Earl Farley, director of a special project connected with the use of computers to index books written in Russian, has recently returned from the national conference of the Special Library Association. The conference was held in Denver, Colorado from June 8 to 13.
Indexing Aided By Computers
On June 12, Failey delivered a paper to the social science division of the association. The title of his paper was "New Permuted Title Index in Social Sciences and the Humanities." The reason he read the paper is the scarcity of machine processing in libraries across the countries.
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The permuted process used by the KU library involves making punch cards for Russian books in the social sciences and humanities. These cards are fed into a computer and indexed automatically.
The Special Library Association is made up of librarians from scientific libraries across the country. Other member libraries include the United Nations Library and libraries from many large universities.
Farley formerly was the head of the Preparations Department at Watson Library. Next year he will serve as head of the special project committee that will concern itself with a union list of Kansas serials. This will investigate the duplications and list the periodicals used by the five state college libraries in Kansas.
Albert Gerken Named New Carillonneur
Albert C. Gerken, a faculty member at Coker College in Hartsville, S.C., was appointed carillonneur today at the University of Kansas.
Gerken will succeed Ronald Barnes, effective next September, the University announced.
Barnes, carillonneur at Kansas since the 53-bell memorial instrument was completed in 1951, will become carillonneur and master of the tower next month at the Episcopal Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Conduct Earns Respect Housemother Says
By Beth Lawrence
"We've got to take the bad with the good," said Mrs. Spurrier, housemother for Lewis Hall during the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
Mrs. Spurrier has been a housemother at KU for eight years. She graduated from Cheeney, Kansas high school.
After her husband died in 1950, she felt she needed something to keep her busy. She said she didn't feel like going back to teaching.
She studied both at KU and Emporia in preparation to be a teacher.
Having been a teacher and having worked with young people, she said she felt she could help the progress of youth. In 1952 she began work as a housemother in Stephenson Hall, a men's scholarship hall.
The last two summers she has acted as housemother for the girl's dorm during the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
That was the beginning of a new life, for a woman who today is respected by young men and women over the United States.
She meets many girls with a variety of problems, but she always has taken time to help.
Mrs. Spurrier said she liked her position, because she thinks she understands problems in regard to young people.
Mrs. Spurrier cited some of her experiences with the girls. She commented on the discussions she has had with campers on the values of life and the respect they should seek through the way they conduct themselves.
Her daughter, now Dr. Marjorie S. Sirridge, a hematologist in Kansas City, went to college when she was only 16.
This worried Mrs. Spurrier and her husband, so they told her that she was going away from home really for the first time and that she would have to make her place in life by her conduct in order to earn respect. They told her that they had done all they could for her.
Mrs. Spurrier explained, "I have never regretted it." She has four grandchildren — three boys, and a girl who is ready for college.
She added that she observes all the escapades and the funny dances that the kids do. "I enjoy the different antics of the kids and how they conduct themselves."
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