University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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You can ' t attend the University of Kansas without the permission of Registrar James K. Hitt. From the moment the KU student begins his physical examination at Watkins Hospital until he marches through the campanile on his way to re- ceive his sheepskin, he is aware of the influence of private philanthropy at the University, most of which is channeled through the Endowment Asso- ciation. IRVIN YOUNGBERG, Executive Secretary to the Association, has the task of promoting and ad- ministering the gifts and bequests which have made the University of Kansas the great school that it is, a greater school than the taxpayers of the state could be expected to provide. The 250 trust funds which Mr. Youngberg invests and administers have helped enlarge the campus and permit many stu- dents to obtain an education or carry on advanced study. The Registrar ' s office acts as a front door to the University for the prospective KU undergrad- uate. New students are admitted through this office headed by JAMES K. HITT. The student then literal- ly enters the front door of KU, the registration line. After registration the office staff plunges into the task of preparing a permanent record for each student. These records are filled, semester by semester, until the student is eligible for grad- uation. The Registrar ' s office then serves as a back door to the University for it is in this office that the all-important document is prepared. Mr. Hitt maintains his sense of humor at all times. He finds time to head several committees and to serve as Secretary to the National Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. The Alumni office is a scene of a constant bustle of ringing phones, proofreading, editing, checking and layout. Through all this, FRED ELLS- WORTH, Alumni Secretary and ex-newspaperman, remains calm and friendly. Much of the activity can be attributed to the preparation of the Alumni Magazine which is distributed to 10,000 former students, graduates, and friends of the University. The Alumni Magazine carries evidence of much of the Alumni office ' s work, addresses of former students and notices of meetings of organization of KU clubs. But don ' t be misled by the name. The Alumni Association sponsors Statewide Activities for undergraduates and is interested in promoting class spirit in undergraduate classes. KARL KLOOZ, University Bursar, holds one of the most responsible positions at KU, but he man- ages to remain efficient and relaxed before the myriad, complex operations with which he is faced. The Bursar prepares and pays the payroll for the University faculty and employees. He purchases, pays for, and inventories the supplies necessary for the functioning of the University. Bookkeeping and accounting for these transactions are a large part of the Bursar ' s large job. In addition to these major functions, the Bursar ' s office performs many services to students such as handling funds for student organizations and a check cashing service. A devoted KU alumnus, Mr. Klooz likes to spend Saturday afternoons at KU football games and relaxes with a game of golf on non-football week- ends. Left, Irvin Youngberg, head of the University En- dowment Association; right, Fred Ellsworth reach- es for his own publication, the Alumni Magasine.

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THIS BUSINESS OF A UNIVERSITY The men and women who run it by Wayne Knowles STRONG HALL, the heart of the KU campus, houses the offices which offer non-academic services to students. Some of these offices work directly with students; others influence students only indirectly, but all these offices are concerned with making the University of Kansas a more pleasant and more profitable place for every student. One of the most important of these offices is that of MARTHA PETERSON, Dean of Women, whose warm personality and hearty laughter are well known to all women students. The Dean of Women ' s office is concerned with women ' s prob- lems as such, and operates on the principle that students can, if given the facts of a situation, reach The man with the money, Karl KIooz, purchases supplies, pays employees, checks student funds. Dean of Women Martha Peterson and Dean of Men Laurence Woodruff give personal aid and counsel. their own decisions. Miss Peterson acts as advisor to the large exclusively women ' s groups as well as to individual students with social, academic, or personal problems. One of the largest parts of the Dean of Women ' s job concerns dormitories, espe- cially the freshman dormitories, for which coun- sellors must be selected and trained. Another part is the process of admission, assignment, and selec- tion of staff which is carried on for all women ' s dormitories. Across the hall in the Dean of Men ' s office is LAURENCE WOODRUFF, quiet and sympathetic, who doubles in brass as professor of biology. The Dean of Men does, as he puts it, everything that no one else will do. Although concerned primarily with the welfare of men students, he finds himself assisting and advising activities, such as student government, composed of both men and women. In addition to activities, the Dean of Men watches over men ' s housing, health, and academic progress. He serves as a general counsellor to men students and is able to refer students to the proper agencies if their problems require more specialized attention than he can give them.

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T. DfiWiTT CARR Engineering PAUL B. LAWSON Liberal Arts and Sciences THE DEANS Architects of the intellect fey Dick Sheldon When I came here five years ago, I opened that door, ' ' said T. DEWixr CARR, Dean of the School of Engineering, and it has never since been closed. My hobby is human relations ' The Dean launched a 26- year career as a naval officer at Annapolis. Keeping the German fleet bottled up was his task during World War I when he served on an American battleship with the British Grand Fleet. After the war Dean Carr became the naval aide at the White House under President Calvin Coolidge, spending his second year there on board the President ' s yacht, Mayflower. December 7. 1941. found the Dean, after having commanded two sub- marines, as executive officer of the US Naval Training Station at Great Lakes, 111. He later served under General MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific, and became special assistant to the Chief of Naval Personnel in Washington. He came to KU as Dean in 1947. I am undoubtedly the man with the most brilliant head on the campus, chuckled DR. PAUL B. LAWSON, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ex- ternally, that is. Dean Lawson was born in India, where his parents were missionaries for 35 years. In 1903, just before his fifteenth birthday, Paul B. Lawson came to America. When he retires after next year, he plans to return to India. Dean Lawson still speaks Hindustanese fluently. Since coming to KU, Dean Lawson has held more positions than any other man in the history of the school. When not working, the Dean likes to get his fingers in the soil, for he has a thesis that nations which stay close to the soil never go too wrong. BURTON W. MARVIN, Journalism F. J. MOREAU, Late LEONARD H. AXE, Business