ALUMNUS GIFT
Nature Lab to KU
A brow of hill two miles north of Baldwin forces the Santa Fe trail into an arch with a mile of railroad. Below that brow of hill lies a plattering of lush growth that now belongs to KU.
By Swaebou Conateh
The purchase of this 70 acre tract of land was made possible by gifts from the late Maurice L. Breidenthal, Kansas City banker, to the KU Endowment Association in anticipation of the Centennial year.
THE AREA HAS served KU scientists and students as an outdoor laboratory for study and research in plant, insect, bird, and animal life since 1890. Its usefulness lies in its "rich assortment of tree species, birds and insects not peculiar to Kansas." Philip V. Wells, associate professor of Botany, said.
Ivin E. Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment Association, said Breidenthal had participated in many fund raising undertakings and ranks "among the most generous" of KU's benefactors.
"The project is, I feel, a fitting memorial to Mr. Breidenthal, inasmuch as he served with the Kansas Department of Entomology after his graduation from
KU." Youngberg commented, referring to the renaming of the area as the Maurice L. Breidenthal Biological Reserve.
MORE THAN 750 flowering plants, including many seldom found in the Midwest, such as the Lady's Slipper Orchid and the Showy Orchid, have been identified at the reserve, according to Ronald McGregor, professor of botany. In addition, more than 50 species of birds have been observed in the woods. The unusual concentration includes the Kentucky Warbler, Scarlet and Summer Tanagers, and Chuck-Will's Widow, all usually found in the more moist East.
Wells said that the size and small number of trees—which include such unusual species as oak, ash, walnut, elm and hickory-indicate the little disturbed nature of the terrain.
Wells added that 31 species of trees and 21 species of shrubs and vines have been counted in an 80 acre tract of the reserve. The same tract yielded 126 trees per acre of over four inches in diameter.
THE GEOLOGICALLY interesting tract lying between sandstone bluffs and at the base of the Baldwin or Big Hill, harbors rather rough land that did not
City Clerks Discuss Municipal Problems
appeal to farmers who had in the past disturbed the vegetation of the Natural History Reservation and the Sunflower Ordnance Works (both owned by KU) by cutting away land for farming and grazing.
More than 100 city clerks and other officials will attend the 16th annual City Clerks School in the Kansas Union Wednesday through Friday.
George W. Byers, professor of entomology, who has made a study of the Panorpa, a genus of insects not found west of the reserve and not native to Kansas, attributed the tract to the north facing slope that overhangs it, cutting off the sun's rays and leaving it cool with a permanent stream trickling through it.
Lt. Gov. John W. Crutcher, speaking on "Communism Rediscovers Capitalism," and Dr. Wilbur Shaeffer, a research scientist from Los Alamos, N.M., discussing "The City Clerk in the Atomic Age," will be the evening dinner speakers Wednesday and Thursday respectively.
Among the other speakers on the program will be James W. Drury, professor of political science; Charles W. Stough, Lawrence city attorney; E. A. Mosher, executive director, and Albert B. Martin, attorney, League of Kansas Municipalities, Topeka; John
The first Annual City Clerks School was held in 1950 to provide city clerks with an opportunity to participate in a special course of instruction related to the problems and functions of city government. Through the years attendance of the school has increased steadily. In 1965, a record 100 person attendance was reached.
Garvey, deputy executive director, National League of Cities, Washington, D.C., and other officials mainly from Kansas.
The program is sponsored by the City Clerks Association of Kansas, the League of Kansas Municipalities, the Governmental Research Center and University Extension.
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Mr. Breidenthal, a 1910 chemical engineering graduate, worked briefly in the Kansas State Department of Entomology, and became a Kansas City banker before his death in November, 1965.
Washburn Enlarges
Washburn University students will return to school next fall to find the union almost three times its present size. The union addition will house the bookstore, food service area, and a dining room. The total cost is $1,200,000.
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