Anthro prof identifies remains for police
Have you come across a family skeleton you can't quite identify? If so contact William Bass, professor of anthropology, who does extensive research for law enforcement agencies in identifying remains.
Bass, Ellis Kerley, associate professor of anthropology, and Tom McKern, professor of anthropology, all work together to determining identification. Bass said they work together but they also like to look at the skeleton separately and compare their findings.
Help police
"Police want to know who the individual is," said Bass. "We try to determine sex, age, race and stature and then we submit a written summary.
"We recently examined the remains of a 28-year-old white female. We could determine she
was from a lower economic status as she only had two teeth in her upper jaw with no dental apparatus. We turned this information into the police, they traced it and were able to match the information we had with a name and fingerprints. Therefore they identified the woman."
Usually Bass handles two cases a month. "I'm the last man in the chain of identification authorities," he said. "We receive the remains when they are decayed to a state where there are no external features left."
Only authorities in area
Bass explained the only facilities for human identification and the only authorities in this area are at KU. He said the two closest
people to this area would be a man in Boulder and a man in Arizona.
Good literature, measuring equipment, an X-Ray machine, a thin sectioning machine and microscopes are all necessary for identification. "We have the best equipped physical anthropology lab of any school in the U.S." Bass stated.
He went on to say that himself, Kerley and McKern have talked about the possibility of a human identification center for KU. They would like to bring graduate students here for research and help undergraduates by giving them the academic background they need.
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By Mike Shurtz
Bass explains identification of two skulls.
national conventions or to buy equipment.
Channel 27, Topeka, will present a news feature Sunday
night at 10 p.m. showing Bass give a demonstration to determine race, sex, etc. on skeletal remains.
Brides urged to pick new wedding march
ST. LOUIS (UPI) — Paul Friess, a church organist in St. Louis for 46 years, wishes he could persuade brides to choose something other than "Here Comes the Bride" for a wedding march.
Friess, 73, has been the organist at five Protestant churches and one Jewish synagogue in his career and wishes that he had been keeping a tally at the weddings for which he has played. At one church, which keeps its own records, he has played for about 2,000 weddings. His record for one day
Students, professors gain experience with movie-makers
The visual aid of films has changed classroom technique and increased course effectiveness, said James Pearce, director of movie production. "Educational films are not brand new, but they are now definitely more effective." Pearce said.
Centron's educational films are distributed to universities throughout the United States and viewed in speech, communication, psychology, sociology, and anthropology classes. Their work has also been in the fields of human interest, travel and entertainment.
It is significant that the first Centron productions of industry, public relations, and education made almost twenty years ago are still being marketed.
Drama students and professors at KU are acquiring valuable dramatic experience while assisting in the production of educational films for Centron, the movie-making people of Lawrence.
"The students working for us now are doing a fine job," said Pearce. "They are working more for the experience, but the pay is certainly no deterrent."
Pearce said the making of the films is an education in itself. He noted that Centron is now working on a communications film which is displaying different techniques of speech. Communicating through voice and actions is the specific educational goal of the film.
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"The value of films to education is very difficult to judge," said Pearce, "the educational movie, when it is properly produced, can enable professors to devote more time to research."
"Now and then I can get a bride to switch the wedding march," he said. "But by and large they still want 'Here Comes the Bride.'"
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Friess claims there are other beautiful wedding marches, and one of his favorites is "Trumpet Voluntary" by the English composer, Henry Purcell.
Man shortage result of baby-boom
As a result of the war-baby boom there's a severe shortage of eligible men for today's marriageable girls.
Girls who would normally have married for the first time in 1967, 1968, or 1969 are the victims of what Dr. Paul C. Glick, assistant chief, Population Division, U.S. Bureau of Census, calls the "marriage squeeze."
In 1947, 'everybody'—the reunited couples as well as the newlyweds—seemed to be having a baby. The birthrate jumped nearly a third above the rates prevailing in the war years, when
be felt in the late 1950's when social critics had a lot to say about the bold, unlovely social precocity of high school girls, desperate about the shortage of eligible male escorts, but the reason behind it—the impact of the sex ratio—was ignored.
millions of men were away in the service.
Nearly four million babies were born in 1947-almost a million more than in 1945. Everybody, particularly businessmen, loved that baby boom.
At the time, nobody stopped to think that the girls in the big 1947 baby 'crop' would probably want to marry boys two years older (born in 1945) and that there were a half million more girls born in 1947 than were boys born in 1945.
The "man shortage" began to
Five possibilities for coping with the man shortage problem and the marriage squeeze: 1) go after the hardcore bachelors, 2) rob the cradle, 3) displace older wives, 4) wait for the boys their age to grow up, and 5) stay single.
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