Ex-coffee field worker
William Rameriz, once at home in Costa Rica's coffee fields, now enjoys KU's entomology lab.
Dean Kahn finds constant duties as administrator
Since he came to KU in July from North Carolina, Charles H. Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture, has had a full-time job taking care of administrative difficulties in the School.
Kahn has little time for family hobbies and activities. "My time is taken up with administration" he said. "This school and University are presently experiencing growing pains. This alone will keep me busy for the next couple of years."
Kahn does not believe there is a great collegiate difference between North Carolina and Kansas.
"I find Lawrence quite similar to all university towns," he said. "You can find in any university community what you want to find."
Student-faculty administration is a challenge, Kahn said. He has written letters to draft boards maintaining that it does take 11 semesters to get an architectural degree. He said this was done as an affirmation to students in jeopardy from the draft.
Concerning student contact, Kahn said, "It is hard to define administrative contact with students. The student body and the faculty go through a period of getting to know one another. I think it is too early to make a definite statement concerning my contact with students."
Academics and the Kahn family's activities are intermingled. In August Kahn will be in Princeton, N.J. writing architectural exams. His wife
will accompany him and they hope to travel to New York to enjoy the theater and music, two of Kahn's interests.
In 1957 and 1958, Kahn and his wife lived in Rome, where he studied under a Fulbright grant. In the summer of 1961, they lived in France where he studied, under a research grant.
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Kahn came to KU from North Carolina, where he taught at the School of Design at North Carolina State and the University of North Carolina. He has been a practicing architect and engineer for several years and has been teaching since 1958.
Expert on figs,fig wasps began as coffee farmer in Costa Rica
By LINDA BROWNING
Kansan Staff Writer
No one would ever guess that KU's William Rameriz started life as a coffee farmer in Costa Rica—especially when he's seen most often in the entomology lab. Rameriz, who "has been curious about nature all his life," is completing his doctorate at KU.
When the 34-year-old said he was a coffee farmer, he doesn't mean he operated a plantation. His brother, three sisters and he worked after school and during vacations in the coffee fields. He said there is no enormous wealth financing his college education.
The years in the coffee fields helped pay expenses at the University of Costa Rica where in 1963 he received a bachelor's degree in agriculture. His thesis about potato viruses was published in Costa Rica and again in America.
As a student, Rameriz has had an article published in Science Magazine and had received an invitation for membership in the International Botanical Congress.
Works with bees
Besides working as a coffee farmer, Ramirez also became interested in bees when a relative gave him a few hives. Through his work with bees Rameriz came in contact with a Costa Rican entomologist researching stingless bees. Rameriz said the entomologist was influential in his return to the University, and in his new interest—wasps.
Work with the University of Costa Rica and the Ministry of Agriculture on plant viruses eventually brought Rameriz to the attention of KU entomologists. The University has been working in various cooperative programs with Costa Rica for some years.
On a scholarship
On a Costa Rican government scholarship, Rameriz came to KU to work with Charles D. Michener, the Watkins professor of entomology and only Kansas member of the National Academy of Sciences. He pursued his work with wasps and
their pollination of figs. When his scholarship expired, Rameriz said his record qualified him for a KU fellowship.
Rameriz said his studies were interrupted again in 1966 when he participated in the Ford Foundation-sponsored program
to Venezuela to teach biology at the new Oriente University.
Rameriz will receive a master's degree in June. He said he hopes to complete his Ph.D. in 1970. Rameriz is an expert on the fig (ficus) and the fig wasp (Agaonidae).
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