University Daily Kansan, October 18, 1984
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Symposium to honor KU prof
By DAN HOWELL Staff Reporter
The father of pharmaceutical chemistry is getting a visit this week from a lot of his children and grandchildren.
About 225 world leaders in pharmaceutical research and business gathered yesterday in Lawrence to honor Takeru Higuchi, whose insights and research created a new discipline since World War II.
The leaders are here for a three-day symposium dedicated to Higuchi. Regents distinguished professor of chemistry and pharmacy.
The symposium is titled "Directed Drug Delivery: A Multidisciplinary Problem." Its location is the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive.
JOSEPH ROBINSON, A former student and colleague of Higuchi at the University of Wisconsin, said yesterday that the people at the
conference. formed an interesting lineage going back to Higuchi.
"You see four to six generations of people that he influenced," he said.
Ron Borchardt, chairman of the department of pharmaceutical chemistry, said that many speech topics at the symposium had grown from Higuchi's pioneering work and pervasive influence.
"You can go to almost any pharmaceutical company in the United States or Japan, and you'll find one of his graduates." he said.
Borchardt, the symposium's organizer, said it not only was a tribute to Hughiul. All at once, it has brought 21 speakers and other pharmacy leaders to Lawrence where students can talk with them.
"WE'RE ESSENTIALLY bringing in four year's worth of speakers at once," he said.
Speakers have come from Great Britain, Sweden, Japan and Australia as well as the United States.
Robinson said the symposium was
a valuable professional meeting but even more an emotional outpouring for a man who has helped others in many ways.
At Wisconsin, Robinson said, Higuchi went beyond academic guidance to giving financial help of his own and his home during school vacations.
"We were part of his family," he said.
Robinson said Higuchi had revolutionized the way drugs were made and reproduced.
After World War II, he said, the pharmaceutical industry wanted to standardize the way dosages were prepared and Higuchi showed them how to do it.
Ian Pitman, visiting professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, was a post-doctoral student with Higuchi at Wisconsin, then joined the KU faculty along with him in 1967 and stayed until 1976. He will speak tomorrow morning at the close of the conference.
Military historian says past wars predict future
By MARK HUTCHISON Staff Reporter
ice will begin at noon in Danforth Chapel.
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KANSAS WOMEN'S SPORTS will have a reception for Lynette Woodward, a member of the U.S. Olympic women's basketball team and a former KU player, at 5 p.m. in the "Kansas 'Boots' Adams Alumni Center.
The wars of 500 years ago must be evaluated to determine what kind of wars will occur in the future. A military historian said yesterday.
LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY will have a rice and beans dinner at 6 p.m. in the International Room of the Kansas Union. The dinner will include a poster-making session for the presidential debates.
SUA CHAMPIONS will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
Martin Blumenson, the historian and the author of 14 books on military history, told about 150 ROTC naval cadets and others in Summerfield Hall about the relevance of history to modern war.
"If you see the direction in which something has gone in the past, you can see which way it will go in the future," said Blumenson, a former lieutenant under Gen. George Patton in World War II.
BLUMENSON USED MEDIEVAL powers as examples as he spoke about the ideological wars that had dominated Europe.
"Before 1648 ideological wars devastated Europe," he said. "The extermination of the enemy was the total goal.
"Then when the reorganization known as the state system came about, there was no more ideological warfare. They decided that there could be no more wars of
annihilation because states had to have people."
Blumenson, who served in the U.S. Army in Gen. Patton's 3rd Army Headquarters in Europe, said that although he didn't know Patton personally, he could still remember him.
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"I never talked with him face to face," he said before the speech. "But I saw him several times. When you're a lieutenant, you don't talk too much with generals."
THE HONORS STUDENTS Association will sponsor a brown bag lunch at 11:45 a.m. in Nunemaker Center. Ann Lesch, of University Field Staff International, will discuss "Understanding the Arab World."
From his experiences in World War II and the Korean War, Blumenson was able to offer his own definition of war.
"WAR IS BLOODSHEED by organized forces in quest of power," he said. "And I really don't hold much with politicians, but I think politics can be summed up in one word — power."
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"The Patton family had papers and a diary of George's," he said. "The papers were kept in the family home in Massachusetts. I was invited to look at the papers because I was an Army historian."
In recalling his most famous work, "The Patton Papers," Blumenson was quick to note his inspiration of Patton's personal documents.
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