Professor's professor
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Retirement is activity
By DON HOLLINGER
Ray Q. Brewster, professor emeritus of chemistry, greets visitors in his wood-paneled den, surrounded by chemistry texts he wrote and pictures of men he knew in 44 years on the KU faculty.
Brewster has been honored by professional societies, colleagues, and former students. When he retired, many students said he made the stubborn formulas of chemistry more bearable for the 25,000 students who had him as a professor during his 44 years at KU.
In 1960, Brewster received the HOPE (Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educators) award, presented to the University's outstanding teacher. He keeps a memento of this award, a pen holder, on his desk.
"FOR MERITORIOUS contribution to chemistry as an outstanding educator," Brewster received the thirteenth Midwest Award by the St. Louis section of the American Chemical Society. Brewster keeps this, and most of his other awards, in his den.
Some students have a hard time with chemistry, but Brewster thinks "chemistry is far simpler than good English composition. The only thing hard about chemistry is the day by day application, and that shouldn't be hard for the ambitious student."
Brewster, retired for five years, teaches organic chemistry three times a week to freshmen and juniors at Ottawa University, a 1,050-student liberal arts college 25 miles south of Lawrence.
At 74, Brewster is still active. "I just putter around the house," Brewster said. "I don't do very much anymore," he added.
THE GREATEST thing that happened during Brewster's 44 years at KU was "getting a new building (Malott Hall) after years of bursting at the seams, crowding 2,200 students into a small building and a quonset hut for laboratory work."
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The brick and concrete block structure will have about 32,000 sq. ft.
The building will be on the south side of 15th Street, 600 yards west of the 15th and Iowa intersection.
THE PRINTING SERVICE, which does most of KU's printing, is in Flint Hall in the center of the main campus. The addition of humidity control and a new offset press should enable the printing service to upgrade its printing and handle a greater volume of publications expected from the new University Press of Kansas, a cooperative venture of KU, K-State, and Wichita State University.
The classroom capacity of Flint Hall will be increased by about 40 per cent when the printing service moves to the new building.
The first appropriations made by the 1965 Legislature allowed $250,000 for the building. Bids were too high, and the Legislature increased the authorization to $340,000. Second bids also were too high, and mechanical requirements were changed. Bidding on the revised specifications opened June 18.
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A color picture of Brewster, hanging in Malot Hall, was provided by his former students and colleagues as was the $1,000 Brewster Scholarship for entering freshmen. The scholarship has been supplied since Brewster's retirement as department chairman in 1956.
The citation for distinguished service, awarded jointly by KU and its alumni association was
presented to Brewster on May 7, 1963. Brewster was one of the first three professors to receive this award.
Brewster's philosophy of teaching is logical. "I just try to teach the basics," Brewster said. "I believe anyone who is willing to try can learn chemistry. No, I don't have any special formula, but I do what I think is best at the time."
Brewster is gone from KU.
KU truck, crane collide
By KERRY MOON
A not so funny comedy of errors occurred behind Haworth Hall Tuesday afternoon.
First a crane was troubled with clearing the ivy from the walls of Haworth. Archie Welch, driver of a KU buildings and grounds truck, drove by the clearing operation when the crane swung around.
Welch's truck was smashed by the upper boom of the crane, damaging the cab roof. The crane was broken at the joint of the upper and lower boom causing $125 damage. No one was injured in the incident.
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