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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, February 20, 1968
KU chapel built by war prisoners
By Jill Brackbill Kansan Staff Reporter
In 1946, a chapel was built on the KU campus with the help of German prisoners of war and stone from a fence outside Lawrence.
Danforth Chapel, which was dedicated in the spring of that year, is constructed of stone from a fence that Leonard Axe, then dean of the Business School and assistant to Chancellor Deane W. Malott, found outside Lawrence. The stone was bought from a farmer and the German prisoners of war, who were working on the campus, were employed to bring it into town.
The Danforth Chapels found on several campuses, were initiated
by William H. Danforth, founder of the Ralston Purina Co. of St. Louis, Mo. He established the Danforth Foundation in 1927, and it provides scholarships and fellowships to help with teaching careers.
Several years ago the organization offered building funds for chapels on several campuses. However, Danforth did not give the full sum, believing university people should help also. The Foundation contributed $5,000 to the chapel building fund here. The remaining $40,000 came from the faculty, students and friends of the University.
Edward W. Tanner, a Kansas City architect, designed KU's chapel in memory of his mother,
Harriet E. Tanner, After talking with Catholic, Jewish and Protestant clergymen, Tanner planned the building so all faiths could use it.
Many of the furnishings, including the stained glass windows, carpet, song books, organ and alter set, are memorial gifts.
The non-sectarian chapel, which Danforth insisted be small and intimate, seats about 90 and is never closed. It is used for a variety of religious functions including weddings, baptisms, christenings, memorial services and funerals.
It is most commonly used for weddings, however. Mrs. Sandra Traversa, who handles reservations, said there may be as many as four or five weddings in one day there, especially in June.
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Alpha Epsilon Rho accepts seventeen new members
Membership in Alpha Epsilon Rho, honorary radio and television fraternity, has been given to 17 outstanding radio-television-film majors.
New members are: Mal Anderson, Leaword senior; Gomuh Akuchu, Bamenda, West Cameroon senior; Nick Eliopoulos, Prairie Village junior; Beverly Gibbs, Kansas City junior; Larry Massey, Salina junior; Donn Pearlman, Chicago junior; Linda Pedlar, Parsons senior; Roger
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Awards offered to study India
Fifteen Fulbright-Hays awards are being offered to American college history and political science faculty members for participation in a seminar about India.
The seminar will be a series of lectures and interviews interpreting historical India and the current social, economic and political problems.
The group will travel to several Indian universities and cultural centers July 1 to Aug. 15.
Psychology talks to be Feb. 28
"Developmental Changes in Pattern Recognition" will be the topic of a speech given at a colloquium at 4 p.m. Feb. 28 in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Eugene S. Gollin, of the department of psychology, Fels Research Institute in Yellow Springs, Ohio, is the speaker. The colloquium is sponsored by the department of psychology, and human development and family life.
Pieratt, Shawnee junior; Don Reynolds, Shawnee Mission senior; Gary Trout, Kansas City senior; Fran Weidner, New York special student; and graduate students Cliff Brisbois, Kansas City; Elliot Gage, Chicago; John Hicks, St. Louis, Mo.; Dennis McClatchey, Des Moines, Iowa; Don McClow, Hudsonville, Mich.; and Gary Shivers, Kansas City.
Psychologist to give mental health lecture
The KU chapter is one of 35 in the United States which honors broadcast students.
An associate director of the International Research Institute of the American Institute for Research will lecture on "Mental Health in Eastern Europe," at 4 p.m. Wednesday, in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
The speaker, Henry P. David, is a former senior clinical psychologist at Topeka State Hospital. During his tenure at the State Hospital, David participated in service, training and research programs affiliated with the Menninger Foundation.
The KU chapter will sponsor the March 12 showing of the 1967 National Student Film Festival, with student entries from throughout the country.
A half - hour production of "The Homecoming," directed by Elliot Cage, Chicago graduate student, will be presented at the fraternity regional convention and may be entered in the national competition in Tulsa.
The play was filmed by a student crew and most of the actors are from the University Theatre.
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