University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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II THE J A V 11 A W K E R to the lxn t uf hi ability. Hi fir l con vocal ion .i.l- dm i which lit- wrote out in hi wifl longhand at OIK- Mllm-i WM model of rlcarncN. and dirrclneiw and. U illiam Allen U bile aid. pootl sense. Normalcy i almost the keynote uf liii life. Tin- -mi of a hanker (ami incidentally the r.nul-on of a hanker anil the great -grandson of a hanker I. ho h.i- i.. mil. i. . I litil. that might mar the even progress uf hi- development. In the .il ' - MI. of ii i mil- or incmoi i. - of i hildhond. we may -till presume that he hntl a tliililluM.il that he played in.nl.li-. was Li ! l. hi aunt , ami went dutifully to Abilene ' liool- tin latter not without mime normal n- inn ni miapn ni--. probably . After that he gravitated to- ward tin- I imcr-ity of Kansas. I In war hail ju-i I.. mi ami it wai the one subject that |iiTini-.iii-i| college lift-. The following -IIIIIIIK i (muni Deanc Maloll iii a training! camp, and lu-n September of 1-18 produced a naval reserve on the K I i .mipii-. In- .ni. i. . I that. He was marched up, duMii. over, anil around tin- Oread ili-lrit-t uiuier the watchful -M- .if . . U.ivi- (now li.iiim.ui of the depart metit of history i . H - .1- ina rehed up and down ml until the i mi-ti. . lint tli.it was enough lo brim: him doM n with tin- fin. And the flu was crioii- enough to -i ml him to Hawaii for reeuperation. .Ni-xt year he returncil to school. Now what dill I tudy ' ! ilmi ' t knoM wli.il my m.iji.iu.i-1 But tli.il ' - n.it important, anyway. I m-i went ilmni li like any- |HM| else did and came out the other end. But that major war- either journalism or economics. On the ii - hand, he was -irrulation manager of the Kansan, and on the other he wan engrossed in the -tmlv of mimni. - nn l -r Arthur J. B rilnn. It was Mr. Boyn- ton who turned his eyes in the direction of Harvard and further -lmi . There, in the -timnl.ilin atmosphere of oilier sharpened niiii.l-. he learned formulas, drew graphs, an l Iraeked down historical -l.iti-li -. In the evenings. he and In- apartment-males in old Dunstcr Hall would fit around the fire and argue over supply and demand and production cycle and Im-in.--- policy. And to- wanl the end of his Mi-ond year, as he was preparing lo recci - lii- ma-t -r - decree in Business Administra- tion. I). an - Malott was imitcd to join the Harvard faculty if assi-tant dean of the Business School. There he -taxed until 1929, when he was invited to work in Hawaii as icc-prc-iden! of the Hawaiian Pine- apple Cumpam of Honolulu. He wanted some real Im-ine- experience and who could have asked for a pleasanter setting? II.- ua-n ' l the only one thai liked the idea. You sec, on that firm visit to the mid-Pacific islands in 1919 he had met a certain Kleanor Si won Thrum of Mill alley, California. The records shows that a year or two later he went wet again. He couldn ' t plead MMM of health that lime. He didn ' t even go as far .1- Hawaii. But hi a alion took him, JHH| incident- ally, to the Thrum re.idence in Mill Valley. And in 19S, California girl who had lived part of the time in Hawaii, moved to Camhridjie. Massachusetts. Hardly four years passed, of course, until the family found themselves hack in Hawaii again on lmsim- -. There were the children to take care of, now, too, and sight-seeing in this favorite place of all places finally heroine more or less limited to pointing out to the children Mauna Loa ' s crest against the sky. hen the application of modern production prin- ciples lo the pineapple fields hegan to pall, Mr. Malott returned to academic halls again, and the years 1933-39 found the recalled assistant dean teaching Harvard Business School students such suhjects a Business Policy, Puhlic Utilities Administration, Business Proldem Analysis, and Agricultural Indus- tries- especially the later. His students must have found it pretty hard to get hy easily in - ' his methods called for a great deal of classroom di rii-H m ami student eontrihution particularly in that Busi- ness Prohlems course. Administrative work in his own School also look much of his time. He was chairman of the- Scholar- ship Coiiimitlec. liesides. Anil he was continually working on various reports for important financial concerns, not to speak of several hooks with such titles as Introduction to Corporalr Fiiunn-t-, On (ioinfi Into Business, and Problems in Agricultural Markcl- inf!. There ' s one on the press right now. hy the ay. called Agricultural Industries, which he has written in collaboration with Boycc Martin, also of llarxan!. Still lie found time to do considerable heating and skiing, as well as some very extensive reading outside the economic field such favorite things as hiography and historical novels, the Atlantic and Time Miiiuizim: William Allen White ' s Puritan in Bahylon. And, of course, he was a regular, enthusiastic worker in New Kngland alumni circles. He kept in touch with K.U. He thought of himself preeminently as a K.U. grad. )S hen the University regents set out in search of a comparatively young man, preferably a Kansas aluni- iiii-. to take over the administration of Ml. Oread ' s manifold activities and problems, their painstaking umv-ligation totaled up to a unanimous choice. V lien Deane Waldo Malott, ' 21, was notified of their de- cision, he set aside the comfort of his familiar sur- roundings, the chances for advancement and further recognition in his own long-studied field, and decided to come home. The crowning part of his story remains to be told twenty years from now. perhaps. Then we will know whether first impressions were true. But for now, we have from him what is, in a certain sense, his life ' s credo a credo that is, like himself, direct .in. I clear- headed: The most important job is always the im- mediate job. ll..,N.- a .h,-,l I., i|, r rnifn.il v IM nprinn .1 it,., ilralh of K.U. ' . l,.-n.-l,,.lrr... Mr.. Kli za |,.-lli Walkim, the m-w Cliunn-llor ' . -i.l.m.- i. iin MpMtef n l iVnutiful ail.lili.m i,, it,,, rumpus hiith |.ill.ii- and halroniei and rhimnryu i.i.i-k a t lir -i-.iur% lv..-ni,.,,,,,..r.,.,n, II..IIK-. Built in 1911. it, ,., |,, WC r floor have I..-.-I. r.-.l.-. i.r.lr.l in Mhiir: It.,- almo.plirri- lin-all,,-, I kit inf,,rniiil ilUi.ll V.|M,|I ,. l p i,al of thr Maloll,. An.! ll,,- vi.-w fr,, m lli.- oiinlim. |.ir.m, a l.roa.1 panorama of vall.-y v -elalion. H lii.-li it lypiral of Mouni Orcail.

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THE JAY HAWKER (Drawing by Andy Darling t It was in August of 1854 that Charles Robinson and his friends pulled their wagons to a halt on a grass-covered eastern Kansas hill. That flight, sitting around the eanipfire so the legend goes they determined i i things. In the valley helow they would build their town. And on that very hill they would build a college. by FRIEDA COWLES IK EARLY three-quarters of a century has passed || since the doors of Old North College first swung open on September 12, 1866, inviting Kansas youth to enter and receive the wealth that is a university education. For several years prior to this, however, pre- liminary work was done. As early as 1856, Amos A. Lawrence, in whose honor the city of Law- rence was named, requested Charles Robinson to spend some money for him in laying the foundation of a school building on the north point of Mount Oread. In those days of unrest, the state was not yet ready to erect a university. Each in turn, the Presbyterian, the Congrega- tional, and the Episcopal church attempted to establish a school of higher education in Law- rence. A preparatory school was conducted in the basement of the Unitarian church for about three months in 1859, but closed for lack of patronage. Ultimately, the work that the churches accomplished was transferred to the state when a single vote in the state legislature in 1863 HIGHLIGHTS