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Wednesday. August 21, 1974
University Daily Kansan
History, Behavior of Buffalo Explored in Dary's Book
By KATHY PICKETT
Kansan Staff Renorter
"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam," is the familiar beginning of the Kansas state song. And that song helped get David Dary, associate professor of journalism and acting director of University Relations, involved in the study of the American buffalo.
"I may sound - corry." Dary said
    "but something like that stays
with wye."
It certainly stayed with Dary, because he is the author of a recently published book, "The Buffalo Book, the Full Saga of the American Animal."
The book, published by Swallow Press of Chicago, has been chosen as an alternate selection for the Book of the Month Club in the Science Edition. The book is a selection of the Natural Science Book Club.
Dary said he always was interested in buffaloes because of the state song and because of a buffalo he saw at the zoo in Manhattan, his hometown.
But his interest began in earnest about 10 years ago when he worked at the NBC studios in Washington. Ted Yates, to whom the "Buffalo Book" is dedicated, was a producer of documentaries. Dary worked with him on one about Lewis and Clark and saw from journals of the explorers the importance of the buffalo.
Dary went to the Library of Congress and began to research the buffalo to make a documentary on it. But his friend Yates was too busy to attend, and Dary never made the documentary.
But he did decide to write a book about buffaloes. He explored buffalo locations from Texas to Canada and he wrote over 500 letters to get information about buffaloes.
The book is illustrated with more than 100 photographs, including many from the 19th century. One of the unique features of the book is Dary's personal census of all buffaloes in the United States and Canada. He compared with 75 million years ago, compared with 75 million years ago,
Dary said he used the word "buffalo"
rather than the technically correct "bison," because buffalo was the word more people recognized. He quoted John B. Bremner, professor of journalism, who said a bison was something an Australian washed his hands in.
Members of the School of Journalism faculty once told Dary he knew enough about buffaloers to teach a class on them. He also was a basketball bonus for "Communication and the Buffalo."
Dary does talk about buffalo communication in his book. He explains that a mother buffalo calls her young with a peculiar muttering. grunting sound.
There have been other books about buffaloes, Dary said, but he tried to make his more complete. He said he wanted to write about buffalo herding as a scholar,瞒著, history, legend and later.
will be published. There will be 100 numbered copies, each autographed, and each costing $100. Each copy will be bound in buffalo hide.
According to some reviews of the book, Dary succeeded in his attempt. "Publisher's Weekly" called it the "definitive book on the American bison."
Although Dary said the slaughter of the buffalo in the last 100 years was "a terrible story of what man has done," he said buffalo had been a key factor because of the scarcity of land for them.
He said three acres could usually support one buffalo--under good conditions. Therefore, only surplus buffaloes are killed today.
The subject of the buffalo is evidently very important to Dary. There are pictures of the old West on his office wall and a map showing the locations of buffalo herds. On his desk is a little toy buffalo. Once his colleagues at University Relations got together and bought him a special gift—a buffalo chip.
A special limited edition of Dary's book
Darya said that once people learned he was derryclub in buffalo, he began to get more interested.
"My problem was that I had so much information I had to boil it down," Dary said. "I买 kind of wonder whether I throw them at the reader so fast that they spin a bit."
He said he probably had enough for another book.
He said he kept looking for some information to prove an idea he had. He wants to be able to show that the U.S. government from 1863 to 1918 the officials policy to get rid of the buffalo herds.
Some information he had to leave out. For instance, Darya said he ran into a tremen-
tation, but she did not.
Dary said he believed that the Army in position wanted to kill buffaloes as strategy for the war.
In his book he quotes General Phil Sheridan, who praised the buffalo slaughter because it was "destroying the Indian's commissary, and it is a well-known fact that an army losing its base of supplies is placed at a great disadvantage."
The book also has a lot to do with conservation, Dary said. The buffalo almost never moved into the manager pigeon, he said. But the buffalo was a good animal than the passenger pigeon, Dary said.
Kansan Staff Photo by DERRIE GUMP
James Seaver, Teacher and World Traveler
Kansas Legislative Auditor To Return to KU Classroom
By KEMPTON LINDQUIST
Kansan Staff Reporter
W. Keith Weltmer, Kansas legislative post auditor, will return to teaching in the school of business at the University of Kansas this fall.
Teaching has always been his prime interest, he said recently. During his nearly three years as the legislature's auditor, Weltmer continued to teach and work with students, he said, as he had a professor at KU from 1946 to 1971.
In October 1971, Weltner was asked by Rep. Clyde Hill, R-Yates Center, the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, to state the state's first internal auditing system.
"This job is also a teaching job," Weltmur said. "I've been fortunate, I think. I've probably had a total of 60 students working at the school." I dream of students going through the office."
He said graduate students who had worked for him had had the opportunity to learn about state government and to be productive for his office.
Weltner said that as post auditor he had learned much about state government.
"You know, I've been teaching at KU for 25 years. I just happen to like that," he said. "I don't dislike what's going on here; I just like teaching better and I think I wanted to finish out my working career at the University."
Weltner began teaching at KU in August 1946. He returned from World War II and took an accounting course at KU under the business and two semesters of business and law courses.
"R (National Guard duty) was kind of like school teaching," Wollmer said. "You are taught how to work."
"TM SURE I've learned a lot of things in this position here that are going to be useful in the future."
He was asked by the dean of the business school to teach a cost accounting course.
"I was there and didn't see any reason not to. And that's when I started my teaching career. I've really been at it ever since," he said.
Weltmer served in the Kansas Army National Guard, including six years active duty, before retiring with the rank of Brigadier General a year ago.
develop, taking young people and bringing them along. I think that the reason I liked
He was born and grew up in Hawiata. He was graduated from Hawiata High School
Weltner began his academic career at Highland Junior College.
"I has张$600 from carrying papers through my kid days," he said. "Dad told
He said he was looking forward to returning to University committee work at Columbia.
if我I got through two years of college on that $600 that he would pay for another two years of my schooling. And that was the cheapest place to go and that's where I went.
After attending Highland Junior College, Weltmer went to Washuburg University, from which he received a law degree in 1937. In 1948 he received a Master of Administration degree from KU and in 1951 he received a bachelor's degree from Washuburg.
W. Keith Weltmer
Weltner said that he was pleased with his accomplishments in setting up and implementing the state's internal auditing system, which is due to the new post-auditor for consultation.
Two Fulbright grants and a Carnegie grant have enabled James Seaver, professor of history and western civilization, to teach and work in many places around the world in connection with the University of Kansas.
Grants, KU Programs Allow Seaver to Travel
Seaver received his undergraduate degree from Stanford in medieval history in 1940. He received his doctorate in ancient history from Cornell in 1946. He taught for a year at Michigan State University and then came to KU.
At Carl Curtis, Seaver said he developed a love of sports, since the high school had an extensive physical education program, he said.
Seaver was captain of the tennis team in high school and at Stanford. He was the KU tennis coach in 1947 and 1948, and his team won the Big Seven championship.
Seaver is not the only member of his family who has been involved in sports. His brother, Charles, was a California golf champion and was also on the Walker Cup Team. One of Charles' four children, Tom Seaver, is a pitcher for the New York Metz.
When he attended Carl Curtis, a private school, and Los Angeles High School, Seaver said, he became friend with actor David Burt, who used to drive to school on alternate days in chauffeur limousines. The first day he and Stack attended high school, Seaver said the school was so big that they couldn't have room so they decided to play golf instead.
Saver came to KU because of an opening in the history department. When he arrived, he was responsible for teaching medieval, renaissance and reformation history.
Seaver said that when he came to the University there were only seven or eight members in the history department but that now there were 36. He said the expansion of the department allowed him to concentrate on the areas of his interest, which is Roman history.
Seaver introduced courses in the history department on late Greek history and the ancient Near East. He also developed courses on Roman historians and the Roman family.
Seaver has traveled extensively in connection with University work. In 1953 and 1954, as a result of a Fulbright grant, he did research in Italy on the Jews in the early Middle Ages. From this research came his first published book, *The Roman Empire* from 300-438 A.D.*
Seaver also traveled to Greece and Egypt at that time.
In 1963 and 1964, he received a second Fulbright grant to teach in Israel at Haifa. He travelled through Southern Europe, Turkey, Spain and Portugal then. While he was in Israel, Seaver worked on Massada on the Sinai coast, then visited a high hill overlooking the Dead Sea.
Seaver worked for two summers in Costa Rica on a Carnegie catalog cataloging and describing Indian petroglyphs. Petroglyphs by Seaver used with inscriptions and designs on them.
For the past four summers, Seaver has taught summer school sessions at Rome and Orvieto, Italy, in association with the University of Arizona. It is the largest private university in Italy.
Seaver taught courses in Roman archaeology. He said he enjoyed teaching the courses because if a lecture was about the Forum, the class went to the Forum.
Opera is one of Seaver's hobbies. He said he first became interested in opera when he was 12 after he saw a production of a Verti opera. He was also involved with opera, he said, because Robert Stack's mother and sister were Richard Bonelli's uncle Richard Bonelli sang as a baritone with the Metropolitan Opera Company.
Seaver said he had participated on the Texaco Opera Quiz several times. His radio show, "Opera is My Hobby," has been on KAUN, the campus radio station, since 1952.
He has a collection of 20,000 opera
digital records, includes lydian records
and Italian recordings.
The study of Roman coins is another of his main subjects, he teaches a course in the history of Roman coins.
Seaver is the Lawrence representative to the Kansas State Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union. He has been president of the State Affiliate.
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