University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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OCTOBER Two Poems In the Italian quarter, Chicago: He burned at dawn Tonight smoke lies over his street like the hair of an old woman, drifts in dry, straight hanks across the sidewalk like the hair of an old, old woman let down in the morning. And two comer lights glimmer bleakly like the rheumy eyes of a woman; eyes of ancient and grief-struck woman weeping in the darkness . . . He must have been lying when he told them how, lifelong, he KNEW no mother. Kenneth Lewis There are spirits in a camp ire. Oh yes there are. I ' ve oflen seen them there. ]ust sitting and staring into the embers after a day in the open In a camp of lumber-jacks, miners, or forest rangers; Just silting and staring while an old man tells a story Or a young man sings a song. If you wait long enough, you ' re sure to see them there . . . Not when the flames are still hungry, and leap in the smoke- sweet air, ravening. But after they are sufficed a little, returned a little, and the ashes start to glow: Then the spirits come Slyly, shyly from under the birch logs blue-green and purple flickerings The long dead souls of Indian chiefs and trappers, The old scouts, and the pioneers . . . The hard spots gone, MeHou ' ed now by the years and the desert, And replaced by the musk-sweet fragrance Of sage-brush blowing purple, and dawns on the painted moun- tains. Quid of course, just breathing there a moment . . . Then they are gone. This is their one remembrance, their one returning . . . Reincarnate in the sacred thing they loved, they come again. A camp ire is holy to a true woods lover, And these men found divinity about it. I tell you, there are spirits in a camp ire . . . Ghosts of long dead woodsmen, come again. Kenneth Lewis

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OCTOBER THE UNIVERSITY LOSES A LEADER And with the passing of Dean Shaad countless engineers and engineering students lose a friend and counselor By ROBERT PEARSON LAST summer Kansas University lost Dean George C. Shaad, and the loss is more deeply felt then outward appearances would indicate. The School of Engineering and Architecture lost a beloved leader; the entire University lost an unforgettable personality. Dean Shaad was a student of human character and an educator, but above all he was an engineer. He was no chalk-wielder and book-scholar ele- vated to the head of an educational institution: he was a skilled engineer who chose to pass on a portion of his knowledge and ability to the skilled engineers of the future. And every Kansas University engineer who came to know Dean Shaad cherished this heritage. George Shaad was born in Strat- ford, New York, and received his pre- paratory education there. He attended Pennsylvania State College, where he received his B. S. degree in 1900 and an advanced degree in elec- trical engineering in 1905. About a year later he was married to Miss Merthyr Tydvil Evans at West Pits- ton, Pennsylvania. For two years after his gradua- tion from college he gained practical experience in the shops of the General Electric Company at Schenec- tady, Xew York. Before he became a professor ol electrical engineering at the University of Kansas in 1909, Dean Shaad had been a member of the engi- neering faculty at the University of Wisconsin and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Morton Levand, Bob Farmer. Bill YaugK. Peggy Stanley. Xada Petrovidi. Dick Aroerine, Ruth MeinecLe. Maxine Street, Jean Howes, Jane Blanev. Dan Duden. Jim Harris. Doris Johnson. Ernestine Menges. Isabelle Basil. Bob Brooks Winn Sratt. Wallace Springer. Jodie Stewart. Bill Pratt. Dean George Dean Shaad was appointed in 1916 by Josephus Daniels, secretary of navy, as a director of the State Organization for Industrial Preparedness. Soon after- ward he became acting dean while Dean Perley F. Walker was in war service, winning special recognition for his success in this capacity. At that time one thousand men had to be specially trained for army service by June, 1919, which necessitated reorganiza- tion of the entire method and material of teaching. The responsibility for this tremendous task fell on Dean Shaad. Yet at the time of the Armistice, months before the final date, 927 men had received their certificates at the University of Kansas. In 1918 Dean Shaad made a speech, foreseeing the opportunities open to engineers in the reconstruction work following the war. Since then, nearly all his pre- dictions have come true. This is but one example of the way in which his perception of values reached far beyond his academic work. In 1927, at the death of Dean Walker, he became Dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture. Dean Shaad s book on The Con- struction and Operation of Electrical Power Stations has been incorpo- rated as a section of the standard handbook for electrical engineering. His published articles on engineering are too numerous to mention here. Furthermore, he was even more popular as a speaker than as an author. He was constantly in demand for addresses before engineering groups. He was active in many professional and honorary societies, including the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, the Kansas Engineering Society, Phi Kappa Phi. Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi. Theta Tau, and most important, the American Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers. He was vice-president and member of the board of directors of the latter organization and rendered it invaluable service in his lifetime. Recently he was its representative for the states of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Lou- isiana, and eastern Texas to the Engineers ' Council for Professional Development. There could be no better evidence of Dean Shaad ' s ability in applied engineering than the confidence in his opinion that was exhibited by public officials. He often met with the city authorities of middle western to vns concerning the technical aspects of (Continued on Page )