Page 5
KU Cycling Club 'Flies-Out With Help of Grad Students
Summer Session Kansan
"Ausflug" in German literally means "fly-out." To the newly formed Mount Oread Cycling Club it means a ride with the sole purpose of just going somewhere.
The more planned cycling trips have had a specific somewhere in mind, such as area towns or Lone Star Lake near Lawrence. Some also have specific purposes inherent in their names, like Breack O'Day (early morning ride and breakfast), Random Ramble (route chosen by toss of dice), Summer Coolees (ride and swim party), and Moonlight rides.
Responsible for this first cycling club at KU since 1925, which has become the largest such club in Kansas, is a husband-wife team of former graduate students, Lee and Carol Coburn.
THEY REPORT that the membership has tripled from 9 to 27 in two months, and that more than 80 per
Driver Education Program Continues
A program whose economic savings to Kansans have gone far beyond the $100,000 mark will be continued for the 13th year through a $2,000 grant from the All-State Foundation to the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Richard A. Hogan, regional manager for the All-State Insurance Co. Kansas City, Mo., presented the fund to KU officials. The $2,000 will be used through KU Extension for scholarships to the basic and advanced courses for high school teachers of driver education and safety, which will be given during summer session.
McFarland said All-State Foundation aid to the summer programs had made possible the qualification of about 300 high school driving and safety instructors, who already have trained well over 20,000 students.
E. A. McFarland, University Extension, said from 30 to 35 All-State scholarships would be awarded.
"Research has shown that graduates of driver training courses are safer drivers," McFarland said. "A conservative estimate is that for every $1 spent on driver education, $3 are quickly returned in economic loss prevented, not to mention the injuries and suffering avoided."
The basic course will last through July 23 and the advanced course will be held July 26-Aug. 6. The teachers will be Prof. Don Henry of KU and Nevin Wasson, supervisor of driver and safety education for the Kansas City, Mo., public schools.
McNown, Yu, Talk At Iowa Colloquium
Y. S. Yu and Dean John S. McNown of the University of Kansas School of Engineering and Architecture spoke last week at the eighth Iowa Hydraulics Colloquium at the Institute of Hydraulic Research of the University of Iowa.
Yu, associate professor of engineering mechanics, addressed the select group of hydraulic engineers from throughout the United States on the use of digital computers in solving hydraulic problems. He also discussed computer potentialities.
Dean McNown was the banque speaker. He explained his investigation of the engineering and economic problems involved in water hydraulics on the Niger-Benue River in West Africa, where he has served as a consultant.
Waggoner Appointed To CEEB Committee
Dean George R. Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has been named to the standing committee on international education.
This is a new program of the College Entrance Examination Board and is composed of leading educators from schools and colleges around the country. It was appointed to deal with the growing interests and activities in the selection and admission of foreign and overseas American students by colleges and universities in the United States.
Dean Waggoner attended the first meeting of the new committee last week in New York.
cent are KU students, staff, or their wives. The remainder are Lawrence residents or former students.
The Coburns say cyclist enthusiasts are no special breed of people and the only criteria are congeniality of company, joy of riding, and enjoyment of being out in the open, rain, wind or shine.
One of the club's newsletters defines a benefit as "not passing through, as propelled in a car, the bike rider becomes part of the environment, with the time and nearness to fully enjoy it."
THE NEWSLETTERS also give advice on care of the bike, what a bike tool kit should contain, and reports on routes and youth hostels almost anywhere in the U.S. and many countries of Europe.
"The membership drive began with placing invitation cards on bikes parked on campus and at the KU dormitories. Then people would see us out riding and ask about it if they were interested." Mrs. Coburn explained.
She listed other vital facts as: boys outnumber girls 3 to 1. members use all speeds of bikes and manage to keep up pretty well, and riders split on long and short routes according to experience and endurance.
REGULAR CYCLING schedules include Sunday afternoons and Wednesday evenings. Many rides already are planned for summer students and residents. These include a steak ride, overnight campouts, a ride to the St. Louis youth hostel and a possible week-end ride to the Ozarks.
So the revival of a KU—Lawrence cycling club is complete, even to its own appropriate blessing: "May you always ride with the wind."
Four Begin Terms On Alumni Board
New five-year-term members of the KU Alumni Association board of directors are Mrs. Mary Lou Varner Warwick of Prairie Village, Ellis K. Cave of Dodge City, and H. W. "Bill" Reece of Scandia. They were chosen in a mail vote cast by paid members of the association.
Balfour S. Jeffrey of Topeka, president the past year, began an automatic four-year term on the board of directors.
Retiring directors are Donald B. Lang, Scott City; Dale W. Maxwell, Lawrence; Stanley H. Stauffer, Topeka, and Frank N. Warren, Emporia. The retiring vice president is Charles E. Spahr, Cleveland.
Clarence McGuire of Kansas City, Mo., assumed the Alumni Association presidency. He and Mrs. J. H. Abrahams, Topeka, the new vice president, were elected earlier by the board of directors to serve in 1965-66.
Dick Wintermote, executive secretary of the association, reported that paid membership broke the 20,-000 barrier for the first time. It is 20,120, up 1,118 over the comparable 1964 figure. Fully paid life membership rose by 1,101 in the year and is 32 per cent of the membership. Installment life members gained 1,082 and are 19 per cent of the total.
Four graduating seniors and four persons receiving degrees from the Graduate School have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary liberal arts fraternity.
Eight Are Named To Phi Beta Kappa
The four seniors are John P. Atkinson, Topeka, zoology; Michael L. Fawcett, Neodesha, Spanish; Charles F. Lanning, Lawrence, chemistry and mathematics, and Ronald Lee Rardin, Leawood, mathematics and political science.
The four senior names brought to 48 the number of those honored in the class of 1965, or about seven percent of the seniors in liberal arts.
The University of Kansas has entered into an unusual cooperative educational program in paleontology with the Smithsonian Institution.
KU, Smithsonian Join in Program
The program provides for research training of graduate students, primarily on the Ph.D. level, and will be directed by Richard H. Benson, professor of geology. Benson will retain his position on the KU faculty on a part time in absentia basis while on the paleobiology research staff of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
He will direct KU Ph.D. and exceptional master's degree candidates in thesis research involving museum specimens or related museum work. He will be assisted by other Smithsonian staff members, and part of the research and teaching will be carried out at KU.
The four graduate students are Mrs. Mirion Yang Bearman, Lawrence, who received the PhD. degree in chemistry; Richard M. Kellogg, Arlington, who received the PhD. in chemistry; Lester Daniel Langley, Borger, Tex., who received the PhD. in history, and Philip Redding Schmidt, Peoria, Ill., who received the M.A. in history.
Benson has been on leave this year to do research under National Science Foundation grants. An oceanographer and micropaleontologist, he spent last summer gathering specimens on an Indian Ocean expedition administered by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Massachusetts. He also has been collecting items in Europe for the KU and Smithsonian museums, and has studied at the British Museum in London.
Design Student Wins $100 Prize in Contest
Tom Shortlidge, KU design senior, has won $100 as second prize in a contest sponsored by the Society of Illustrators and Pocket Books, Inc., publishers. The jointly sponsored contest is held to recognize and stimulate the talents of students in the field of illustration.
More than 450 illustrations were received from almost every state in the Union. The judges considered book publishing as a medium of visual sell, utilizing the composition, style and technique as it related to the subject matter.
Tuesday, June 15, 1965
Piano Faculty Member Wins Regional Audition
WORCESTER, Mass.—A 24-year old member of the KU piano faculty was named winner of the third in a series of four regional auditions being sponsored by the Worcester Music Festival, in its first annual Competition for the Young Artist May 29 at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Harry M. Corbett, Worcester, chairman of the 106-year-old festival's competition committee, said Robert Scott Ward, a graduate of the University of Illinois in Urbana was named over two other competitors. The audition was open to students and graduates under 26 from the University of Illinois; Northwestern, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Ward now is eligible to compete in
Adams Is Seventh Distinguished Prof.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe made the announcement in his annual "State of the University" report.
Ralph N. Adams, a member of the KU chemistry faculty since 1953, has been appointed University Distinguished Professor.
KU also has nine other distinguished professorships made possible by private endowments.
The appointment enables the University to recognize Adams' scholarship through payment of a salary above that normal for a professor of chemistry. He brings to seven the number of University Distinguished Professors, the other six having been announced in 1963 and 1964.
Adams came to KU as an instructor in 1953, the year he received the Ph.D. degree from Princeton University. He earned the B.S. degree from Rutgers University in 1950 and the M.A. from Princeton in 1952.
national finals in Worcester, Mass., late September. Grand prize will be $1,500 and a guest artist performance with the Detroit Symphony on the opening night of Worcester's 1965 musical festival Oct. 18. The winner also will receive other performing opportunities with the Detroit Symphony.
Ward mentioned his experiences gained on a State Department four-and-a-half month tour of Latin America as solo artist with the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra in 1964. He gave 19 performances of the Samuel Barber Concerto, premiered in Lincoln Center in 1962, during the tour through 11 countries.
Competitionists must play from Chopin's Ballade in F-Minor and the Beethoven "Emperor" Concerto No. 5 for piano and orchestra.
Last summer Ward was pianistin-residence with the Drinkall Trio during an eight-week, 48-concert engagement at Glacier National Park in Montana. This summer he will be teaching at KU summer school.
KU Senior Awarded Architecture Stipend
David L. Rohovit, KU architecture senior, has been awarded a $500 scholarship by the Ruberoid Co. of New York.
This award is one of 20 made annually by this large building materials producer to students possessing outstanding architectural promise.
Rohovit, 23, is a native of Kansas City and also attended the University of Missouri. He has been associated with the Kansas Urban Renewal Agency, the KU Architectural Services and the first of Hewitt & Royer, architects and engineers. He is married and the father of two children.
WELCOME STUDENTS and FACULTY Stop In and Say "Howdy" We Are Eager to Serve You
FLAT TIRE — DEAD BATTERY — OUT OF GAS
DEPENDABLE LUBRICATION
MEN WITH "KNOW HOW" TO DO THE JOB
GAS — OIL — AUTO SUPPLIES
QUALITY PRODUCTS
WE INVITE YOU TO OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT
FRITZ CO.
8th and New Hampshire VI3-4321
Open Thursday 'till 8:30 p.m.
Downtown — Near Everything