University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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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

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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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GEORGE B. SMITH, Education J. ALLEN REESE, Pharmacy JOHN H. NELSON, Graduate School Beta Kappa. While earning his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins the next two years, the Dean played more varsity foot- ball. In the following year he was chosen captain of the football team. In 1917 Dean Stockton joined the faculty at the University of South Dakota as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, the youngest dean in the country at that time. Then in 1924 Chancellor Lindley asked him to come to KL ' as head of the newly organized School of Business. In 1947 Dean Stockton became the first Dean of University Extension, which now reaches more than 30,000 adults all over the state and area. Rumor has it that 1 play a very lousy guitar, quips DR. GEORGE B. SMITH, Dean of the School of Education. Well, that rumor is true. Dr. Smith ' s musical talent and his penchant for collecting folk songs were acquired from several men from Kentucky and Tennessee with whom he served overseas during the war. The Dean has two young sons who are constantly revising his knowledge of child developmental psychology. When asked what qualities he particularly likes in people, the Dean replied, All of them. The longer I live, the more sure I am that there ' s no one way to do anything; no one quality that ' s best. Belief in sound fundamentals characterizes the edu- cational philosophy of DR. J. ALLEN REESE, Dean of the School of Pharmacy. To him, particular courses are not nearly so important as is a basic understanding of the human race and its problems. The Dean believes that a student must be taught to think and adapt himself to changing conditions. While getting his Ph.D. at the University of Florida, the Dean received a telegram from Chancellor Malott suggesting he meet Dean Stauffer, then of the Graduate School, at Washington. Seeing an oppor- tunity to develop the school, and particularly interested in building up a young faculty, Dr. Reese came to KU as Dean of the School of Pharmacy in 1940. During his years at KU, Dr. Reese has held every position in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, having been president last year. For 18 years DR. JOHN H. NELSON, Dean of the Graduate School, has owned a farm in the Kaw Valley; during the war he ran a dairy farm. Anything connected with the outdoors, whether farming, fishing, or hunting, appeals to him. Dean Nelson took his Ph.D. at Cornell and taught there for seven years. Through the late Pro- fessor Carl Becker, one of America ' s most distinguished historians. Dean Nelson became interested in KU. Here he taught English until seven or eight years ago, when he left his post as Associate Dean of the College to become Dean of the Graduate School. A thorough knowledge of a few fundamentals, such as one ' s own language, mathe- matics, and the history of one ' s country, is the true basis of education.