University of Missouri at Kansas City - Kangaroo Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Humanists By BILL IQALIS DR. CLARENCE R. DECKER was crowned oratorical champion in 1924, receiving first place from each oi seven judges . . . said to he the youngest student ever to get his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago-has loeen to Europe twice., first time working his way on a cattle laoat, reading Don Quixote and -sulosisting on three cig- arettes a day hecause food was so had and voyage so rough . . . con- trihutes to scholarly journals . . . is co- author of a novel and has another ready to roll off the press . . . met fam- ous Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera, while in Mexico last summer, which resulted in famous art discussion he- tween Rivera and Thomas Hart Ben- ton in the winter issue of the Univer- sity Review, of which Decker is ed- itor . . . at his ,loache1or apartment students like his Saturday night Hopen housen where they hear music fDeck- er,s hololoy, he loves Beethovenl, talk, eat, wisecrack. Born in the Pacific-Northwest, DR. WALLACE CABLE BROWN worked his way east from the University' of Idaho as far as Qxford, where he studied three years as a Rhodes scholar, 1927- 1930 . . . traveled extensively in Eng- land, Scotland, France, Germany . . . hefore coming here he taught at the University of lVlichigan, where he also did graduate work . . . is a true scholar and researcher . . . main field of in- terest is in literature of eighteenth cen- tury, especially travel literature . . . on this suhject he wrote his doctor,s thesis, has written articles on it for various scholarly pulolications . . . this may ex- plain why his favorite course is Clas- sicism fEnglish literature, 1660-1S00l . . . likes Shakespeare and students like his course in the immortal hard . . . usually, when he isnst in the eighteenth century, he reads T. S. Eliot or The New Yorker. MRS. HELEN S. CLANCEY, English teacher and Adviser to Vvomen, is a former president of the Kansas City Vvomenss City Cluh . . . chairman Cincinnati Motor Corps, driving for Red Cross during war . . . active in K. Cfs Consumers League, Swope Settlement, Mattie Rhodes Center . . . has lived in Genoa, and traveled ex- tensiveiy in Europe . . . usually hostess or chaperones student social events . . . from Kentucky, she studied at Uni- versity of Cincinnati and Columloia University in New York City. In his first year here, dramatics in- structor WIILLIAM C. TROUTMAN rang loell with his first production, HCradle Songu . . . for eight years taught speech at University of Wisconsin and headed highly successful little theatre group . . . once was forest-fire-fighter at Yellowstone National Park . . . was on editorial staff of Esquire short while . . . knows many theatrical loiggies, gets many passes to Qrpheum . . . would like to promote university theatre pro- ject . . . most famous protege, Don Ameche of Twentieth Century Pictures. Page 22 Ivo: joi hir fro sio no Pa als pa Gi ca Ci ml th- HD eli fif lil tic SP Sf gli We in ca es a in 31 CO pf CC V CC

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FREDRIK V. NYQUIST, art chairman and annual adviser, was horn in Sweden, came to United States at tender age . . . joined the Marines on 18th loirthday . . . Armistice caused him to quit leathernecking, turn to art . . . seceded with group from Chicago Art Institute and Jane Addams offered seces- sionists a studio at her famous Hull House . . . studied under noted American fight Iithographer George Bellows . . . in Paris with modernists Fernand Leger and Andre Lhote . . . also at Universities of London and Munich . . . his first oil painting exhibited won first prize in Pittshurgh,s Carnegie Galleries . . . author of hook on art education and many edu- cation articles . . . United States Alma Maters: Chicago, Columbia, Harvard . . . taught ten years at Carnegie Tech. DR. GERALDINE P. DILLA, English and Art teacher, likes music and has written on the arts, literature, and music for the glossier mags . . . studied in Paris, University of London, and Columbia U .... has spent most of her summers trav- eling and conducting parties of university graduates through fifteen European countries. Students claim VV. L. CRAIN has a cultured accent, hut like his French courses . . . his hohhy is collecting first edi- tions of the works of Balzac . . . researches and makes speeches on the great French writer . . . was American Field Service Fellow at Paris for two years . . . as modern Ian- guages chairman is proficient in Italian and Spanish, as well as French. MAX L. BASEMANN, solemn modern languages teacher, was in Madrid one summer doing graduate work . . . students can,t understand his self-devised, complex grading system, especially when they Hunk . . . University of Iowa conferred a Master,s degree upon him. DR. MILAN S. LA DU, modern languages prof, who is interested in research, is an authority on medieval French . . . took his Ph. D. from Princeton and taught French and Spanish at Western Reserve University in Cleveland .- . . completing twelve months of special research in Paris as ap- pointee of the American Council of Learned Societies, he concluded hy cahle final negotiations for his position here. Particularly interested in study of French and German, XIIVIAN RETZLAFF has attended the Sorhonne at Paris in the course of her variegated European peregrinations . . . fcontinuecl on Page 50, Page 23 -::. . .-Q . -j,:,.y if ' Q Vow:-.2 '- X X E X, . . I:-:-.-.' '1-I .Q-5. - 1 xx 1- 121-M-'fffkkxa N .xx .... . J gawk-.XXXX 'S' 55QWff9'ff: HQIQQQA .-1-.-.MN 551 45 ...,.,.-1. A ... .- x .,., , , X . --'.::5I: E3:1:1Z5fQg- T fi i s-'ir fbfii-' Decker Clancey Nyquist Crain La Du Adams Brown Troutman Dina Basemann Retzlaff Busch man