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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 18, 1968
PHF-F-F-F-F-F
Barbara Freeman, Fratt sophomore,
stops between classes to blow some grass ...
er, dandelions. She's doing her part to add
a few more yellow flowers to the campus already blooming in red and violet.
Flower's power covers Hill
By Joanna Wiebe Kansan Staff Reporter
The brilliant redbuds and the hundreds of other blooms which color the Hill each spring dispel the grey-day malaise created by a long Kansas winter.
Students walk a little slower now to delight in the masses of golden-green forsythia blooming on the hillside south of Carruth-O'Leary Hall. Some stealthily pluck a twig of flowering crab apple and wear its delicate white or pink flowers in their button-holes.
Visitors from areas around Lawrence also enjoy the blooms as they drive through the campus.
"There has been a surprising influx of traffic over the past two or three weeks," said Harold E. Blitch, grounds supervisor. "I've been working on the Hill these past few weekends, and I've seen many people from different parts of the state driving slowly around the campus, looking at all the flowers," he said.
As for those students who are so overcome by the beauty of the redbuds or the flowering apple, peach or plum trees, that they break off branches to carry home, "I usually say nothing about it," Blitch said.
"However, if each of KU's 15-000 students broke off a couple of
branches, we'd soon be left with nothing but a lot of stumps," he said.
The bright crimson of the flowering peach, and the flaming redbuds, are now being joined by the violet and lavender blooms of the many varieties of lilac bushes.
There are the common iliac, the Chinese iliac, and about eight varieties of French hybrid iliacs on the Hill. Blitch said.
The redbud trees will be in bloom for at least a week, when the blossoms will fall off, and "they'll look just like any other tree." Blitch said.
"I wouldn't even guess how many redbuds we have on the Hill. The redbud is native to this particular area, and it grows well here. The redbud trees hold their bloom for about three weeks," he said. Because the redbuds thrive on the hillsides of Kansas, there is little need to buy new trees. When there is a need for more redbuds on some area of the campus, there is a vast bed of naturally-planted seedlings west of Green Hall which only need to be transplanted.
Other blossoms on the Hill include the magnolia trees with their tulip-like blooms, and the perennials—the crocus, the red or yellow tulips, the grape hyacinth, and the yellow daffodil.
And there's a lowlier flower— the humble dandelion — whose yellow blooms will dot the campus even when all the spring flowers are dead.
"We're fighting a losing battle in trying to control those dandelions," said Blitch. "The gusty winds carry the spray to some of the trees and bushes, and the spray has the same effect on lilacs, for example, as it does on dandelions."
The lovely appearance of the KU campus each spring is due to the hard work and financial contributions of KU faculty and the Lawrence community over the past years.
ularly the newspaper administration classes covering circulation management. He has spoken at many of the association's meetings through the years.
Beth was chairman of the department of journalism at KU for seven years before it became a school. He was secretary-treasurer of the Association for Education in Journalism for 20 years, retiring last summer, and is in his 21st year as secretary-treasurer of the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism and director of its placement bureau.
Alton C. Thomas, associate professor of architecture, has been University landscape architect for almost 20 years.
J-School prof gets circulation honors
Elmer F. Beth, professor in the William Allen White School of Journalism, has received honorary life membership in the Midwest Circulation Managers' Association (MCMA).
Francis H. Mahoney of the Kansas City Star and Times and board chairman of the association, said, "It is quite fitting that MCMA voted to award this honorary life membership to you in view of all the things you have done for us in the past."
Beth, a member of the Kansas faculty since 1941, has taught reg-
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