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Summer Session Kansan
51st Year, No. 8
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesdav. July 9.1963
J. W. Lockwood Dies at His Home
J. W. Lockwood, former professor of art here, and recipient of a KU distinguished service citation, died Saturday night at his home in Ranchos de Taos, N.M.
Lockwood, 68, also was the first art director for Capper Publications. A native of Atchison, Lockwood studied at the University of Kansas before transferring to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
J. W. Lockwood
He won a government award for murals in the Wichita Post Office and received a commission for murals in the Post Office Department building in Washington.
IN 1957, he returned to KU as Rose Morgan visiting professor.
War II, he and his wife moved to New Mexico and later returned to KU where he served as professor of art. He served in the Air Force in World War II and was a member of the faculty of the University of California in 1949.
His work has been exhibited in 45 one-man shows and is in perma-
ment collections in numerous museums and university galleries.
Lockwood received the Logan Prize from the Chicago Art Institute in 1931. In 1956, he was presented a distinguished service citation by KU.
He is survived by his wife, of the home; a brother, Howard Lockwood, Atchison; and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Frances Bonebrake, Topeka.
Services and burial will be in Taos.
Four Week Class For Phone Execs
Forty-nine telephone executives began a four week study yesterday in the Sixth Annual Management Development Program for independent telephone companies at the University of Kansas.
The objective of the four-week program is to help independent telephone executives prepare themselves for effective managerial leadership.
The program is sponsored by the United States Independent Telephone Association in cooperation with the KU School of Business.
The areas of instruction are; the functions of administration, the American business climate, and rate regulation. Functions of administration are subdivided into control and financial administration, human relations in business, and merchandising.
READY OR NOT—A group of Sadie Hawkinses gather at the desk of Templin Hall Saturday
night. They are waiting for their dates. The dance was held at Lewis Hall.
Interviews Available For Officer Training
Senior and graduate students, both male and female, interested in officer training school in the U.S. Air Force may apply today and Wednesday at the Kansas Union.
Sergeant Willingham of the Topeka recruiting office and Sergeant Post of the Kansas City detachment will interview those interested in the Hawk's Nest, July 9 and 10.
Bennie Lee Follows Mitchell; Coaching at KU a 'Dream'
By Linda Machin
Education and athletics do mix at KU in the opinion of freshman football coach, Bennie Lee.
"What most people don't understand is that the coaching staff is interested in the boys getting a good education as well as playing football," coach Lee said.
A MEMBER OF the coaching staff since January 15, Lee serves as freshman coach during the fall and helps coach Bernie Taylor with defensive backs in spring practice. Referring to recruiting freshman players, he continued:
"When you talk to the boys' parents, many of them aren't particularly interested in football; They're mostly concerned with their boys getting the best possible education."
Most of the boys realize too, that they are here for an education, not just football, he said. He cited varsity players Jay Roberts, Dave Crandall, Charlie Hess, Fred Elder and Ron Oelschlager, whom he said were "outstanding scholars as well as players."
THE ENTIRE coaching staff participates in recruiting players because "we realize that success can only come through a group effort to get the best possible boys to play football for KU." Lee said.
Lee explained that the actual recruiting procedure includes getting his personal recommendation from the high school coach, checking with school officials about scholastic standing, and with other people concerning background and personal qualities. The boy must be in the upper two-thirds of his high school class. Lee said.
Thirty football athletic scholarships have
been awarded graduating high school seniors for the coming season.
"He doesn't believe in high pressuring a boy into coming to KU, and I've never heard him tear down coaches from other schools or the schools themselves. He lets the boy make his own decision as where to further his education; then if he decides on KU, he does everything in his power to help him.
"There's no more honorable man than coach Mitchell because he does what he says he will do for a boy." Lee continued.
"That's the only way to get top boys. That's why I enjoy talking to kids—selling KU because I can see it from both points of view, the players' and the coaches'." he added.
Of course, Lee's major job this summer is preparing for the freshman football players who will arrive here Sept. 9, for practice. He is busy sending them questionnaires on equipment sizes, arranging for their physical examinations, setting up practice schedules, and analyzing films of last season's freshman games with Missouri and Kansas State.
THE FROSH squad is scheduled to play two games again this season with Kansas State and Missouri Universities.
Lee, who says "working for coach Mitchell and the KU coaching staff is like a dream come true," was a 1954 graduate of Wichita University where he was a fullback under Mitchell and George Bernhardt, now an assistant football coach at KU.
Before coming to KU, Lee was head football coach and athletic director for Derby high school, Derby, Kan., a suburb of Wichita, where he had a win-loss record of 60 wins, 19 losses, and 2 ties over a nine-year period.
High Speed Figures Can Jam Computers
When a modern electronic computer gets into high gear, it takes in statistics and spews forth calculations at a dazzling rate.
THAT'S WHY Norris Nahman does a lot of thinking about something called a nanosecond.
The blink of an eye is slow motion to a computer. A second is an eternity.
Nahman is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Kansas, and a nanosecond is—well, it's next to nothing in the terms of a man on the street.
A nanosecond is a billionth of a second. It's the time required by a beam of light, which travels through space at 186,000 miles a second, tc travel approximately one foot.
It's also the time required by an electrical impulse or a radio wave to travel the same distance, and this is what interests Nahman.
Suppose a circuit within a computer is 30 foot long. This means it takes an electrical impulse approximately 30 billionths of a second, or 30 nanoseconds, to travel from one end to the other.
BECAUSE computers operate on electricity and because they work at terrific speeds, it is possible that electronic "traffic jams" could be created within their complicated circuits. Nahman puts it this way:
This doesn't seem like much. But if computation impulses are fed into certain parts of a computer, and fed in fast enough, they could meet each other coming and going along the signal paths within the machine.
The result would be mixed-up computations.
THE KEY to better compute performance thus may be in what engineers call "miniatureization." It circuits and other parts can be made smaller and shorter, computations will be speeded. Space and weight will be saved, also.
Part of Nahman's work for the past seven years has been to measure electricity's high-speed travel through circuits and electronic switches. This work is important, not only for design of better computers, but for nuclear instrumentation and long-range radar.
In the process, Nahman and associates have built an electronics laboratory at the university which employs 20 full-time and part-time researchers.
Since its founding, the laboratory has done more than $750,000 worth of research for the federal government, the state, and private industry.
THEY HAVE branched into studies of electrical cryogenics, or how electricity performs at super-cold temperatures; into solid-state physics, the study of transistors and materials for radio tubes; and into microwave transmission systems.
The laboratory started seven years ago with a tiny, 400-square-foot shop and four men. Outside financial support of research has helped it grow.
"SECOND, the lab proves in a small way that research can be done in the Midwest as well as anywhere."
"It shows two things." Nahman said. "One is that research work—and financial support for it—are there if you go out and hunt for them.
This is a favorite theme for Nahman. He agrees with many scientists that the newly developed "brain-power" industries can be located almost anywhere, provided scientific talent is available.
A great part of the laboratory's equipment consists of sophisticated electrical measuring and testing devices.
To supplement these, a complete glassworking shop, a machine shop, and several laboratory rooms have been built. Complete electron tubes can be built in the glassworking shop.
A SPECIAL "clean room" provides a dust-free, pressurized area for assembling precision electrical parts.
The KU scientists are studying the tunnel diode, an electronic device which amplifies electrical signals at super-cold temperatures.
Most components, such as electron tubes and transistors, fail to function in extreme cold. The tunnel diode keeps working, even in the minus 452-degree-fahrenheit temperatures produced by liquid helium.