lake Geneva, Wis., and the National Collegiate Championship
Three To Receive Design Awards
Three cash awards to architecture students will be presented at a dinner at 6:15 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Room of the Union.
The awards, for outstanding design students, are given by the Kansas Concrete Block Assn.
"The entries are judged on overall factors, including use of materials and ingenuity of design," said George M. Beal, professor of architecture.
Fraternity To Hear Engineering Dean
John S. McNown, dean of the School of Engineering, will be the speaker at the annual initiation banquet of Pi Tau Sigma, honorary mechanical engineering fraternity, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the English Room of the Union.
Seventeen students will be initiated into the group at the banquet.
Widow Of KU Museum Expert Dies
Mrs. Clara Bunker, widow of Charles D. Bunker, long-time museum expert at KU, died March 13 in Wichita where she had made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Dan Warner. She was 84 years old.
Mr. Bunker had curatorial duties in the museum from 1908 to 1942. He died in 1948.
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JEAN ASHLEY
semi-finals against Judy Bell, amateur champion, when she was 17.
Her many awards include silver candlesticks, dishes, a silver punch bowl from the Broadmoor tournament, and a silver tea service and trophy from the Kansas state amateur tournament.
"Being an amateur is expensive, because you never can win any money. But it's much better than being a pro. You don't have all the pressure and grind, and it's more fun."
Jean plans to begin her spring practice in April or May—"as soon as warm weather rolls around. I'm not much of a winter golfer."
She'll be playing in the Intercollegiate Tournament about June 1, and the Trans-Mississippi Tournament in Springfield, Mo.
"Then I'll probably enter the Kansas State Amateur Open again, and the Broadmoor, and the Western,..."
On and on she goes, an enthusiastic, amateur golf champion.
It Was Costly Rain
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. — There's no doubt southern California has been having unusually heavy rains.
Mrs. Audrey Zimmerman dropped her wallet in the street. Before she could stoop to pick it up, the wallet and $335 went swirling down a drain.
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