University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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) DR. romm Hollywood-styled by Dolores Sulzman TALL, well built and (see pic- ture), Dr. Coleman, in his first statement to the press, said, with the proper Hollywood intona- tion, I just want to be a good prof, and he means exactly that. From Sunny Cal, Dr. James C. Coleman came to join the K. U. psychology staff this fall just in time to enjoy the Kansas rainy sea- son. The rain and other things ob- served during his first week in our sovereign state have confused him a bit. He, too, thought Kansas was dry. He ' s interested in psychology and moreover interested in teach- ing it to anyone who gets in his classes. He doesn ' t offer any snap courses, but as one coed explains it He has a way of dishing it out (Continued on Page 60)

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FALL I S S B E 1945 number of students find themselves commuting via the Rapid Transit. Student renters, office reports say, started out with choosey ideas. Many of them wanted the companionship offered by organized houses that being out of the ques- tion, they thought they could do with a nice, spacious room something with all the comforts of home, modern facili- ties, thick rugs, ample closets, and a beauty-rest mattress. At the end of several days ' search some were ready to settle for a closet with a pull-down mattress and a priority on the bathtub every other Saturday. Worried mamas and papas, not trusting the listed rooms, made house-to-house canvasses to find a lovely couple who would take Gertrude in for the year. Others felt that a ten-minute walk to the campus inter- fered with their education. Having convinced most stu- dents that 14th street Hill is really a breeze, and that no rooms were available on top of Oread, the University ' s next problem concerned the landladies. Those who felt it their duty to further universal intellect by taking in student roomers, nevertheless cringed at the thought of loud voices reverberating through the walls at all times of the day or night, innumerable phone calls, rings on the bath tub, along with a certain amount of leavening power on their property. Tact and understanding on the part of the housing authorities were employed to get these two divergent factors together the landlady and the student. It wasn ' t so much a problem of finding the University with its post-war problems down. It was lack of essential materials for building during the war, and the sudden release of servicemen at the war ' s end which left few homes for the homeless. As near as university officials can check, only one or two would-be students went home because of the housing prob- lem. More veterans and civilian students will be coming back to school each semester. The enrollment will break all previous records. Post-war housing plans will be the order of the day. More private rooms and apartments should become avail- able soon with the steady termination of war workers. But the trend of student choice seems to be for living in organ- ized houses. Plans are being made for new residence halls, one for men and one for women, to be built with the $201,000 given by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pierson of Texas. Plans for a women ' s dorm to be built west of Corbin were started be- fore the war. New dormitories undoubtedly will be built, fraternities will re-claim their houses, students will move back in view of Mt. Oread this will be the future, the post-reconversion period, when the room-renter hangs the rooms sign on the front door and prepares to latch on, to, a rotiiner or to go down trying.

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0. T. EXPERT Nancy B. Greenman, O.T.R., is the way it reads on the books which means K.U. has a new registered oc- cupational therapist. You ' ll find her on the third floor of Frank Strong hall teaching classes in handcrafts and O. T. theory. Born in Norwich, Conn., Miss Greenman, until this year, had never been west of New York. She attended the University of Connecticut and took post graduate work at the Boston School of Occupational Therapy. Previous to joining the K.U. teaching staff. Miss Green- man worked as an occupational therapist at St. Eliza- beth ' s hospital in Washington, D. C These hills in Lawrence were something I hadn ' t expected, she explained. I still can ' t convince the folks in New York that Kansas isn ' t flat. In spite of the differences and surprises that she has discovered out west. ' Miss Greenman likes K.U. As far as hobbies go. Miss Greenman doesn ' t have a special one but she enjoys music, movies, books, books, and more books. (Books could nearly be the one. ) She also likes to swim and hike. Girl Scouting is a specialty with her, and she has taken a Lawrence scout troop under her wing. She says she ' s a nature lover from ' way back. She doesn ' t claim a favorite movie star, but Bing Crosby is a strong first-placer. I ' m not a Frankie fan, she admits emphatically. by Mary Vermillion HffSPAPEI Ml From newspaper man to journalism instructor in one short year is Lee Cole, new faculty member on the Hill, and new coaching, neophyte journalists on the fine arts of photography, feature writing, and newspaper admin- istration. Cole, who attended De Pauw University on a Rector Scholarship and later graduated from the University of Indiana, has been in the newspaper game for almost a decade. During the last 21 years he has published two weekly newspapers, back home in Indiana. One was in Highland and the other in Cayuga, Ind. This, his first year at K.U., is also his first contest with the trials of teaching. Of his four sons, whom he says are going to K.U., one is now serving with the merchant marines, a second is waiting to be drafted after recently completing high school, and two are still in junior high school Cole, an enterprising businessman, has the distinction of being one of the first small-town publishers to install and operate his own news-photography outfits. His hobbies follow closely after the pattern of his work practical printing and woodworking. As another side- line, he has been active in scout work for the past 13 years. by Sim Myers Photos by Smith