Four KU professors win $1,000 awards
Four University of Kansas professors will receive awards of $1,000 each for effectiveness of teaching, Dean Francis H. Heller, acting provost, announced at a luncheon for graduating seniors and their parents.
Dr. James L. Koevenig, associate professor of biology and
botany will receive the $1,000 H. Bernard Fink award for outstanding classroom teaching. Mr. Fink, a Topeka businessman and K.U. alumnus, funds the prize.
Clifford S. Griffin, professor of history; Felix Moos, professor of anthropology and chairman of
Foundation Faculty Fellow in 1967-68.
the East Asian Studies Center and Alfonso Verdu, associate professor of philosophy, will receive $1,000 awards provided by the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) Foundation.
Griffin, a K.U. faculty member since 1959, received the B.A., degree from Brown University and both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He was an instructor at Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Ill. He is the author of a book "Their Brothers' Keepers, 1800-1865" and many articles in professional journals.
Orientation begins for foreign students
About 50 foreign students will attend a six-week session on American society and life in U.S. colleges as the 20th Orientation Center for Foreign Students opens here July 18.
The KU Orientation Center (KUOC), which is the oldest continuously operating program of its kind in the United States, offers foreign students an introduction to the American cultural system as well as preparation for academic and administrative procedures in U.S. colleges and practice in English.
The program, directed by the founder Dr. J. A. "Tony" Burzle, professor of German and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will operate
under a $36,995 grant from the U.S. State Department.
Other members of the KUOC staff include Dr. Gerhard Zuther, professor of English, and Dr. Stanley Eitzen, assistant professor of sociology, both of KU); Dr. Larry Rosen and Professor Robert Kahle, both of Baker University, and Dr. Ted Garten, Central Missouri State College.
Lee Miller and Ron Horwege, former KU graduate students, will serve as head counselors and staff members. Completing the staff are Kansas graduate students Jim Anderson, Santa Cruz, Calif.; Gayle Emmel, Sioux Falls, S.D.; Mary Holloran, Silver Lake, Kan.; and Hester Williams, Rochester, Minn.
American honors students in the International Honors Program in 1967-68. He also directed a Themis Project study of communities undergoing rapid cultural change. Last year, he was a U.S. representative to a conference on tradition and change in Korea.
Houston doctor named top medical alumnus
Dr. Lamb, a native of Fredonia, graduated from the University of Kansas in 1945, received his medical degree from its School of Medicine in 1949, and interned at the KU Medical Center and continued there in a medical residency until 1951. He returned as a fellow in cardiology in 1954.
Moos joined the faculty in 1961. An A.B. graduate of the University of Cincinnati, he holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington. A cultural anthropologist specializing in the Far East, Moos has published several articles and monographs in English, Japanese and German. He was one of three professors appointed to accompany and direct 20 top North
Besides his full-time Baylor professorship, Dr. Lamb is clinical professor of environmental medical research at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, and is on the advisory committee on computer sciences in the Baylor University College of Medicine.
Dr. Lawrence E. Lamb, professor of medicine in the Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Tex., has been named the Distinguished Medical Alumnus for 1970 by the University of Kansas Medical Association. Dr. Lamb was cited at the annual Medical Alumni banquet May 29 at the Plaza Inn. Presiding was Dr. Charles B. Wheeler Jr., Kansas City, Mo., president of the organization.
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Verdu, whose special interest is in Oriental philosophy, received his B.A. from the University of Valencia, Spain. He also holds Licentiate of Philosophy and Licentiate of Theology degrees from the Universities of Barcelona, Spain, and Frankfort on Mainz, Germany, respectively. Verdu became a lecturer at Sophia University in Tokyo after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Munich, Germany. After holding a lecturer's position at K.U. for two years, he became an associate professor in 1968.
Dr. Lamb's major interest is in preventive cardiology and his book, "Your Heart and How to Live With It," is being distributed by the Book of the Month Club, and is being published in England, France, Germany and Iceland.
Dr. Lamb was a research fellow of the American Heart Association in 1954 and received the Arnold D. Tuttle Award of the Aerospace Medical Association. In 1962 the Department of Defense presented him the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, and in 1966 he received the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award.
Dr. Lamb also gave the annual Peter T. Bohan Lecture on May 29. The Bohan Lecture memorializes the late Kansas City internist, Dr. Peter T. Bohan, who died in 1955. Dr. Lamb's subject was "The Doctors Health."
Koevenig, who joined the faculty in 1964, holds B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa and an M.A. from Northern Iowa University. Before coming to Kansas, he was resident consultant to the American Institute of Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies program at the University of Colorado. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, Koevenig has also served as U.S. representative in biology at the American Science Film Forum in India in 1965. He was one of four U.S. representatives on the UNESCO Single Concept Film Commission in 1963 and a National Science