University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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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

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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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DEAN LAWSON Very few college students, graduate from K.U. without at one time having changed enrollment or dropped a course; when this happens, the man they must convince is Paul B. Lawson, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Sciences. Bald, bluff but candid, he startles many a freshman with his quick-spoken and positive manner. Born in India of Methodist missionary parents, he enjoys the associa- tion with his congregation at West Side Presbyterian Church, where he preaches every Sunday. He is proud of his easy accessibility to the student; he confers with more students than most college deans. To the often-voiced student anxieties as to what to major in, he advises, Don ' t worry too soon about specializing; master what you are doing now. —Allan Cromley DEAN MOREAU A lawyer ' s most important qualification is self-confidence. This is the opinion of stocky, sly, self-confident Frederick J. Moreau, Dean of the Law School. A showman in the classroom, he is a Philadelphia lawyer at wriggling out of student snares. (This showmanship is practiced with a different twist by the whistlers in front of the law barn. ) Dean Moreau has never been in politics, thinks men of the legal profession have a superior understanding of human nature, does not re- gard lawyers as being overly cynical. He believes that the ability to read carefully will always create a demand for legally trained men in all reaches of society. On the international situation he quotes Francis Leiber: The difference between governments is that ' over there, ' governments charter liberties; here, people charter governments. —Allan Cromley DEAN SWARTHOUT That din and babel one hears as he passes Frank Strong comes from the School of Fine Arts. Administering this wonderful institution where the women outnumber the men is regal, stern, visaged Dean Donald M. Swarthout. Born and raised, as he terms it, in a menagerie of musical instruments, he studied abroad four years at the Royal Censervatoiy of Music in Leipzig and one year in Paris. This is his 24th year at Kansas University. His cousin, Gladys Swarthout, appears this winter in the university concert series. Although probably classed as a longhair in the jazz vernacular, he has a sympathetic ear for swing; he enjoys some of the music of Kostelanetz and Goodman. His one qualification: that swing should not be all-absorb- ing in the person ' s musical appreciation. —Allan Cromley Kaufman-Graham