SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
50th Year. No.12
Friday, July 20, 1962
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Clergy Departs After Meeting On Economics
Spokesmen from agriculture, business and labor played devil's advocates before a conference of 33 clergymen of 12 faiths at KU. The conference ended yesterday.
The representatives of the American economy were "reactors" to lectures at the second Kansas Clergy Economic Education Conference. The meeting, part of a national program initiated at Purdue University in 1957, aimed at presenting to the clergymen a comprehensive analysis of the American free enterprise system.
Other speakers were William Hogan, industrial economist at Fordham University, New York; Richard Kohlsh, agriculture economist at Purdue University; Floyd B. Ferrel, vice president of the First National Bank, Topeka; William Kuhl, education director of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Kansas City; Stanley L. Lind, counsel and executive secretary of the Kansas Association of Finance Companies, Kansas City, and James H. Hatch, general manager of Armco Steel Corp., Kansas City, Mo.
William Haber, chairman of the economics department at the University of Michigan, spoke Thursday morning on the philosophy of labor-management relations in the United States.
Olin W. Davis, executive director of the national Clergy Economic Education Foundation, said the program was begun because a "goodly portion of the clergyman's everyday counseling concerns economic problems." The clergymen who participate recognize their lack of economic education, he said.
The Kansas Clergy Economic Foundation selects participants and provides scholarships for room and board. The program receives support from the American Iron and Steel Institute, American Petroleum Institute, Lilly Endowment, National AFL-CIO, National Association of Manufacturers and the National Consumer Finance Association.
It was conducted on the KU campus by the University Extension, J U. Adams, coordinator.
$2 Million Grant To School Study
NEW YORK — (UFI) — The Ford Foundation today announced a grant of $2 million to the American Council on Education to finance half the cost of a major reorganization of the council "to enable it to keep pace with growing demands on the nation's system of higher education."
The announcement said the demands on the council, which has a membership of 1,077 colleges and universities (including KU) and 145 national and regional associations, arose out of enrollment increases, fund-raising and expansion problems, greater involvement of the institutions in international affairs and the need for a stronger liaison between higher education and government.
The announcement also said a grant of $975,000 was awarded to the University of Chicago for a cooperative program with 37 liberal arts colleges in the midwest to recruit and prepare students for college teaching careers.
DRIVER EDUCATION—Joe Smerchek (right), secretary of the Kansas Farm Bureau, Manhattan, presents $1,500 check to Irvin E. Youngberg, executive secretary of the University of Kansas Endowment Association, for a curriculum workshop to update the four-year-old Kansas guide for high school driver education. Twenty outstanding Kansas driver educators
will rewrite the manual in the workshop Aug. 6-17 at KU. Others in the picture are Dr. Cloy S. Hobson (second from left), KU professor of education and director of the workshop, and Jay J. Scott (second from right), driver education consultant, State Department of Public Instruction, Topeka.
KU Workshop in Driver Ed.
Updating of the four-year-old guide for driver education in Kansas secondary schools will begin Aug. 6 by 20 experts in a curriculum workshop at the University of Kansas.
A $1,500 grant from the Kansas Farm Bureau is supporting the two-week program, necessitated by rapid changes in driver education since publication of the 1958 guide currently in use.
Twenty outstanding Kansas high school driver education teachers have been selected through the State Department of Public Instruction to write the new guide. Each will receive $75 scholarships from the Farm Bureau grant, through the KU Endowment Association.
Cloy S. Hobson, professor of education and workshop director, said some data for the new manual already has been gathered from driver education personnel who attended meetings at KU earlier this summer. These were basic and advanced driver education courses and a national American Driver Education Association conference.
Publication of the book is expected within several months, after material written at the workshop has been edited by the State Department of Public Instruction.
Water Specialist Will Become First Parker Fund Professor This Fall
Robert L. Smith, executive secretary and chief engineer for the Kansas Water Resources Board for seven years, will become the first Glenn L. Parker professor of civil engineering at KU in September. His first duties will be development of graduate level instruction programs in water resources engineering and water resources science.
"We are fortunate in obtaining Professor Smith, who has an unusually broad knowledge of the many disciplines involved in water sciences, to head this program." said Dean John S. McNown of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
"Water is Kansas' most valuable resource. The future of Kansas depends directly upon studies of the proper use of this critical resource," he added.
The graduate curriculum will be inter-departmental; a few new courses will be added to existing courses drawn from geology, meteorology, environmental health and hydraulics. The use and re-use of surface and ground water will be studied on the bases of quantity, quality and distribution.
THE PARKER professorship is the first use for the Glenn L. Parker Fund announced recently. According
to the terms of the will of Mrs. Parker, the income from the bequest of more than $125,000 which has come to the KU Endowment Association will be used in the field of hydraulic engineering of the department of civil engineering. Parker, who died in 1946, earned two degrees from KU, in 1906 and 1908, and served most of his professional life with the U.S. Geological Survey, ultimately as chief of the Survey's Water Resources branch.
Smith will be returning to KU where he was an assistant professor of applied mechanics three and a half years, 1948-52. From February, 1952 to November, 1955, he was executive director and chief engineer for the Iowa Natural Resources Council, leaving to head the newly created Kansas Water Resources Board.
A native of Schaller, Ia., the 38-year-old Smith was a 1947 honors graduate of the State University of Iowa for the B.S. degree in civil engineering where Dean McNown was one of his professors. In 1948 he earned the M.S. degree in hydraulics at SUI. His studies were interrupted by three years of Army service in the South Pacific Theater during World War II.
At Iowa he was elected to Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon and Sigma Xi honorary engineering and research societies.
SMITH IS author of many papers on engineering and administrative problems related to water resources development and was staff director for preparation and publication of about 30 reports on water use and management.
He is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a past chairman of its committee on water resources planning. He is a member of the task force on evaporation control of the American Water Works Association, and of the American Society for Engineering Education.
He is a member and past chairman of the executive committee of the Interstate Conference on Water Problems, formerly a consultant to the U.S. Public Health Service, a member of the Missouri River Reservoir Operations Committee, and is chairman of the Kansas delegation to the Kansas-Oklahoma Arkansas River Compact Committee.
Mrs. Smith is the former Luille Johnson of Rochester, N. Y., also an alumna of Iowa. They have two daughters, Barbara, age 12; and Deborah, 8.
Douthart Wins GPA Honors With 2.05 Score
The Douthart Hall women have done it again-they made the highest over-all grade point average among the 56 organized houses at KU for the eighth consecutive year.
In an undergraduate scholarship report released today by James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, the Douthart women, a scholarship hall group, earned a 2.05 grade point average out of a possible 3.00 (A) both semesters.
The only other groups attaining a 2.00 (B) average or better during the spring semester were the women of Watkins Hall with 2.03 and the men of Battenfeld Hall with 2.00. Both are scholarship hall groups.
For the spring semester the women again outranked the men with the all-women average reaching 1.62, while the all-men average was 1.43 and the all-university average was 1.50.
BY DIVISIONS the groups ranked in this order: women's scholarship hall, 1.96; men's scholarship hall, 1.90; social sororites, 1.76; social fraternities, 1.52; women's residence halls, 1.40; and men's residence halls, 1.30. Fraternity and sorority averages include grades of pledges. The figures showed improvement compared with the fall grade averages.
Kappa Alpha Theta took first place among social sororites with a 1.95 average for the spring, and Pi Beta Phi was second with 1.94. Alpha Chi Omega was third with 1.88, while Delta Gamma and Chi Omega earned fourth and fifth places with 1.85 and 1.81 respectively.
Following Douthart and Watkins in the women's scholarship halls were Sellards and Miller Halls with 1.93 and 1.82 averages. Following Battenfeld in the men's scholarship halls were: Stephenson, 1.92; Pearson, 1.91; Jolliffe, 1.86 and Foster, 1.82.
In women's residence halls, Lewis Hall earned a 1.43 average while Corbin and Gertrude Sellards Pearson Halls earned 1.40 and 1.37 respectively. In the men's residence halls, Templin placed first with 1.33 and Joseph R. Pearson was second with 1.30. Grace Pearson and Carruth O'Leary were third and fourth with 1.29 and 1.21.
Awards Given to 2 KU Students
Two KU business students have received the annual Goodyear Foundation scholarships of $500 each. The students are from Kansas City, Mo., and Coffeville.
They are Lawrence A. Sluss, senior, who is receiving the award for the second year, and Ronald Rav Arnold, junior, who will enter KU in the fall.
The Goodyear Foundation, Akron, Ohio, annually awards scholarships to two students enrolled in business administration. Recipients are selected by the Honors and Awards committee of the School of Business, and are approved by the Foundation.
Sluss, an accounting major, is an honor roll student, a member of the Society for Advancement of Management, and other organizations. He will graduate from KU in 1963 and will then do graduate work.
Arnold is a 1962 graduate of Coffeyville Junior College, where he earned almost a straight A average.
He will enter KU in the fall to work toward a degree in business administration.