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High School Candidates Vie For KU Scholarship Awards
Seventy-six high school seniors on campus this week say they are getting "a double dose of college life."
Here to compete for Watkins and Summerfield scholarships, the 37 girls and 39 boys earned finalists positions in preliminary examinations given to 600 students nominated by their high school principals. Their testing here ends today.
Robert Billings, director of the KU Aids and Awards Department, said 15 girls will be selected to receive the Watkins scholarship and 25 boys to receive the Summerfield. The selections will be made on the basis of scholastic aptitude, leadership potential and character. He said the winners will be named during the last week in January.
THE HONOR scholarships are financed by bequests of the late Solon E. Summerfield, New York manufacturer, and the late Mrs. Elizabeth M. Watkins of Lawrence.
Lecturer Likes Autoless Cities
Architecture without the automobile was the major topic of a lecture here yesterday by Richard Ahern, Ann Arbor, Mich., architect.
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Ahern has just finished a 15-month visit to Iran, India, Nepal and Japan to see what type of city planning can be used when automobiles are not a factor.
AHERN SUGGESTED that cities be planned with the pedestrian in mind. Automobile traffic could go underground or sidewalks could be raised.
"Cities should be designed for people. In Asia the cities are people-oriented."
"Parking lots 'pock mark' the cities," he said. "The cars just sit around looking dirty."
"In Asia, streets are filled with people doing things, not automobiles making noise," he said.
"Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Paris and all the beautiful cities of the world have hills or rivers that help create their beauty."
"Topography also has a marked effect on the beauty of a city," he said.
Natural beauty of the landscape should be used to give the cities life. The Japanese make excellent use of surroundings to enhance the beauty of their architecture, Ahern said.
"Today architects are beginning to discover that architecture doesn't end with the buildings," he said.
Billings said the examinations are the most rigorous scholarship tests known to his department.
"This three-day testing session is probably the most keen and conscientious scholarship procedure a high school student could go through," he said, "especially since the final selection is not totally on the basis of the test scores."
THE SENIORS ARE interviewed in small groups by each of the nine members of the KU Scholarship Committee and individually by members of the KU Guidance Bureau, which administers the tests. "I must admit you do become a little rattled after a while," Liz
Neeley, high school senior from Lawrence, said. "They are definitely using every possible means to evaluate us."
"Still, we have had entertainment and fun." Gaylene Killinger, also a Lawrence High School senior, said. "Monday night we went to a big dinner and heard Chancellor Wescoe speak. But I agree with Liz, that there won't be much about us that's not known by the time we leave," she added.
Blood Drawing Extended
So many students in the men's residence halls have volunteered to give blood to the Red Cross that the blood drawing, scheduled for this afternoon, has been extended to tomorrow.
More than 200 men are expected to participate in the drawing.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, who is a physician and former dean of the School of Medicine, will be the medical officer in charge of this afternoon's drawing. Other physicians from the Douglas County Medical Society also will serve.
Blood donations are from 1 to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow in Templin Hall. The Douglas County Red Cross mobile blood unit is being used.
Counselors of the men's residence halls sponsored the successful project. Rick Mubbutt, Shoshone, Idaho, senior, was the chairman.
Parents of more than 150 students between the ages of 18 and 21 gave their consent for blood donations by their sons after Mabbutt wrote each a letter, outlining the purposes of the voluntary project.
Business School Council Presents a Discussion by
DEAN JAMES LOGAN, KU School of Law
"LAW SCHOOLS & LAW CAREERS" Wed., Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m., Forum Room
All persons interested in LAW CAREERS are urged to attend this informative discussion.