UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE-2~0 MORRILL HALL MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 TELEPHONE: 373-2137 MARCH 2, 1966 200 TO ATTEND 12TH MEDICAL SCIENCES DAY AT 'u' (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Dr. Victor Johnson, director of the University of Minnesota's Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, will speak on "Expanding Vistas of Medical Educationll as a highlight of the 12th annual observance of Medical Sciences day Saturday (March 5) at the University. More than 200 prospective medical students have registered to attend the day's program and tours of medical facilities at the University, accord- ing to Dr. Raymond N. Bieter, director of the College of Medical Sciences' special educational services. The program, presented annually by the Medical Student Council to acquaint the visiting students with the disciplines in medicine and the medical-biological sciences, will include discussions of admission require- ments and policies, study, loan and scholarship opportunities and practice, and research and teaching in medicine. The morning program, commencing at 9 a.m., will be held in Mayo Memorial auditorium. Following a noontime sandwich lunch for the visiting students and faculty in the Mayo foyer, members of the student council will act as tour guides for afternoon trips through the University Hospitals and the Medical Center. -U N S- '.!4' r; /'/ I UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE-220 MORRILL HALL FIRST VOLUME TO BE MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 PUBLISHED IN U OF M TELEPHONE: 373-2137 MONOGRAPH SERIES MARCH 2, 1966 (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) "Prose Styles: Five Primary Types" by Huntington Brown is the first volume of a new series to be published by the University of Minnesota Press. The series is called "Minnesota Monographs in the Humanities." Volume I will be available in bookstores March 12. The author, Professor Brown, retired from the University's English department in June, 1965. In the book, Brown identifies five broad types of written or spoken discourse that have been conspicuous in the western world from ancient times. He names these as the deliberative, the expository, the tumbling, the prophetic and the indenture, and he gives examples of each that range from the very old to the modern, from such works as the Sermon on the Mount, "Beowulf," and yesterday's sports page. The \oJOrk is intended not just for writers, but for anyone who reads, particularly students and teachers of literature. The open-ended series is being edited by Gerhard H. Weiss, associate professor among faculty members of German. It grew out of a long-felt need/for a place to publish monographs in the general area of the humanities. (A monograph is a treatise on a single subject which generally runs between article length and book length.) The idea for a monograph series was originated during discussions within the Advisory Council in the Arts and Letters. Funds for publishing the first few books were made available by the Graduate School Research Center. It is hoped that later the books will become self-supporting. Manuscripts --- which need not be in English --- are sought from any fulltime faculty / member of the University. If a manuscript is accepted, the author receives $150, with no royalties. Manuscripts are read by an editorial board Which consists of Sarah Youngblood, associate professor of English; History Professor Clarke Chambers; Professor Robert Sonkowsky, chairman of classics; Russell G. Hamilton, assistant professor of Romance languages, and Marion J. Nelson, associate professor in Scandinavian. -U N S- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE-220 MORRILL HALL NEW 'u' CHEMISTRY MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 OOUIPMENT TO BE TELEPHONE: 373-2137 DEMONSTRATED SAT. MARCH 2, 1966 (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Minneapolis---Safety will be the watchwrd this Saturday (March 5) during a special safety program to be conducted by the School of Chemistry of the University of Minnesota on the Minneapolis campus. The program will be held in Room 225 of the Chemistry building by representatives of the Minneapolis Fire Department, the Minnesota State Health Department, and the University Health Service. The purpose of the program is to demonstrate to faculty and students in the School of Chemistry the proper use of special equipment recently donated to the School. The program will get under way at 9 a.m. with a lecture on the use of self- contained breathing masks, fire reflective suits and fire extinguishers by Captain Melvin Semler of the Minneapolis Fire Department. Following the lecture, practice sessions in a smoke-filled room will demonstrate problems faced by rescuers in finding persons lost in such situations. Mrs. Martha Lundgaard, consultant in anesthesiology for the Minnesota State Department of Health, will present a tw-hour training program in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and closed chest heart massage, starting at 1 p.m. Norman D. Steere, safety engineer and instructor in the University's Division of Environmental Health and Safety, is directing the program for the School of Chemistry. The equipment to be used in the program was purchased by a special $2,5CO grant given to the School of Chemistry by Clarence Moyle, research scientist with the Dow Chemic al Company. The equipment includes three self-contained breathing masks, tw fire reflective suits, a special exhaust device for emergency ventilation, and tw large fire extinguishers. -U N S- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE-220 MORRILL HALL MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 TELEPHONE: 373-2137 MARCH 2, 1966 'U I FILM TO SHOW BIRD MIGRATION RESEARCH, QUESTIONS (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Research into bird migration will be the subject of a color film to be shown at 3 p.m. Sunday at the lv'J.nnesota Museum of Natural History, narrated b.1 Professor W. J. Breckenridge, museum director. The program will be free and open to the public. The movie, made b.1 Breckenridge, will illustrate "a lot of the rather remarkable abilities birds have in performing their migrations and some of the research being done on this, aimed at trying to find out more exactly what the birds are doing and how they do it,ll Breckenridge said. He will tell how such techniques as bird banding and radio and radar tracking have contributed to the field of knowledge, and also will describe how rapid strides in technology may affect the field in the future. There is the possibility, for instance, of tracking an individual bird by satellite, with instruments taking a reading on the birdls position every time the satellite circles the globe. Such a procedure might give some answers to a number of questionswhich puzzle the researchers now. For example, a certain type of bird is known to summer in Nova Scotia and in autumn, to fly to South America. However, it is not a bird that can land on water, and it is not known to alight anywhere in between its tw habitats. The researchers would like to know if it actually flies the entire distance without pausing. -U N S- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE-220 MORRILL HALL FORD LECTURES MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 SLATED FOR 'u' TELEPHONE: 373-2137 MARCH 28-29 MARCH 3, 1966 (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Minneapolis---The city of Sardis, capital of fabled King Croesus---antiquity's richest man---will be the subject of this year's Guy Stanton Ford Lectures at the University of Minnesota. The annual lecture series honoring Ford, the University's sixth president, will be presented Thursday and Friday. March 28 and 29, in the Minnesota Museum of Natural History auditorium and will be open free to the public. The series is sponsored annually by the Arts and Letters Council of the University's Graduate School Research Center and by the department of concerts and lectures. This year's Ford lecturer will be George M.A. Hanfmann, professor of fine arts at Harvard university and curator of classical art at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. He also is the field director of a joint Harvard-Cornell expedition which has been wrk- ing on the excavation of the site of Sardis for several years. His two talks will be titled "Excavating the City of Croesus" and "The Ancient Synagogue of Sardis." The Guy Stanton Ford Lectures are an outgrowth of the wish of a group of friends and associates of President Ford to express in permanent form their admiration for him and their appreciation of his services to the University. The endowment for funding the lectureship was started immediately following the former president's retirement in 1941, and sufficient funds were collected to present the first lecture in 1957. In recognition of the wide interests of President Ford, the lecturers have been selected to represent varied fields of knowledge and achievement. Distinguished scholars who have given past Ford Lectures and their fields of interest include: Percival Spear, University of California, history, 1958; Herbert C. Pritchett, University of Chicago, political science, 1959; Kingsley Davis, Univer­ sity of California, sociology, 1960; Victor Lange, Princeton University, humanities and Germanic criticism, and Harold Jantz, Johns Hopkins University, German and American culture, 1961-62; Kenneth Boulding, University of Michigan, economics, 1963; Siegfried Giedion, Harvard University, architecture, and Fritz Fischer, from Germany, history, 1964; and Bernard Weinberg, University of Chicago, Romance language, 1965. -U N S- ~ ~-------- ~~~~ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE-220 MOWLL HALL MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 UNIVER8:rrY OF MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES TELEPHONE: 373-2137 !'J.RCH 3, 1966 BERRYMAN, TO PARTICIPATE IN NEW YORK FESTIVAL John Berryman, University of Minnesota humanities professor and Pulitzer- prize-winning poet, will be one of five participants in a three-day Conference on Modern Literature and Ideas, to be held March 10-12 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The annual conference brings prominent critics and writers to the campus. Its 1966 theme is "The Literary Image." Professor Berryman will give a poetry reading at 3 p.m.