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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 26, 1965
Professorship Given To Engineering Dean
Dr. John S. McNown, who requested to be relieved of the deanship of the University of Kansas School of Engineering and Architecture, has accepted the Albert P. Learned distinguished professorship in engineering, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced today.
Dean McNown will leave administrative duties June 30 and begin the Learned professorship on July 1. His actual filling of research and teaching duties will await his return from a sabbatical leave, during which he will travel to Europe and Africa to study engineering education and its relationship to the economic development of Africa.
Dr. William P. Smith, a member of the electrical engineering faculty for 15 years and chairman of the department, will become dean July 1.
The Albert P. Learned distinguished professorship in engineering was established in 1960 by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Learned of Bartlesville, Okla., in honor of his brother, upon the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Albert Learned's graduation from the University of Kansas.
THE INCOME FROM the endowment of $100,000 will augment a professorial salary offered by the University.
"Although we are sorry to lose Dean McNown's services as an administrator, we are delighted that we can welcome him back as a distinguished professor."
Among Dean McNown's special distinctions are the American Society of Civil Engineers' prizes for scholarly effort, including the J. C. Stephens award in 1946, the Research Program Prize in 1949, and the Croes medal in 1955. He was one of the first engineers to receive a Fulbright Research Fellowship under which he studied in France.
A SIGNIFICANT PART of an engineer's work includes his consultantships, and Dean McNown has served as a consultant to the Sandia Corporation, manufacturer and tester of nuclear devices, the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, and two divisions of the U.S. Engineering Department.
His technical contributions to the field of engineering include the study of wave disturbances which affect ships moored in harbors. One of his colleagues once noted that John S. McNown has the distinction of building a model of the world's worst harbor, for his research.
Among his other technical contributions, he has done basic studies of the principles and applications of flow at junctions which is now being applied to the design of hydro-electric power plants and of filling systems for navigation locks. Another important part of his technical contribution to engineering includes his study of fall velocities of sediment in rivers and basins.
Orchestra Starts Series
The KU symphony orchestra leads off Sunday in a schedule of four campus musical events next week with a concert in the University Theatre at 3:30 p.m.
Prof. Robert Baustian will conduct. Earlier this month he conducted three performances by the New York City Opera Company of Douglas Moore's "Ballad of Baby Doe."
of Douglas Moore's *Ballad of Birds*. The scheduled program is: "Scherherzade" by Rimski-Korsakov, Concerto for Four French Horns and Orchestra by Schumann, and The Pines of Rome, by Respighi.
Mrs. Kathleen Craig Schmidt, pianist, will appear in graduate recital at 8 p.m. Monday in Swarthout Recital Hall. She received the bachelor of music education degree summa cum laude from Boston University in 1963 and received the Alumni award for scholarship. At KU her teachers have been emeritus Prof. Jan Chiapuso, Richard Angeletti and Roy H. Johnson.
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Brass Choir Makes Hit On Far Eastern Tour
"It was an ideal presentation, next to perfect."
"It is the KU brass choir. The evaluation is the Embassy's report of the choir's visit to Ceylon last year. The quotation is from a report to the Congress by the Advisory Committee on the Arts concerned with the State Department's cultural presentations program.
"It was small enough to handle comfortable, certainly loud enough to be heard, popular enough to be enjoyed, attractive enough to be loved," the Ceylonese report continues. "It was everything we needed and a few things we only dreamed about. A valiant bunch of troopers!"
There were 17 KU musicians, plus the director, Prof. Kenneth G. Bloomquist and Mrs. Bloomquist.
IN A 3-MONTH PERIOD last spring the choir visited 35 cities in Ceylon, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, and the Ryukyu. The 58 concerts had a combined audience of 124,000. The musicians conducted 14 workshops and clinics, appeared for radio and television broadcasts, and participated in many impromptu "iam" sessions.
The report to the Congress said the choir did "credit to the American one-night stand tradition" of barnstorming. In Ceylon, using a small, ancient bus, the choir travelled 1,000 miles for 12 concerts;* covered more ground, reached more people, and visited more remote places than had any other attraction from any other country."
A thousand students attended an impromptu "jam" session at the university in Surabaya, Indonesia, then a more than capacity crowd of 2.500 attended the formal evening concert.
Last week on a few hours notice Professor Bloomquist rallied the musicians, made the 165-mile trip and played an evening concert course engagement at Hesston College, whose original attraction had suddenly cancelled.
THIS YEAR the choir has changed a bit in personnel but not in tradition.
There have been other off-campus concert engagements this year, but on a better schedule than in Southeast Asia and Heston.
China To Be Study Topic
"The Chinese Dilemma" will be the topic of the 17th Annual Topeka Institute of International Relations which will be opened at 7:30 p.m. Sunday by Dr. Roy Menninger, General Chairman, at Washburn University.
Speakers for the event this year will be Robert W. Barnett, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs and a career diplomat in the State Department; Hon. Alvin Hamilton, former member of the Canadian Parliament; Stanley Spector, chairman of the department of Chinese and Japanese at Washington University, St. Louis; and George M. Beckmann, associate dean of faculties and professor of history at KU.
Dr. Menninger stated that the institute "is dedicated to a belief in the importance of promoting active and vigorous discussion of critical international issues of our time.
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