The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 180, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1963 Page: 1 of 8
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Newspaper Dept
Oklahoma Historical Society
Oklahoma City 5 Okla
Contracts Salaries Streets Discussed By Regents
At the regular monthly meeting
of OU’s Board of Regents at the
Oklahoma Biological station at
Lake Texoma Thursday several
university proposals were acted
upon
Acting on the recommendation
of President George I Cross the
regents recinded the regulation re-
quiring that the university with-
hold the certification of grades of
fraternity members and pledges
who are delinquent in the payment
of their respective accounts for
board and room but not including
social fees
The Regents requested the ad-
ministration to establish a com-
- f :
Geologist
Appointed
Dr llans F rebold one of the
world's foremost authorities on
Arctic geology has been invited
to come to OU under the National
Science Foundation senior foreign
scientist fellowship program The
eminent scientist will be at the
university during the fall semes-
ter said Dr George L Cross OU
president
Frebold's appointment was ap-
proved Thursday by members of
the OU Board of Regents at their
annual meeting at the OU Biologi-
cal Station at Lake Texoma
“We are extremely fortunate to
be able to articipate in the foreign
scientist fellowship program which
is designed to enlarge the scope of
education in the sciences in the
United States and to promote in-
creased cooperation within the in-
ternational scientific community
Cross stated "Dr Frebold has an
outstanding record of accomplish-
ments and will share his knowledge
with our students and faculty mem-
bers in geology and geography”
Frebold who is senior geologist
and senior research paleontologist
with the Geological Survey of Can-
ada Ottawa is expected to ar-
rive on the Norman campus Oct
1 1963 and remain through March
1 1964 v- ' -
The 63-year-old ' scientist whose
full name is Hans Wilhelm Lud-
wig August Hermann Frebold was
born in Hanover Germany He
has been a Canadian citizen since
1956
Widely known in scientific circles
for his success in teaching re-
search exploration and writing
Frebold will be a visiting profes-
sor of geology A full schedule- of
activities has been purposed for
him by Dr Arthur H Doerr OU
Graduate College dean who was
(appointed by the National Sci-
ence Foundation to serve as OU co-
ordinator for the fellowship pro-
gram Frebold will direct a seminar on
"The Geology of the Arctic” and
will be asked to deliver special
lectures to campus organizations
such as Sigma Xi scientific re-
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mittee of top staff people to assist
fraternities in finding a solution to
this problem
An allocation of S5000 was grant-
ed the Union W II Freeland secretary-manager
of the Union had
requested 15000 The Regents
stipulated that requests might be
made in the event of additional un-
usual needs
At its April meeting the Univer-
sity Senate considered a sugges-
tion made by the Regents that a
grading system of “Satisfactory”
and “Unsatisfactory” be used by
the Department of Physical Edu-
cation The Senate committee sug-
gested that the question be referred
to the College of Arts and Sci-
ences The matter will be placed
on the agenda of the faculty of the
College of Arts and Sciences for
an early fall meeting
The Regents approved the rec-
ommendation that the firm of Soter
and Sprehe Engineers Oklahoma
City be hired as the mechanical
and electrical consultants for the
construction of the Airport Oper-
ations Building The total con-
section cost of the Operations
Building will range around 300-
000 President Cross recommenda-
tion that the final plans and speci-
fications for the addition to Adams
Hall be approved and that the
Regents authorize a call for con-
struction bids on this project was
approved by the Regents
Spaeth Engineering Company of
Oklahoma City was approved as
the mechanical subcontractor for
the dormitory project to be con-
structed The housing units for
1000 single students will be built
near Cate Center
A proposal to authorize the pur-
chase of the Ferguson family his-
torical collections of books manu-
scripts documents pictures and
effects at a total cost of $15009
from fiiud furnished by the Frank
Phillips FounaaUm for an addition
to the Frank Phillips Collection in
Bizzell Memorial Library was ap-
proved The activity fee distribution for
the 1963 summer term was ap-
proved by the Regents On the
basis of 4068 full-time equivalent
students the distribution was n
follows: Student Union Debt Serv-
ice 750 Student Health Service
$375 and Oklahoma Daily 63
cents
The university received an al-
location for the fall semester 1963
of 122222 for the National Defense
Student Loan Fund which required
a matching fund from Hie univer-
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The Oklahoma Daily I Contracts
Approved
49th Year No 180
Favorite Prof Contest Begins Today
By DOROTHY D BUTLER
“To the victor belong the spoils!”
In this case the victor will be the
winner of the “Favorite ProF’ con-
test and the spoils will be 10 worth
of books of the winner's choice
from the University Press and lots
of publicity in the Daily
Today begins the 11th annual
Oklahoma Daily summer “Favorite
Prof” contest which will end at
1 p m Thursday Official bal-
lots will be printed in the Daily
each day of the contest
You may cast your vote in one
of four places the downstairs lob-
by of the Union the foyer of the
Journalism Building the lobby of
the Cate Center cafeteria and Resi-
dential Cafeteria
All that is needed to enter your
“Favorite Prof” in the contest is
his or her name on the ballot a
reason for your selection and your
signature Your candidate must be
on this summer’s faculty
- -As statistics stand the Education
College has had three winners
physics two winners history ac-
counting mechanics and metal-
lurgy engineering and physical ed-
ucation have each captured the
title one time
In the 11-year history of the con-
test all winners have been un-
usually surprised to find they land-
ed the title
Miss Maurine Bowling’s first re-
aCti0i!£ °fJler 1962 W!" “I CAN’T IMAGINE WHY ANYONE WOULD WANT TO NOMINATE
was 'What? then For once in ME F0R FAVORITE SUMMER PROFESSOR!”
my life I m speechless but it is$
one of the nicest things that has
happened to me in a long time
There are so many fine professors
on campus It is most flattering to
be elected”
Be sure you cast your vote to-
day and surprise another profes-
sor this summer by giving him the
“Favorite Prof” title
LEADING PAIR — Sid and Babe the hero and heroine of the OU
Sommer Circle Playhouse production of “The Pajama Game” sing
a duet version of “Hey There” The two-art Adler and Ross musical
comedy will be staged at 8:15 p m July 17-20 In the Union ballroom
Sid is played by Roy Britton Kingfisher graduate student Babe Is
portrayed by Kay Aitken Alva senior Tickets for the show may be
purchased In the OU music school office for $150
“The Pajama Game” a brassy
and boisterous musical comedy
about love and trade unionism will
provide a gay finale for OU’s Sum-
4mer Circle Playhouse season
The show was first presented In
the St James Theater in New York
City in 1954 and has since be-
come & popular movie
The OU verison of the two-act
Adler and Ross musical will be pre-
sented in the three-quarter round at
8:15 p m July 17-20 in the Union
ballroom Tickets are available in
the OU music school office for
$150
Based on the novel “Seven-and-a-Half-Cents”
by Richard Bissell
“The Pajama Game” has a theme
of labor and management troubles
which should provide the OU play-
ers with enough material to keep
audience roaring for two hours
“The Pajama Game” a highly
stylized musical comedy moves at
a terrific pace through a pajama
factory offices apartments rest-
aurants and a company picnic
It opens with a short monologue
by Hines the pajama factory’s
time and motion study man He
announces in a warning voice that
the show is very serious and a sort
of problem play about capital and
labor He adds that he wouldn't
make such a Joint of all this but
later the audience will see a lot
of women being chased through the
woods
The lights then fade to a pajama
factory where workers are putting
the finishing touches on some garments
The show brings together two
people who have stood on opposite
sides of the labor dispute Sid who
rose to an executive position in the
factory and Babe a woman who
works on the production line meet
one day during work and fall in
love despite their opposing views
on labor and management
Trouble comes to the pair when
the union leader Mr Prez begins
his big pust for a 7 Vi cent wage in-
crease which involves the pro-union
Babe and separates her from Sid
who stands firm or manage-
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Contracts for construction of two
major facilities at OU were ap-
proved by the Board of Regents
during a meeting at the OU Biologi-
cal Station at Lake Texoma
The bid for the construction of
I the Engineering Center which will
I be constructed north of the pre-
sent engineering building on the
main campus was awarded to the
Harmon Construction Co Okla-
homa City at a total bid of $2433-
1 000
Link-Cowan Construction Co
Shawnee with a base bid of $419-
1 000 was awarded the contract for
construction of the Aero-Space
Building which will be constructed
I in the OU Research Park on north
campus '
Successful bidders on the sale
of $5700000 bonds in connection
with the university housing con-
struction program which will add
a housing unit for 1000 single stu-
dents and 104 two-bedroom apart-
ments for married students also
were announced
The successful bidders were:
Series A bonds in the amount
of $300000 — Goldman Sachs and
Co Inc New York Dempsey-
Tegeler and Co Inc Oklahoma
City and Associates Average in-
terest rate is 30849
Series B bonds' blocks AB and
C in the amount of $1550000 —
Milbum Cochran and Co Inc Ok-
lahoma City Leo Oppenheim and
Co Oklahoma City First Na-
tional Bank and Trust Co Okla-
homa City Average interest rate
is 3282159
The rest of the bonds in the
amount of $3850000 —Housing and
Home Finance Agency Fort Worth
Tex Average interest rate is 3
38 percent
In other business the Regents
approved merit salary increases
for the 1963-64 school year for
some members of the teaching
faculty on the Norman campus and
at the School of Medicine and Uni-
versity Hospitals in Oklahoma
City The merit raises for teachers
on the Norman campus total ap-
proximately $215000
Seniors
Graduating seniors may come
to the Alumni Office to sign the
application to receive their an-
nouncements All seniors receive five free
announcements and all extra are
25 cents each Name cards are
50 to $250 A minimum of 50
namecards can be ordered
Daily Ballot
My Favorite Summer Prof is
Reason (50 words or less)
Student's Signature
§m Ha© la© IT® fote l?r 'Favorite IProfe
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