DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Alums to get awards
By Carolyn Drury
Five KU alumni will be awarded the citation for distinguished service through the University and its Alumni Association, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and Clarence McGuire, Kansas City, Mo., president of the association, announced yesterday.
Making their contributions to society after leaving the campus were the following: Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, Lawrence, longtime KU basketball coach and educator; Merrill W. Haas, Houston, vice-president for exploration, Humble Oil & Refining Co.; Charles S. Haines II, New York City architect; Elmer B. Staats, Washington, D.C., comptroller general of the United States; and Clyde W. Tombaugh, Las Cruces, N.M., astronomer who discovered Pluto. All five are expected to attend the 94th annual commencement exercises June 6 when their awards will be presented.
ALLEN, of the class of 1909, left his position as director of athletics and chairman of the physical education department in 1956 after 39 years of service. A college coach for 46 years, Allen instigated many "firsts." He founded the Kansas Relays and directed the fund drive for the first units of Memorial Stadium after his first year of coaching.
The first president of the National Basketball Coaches Association, Allen was instrumental in getting basketball a place in the Olympic games in 1936. His teams were champions once and runners-up twice in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
During World War II, he headed fund drives combating polio, heart diseases, and cancer and led in collections for Red Cross and Community Chest. Allen has been busy as a local osteopath the last 10 years.
HAAS, native of Albert, Kan., received a degree in geology at KU in 1932, then earned graduate degrees at Michigan and Harvard. In 1933, he became a paleontologist for the Humble Oil & Refining Company. Since that time, he has served this company or other domestic and foreign affiliates of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, in Venezuela, New York and Tulsa, among other places. He became vice-president of Humble in 1960.
In 1961, Hass received KU's Erasmus Haworth award as distinguished geology alumnus. He has written for professional journals and headed the Semi-Centennial Celebration Committee of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) the past three years. Haas is currently chairman of the AAPG's Business Committee.
HAINES has headed the Bell Telephone Laboratories near New York, the Argonne National Laboratories of the Atomic Energy Commission near Chicago, the Searle Chemistry Research Laboratory of the University of Chicago, and the Homer Research Laboratories of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
Haines has also been active in civic and professional affairs. He has been on the Laboratories Committee of the National Research Council, has been president of the New York Building Congress and has served as mayor of his home village, Tarryton, N.Y. Haines is presently on the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Board, a director of the Greater New York Safety Council and a panelist of the American Arbitration Association.
STAATS became comptroller general of the nation in March after being deputy director of the Bureau of the Budget, which he first joined in 1939. He took only one year's leave of absence from government service when he served as research director for Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago in 1953. Staats was executive officer of the newly-established Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council at the time that he was appointed for his current position.
Staats earned his A.B. from McPherson College and his master's from KU in 1936. Holding a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, he is a Phi Beta Kappa.
In 1961, he was one of five recipients of the Rockefeller Public Service Award. Staats was president of the American Society for Public Administration in 1961-62. He now serves the University of Wisconsin and the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., as a member of advisory groups. The comptroller general is a native of Richfield, Kansas.
TOMBAUGH, discoverer of Pluto, received degrees in astronomy in 1936 and 1939 from KU. His discovery of the elusive ninth planet was made in 1930 working at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. This scientific contribution made him the winner of the Jackson Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. As a KU student, he was a four-year Edwin E. Slosson scholar in science.
Since 1946, Tombaugh has continued his research and filled executive positions at the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico and at New Mexico State University, where he is now professor of earth sciences.
THE ASTRONOMER was elected a fellow of the American Rocket Society, now American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, in 1954 for his development of tracking telescopes which came into focus with high altitude rockets in flight. He has become a part of the International Astronomical Union's Commission on Planets and Satellites.
Because he is one of the top authorities on Mars and Martian geology, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has provided him a large grant for determining a possible landing spot on Mars for man. Tombaugh has written 33 research papers in astronomy and astrologeology.
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To view U.S. poverty
Clarke Chambers, professor of history at the University of Minnesota, will speak Monday at 3:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union abstud poverty in the United States.
Chambers' lecture entitled "Social Reform and the Persistence of Poverty in 20th Century America" will be of interest to historians as well as sociologists, human relations experts and social workers. The public is invited.
Chambers is the author of
"Seedtime of Reform," an account of the incubation of the reforming spirit in the period immediately after the first World War. He is currently director of the Social Welfare History Archives Center at the University of Minnesota. Inquiries concerning this lecture should be addressed to John Greene, history professor.
Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 11, 1966
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