In Humanities Series
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Daily Kansan Thursday, March 23, 1967
Linguist to give lecture
A feller what's an expert on American dialects is fixin' to give a Humanities Series lecture in these here parts at 8 p.m., Tuesday, in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Raven I. McDavid, scholar in linguistics, anthropology, and English at the University of Chicago, will speak on "Historical, Regional, and Social Variations in Language."
Lecture-goers may meet him at an informal reception by the Faculty Club afterward.
AT 3:30 P.M. that day, McDavid will give an illustrated lecture on "Changing Patterns in Southern Dialects" at a coffeeferon sponsored by Student Union Activities in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
At 7:30 p.m., Monday, he will speak in Room 207 of Blake Hall to an advanced linguistics class on "Current Trends in Dialect Studies."
MIGHTY THROW
Three Kansans are among the five persons appointed to the board of trustees of the William Allen White Foundation at KU.
Kansans named trustees
The three Kansan appointees, who join about 85 leading journalists and outstanding citizens throughout the nation on the board, are Charles G. Barnes, publisher and general manager of the "Pratt Tribune"; Richard A. Farley, director of libraries at Kansas State University; and Ralph C. Hemenway, publisher of the "Minneapolis Messenger."
BILL BURK, public relations director, Santa Fe Railway, Chicago, Ill.; and Paul V. Miner, executive vice president, "The Kansas City Star," Kansas City, Mo., also were appointed to the board of trustees.
The foundation, which sponsors projects designed to advance the profession and KU's William Allen White School of Journalism, is now planning a celebration in 1968 commemorating the 100th anniversary of William Allen White's birth.
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Glen E. Gorbous, a player for Omaha in the American Association once threw a baseball 445 feet, 10 inches during an exhibition.
When You're in Doubt—Try It Out, Kansan Classifieds.
McDavid was born in 1911 in Greenville, S.C., and received the B.A. at Furman University and the M.A. at Duke University. After he received the Ph.D. at Duke, he did post-graduate work at Michigan, North Carolina and Yale. Before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1957, he had taught at The Citadel, Michigan State, S.W. Louisiana Institute and Western Reserve.
On Wednesday, at 9:45 a.m., he will give a convocation lecture in Rice Auditorium at Baker University in Baldwin, Kan., on "H. L. Mencken and the American Language."
awarded six fellowships for teaching and research and is the author or editor of five books.
DURING HIS three-day visit to the KU campus, McDavid will also speak to classes in English, linguistics, Old French and American studies.
He has special interest in English linguistics, lexicography, social dialects and problems of usage of language. He has been
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