UK Professor Studying Communist Workers
A Czechoslovakia-bor- n
sociologist at the University left
this week for Yugoslavia to study the extent of worker

The University professor left Wednesday from New
York. His work is being sponsored by the Social Sciences
Research Council, an American association composed of
organizations representing the various areas of social
sciences, which has provided a $1,200 grant.
Dr. Kolaja will study not only the extent workers may
participate but also the extent they actually do take part
in factory management. His data will later be used as the

participation in factory management under communism.
It will be the second such study for Dr. Jlri T. Koloja,
specialist In industrial sociology, who is testing the Marxism theory that conflicts between labor and management
are eliminated under communist state ownership.
Dr. Kolaja, now an American citizen, spent two
months during: the summer of 1957 doing research In the
Polish textile center of Lodz and concluded that In some
cases conflicts between the two forces are even greater In
Poland than at some places in the United States.
In Yugoslavia, the situation is reported to be somewhat
different and there is presumably more worker participation, Dr. Kolaja said. lie hopes to visit factories, attend
meetings or workers councils, and have workers complete
questionalres which he will prepare.

basis for preparing tables and calculating the significance
of the workers' councils.

The Social Sciences Research Council grant for the new
study was awarded chiefly on the basis of Kolaja's previous work in Poland. A manuscript based on his work
there, entitled "A Polish Factory," is being considered for
publication in book form.

Dr. Kolaja said that the matter of ownership whether
by the state or by private stockholders doesn't appear to
be important as far as the difference of Interests between

workers and management are concerned.
In conducting the Folish study, he was probably the
first American sociologist since World War II to undertake such research In a Communist dominated country.
Dr. Kolaja has noted that no such analysis has been carried out by Poland's own sociologists.
Dr. Kolaja Joined the University faculty last September.
He was awarded a Ph. D. degree from the University of
Brne, Czechoslovakia, in 1947 and will receive a second
Ph. D. degree from Cornell University this summer. He Is
the author of a number of articles appearing in professional journals.

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Bored of Education ?
A large group of class seekers surround the College of Education
table on the floor of the Memorial Coliseum during Tuesday's
hectic registration. The rush on education classes Is due to the large
number of teachers who are working toward graduate degrees
during the summer period. Tables at other colleges were almost as
crowded, as registration neared a record mark for a summer session

Three University Students
Win .Fellowship Awards
Michael W. Brown, Junior mod-

lowship

to

study

problems of

ern foreign languages major, has manufacturing,
and
research
been awarded a Heidelberg Fel- leadership.
lowship for study In Germany next
She will learn through actual
fall.
experience at the Ralston Purina
He was a member of the varsity Co. in St. Louis', The program also
debate team and received a Chica- includes a two week leadership
go Tribune gold medal awarded to training camp.

outstanding ROTC cadets.
Brown has attended German
schools before during a stay In
that country from 1934-5- 6. He attended an American high school In
Munich and Realgymnasium Ber- chtesgaden, a German classical
high school.
Brown graduated
;from Lexington Lafayette High
School after his return to the
United States.
At Heidelberg, Brown will study
literature and philosophy. After
completing his study In Germany,
he plans to return to UK to finish
his undergraduate work In modern
foreign languages and work toward a master's degree In diplo.
macy.
The fellowship was awarded under a reciprocal agreement between UK and the University of
Heidelberg by which students are
exchanged for a year of study.
Rebecca Carloss, home economics Junior, has been awarded a
William II. Danforth Summer Fel- -

Myra Tobln, a freshman in home
will
also attend the
leadership camp phase of the Dan-fort- h
program.

economics,

Gifts Accepted
By University
Gifts totaling $18,235 were accepted for the University recently
by the executive committee of the
Board of Trustees.
Donations were presented to the
College of Engineering, College of
Education," Department of Entomology and Botany, the Agricultural Experiment Station and the
Department of Mining and Metal- -,
lurgy.
The gifts will be used for grant-in-aid- s,
research and renewal of
scholarships.

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No. 117

12, 1959

44 Faculty Promotions
AiDBFovedl By Trastees
The Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees recently approved several major appointments and
promotions in rank for 44 University faculty and staff members.
Dr. Ernest E. " Trimble, acting
head of the Department of Political Science, was named head of
that department. He succeeds Dr.
Amry Vandenbosch, who last year
became director of the new Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce.
Appointed head of the Department of Radio "Arts was O. Leonard Press, acting head of the department during part of 1956-5- 7
He replaces Mrs.
and 1958-5Camille Halyard, who has resigned.
Dr. A. Lee Coleman, professor
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of sociology and rural sociologist,
will replace Dr. Howard W. Beers

as head of. the departments of
Sociology and Rural Sociology. Dr.
Beers is currently on leave from
the University while serving as a

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field associate in India for the
Ford Foundation.
Named to head the Department
was
of Agricultural Engineering
Dr. Blaine F. Parker, associate
professor of agricultural engineers
ing. He replaces Dr. Drayton T.
Einard, who resigned.
Dr. Ellis V. Brown, head of the
Chemistry Department at Seaton
was appointed
Hall University,
professor of chemistry and director
of general chemistry. In the latter
position he will succeed Dr. Jacob
R. Meadow, who was earlTjer made
assistant dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences.
John M. Howard, employed by a
consulting engineering
private
was made
assistant chief
firm,
engineer for the new medical
center. For several years he was
assent chief engineer in the UK
Depaitment of Maintenance and.
Operations.
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University faculty and staff members were also approved by the
Board of Trustees.
By colleges
and departments,
they are:
College of Arts and Science
From associate professor to professor: Clifford Amyx, art? Louis L.
Boyarsky, anatomy and physiology; Ellwood M. Hammaker, chemistry.
From assistant professor to' associate professor: Jacob R. Adler
and Robert D. Jacobs, English,
speech and dramatic arts; Daniel
music; John M.
A. McAninch,
chemistry; Thomas G.
Patterson,
Roberts, geology; Dale M. Smith,
botany; Francis Kodman, psychology.

From instructor to assistant professor: John W. Donahoe, psychology; Jasper H. B. Garner, botany;
Phyllis Jenness, music; Malcolm E.
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Air Force Renews Grants
To Chemistry And Physics
Renewal of contracts by the Air
Force Office of Scientific Research
will enable the University to carry
on research projects in fields of
chemistry and physics.
Lee W. Glldart, associate professor 6f physics, will conduct a study
of special materials closely related
to elements used in transistors.
Glldart said the research deals
with the electrical behavior of
the materials.
Research on a series of unusual
chemical compounds will be continued under the supervision of

Dr. Walter T. Smith Jr., professor of chemistry. The study deals
with the chemical composition and
the reactions of synthetically produced compounds called
The latest extension of the
physics contract will bring to more
than $78,000 the amount which the
Air Force has provided for the
P
study.
A total of $69,536 has been given
for the chemical study since Its
beginning in 1956.

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The Top of the Campus
Not quite the top of the world, but still rather high Is the top floor of the new medical center now
under construction. The workman near the edge of the scaffold Is putting some finishing touches on'
the poured concrete roof of the new building. Workmen's can and campus buildings can be seen in
the background. Work on the medical center, which is expected to be In full operation by mid-1is progressing rapidly and on schedule.
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