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Nelson wins Fink prize
By LARK UNDERWOOD
This year the H. Bernerd Fink award went to an assistant professor of history.
The annual $1,000 award for outstanding classroom teaching at KU was presented to Lynn H. Nelson during graduation ceremonies by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
Nelson was chosen by a secret committee of the University staff. Nominations had been solicited from faculty, students and recent
KU graduates. The Fink award was made solely on the basis of his dedicated and effective service to his students.
THE AWARD is made possible by Fink, a KU alumnus and president of the C-G-F Grain Company in Topeka.
What does it take to be a Fink winner? Looking at past winners, it takes a relatively young man—Nelson becomes 36 this year.
But more important, the professor must make his classes interesting and his subject exciting,
one KU senior, who is in one of
Nelson's classes this summer says
that it is impossible to go to sleep
in one of his classes.
NELSON'S TESTS, however,
have been known to be hard. His
only question on a recent hour
exam in medieval history was
write on the Roman Empire.
"He takes some of the duller times in history (medieval) and makes them come to life."
Fund drive goes over third mark
By LARRY KNECHT
One year ago during the KU centennial celebration, plans were unveiled to raise $18.6 million in three years—after one year over 37 percent of that goal has been raised.
"Much of what we can expect in the next decade alone will depend on the generosity of our friends during the coming two years." These are the words of Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe in stressing the importance of KU's Program for Progress.
The Program for Progress currently is the most active section of the Endowment Association, KU's money soliciting organization. It helps relieve a most pressing problem, private support of the University.
AS KU ENTERS its second century, the Program for Progress attempts to build an even greater university on the foundation of past achievements and standards. The Program hopes to help KU realize its destiny as one of the nation's great universities by raising $18.6 million in three years.
BV IVAN GOLDMAN
The first selection of the SUA Summer Film Series, "The Red Desert," directed by Michaclangelo Antionii, played before a sell-out crowd in Dyche Auditorium.
Gary Norton, chairman of the series, was somewhat surprised but quite pleased by the turn-out. He indicated that only a minimum of publicity was sufficient to draw a capacity crowd to the film.
Films are playing to capacity
The Wednesday night classical films will be shown each week through July 26, when the "Blue Angel," directed by Joseph von Sternberg, will close the series. Tomorrow evening features Vittorio D. Sica's "Umberto D."
For the Humphry Bogart and Bette Davis fans, SUA is also presenting a Bogart and Davis festival on Friday evenings. The series opened with "The Maltese Falcon." This Friday, Bogart's "Casablanca" will be presented at 7 and 9 p.m. The Friday night series will conclude July 28 with Bette Davis in "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex."
Admission is 60 cents for the classical series and 40 cents for the Bogart-Davis series. Tickets may be purchased in the Student Union, where a complete schedule of both series is available.
After concluding the first year, the Endowment Association can boast $7 million raised as a start on the final goal.
RECENT developments include:
RECENT developments include:
The L. E. and Lenora Carr Phillips Professorship in Medicine has been endowed by Philip R. Phillips of Bartlesville, Okla., a graduate of the University in 1926, in memory of his parents.
Under the leadership of Dolph Simons Jr., advance gifts in the Lawrence community have reached nearly $400,000, as gifts and pledges by persons and business firms other than faculty and staff of the University.
Nelson was born in 1931 in Harvey, Ill. He attended Sterling High School, and went on to the University of Chicago.
As in the past, the Endowment Association can vouch for the fact that KU is rich in friends and loyal in alumni.
A member of the University faculty, who prefers to remain anonymous, has pledged $20,000.
He became a member of KU's faculty in the fall of '63 but because he went abroad for two years, Nelson has only taught on Mount Oread for three years.
Nelson holds bachelor's degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Texas and a doctor's from the University of Texas. He also studied at the University of London and the Instituto de Estudios Medievales of the Concejo Superior de Investigaciones in Científicas, Barcelona.
WHEN ASKED about his philosophy of life Nelson replied that although he had one, it would not make much sense to the reading audience. Nelson's philosophy of teaching is: "I'm not convinced that I can teach anyone, but I feel I can provide an environment that they (students) can learn in."
One student summed up the general feeling about Nelson by saying, "He is thoroughly imaginative about everything and he cares."
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Surface to depart in August for year
By BARBARA TALMADGE
KU will be without James Surface, provost and dean of faculties, during the approaching school year.
Surface will depart with his family, from Lawrence, sometime in late August for an auto trip to Boston, Mass., where he will spend his leave of absence. During the year, he will spend much of his time teaching a course called business policy at the Harvard school of business.
Surface received his A.B. and M.A. at KU in 1942 and 1948, respectively. He proceeded to Harvard where he received his master's and doctor's degrees and taught until 1957. He then returned to this campus in 1957, to the post of dean of the school of business. Surface became a vice chancellor in 1962.
Surface's replacement for the year will be Francis Heller, who is now the assistant dean of faculties. He is to receive the post of dean of faculties early in July and will assume the title of acting provost as soon as Surface leaves in August.
Surface will return to this campus sometime early in June next year.
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