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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 13, 1965
Two Project Head Start Programs Are Underway
The University of Kansas is engaged in two Project Head Start programs this summer.
Just completed is the two-week orientation for 100 Wichita teachers, principals, counselors, nurses, home economists and social workers. These trainees now are initiating their own Project Head Start for disadvantaged pre-school age children in Wichita.
Project Head Start is part of the federal anti-poverty program to prepare children from low income families for a better start in school life
Fraser Work Bids Sought in Topeka
Bids for moving laboratory equipment from Fraser Hall to Carruth-O'Leary Hall will be accepted in the office of the State Purchasing Director in Topeka at 2 p.m. July 22, according to Keith Lawton, vice chancellor for operations at KU.
At 2 p.m. today, bids for razing of Fraser Hall will be received in the office of the State Purchasing Director. It is anticipated to take 30 days to award this contract.
Aug. 1 is the date set for beginning construction on the new seven-story Fraser Hall which will be located east of the present Hall. The razing and rebuilding are expected to occur simultaneously.
Installing equipment used by the family life department in Carruth-O'Leary and the remodeling of classrooms and faculty offices also will be included in the bids. Lawton said these offices, which presently are occupied by former Fraser Hall occupants, will be outfitted with new lighting and bookshelves.
A photographer now is making controlled drawings of Fraser Hall, to be preserved in the University archives for future study. These drawings are made by special cameras which produce photographs in exact dimensions
this fall. KU is one of four orientation centers in Kansas to train local personnel for the program. Margaret Cooper, instructor in family life, was director and the KU Extension Center the sponsor for the Wichita orientation.
The second phase involves KU's own Project Head Start for 24 local children who will enter kindergarten this fall. The eight-week program is conducted by the department of human development and family life. Frances D. Horowitz, acting chairman of the department, is director of the project, which has a grant of $5,878 from the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity.
Children in the Head Start program meet five afternoons a week at the Nursery School. Regular summer session faculty will assist with the project, which has laboratory applications to KU's teaching program.
Miss Cooper defined the four emphases of the Project Head Start program as medical, relationships with existing social service agencies, education for the pre-school children, and involvement of parents.
Georgian Signed For KU Football
Coach Jack Mitchell has announced the signing of another allstate football player headed for the University of Kansas. Thermus Butler of Columbus, Ga., 6-2, 192, has returned his letter of intent to enroll with the Jayhawks.
Butler, a flanker back and end under Coach Robert Sanders, was named the most valuable player at Carver High School. He was named to all-conference, all-city and all-state first teams.
In addition to football honors Butler won varsity letters in basketball and track. He was listed on the Georgia all-state basketball team last season. The 18-year-old athlete also received prep All-American honorable mention awards for basketball.
Whittington Set For Job in Denver
H. G. Whittington, M.D., has resigned as director of Community Mental Health Services in Kansas to accept a position as director of psychiatry for the Department of Health and Hospitals in Denver, starting in September.
Whittington was director of the KU Student Mental Health Center until 1961, when he joined the staff of the education department at the Menninger Foundation. While there he was a consultant to Washburn University, Emporia State Teachers College, and to Community Mental Health Services. In June 1962 he was made director of Community Mental Health Services.
In announcing the resignation, Dr. R. A. Haines, director of the Division of Institutional Management, said, "As director of Community Mental Health Services for the division, Whittington has been responsible for coordinating community mental health services. During his three years of leadership, the number of centers has grown from 14 to 22. Weekly manhours currently provided by professional staff members in the centers is approximately double the 1962 total.
"Whittington has, in addition, directed mental-health and mental retardation planning projects initiated by the federal government and has had the responsibility for planning the administration of federal funds for construction of mental health and mental retardation facilities in Kansas. The Board of Social Welfare has accepted his resignation with regret."
Hackney Scholarship Awarded to Senior
Patricia Ann Hackney of Wellington will hold the $300 Mabel Rogers Hackney scholarship at KU for her senior year in 1965-66, it has been announced by Bob Billings, director of aids and awards.
Miss Hackney, who is majoring in psychology, held this scholarship the past two years. She also has held a residence scholarship in Sellards Hall for three years.
TOUR THE NELSON ART GALLERY IN KANSAS CITY
SUA will sponsor the trip TUESDAY, JULY 20
Cost: $1.00
Sign up at Information Desk at the Kansas Union before July 17.
Mammals of Wyoming' Book Published by Museum at KU
A 205-page book on "The Mammals of Wyoming" was published today by the Museum of Natural History.
Charles A. Long, the author, is assistant professor of zoology at the University of Illinois. A native of Pittsburg, Kan., Dr. Long worked on the book from 1959 to 1963 while a graduate student here.
Long recorded 167 kinds of mammals native to Wyoming. This large number is due to the fact that Wyoming is the home of two aggregations of mammals, those of the Rocky Mountains and those of the Great Plains, Long said.
THE BOOK, WHICH is technical in nature, may be obtained at cost,$3.25, from the Museum of Natural History.
"The University of Kansas was the best place to write the book," Long said. "Two-thirds of all the study specimens saved from Wyoming by natural history museums of the world are in the KU museum."
Wyoming was used as an "outdoor laboratory" for the advanced KU students for seven consecutive years. The large collection of study specimens was one result of the training
E. Raymond Hall, director of the museum and Summerfield distinguished professor of zoology, explained the choice of Wyoming. The topographic diversity allowed students to become familiar with animals of five life-zones ranging from sagebrush desert to arctic-alpine areas above timberline. No other equally satisfactory area was nearer Kansas, and little information was on record about the animal life of Wyoming.
program.
"WHATEVER WAS learned would fill a gap in zoological knowledge," Hall said.
"Dr. Long has completed the project by studying the specimens and field records, organizing the data, and publishing the information that is new," Hall said. "This enables the scientists of today to take up where those of yesterday left off."
Hall and A. B. Leonard, chairman of the zoology department, led the first field party to Wyoming in 1945. The work was continued through 1951, when the collecting phase was completed, by museum staff members E. L. Cockrum and Russell H. Baker.
"Night Of The Iguana"
Tuesday, July 13 Through Friday,July 16
Admission: $1.50
KU ID Redeemable at Box Office
presents
Starts at 8:20
For Reservations Call Murphy Hall UN4-3982
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
Last Time Tonight "A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN AUTHOR" AND "ESCURIAL"