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Professor named to Who's Who
By LEWIS GREGORY
Staff Writer
Gardening, cooking, artistry, theater, travel, philosophy, art, music, flying and micropaleontology are only a few interests which recently named to *Who* a *Who* in America.
Prof to record heritage of Navajo tribe on film
By CHARLOTTE KIRK
While our nation is in the midst of a birthday celebration, one University of Kansas professor will be studying Americans who have been here longer than 200 years.
"THE DOCUMENTARY is basically for the tribe's use for future generations."
Doris Nodine-Zeller, research associate for the State Geological Survey of Kansas, is a paleontologist and stratigrapher. Paleontology is the study of fossils and rocks. A stratigrapher deals with the classification and interpretation of stratified rocks.
"I will be documenting the life style for tomorrow's children and for history, because many have lost the original culture." Mason said recently.
Gary Mason, director of photojournalism, will photograph and record moments in the lives of Navajo Indians during his sabbatical this fall. He will work on a Navajo reservation near Farmington in northeast New Mexico.
He was asked to do the work by the Navajo tribe's legal council and was given permission from a Navajo film board to produce a movie, usually restricted to the members of the tribe.
"The families are very close-kit and traditional." Mason said. "The ceremonies are one of the things that bring the families close together."
One such ceremony is performed when a person becomes ill. The family and medical staff visit the sick person, the sick person. This, like many ceremonies, is quite secretive, and outsiders rarely are permitted to attend. The family draws attention that are destroyed when the person is well.
MASON ALSO WILL photograph traditional wedding ceremonies. Although the Navajos have church weddings, they also are married in the Indian ceremony
Mason said the Navajos are tied very closely to the land. Many still live in houses, called hogans, made of mud. The women live on the hills and most of the men work on the reservation under the direction of the tribal council.
Some modernization, such as new medical facilities, has come to the observation. M
"The problem is that we must educate the people to live in modern dwellings," he said, "because many are not used to electric ranges or running water."
MASON FIRST worked with the Navajos in 1963 when he and his wife volunteered to teach reading, writing and money-handling to the adults.
This fall, he will document Indians working, participating in powwows and ceremonies and visiting the trading post, where they trade sheen and food.
Because Mason doesn't speak the Navajo language, he will be accompanied by Wilma Redhorse, a Navajo interpreter. Mason will live with Redhorse and her family.
"DOING THIS PROJECT will allow me to get back into working with photography, which I have not been able to do for 19 years," said Mason. "When you do research on photojournalism, changes in the field of photojournalism you don't have much time for personal work."
Mason said he thought the Navajos would accept him because he has worked with them before. With strangers, he said, many Navajos are quite camera shy.
After Mason finishes shooting and recording, which will take about three months, he will organize and copy the documentary. The tapes will have to be translated into English, because they will all be recorded in Navajo.
Although most of the work will be kept by
the tribal council, some of it will come to
Lawrence. Spencer Library will receive one
work each month from Junior College
will receive one in Navajo.
Her search for knowledge is that of a scientist, and her varied interests give her a wide range of experience.
A roommate helped Zeller develop an interest in geology while she was studying literature at the University of Illinois as an undergraduate.
More than 100 Navajos attend Haskell.
"I love life and everything about it," Zeller said. "Geology has a romantic appeal, which is one reason why I became interested in it."
"My roommate was taking an introductory course in geology, and when I looked at her text, I realized he a lot took antgeology from books I read." Zeller said.
"My work is that of being detective
fitting all the pieces to a mystery together," he
When she earned her English degree at Illinois, Zeller attended graduate school at KU from 1946 to 1948 to learn basics of geology. Zeller received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geology from the University of Wisconsin.
Zeller's specialty is micropaleontology, the study of fossils so small they must be studied by high-power magnification under a microscope to focus her research on the Paleozoic Era.
Her research at the Geological Survey involves working with subsurface cores
Zeller analyzes the rock's microfossil content and issues reports in scholarly journals.
obtained in the process of drilling an oil well.
Zeller won international recognition for her consulting work for Petrolo Brasileiro, Brazil, Belen, in 1955 and 1956. Her work focused on the New York Times and scientific journals.
One of the few women employed as a consulting geologist for a major oil company, she was also a lecturer in the KU department and a department of history, for eight years.
1. enjoyed teaching people who are interested in learning more about their interests.
For three years she was a research associate for the "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology" and has won awards for her work in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
She holds a private pilot's license and has top secret clearance by the Federal Bureau of Aviation.
"I see myself as a poet looking to
understand what's on the other side."
Zeller says.
Zeller is listed in *Who's Who of American Women*, Dictionary of American Biography and Autobiographies, 1986.
Football ticket purchases are offered at enrollment
Student season tickets for KU football game can be bought during enrollment and for other games.
KU has six home games this season, the first of which is September. 11 against Washington State. The Jayhawks will also play Kenyon, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa state here.
Student season tickets will be $20 for full-time KU students. Spouses of full-time students can also buy a ticket for $20. All single-game tickets are $8.25.
A coupon discount book will be given out with each student season ticket purchased. The book, sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and the KU athletic department, has coupons for purchases from Lawrence merchants.
The coupon book was offered last year, and was so successful that the athletic department ran out of them, according to Don Baker, sports information director.
The book is available to KU faculty and staff members and full-time students.
Students who want to buy season tickets will be able to do so during the enrollment process for the first time this year. Students can pay for their ticket by using the "option card" provided in their registration packets.
Tickets won't be issued, however, until next week. Seniors will be able to pick up their tickets Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Juniors and graduate students can get theirs Wednesday, sophomores Thursday and freshmen Friday.
Enrollment . . .
space," he said. "But you can only have two many workers and so much space."
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Dyck said he also expected more students than usual would enrol late because of their work on various political campaigns and at the American National Convention in Kansas City.
ALTHOUGH ENROLLMENT WILL high, Dyck said, class closings shouldn't be higher than usual, largely because of efforts by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to keep freshman and sophomore classes open.
Robert Cobb, dean of the college, said sections would be added in popular courses if the demand for them was high during enrollment.
"Wetry to keep freshman and sophomore classes open as long as humanly possible," he said. "There are some physical restraints that make us close a class occasionally. There are also some limitations if we run out of qualified instructors."
Cobb said college enrollment workers occasionally tried to convince a student to delay taking a crowded class until the spring semester.
DYCK SAID ALL available classrooms were scheduled for classes between 8:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., so new sections would have to be scheduled outside those hours.
If enrolment increases, it will continue a trend of steadily rising fall enrolments at the university. If enrolment in the 2004 enrolment was 20,043; in 1972, 20,075; in 1973, 20,122; and in 1975, 20,541.
An increase in students this fall has been expected, Dyck said, because of the large number of high school graduates across the nation this spring. But he said the size of high school graduating classes peaked this year and would decrease in the future.
College enrollments are expected to decrease as a result, Dyck said. Declining enrollment is direct KU as much as some schools, he said, chiefly because of the Med Center enrollment.