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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, June 11, 1963
Nelick Wins $1.000
Honors to Faculty Members
Four Cited
The first University Distinguished Professorships in the history of the University of Kansas have gone to four professors recognized for exceptional talent and achievement.
The four are Paul W. Gilles, professor of chemistry; Fritz Heider, professor of psychology; Charlton J. K. Hinman, professor of English, and Walter M. Kollmorgen, professor of geography.
THE PROFESSORSHIPS were authorized at the last meeting of the Kansas Board of Regents to enable the University to recognize by appropriate designation and by substantial increase in salary the outstanding contributions in teaching and research of present members of the faculty.
Prof. Gilles is an internationally recognized authority in high-temperature chemistry. He is the author of nearly 40 scientific papers and has been a participant in scientific symposiums throughout the world. He has been a consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission, National Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, and numerous research establishments.
Prof. Heider is a widely known psychologist who has lectured at universities both in this country and abroad. He has served as visiting professor at Stanford, Brandis, Cornell, Oslo (Norway), and Duke universities.
MANY OF Heider's major contributions to psychology are contained in his book, "The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations."
The American Psychological Association gave Heider its Kurt Lewin Memorial Award for the book. Research for his writing was supported for more than 10 years by the Guggenheim and Ford foundations.
Prof. Hinman's 2-volume work on the printing and proofreading of Shakespeare's writing was acclaimed, even before publication, as a landmark in Shakespeare scholarship. Using modern methods of analytical bibliography, including a collating machine he invented, Hinman has established the precise text of the first printed editions of all of Shakespeare's works.
PROF. KOLLMORGEN is the only person in the 55-year history of the Association of American Geographers to have been cited twice for a "meritorious contribution to the field of geography."
Kollmorgen's substantial research has included the study of changes and settlement patterns in wheat farming areas.
WHAT'S NEW IN THE JUNE ATLANTIC?
"Higher Education in the 21st Century": Ford Foundation's Alvin C. Eurich tells how colleges might cope with growing student population and scientific knowledge in the next 40 years.
ALSO
Albert Camus; A previously unpublished short essay, "The Riddle". Robert Lowell: Translations of five poems of Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam.
Jessica Mitford: "The Undertakers' Racket", a critical appraisal of one of our most successful industries.
Oscar Handlin: "Shaped in the Wilderness: The Americans"
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Frank Nelick
Frank C. Nelick, associate professor of English, is the 1963 recipient of the H. Bernard Fink Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching at the University of Kansas.
Announcement of the $1,000 award, provided annually by Mr. Fink, an alumnus and president of a grain company in Topeka, was made by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe during his report on the state of the University at the Alumni-Commencement supper June 20.
PROF, NELICK was chosen by a secret committee of the University staff. Nominations had been solicited from faculty, students, and recent KU graduates. The Fink award was made solely on the basis of his dedicated and effective service to his students.
Prof. Nelick teaches Milton and seventeenth century literature, and he has published articles on Chesterfield and on Yeats. As do all KU English professors, he regularly teaches at least one English course at the freshman-sophomore level.
Prof. Nelick earned the A.B.at Cornell College in 1941, the M.A. and the Ph.D. degrees at Wisconsin in 1947 and 1951, respectively. He joined the KU faculty in 1951, and he has been an associate professor since 1957.
William Albrecht
Prof. William P. Albrecht, dean-designate of the Graduate School, has been appointed associate chairman of the committee on education of college teachers of English for the National Council of Teachers of English.
This committee studies the tasks of English teachers and recommends ways in which such teachers should be selected and prepared.
Albrecht has been chairman of the department of English at KU since 1957, and will assume his new duties July 1.
Prof. Nachman Aronszain, a member of the University of Kansas mathematics faculty since 1951, has been appointed Summerfield Distinguished Professor.
Nachman Aronszajn
Prof. Aronszain will receive the distinguished professorship to be relinquished by Cora M. Downs, a bacteriologist, upon her retirement to emeritus status at the end of this month. Prof. Aronszain currently is a member of the Division of Mathematics of the National Research Council.
THE SUMMERFIELD professorship, one of five distinguished professorships at KU, provides the holder the income from a $100,000 endowment in addition to his regular salary from the state.
A native of Poland, Prof. Aronsain earned the Ph.D. degree there in 1930 and that Doctor des Sciences degree from the University of Paris in 1935. For the following 14 years he was associated with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, doing research in mathematics.
He came to the United States in 1949 and for two years was research professor of mathematics at Oklahoma State University before coming to KU.
DURING HIS 12 YEARS at KU Prof. Aronszajn's original studies in highly advanced fields of mathematics have been financed by the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation with grants totaling several hundred thousands of dollars. In that time he has produced about ten book-length publications.
His research, although of an advanced and theoretical nature, is directed toward the establishment of appropriate approximation methods for cases arising in applied mathematics.
MIXED BOWLING LEAGUES Start Monday evening—June 17
The 13th annual Writers Conference which will include manuscript criticism, lectures, workshops, and round table discussions featuring noted literary figures will be June 25-28.
Anyone interested, inquire and sign up at Jaybowl in the Union. Teams will be set up by Jaybowl and trophies will be awarded.
Top Writers Gather Here
Frances Grinstead, professor of Journalism, said that about 30 persons are expected to enroll for the four-day conference.
AMONG THE leaders of the conference are Iola Fuller, author of best-selling novels; Hortense Myers, biographer and co-author of "Robert F. Kennedy; The Brother Within"; Edsel Ford, author and poet; Frances Smith, fiction editor of Boys' Life; Richard Pryce, Kansas editor and former staff member of the Saturday Evening Post, and Margaret Olwine, Kansas City Star news and feature writer.
Enrollment will be June 25. In addition to attending all sessions of the conference, the $30 tuition allows the writer to submit manuscripts for criticism in the categories of articles, short stories, booklength manuscripts, and poems.
Further information about the conference may be obtained from Frances Grinstead, 203 Flint Hall.
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Girls' State-
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that such an award has been given. At the annual banquet, Friday night, last year's representatives to Girls' Nation will report their experiences at the meeting of Girls Staters from the entire nation. Again this year, Sunflower Girls State will send two delegates to the meeting: it is held in July at Washington, D.C.
Saturday, Girls State Alumni (those who attended last year) will arrive and help perform an evening candlelight ceremony while the present group are given pins and certificates and the announcement of Girls State Scholar and Girls Nation representatives are made.
THE FINAL big event of the week will be held Sunday morning. Rev. Lloyd V. Harmon, Kansas City, Kan., and a past Department Chaplain of the Kansas American Legion, will hold a special church service at Fraser Hall.
Sunflower Girls State is sponsored annually by the Women's Auxiliary to the American Legion. This year's Director of the event is Mrs. Marie Kyle, Erie, Kansas.
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