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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1957
15 On Faculty Take Leaves
Ten KU faculty members have been granted sabbatical leaves for the 1957-58 school year. Five others will take leaves of absence without pay during the year.
Those receiving sabbatical leave:
Nachman Aronszajn, professor o. mathematics, to conduct research in Europe in the field of partial differential equations.
Oswald P. Backus, associate professor of history, to hold a Fulbright research fellowship in Finland, where he will investigate Baltic and Russian history of the medieval era.
Thurmul F. McMahon, assistant professor of civil engineering, to complete requirements at Purdue University for the Ph.D. degree.
Frederick J. Moreau, professor of law, to accept a Fulbright lecture-hip and fellowship in law at the University of Teheran, Iran.
Paul C. Roofe, professor of anatomy, to conduct research in the neuroanatomical laboratory of the University of California in Los Angeles.
Calder M. Pickett, assistant professor of journalism, to complete requirements at the University of Minnesota for the Ph.D. degree.
Richard B. Sheridan, associate professor of economics, to collect primary source materials in England and to prepare a book on the rise of the sugar industry in the British Caribbean, 1636-1756. The leave is for the spring semester through the fall of 1958.
Alton C. Thomas, assistant professor of architecture, to complete requirements for the master's degree.
Stanley M. Walas,associate professor of chemical engineering, to prepare for publication a book dealing with "Reaction Kinetics for Chemical Engineers" and to work on texts for courses in Mathematics Applied to Chemical Engineering and Chemical Process Design.
Miss Marian Jersild, assistant professor of piano, to accept a Fulbright scholarship for advanced study at the Music Academy of West Berlin.
Other Leaves
Other faculty receiving leaves:
Other faculty receiving leaves. Roger G. Barker, professor of psychology, to accept a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.
Marston M. McCluggage, professor of sociology, to serve as visiting professor in the College of Business Administration, University of Washington.
Raymond C. Moore, professor of geology, to serve as visiting professor of geology at the University of
Selected editions of the University Daily Kansan, the Topeka Daily Capital, The Lawrence Journal-World, and their predecessors are on display in the Journalism Historical Center in Flint Hall. They are a part of the Leon Flint newspaper collection.
Old Newspapers On Display
The Sheldon editions of the Topeka Daily Capital are part of the exhibit. Dr. Charles M. Sheldon edited The Capital for a week, March 12-17, 1900. "as Jesus would have done it." In the weeks before he took over editorship he wrote reams of material and scrutinized every advertisement.
He did not print any advertisement
which he considered harmful. This included advertisements for corsets and women's underwear, patent medicine, bonds not endorsed by a reliable bank or citizen or any Kansas City merchant because he did not want them competing with Topeka merchants.
Dr. Sheldon stressed churches, schools, education and moral and religious movements, barred crime news, ignored preparations for the Democratic national convention in Kansas City, and looked down on political news in general.
Issues of two of the predecessors of the University Daily Kansan are displayed. They are the May 2, 1903 Kansas University Weekly and three editions of The Kansan from 1906
An 1899 Lawrence Daily World, a
1907 Lawrence Daily Journal, a 1924
Lawrence Daily Journal-World and
a 1929 Lawrence Journal-World
show part of the story of Lawrence's
newspaper history.
Originals by sports cartoonists, from the Albert T. Reid Cartoon Collection, are shown.
Also on display is a part of the George Matthew Adams collection of first edition William Allen White books and gifts by Miss Nellie Barnes and Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes, retired English faculty members, and by Mrs. Beulah Murphy White, Bonner Springs, a member of the first journalism class to be graduated from KU.
to 1910.
KU Gets $100,000 For Study Of Brain
Basic research with vast potential application in human and veterinary medicine will be conducted during the coming year in the department of anatomy. ___
The research will be done under contracts totaling more than $100,-000 from foundations and various National Institutes of Health of the U. S. Public Health Service.
KU is one of five institutions where scientific teams are studying chemical, neuronal and genetic factors involved in the behavior of the developing and adult structures of the vertebrate brain.
Supported by a Health Service grant of $12,618, work will go forward on neurotropic agents. These are viruses and toxins with a strong affinity for the nervous system. The research may increase understanding of diseases of many farm animals.
Work on Viruses
Dr. Howard A. Matzke, associate professor of anatomy, is the principal investigator. Graduate students assisting him include Alexander A. Feines, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Mrs. Diana Schellenberg, Lawrence; Jean A. Foster, McMinnville, Ore.; and John L. Riggs, Lawrence.
Study Polio Path
A closely related project is a study of the pathway of polio virus from the gastro-intestinal tract to the brain in the monkey. For this the
Washington, during the spring semester.
Rufus H. Thompson, associate professor of botany, to accept a Guggenheim fellowship to pursue a study of the genus Cephaleuros in tropical America.
Wiley S. Mitchell, associate professor of accounting, to serve as visiting professor of business administration at Northwestern University.
U. S. Public Health Service contract is $9,750. Principal investigators are Dr. Herbert A. Wenner of the KU Medical Center, Dr. Cora Downs of the bacteriology department, and Dr. Roofe of the anatomy department.
Graduate student assistant are John Riggs, Lawrence; Gwendolyn Freeman, Kansas City, Mo., and Eugene Gold, Chicago, Ill.
At Dixon's
2500 W. 6th—Just West of Turnpike Interchange
A grant of $18,623 will support continued study of the tiger salamander's brain. Dr. Elenar Wenger is directing this work.
A supplementary grant of $2,000 has been received for the purchase of rare and primitive animals for continued study of the function of the cerebellum. Floyd M. Foltz, anatomy instructor, is carrying on this experimetal neurological problem.
Official Bulletin
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office, 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring Bulletin to publication. Only Kansin Notice should include name, place, date, and time of function.
TODAY
Presbyterian Women's Organization, 721 Presbyterian University Center, 1211 Tread, get-acquainted
AIEE-IE smoker, 7:30 p.m., Lindley
Alice A. Heyes, electrical engineering
students invited
Presbyterian Womens' Organization, 7 p.m., Presbyterian University Center, 1221 Oread, get-acquainted.
WEDNESDAY
KU-Y, 6:15 p.m., Oread Room. Student Union, cabinet meeting.
Museum of Art record concert. 11 a.m.
and 4 p.m.
Jay Jane officers meeting, 5 p.m.. Pine Room Student Union.
Museum of Art open house, 7:30 and 9 p.m., art films and refreshments.
THURSDAY
The Kansas team record for rushing in a single game was set in 1923 when the Jayhawkers piled up 662 yards in their 83-0 whitewashing of Washington.
Daniel Felger, Mishawaka, Ind.; Robert Fromm, Brunswick, Mo.; Thomas Garrison, Topeka; Leroy Hirsch, Powhattan; Douglas Kilgore, Salina; John McCabe, Topeka; Donald McQuiston, Wichita; James Mortimer, Salina; Frank W. Naylor Jr., Kansas City, Kan.
Freshman scholarship winners are Harold Beams, Atwood; David Blaker, Bartlesville, Okla.; James Buck, Atwood; Russell Chambers, Kansas City, Kan.; Thomas Chittenden, Eudora; Perry Daniel, Sunnyslope, Ariz.; Dan Durham, Memphis, Tex.; Richard Emuel, Manuel.
Leonard Nelson, Ruleton; Keith Ott, Kingfisher, Okla.; Carl Peterson, Topeka; Don Powell, Hutchinson; Robert Rati, Pittsburg; John Redick, Kansas City, Kan.; Fred Schapker, Topeka; James O. Sampson Jr., St. Louis, Mo.; David Thorning, Atchison; Douglas Webb, Iola; John Westerman, Merriam; and Lewis Wood, Balboa, Conal Zone.
Find It In The Kansan Classifieds
Upperclassmen who received the scholarships are Fred Benson. Independence sophomore; George Hunt, Merriam sophomore; Franklin Ingels, Prairie Village sophomore; Robert Kerlinger, Emporia sophomore; Wendell Koerner, Jefferson City, Mo. sophomore; Kenneth Kreutziger, Wichita sophomore; Bill Reams, Scranton sophomore, and William Stutzer, Kansas City, Mo. junior.
37 Get Naval Scholarships
Thirty-seven students, 29 of them incoming freshmen, have been awarded naval ROTC scholarships.
Benefits of the scholarships include tuition, fees, books, laboratory expenses and retainer pay of $85 per month. Recipients must make required summer practice cruises and serve at least three years on active duty after being commissioned.
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