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7.   NOTED AUTHOR, HISTORIAN HERE FOR SPRING SEMESTER

      Dr. T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize winner and Civil War
authority, will be visiting professor of history at the University
during the Spring semester, Dr. George C. Herring, chairman of the
history department, has announced.

      Dr. Williams' biography, "Huey Long," published in 1969, won
the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1970. The author
holds the distinguished rank of Boyd Professor of history at
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

     He also is the author of "Lincoln and the Radicals," "P.G.T.
Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray," "Romance and Realism in Southern
Politics," and editor of "Selected Writings and Speeches of Abraham
Lincoln."

     Prof. Williams' "Lincoln and His Generals," was a Book of the
Month Club selection in 1952 and was named one of the best books of
the year by Newsweek and The New York Times.

     In 1964, former President Harry S Truman presented him with
the fifth annual "Harry S Truman Award for Meritorious Service in
the Field of Civil War History."

     Dr. Williams received the Lincoln Diploma of Honor from Lincoln
Memorial University in Tennessee, in recognition of distinguished
service in the field of Lincolniana and in the interpretation of the
life and deeds of Lincoln.

     He occupied the chair in American History at the University of
Oxford in England in 1966. Dr. Williams will teach courses on the
American Civil War and recent Southern political leadership.



8.   1,370 EMPLOYEES, STUDENTS, TRAINED IN SAFETY LAST YEAR

     The Safety Department, in its annual report, states that 1,370
University employees and students were trained in various safety
education programs last year, They were in residence halls, Univer-
sity Hospital, physical plant shops, secretarial training classes, and
students of the physical education, health, and laboratory classes.

     New training films were purchased, and nearly 10,000 safety signs,
pop posters, emergency phone stickers and evacuation plans were dis-
tributed throughout the University. A new safety award, honoring Dr.
Don Cash Seaton, was instituted. Jacob Karnes, for his outstanding
work in safety for the handicapped, was the first recipient of the
award.

     In comparison to 1971-72, although there was an increase of only
65 accidents, there was a tremendous increase in the number of lost
days. It is standard procedure in accident reporting to charge 6,000
days lost per death, and there were two vehicle deaths. Accidents in
all categories increased. Among students, 66 per cent of the accidents
were by freshmen and sophomores, the majority occurring in the stu-
dents' room and classroom/laboratory. The fire department responded
to 125 alarms on campus, with an estimated fire loss of $8,138.89.