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i Poge 4 The Daily Nebroskan Tuesday, February 2, I960 AlEE Award Robert Allinjrton Is Top Student Engineer LixU Robert Allington, a 24-year-old graduate student, has been selected as the top elec trical engineering student in the country by the American Institute of Electri c a 1 E ngineering. The award was made on the basis of AH 1 n ton's description of an electronic t 1 meter ing device in n article . m subnri t e d AHingtw in the institutes annual com petition. Technical Article Allington has been confined to a wheel chair since 3955 when he contracted polio 'white attending Massachu setts Institute of Technology. He developed his device, de signed to measure the pres sure of a cow's stomach, in a basement workshop. Son of a University profes sor of plant pathology, he also won first place honors Ml A teed TMefwra Agency I DAVIS SCHOOL SERVICE Pdra Miiaoari Valley to the KWeat Coast Enroll Kim. 524 StMott BMp. HE 2-4954 for the best technical article in an engineering college magazine, awarded by the Na tional Engineering College Magazine Association. Other Allington achieve ments include a chemical fac tion collector, a relatively new method of separating and measuring chemicals; and a wind speed telemeter ing system for the Universi ty. New Invention Allington currently is de signing a new device, similar to his award winner, that will measure the chemical reac tivity of an animal's stom ach. In addition to earning a full load of studies during the school year, Allington goes into business for himself dur ing the summer. He has been designing and with the help of a machines! partner, con structing various types of tele metering equipment for re search centers, universities, and pharmaceutical bouses. His company's name is In strumentation .Special ties Company. A member of three honor aries, Sigma XL, Sigma Tau, and Eta Kappa Nu, he has maintained a seven-point average at the University in addition to doing experimentation. Typewriters For Rent Royof Underwood Smith Remington Try Ow Rent al-Purckase Plan Special Student Rates NEBRASKA TYPEWRITER CO. 125 No. llh Phone HE 2-4284 Typewriter Ribbons Pvt On LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS "Wol, T glad td e& iwgyVe rlly pomf 5ovtkin6 TO GOlMB THE -3TUCW PACKING PZD&SthJ1 Honorary Degrees: Iowa Prof, Ford Motor Executive Are Honored ml o Jndcrcll-Sarid- Gmdmtinff&ipjeers- i-- (BS,MS,PhD) J-R offers attractWe opportunities iff research and development, desigit.productio q. , and sales engineering. Our machinery products include pumps, compressors, engines, vacuum equipment, power tools, and mining and construction equipment. Honorary doctoral degrees were conferred on two prom inent University alumni at mid-year commencement Sat urday by Chancellor Clif ford M. Hardin. Awarded an honorary Doc tor of Science Degree was Dr. Earl C. Heady, C. F. Cur tiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Iowa State University. Test Manager William A. McConnell, man ager of vehicles testing labo ratories of Ford Motor Co., received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree. Degrees also were con ferred upon 373 graduating seniors at the commence ment Dr. A. C. Breckenridge, dean of faculties, served as master of ceremonies. The Rev. Charles Wilson, pastor of First Christian Church, Lin coln, was chaplain. 'End of Routine' "You who have qualified for degrees may be ending a certain routine, but you are Six Gratis Receive High Distinction Degrees with 'hih distinc tion" were presented to six University graduating seniors at mid-year Commencement last Saturday. In addition, nine other stu dents received their degrees with k distinction". Those earning 'high dis tinction" were: Patricia Ann Arnold. Htichelnr of Sci ence in education; Paul Bower, Bach elor of Scienie in electrical ensmwr hiK; James (ieist. bachelor of Science in husinetHi artnunintration. Dwaine Rone. Bachelor of .Science In civil enginttenuK. Dennis Stewart. Bachelor of Arts with Knahsh mumr; F. Duvid Hwmm. Bachelor of Science in civil engineering. Graduate. receiviiiK their degrees with "distinction": Mrs. Joan Webster Alien, Bachelor of Science in home economics. Rex. Bofltey, Bachelor of Science; Jaro hIhv hohi. Bachelor of Science in elec trical eneinoerinK ; Stephen Pawelski, Bachelor ol Science in mechanical engineering; James Ouick. Bachelor of Science in chemical etiKineeruiK Paul Rooney. Bachelor ot Science in hu.iineK administration : Karen Schu ster, bachelor of Science in education; Sharon Smith, Bachelor 01 Music in education; Alvrna he h mid,. Bachelor ot Science in education. Faculty Members Get Overseas Fellowships SMOOTH SHAVf ; -v, , j Stays moist and firm throughout your shave! XI J Tale TW choice of new, cool mentholated or regular Smooth Shevc. Both have rich, thick Old Spice quality lather that fonl dry up before you've finished shaving. Both tJften your beard instantly end razor drag com pletely. For the closest, cleanest, quickest shava.ry Old Spir Smooth Shae! 1QO SMOOTH SHAVE by SHULTON not winning exception from any of the obligations which have to do with learning. In fact, your obligation to the cause of learning is now greater than before,1'' Chan cellor Hardin told the gradu ating class. "The degree which you have received certifies that you have demonstrated a very significant level of academic proficiency. It is a certification which is made with expectancy the expectancy that you will con tinue to demonstrate the in tellectual proficiency of which you have proved yourself ca pable and that you will add to it," he said. NU ROTC Commissions Given 21 Twenty-one University sen iors received military com missions Saturday morning in ceremonies proceeding mid year Commencement exer cises. The commissions were pre sented by Lt. Gen. Guy N. Menninger, former adjutant general of the State of Ne braska. R. Bruce Abernethy and Da vid Linn were selected for ap pointment in the Regular Army and Glen Schmieding was selected for Regular Air Force appointment. Army commissions were re ceived by: Roger Bushboom, Lvman Cass, William Cook, Jr., William Flock, Walter Hutchison, Thomas Kilker, Ronald Maiwald, Dwaine Rogge, Guy Sapp, Jr., Charles Smith and Byron Speice. Commissions in the Navy were James Hutchins and Thomas Smith. Air For c e commissions were given to: Robert Aden, Gordon Anderson, Larry Brown, Dean Stoneman, Greg ory Titman. Abernethy, Linn, Maiwald. Rogge, Schmieding and Speice were named distinguished military graduates. I )r. Feeney Takes (California Post The Board of Regents Sat urday acecpted the resigna tion of Dr. Robert Feeney, professor and chairman of the department of biochem istry and nutrition. It will be effective March 15. A member of the staff since 1953, Feeney has accepted a position with the University of California's College of Agriculture at Davis, where he will be a professor in the graduate area of compara tive biochemistry in the de partment of food science and technology. A It S Filings Open Filings for positions on the AWS, Associated Women Students Board open today in 335A Student Union. Inter views will be held Saturday at 9 ajn. Woods Foundation Faculty Fellowships have been granted 'to three University, professors for use in a year's study abroad. I The Fellowships, each valued at $5,000, are awarded through the University Foun-! dation, and - were approved Saturday by the .Board of Regents. j Recipients are: Gail H. Butt, Jr., associate professor of art, who will pursue a program of cre ative painting and related re search in Japan, Robert L. KoehL associate professor of history, was will study the evolution "of the Nazi SS leadership corps in Germany. , Bernice Slote, associate pro fessor of English, who will do research and writing on Dy lan Thomas and primitivism in literature in England and Wales. Ultimate Purpose i Dr. Koehl said his ultimate purpose in studying the Nazi SS leadership ""is to under stand how National Socialism could "gain so much influence in Germany, even with in telligent and practical people, and to make this understand ing available to the rest of modern western society, in the hope of preventing - its recurrence, either in Ger many or elsewhere.1' He plans t write a history f the SS leadership during the 11-year period from Hein rich Himmler's appointment as Rcichfuhrer SS to the out break of the war in Poland He will do research at the Berlin Documents Cen'er 'o develop comparative b i o graphies for 50 to 100 SS -oui-cers and o fficials and to place their .careers as fully into the -context of SS organ ization as possible. In Japan, Mr. Butt plans to study what Is being done in the Orient to resolve the problem of form and con tent in painting. He also hopes that the Fellowship will enable bim lo do a series of paintings in the media used in Japan. Miss Slot plans to visit Wales to gather material for a book-length study on the poetry of Dylan Thomas, who is considered one i the most influential of contemporary poets. t ' She plans to study the man uscripts of his poems, which are mostly in the hands of private collectors; to visit the Thomas country in Wales and gather material from the people who knew him; and to make a particular study of the qualities in his poetry. Two Poets Miss Slote also plans lo start a unified study of the specific relationships with primitivism which occur in the work of the following pairs of writers; two English poets, James Hogg and John Keats: two American experi mentalists, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman; and two novelists, of Ameri ca and England, Willa Gather and D. H. Lawrence, In other action, the Board Accepted research and training grants, totaling $229,747. 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