Sabbaticals granted to 29
Sabbatical leaves for the 1967- 1968 year have been granted to 20 KU faculty members.
Twenty-four professors from the Lawrence campus and five from the KU Medical Center in Kansas City will spend either a full academic year or one semester conducting advanced study, research, or gaining industrial or professional experience.
Study areas for the professors given leaves range from tragedy in the early 19th century English criticism to biochemical genetics. The professors will be traveling to such places as New Zealand, Scotland, England, Switzerland, India, Germany, and the Netherlands in addition to several areas of the United States.
Board of Regents policy allows full-time faculty to apply for sabbatical leave after six or more years of continuous service. Full pay is given for one-se semester leaves and one-half pay is given for full-year leaves.
Full-year sabbatical leaves for faculty of the Lawrence campus are: Richard Angleletti, assistant professor of piano, to work for the Ph.D. degree; Howard Baumgartel, professor of human relations, to study industrial and community change in India.
Mrs. Marguerite Baumgartel, assistant professor of art education, to study Indian sculpture suitable for use in India's public
school instruction; Jed Davis, professor of speech and drama, to study theaters for children in Austria; Henry S. Fitch, professor of zoology, for ecological research in the tropics.
J. Eugene Fox, associate professor of botany, to study new research techniques; Melvin Landsberg, assistant professor of English, to study the life of John Dos Passos and other 20th century literary figures; Harry Shaffer, associate professor of economics, to study economic reform in the Soviet Union and East European communist nations.
Delbert M. Shankel, associate professor of microbiology, to study biochemical genetics in Scotland; Henry P. Smith, professor of education, to study the nature and needs of state-supported colleges and universities in the South.
Sabbatical leaves from the Lawrence campus for the fall semester are: Ralph Adams, professor of chemistry, to study organic electrochemistry in Switzerland; William Albrecht, professor of English and dean of the Graduate School, to study tragedy in early 19th century English criticism.
Alexander Boyle, professor of design, to study silk screen painting and to do creative painting; Darvim Daicoff, associate professor of economics, to study the
property tax; E. Raymond Hall Summerfield professor of zoology, to complete studies on North American mammals.
Clyde Hyder, professor of English, to study the Victorian poets; Charles Oldfather Jr., professor of law, to study the law of standard contract forms; Edward S. Robinson, professor of philosophy, to do reseach in several areas of philosophy.
Charles Sidman, associate professor of history, to study modern German history; John Willingham, professor of English, to complete a biography of the late Waldo Frank.
Sabbatical leaves from the Lawrence campus for the spring semester are: Kenneth Bloomquist, associate professor of music, to study instrumental music in England and the United States; A. Dwight Burnham, associate professor of drawing and painting, to study subjective abstraction in art.
Myra Oldstead, assistant professor of English, for research on the Arthurian romance; John Talleur, associate professor of drawing and painting, to study the plates and prints of Hercules Seghers.
12 Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 22, 1967
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