Don Pierce's Funeral Today
Don Pierce, KU's sports publicity director since 1945, died Sunday morning in the KU Medical Center of injuries suffered in a New Year's Eve traffic accident.
Funeral services were to be at 3 p.m. today in Grace Episcopal Cathedral in Topeka for the 45-year-old KU graduate.
The family has suggested contributions be made to the Don Pierce Memorial Athletic Fund which is being established by the KU Endowment Association. The fund will provide scholarships to high school athletes of high character.
WADE STINSON, director of athletics, said yesterday the athletic department is formulating plans "to do something to make a lasting memorial to Don."
Stinson said plans have not been made for a successor to Mr. Pierce.
Mr. Pierce and his wife, Mrs. Vivian Pierce, who was also injured in the accident, were seated in the back seat of a car returning from a restaurant north of Lawrence on New Year's Eve.
The car was struck from the rear as it was paused on a median strip waiting to turn onto a highway.
MRS. PIERCE was listed in fairly good condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital last night.
Mr. Pierce, considered one of the nation's foremost track experts, was a 1941 KU journalism graduate. While in college, he was a sports-writer for the Topeka State Journal and the Topeka Daily Capital.
As a husky, but half-blind KU student, Mr. Pierce was an All-Big Six linebacker and center on the 1940 football team.
Of his days on the KU team, Mr. Pierce once said, "I was so blind I couldn't make out the face of the other team's punter. I wore goggles. I suffered from asthma and hay fever. I couldn't outrun a butchered hog."
HE PLAYED professional football with the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League and the Chicago Cardinals. He once remarked that he was traded to the Cardinals "for a pair of shoulder pads."
He continued writing for the Topeka newspapers until 1942. Before coming to KU in 1945 he worked on the Oklahoma City Oklahuman, the Kansas City Journal and the Kansas City Star.
Don Pierce
62nd Year, No. 61
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1965
Smith Named New Engineering Dean
William P. Smith, chairman of the electrical engineering department, has been selected as the dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Prof. Smith's appointment, approved by the Kansas Board of Regents, will become effective July 1, 1965. He will succeed John S. McNown, who will go on sabbatical leave and then return to full-time teaching and research at the University.
IN PRESENTING Prof. Smith's name to the Board, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said, "I am particularly pleased to add my recommendation to that of the faculty committee which, after a long search, found that its first choice was still Bill Smith."
William P. Smith
Born in Superior, Wis., Smith was graduated as valedictorian of Superior East High School in 1931, earned the bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with distinction from the University of Minnesota in 1936, a master's degree from Minnesota in 1937, and Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1950.
From 1937 to 1939 he worked for the Commonwealth Edison Company of Chicago and taught electrical engineering at the Chicago Technical College from 1939-41.
In 1941 he was called to active duty in the U.S. Naval Reserve and served until 1945 as officer in charge of electronics, Inspector of Naval Material, Schenectady, N.Y. He has been active in the
Naval Research Reserve Company since coming to KU and holds the rank of Captain, U.S.N.R.
DR. SMITH worked for two firms of consulting engineers Godat & Heft of New Orleans and National Utility Service of New York City—in the year after his release from the service. He was dean of engineering at Sampson College, one of the associated colleges of Upper New York, 1946-48, before going to the University of Texas.
Dr. Smith has worked two summers with General Motors Corporation in Kansas City and the Boeing Company in Wichita, and has worked on research projects for the Office of Naval Research, the Army Signal Corps, and the Army Engineers. In 1962 he served as a consultant on engineering education in Bogota and Cali, Colombia, South America.
He came to KU in 1950, was promoted to professor of electrical engineering in 1953, and was named chairman of the department in 1955.
HE IS a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Society of Engineering Education, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Tau, Sigma Xi, Kappa Eta Kappa, Delta Tau Delta, and the Williston Club. In 1964 he was vice-president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and he is a member of the national board of directors of Eta Kappa Nu, honorary electrical engineering fraternity, and KU chapter adviser since 1962.
Board of Regents OK's Raise in Student Fees
KU students, as well as students at other public colleges and universities in Kansas, will have to dig deeper into their pockets next fall as a result of action by the Kansas
1965 Jayhawker Is Distributed
The first edition of the Jayhawker yearbook for the 1964-65 school year is out this week.
The yearbooks will be distributed from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at the Information Booth on Jayhawk Blvd.
Board of Regents during the Christmas holidays.
The Board of Regents, at a specia. Dec. 29 meeting in Topeka, hiked fees for KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University resident undergraduates and graduate students to $137 a semester, a jump of $15 from the current semester charge.
Out-of-state undergraduates will pay $50 more next September, bringing their semester fee total to $337. No change was made for out-of-state graduate students whose semester fees are $182.
"I am always distressed about fee
Rhodes Award Is Given KU Student
B. George Barisas, Kansas City,
Missouri, senior Saturday became
KU's fifth Rhodes scholar in the
last seven years.
Barisas is majoring in German, mathematics and chemistry. Chemistry is his choice for graduate specialization.
Apparently no state university has bettered KU's five-out-of-seven record production of Rhodes winners, only five other schools have had more.
BARISAS IS the ninth KU man since World War II to win the two-year scholarship worth about $3,000 annually and the seventeenth Kansas winner since the program was created 60 years ago.
With a 2.9 grade average on 3 point system, Brisas is chairman of the Intermediary Board of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is editor of "Versuch," German-language literary magazine produced by KU students.
He is a former member of the executive council of one of the two major campus political parties and was a student member of the committee that prepares the University calendar.
Barisas was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as junior, is a member of Owl and Sachem, honor societies for junior and senior men, and is president of the German club. He has an undergraduate research scholarship in chemistry from National Science Foundation funds.
BERT BREON Mitchell of Salina, now in his first year of study at Oxford, was last year's Rhodes winner from KU.
He majored in German and edited "Versuch" and also majored in art history, humanities and philosophy to become KU's first quadruple major.
Raymond L. Nichols of Lawrence and Fred L. Morrison of Colby both now Ph.D. candidates at Princeton University after two years at Oxford, were Rhodes winners at KU in 960 and 1961.
Morrison majored in German, mathematics and political science, and Nichols was in history and political science.
David A. Ontjes of Hutchinson, the 1959 winner, is now a senior in Harvard Medical school.
KU'S OTHER post-World War II Rhodes winners took their undergraduate work before the development of honors programs encouraged breadth as well as depth of studies.
Henry L. Miller, Jr., Kansas City who began his Rhodes work in 1948 was an economics major and now is a member of the faculty of the department at the University o California at Los Angeles.
Ralph O. Simmons of Smith Center, 1950, majored in Physics and is a member of the University of Illinois staff.
Temperatures will turn colder tonight. The low tonight will be in the middle 20s. Skies will be cloudy through tomorrow.
Weather
increases," Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said yesterday. "In increasing fees, we retreat further from our historic tradition of publicly supported higher education within the reach of all," he said.
"I LOOK AT THE NUMBER of students now enrolled who must borrow money, and I am even more distressed." Chancellor Wescoe said.
"Balanced against this feeling," the chancellor continued, "is the realization that if we are to continue quality education, we must have the resources to insure that quality."
"At the present time the financial condition of the state indicates that in order to provide this kind of quality education, an increase in fees is required." Chancellor Wescoe said.
"THE INCRASE APPROVED by the Regents still puts the University at the average level, relative to fee payments," the chancellor concluded.
Fees at Pittsburg, Emporia, and Fort Hays State Colleges were also increased. In-state students will pay $10 more a semester, raising their fees to $100, and out-of-state undergraduates will pay $210 a semester, an increase of $50.
The fee increase announcement came less than three weeks after James Bibb, state budget director, trimmed more than $1,387,000 from KU's requested budget for the 1966 fiscal year.
BIBB'S RECOMMENDATIONS on the budget will be studied by Gov-elect William Avery in submitting his state budget to the legislature.
The tree fuse came one week after a group of KU students had appeared before Bibb and Governor-elect Avery to request restoration of the cut in the KU budget recommended by Bibb.
Among the KU students who attended the meeting with the Governor-elect and the budget director was Patsy Kendall, Holton graduate student.
"I WISH THE BOARD of Regents had waited to act until the legislature had had time to act upon the budget." Miss Kendall said. "I hate to think that the need for more money will work a hardship on the students." she said.
Miss Kendall said the Governor-elect and the budget director were very receptive to the KU students, but that they were concerned with where additional money for education could be found.
Members of the student delegation included Reuben McCornack, Abilene senior; Sam Evans, Salina junior; Robert Guenthner, Augusta first year law student; and Nancy Breidalent, Kansas City senior.