KU professor greets Pope
Sesto Prete, left, professor of classics, traveled to his native Italy in April to be present at the audience of Dr. Michael DeBakey (right) famous Houston heart specialist, with Pope Paul VI. Shown with them and the Pope is the Chancellor of the University of Milan, who arranged the audience.
Prete is host in visit to Pope
A University of Kansas faculty member played host last month to Dr. Michael DeBakey, of Houston medical fame, when he was presented to His Holiness, Pope Paul VI.
Dr. Sesto Prete, visiting professor of classics at KU, traveled to his native Italy in April to introduce Dr. DeBakey to medical students at the University of Milan and accompany the internation- the only private medical school in western Europe. It was to this group that DeBakey, who is famous for his work in heart transplants, spoke.
ally famous heart specialist to his audience with Pope Paul.
Arrangements for DeBakey's trip had been made by Dr. Prete, who is dean of the summer session for American students at the Catholic University in Rome. He is also connected with the medical school at the University of Milan, years. Several manuscripts belonging to the Vatican have been described by Dr. Prete after 20 years of work and were published by the Vatican last year.
tempt to receive accreditation from a chaotic German government.
He eventually traveled to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship at which time he lectured at Berkeley and Columbia.
Browne quits post at KANU to head KXTR, Kansas City
R. Edwin Browne, director on radio stations KANU-FM and KFKU at the University of Kansas since 1951, has resigned effective July 1, to become president and general manager of radio station XKTR, Kansas City. Browne has been managing the Kansas City station the past year while on sabbatical leave from KU. Browne is also an assistant professor in KU's William Allen White School of Journalism.
KANU, under Browne's direction,
became America's first educational stereo station. He also directed the establishment of the KU Sports Network whose first full-time director, Merle Harmon, has become a national figure in sports broadcasting.
Browne has been secretary of the board of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters and president of the Kansas Audio Visual Communications Organization. He was president of the Kansas School of Religion during the campaign for construction of Smith Hall.
Archeologists to work at Kansas reservoirs
Professor Johnson said the sites range from Indian campuses and meeting places to hunting
University of Kansas archeological teams will spend the summer working on archeological salvage projects at three Kansas reservoirs under National Park Service contracts totaling $24,000.
Alfred E. Johnson, associate professor of anthropology and curator of anthropology at the KU Museum of Natural History, said an $8,000 contract calls for a "shoreline survey" of Tuttle Creek Reservoir near Manhattan. Under the direction of Charles and Eileen Johnson, Lawrence, the team will attempt to salvage archeological sites which are being destroyed by wave action along the shore.
grounds.
A second contract for $6,000 will finance work at the construction site of the El Dorado Reservoir. A team headed by Roger Grosser, Brookfield, Ill., and Dennis Yaple, Lawrence, will continue to recover material from sites which will be covered by water when the dam is completed. This is the fourth summer for work at El Dorado.
James Marshall, Topeka, and Richard Carrillo, La Junta, Colo., will direct similar work at the construction site for the Hillsdale Reservoir between Olathe and Paola. A $10,000 contract funds the second summer's work there.
All are graduate students except Carrillo and Yaple, who have finished their junior year at KU.