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Ellsworth's Hunches Right Concerning KU Graduates
Last week American Telephone and Telegraph Co. launched "Telstar," the first communications satellite and the first launched by private industry.
The secretary of the KU Alumni Association, Fred Ellsworth, believes that whenever something of great importance takes place a KU graduate has a part in it.
Arthur J. Wahl, electrical engineering 42, from Saxman, developed all the transistors in the "Telstar." While at KU he was a Summerfield
ELLSWORTH'S BELIEF proved correct as there were two KU graduates who played roles in the launching.
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scholar. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1550 and served in the Army Air Corps before joining Bell Telephone.
The other graduate was Bill Hamilton, electrical engineering '49, from Wellington. While at KU he served as a part-time instructor, leaving here in 1950.
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Ellsworth's belief has led him to very startling bits of information.
HE RECALLS when he first saw the picture of the four Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. He remarked to his wife at the time that he thought the picture would become a classic, just like the one of George Washington crossing the Delaware.
"I bet one of those boys is a KU graduate," Ellsworth told his wife. When the names of the four were published Ellsworth checked the University's records and found that none were KU graduates.
"I bet then that the photographer is a KU graduate," Ellsworth again told his wife.
HE CHECKED and found the photographer's name, consulted the university's records and discovered that the photographer too was not a KU graduate.
Although partially disillusioned he was sure that a KU graduate had something to do with the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima. Months went by before he received a letter from a KU alumnus.
The alumnus wrote concerning his nephew. After graduating from KU the nephew entered the Marine Corps and led a four-man scouting party ahead of the flag bearers at Iwo Jima to see that everything was safe.
ELLSWORTH'S HUNCH was right again.
Ellsworth has served the University as alumni secretary for 38 years and can recall many incidences that involved KU graduates in occurrences of world importance.
But, there's a story in itself in Ellsworth. He was born in a house which used to be a stagecoach hotel
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He attended Pittsburg State Teachers College, then taught two years at a country school before becoming principal of Pleasanton grade school for two years.
DURING HIS childhood his parents moved to a farm between Mound City and Pleasanton, where he attended school, riding a pony $ 4 \frac{1}{2} $ miles every day.
World War I interrupted his first year of school at KU. From 1917-19 he served in the army. During this time he spent one year in France before being honorably discharged as a PFC in 1919.
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IN THE SUMMER of 1920 his father died. Ellsworth took over the farm that summer and when fall came, he and his mother moved to Lawrence so he could finish school.
He graduated in 1922 with an A.B. degree in journalism and went to work as advertising manager on the Pratt Tribune. While there he met and worked with Ben Hibbs, now the editor of the Saturday Evening Post.
After two years he returned to KU as alumni secretary, a position which he has held ever since.
Junior High Camp Ends
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp is minus 230 junior high school music campers who completed their two weeks stay here with a concert Saturday afternoon.
In addition to regular classroom work the campers rehearsed from three to four hours daily and attended sectional practices. They stayed at Lewis and Templin Halls with the senior campers but participated in separate activities.
There was a two-week science and mathematics camp which was held earlier in the summer.
There are now about 700 students attending the Midwestern camp in the six-week divisions of music, ballet, art, speech, theatre and engineering.
Prof. Russell L. Wiley, who organized the camp 25 years ago is camp director, and Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education is associate director.
Most of the students, who represented 10 states were seventh and eighth graders. Their curriculum was kept separate from the senior high group.
THE INSTRUCTION for the campers was provided by Richard Brummett, Winfield, and Elmer Snell, Larned, the band; Loren Crawford, Pasco, Wash., orchestra, and James Hardy, Wichita, the chorus.
115 Attend KU Welfare Meeting
Some 115 county and state welfare officials—a record number—registered for the seventh Social Welfare Workshop held here last week.
Major speakers for the three-day meeting were Thaine D. McCormick, director and executive officer, State Board for Vocational Education, Topeka; James H. Morrison, training program planner, Western Auto, Kansas City, Mo.; Merritt W. Buffon, executive director, employment security division, State Labor dept., Topeka; Marvin Larson, Kansas state director of social welfare, Topeka, and Alfred E. Poe, regional representative, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Kansas City, Mo.
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