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ONLY LAST January Prof. VanderWerf had received an unsolicited $50,000 grant from the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society in recognition of his outstanding basic research in that field.
His research has been financed for several years by government and other private organizations in the area of petroleum, reaction mechanisms and medicinals in the area of tranquilizers.
In 1954 Prof. VanderWerf was chairman of the division of education of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest professional society, being the youngest man ever to fill that position. Two years ago he was a lecturer on Continental Classroom's national TV network course in chemistry.
For several years Prof. VanderWerf has been a visiting scientist for the National Science Foundation and has lectured at many NSF summer institutes. He also has for several years directed a NSF summer program at KU of research participation for high school and then college teachers of chemistry.
HE IS a member of the Petroleum Research Fund Advisory Board of the American Chemical Society and a consulting editor for the Reinhold Publishing Co.
Prof. VanderWerf is co-author of three texts that have had many adoptions: General Chemistry, College Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Manual, and is editor of a 1962 volume on Selected Topics in Modern Chemistry.
Both Prof. and Mrs. VanderWerf have been active lay workers in Plymouth Congregational Church and in community affairs. They have six children: Gretchen, age 16; Klasina, 15; Julie, 13; Lisa, 8; Pieter, 6; and Marte, 4.
Methodist Take Poll On Liquor And Gambling
By Claire Cox
NEW YORK — (UPI) — A "tremendous difference" has been found between the Methodist Church's historic stand against alcohol and the actual practices and beliefs of many of its members.
"Do we practice what we preach?" asks Lee C. Moorehead, professor of preaching and worship at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Mo.
His answer, when it comes to drinking and gambling. is "No."
Moorehead reported in the Methodist magazine "Together" on a survey made of the Asbury Methodist Church of Prairie Village, a suburb of Kansas City. With a population of 27,000, it is the seventh largest city in Kansas.
THE CHURCH, with 1,700 members, represents in its membership a "cross-section of American Methodism," Moorehead said, and "most probably typifies substantially the situation facing contemporary Methodism."
Members of the church were themselves startled by some of the results of the survey, Moorehead said, particularly on the subject of alcohol. Here are some of the replies:
-85 per cent of the men and 74 per cent of the women said they sometimes drank alcoholic beverages despite the Methodist Church's historic stand favoring total abstinence.
-56 per cent of the men and 46 per cent of the women said they did not believe serving alcoholic beverages in the home had an adverse effect on children.
Despite the Methodist stand again gambling, 86 per cent of the men and 55 per cent of the women said they sometimes made wagers, participated in baseball pools or otherwise gambled. To the question "Do you consider gambling of any type a matter of morality?" the reply gave "no" answers by 58 per cent of the men and 50 per cent of the women.
"THOUGH THE Methodist Church has consistently condemned all forms of gambling, it is plain that the large majority of the members of this church is not in sympathy with such a position." Moorehead said.
On another major question, Moorehead expressed surprise, but approvingly. The congregation responded overwhelming in favor of acceptance of Negro teachers in the public schools and Negro membership in the church.
"Prairie Village is a solid white community," he said. "These replies are surprising in the face of the commonly held assumption that people have fled to the suburbs — in part—to escape racial mixing, and would therefore be deeply opposed to having non-white neighbors. Is this assumption based on fact? Have
church people been more deeply influenced by Christian pronouncements on race than we have given them credit for?
"Possibly there are in these replies hopeful signs of a more Christian response to racial issues than we have dared to anticipate. Granted that these percentages might suffer revision in the face of an actual challenge, do they not also offer real encouragement to those who would plan thoughtfully and carefully for the eventual welcoming of non-white residents into suburban communities?"
JFK And Dillon Look at Tax Cuts
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy met with Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon yesterday in an hour-long discussion of "Economic matters," presumably including demands for an immediate tax cut.
Dillon said after the conference that the talk covered a wide range of economic affairs, but he gave no details. Also sitting in on the session were several members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and Treasury Undersecretary Robert V. Roosa.
The president held the conference after returning from the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., where he spent Independence Day with his family.
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IT'S THAT'AWAY—Here Jane Dobbs, a student employe in the KU Photo and Graphic Arts Bureau, a division of University Extension,
shows a customer one of many signs which will be posted in Watson Library showing the path to the bureau.
Follow the Arrows to the Hidden Photographic Bureau
Bv Steve Clark
The KU Photo and Graphic Arts bureau, a division of University Extension, is involuntarily offering a "Scavenger Hunt" for its patrons while the new addition to Watson Library is being built.
If a student wishing to use the facilities of the bureau follows a series of arrows, "he can't miss it" reports Ed Julian, director of the bureau.
The bureau will be without a front entrance during the construction since the area between Watson and Fraser will be fenced off for working and safety purposes.
TO FIND the bureau one must enter the main entrance of Watson Library, turn left at the first set of stairways and proceed to the level of the undergraduate library.
That's all that can be explained. Once one gets there he starts following the arrows, like Mark Trail blazing through the wilderness. It's important not to get discouraged while tracking down the photo bureau, since it's easy to do, especially when one hits that row of bookshelves through which he has to trek.
But once one arrives he finds himself in one of the most interesting departments at KU.
From their home in the dungeons of Watson Library, "frontentranceless" as they may be, they are responsible for the photography, art work and layout and design of many of the University's publications.
The modernistic design in dark blue on the
University's new catalog is a product of the photo bureau. The smaller booklets on each of the schools were also designed there.
THE BUREAU is constantly taking pictures of the University and its activities. Their services are also offered to outside groups visiting the campus.
A quite comprehensive pictorial was taken of the 1962 Girls State which will go into a yearbook, which has been laid out and designed by the bureau.
A present project is the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. The bureau will lay out and design the booklet with this year's cover featuring all the divisions of the camp.
The bureau is also a valuable aid to students. Many graduate students use the bureau to reduce charts and graphs and to lay out their theses. Art students often have reproductions made of paintings they have done or are studying.
With the stress on visual teaching aids in modern instruction the bureau prepares slides for various faculty members to supplement their lectures.
The bureau last year prepared an exhibit, "Higher Education for a Better Tomorrow," which was displayed at the Hutchinson State Fair first and then at the Kansas Union.
The photo bureau is not in competition with downtown studios; its prime purpose is to serve the university and its students. It's available and willing, if one can find it.
Graduate Student Crochets
By Pat Seidel
Carlon Pryor, Lawrence graduate student in bacteriology, has developed a talent to be envied by all women who like needlework. At the age of 16 polio hit Pryor. It came at a time when physicians did not know as much about polio as they do today. The treatment at that time was complete immobilization.
Lying in bed with nothing to do can be very frustrating, especially with a heavy cast on your body. For nine months Pryor stayed in bed.
Mrs. Pryor, his mother, had a pair of knitting needles and encouraged her son to try knitting. A visit by a neighbor who was crocheting drew his interest, and he urged his parents to buy instruction books, hooks, and thread. In this way he learned the basic stitches.
When it began to become more than just a pastime, Pryor began experimenting with different weights of thread. Now he uses a very fine thread which he gets from France, Germany, or England.
When the cast came off and Pryor could move around, he began to
notice needlework contests. In 1956 he entered a men only contest in New York. He placed 2nd. The next year his exquisite bedspread won him 1st place and a cash prize.
TO DATE, Pryor has 131 blue ribbons gathered from various affairs. He has 3 trophies and 4 national prizes. Five prizes have been awarded him in Canadian contests. He placed first in each of 14 categories at a recent fair. Says Pryor, "This started out as something to do to keep busy, but now has developed into something that I like and will be my life's hobby."
Pryor maintains that the greatest thrill of this unusual hobby is to meet people interested in needlework, and exchange designs with them. He has developed many friendships and feels that this is the most interesting part of his hobby.
IN ADDITION to the beautiful work he does, Pryor has managed to earn his B.S. and M.S. in zoology from K.U. At the present time he is finishing graduate work in bacteriology.
Florida A&M in Tallahassee has
There seems to always be a purpose for things that happen to us even though they seem disastrous at the time. Here a man with as serious a disease as polio has fought his way out of boredom into the national championship of needlework with honors and cash prizes, plus all the personal satisfaction of accomplishment.
made him their biology department head. Next year he will fill this capacity as well as teach subjects in zoology and bacteriology.
Nuts Are Big Biz
10 Prep All-Americans
EAST LANSING, Mich. — (UPI)
Michigan State's 1962 swimming team had 10 former prep All Americans on the roster.
NEW YORK—(UPI) — Nuts are a booming business in the United States. Packers say television is mainly responsible for a big rise in consumption in recent years. Of 140 varieties of edible nuts, six — peanuts, almonds, filiberts, walnuts, brazils and cashews—comprise the bulk of the trade.
Miss Charlotte Lee To Speak Today
Charlotte I. Lee, professor of interpretation and acting chairman of the school of speech at Northwestern University will deliver an interpretation at the University Lecture series at 4 this afternoon.
She is the author of several publications, and has appeared on television's Modern Poetry Series.
Her presentation is entitled "In Other Words; Selected Prose and Poetry from Contemporary Writers."
Register For Exam Next Week
Students wishing to take the Western Civilization examination must register Monday through Friday of this coming week (July 9-13) in Room 130, Strong Hall (Registrar's office).
The exam will be from 8 a.m. through 12, Saturday, July 28.