Summer Session Kansan
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L. R. Lind
Edward E. Smissman
Lind, Smissman to Join Distinguished Professors
Two University of Kansas scholars have been named university distinguished professors, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced in his state of the University message.
The new distinguished professors are Edward E. Smissman, pharmaceutical chemistry, and L. R. Lind, classics and classical archaeology. They bring the total of such distinguished professorships supported by legislative appropriation to six. The first four were announced a year ago.
KU has nine other distinguished professorships made possible by private endowments.
Chancellor Wescoe also announced a new visiting distinguished professorship in German, made possible next year by a grant from the Max Kade Foundation of New York.
Dr. Smissman came here in 1960 from the University of Wisconsin. He has developed the graduate program in pharmaceutical chemistry into one of the largest and most active in the nation. Students from all parts of the nation come to work under his direction.
His research, extensively supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, has resulted in 23 major research articles. He has been active in the American Chemical Society, the American Pharmaceutical Association, and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
Dr. Lind has been a member of the Kansas faculty for 24 years, many of them as chairman of the department. He is noted not only for his teaching, but he is a prolific author and translator.
Dr. Smissman was born and educated through high school in East St. Louis, Ill. He received the B.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1948 and the Ph.D. from Wisconsin in 1952.
His 1u books include "Epitome of
NAACP to Note Death of Evers
On June 12, the anniversary of the ambush murder of Mississippi Field Secretary Medgar W. Evers, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will be conducting memorial services in more than 1,000 communities throughout the United States.
In conjunction with the memorial for its martyred hero, the NAACP also has launched a short, intense drive to solicit 100,000 new Medgar Evers Memorial Memberships, and contributions to the Medgar Evers Memorial Fund.
Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, in a letter to NAACP branch officers throughout the country urging them to observe the anniversary of Medgar Evers' death, said additional "memberships and contributions are needed to undergird the association's program in Mississippi."
Mr. Wilkins noted the small but significant civil rights gains made in Mississippi since the slaying of Medgar Evers, but said the fact remains that Negroes are still faced with strong police measures ordered by the State Legislature to prevent them from obtaining their constitutional rights.
Andreas Vesalius," "Lyric Poetry of the Italian Renaissance," "Latin Poetry in Verse Translations," and a new translation of "Vergil's Aeneid." He also has published 43 book reviews and 70 articles and summaries.
He is working on a 1,000-page book about anatomy in 16th century Italy prior to Vesalius, the Flemish scientist whose studies in Italy brought him the title of "the father of anatomy." Prof. Lind's research on the pre-Vesalian anatomists has been supported by the U.S. Public Health Service.
He received the A.B. degree in 1929, M.A. in 1932, Ph.D. in 1936, all from the University of Illinois. After teaching at Wabash College from 1929 to 1940, he came to the University of Kansas where, except for visits to Italy and other parts of this country for research, he has taught and written ever since.
Home Ec Now 'Family Life'
The University of Kansas department of home economics has been re-named the department of family life, and will be directed by acting chairman Dr. Frances Horowitz.
Dr. Horowitz, who has been a research associate in the Bureau of Child Research and an assistant professor in the KU departments of psychology and home economics, will succeed Prof. Edna Hill, chairman of the department for more than two decades, who will retire from administrative duties June 1.
Explaining the reasons behind the name change, Dr. Horowitz said, "Family life' represents more accurately what home economics encompasses, in the sense that the traditional areas are child development, nutrition and textiles.
Tuesday. June 9.1964
"Also, the term 'home economics' had become involved with a stereotype of cooking and sewing. While that image is incorrect, it is often the only connotation conveyed by the term. Actually, a home economist has a basic scientific training in a root discipline."
Dr. Horowitz received the bachelor's degree in philosophy at Antioch College and the master in education degree at Goucher College, both in 1954, and the doctor's degree in developmental psychology at the State University of Iowa in 1959.
She was an assistant professor of psychology at Southern Oregon College from 1959-61. She came here in 1961.
Instructor to Make Study in Linguistics
Miss Ana Herzfeld, an assistant instructor in English and a graduate student at KU, has received a grant for summer study in the Linguistics Institute June 17-Aug. 13 at Indiana University.
The grant to Miss Herzfeld, whose home is Buenos Aires, is from the American Council of Learned Societies. It is one of 55 to young Americans and foreign students to attract to linguistic science younger scholars of high competence.
Honor Society Lists Initiates
Four graduating seniors and 11 persons receiving degrees from the Graduate School have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary liberal arts fraternity.
The four seniors bring to 74 the number of those honored in the Class of 1964, or about 10 per cent of the seniors in liberal arts studies.
A second goal is to enhance the training of those who will teach English as a foreign language abroad.
Robert A. Kistler, Hutchinson; Nick D. Paris, Leawood; Michael Stoughton, Medora, and William Peter Vale, Redwood City, Calif.
Herman R. Bonett, Philadelphia; Corwin Breedew, Dorr, Mich.; Joseph E. Edmonds, Madison, Wis.; Harlan D Graber, Kingman; Marguerite Jost, Kanakee, Ill.; Martin T. Lang, Yokohama, Japan; Howard D. Mehlinger, Marion; Ivory Nelson, Shreveport, La.; Carolyn W. Sylvander, Frederic, Wis.; Burney Lou Vazquez, Concordia, and Bryan H. Wildenthal, Alpine, Texas.
Graduate students doing superior work and whose undergraduate study was at a college with no Phi Beta Kappa are eligible for membership here.
The 11 graduate students are:
Three KU fine arts students placed among the top 16 winners of a national art contest sponsored by the Society of Illustrators, Inc., New York City, and four other KU student projects were selected for exhibition.
The four seniors are:
Chester Joe Isom Jr., Kansas City, Mo. senior, earned a $25 merit award in the first division of a paperbook cover design of Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."
A merit award of $25 went to Michael M. Bennett, Kansas City, Mo., junior, and an honor award of books on art and illustration and the society's certificate of merit went to Richard Flood, Phelps, N.Y., graduate student, in the second division on an editorial cartoon.
Fine Arts Students Score in Contest
Foreign Students' Center Opens in July on Campus
One of three official, eight-week orientation centers for foreign students entering schools in the United States next fall will be held here July 9-Sept.2.
A $40,000 contract from the State Department will support the 14-year-old program, oldest in existence. Dr. J. A. Burzle, professor and chairman of the German department, will direct the program, as he has done consecutively since its establishment here in 1950.
From 55 to 70 students will participate in the program. They will study the English language and will learn about the U.S. educational system and American civilization.
Other eight-week sessions are at Bucknell University and the University of Arizona. Shorter sessions are planned at Texas, Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota and Yale universities.
Members of the Orientation Center staff are Dr. J. Eldon Fields, professor of political science; Dr. Gerhard Zuther, assistant professor of English; Gordon Bennett, Gustaphus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn.;
Honduras Railway Is Grant Subject
Dr. Charles L. Stansifer, assistant professor of history, has been awarded an $800 grant by the trustees of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery of San Marino, Calif.
The grant, one of 25 given, will enable him to study at the library for 10 weeks this summer. He will conduct research on the Honduras Interoceanic Railway project.
Dr. Stansifer also is among the KU faculty members who hold research awards this summer from the half-million dollar Ford Foundation grant to KU.
A specialist in Latin American history, Dr. Stansifer received his Ph.D. in 1959 from Tulane University.
Vincent Gillespie, assistant instructor of English; Mrs. Nancy Brilliant, assistant instructor of English;
Miss Muriel Thiessen, assistant instructor of English; Richard Admussen, assistant instructor of Romance languages; Robert Elkins, instructor of education and German; Marion Miller, assistant instructor of German; Mrs. Helga Vigliano, instructor of German; Mrs. Sharon Parsons, secretary in the German department and for the Orientation Center; Miss Ellen Mason, Kansas City, Mo., who will begin graduate study this summer, and Charles Burrows, chief accountant in the KU Business Office.
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