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KU Senior Earns Third Top Award
Breon Mitchell, Salina senior, has earned a Danforth Graduate Fellowship to round out his "triple crown" of the top three graduate scholarships in national competition.
Mitchell holds a Rhodes Scholarship and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in addition to the latest award.
The Danforth Fellowship provides enough tuition and living expenses for four years of study that is directed to the Ph.D. level. The receiver is expected to prepare himself for a career in college teaching. One thousand U.S. students entered national competition for the award. One hundred won.
Mitchell is the first student in the Kansas-Missouri area to earn the "triple crown" since KU's Fred Morrison of Colby and Ray Nichols Jr., of Lawrence won the honors in 1961 and 1960, respectively.
Since the Danforth program was established in 1952, KU students have earned nine of the awards, the first in 1955.
As recipient of the top three scholastic awards in the nation, Mitchell faced some unusual decisions. He has chosen to take the Rhodes scholarship first, where he will study philosophy at Oxford University in England for three years.
Mitchell is the fourth KU Rhodes scholar in six years and the 15th KU recipient since the program began. He is one of 19 Woodrow Wilson Fellows from KU this year.
He will defer the other grants until he completes his studies at Oxford.
Mitchell said, "I have always felt my ability to get along in school is due to my background."
There were always plenty of good books at home, and his parents had a good attitude toward learning, he said.
Mitchell said he thought scholastic excellence is due, in part, to having attended a good high school in his home town. Salina.
The language programs offered at KU have also contributed to his successful undergraduate years, Mitchell said. The opportunity to travel abroad in connection with language study is not offered in a lot of universities, Mitchell said.
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SUA COFFEE, 4 p.m., Jayhawk Room Kansas Union, "The Past in the Future of the South"—Dr. John Hope Franklin Humanities Lecturer.
Catholic Mass, 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd.
Inquiry Forum, 7 p.m. St. Lawrence
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Inquirer Class, 7:30 p.m., Canterbury House.
*Inter-Varsity* Christian Fellowship, with
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Lawrence Center, 1915 Stratford fld.
Dispensal Holy Communion, 9:30 p.m.
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St. Paul's Church 7:30 a.m.
Bible and po Thinley Topics Lecture
Air Force Officers Selection Team, 9:30-12, Aids and Awards Office. 10-3-30, Hawks Nest, Kansas Union. To interview OTS applicants.
Inquirer Class, 3:45 p.m., Canterbury House.
Logan-Clendening Lecture, 4:30 p.m.
Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union. Eng-
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Theater. The Bank Dick (W. C.
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Model U.N., 7:30 p.m., Ballroom, Kansas. Union.
Little Symphony Concert, 8 p.m.
Swarthout Hall.
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
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Mitchell is the first KU student to be graduated with four majors: German, philosophy, art history and humanities. He carries a heavy academic load, and has maintained a 2.86 grade point average for all work at KU.
That's your decision, but most students haven't investigated enough to make the decision an intelligent one. You need a third of a series of expositions from the book of Acts, tonight in the Student Union.
Mitchell has held a Summerfield scholarship, KU's highest academic recognition for undergraduate men. He is a varsity tennis team letterman, the recipient of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity's national outstanding undergraduate award, and he has just finished a term as president of Student Union Activities.
He studied in France and Germany during the summers, and he is originator and editor of "Versuch," undergraduate German literary magazine. He also held a Carnegie Corporation undergraduate research grant in Vienna, Austria in 1962.
Earl A. Nehring, assistant professor of political science, is chairman of the newly formed Republican council of arts, professions, and sciences, which was formed last Monday.
Tuesday, March 24,1964 University Daily Kansan
Professor Heads State GOP Group
Nehring was elected Wednesday at a meeting in Topeka of faculty representatives from Kansas colleges and universities, following Monday's decision by the Kansas Board of Regents to allow Kansas college faculty members to take part in political party activities, using their official titles as identification.
Dr. John H. Kessel, director of the arts, professions, and sciences division of the national Republican party, addressed the group, stressing the need for such a council in Kansas.
He said that many faculty members and members of the "lively arts" throughout the U.S. take an active part in Republican party activities.
HOPE Applications Due In Alumni Office
Nominations of professors to receive the HOPE award (Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educators) are due March 31.
Any senior is eligible to submit the name of a professor for the $100 award, Marilyn Murphy, Leawood senior and co-chairman of the HOPE award committee, said.
The award which was established by the senior class of 1959 will be given to any full time faculty member who has taught at the university for at least two years. The award will be presented at the senior coffee April 22. Miss Murphy said.
Seniors can obtain nomination forms from the Alumni Office or any senior representative.
senior representatives are used to determine how the KU teacher is deserving of the award:
Official's Interest in Peace Corps First Aroused by Ethiopian Work
- The faculty member's willingness to help students.
By Bobbie Bartelt
Seeing the Peace Corps volunteers working in Ethiopia while on a State Department assignment first aroused James Adams' interest in the Peace Corps.
The African region, with which Adams is currently associated, has 2,200 volunteers, most of whom are teaching. Others are engaged in various building and community development projects, he said.
A project in a small coastal country is teaching the people the advantages of fishing co-operatively.
Adams is visiting KU this week with five other Peace Corps officials. He is the executive officer for the Africa region in the Washington office of the Peace Corps.
Before joining the Peace Corps staff, Adams worked with the State Department in Ethiopia and in Bonn, West Germany. He was impressed by the Peace Corps as being the organization "most likely to succeed."
"In the Peace Corps I found people who were really interested in helping others," the representative said. "I was also impressed by the needs of the people they helped."
"We are trying to teach these people that they should coordinate their fishing boats, rather than competing with one boat against another." Adams explained.
Since the problem of education is the most immediate problem in Africa today, Peace Corps volunteers are devoting much time to teaching.
"In some cases, it is a matter of introducing new things, as well as ideas," he said. One place a volunteer had to introduce the blackboard—and not a green one.
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"The acceptance of the volunteers is rather like when an American family accepts a new family on the block," Adams said. "The friendship grows until, once I heard the following conversation between a little native boy and his mother."
"The blackboard was merely a wall painted black, and the children used soft stones as chalk, but the idea was new to these people," Adams said.
The term "white" carries a foreign
'What's that white man doing here,' the child asked.
"He's not white, he's Peace Corps,' the mother replied."
tone among Africans, Adams said. The goal of the Peace Corps is to try to remove the foreign aspect.
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"The results aren't the kind that are immediately visible." Adams said. In trying to explain the results of the Peace Corps mission so far, he called on the following statement from a young man who had recently worked for the Peace Corps abroad:
"I didn't expect to make much of a change, but I know the world won't be the same any more."
The variety of volunteers attracted by the Peace Corps is great, Adams said.
"There are many different reasons volunteers have for joining the
He explained the last reason by saying that the level of independence in their work achieved by the volunteers would take several years to achieve in the States.
Corps," he further explained. "Some come for experience in foreign affairs, others for the real spiritual reason of helping others, and others just don't want to fight it out in the States."
"The work is slow." Adams said. "But we have to introduce 19th Century ideas before we can go on to 20th Century concepts."
"The minds of these people are open, unsophisticated and intensely curious, which explains why the key to helping them lies in education," Adams said.
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- The faculty member's success in stimulating students or challenging the students toward thinking.
- The faculty member's devotion to profession.
- The faculty member's contribution to general cultural life of the University.
- Nominations are to be submitted to the Alumni Office in Strong Hall.
- The faculty member's publications, and creative work will be considered, but not to the extent as will be the instructor's contributions to students.
The HOPE award committee will choose the recipient of the award from the nominations. The committee is composed of six seniors appointed by the president of the senior class and one senior selected by the deans of each of the seven undergraduate schools in the University.
The six appointed members are: Robert A. Swan, Topeka senior, and Marilyn Murphy, Leawood senior co-chairmen of the committee); Larry Gamble, Pittsburg senior (also representative from the School of Business); Robert Bush, Glendale, Mo.; senior; Sarah Jane Lutton, Barlesville, Okla.; senior; Philip Mohler, Laverne, Minn., senior.
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