University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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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

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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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THOMAS GORTON, Fine Arts F. T. STOCKTON, University Extension HAROLD G. BARR, Religion Dean BURTON W. MARVIN is President of the Asso- ciation of Accredited Schools and Departments of Jour- nalism for next year. Besides being a member of the American Council on Education for Journalism and Chairman of the Board of the School of Religion, Dean Marvin heads the Lawrence Rotary Club and teaches an adult Sunday school class at the First Methodist Church. Recalling his biggest thrill, the Dean still remembers the Christmas vacation in 1934 when a convention of college editors was held in Washington, D. C. The boys were all guests of Franklin D. Roosevelt for an hour bull session. Undoubtedly the most hilarious experience which DR. F. J. MOREAU of the law school has ever undergone is the time he refused to talk on the telephone with his boss because he thought it was someone impersonating the President. Later when it was discovered that it had really been the chief administrative officer, both had a good laugh. As one of a committee of four men, Dean Moreau worked for five years to draft a new corporation code for Kansas, which was adopted in 1939. Along with this enjoyment of his job comes the deep satisfac- tion of seeing how well law graduates of KU fare wher- ever they go. The Dean feels that the outstanding thing about the law students is that they have minds of their own. The only dean of the KU faculty who was born in Kansas is DR. LEONARD H. AXE, Dean of the School of Business, who hails from Council Grove. After graduat- ing from KU, the Dean taught high school in his home town for four years before returning to attend law school. He then practiced here in Lawrence for some time. Noting the jobs which he has held here at KU causes the Dean to murmur that he has done everything but direct traffic. During the war he was University Director of the V-12 program and the medical training program for the Army and Navy. As first Director of the Veterans ' Training Pro- gram, he organized the initial setup, which continues today largely unchanged. He later became assistant to Chancellor Malott and in 1947 attained his present post as Dean of the School of Business. My primary interests are fishing, bridge, and read- ing, remarked DR. THOMAS GORTON, Dean of the Col- lege of Fine Arts, though not necessarily in that order. Having graduated from the Rochester, N. Y., Music School, Dean Gorton taught for some time in a settlement school at Rochester for poor but talented children. After the war he became Director of the School of Music at the University of Ohio; then in the fall of 1950 he came to KU as Dean of the School of Fine Arts. While a student at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, Dean F. T. STOCKTON played football and basketball, participated in varsity debate, and was elected to Phi