University Announces Broad Staff Additions
The chancellor's office reveals multiple new hires across the University including J J Jakosky as dean of Engineering and director of the Engineering Experiment Station and J Allen Reese as dean of Pharmacy. A broad list covers deans, department chairs, instructors and assistants across English Journalism Biochemistry Latin Greek Law Education and other fields. New appointments come with retirements and reassignments among faculty and staff, reflecting expansion and shifts in leadership for the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Jakosky
School of Engineering and Architecture
Engineering Experiment Station
Ivan C. Crawford
University of Michigan
M. E
Kansas
Pittsburgh
D. Sc
Arizona
International Geophysics, Inc
Los Angeles
J. Allen Reese
School of Pharmacy
L. D. Havenhill
B. S
Med. Coll
M. S
Pharm
Florida
Med
College of Virginia
J. W. Ashton
W. S. Johnson
Elmer F. Beth
Richard B. Bide
Wisconsin
University of Idaho
Pauline Garber
T. L. Johnson
Glenn c. Bond
Chicago
University of Tennessee
L. R. Lind
A. T. Walker
A. B
A. M
Illinois
University of Chicago
Wabash College
Siegfried Mickelson
Henry Ladd.Smith
University of Minnesota
Augustana
M. A
Minnesota
George E,. Palmer
W. J. Brockelbank
Columbia
Albert Waid
Earl Woolley
Gladys Bate
Geneva O. Crawford
Evelyn DeGraw
Charles Dickey
Elton L. Loomis
Dorothy Pollock
Leslie Robertson
Swinney
Petroleum Engineers
Gordon Wizeman
Lester Haug
Water Laboratory
Paul Haney
Co. E
James Hitt
University of Wichita
Velma Wilson
NYA
Kansas University
Anice Youngquist
Corbin Hall
Health Service
Kansas State College
Cook County Hospital
George M. Fisher
A. C. Elgon
Norman Siebert
M. D
Lisle M. Wyatt
Chinese youth Mou-Hui King to enroll at University of Kansas
Mou-Hui King of Peking will enroll this fall in KU continuing a path shaped by his diplomatic family background. He plans to study industrial engineering or metallurgy to aid China, while learning stenography to work part time. King stands 6 foot 1 and speaks fluent French after years of study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mou-Hui
Mowwhee
Mou
King
Hong Hong
University
E. H. Lindley
Peking
Hopkins Memorial Hospital
Harvard
Lindley
University of Kansas
San Francisco
K.U
China
Curchod
Peking American School
Launch Attack on Sweden Germans Charge Certain Newspapers
Berlin reports the German press united to attack the Swedish government and media for alleged insults to Germany. Adolf Hitler's Voelkischer Beobachter led the charge criticizing Iceland and Britain coverage, while Berliner Börsenzeitung and Danzig Vorposten urged a tougher stance against Sweden's press policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Sweden
Germany
Adolf ‘Hitler
Voel‘kischer Beobachter
Iceland
E Berliner Boersenzeitung
Hitler
England
Danzig
Curiosity Causes Deaths Near Kent Bomber Crash
Civilians rushed to a crashed German Dornier bomber near a Kent town to loot souvenirs, ignoring warnings that unexploded bombs might be present. A bomb detonated, causing deaths and injuries as the air ministry confirmed the incident. In China, a cholera outbreak kills 5000 in Fukien coast cities led by Foochow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kent
London
Air Ministry
China
Hong Kong
Coagstal
Fukien
Foochow
University health service adds physician for KU athletes
The University Health Service announces a new physician for KU athletes and adds a three hour hygiene course to the curriculum. It also begins tuberculosis retesting for students and faculty, while detailing dispensary hours and emergency arrangements with Watkins Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University Health Service
Ralph I. Canuteson
The
Health Service
W.H. Merritt
Watkins Memorial Hospita
Education and hospital charges in general plan overview
The plan covers education and hospital facilities with a five dollar health fee per regular enrollment semester. Extra charges include one dollar per day after three hospital days, five dollars for major operations, two fifty for minor operations, twenty five cents per X ray, one dollar day and two dollars night house calls for at home students, and cost prices for special medicines and vaccines.
Revisions Made in KU Correspondence Courses
Eighteen revisions were made in KU bureau of correspondence study courses last summer with two new options German classics and corporation finance. Ruth Kenney reported that 3,285 people served between July 1, 1939 and July 1, 1940 in the United States and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Correspondence Study
Ruth Kenney
Bureau
United States
Library staff shakeups at Kansas University amid summer
C M Baker announces changes in the university library staff. Lauretta Trickey succeeds Lauretta Schmitt in reference duties, Eleanor Carruth becomes head of circulation, Leona Lash joins circulation as a graduate from Illinois library school, Mary Barredell Dalton added to accession, Ray Janeway replaced by Charles Dalrymple as biology desk assistant. Stacks reorganized and Watkins accession department redecorated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Barton
Rolla Nuckles
Michigan
Sterling College
Lauen Damien
L. A. Fleming
Pitts
H. Berry Ivy
Millsaps College
Northwestern
Kullervo Louhi
John G. Blocker
Chicago
Hilgert
O'Dell
Blanche Yeomans
Warrensburg
State Teachers College
M. A
Iowa
J. Brewer Merriam
James C. Pettee
Bowdoin
Harvard
J. Henry Merritt
Health Service
M. D
Colorado
Robert Pyle
Mattie Crumline
A. B
Kansas
Betty Schwartz
Hury Ketcham
C. M. Baker
University of Kansas
Lauretta Schmitt
Rochester
Minn
Lauretta Trickey
Eleanor Carruth
Leoa Lash
University of Illinois Library School
Mary Barredell Dalton
Columbia University
New York City
Ray Janeway
Charles E. Dalrymple
Janeway
University of Ilinois
Accession Department
Watkins Library
Relatives and Friends Gather Over Bethel Weekend
Ohio visitors from Cuyahoga and Kent spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr and Mrs Charley Simmons and Dorothy. Numerous locals hosted and traveled to Emporia Admire and Baltimore for visits and events including a piano recital at Brubaker schoolhouse and attendance at the Overbrook fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Charley Simmons
Dorothy
Bud Newell
Cuyahoga
Clyde Gemberling
Elmer
Rena
Kent
L. H. Featherston
Daugh
Ter
Lila
Emporia
Misa Florence Remington
Baldwin
Brubaker School House
Betty Lou
Mary Ann Peterson
Dorothy Simmons
Overbrook Fair
Frances Tucker
Michigan Valley
Miss Simmons
Faye Dodder
Charley Rappard
Harold
Fisher
Lydia Allen
Lawrence
Sant Owens
L.E. Job
Smith-Garber
Job
Albert Turner
Vance
John
Velma
Elda Kring
the Excelsior
Sara Faye Bond
Lila Featherston
Admire
Kan
Cusic Banta Wedding Attended by Local Residents
In Topeka Sunday afternoon the Cusic Banta wedding drew attendance from Overbrook residents including Bernice Baker Harold Allen Marlee Fishburn and Jean Hollis along with Mr and Mrs William Banta Mr and Mrs Fred Reed and Mr and Mrs Merlin Fishburn Also Lyle Hart and family have moved to Lyndon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice Baker
Globe
Lou Featherston
Harold Allen
Burbaker
Marlee Fishburn
Enterprise
Jean Hollis
William Banta
Fred Reed
Merlin Fishburn
Cusic-Banta
Topeka
Lyle Hart
Lyndon
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Mount Oread
Steiger
L. E. Eiseley
Ka Tyther
Bureau of Printing
Redting
J. J. Kistler
Butler Paper Co
Roy M. Adams
Cyrus Vincent Anderson
Stanley C. Burker
Joseph B. Byrne
Lester M. Corliss
Sweening Dunkel
John’ K. Fincke
William C. Foreman
Maynard Fox
Blaine Grimes
John ‘F. Headrick
Victor Henry
Robert Jordan
John Phipatrick
Elton Ll. Loomis
Kenneth Moore
Otis Clark Moots
William B. Oliver
Louis Raymon Shobe
Harriett Stephens
Dorothy Sutton
Joe Tihen
Charles Toberen
Kathleen Naomi Torbert
K. U
Donald M. Swarthout
Univeralty A School of Fine Arts
Can
Rave. A. —Ensor
Paul B. Lawson
K. U. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
V. Allen Reese
University of Kansas School of Pharmacy
Raymond A. Schwegler
Maytag
Rudy
General Electric
Kennedy Plumbing & Electric Co
Bethel
Overbrook
Shetland
Electric Company
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