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93 Year-old Student Continues KU Studies
Flora Cowgill graduated from college in the 1890's but is still working on her education.
By Linda Ellis
Mrs. Cowgill, 93 years old, is KU's oldest student. Living in Terre Haute, Ind., she is taking a course in feature writing by correspondence.
ACCORDING TO Lottie Lesh who works at the Bureau of Correspondence Study, Mrs. Cowgill has been enrolled in the course for two months and is working at her own speed. "She does not see very well and we are letting her work at her own pace," she said.
Mrs. Cowill, formerly Flora Kennedy of Lawrence, first enrolled at KU in 1889. She did not stay here long because her father thought she should go to a church school and subsequently sent her to DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. The move took her away from Kansas but brought her to her husband, who was then a student at DePauw.
TODAY. ALMOST 70 years later, she is taking the writing course in order to prepare for the book she hopes to write. Her work so far consists of recollections about her early experiences in Kansas, a kind of life few are left to tell about.
Included in the work she has submitted to the bureau are several feature "chapters" that describe some of the events her family experienced while she was a girl in
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Kansas. In one part of her proposed book she described a family Christmas party in the late 1800's. The family prepared favors for weeks before the event, she recalls, and the whole neighborhood—even the hired hands—received invitations.
Mrs. Cowgill told the correspondence bureau she is almost afraid to hope that her writing will be published someday. "but at least my family will have these stories."
IN HER feature stories submitted she wrote how each of the guests received an orange, a rare treat in those days. They treasured their gifts as they left the party with the strains of "Now the Day is Over" coming from the family organ.
"She underrates her ability," said Miss Lesh. "She is truly a remarkable, talented person."
Dr. Frederic R. Siegel is the new head of the geochemistry division of the State Geological Survey in Lindley Hall.
KU Graduate to Head Geochemistry Division
Dr. Siegel is returning to KU from which he earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. He left the position of professor of geology and investigator of geochemistry and sedimentation at the National University of Tucuman, Instituto Miguel Lillo, at Tucuman, Argentina.
He has done field work for the Newfoundland Geological Survey and geophysical prospecting in the Gulf of Mexico for the Sohio Petroleum Company, and was visiting professor at the University of Buenos Aires.
Dr. Siegel is the author of a dozen scientific publications, some in Spanish.
KU Expects 22 Per Cent To Fail English Pro Test
According to statistics approximately 200 of the 900 students taking the English Proficiency Examination this semester can expect to receive failing grades.
The examination will be given at 30 p.m. Thursday.
There are usually eight to ten topics on current events, and the
IN THE SPRING of 1963,788 students took the examination.According to figures compiled by the committee,23.8 per cent of these students received failing grades.
David H. Jones, assistant professor of Western Civilization and acting chairman of the English Proficiency Examination, said over 900 students have enrolled for the examination this semester.
student is required to write a 400-word essay on one of the topics, Prof. Jones said.
The papers are graded by a group of faculty members. Each paper is graded by at least two faculty members. Prof. Jones said.
JONES SAID the examination is a testing of communication skills that the student should have developed in his freshman and sophomore English classes.
A passing grade on the examination is required for graduation in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the schools of Business, Education, Fine Arts, Journalism, Medicine (Nursing), and the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering.
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