Youngberg to retire, write memoirs
Kansan Staff Reporter
Bv JAN HYATT
After 26 years as executive secretary of the Kansas University Endowment Association, what more service could Irvin E. Youngberg give to the University of Kansas?
He could and recently did fund donors to finance construction of a new art museum for the university.
The final details of the museum project are to be completed during Youngberg's last weeks of employment with the Endowment Association. He will retire June 30 as director of special projects, a title he chose last summer when he resigned as secretary.
He will keep a small office at the association's headquarters where he will write his memoirs for the University archives. His writings will include his memories about the University and some of the people whose contributions have benefited the school.
For KU, losing Younger's full time services
has benefited a man who works for him and raises
his benefits effectively in her warty in NYC.
Youngberg first came to the University as an undergraduate student during the late Depression years. The son of Swedish parents who farmed near Osage City, he had worked as a farmhand, a service station attendant, a laborer on a railroad gang and a coal miner.
He worked his way through college as a teller at the First National Bank of Lawrence. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1942 from the University with a degree in economics.
World War II took Youngberg away from graduate school and his jobs as an assistant instructor in economics at KU and as administrator of the University's wartime military training program. He served for several years in the U.S. Navy and was commander of a fleet of landing crafts in Okawa at the end of the war.
He returned to Lawrence and became KU's director of student housing. Two years later he was selected as executive secretary of the endowment foundation.
During his administration, the book value of the roundtail's assets grew from $1.25 million to $4.5 million.
The KU Endowment Association has been recognized for many years as a leader among foundations supporting public and private universities.
Kansas farmland and five business buildings in the state partly through bequests solicited by the State Fund.
Endowment funds have been used in various ways, such as to provide loans to students, to buy land adjacent to the two KU campuses for transfer to the state and University and for construction of buildings. The funds also buy books, paintings and art objects for the University's libraries and other academic facilities. These endowment funds have been used to buy shrubbery and trees for the Lawrence campus.
The association's motto reflects its desire to contribute broadly to the life of the University: "To build a greater University than the state alone can build."
That motto gave rise to the name of the Greater University Fund, an annual alumni fund raising program begun in 1858 by Youngberg and his staff. It has since grown to include alumni this fund are used especially for student loans.
Some donors indicate specific use of contributions and bequests, and Youngberg insisted on strict disclosure.
"I have long held that when we fail to use one dollar in the manner and for the purpose desired by the donor, then we're going out of business," Youngberg said.
The successful fund raise must like people and be meticulous about grateful acknowledgement of all contributions, large and small. Youngberg said. We have tried to ensure that mandatory qualities of a fund raise.
The two KU campuses doubled in size during Youngberg's tenure as executive secretary. In Lawrence, all of the campus of 15th Street and west of Indiana was purchased by the Endowment Association. Buildings whose funding included a substantial endowment from donated money include the scholarship hall, GSPI-Corbin Hall, Joseph R. Pearson Hall, Spraung Apartments for students, and Laboratory, Raymond C. Moore Hall and the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Research Laboratories.
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KANSAN
Vol. 85-No.136 Tuesday, April 29, 1975 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Death probe awaits tests, autopsy result
No additional charges will be filed in connection with the death of a Shawnee Mission girl Saturday in Lawrence until the results of an autopsy and other tests are available. David Berkowitz, Douglas County attorney, said Monday.
The girl, Shila Hutajic, 16, was brought by automobile at about 12:40 a.m. Saturday to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Alan Gaynor, the coroner, pronounced her deed on arrival.
James King, 31, Kansas City, Kan., Kevin Clark, 22, 711 Haskell, and another man brought Miss Hotujic to the hospital, accol- dered to a Lawrence Police Department report.
King was arrested Saturday and charged with possession of barbiturates. Police officers then discovered that King was taken to Johnson County for a burglary hearing.
King's bond was $5,000 in Johnson County,
and his bond was set at $5,000 for the possession of barbiturate charges in Douglas County.
Berkowitz said urine and blood samples were sent to the Kansas Department of Health to determine the exact cause of illness. His depression was performed on the girl yesterday.
By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
Witnesses interviewed by police placed the occurrence of Miss Hotujac's death in two different places. King said he was alone with Miss Hotujac on a county road when she stopped breathing. Some of the other witnesses said Miss Hotujac had been at 271 Haskell when it was discovered that she wasn't breathing.
Funeral services for Miss Hotajie will be 9:30 a.m. today, at St. Gabriel's Catholic Church in New York City.
Street theater
She was the daughter of Mrs. Alta
Hotijue, Roeland Park, and Mr. Nicholas
Hotijue, Kansas City, Kan., and had lived
in Kansas City, Kan., most of her life.
Acting out her part in a street theater parody of the army, Roberta Brown, Centerville junior, waves to a small crowd in front of Strong Hall Monday afternoon. Street theater is a part of an advanced improvisational acting class. This production is directed by Jeff Tamblyn, Shawnee Mission jumlion.
Poet reads tales of life
Kansan Staff Reporter
BvPAMSTRUBY
A middle-aged bald man in a pair of gold corduroys and a brown sweater spoke about his first visit to Kansas while driving into Lawrence on Monday.
After giving a poetry reading at Barstow Day School in Kansas City, Mo., the man, Louis Simpson, winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, gave a poetry reading to about 50 persons Monday in the Council Room of the Kansas University. After his visit to the city, he returned to Kansas City, to give a reading at the Jewish Community Center.
Entering Lawrence, he looked at the Daisy Hill residence halls and said they looked like motels but were much better than the monstrosities at State University of New York at Stony Brook where he's teaching.
During the drive from Kansas City to Lawrence, Simpson observed the summer coloring of the trees along K-10 and spoke with a local artist. A fishing vulture outside New York City.
Simpson began his career as a poet at the age of 13 in Jamaica, West Indies, where he was born and lived until the age of 17, when he met the composer Paul Johnston, published his first poem when he was 16.
In the United States, Simpson wrote poems for magazines at Harvard and Columbia University. He received his doctorate in 1959 from Columbia.
Simpson is the author of 10 books, including "At the End of the Open Road," "Selected Poems," "Adventures of the Letter I," and "Three on a Tower." He read a book on the Internet about books during his reading here Monday.
Simpson completed his reading with "Searching for the Ox," one of his most memorable books, and he decided to be released next month. He said he besitched to read new poems because poets tended to live on audience response and if the response wasn't good, the poems tended to not be good.
He began by reading some of his first poems which he called rhymes written out of furfur. Simpson then he changed from that style to short poems in the late '60s when he moved to California. "In the Suburbs," "The Redwood," and "The Morning Life," all expressed a part of his life in California, he said.
Simpson said he wrote to create an image in the course of a poem instead of several images. He read the classics in college and loved French poetry, but was most influenced by William Butler Yeats and T. S. Eliot, he said. Simpson said he enjoyed individual poems of the living poets John Ashbury and Garv Snider.
Simpson also read "A Friend of the Family," a poem about a Russian fishing lake that was described to him by a Russian poet.
"A reading can be useful, however, to
out the bad reading parts of a poem," he
said.
'It is difficult to answer what living poets
I admire, 'he said, "People never see in their own time what great it is and are always thinking of the present."
Today's poetry is moving in many different directions, Simpson said. In the '60s, poetry was more political because it coincided with the Vietnam war, he said. Various forms of primitive, meditative, religious poetry are written today, he said.
In the future, Simpson plans to write another book like his "Three on a Tower," which explains the relationship between the life and work of Erz A Pound, T. S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams. Simpson said, "I think the right man to write about in his future book."
Simpson said that everything in the future depended on imagination. Young people, he said, needed to be creative so that they could create its acts of behavior and lose their imagination.
"I must write at my own pace," he said.
"No one who writes this way can write on demand. Every book of mine has to be a different stage."
"My philosophy of life is to be behaved
durably to love another and control
women."
"Critics seem to throw me into the '60s school of thought," he said.
Simpson has received the Columbia University Medal for Excellence and two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships for creative writing in poetry, and has recently participated in the International Poetry Festival in London.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The evacuation of Americans from beleaguered Saigon was ordered to begin early today, several hours after President Gerald R. Ford met in emergency session with the National Security Council, government sources said.
The sources said the evacuation would take place within hours and would be carried out with helicopters flown in from the stationed off the South Vietnam coast.
Evacuation ordered
Ford went to the Oval Office at 10:30 p.m. CDT and stayed for about half an hour. A reporter who saw him remarked on Ford's actions as the President replied, "With good reason."
White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen had said after the council meeting that no evacuation had been ordered at that point. He also said the council was not present in Saigon had been told to prepare to leave.
Nessen said he didn't know whether the White House would have an announcement to Mr. Obama.
When asked whether he might know within two or three hours whether anything would be forthcoming, he replied "Maybe not that long."
Nessen said he didn't anticipate a presidential statement during the night.
Nessen said earlier that no additional American military forces had been sent into
the Saigon area from ships offshore or elsewhere.
Nessen said the decision to prompt evacuate about 900 remaining Americans from Nassau County in a recommender from Martin A. Graham ambassador there. He said that Graham had to make a recommendation and that the President, as commander-in-chief, had to take action.
Nessen said Ford received a note while meeting with his energy and economic advisers and then arranged for the council to call him. But he didn't know the contents of the note.
Deputy Press Secretary John Hushen said fewer than a dozen officials attended the National Security Council meeting. He said he had been briefed by the Rockefeller, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger, Director William E. Colby of the Central Intelligence Agency and Gen. Robert Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The decision to evacuate came after rocket fire hit Saturn's Tan Sun Nair air-borne vehicle.
Some members of congress had been advocating a quick evacuation of the city, and that was not allowed.
Sen. Richard S. Schweker, R-Pa., accused the State Department of risking
American lives "as a subterfuge to evacuate South Vietnamese" from Viet-
David Dinnen, chairman of the linguistics department, said before the meeting, "I don't think the change could make much difference. What will make a difference is when the center has a new director."
Schweiker said that any further delay in bringing out Americans would make evacuation by jet transport impossible and instigate a full-scale military evacuation.
"We weatalled this evacuation for at least a week and may be two," *Sheweller* said in the report. "The patient has been moved."
Edward Erazum resigned as director of the IEC in February. A search committee has been established to find his successor. The deadline for applications is May 15.
Erazmus had been director of IEC since it was founded in 1964.
Linguistics accepts administration of IEC
"Next thing you know American GIs will be firing on North Vietnamese troops, and the Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania said the United States "ought to remove all American personnel," in response from South Vietnam as soon as possible.
The decision to provisionally accept the attachment of the IEC to the linguistics department was made following a request by the director of the institute. The IEC had been reported directly to the College but, with the change, will report to the linguistics department.
He said he would favor evacuating all Americans from South Vietnam at once if it became possible.
The department of linguistics voted Monday to provisionally accept administrative responsibility of the Intensive English Center (IEC).
The department members accepted the motion with the request that a member of the administration attend the department's next meeting on Monday to explain financial implications of attaching the IEC to the department.
The IEC has been criticized by some foreign students in recent years. A year ago an American professor said that the
The members made a motion to form an "organic relationship," which means that the department will handle administrative matters but that the IEC will be a separate unit.
Amendments to the motion require that the budgets of the linguistics department and the IEC remain separate and that the budget of the department be no longer than the chairman of the department.
Another amendment provides that the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences place high priority on bringing the two units closer together with adequate facilities.
The motion was also amended to provide for a distinction between staff appointments to the IEC that would be affiliated with the department and those that wouldn't.
There are conflicting reports of how many refugees are destined for the United States.
House Speaker Carl Albert, D-Doka, said he had been told 38,000 South Vietnamese refugees would be brought to three military installations in the United States.
However, a Pentagon spokesman said as many as 60,000 refugees would be housed.
protesting "imadeque facilities—both academically and structurally."
Since then, the IEC has moved to Wescoe Hall and the gate requirement of a B on the campus is now at 5600.
The students presented a list of seven demands, including complaints about grading, texts, tests, teachers and Foster Hall.
The House is expected to give final approval Tuesday to legislation authorizing possible use of U.S. troops to evacuate Americans and South Vietnamese and $227 million in evacuation funds and humanitarian aid for South Vietnam.
However, Asst. Senate Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia said he had grave doubts about the advice given to the United States because eight million Americans were unable to find employment. He also suggested that the refugees would be better off in countries with cultures similar to the Vietnamese culture.
A group of Vietnamese exiles living in the United States said they wanted to return to
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2 profs invited to Russia
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By SCOTT RIDGELE Kansan Staff Reporter
Two professors at the University of Kansas have been asked by the National Academy of Science to represent the United States in exchange program with the Soviet Union.
Charles Kiesler, chairman of the department of psychology, and his wife, Sara Kiesler, associate professor of speech and drama and psychology, were recently asked to spend 11 months in the Soviet Union beginning the first of September.
The proposed exchange is with the National Academy of Science in the United States.
"Since 1959, they have agreed to exchange a small number of scientists each year, and for next year, they are emphasizing the social sciences," Kiesler said.
The Kieslers are delaying their acceptance of the appointments pending the completion of plans concerning living arrangements, education for their five and seven-year-old sons and final acceptance by the Soviet government.
Kiesler said, however, that he has heard of cases where the Soviets have waited until two days before a scientist had been selected to work at the United States before giving approval.
Before any American scientist can participate in the program, he must be approved by the Soviet government. According to Kiesler, the Soviets must give approval at least two weeks before the person is scheduled to leave the United States.
Citing differences between the Soviet and the American social sciences, Kiesler said, "The social sciences in Russia are much politically and ideologically concerned.
"You often see the first seven pages of an article concerned with ideological sorts of things before they ever get into the social sphere, or the other hand, they say that is so ours."
Kiesler said the Soviets haven't encouraged the social sciences as much as they have stressed the natural sciences. However, Kiesler said, the Soviets are now becoming increasingly interested in many aspects of the social sciences.
"They are doing things on child-rearing practices, research on certain types of educational systems and research on other aspects of morale and morale in industry," Kiesler said.
Kiesler said that while in the Soviet Union, he will lecture in Russian and English on what society has taught him. He his wife planned to work on population problems such as how professional women in the US are affected by marriage raising a female while pursuing a career;
The 11 months in the Soviet Union will allow Kiesler to do research and writing comparing the Soviet way of life to American lifestyles, he said. The Kieslers will also have many speaking engagements during their stay.
Nine months of their stay will be at the University of Moscow, while the other two months will be at the University of Leningrad.