Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 2,1965
53rd Year, No. 6
Lawrence, Kansas
$96,088 U.S. Grant Goes to Child Study
A grant of $96,088 to the KU Bureau of Child Research, announced recently in Washington, D.C., represents a big stride in a program that could pay off in millions of dollars of savings to the state and nation.
The grant from the U.S. Public Health Service is for the first year of a demonstration program for intensive training of institutionalized mentally retarded girls. Tentative commitments for four more years total $380,000.
THE PROGRAM will be at the Parsons State Hospital and Training Center. Dr. Joseph E. Spradlin, coordinator for research at PSH and a research associate of KU, is the project director. Miss Patricia Divine, director of nursing services at PSH, is co-director.
Dr. Richard L. Schiefelbusch, director of the Bureau of Child Research, explained, "In the past two years our research has developed some principles for successful training of severely retarded adolescent girls.
"Now we are going to apply those principles with the goal of effective performance in a community and home environment. This will be in the area of personal, social, educational and occupational skills," he said. "The objective is to enable these girls to escape a lifetime in an institution and occupy a place in society."
effects "Institutional care costs about $10 a day or $100,000 for a patient's lifetime. If this pilot program provides a pattern for the nation, the economic savings will be tremendous and the human values incalculable," he said.
THESE GIRLS have IQ's of from 25 to 55. There are about 300,000 such persons in the nation and 800 such patients in Kansas, Dr. Schiefelbusch explained.
The new demonstration program is the direct result of a seven-year joint KU-Parsons State Hospital research program begun two years ago. Initial funding by the Public Health Service involved a total of nearly $2 million. Supplements to that contract have brought the annual budget to a current $363,000 in the two cities and in Kansas City.
Dr. Schiefflebush through the Bureau of Child Research now is involved with five research and training grants from federal agencies in the area of communicative disorders of retarded children. The budgets for this work at Lawrence, Parsons and Kansas City will be $619,000 in the new fiscal year.
Holiday Union Hours
The Parsons State Hospital and Training Center has other research and training grants not involving KU currently totaling about $350,000 a year.
Building and food service hours of operation for the July 4th weekend have been announced by the Kansas Union:
Building hours: Saturday—6 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday—6 a.m.-8 p.m.; Monday—6 a.m.-8 p.m.
Book Store: Closed all weekend.
Hawk's Nest: Saturday—7 a.m.
6:30 p.m. Sunday. Monday—closed.
Cafeteria: Saturday—Closed. Sunday
8:30-9:15 a.m.; 11:30 a.m.-12
p.m.; 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Snack service
available all day. Monday-
6:30-8:30 a.m.; 11 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
5-6:30 p.m. Snack service available
all day.
Prairie Room: Saturday—11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, Monday—Closed.
Hawktet: Closed all weekend.
Area Rivers on Rise
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UPI)—New torrents of rain poured into rivers and streams in flood-plagued Kansas and Missouri today and the muddy Missouri River spread over bottom lands. However, only rural areas were expected to be flooded.
Fraser Bids Are Listed
The B. A. Green Construction Co.
of Lawrence was apparent low bidder for the construction of new Fraser Hall, with a bid of $1,222,900, as bids were opened Tuesday in Topeka.
Apparent low bidder for the electrical work of the seven-story structure was Norris Bros. of Lawrence, with a bid of $152,700. The apparent low bid for the mechanical contract was $281,545, turned in by the U.S. Engineering Co. of Kansas City, Mo. This brought the total bids to $1,657,-145, within the original estimates of the cost.
A summary report of the bids was sent to officials of the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation yesterday. Approval of these federal agencies is necessary because of funds to be contributed by them for the construction and furnishing of Fraser.
The National Institutes of Health will contribute a maximum of $34.-
653 for the construction and $4,872 for equipment. The National Science Foundation has pledged maximum support of $362,465 for the construction and $25,350 for equipment.
Construction of new Fraser Hall may begin about Aug. 1, Keith Lawton, vice chancellor for operations, said Wednesday. He said construction of the new building could be done at the same time old Fraser Hall is being torn down.
Tonight's Outdoor Films
Tonight's outdoor movies will be "From France with Love," "Castle Country" and "Honeymoon in Copenhagen." The films will be shown east of Robinson Gymnasium.
Forth Takes Library Job At Kentucky
Dr. W, Stuart Forth, acting director of libraries at KU, will leave in August to become director of libraries at the University of Kentucky.
KU's director of libraries, Thomas R. Buckman, will return then from a year's leave during which he held a Guggenheim fellowship for study of the book trade in Scandinavia, the Soviet Union and several developing African nations.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has announced several promotions in the University of Kansas libraries:
John L. Glinka, assistant director and acting associate director the past year, to associate director; Earl Farley, library systems specialist, and Donald A. Redmond, science and engineering librarian, to assistant directors.
Forth has been at KU since 1959, when he headed the undergraduate library, then became associate director and acting director this past year. For the past 18 months he has been a member of the faculty committee on objectives for the University's second century. He holds the doctorate degree in American studies from the University of Washington
Glinka, with more than a decade of service in KU's libraries, was head of the preparations department for a half dozen years, became assistant director in 1959, and acting associate director this past year.
Farley came to KU in 1953, after graduation from the University of Southern California Library School. After catalog work in the preparations department, he headed that department and since 1963 has been library systems specialist. In that capacity he has applied computer techniques to bibliography and index work.
Redmond came to Kansas in 1961 after 12 years as director of the library for the Nova Scotia Technical College. He served one year as library director for the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, a UNESCO project.
Agee Prospective Journalism Dean
Warren K. Agee, dean of the Evening College at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, is expected to become dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information at KU.
Official announcement of the appointment has not been made.
Agee told the Summer Session Kansan that numerous details remain to be worked out. He called the report of his appointment made in yesterday's Topeka Daily Capital a "supposition."
Religion Aide Is Appointed
Agee would succeed Burton W. Marvin, dean of the school since 1948, who will direct a mass communications center at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel.
The Rev. Hugh Stouppe has been appointed assistant to Dean William J. Moore of the Kansas School of Religion and has begun his duties.
Stouppe, who has had overseas missions experience, filled several pastorates and worked in educational relations, for the past two years has served the Tonganoxie Methodist Church and been an assistant instructor in English at KU. He is completing requirements for the master of arts degree.
Stoupe will handle administrative matters pertaining to routine operations and during the next six months assist Paul Shivel director of the Kansas School of Religion Development campaign. Beginning with the spring semester he will share time between the School of Religion and teaching duties and graduate study in the department of English.
Stouppe holds degrees from Musk- ingum College and Boston University. For eight years he was a missionary in China and has filled Methodist pastorates in Worcester and Framingham, Mass., Pittsburgh, Pa., and Atchison.
Dormitorv on Agenda
The Lawrence Planning Commission will consider rezoning to permit another privately financed dormitory for KU students.
AGEEWOULD come to KU with a broad background in communications. He has been dean of the TCU Evening School since 1962.
Prior to that time he had been a member of the faculty of the TCU department of journalism from 1948-58, serving as chairman from 1950; dean of the school of journalism at West Virginia University from 1958 to 1960, and national executive officer of Sigma Delta Chi, society of journalists, from 1960-62.
In the latter capacity he helped build Sigma Delta Chi to its present status in journalism, and visited many cities and schools and departments of journalism.
HE ALSO was chief editorial consultant and business manager of The Quill, magazine of Sigma Delta Chi.
Agee is 49, is married, and is the father of two children.
His professional experience includes work on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 1937-48, as an account executive for Witherspoon and Associates, Fort Worth, in the summers of 1950-53, and copy editing on the Star-Telegram in the summers of 1955-57.
He received the bachelor of arts degree in journalism and English from TCU in 1937; the master of arts in journalism and history from the University of Minnesota in 1949, and the Ph.D. in American studies from Minnesota in 1955.
He has been a member of the American Council on Education for Journalism, president of the American Society of Journalism School Administrators, and president of the Association for Education in Journalism, which has its central offices at the KU School of Journalism.
RIVER CITY HIJINKS—Tom Rea, KU's actor-in-residence, exuberantly plays his con-game in the River City, Iowa, of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man." The play's first performance was Wednesday night in University Theatre. Last two performances
are tonight and Saturday night. Sentiment is furnished by starryeyed female lead, Carol Wilcox, Kansas City junior. Her enraptured pupil (at right) is Laurie Crew, Groton, Conn., graduate student.