University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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DEAN STOUFFER The University recently has created a new office, Dean of the Uni- versity. This impressive sounding position is handled by Dean Ellis B. Stouffer. His job includes chairmanship of the university budget com- mittee, faculty appointments, and assignment of space for the departments. From point of service, Dean Stouffer is one of the oldest faculty mem- bers; this is his 33rd year at K. U. He was dean of the Graduate School for 24 years and chairman of the math department for five years. He plays golf for relaxation and, considering his mathematical background, he is probably cursing some parabolic equation when he slices one into the rough. Asked about Einstein ' s theory of relativity he says, Not too tough. Easy to read the other man ' s work. —Allan Cromley DEAN REESE This southern gentleman usually can be found in room 215, Bailey Chem. Lab. J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, came to Kansas in 1940. His complaisant manner and faint drawl betray hs former habitat, Virginia. After attending Medical College of Virginia and the University of Florida he entered industry as a scientist of the mortar and pestle. In 1930 he substituted for his former professor and has been in the educa- tional division of pharmacy since that time. Wedding bells rang after he came to Mt. Dread; his wife is a K. U. graduate. He believes that he will never succumb to the higher salaries offered in the pharmaceutical industry. His faculty friends regard him as the most insatiable and patient fisher- man they know. In politics he is a democrat and points out, You may quote me. Cromley DEAN STOCKTON Prospective Rockefellers and Morgans may take notice of the fact that our School of Business has a national placement market and is the only school in Kansas whose graduates may take the CPA exams in New York and New Jersey. Dean of the Business School is bald, tough-minded Frank T. Stockton. A former varsity football captain and Phi Beta Kappa at Allegheny University, he is outspoken and believes that the business world holds few places for introverts, that campus politics is an excellent avocation for the business major. Of the OPA— A hopeless rearguard fight against price rise. On the international situation— I expect to spend the rest of my life in an armed camp. —Allan Cromley

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CHANCELLOR MALOTT As one treads the green carpet toward the large mahogany desk he meets a tall, friendly man who shakes hands warmly and makes his visitor feel at ease. Suave, bland Chancellor Deane W. Malott is the man whose responsibility it is to administer the scholastic education of almost 9,000 students. Believing that today is history ' s most in- teresting period in which to live, he voices enthusiasm which reaches out to encourage the student to take a greater interest in the dra- matic parade of current events. He is opti- mistic about the international future; he favors a fair but very firm policy toward Russia. How would he use a conjectural gift of money to the University? Housing! Asked about the function of the student council, he replies that it is a liason between student opinion and the administration. —Allan Cromley A ( • • strat •

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DEAN JONES My name is Jacob Oscar, but my friends call me ' J. 0. ' Dean J. 0. Jones is the affable, i nformal, pipe-devoted native Kansan who leads our men of the slide rule and transit. Except for projects in Idaho, West Vir- ginia, and on the Mississippi River, he has engineered on Mt. Oread most of the time since his KU graduation in 1912. An admirer of our A Cappella Choir, J. 0. believes that extra-curricular activities should play a part in every engineer ' s campus life. A characteristic informality is his classroom regulation that sleeping is allowed but snoring is verboten. When asked his job, Dean Jones quotes his own adage, A dean is a man who is too smart to be chancellor and not smart enough to be a professor. —Allan Cromley DEAN NELSON Grave, sincere, deep-thinking J. H. Nelson is the dean of the Graduate School. A graduate of Cornell University, he came to K. U. as an associate professor of English in 1925. One is usually surprised to find that Dean Nelson ' s avocation is farming. During the war he ran a large dairy farm near Lawrence. Believing that good students establish the teacher and that good teachers establish the school, his ambition is to make the University a center of scholarship. He regards teaching as an art and thinks that extra-curricular activities should interfere in no way with academic studies. As chairman of the committee on aids and awards, Dean Nelson wants to set up many more exchange scholarships with other nations. —Allan Cromley DEAN SMITH World War II veteran, George B. Smith, Dean of the School of Educa- tion, heads the throng of ex-service men returning to Mt. Oread. Youngish, unaffected, his completely civilian appearance belies his martial record. A graduate of the army ' s formidable Command and General Staff school, Lt. Col. Smith served with operations section, G-3, 15th Army in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany. He possesses fruit salad galore, including two battle stars and the purple heart. Dean Smith believes that most veterans will study more intelligently and pursue a more direct course toward a particular goal than they did be- fore the war. Did he like the army? Lt. Col. Smith replies with an emphatic Yes! —Allan Cromley Kauf man-Graham