Colloquium speakers announced
L. Brown, a professor at Northwestern University, will speak Monday as part of the graduate physics colloquium. Brown's speech is entitled "Photons and Pions."
Dr. H. Jaffe of the Clevite Corporation will speak Wednesday, also as part of the graduate physics colloquium. The title of his speech will be "Piezoelectricity and Piezoelectric Transducers."
Both speeches will be given in room 238 Malott.
Book authors to speak in Kansas City
The University Women's Club's sixth annual Book and Author Dinner is scheduled for 6 p.m. Saturday at the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City, Mo.
Featured authors will be Eric Segal, Webster Schott, Thomas McAfee and Joan Kahn.
Tickets are $7 per person and can be obtained by sending a self-
addressed stamped envelope with checks payable to: University
Women's Club, Book and Author Dinner, 4618 Warwick Blvd., Kansas
City, Mo. 64112.
Class chairmen to be chosen
Senior class committee chairman interviews will be April 22-23 at the Student Senate Office in the Kansas Union, said Jim Nichols, Senior Class President.
Nichols said ten chairman positions are available. Applications may be obtained from living group presidents and the Dean of Women's Office, 220 Strong Hall.
Pi Delta Phi initiation scheduled
Pi Delta Phi, the national French Honors Society, will have its annual initiation rites 6 p.m. Monday. After the initiation, the annual honors dinner for the department will be held in the Kansas Union. At this dinner outstanding undergraduates at all levels will be presented with book and monetary awards.
The speaker at the dinner will be Germaine Bree, professor of French at the University of Wisconsin. Miss Bree is an internationally recognized authority who specializes in contemporary French literature.
Visiting students tour Expo
The Petroleum Engineering Club at the University of Kansas has invited high school students from various parts of Kansas to tour the engineering school this weekend, said Floyd Preston, professor of petroleum engineering.
The Great Bend Local section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers is sponsoring students from Great Bend, Russell, and Hays, Preston said.
The students will attend a number of lectures and will be present for the Engineering Exposition and the Kansas Relays.
KU-Y cabinet announced
Members of the KU-Y cabinet have been announced, said Gary Gardiner, McPherson sophomore and KU-Y co-president, Monday.
The new cabinet members are: Jean Crain, Fort Scott sophomore, and Bob Meyers, Wichita junior, youth friendship chairmen; Cindy Powell, Overland Park sophomore, children's hour chairman; Joan Griffen, Topeka junior, publicity chairman; Jan Comstock, Overland Park sophomore, special activities chairman; Marianne Olish, St. Louis, Mo., senior, international gift fair chairman; Marni Shramek, Prairie Village sophomore, faculty fireside chairman; Judy Jackson, Kansas City, Mo., junior, finance chairman; Mickey Shramek, Prairie Village sophomore, tutor match chairman; Fritz Arko, Overland Park sophomore, Rock Chalk business manager; Gardiner Rapelye, Kansas City, Mo., junior, Rock Chalk producer and Rick Marsh, Sioux City, Iowa, freshman and Jan Svoboda, Chapman freshman, freshman camp chairmen.
Nearly 150 engineers from across the nation art expected to attend the 21st annual Highway Geology Symposium April 23-24 at KU. A field trip by him will be held on Wednesday, April 28.
Geologists plan forum, field trip
A field trip by bus to the Bonner Springs and Kansas City area is scheduled the first day. The engineers will view such things as backslopes along the Kansas Turnpike, slope design, limestone mine, underdrains and mine cave-in and fillings. April 24, will be spent in technical sessions discussing topics of highway geology.
"The double-jointed legs extend out about two and a half to three feet to help stabilize the truck," he said. When not in use, the legs fold up along the side of the truck.
Captain Donald Knight of LFD Station No. 1 told the Kansan that it was not caused by breakage of the equipment. He said that on either side of the ladder trucks are "outriggers" or collapsible legs that are extended out from the body of the truck when the ladder is raised.
Because of the excess weight and movement to one side in the ladder, more pressure than normal was applied to the outrigger on the left side of the
The Lawrence Fire Department clarified Wednesday what exactly happened to the ladder truck that collapsed during the Gambles store fire Wednesday night.
As the ladder dropped and hit the building on the second floor level, the permanently-attached hose nozzle was jarred loose and it went out of control, nearly causing the men to fall from the ladder. The entire truck was tilted up on its side because it could not support the weight of the ladder, he said.
The men who were on the ladder regained their balance, he said, and scooted down to safety. Once the excess weight was taken off the ladder, the truck righted itself, Knight said.
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He said here was no damage to the truck except to the water nozzle, which was broken from the top of the ladder.
Fire truck mishap clarified
The event is co-sponsored by the State Highway Commission of Kansas and the State Geological Survey with assistance from University Extension.
A distinguished author, critic and scholar in French literature will give the Humanities Series Lecture April 21.
Germaine Bree, a professor at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, will speak on "Beckett's Strange Voyagers: Fiction and the Modern Consciousness" at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Charles Tillinghast, chairman of the board of Trans World Airlines, will be the featured speaker at KU's annual Business Day April 24.
Tillinghast's address, "Management in the 70's," will be at 10 a.m. in the Kansas Union.
truck (which was facing the street). The leg could not take the extra stress and folded up, causing the ladder to drop, he said.
Dr. Bree was born in southern France in 1907 and went to school in France and England, receiving a degree with honors from the University of Paris in 1932.
After teaching in Algeria for four years, she taught at Bryn Mawr and Middlebury from 1936 to 1953. She became an American citizen in 1952 and was appointed to the faculty of New York University the following year. She remained on the faculty there until her appointment at the University of Wisconsin in 1960.
Business Day to feature TWA head
Speaker for the Business Day luncheon will be R. J. Peterson, vicepresident and general manager of the John Deere Company, Kansas City. Mo.
Advance registration for Business Day can be made with the School of Business.
Barbara Day, an Ecology Action's coordinator, said the trip will begin at Perry Dam and proceed to Lawrence. Although 15 canoes have been obtained for the trip, 20 to 25 are needed, she said.
The Ecology Action group is planning a float trip down the Kansas River an April 25 to view water pollution areas.
Ecology Action to view pollution in Kansas River
Persons who would like to participate in the trip or volunteer canoes may contact Bob Lominska, Leland McCleery or the Ecology Action office, she said.
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The group will discuss summer projects in addition to viewing the river itself, she said.
Lt. Jerry Stevenson of the Ottawa Fire Department said they brought in their own snorkel truck to aid Lawrence firemen because of a mutual-aid agreement.
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Other equipment that was damaged during the fire was the LFD snorkel truck, in which the drive shaft broke as it was being moved from the station house.
During World War II, Dr. Bree received the Bronze Star, Order of the Division, and Legion of Honor for her service as an ambulance driver and liaison worker in the French army.
She has written book reviews and criticisms for the New York Times and the Saturday Review. She has authored books about Camus, Gide, and Proust; and her other works include books about French poetry and fiction and contemporary French culture.
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