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Versatile Colorado Player Most Valuable on All Big 8
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Versatility earned probably the most valuable player on this year's all-Big Eight Conference baseball team a utility spot after he almost didn't make the select unit, even though he led all others in voting.
Three more outstanding Kansas prep track stars have signed letters of intent to enroll at KU next fall. Murray Lull, Smith Center; Dave Pitts, Wichita North, and Jeff Weltmer, Beloit, will be among the freshmen reporting to Coach Bob Timmons.
Pitts is the Class AA state champion in the 880-yard run. His winning time was 1:56.6. He anchored the Wichita North record-breaking sprint medley relay team at the 1965 KU Relays.
Lull won the high jump event at the 1964 KU Relays. In the past season he took third place in the State Class "B" meet. Lull's best jump was 6' 4". In addition to the high jump, Lull also enters the long jump and 880-yard run. He is a letterman in cross country.
3 Track Stars To Come to KU
Weltner won the 1965 KU Relays high school high jump with a '6' -2½'. He is the Class A indoor and outdoor state champion high jumper. He holds the state Class A outdoor record with a jump of '6' 4".
Eaton Will Teach At Saigon School
A KU professor who will lecture at the University of Saigon next year realizes he didn't pick the calmest spot in the world.
"But since the State Department is sending me on a Fulbright, it must be off-limits for any trouble," said Dr. Theodore H. Eaton Jr., professor of zoology and curator of lower fossil vertebrates in the Museum of Natural History.
"I will probably do some intercountry exchange lectures, but not much traveling in the country of Viet Nam." Dr. Eaton added.
He will teach zoology and plans to do some research in modern vertebrate anatomy while there. He anticipates that the zoology department at the University of Saigon will be fairly advanced, as there are several professors there who have their Ph.D.
"Otherwise I won't know what to expect till I get there, but it should be an interesting place to be," Dr. Eaton commented.
He isn't frightened by the prospect of going to Viet Nam, since the State Department has cleared it, but he is relieved that several visiting professors already there have applied for and been granted renewals to remain.
Nebraska Really Lost This Time!
Cynthia Hardin, KU freshman and daughter of Chancellor and Mrs. Clifford M. Hardin, Lincoln, was selected yearbook queen by Henry Mancini at his concert at KU this spring.
KU managed to steal the Jayhawker queen from the University of Nebraska chancellor.
A pledge of Pi Beta Phi social sorority, Miss Hardin was nominated for the Jayhawker queen by Carruth-0'Leary freshman hall.
Miss Hardin already has done her native Nebraska honor by being cited as the most outstanding girl in her freshman residence hall and by being named to Cwens, sophomore honorary at KU. She also has been active in the Associated Women Students and was elected freshman representative to the AWS Senate last fall.
Her attendants, also chosen by Mancini, are Judy Sarazan, Prairie Village senior, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Connie Roeder, Burlington junior, Miller scholarship hall; Sharon Anderson, Topeka senior, Lewis women's hall, and Patricia Goering, Mountdure sophomore, Chi Omega.
Normally a 10-man team, this year's squad, selected by the conference's coaches, was strengthened with the 11th spot for Adrian Mohr, Colorado. During the season, Mohr played third, first, the outfield, and pitched.
He did them all well. During the conference race, he didn't make an error. He hit 328, drove in 16 runs, and belted five homers. On the mound, he carded a 4-2 mark—almost half the Colorado wins—and came up with a 2.61 earned run average.
The coaches agreed that Mohr did a fine job. As one put it: "This boy pitched and played third against us, but also played first and the outfield. He is a fine player and should go somewhere on the team." He got plenty of votes, too, but the nominations were split. Support came at all four spots, but not enough tallies to land a first-team berth if votes alone were honored. Thus, the 11th spot.
The lone repeater from last year is Kansas' Steve McGreevy, an outfielder who was second in hitting with a .437 average. He was just one of four on the all-star unit to hit at the .400 plateau. League leader was Missouri's Bob Robben (.443), the team's shortstop. Third was another Missouriian, Dan Rudanovich (.435), an outfielder, Kansas State's Stu Steele was fourth (.400) and eked out a third base spot.
The right side of the infield belongs to Joe Beck, first baseman from Kansas State, and Mike Strode, second baseman from Missouri. Tony Sellari, Oklahoma State, is the catcher and Carl Schreiner, Oklahoma, the third outfielder.
Only two sophomores made the team—five juniors and four seniors are included—pitchers Stan Bahnsen of Nebraska and Tim Van Galder of Iowa State. Bahnsen was the league's best with a 6-1 record and 1.44 ERA. Van Galder was second with a 1.53 ERA.
The 11 boasts a team batting average of .370 and a slugging average of .638. Their 219 hits include 45 doubles, 11 triples, and 29 home runs. They plated 137 runs.
All-Stars Sign For KUGrid Ranks
Two all-state football players have signed letters of intent to enroll at KU. Coach Jack Mitchell announces that Michael Harris of Terre Haute, Ind., and William Hunt of Hackensack, N.J., will join the Jayhawk ranks this fall.
Harris, "6'-3", 205, lettered four years as a halfback and fullback on the Paul Schulte High School varsity team. Harris was named to several all-state teams including the Catholic High School All-American squad and Indiana all-conference teams.
Captain of both the football and basketball teams in his senior year, Hunt was all-league in both sports. As a member of the track team he won several state awards in the 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash and the long jump.
In addition to football honors, Harris lettered four years in both basketball and track. He was listed on the Western Indiana Conference basketball teams for three years and took part in the state track finals, running the 440-yard dash.
Hunt, 5'-10', 180, also is a threesport prep star. He was named to the New Jersey all-state football first team on both offense and defense. A right halfback, Hunt was an outstanding safety_man on defense.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., of Kansas City, Mo., has made a $3,000 grant to the department of design to bring outstanding professional designers to the campus in 1965-66.
Ancient Oceans Are Subject Of KU Research
Hallmark Awards Grant in Design
These consultation periods will be known as the Hallmark Design Seminars.
The tentative list of seminar leaders includes Richard Latham of Latham, Tyler and Jensen, Industrial Designers, Chicago; Morton Goldscholl of Morton, Goldscholl and Associates, Chicago, and Ben Rose of Ben Rose Fabrics, Chicago.
Underneath the surface of mid-America are the remnants of ancient oceans, represented by deposits of subterranean brines. A new study of these ancient brines is beginning as a cooperative project between the U.S. Bureau of Mines and the University of Kansas under the direction of Floyd Preston, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering,
"The object of the study is to develop computer information retrieval systems for information about the chemical and physical properties of the subterranean brines," Preston said.
According to Preston, these ancient brines represent the most abundant type of water underground. Disposal of these brines poses a big problem for oil producers and information about these brines would allow organizations to prevent contamination of fresh water supplies.
"The information retrieval system," said Preston, "would be used to make brine information rapidly available in any particular region." A part of the study will be to devise statistical tests for identifying and characterizing the brines so that unknown samples can be classified and existing samples can be divided into logical categories.
Summer Session Kansan
"The project," said Preston, "is a pilot study to demonstrate the utility of statistical classification techniques." In addition, he said, "the project is a further step in a continuing program of professional cooperation between the U.S. Bureau of Mines, the State Geological Survey, and the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering."
Tuesday, June 15, 1965
KU Joins Computer Big League With Big 8's Largest System
"The University of Kansas has moved into the big leagues of university computation." G. Baley Price, chairman of the executive committee for the University's computation center and chairman of the mathematics department, says.
Casady is a candidate for honors in English and plans a second major in human relations. He has filled several positions on the Jayhawker this year, including the copy editor-hip, and was responsible for the historical vignettes in each issue.
The Jayhawker, published in magazine form four times during the school year, becomes a yearbook when put in a post-binder cover.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced as part of his State of the University message that the University has signed a contract to lease a General Electric 625 computer system. It will be the largest college computer installation in the Big Eight area.
Dwyer is an accounting major in the School of Business and is an honor roll student.
THE NEW COMPUTER, expected for installation in January, 1966, replaces an IBM 7040 installed late last summer and will be about 12 times as fast as that machine. In addition, it will have great capacity for the development of remote terminals and for time-sharing systems.
John L. Casady, Wichita sophomore, and David E. Dwyer, Joplin, Mo. junior, will be editor and business manager, respectively, of the 1965-66 Jayhawker, magazine-yearbook. They were elected by the Jayhawker Advisory Board, a student-faculty body.
Casady, Dwyer Head Javhawker
"Remote terminal capacity means that the School of Medicine at Kansas City, for instance, can use the computer as if it were on its own campus by use of a data channel on the new microwave hookup between the campuses." Richard Hetherington, director of the University's computation center, said. "Other institutions in the state could use it, as well through so simple a hookup as a telephone line."
The Medical Center has a potentially explosive growth rate of computer usage, Hetherington said, and the new installation makes unnecessary the lease of extensive computing equipment for the Kansas City campus.
"TIME-SHARING capacity means that many individuals could use one computer simultaneously in such a way that each user would feel as though he had available to him the entire capacity of the computer." Hetherington said.
"It is within the capacity of the GE 625, although its realization still lies in the future, for each user to be directly in contact with the computer and to obtain instantaneous responses to questions. He could immediately follow up an idea, see its consequences, and act upon it.
"When the nossibilities are realized, the administrators will be able to query central records for any of a variety of information which will be delivered immediately to their offices by teletype or on an optical display unit."
SUA Friday Flicks
presents
"COMPULSION"
Friday June 18th
at
DYCHE AUDITORIUM
admission: 35c
shown at
7:00 p.m. & 9:00 p.m.