Page 4 Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 26, 1962
Dr. Downs Contributes To 'Anti-Heart' Serum
The uses to which the results of basic research are put are less predictable than the weather.
Dr. Cora Downs, University of Kansas bacteriologist recently appointed to a Summerfield distinguished professorship, led a KU research group that developed the fluorescent antibody method for rapid identification of infectious bacteria.
A SAFE ASSUMPTION was that the technic would be adapted
for use in human epidemics. And it is being so used.
Dr. Eric R. Brown, immunologist at the Hektoen Institute of Cook County Hospital in Chicago, earned his Ph.D. in bacteriology at KU in 1957 and was acquainted with progress made by the Kansas research team.
NOW DR. BROWN is one of a Northwestern University research team who have found a substance that causes development of deformed hearts in baby chicks. They produced an "anti-heart serum," injected it into eggs containing chick embryos, and many kinds of heart abnormalities, similar to those found in human babies, resulted.
They used the fluorescent antibody method developed at KU by Dr. Downs to determine that the muscle wall of the chick heart was probably the primary target of the "anti-heart serum."
KU Extension Adds Schools
District schools for water and sewage works operators will be offered in six Kansas communities during the summer, under the direction of University of Kansas Extension.
The schools will be in Chanute (June 25-28), Hutchinson (July 9-12), Cimarron (July 16-19), Colby (July 23-26), Beloit (July 30-Aug. 2), and Lawrence (Aug. 28-31).
The four-day schools are comprised of eight two-hours sessions involving basic fundamentals, water sources and quality, water chemistry and bacteriology, water purification, sewage fundamentals, primary treatment of sewage, sludge treatment and disposal, and a course critique.
The schools will be taught by Dr. Raymond C. Loehr, associate professor of civil engineering at KU. Classes will be held from 4-9 p.m. each day. Examinations for certification of operators will be offered at 1 p.m. the last day of each school.
The district school scheduled for Lawrence will be given in conjunction with the annual Water and Sewage Works School and the Management School.
The schools are sponsored by the Kansas Water Pollution Control Association, the Kansas Section of the American Water Works Association, the Kansas State Board of Health, and University Extension.
Langford Studies Lake Superior
Dr. F. F. Langford, assistant professor of geology at KU, attended a summer conference on the geology of Lake Superior which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation at Michigan College of Mining and Technology, Houghton, Michigan.
The conference was made possible by a $16,900 NSF grant, with each participant receiving living and travel allowances.
Conference enrollees studied in a "rolling classroom" as they toured the perimeter of the lake by chartered bus on a 12-day, 1300-mile trip. En route they got a first-hand look at the geology of the area and also received an extensive field study in the mining areas of Michigan, Ontario, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The conference, which started June 11, ended yesterday.
KU Graduate Finishes Duty
A 1962 KU graduate has completed a short tour of sea duty aboard the oceanographic survey ship Explorer, and reports this week to Washington, D.C., for additional training in the commissioned service of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. U.S. Department of Commerce.
He is Ensign Donald G. Popejoy, 23, of Ulysses, who graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. He was president of the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, president of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity and secretary of the Sigma Tau fraternity.
While aboard the Explorer, Ensign Popejoy participated in oceanographic investigations east of the Bahamas and hydrographic surveys in the vicinity of Puerto Rico. He will remain in Washington for two weeks pending the reassignment of his training class to Norfolk, Va.
Ensign Popejoy graduated from Grant County Rural High School and attended Washburn University from 1957-59 before coming to KU. He was commissioned an Ensign in the Coast and Geodetic Survey in March, 1962.
Young Lawyers Here for Study
A Law Practice Seminar aimed at clarifying the basic problems that face the young lawyer starting practice will be held at KU tomorrow and Thursday.
Sponsorship of this program designed to bridge the gap between law school and practice is by the Schools of Law at KU and Washburn University and KU Extension. The instructors are practicing lawyers.
The seminar topics and faculty are:
Negligence Actions — Donald Patterson, Topeka; Workmen's Compensation — Richard F. Waters, Junction City; Mechanics of the Courts — Jerry W. Hannah, Topeka; Criminal Law — F. Russell Shultz, Wichita.
Decedents' Estates — Winton A. Winter, Ottawa; Divorce and Adoption — Frank Hylton, Wichita; Real Estate Transactions — J. Edward Taylor, Jr., Wichita; Collections — H. W. Fannings, Wichita
Med Center Gets Grant
The University of Kansas Medical Center has been awarded a grant of $35,000 to provide scholarships to graduate students studying to become teachers of the deaf.
Thursday Special June 28
Announcement of the award was made in Washington by the United States Office of Education. On September 1, the Medical Center will receive funds to provide 10 scholarships at $2,000 a year, plus tuition and fees for eligible graduate students. Scholarships will go to three Kansas students and to seven out-of-state students.
Congress last September appropriated funds to the Health, Education and Welfare Department to increase the nation's output of teachers of the deaf. The current output is less than 200 a year, and the department has said it hopes to see an additional 500 trained in the next three years.
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There are now over 35,000 deaf school-age children in the country. Trained teachers for such students number fewer than 2,700.
Social Work Award
30c apiece
4 for $1.00
A 12-member committee appointed by the President advised the Health, Education, and Welfare Department in the formulation of the plan to provide more teachers for the deaf. Dr. June Miller, professor of hearing and speech, served on the committee. All members of the group represented institutions with hearing and speech departments.
Applications for the scholarships may be sent to the Medical Center. Applicants must hold a bachelor degree and be interested in studying for a master's degree in hearing and speech.
The Margaret Johnson Kemp scholarship has been established in the University of Kansas department of social work, memorializing the efforts in that field of the late wife of William E. Kemp, former mayor of Kansas City, Mo.
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Mrs. Kemp served on the advisory committee of the KU social work department from 1947 until her death four years later.
The scholarship for graduate students is the residue of a fund raised several years ago by the advisory committee. Carl V. Riee of Kansas City, Kansas, former committee chairman, was instrumental in creating with the KU Endowment Association the scholarship honoring Mrs. Kemp.
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Chairman Approved
Three departmental chairmen appointments at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan., have been approved by the Board of Regents. All are effective July 1.
They are Charles E. Lewis, M.D., who will head a new department—preventive medicine and community health; Santiago Grisolia, M.D., department of biochemistry, and Howard A. Matzke, Ph.D., department of anatomy.
Cow Reads, But Doesn't See
LONDON — (UPI) — A cow that escaped from a pasture recently was found wandering near a pub named The Bull.
Zebus are seldom used as polo ponies.
Portraits of
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Poetry Hour
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Browsing Room of the Kansas Union
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