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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 12, 1957
Heller To Direct GiftedStudentPlan
As the new associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dr. Francis H. Heller will administer the College's enlarged program for gifted students, developed by Dean George R. Waggoner of the College.
Dr. Heller will be the only academic administrative officer in a state university whose principal duties are with gifted students.
They'll Learn At Own Speed
Superior students among freshman entering KU this fall will be able to attend special honors courses offered by more than a dozen departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Honors sections have been offered for several years in freshman English and mathematics. This year honors sections are being added in German, French, Spanish, general biology, economics, psychology, sociology, chemistry, physics, zoology and Western Civilization.
Hand Picked Faculty
Departments assign the best of their senior faculty to teach honors sections to carefully chosen groups of freshmen. These sections cover more advanced materials more rapidly than the average section made of students representing all degrees of academic ability. Honors students may be able to reduce the time needed for graduation of greatly enlarge the scope of their undergraduate studies.
N. Y. Corporation Aids
The KU honors program is being enlarged this year with the help of a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Dr. Francis H. Heller, professor of political science and new associate dean of the College, is administering the program.
- The program, made possible by a three-year grant of $36,500 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will develop cooperative arrangements with high schools to stimulate their advanced programs.
Freshman-Sophomore Level
Dr. Heller, professor of political science and former director of Western Civilization, will supervise KU's gifted student plan at the freshman-sophomore and will coordinate and expand the departmental honors programs at the junior-senior levels. A native of Vienna, Austria, Dr. Heller took his undergraduate work at the University of Vienna. He received his LLB, and M.A. degrees from the University of Virginia in 1941 and his Ph.D. degree in 1948.
Enlisted Man
During World War II, he was an Army enlisted man in the Southwest Pacific, received a battle field commission, and several decorations. He since has been a consultant to the Command and General Staff College and the Army War College. He was recalled to active duty in 1951-52 and commanded the field artillery battery formed from the Lawrence reserve unit.
Honors work is made available to
Dr. Heller joined the University faculty in 1948 as assistant professor of political science. He was promoted to associate professor in 1951 and to professor in 1953.
finalists in the Summerfield and Watkins Scholarship competition, to those who qualified for the certificate of merit in the National Merit Scholarship program, and to students who did exceptionally well on the standard achievement tests and subject matter proficiency tests given new students.
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The 20th Midwestern Music and Art Camp, held for six weeks this summer at KU, had an all-time high enrollment of 556 students.
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Thirty-one states were represented at the camp, with Kansas having 273 students enrolled. The music section was the largest, with an enrollment of 247.
New Law Professor Gave Up State Career
Robert Isle, Jacksonville, Ill., was named outstanding boy in the music division, and Elizabeth Fleming, Larned, received the award as outstanding girl.
Paul Wilson, new associate professor of law, cut short a career as a state official when he was offered the opportunity to teach in the KU School of Law.
Wilson, assistant attorney general of Kansas for six years, said he has "had a desire to teach law for many years."
He graduated form KU in 1337, and received his master's degree in political science in 1338. In 1940, he received his law degree from Washburn University in Topeka
After serving in the Army during World War II, Wilson opened his law practice in Lyndon. Later he was Osage County County Attorney and then served as attorney for the State Department of Social Welfare.
Wilson worked in Topeka under Harold R. Fatzer, former State Attorney General and now justice of the State Supreme Court, and John Anderson Jr., the present Attorney General.
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