School district presents Foundation Follies

The Lawrence Schools Foundation will sponsor the 13th annual Foundations Follies to benefit Lawrence public schools.

Talents of educators and staff will be displayed Friday on the stage at Liberty Hall, 642 Mass.

Follies social hour begins at 7 p.m., with the show scheduled to start at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $20 for district staff, retirees and their guests. Tickets for the general public are $30.

For more information, contact Lawrence Schools Foundation, 110 McDonald Drive, at 832-5000.

Law library opens

The Douglas County Law Library opening ceremony will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. The library is inside the first set of glass doors at the south entrance of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St.

The ceremony will include a ribbon cutting and remarks from people involved with the creation and organization of the library. The opening is part of Law Day 2003.

The library will serve Douglas County attorneys and the public. Attorneys who paid their annual Law Library Registration fees will have access to the library 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Beginning May 5, public hours will be noon to 3 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. The library will be closed to the public Friday through Sunday.

Medical student wins award for essay

A Kansas University medical student has won a national award for his essay on racial integration of clinical education at KU in the 1930s.

The essay, by Walter Ingram of Steubenville, Ohio, will receive the Osler Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. It examines the history of Dr. Edward Williams, the first black graduate of the KU School of Medicine.

Ingram will receive the medal during the association’s annual conference May 1-4 in Boston. He is the third KU student to receive the medal in the award’s 62-year history.

KU professor wins grant to write about Scopes

An associate professor of history at Kansas University has secured a $20,000 fellowship to work on a manuscript about the Scopes anti-evolution trial.

Jeffrey P. Moran is writing “The Scopes Trial and Popular Belief: Race, Religion and Science in the Trenches,” which will examine the implications the trial had on science and religion in modern America.

His award is one of 13 given by the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation. The awards are given annually in the field of history, history of science and political science.