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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 26. 1962
George to Head Architecture Dept.
Walter Eugene George, Jr., will become professor of architecture and chairman of that department at the University of Kansas effective Sept. 1, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced yesterday. He will administer the programs in architecture and architectural engineering.
The 39-year-old George is associate professor of architecture and planning at the University of Texas, where he has taught since 1956. He earned the bachelor of architecture degree from Texas in 1949 and the master of architecture from Harvard in 1950.
PROF. GEORGE M. BEAL, who has held double administrative duties as chairman of the teaching department and director of architectural services for the University, will devote full-time to the latter role and to teaching. He had been chairman since 1946 and head of the building design service even longer.
A native of Wichita Falls, Tex.. Professor George was an eight Air Force pilot in the European Theater during World War II. He worked
for architecture firms in Dallas and Corpus Christi, Tex., and in 1952 established his own firm for the design of residential, church, commercial and medical buildings.
The University of Texas Students Association gave Professor George its Teaching Excellence Award in 1960. He was editor of The Texas Architect the same year.
A YEAR AGO the National Park Service made a $5,100 grant to Professor George for studies on historical architecture of the Southwest. Another research interest has been design of nuclear fallout shielding for buildings.
In the first Southwestern furniture design competition sponsored by the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts he won the second award. He has made studies of frontier technology of the 19th century, the Carolingian period of Northern Europe, and in landscape architecture.
Professor George is a member of Tau Sigma Delta, honorary society in architecture and allied arts; the American Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Archaeology.
Liberty Bell Reinforced
America's Liberty Bell has been reinforced to withstand the erosion of time and the reverent pats of patriotic visitors.
The supporting framework for the great cracked bell in Philadelphia's Independence Hall had long shown evidence of weakening. Earlier this year the National Park Service—which administers the Hall as part of Independence National Historical Park—made arrangements for a delicate engineering operation.
THE BELL ITSELF was lowered into a temporary mold, where it remained on exhibit while the repairs on its supports were made elsewhere. Sturdier side frames were attached to a new steel platform. A stronger steel beam, able to bear twice the weight of the 2,080-pound relic, was inserted into the worn wooden yoke.
Trouble marked the story of the Liberty Bell from the beginning, reports the National Geographic Society.
The original bell was ordered from England in 1751 to hang in the Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall. Cast by Thomas Lester's foundry at Whitechapel, London, it arrived safely—but promptly cracked when it was tried out for sound.
TWO PHILADELPHIA workmen named Pass and Stow won a place in history by recasting the bell. However, they added so much copper to compensate for the original brittleness that the bell's tone proved too brassy.
So still another bell had to be cast. In 1753 it was raised into the Assembly House steeple, where it signaled the colony's legislative and court sessions, and announced town meetings and events.
Around the bell's crown was inscribed the Biblical injunction, "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof." Historians say the quotation was probably chosen to recall William Penn's Charter of Privileges. But the sentiment fitted the American Revolution so well that few people now remember the earlier connotation.
LONG BEFORE it was singled out for special honor, the State House bell clanged defiance of British tax and trade restrictions. It proclaimed the Boston Tea Party and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
When the Redcoats advanced on Philadelphia in 1777, the bell was moved to Allentown for safety. Returned to the city the following year, it pealed joyfully for American victories down to the final York-town decision.
Later the bell tolled the deaths of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and other Founding Fathers. Tradition says it cracked in 1835, while the
death knell was sounding for Chief Justice John Marshall.
MUTE AND almost forgotten after an unsuccessful effort at repair, the Liberty Bell gained its name and a new aspect before the Civil War, when its inscription was adopted as a slogan by the anti-slavery Liberty Party.
Gradually the bell became a national symbol. Historians, poets, and orators told its story; posters, stamps, and money bore its picture. Expositions around the country exhibited it.
It has been shown at various places in Independence Hall. For years it hung in a glass case. Since 1917 it has stood uncovered, on the first floor, to permit visitors to touch it.
Defense Dept. OK's Book
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The Defense Department has approved for publication a controversial book titled "Soldiers of the Sea" by Marine Colonel R. D. Heinl.
The bell's pedestal has wheels for emergency removal. The fire-alarm box at Independence Hall rates automatic four-alarm response and is numbered 1776.
The book was rejected last year as an incentive to inter-service rivalry and a reflection on the motives of prominent Americans. But the U.S. Institute of Naval Proceedings said it has now been cleared in its original form.
The Institute, which published a professional journal for naval officers, said the controversial chapter of the book will appear in its September issue. The chapter is titled "The Right to Fight." The book itself is scheduled for publication in November.
Heinl contended that there were constant conspiracies to impugn the motives of the Marines, and to get rid of the Marine Corp. He named Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, as well as Gen. Omar N. Bradley, former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the late Adm. Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, in the course of his criticisms.
KU Students Sing At German Hostel
About 20 KU students sang the "KU Alma Mater" at a German Youth Hostel songfest held at Bonn, Germany, on June 11.
This summer 121 KU students comprise the 350 student ambassadors touring Europe as a part of the People-to-People program. The other students represent 13 other colleges and universities in the Middle West.
The German students at Friedrich-Wilhelm University entertained about 30 of the American ambassadors with a full day and evening of sightseeing and partying. Most of the students were from KU.
The students toured Bonn during the morning and took a trip up the river Rhine to Drachenfels Castle, just outside Königswinter, in the afternoon. After dinner together in a German tavern the youths held their songfest.
LONDON — (UPI) — Passengers at Clapham Junction station are beginning to see the light.
Playing It Safe
Workmen are removing wartime blackout paint from its glass roof.
Swedish Student Wins Award
Inga Maria Safholm of Drottningholm, Sweden, who was a liberal arts student at the University of Kansas, has received the Elsa Larson Memorial Scholarship.
The award, created by Prof. Mary E. Larson and Miss Edith Larson in honor of their mother, is to assist a woman student from Scandinavia. It is $50.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.—George Bernard Shaw
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SUADinner Meeting
Dr. Lewis Wheelock will speak on "Some Dimensions of Right Wing U.S.A.1962"
Wednesday — June 27 6:00 p.m. $1.75 per plate
Sign up at Student Union Information Desk. Dinner will be limited to 15 members.
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