University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Dormitory Row, the University ' s newest housing area, contains newly built Pearson and Stephenson Halls as well as Sellards Hall (out of sight to the right). Older dorms on this new street include Batten- feld and Templin Halls. PLAN FOR TOMORROW by Virginia Mackey KU ' s FUTURE includes no growing pains as the University looks ahead, planning its building and housing needs. At a recent meeting of the Board of Regents, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy outlined a ten year building program totaling more than twelve and a half million dollars. To date more than four million dollars worth of construction is underway on the campus. Daily the walls of the new science building rise higher above the south side of the hill, the addition to the Union is almost completed, and the excavation for a $200,000 stack addition to the law library behind Green Hall has recently been finished. The reason behind the extensive building pro- gram is an anticipated increase in enrollment over the next ten to twenty years. University officials agree that planning for housing and supervised living cannot be over-emphasized since the student population may increase to between 10,000 and 12,000 within the next decade. At present Kansas elementary schools are jammed with children of the post-war baby boom. This increase in the school-age population, cou- pled with a growing exodus of industry to the Mid- west and particularly around Kansas City and Wichita, makes it extremely important that not less than 2,000 more student living units must be constructed in the near future. Without additional housing and classrooms there can be no continued progress in higher educa- tion at Lawrence. The two programs are linked 23

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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.

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Many parts of the new tripled-in-size Memorial Union Building opened this fall and the entire building is expected to be ready early in 1953. together and must go forward at the same time. About six million dollars will be available to the University from the state educational building fund at the beginning of the 1953 legislature. Chancellor Murphy plans to ask the legislature to approve at least a third of the proposed ten million dollars at the present time. The money will go toward: 1. Construction of a l o to 2 million dollar music and fine arts building. 2. Remodeling of Bailey Chemical Labora- tories into facilities for the School of Education, amounting to $500,000. 3. Purchase of $500,000 - $750,000 worth of equipment to be installed in the science build- ing which is now under construction. The remainder of the program, which will not come before the legislature until 1955, includes plans for the construction of a $740,000 annex on the northeast corner of Snow Hall and the addition of a third story on Haworth Hall annex costing $150,000. Housing for students is one of the most press- ing needs at the University. In repeated statements Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy has cited the neces- sity for expanding the dormitory system as well as classroom facilities. Plans being made to alleviate the housing sit- uation include construction of dormitories to ac- commodate 600 male students in the area west of Lindley Hall. The proposed location for the build- ings is about a mile west of the campus in what is 24