Grants Awards
William Max Lucas, Jr., associate professor of architecture at the University of Kansas, has been appointed associate dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
His appointment was announced by Charles H. Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
Lucas has been on the KU faculty since 1962. He previously was a structural engineer for two Topeka firms, Servis, Van Doren and Hazard, and Finney and Turnipseed. He served as acting chairman of the department of architecture in the School of Engineering and Architecture in 1967-68, the year before the School of Architecture and Urban Design was established by the Board of Regents.
Lucas holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in architectural engineering from KU, and the Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from Oklahoma State University. He is co-author, with Nicholas Willems of KU, of "Matrix Analysis for Structural Engineers," published in 1968.
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The first Leslie E. and Bobbie Victor Wallace Scholarship to the University of Kansas totaling $3,-200 for the 1970-71 school year have been awarded to five young men and women living in the Pawnee County area.
They are Gayle J. Umberger, Rozel; Cora C. Deckert and Michael D. Giessel, both of Larned; and Mark E. Dirks and Barbara Lynn Schmidt, both of Pawnee Rock.
The Leslie E. and Bobbie Victor Wallace Scholarship Fund was established by Mrs. Wallace in 1968 in the names of her late husband and herself with an initial gift of $26,000 to the KU Endowment Association. Income from the fund will be used annually to provide scholarships for KU students from the Pawnee County area.
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Seven predoctoral students in the departments of human development and psychology at the University of Kansas will continue individual studies in developmental and child psychology next year on grants from the federal government.
They are working in a program which has been funded for the third year by a $46,539 training grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Each student is eligible for four years of training in the program which is directed by Frances D. Horowitz, professor of human development and family life and psychology.
Some of the present trainees were appointed during the first year of the program. Others are in their second year of training,
Although the general aim of the program is to prepare students for careers as developmental and child psychologists in universities or research institutions, each student is free to choose individual topics to suit his field of interest.
Some of the trainees are working with infants at the University and others are doing field work with patients at the Kansas Neurological Institute in Topeka and the Veterans' Administration Hospital at Wadsworth.
While working for their Ph.D. degrees, students in the program are able to experience involvement in research as junior colleagues, to work as developmental researchers using both animal and child populations and to gain knowledge of experimental and ecological techniques.
8 KANSAN
July 10
1970
Pathologist aids ailing animals
PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI)—Dr.
B. Marlowe Dittebrandt has performed an autopsy on a hummingbird, taken blood samples from elephants and pried a bone from the mouth of a Bengal tiger.
She is not a veterinarian. She is a doctor of medicine and a clinical pathologist.
Her job as laboratory supervisor for the Portland Zoo, however covers a multitude of chores
"There isn't any information about normal blood sugar or tissue composition for animals," said Dr. Dittebrandt. "The only time you can get samples from an animal easily is when it's sick. We need samples of normal tissues so we know how they vary when the animal is sick."
She has found, for example, that a hummingbird is "all heart and liver" and birds in general "have
a high blood sugar." She added,
"That shouldn't be surprising.
They have a higher metabolism rate than humans and would need more sugar."
Portland Zoo is famous for its elephant herd, one of the rare places where elephants have been born in captivity and survived. It boasts 10 births since 1962. Dr. Dittebrandt's studies have included a sperm count on Thonglaw, the father of the growing younger generation, and vaginal smears from the cows along with efforts to determine the gestation period of elephants.
"It's sort of a joke around here," said Dr. Dittebrandt, "I haven't been very successful in my predictions."
Dr. Dittebrandt didn't set out to be a microbe hunter in a zoo. A native of La Grande, in eastern
Oregon, she graduated from Washington State University with majors in pre-medicine and pharmacy.
After getting her M.D. from the University of Oregon Medical School, she set up practice in Portland, in 1939. She also served as a hotel doctor and after five years of "drunks, drug addicts and neurotic women" she opened a clinical laboratory.
She quickly found that "When animals are sick they aren't as difficult to take care of as humans." She cites the Bengal tiger.
clamped into a soft portion of the bone and were stuck.
She operated the laboratory until July of 1967, when she was asked to join the zoo staff in caring for 800 creatures.
When Dr. Dittebrandt was called to the tiger cage one of the giant cats had a bone stuck in his mouth. The' huge fangs had
Tranquilizers are considered a last resort with cats, said the doctor. "So I got a broom handle," Dr. Dittebrandt recalled, "and stuck it in his mouth. At first he swatter at it with his paw. I got some leverage and sort of pried.
Despite her friendship with the Bengal tiger she finds the cats among the more difficult animals to work with. They're all claws," she said.
"He put up his paw and pushed on the handle as if to help. The top tooth came loose. I stuck the handle in his mouth again and he lifted his paw and helped me pry. The other tooth came loose. He still speaks kindly to me."
Her other cases have included a lioness with breast cancer and many accidents.
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