University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Entertainment at the New Student Dance receipt grabbed away from her. Then there was a great deal of pointing toward a large board with things written on it and a repeated no, no, No, NO! until at last she was pushed back into the world with a card in her hand informing her she was enrolled in History of the Development of the Earth Worm I, Deep Sea Diving, Lower Slobbovian, Comma Uses I, and Western Civilazation. Oh that she had had someone to warn her against Western Civilization! She was not quite so energetic as she labored up Fourteenth street that night to attend another mixer at the Union. But the sight of so many MEN revived her to the point that she was able to take a tour of the campus before closing hours. Her escort was very courteous and eagerly pointed out such land- marks as Potter ' s Lake and the statuary about the campus. The next morning came the Physical! Sally clutched the sheet and of course the doctors won. Finding that she had nothing worse than a healthy condition, which they felt a few weeks of college life would cure, they decided to let her stay but not until they had jabbed her with needles, counted her ears, and measured the difference in length of her hair before and after curling. When Sally heard that the I.S.A. was sponsoring some apple-polishing parties she powdered her shoes and shined her nose, for by this time our Sally was not quite as innocent as she had been. She thought a little pull with the right people might be of help someday. So she trudged the long weary way to West Hills, she played games, she laughed at jokes, and she flirted with the teacher and was having a thoroughly enjoyable time until she found out that he taught History of the Development of the Snake which she could never take because of her course in the earth worm. But she still returned home happy in the knowledge that she had met the FACULTY. Sometime during the week-end she viewed the wicked college students at the Tepee, the Sky-line, the Mite, the Pit, the Hawk. She found out that college was not to be all classes and study. And she knew that she was simply going to love K.U.! But when Sally got up Monday morning to go to an eight o ' clock, her idea of college had changed somewhat. The FACULTY were just teachers, MEN were just men, and Fourteenth street had be- come that - !ffl $!! Fourteenth street. Up on North Hill on Monday night Sally sat with hundreds of other new students and swatted mosquitoes while she listened to the history of K.U. and of the traditions and how they came to be. She stumbled with the others down to the stadium and watched the fire ' s path down the Hill. Then as she croaked out the Rock Chalk, Sally knew her orienta- tion was over. She had become a JAYHAWK! Two New Students Step Out

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FALL NUMBER, 1948 27 A LIVING MONUMENT FOR OLD BILL WHITE Staff Writer, University Daily Kansan Auikted by Photos by ijw Jones According to the newspaper fathers the only way one could become a good newspaperman was to eat ink and sleep on the composing stone. That might perhaps have been a fine truism 80 years ago, but today what greater opportunity could tomorrow ' s disseminators of news and information have than the new William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information? The new School of Jour- nalism is named after the sage of Emporia, the editor of the Emporia Gazette, who was born and reared in Kansas. He lived here until his death in 1944, fulfilling a life of high public service. Bill White was a warm-hearted citizen. He was brave, forthright, and kind. He lived and preached good will. He always fought to defend the right and de- feat the wrong. There could be no greater monu- ment to his character and ideals than a school named in his honor. Who is going to turn the new School ' s far reach- ing plans into reality - - the enticing reality of a journalistic mecca at K.U. whose influence would enlighten the public opinion of the nation? Burton W. Marvin, the first dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, would surely have found favor in the eyes of the beloved Emporian. At thirty-four, Dean Marvin has had a broad background of journalistic experience. Majoring in journalism at the University of Neb- raska, he got his first job as a reporter for the Lincoln Star after his graduation in 1935. One year later Dean Marvin entered the Pulitzer Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia Univer- sity on a Hitchcock Scholarship. He received his Master ' s degree from Columbia in 1937. After graduation he went to the Chicago Daily News. The following nine years saw the dean-to-be advance from reporter to copy-reader to assistant city editor to cable editor and to telegraph editor. During his last year with the News, Dean Marvin taught at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In September of 1946, he decided to devote his full time to the teaching at the Medill School. After Northwestern came the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where the dean taught until he accepted his deanship at K.U. on September 1 just 15 days after the School was accredited by the American Council on Education for Journalism. He is at one time an educator, accomplished journalist, efficient administrator, and a down-right good Joe. Married to his college sweetheart, a Phi Beta Kappa and a fellow Nebraskan, he is now the father of three children. The dean is currently trying valiantly to meet a tremendous schedule of speeches, talk with architects about remodeling the Fowler Dean Marvin and Professor Beth Discuss Plans