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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 14, 1966
Printing problem
KU also received some damage in the tornado which devastated Topeka last Wednesday night. Some of KU's catalogues and books were at the State Printer's book bindery. Damage has not yet been estimated.
Thomas C. Ryther, director of KU's printing service, said of three books at the bindery for case binding, one, "Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings," by Harold Orel, professor of English, was returned to Lawrence by Wednesday afternoon, directly before the storm.
A third, however, "The Andros Islanders, A Study of Family Organizations in the Bahamas," by Keith Otterbein, assistant professor of anthropology, was blown away.
Another, "Historic Kansas," is also safe, having been in the warehouse at the time of the tornado.
According to James Gunn, director of University Relations, school catalogues were at KU awaiting shipment to Topeka. "This will probably slow us up," he said.
The catalogue covers and some other miscellaneous printing might be damaged, but the extent is not yet known.
Health plan again cited
The 18-year-old Kansas Rural Health Plan still is in the news and is cited as the beacon for other states and communities to follow.
The June issue of Today's Health, an official publication of the American Medical Association for the general public, features "They're Country Doctors No Longer," by Howard Earl.
In pictures and text the article shows how the University of Kansas plan of "on-the-job training in small towns, mobile medical schools and postgraduate courses, and community action to provide facilities help insure excellent medical care for Kansans—and encourage M.D.s to enter rural practice."
The program was devised in 1948 by Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, when he became dean of the KU School of Medicine. He later became chancellor of the University and since 1960 has been chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles.
'Miss Kansas' to become Mrs.
Miss Kansas will exchange her title for a new one—that of a "Mrs."
Mimi Frink, KU senior from Lawrence, will crown the new Miss Kansas at the July 6-9 pageant in Pratt. On Sept. 9 she will be married to Steve Wickliff, Mission third year law student.
Literate thieves
CHICOPEE, Mass. — (UPI) — Thieves who burglarized the Sim- cevitz & Co. office Sunday night apparently believe in signs.
A sign, posted on the office safe after previous burglaries, read: "Please do not blow up. Safe contains only records. Cash is in the first desk, upper right hand drawer."
The thieves took $25 from the drawer and did not disturb the safe.
Stanley Learned
Hall name in honor of Learned
The $1.9 million engineering building, one of the major classroom and laboratory structures at KU, has been named Learned Hall, honoring Stanley Learned of Bartlesville, Okla., a 1924 graduate in engineering.
Learned, president and chief executive officer of the Phillips Petroleum Co., is chairman of the Council for Progress, which is undertaking a three-year campaign for $18.6 million in private support for the University.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, in making the announcement, said:
"Today in honor of all alumni, but particularly in honor of one who characterizes in integrity, stature, accomplishments, and loyalty and KU alumni, I make this announcement:
"He has but three causes and three loves—his family, his business, his university. Native son of Lawrence, graduate in civil engineering with the class of 1924, president of his senior class, past national president of the Alumni Association, past chairman of the Greater University Fund advisory board, trustee of the Endowment Association, distinguished service citee, and chairman of the Council for Progress, he has provided us leadership in the past at great personal sacrifice and we anticipate his continuing leadership in the future.
"This list of his services and achievements goes on and on; it is to our honor that Stanley Learned's name will go on and on indelibly with the University of Kansas. By action of the Board of Regents, taken within the last few weeks, the engineering building completed in 1963 as of this date is officially to be known as Learned Hall."
2 novelists coming to KU
Two American novelists will visit KU this fall as writers-inresidence for the course "The Written of Fiction."
They are James Hall, who will be here three weeks in November, and Reynolds Price, who will be here for two weeks in January.
The use of career professionals in major diplomatic and consular posts and in key positions in the Department of State is a relatively new tradition in American foreign policy. Today, these professionals come from the ranks of the nearly 3,800 Foreign Service Officers of the United States.
Hall, head of the writing program at the University of California at Irvine, is the author of three novels, "Not by the Door." "TNT for Two" and "Racers to the Sun." He also has written a volume of short stories, "Us He Devours."
Price wrote "A Long and Happy Life" and "A Generous Man."
Foreign service history told
An historical examination of the U.S. Foreign Service appears in Your Government, a monthly publication of the KU Governmental Research Center. The author, Daniel L. Horowitz, is an officer in the Foreign Service, and is "diplomat-in-residence" here this year.
Early in America's development, she was represented abroad by some of the nation's most learned and able statesmen. During the period of internal development and expansion, diplomatic appointments were generally part of the political "spoils system."
AS THE U.S. began to emerge as a world power after the Spanish-American War, it was recognized that there was a need for a professional foreign service. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft began to place various positions in the Diplomatic Service under civil service.
The Rogers Act of 1924 created the Foreign Service. Consular and diplomatic officers were combined into one service. Promotion was made on a merit basis, and salary scales were established. For the first time, it was possible for able citizens without independent incomes to seek a diplomatic career.
The period preceding World War II was one of isolation for the United States, and the Foreign Service was somewhat overlooked. Even though the commercial foreign service had been combined with the Foreign Service, there were less than 900 Foreign Service Officers when war broke out. The demands of the war resulted in the creation of a Foreign Service Auxiliary of approximately 1,100 officers.
AT THE END of the war, America had new worldwide interests and responsibilities. Legislation was enacted to provide direct entry of specialists from the auxiliary and from the Department of State into the Foreign Service. To fill highly specialized positions, Congress created a Foreign Service Reserve Corps of temporary appointees.
By 1954, however, it was apparent that the expansion was too slow. The service had less than 1,300 career officers. Too few Foreign Service officers were being afforded a chance to serve some time in the State Department because of the number of civil service employees in that department.
After studying the problem, the State Department initiated changes designed to bring Foreign Services Officers into positions in the department, both in Washington and abroad. As a result, the Foreign Service had expanded to 3,368 officers by 1957.
TODAY, THE SERVICE has approximately 3,800 officers. Recruiting is done through comprehensive examinations. On a rotation basis, approximately one-third of these officers serve in Washington at any one time. Many hold important positions in the Department of State.
The Foreign Service and State Department now have diplomatic
missions in 114 nations and an additional 200 consular missions. The Foreign Service officers serving abroad keep the government informed of new developments, analyze their significance to the nation's foreign policy, and represent the government in negotiations involving American interests.
Increasingly, ambassadors are being chosen from the ranks of senior service officers. The study concludes by pointing out: "Great as has been the expansion in diverse responsibilities and in consequent diverse representation and activities in foreign affairs during the last 25 years, the Foreign Service of the United States has remained the central professional core for conduct of the basic tasks in American foreign relations"
Pozdro is recognized
Two piano concertos by a KU faculty member have been recorded by an Argentine record company for distribution in South America and the United States.
Sonatas No. 2 and 3 by Dr. John Pozdro, chairman of the department of music theory and composition, were recorded by Editorial Discografica Universidad Nacional Del Litoral. Roy Hamlin Johnson, a former KU teacher, was the pianist.
Science award made
Uraina Sewell of Kansas City, Kan., has received a Greater Kansas City Science Fair Scholarship of $300 for 1966-67 at KU.
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