Campus Briefs
Lecturer appointed
Stanley J. Sterling, an assistant professor in the Columbia University School of Social Work the past five years, has been appointed lecturer in the new School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas.
Sterling earned the B.A. degree in 1950 from the University of Miami and the M.S. in 1953 from Columbia's School of Social Work. After professional work and the directorship of group work for the Institute for Crippled and Disabled in New York City, he became senior field instructor in social work at Columbia in 1961.
He has served as consultant to the Veterans Administration in New York, the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital there and the public schools of Montelair, N.J.
Prof from England
Dr. Keith Percival, native of Leeds, England, has been appointed associate professor of linguistics at the University of Kansas.
For the past five years he has been chairman of the linguistics department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and was a staff member of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960-64.
Dr. Percival received the Ph.D. degree from Yale University in 1964 and the M.A. from Yale in 1959. He earned the B.A. degree from Leeds University in 1951.
Eisenhower professor
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1969 KANSAN 3
Dr. Herbert C. Miller, Jr., chairman of the pediatrics department of the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, has been renamed the Dwight D Eisenhower-United Cerebral Palsy Professor in Pediatrics.
In accordance with the wishes of the late President Eisenhower, the KU Medical Center in 1966 became the first medical school in the midwest and third in the nation designated for this professorship.
In that appointment Dr. Miller directs programs supported by an annual research and training grant of $25,000 by the United Cerebral Palsy Research and Education Foundation.
One of the principal sculptors of the Philippines is at the University of Kansas this summer.
Philippine sculptor
Jose Malat Mendoza, of the National Park Development Committee, of the Philippines is studying the techniques of bronze casting during a two-month visit to KU.
As the chief sculptor of the National Park Development Committee, Mendoza has been traveling around the world, primarily visiting parks. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in commercial art from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, in 1963. He was a commercial artist until 1965 when he became interested in sculpturing.
KU is picked for third
By MIKE BRAHAM Summer Kansan Reports
Sunny, Kansas Reporter
A record of 202 Mid-America sportswriters and sportscasters picked Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas to finish first, second and third respectively—in the 1969 Big Eight football season.
The survey, conducted by KU sports information director Jay Simon, projected Oklahoma to finish on top with 135 votes. Missouri was picked to place second with 99 votes while the Jayhawks were predicted to pull a third place finish, with 78 votes. Colorado was picked to finish fourth, followed by Nebraska, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Iowa State.
The closest balloting this year came between Oklahoma State
and Iowa State for last place as Oklahoma State beat out Iowa State for seventh by 19 votes.
In last year's poll, Oklahoma was picked to finish first and KU third. The '68 season instead saw a tie between KU and Oklahoma for the championship. The '68 poll drew a record 157 votes, falling 45 below this year's record 202.
43 sportswriters picked Missouri to finish first while 11 tabbed a first place finish for the Jayhawks. Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri played in bowl games last season. The Sooners lost to Southern Methodist University in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Missouri overcame Alabama in the Gator Bowl and KU was edged by Penn State in the Orange Bowl.
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