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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Friday, June 21, 1968
ELAINE TAYLOR and LYNN COUCH
Architect seniors win $1,100 prize
Two KU seniors put together cooperation, ideas and initiative and are $1,100 richer.
Lynn E. Couch, Syracuse, who received the B.S. degree earlier this month, and Elaine C. Taylor of Kansas City, who will graduate in January, share the $1,000 first prize in a national design
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Baskett honored by design school
The 1968 recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi Medal from the National Professional Fraternity of Architecture is Charles E. Baskett.
Baskett was selected by the faculty of the architectural department.
The medal is presented to a graduating senior of each school of architecture who has demonstrated high quality in leadership, has willingly performed service for his school and department and shows promise of genuine professional excellence through his attitude and personality.
Baskett has been quite energetic in school affairs, serving as treasurer and then vice-president of the Scarab Professional Architectural Fraternity, he was the 1966 delegate to the national Scarab Fraternity Convention held at Penn. State University.
Baskett served as program chairman for the Student Chapter of the American Institute of Architects; served as publicity chairman for the 1966 annual Engineering Exposition; he was selected to be included in photographs in the School of Engineering and Architecture catalogue.
He was also chosen to participate in a KU research program covering Lawrence historical homes during the past two years. During the past school year, he was one of two architectural students chosen to visit high schools in Kansas on Career Days to talk to prospective student in architecture.
competition sponsored by the Southern Pressure Treaters Association. A grant from the United States Steel Corporation financed the contest.
Last month they won the $100 first prize in the state competition for designs utilizing modern engineered wood construction.
THEIR DESIGN features three laminated wood arches as supporting roof structure for an 80 by 100 foot exhibition hall.
M. H. Grawe of Kansas City, Mo., making the presentation for the sponsors, said the decision of the judges in favor of the entry by Couch and Miss Taylor was unanimous.
Dr. B. O. Kuzmanovic, professor of civil engineering, had members of his structural design class enter the competition.
Miss Taylor said she and Couch decided to join their efforts last fall rather than submit individual entries.
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New school faculty goes to institute
They are Dean Charles H. Kahn, a new member of the KU faculty and now residing in Lawrence, Robert E. McConnell, professor of architecture, Curtis W. Besinger, professor of architecture, and Thomas J. Geraughty, associate professor of architecture. The conventions are being held in Portland, Ore., June 20-27.
Four KU architect faculty are representing KU at the national convention of the Association of Collegiate Schools in Architecture and the American Institute of Architects.
Dean Kahn will also attend a second segment of the AIA convention, to be held in Honolulu, and participate in the annual meeting of the National Council of Architecture Registration Board.
Extension director is Southern dad
Bob Nelson of KU Extension was "dad" to 40 high school students from the South Monday. "Home" for the night was Templin Hall.
The boys and girls are touring 31 states and a bit of Canada and Mexico for six weeks by chartered bus, accompanied by four teacher-chaperones. They carry sleeping bags, air mattresses, drip-dry clothes, ukeleles, transistor radios and at least 500 hair rollers for the girls.
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"It's a bunch of malarkey that you have to be musical to benefit," Gaston stressed, noting that mothers invariably pat babies rhythmically.
To understand music, first throw out all the mysticism surrounding it, he advises. The best way to think about music, he feels, is in terms of human behavior. "It's blood, guts and bones," he said.
"IT'S NONVERBAL communication, and if it's communication, the person getting it must understand it.
"None of us would be here without nonverbal communication because a woman cannot be impregnated with words," he said.
"In fact, you can't verbalize the effects of music. Whenever anyone starts to tell you how a piece of music affects him—run!" Gaston admonished.
Secondly, to understand music, consider it in its cultural context. For example, an anthropologist, Von Hagen reports that ancient Axtec Indians customarily beat any adult who broke rhythm in their society's mass music rituals.
THIS SPECIALIST believes that skillfully administered music, plus the therapist's persuasion, can elicit positive therapeutic results. Nevertheless, he quickly admits that not all music gets desirable results.
He believes piped music, or background music, promotes better office efficiency only when each individual can control the volume and select his own music. Properly controlled, music can form a curtain against distractions, he said, which is precisely the reason many people leave radio or television on around the house.
On the other hand, noise—even musical noise—can present quite a problem. Gaston wore a concerned expression when he said,
"Noise pollution makes people horribly nervous."
AS ANOTHER misuse of music, he cited nonmusical parents who force music training upon their children. Can that child correctly be expected to flourish musically?
In such a case, the situation can even backfire on the parents, he said, and become a medium through which the child expresses hostility toward his parents.
Gaston's concise reply is: "If the mother and father are mute, will the child talk?"
"We always look forward to Lawrence," Ken Hayes, tour director, said. "Lawrence is the first stop providing free time and the girls are always eager to wash their hair."
Extension adds man in Wichita
Meyer, a graduate of Hutchinson Community College and of Kansas State University with a B.S. in business in 1965, served two years in the Naval Air Service. For the half year he has been with the Prudential Insurance Company.
THIS IS the fifth summer tour Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have directed. He coaches high school athletics; she teaches in the primary grades.
Richard A. Meyer has joined KU extension staff as extension coordinator at KU's Wichita Center.
Hayes said the group stops at ten university campuses."But we receive better hospitality here than anywhere else, and I'm not just saying that. Bob Nelson really takes good care of us."
Besides college dormitories, the teenagers stay in national park cabins, school gymnasiums and in a few motels along the way. Before they return to North Carolina, July 21, they will have ridden buses, mules, iceboats, rafts, horses, paddle boats, river boats, cable cars and cog railway trains.
Tuesday morning's regimen at KU was breakfast at the Kansas Union at 6:30 and departure at 7:30 for Old Abilene Town and the Eisenhower Center.
The North Carolinians are from High Point, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Wilmington. Also represented were Wilmington, Del.; Greenwood, Miss.; St. Louis, Mo.; and St. Petersburg, Fla.
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