French study is ripe opportunity
Between 10 and 20 KU students each summer attend programs in French sponsored by other colleges and universities.
Ronald Tobin, chairman of the KU French department, said he encourages advanced students and those who do not take advantage of KU's Summer Institute in Paris to apply for admission at these schools.
About 40 students, some of whom have won partial fellowships, each summer charter a flight to and from Paris where they spend eight weeks studying the language and culture. This program, Tobin said, is for intermediate French students, those who have not taken more French 3. Participants do not have to be French majors.
FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS, TOBIN recommends summer study at Middlebury College in Vermont. Admission there is selective and hard to get, but Middlebury, with the oldest French summer school in the U.S., sponsors an "extremely good program." French scholars representing many fields are flown over especially for the season.
For those who wish to polish their French in authentic French surroundings—but can't afford transcontinental transportation costs—Tobin suggests Laval University in Quebec or McGill in Montreal.
Both offer the chance to live in a French culture while learning, but Quebec offers the advantage of surroundings most nearly like those of Paris, with its carefully preserved old, walled city and French atmosphere.
And it is possible to go to France with groups from other universities. Central Missouri State College in Warrensburg is offering this year, for the first time, its own summer study program at the University of Dijon in France.
BRYN MAWR, THE FAMOUS Pennsylvania women's college also offers co-educational facilities in its summer program in Avignon. Bryn Mawr's program is for advanced students, Tobin said, and, like Middlebury, is very selective.
KU students who have participated in these programs include Cindy Hardin, Lincoln, Neb., junior, who last summer studied in Avignon with the Bryn Mawr group, and Bonnie Hill, Lawrence senior, who studied at Laval in Quebec last summer under a rarely-awarded full scholarship from Laval.
Credit hours earned at all these schools, Tobin said, can be transferred back to KU. Application blanks can be obtained in Tobin's office, 312 Corruth-O'Leary.
A science advisor to the San Francisco office of the Federal Food and Drug Administration gave the 19th annual Frank Burnett Dains memorial lecture last night in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Science prof gives lecture
Frederick Jensen, professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, spoke on "Conformational Analysis of Dynamic Systems by NMR Spectroscopy."
Alpha Chi Sigma, professional fraternity in chemistry, sponsors the annual lecture in memory of Frank Burnett Dains, professor emeritus, who died in 1948. Dains first taught at KU in 1893 and after several years at Northwestern University he returned to Kansas in 1911. He retired in 1942
Before speaking, Jensen was honored at a dinner in the Kansas Room of the Union.
Jensen is a graduate of Nevada and Purdue universities and joined the California faculty in 1959.
BRITON SET FOR ROLE
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