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The golden fleece?
Somewhere in the wilderness surrounding Lawrence stands this tree, and from it hangs the golden fleece. It is written that he who finds the tree and slays the fiery dragon guarding it shall be exalted among his peers. He may even get an "A" in mythology.
FT. RILEY (UPI)—Sensitivity training has reached the United States Army, Ft. Riley officers revealed today, adding that "for many it came as a shock."
Officers learn to be sensitive
An unnamed company commander was quoted as saying afterward, in apparent seriousness and unaware of what he implied, that the sessions taught him that "the enlisted man is actually more human than I had given him credit."
Described as perhaps the first of their kind in the Army, the sessions were conducted by chaplains of the 24th Infantry Division as a pilot project. It was planned after a service-wide letter from Maj. Gen. Kenneth G. Wickham, adjutant general, reporting that men who went AWOL or deserted indicated that a "recurring reason" was the apparent lack of interest by commanding officers in the individual soldier's problems.
In one sensitivity session company commanders were given simple, detailed, but not deceptive verbal directions for the construction of a geometric pattern and were not permitted to ask questions. None were able to construct the simple pattern correctly and each became increasingly frustrated. When the test was tried a second time, with questions permitted, frustration ended and the same men
Health conference slated
The First National Student Conference on Community Health will be held at the University of Kansas Medical Center, March 14-15. Mrs.Patricia C. Nelson, administrative director has announced.
The conference is sponsored by the National Student AMA, but will be an interdisciplinary conference with cooperation by the National Student Nurses Association, the Student American Dental Association and the Student Pharmaceutical Association through the National Coalition of Student Professional Organizations.
Plans are being made for about 500 health science students to attend the program, which will concentrate on such areas as rural health programs, urban health, health education environmental health and population dynamics. The bulk of the program will consist of small group workshops in these areas of special interest.
The goal of the conference program is to increase the knowledge in the area of community health to those students who are actively involved or interested in community health activities. Its
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objectives are to provide an overview of the status of health care, to discuss the current programs which are designed to improve health care delivery and to study past and current direct student efforts so that new and
The Medical Center in Kansas City was chosen to host the conference because it is a model student health community project, said Mrs. Nelson.
improved approaches might be developed.
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were able to complete the pattern successfully.
In another phase of the program, a company commander played the role of a private first class with a serious personal problem and was forced to face a commanding officer who was more absorbed in his own problems than those of the men he was counseling. Try as he might, the pseudo Pfc. was unable to bring his problem before the officer, who kept intervening with remarks on such subjects as the enlisted man's haircut, his accent and performance during the last week's training.
One session opened with a chaplain telling the participating commanders that "A life was not intended to be used the way the Army has been using it. You care more for the vehicles in your motor pool than the men under your command. You have the attitude that a man can be replaced but a truck can't."
No assessment of the success of the program was offered but more workshops would be scheduled, to encompass all remaining units in the division.
Bank president asks widow to return gift
CHICAGO (UPI)—Richard Mix was shot in the head during a holdup of the Gateway National Bank. When he died the bank gave the widow of the slain guard $913.02—a month's salary.
Then the bank's new president, George P. Poulas, called Mrs. Mix in and demanded the money back, saying it was all a "mistake." The 39-year-old mother of three returned the gift.
Wednesday bank officials agreed to return the money.
"It's not our fault if a guy gets his head shot off. I can't help that," Poulas told newsmen who quoted him about the matter.
The money was given to Mrs. Mix by the bank's former acting president, Kenneth Peterson.
When Poulas called her in last month, Mrs. Mix said, he told her that Peterson had no authority to give her the money, that if she wanted to collect on her husband's insurance she would have to return it, and that hospitalization for the dead guard had cost more than $900.
Poulas then presented her with a check drawn on her account for the $913.02 and told her to sign it, Mrs. Mix said. That was the net salary her husband would have earned that month as a guard and maintenance man.
"Nobody gets paid anything for services not rendered," Poulas said.