University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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THE JAYHAWKER of Rights-- BACK to school for the veteran means more than running down to Rowland ' s for a notebook and a few pencils. For the man who ' s transferring from the school of war to the school of education and peace, the process is long and complicated. On the University of Kansas campus, there is a bureau which specializes in giving every pos- sible aid to the man who wears the little gold wheel. At the Veterans ' Training Bureau, room 2, Frank Strong hall, the discharged serviceman finds a kind staff on hand to give him a hearty welcome. There the veteran who wishes to enter the University gets information and directions in re- gard to the procedure of enrolling in the University. From this office, which becomes his head- quarters, he is directed to the College office or offices of the various schools for enrollment, to Dean Henry Werner for rooms and employment, and if desired, to Dr. A. H. Turney ' s guidance bureau for educational, vocational, personal, and social counselling. In cooperation with the federal government ' s program for the education and training of war veterans, the University of Kansas offers its entire facilities and a special staff, headed by Dr. Leonard Axe, to meet the needs of the men and women returning from service in the armed forces. A Veterans ' Advisory Committee, with L. C. Woodruff as chairman, is available to help the veteran. The Veterans ' Training Bureau takes charge of working out the legal technicalities involved in the educational benefits provided for in Public Law 346, commonly known as the G. I. Bill of Rights, and Public Law 16, vocational rehabilitation. Under the G. I. Bill of Rights, the veteran is eligible to receive education or training, when the following conditions are met: ( 1 ) If he has served in the active military or naval service on or after Sept. 16, 1940, and prior to the termination of World War II. (2) If he has been discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable. (3) If his education or training was impeded, delayed, interrupted, or interfered with by reason of his entrance into the service; that is, any person who was not over 25 years of age at (Continued on Page 61) Top: left, Jack Greet, freshman, College; right, Tom Harris, junior, Special, Business. Bottom: left, Jim Kennedy, Special, Business; right, Art Coate, freshman, Engineer.

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THE JAYHAWKER fi. I. JOE GEORGE settled back against the sun-baked steps of Ad, contentedly surveying the campus through half-closed eyes. The whistle had just blown and students were streaming out on the campus from every direction, to engage in their ten-minute socials. There was elated confusion, then the new silence of 25 minutes before the hour. He shifted his books from his lap to the pavement and stretched long legs. It was great to relax here in the sun for awhile great to sit and muse over the events of the past few weeks. It had all come so suddenly. Unexpected orders and he was going home. Like FRED JOHN- SON, this veteran he met yesterday, said, there was a thrill to meeting the Statue of Liberty head on. Fred, a former air corps ground crew member, had been through the mill from Africa to Italy, and now he wanted to go to school to become a.CP.A. Through a haze of memories George recalled how he had dreamed of going back to school. He guessed that all the other fellows had dreamed about that, too. MlLLARD MUSSELMAN, a Lawrence radar-navigator, said he thought of home and school all the time, even when he was sight-seeing in Pompeii. A former K.U. student, Musselman was going to continue his air corps training by studying aeronautical engineering. DICK CARMEAN, a fighter pilot, was at K.U. in the good old days and wanted to get back home to gather up his pilot ' s wings from over the Hill. All the fellas George had met had said they weren ' t thinking of home as merely strawberry sodas and football games and slender-legged girls. Men like ARTHUR COATE, an air corps cadet, and JACK GREER, overseas for 34 months, wanted to quit playing hookey from mechanical en- gineering and business administration. Coate, who left K.U. in ' 44, had been gone such a short time that he still missed school, and Greer, a former K-State student, had been gone so long that he wanted to get home. But school had seemed pretty impossible back in 1943. Time had dragged for George and for fellas like this RAY HARTLEY, a figher pilot he had met, who had accumulated 226 points before he got home. Then the G.I. Bill of Rights came along. The allowance that would start for George soon wasn ' t a fortune, but combined with what he ' s saved from his flight pay, it was enough to help fulfill his dreams. This educational benefit wouldn ' t just last a short time either. After he ' d finished a year satisfactorily, he could go on with his course for a period equivalent to the amount of time he ' d been in the service. Those thirty-six long months in the service took on new significance when Top: Left. Dick Car-mean, Junior in Schoo) of Business; Right, Robert Haynesivorth, first year Law student; Left, Fred Johnson, Fresh- man in College; Bottom: Right, Ray Hartley, Graduate Student.