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SUMMER NEBRASKAN
Thursday, July 3, 1952
New $160,000 Agronomy Building Is Now Dedicated On Ag Campus
Dr. F. D. Keim Is
Honored At Dinner Med College Has Equipment
For Combating Heart Disease
Dr. F. D. Keim, a member of
the University staff since 1914,
has retired as head of the agron
omy deDartment of the Colleee of
Agriculture. .University College of Medicine
Chairman of the department ' Omaha has developed equip
since 1933, Dr. Keim will remain 'ment which has been reported as
with the University in his ca- instrumental in combatinsr heart
disease.
After six years of research, the
parity as an instructor,
A recognition dinner was held
lar Thurcrlnv whirh mnro than
430 people attended to honor the sendin8 over long distance tele-
The equipment is capable of
retiring native Nebraskan.
Chancellor R. G. Gustavson, as
speaker of the evening-, said of
Dr. Keim: "He belongs in the
great clas- of teachers whose
phcne or radio, both sound and
visual records of the human heart
in action,
The announcement was made
by three College of Medicine staff
work will continue ta now and ! members Walter E. Rahm Jr.,
be effective through his students ' assistant professor of experl
as well as himself."
A picture of Dr. Keim will be
hung in the reading room of the
new agronomy building which
was dedicated the same day as the
recognition dinner was held.
Among other honors which he re
ceived were:
A leis from Hawaii, presented
by Mr. and Mrs. Noel Hanson
of Honolulu as a token of the
esteem of Nebraskans in the Ha
waiian Islands.
A camera, presented by R. A.
Olson, assistant professor in
agronomy, "for many years of
meritorious service."
In addition to Dr. Gustavson,
speakers included:
Dean W. V. Timber! of Ag College.
Dr, T. H. Godding, professor of agronomy.
Cassius Kennedy, a llrownville farmer.
Dr. A. H. Moseman, chief of the Bu
reau of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricul
tural Engineering.
P. H. Stewart, representative of Robin
aon Seed Co.
George S. Round. Ag College public rela
tions director.
Dr. Elvin F. Frolik succeeded
Dr. Keim Tuesday
mental medicine; Dr. John L.
Barmore, senior resident in an
esthesiology and Dr. F. Lowell
Dunn, professor of internal medi
cine. Mr. Rahm wa s formerly
the president of and research en
gineer for a New York medical
equipment firm.
The research has- been under
the direction of Dr. Dunn, and has
been financed in part by the
National Heart Institute and the
Nebraska Heart Association.
The new medical equipment, as
described by the Medical journal,
can.
1. Speed up and greatly facil
itate the diagnosis of heart cases,
by enabling small hospitals to
telephone the heart performance
records of their patients to med
ical centers specializing in diag
nosis of heart ailments.
2. Allow a general practitioner
at the bedside of a home-bound
patient to discuss his case with a
heart specialist hundreds of miles
away, while both the local doctor
and specialist view the perform
ance of the patient's heart.
3. Enable large hospitals to
establish "heart centers" to serve
their patients directly in the
wards.
4. Be of important help in pro
viding permanent records of heart
performance during surgery or
medication. Such records can be
valuable in heart research and
teaching.
Feted As 'Milestone' In Nebraska's
20th Century Agricultural Progress
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Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star
NEW AG COLLEGE BUILDING . . . The answer to Nebraska's
agronomical problems.
A new $160,000 agronomy
building has been dedicated on
the Ag College campus.
In all day ceremonies, which
concluded with a recognition din
ner for Dr. F. D. Keim, retiring
chairman of the agronomy depart
ment, the building was feted by
numerous speakers as the answer
Personal Papers
Of Sen. Wherry-
Go To NU Library
Thorpe Appointed
TCHS Principal
FAO Head: Advanced Peoples
Must Aid The Underdeveloped
The University Library has be
come the custodian of the per
sonal papers of the late Sen. Ken
neth S. Wherry, Librarian Frank
A. Lundy has announced.
The papers are a gift to the
University Foundation from Mrs.
Wherry.
Dr. Roger mate, professor of
political scien has been named
to a commit of University
faculty members which will
Dr. Norman F. Thorpe, associate supervise the use of tho material.
proiessor oi secondary eaucauon, It ig Mrs wherry's wish, Dr.
lids uii m pimui ' Shumate said, that the papers
Teachers College H.gh School. ultimately should be made avail
Dr. Thorpe was also named pi-jaDle to "serious students" of gov
rector of Teacher Training of the I crnment history and political
'"vcianj-, ..u ou.n ... science and to those interested in
biographical investigations of Sen
. ii i iii iiiui iuij wiiw f
The people of the more ad
vanced nations of Western Europe
and America must take a more
active interest in the under
developed nations of the world.
This was the opinion expressed
by Harold A. Vogel, chief of the
technical assistance unit of the
United Nations Food and Agricul
tural Organization, at the second
retiring from the position but will
remain on the faculty as a pro
fessor of secondary education.
Since last spring, Dr. Thorpe
has been co-ordinator of the
Teacher Placement Service of
the University in the absence of
Dr. Frank Sorenson, currently on
leave of absence.
A native of Waco, Neb., Dr.
Thorpe has been a member of the
University staff since 1941, most
of which time he was assistant
director of the extension division.
He served with the Army Air
Force from 1942 to 1946. Prior to
coming to the University he was
school superintendent at Panama,
Weston and Silver Creek. He Is
married and the father of two
daughters and a son.
Canterbury Clubs Hold
Picnic At Linoma Beach
Wherry's public career.
Dr. Shumate said the task of
examining, cataloging and classi
fying the papers will be under
taken by a faculty committee and
library staff members starting
next fall.
The papers, which include Sen
ator Wherry's correspondence,
speeches and reports, will not be
available to general public exam
ination until the task of prepar
ing them for the University ar
chives is completed.
GM . Research Head Urges
Students .Of Engineering,
Science, Study More Math
DETROIT Students preparing
for careers in engineering and
science should ground themselves
solidly in mathematics, a member
of the General Motors Research
The Lincoln Canterbury Club of Laboratories staff told the Na-
held July 14 and 15. The fea
tured speaker will be Dr. Leonard
Scheele, U. S. Surgeon General
and president of the World Health
Organization. The topic for dis
cussion will be "The World
Struggle for the Health of Men."
to Nebraska's problems concern
ing agronomic research.
Among other things,' it was
called a "milestone in Nebraska's
agricultural progress," a "monu
ment to the state's coming of 'age,"
and the "foundation upon which
will be built a better Nebraska."
In addition to all agronomy de
partment personnel, the new U
shaped building will house em
ployees of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and Soils Division.
Featured speakers at the cere
monies were:
Gov. Val Peterson.
C. Y. Thompson of West Point, a membet
of the Board of Regents.
At College Dean W. V. Lambert.
Dr. A. H. Moseman, chief of the Bureau
of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural En
gineering. Chancellor R. G. Gustavson.
The ceremonies were presided
over by Dr. Keim.
NU Grad Works In Australia
the University Episcopal Chapel
tional Council of Teachers of
will join the Omaha Canterbury
for a picnic at Linoma Beach
Sunday.
Cars will leave the Chapel at
13th and R at 2 p.m.
MIL - Ol.-L 11 1
nL8fVL "VTr; I Robert Schilling, declared.
Mathematics.
"Industry will do more and
more analytical and computa
tional work and needs more peo
ple able to do it," the speaker,
sign the reservation list in the
undercroft of the church so that
food and transportation can be
provided.
Jessica Brown is in charge of
food for both groups. Cars will
return in time to make the dor
mitory hours of 10:30 p.m.
Holy Communion will be cele
brated by Rev. Cross at 7 a.m.
Friday and 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
The Canterbury Club will meet
July 13 for supper, evening prayer
and program, as usual.
"As pew problems become ac
cessible to computation, their
complexity increases so that we
must use more complex mathe
matics. We need not only more,
but better trained engineers and
mathematicians," he added.
Mr. Schilling, who heads one
of GM Research Laboratories' me
chanical engineering departments,
declared that mathematics is "the
perfect introduction to the ap
proach in science and engineering."
Tonight At 8:30 in
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- Courtesy Lincoln Star
VOGEL
in the series of summer session
sponsored World Affairs Clinics.
In a speech entitled "The World
Struggle for the Necessities of
Life," Vogel emphasized that
there are 65,000 more mouths to
feed in the world every day. Of
these, he said, only about 20 per
cent are In highly developed areas
of the free world. About one
third, he said, are in Communist
dominated areas, and "about one
hair are in the underdeveloped
areas of the free world.
In reviewing the conditions in
these underdevloped areas, Vogel
stressed that these conditions are
causing definite unrest among the
people in these areas. These
people, he said, are "exerting ex
plosive pressure" on the free
world tbey are really "a keg of
dynamite."
In emphasizing that people of
highly developed nations need to
take greater interest in the under
developed areas, Vogel warned
that "we can not afford to ignore
them." Of the 15 basic minerals
which are being used in American
industry, he said, over 73 per
cent of the total is being imported
from these underdeveloped na
tions. Vogel reviewed thenvork which
FAO has done in the fight against
poverty, saying that it has been
"an influential force" in "re-!
awakening the people of the
world," so that they are able to
see the food problem. A major
reason for this, he said, is the
"Rearmament In Food" movement
which began, with full support of
the FAO, in Western Europe, and
which has expanded and grown
since.
Vogel served as a substitute
speaker for Gove Hambridge, also
of the FAO, who was previously
scheduled to speak but was unable
to attend. '
The third and final all-University
World Affairs Clinic will be
Conducting Research
On Australian Politics
A University graduate, Fred
erick P. Picard, is now in the pro
cess of doing research on tne in
fluence of American writers in the
I formation of the Australian Labor
Party.
Picard, a native of Geneva, is
in Australia doing his research
with the aid of a nine month
Fullbright Scholarship grant. I
Picard aims to trace the influ
ence of American writers and in
stitutions upon the development
of the Australian Labor Party,
particularly the influence of
Henry George (who visited Aus
tralia in 1890), and later of the
organization known as the In-!
ternational Workers of the World.
He will investigate the role ofi
Bellemy and his contemporaries
who were writing In a similar
vein.
One of the three major political
parties, the Australian Labor
Party, which forms opposition in
the present Australian parlia
ment: Is the party in power in
Queensland, New South Wales,
and Tasmania; supports a Country
Party Government in Victoria;
and is the opposition In two other
states.
"It is not just a case of dull
poking around the dusty archi
ves," says Picard. "My research
entails meeting people and travel
ing around. By the time I leave
in September I will have seen
something of Melbourne, Brisbane,
syaney, as wea as Canberra, the
national capital.
He has already had an inter
view with the Leader of the Fed
eral Parliamentary Labor Party,
Dr. Evatt, who is a former presi
dent of the United Nations As
semble, and he has had discus
sions with Labor politician Al
lan D. Fraser.
"To be in a country for some
time, explains Picard, "gives you
an understanding of that coun
try's problems which you can
not get by reading."
Picard is most appreciative of
the opportunities that the Full
bright award has given him. He
hopes that Australians may have
similar opportunities for study
ing the American political back
ground, feeling that the interna-
Summer Nebraskan Photo
PICKARD (R) . . . Chats with
Allen D. Fraser of the Federal
Parliamentary Labour Party.
tional exchange of students will
lead eventually to a better un
derstanding among nations.
By a series of scholarships, in
cluding a Regent Scholarship and
Cobley Fellowship, Picard worked
his way .through the University of
Nebraska. A Phi Beta Kappa, he
received his A. B. degree "with
distinction."
Picard feels that his work In
Australia will be of great value to
him as, on returning home, he
intends to enter the Foreign Serv
ice or the Department of Labor.
"The pace here is very different
from home," Picard says. "I have
found Australians to be most hos
pitable and gracious and very
polite.''
In return Australians have
complimented Picard's manner.
describing him as humorous, po
lite, and unostentatious.
While in Australia. Picard
hopes to watch a few cricket
matches, and he intends to make
a study of the Australian National
Code of football, which incorpo
rates some features of the gridiron'
game, as well as of Rugby and
Soccer.
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