Daily hansan
Lawrence, Kansas
61st Year. No.89
Monday. Feb. 24, 1964
AWS Chooses 'Best-Dressed'
Bv Bobbie Bartelt
Kathy Stromont, Greenwich Conn, junior, is KU's "Best Dressed Girl" for 1964, and will now represent KU in the national contest sponsored by Glamour magazine.
Representing Pi Beta Phi sorority, Miss Stromont was selected from a field of 11 finalists Sunday afternoon in the Union Ballroom at the AWS Fashion Show.
Miss Stromont and the 11 other finalists each modeled three outfits —school wear, formal wear, and church wear. Eighteen semi-finalists also modeled church wear.
THE FINALISTS WERE selected February 16 by a board of ten judges on their poise, fashion sense, posture, good grooming, and ability to meet people. Pam Stone, Wichita junior, moderator for the fashion show said. Each contestant also compiled a picture representation of "The Perfect Outfit."
As KU's representative to Glamour's contest, Miss Stromont will now have photographs taken, which will be sent to the national contest with a folder of personal data, Janet Duncan, Ottawa junior, member of the AWS Fashion Board, said.
AN ORANGE WOOL SKIRT and striped corduroy blazer accented by a dark brown purse and shoes was Miss Stromont's outfit in the school wear section.
Karen McCarty, Wichita senior, chairman of the AWS Fashion Board, and Lee Ayres, Park Ridge, Ill. senior, chairman of the SUA Social Committee, announced the judges' selection of Miss Stromont immediately following the modeling part of the fashion show.
She wore a black crepe cocktail dress with a scoop neck and petal-sectioned over panels for her formal selection. The cocktail dress was complemented by black silk shoes, elbow-length black gloves with rhinestone buttons, and a small black clutch bag.
For her church dress, Miss Stromont modeled a navy blue suit with a white long-sleeve blouse. Her accessories were a small straw hat and white gloves.
Professor Robin Fraser
KU Professor Awarded Grant
Dr. Robin T. M. Fraser, assistant professor of chemistry at KU, is one of 94 young scientists who will share $1.4 million in unrestricted, 2-year grants for basic research from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Dr. Fraser's appointment as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow becomes effective in September. 1964.
DR. ALBERT W. BURGSTAHLER of chemistry was appointed in 1961 and is completing an award for a third year, Dr. Richard C. Sapp, a physicist, is in his second year of an unrestricted grant. Dr. Russell N. Bradt, mathematics, held the award in 1955-57.
The 27-year-old Dr. Fraser is the fourth KU faculty member to receive the prestigious Sloan award, which is bestowed upon young scientists who have demonstrated an extraordinary capacity to do creative thinking and who have prepared research papers.
Forty colleges and universities in the United States and Canada are represented in the fellowship list.
Dr. Fraser, a specialist in the
Student Held In Shooting Of Instructor
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A KU graduate student, John C. Edwards, 32, of 121 West 14th, was arraigned Sunday afternoon on a first-degree murder charge in the Saturday night shooting of Pedro Escobar, 37.
Edwards, a native of Big Springs, Tex., and Escobar, a former amateur bullfighter from Mexico, were both assistant instructors in the KU Spanish department.
The shooting occurred at 9:10 Saturday evening at the apartment of John Wolf, 121 West 14th. Wolf is also an assistant Spanish instructor. Wolf and Edwards had adjoining apartments.
According to police reports Edwards told officers that he complained over the telephone about the noise before knocking on Wolf's door with a .357 Magnum pistol. Edwards said the gun went off as Escobar opened the door.
The bullet struck Escobar in the heart. He died a few minutes later in the Lawrence Memorial hospital, acting county coroner, Dr. Byron W. Walters, said.
Ralph King, Douglas County attorney, said statements were taken from witnesses until 3 o'clock yesterday morning.
King declined to say whether Edwards gave a written statement about the shooting.
"We probably have 10 witnesses," King said, "It will all come out in the preliminary hearing."
Judge Charles Rankin of the Douglas County court set Edwards hearing for Thursday. Edwards is being held without bond in the county jail.
Weather
Skies will be partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with the low in the 20's tonight. It will be colder tomorrow with a high in the 40's. No precipitation is forecast for tonight or tomorrow.
Coach Harp Hanged In Effigy
MOCK HANGING—Disgruntled students watch as the right leg of the paper-stuffed dummy of Richard Harp, basketball coach, is consumed in fire following KU's loss to Kansas State University on Saturday. (Photo by David Blanding.)
Following KU's 70-46 loss to Kansas State in basketball Saturday night, a group of about 200 men hanged an effigy of Coach Dick Harp from a tree in the center of the campus.
The group of men, reportedly disgruntled by KU's loss to the Wildcats, appeared on the campus about 1:30 am. Sunday. From an automobile, some of the men dragged a blue jeaned, paper-stuffed dummy.
About a half-dozen cars were clustered on Jayhawk Boulevard. When the effigy was produced, cries of "String him up," could be heard.
A LENGTH of clothesline was fastened about the neck of the dummy in a hangman's noose. One of the participants in the mock hanging climbed a tree and passed the rope around a limb. The effigy was then hoisted into the air.
As the dummy hung from the tree, a member of the group set one of its legs ablaze. A sign on a tree read:
"CHAMBERLN LEFT ONE YEAR EARLY, HIGHTOWER LEFT ONE YEAR EARLY, SORRY TO SEE YOU RETIRE, DICK, ONE YEAR EARLY."
The dummy, bore the inscription,
"Harp" on its back. On the front, the
inscription "KU" appeared.
DURING THE hanging several dozen cars stopped at the scene. Horns honked and shouts went up. The fire on the dummy's leg rose and engulfed its whole body, as the scene broke into an uproar.
Coach Harp could not be reached for comment regarding the incident. His wife, however, was reached at home Sunday night. She said her husband was in Lincoln for tonight's game with Nebraska. Mrs. Harp said she had not heard about the incident.
NEW DIRECTOR—Wade Stinson (center), newly-appointed athletic director at KU was interviewed Saturday night by Tom Hedrick, announcer for the KU sports network. At left is Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
Stinson Named Athletic Director
Wade Stinson, former all-Big Eight halfback and Chicago insuranceman, was appointed new KU athletic director Saturday.
Stinson will begin his duties July 1, following the retirement of Arthur (Dutch) Lonborg, who has been athletic director for 14 years.
"I am thrilled with the job," Stinson told reporters. "My wife and I are eagerly looking forward to returning to Kansas and I am eager to get to work."
"However I intend to work as hard as possible to improve upon an already glittering KU athletic record. I want to have the finest and soundest athletic program in this part of the country.
"I AM fortunate to be able to step into a situation which is in such good shape as we have here at KU," Stinson continued. "This is due to the fine work of Dutch Lonborg.
"We have all the necessary ingredients with an outstanding academic institution, an excellent physical facility, good athletes, and dedicated alumni eager to support our program."
Stinson is a native of Randall, Kan., a town of about 230 population. Upon graduation from Randall Rural High School, he entered the army, where he was first sent to engineering school and then to Officer Candidate School.
Injured at Camp Robinson in Little Rock, Ark., when a trip flare went off prematurely, Stinson spent the next two years in an Army hospital at El Paso, Tex., undergoing skin nerve and tendon grafts to rebuild his hand and fingers.
In the summer of 1947, he was discharged from the Army and enrolled at KU that fall.
A MEMBER of the 1948-49-50 KU football teams as a halfback, Stinson set a single-season rushing record that still stands and won all-conference honors in 1950.
In his senior season in 1950, Stinson rushed for 1,129 yards. The only serious challenge by a KU back since then was the 1,125-yard effort by halfback Gale Sayers, now a junior, in 1962.
In that same season, Stinson set a single-game record by running for 239 yards against Utah. That mark was eclipsed by Sayers in 1962 when he ran for 283 yards against Oklahoma State.
Yet for all his acclaim, Stinson always brushed aside compliments to call attention to the fact it had been his linemen and the other backfield blockers who made his gains possible. He was as highly regarded by linemen as any back ever to perform at KU.
Proof of his reputation among his teammates was the fact he was voted as recipient of the Ormand Beach Memorial Trophy after the 1950 season.
Following completion of his collegiate football competition, Stinson played in the North-South Shrine football game.
He was graduated from KU in January, 1951, with a degree in business and was married in May of 1951 to Miss Virginia Coppedge, Kansas City, who also graduated from KU in January, 1951.
Stinson then moved to Chicago, becoming associated with the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and has been a district manager the past 11 years.
HE WILL move to Lawrence later this spring from Wilmette, Ill. For the past five years, Stinson has also been a member of the board of directors of the KU Alumni Association.
In announcing appointment of Stinson as the new athletic director, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said: "We have been considering men for this position for more than a year, and we have given serious thought to a number of outstanding individuals. But I think we have the best in Wade Stinson. He has a highly successful business career and an outstanding athletic background. With Stinson in charge of our athletic program, I am confident of a continual growth in the excellence of the athletic department."
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