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

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'gf Luhy LeRoy Smith Crites Bassett Sigley Brown Hoeclcer Bartle Ekblaw Physical Scientists ' By BILL K.ALIS WILLIAM- A. Lursvihas written algelgra and geometry text hoolcs which high schools all over the country use . . . is a farm looy from Johnson County, Kansas, and K. U. is where he got his degrees . . . taught at ilunior College here for many years . . . students say they really learn math from him . . . has a son and daughter in the University . . . his pet iield after mathematics is astronomy, and he has written a good deal on this suloject. DR. DANIEL T. SIGLEY was only twenty-tive when he came to the Lilniversity at the time it opened . . . a native Kansan, he toolc his lVlaster,s degree from K. U., where he stage- managed dramatic productions . . . got his Ph. D. from the University of lilinois and then taught mathematics there . . . originator and sponsor of Delta X, University math clulo . . . lilies nothing loetter than to get out Hwith the looysu and pitch horseshoes or play loasehall . . . expert loridge player and French linguist. DR. ROYCE H. LEROY loolfs the part of chairman ot the chemistry department . . . horn-rimmed glasses and a serious demeanor give him that scientific air . . . made dynamite in a powder worlcs and later lyecame Explosives Technologist for government . . . was graduate assistant at lVl. U., halt- time instructor and university research tellovv at lxlehraslia U .... plays a hang-up game of laasehall at either corner . . . is an amateur collector ot autographs ot chemistry notahles and philatelic rarities. DR. HAROLD P. BROWN, horn in lVlissouri, raised in Ar- lcansas, received his doctorate at Nehraslca . . . comes from a family of teachers . . . was Student Council, senior and junior class presidents at Central Missouri Teachers College . . . lVl. U. gave him a scholarship for first scholastic honors at the Teachers College . . . later was graduate assistant at lVl. U .... was Parke-Davis research fellow at lxleloraslca U., playing with mothhalls and arsenic . . . spends portion ol summers in industrial research . . . in University of Kansas Cityis first year he taught all the physics and chemistry offered . . . an interest in music cultivated in college orchestra and hand associations continues actively today. Page 24

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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

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Eext ,s a lere for iim pet 1 a ime an, 29' the ind yer the ous A in gist alf- ska ner stry Ar- 'om md ege .ors ' at U., ol sas Ltry .tra With a doctor,s degree from the University ol Minnesota, DR. GRANT SMITH discovered a new method for preparing catalytic suhstances which has found wide usage . . . taught at Nlinnesota and Grinnell . . . won the Archiloald prize for the high- est scholarship in the 1928 class at Grinnell . . . held Shevlin fellowship in Chemistry at Minnesota . . . has played practically every musical instru- ment at one time or another . . . active memher of orchestra, glee cluh and hand in student days. DR. FRANK E. HOECKER has his physics lalo littered with all kinds ol complicated-looking gadgets . . . likes to experiment and huilds amazing things from innocuous-appearing ma- terial . . . students like him hut com- plain they spend the loest years of their lives working in the lah . . . particular- ly interested in application of X-rays to medicine . . . married last year the same week he got his doctor,s degree from K. U. where he held two fellow- ships . . . got A. B. in three years, summa cum laude . . . directly from doctorate work to chairmanship of department. JAMES EDWARD CRITES, Jr., has de- signed physics equipment for manu- facturers . . . and done industrial research . . . has had much teaching experience . . . took his master,s degree from Columhia Llniversity in New York City . . . will return to Indiana University this summer to complete work on his Ph. D. Page 25 DR. Gl.ENN G. BARTLE, smiling geol- ogy department chairman, is one of the hest-liked men on the campus . . . quit position as lllinois city superintendent of schools to turn scientist . . . taught at Junior College loefore coming here . . . consulting geologist for Missouri Valley Gas and Ctil Co., and lxlissouri Vvestern Co .... has hrought in many gas wells in this district . . . puhlished articles on depletion of wells . . . takes his classes on field trips to the Clzarks and other regional spots of importance . . . likes to hunt and play haskethall. DR. CHARLES F. BASSETT worked way through Cornell University with aid of scholarship . . . Venezuela saw him lor tive years as a petroleum geologist . . . connected with survey of water talole in lVlichigan,s state forests . . . helongs to quite a few honorary so- cieties . . . took his Ph. D. from the University of Michigan. DR. SIDNEY E. EKBLAW doesnt he- lieve in professorial histrionics . . . ap- preciates students, viewpoint . . . knowledge ol agricultural geography traceahle to eighteen years on lllinois farm . . . taught way through college . . . music lover . . . attended graduate school ol: geography at Clark Univer- sity, Vvorcester, Mass., concentrating on study of Bahylonian plain . . . real- izes great field of studying lives of people in relation to environment and helieves in conserving natural re- sources and planned use of land . . . interested in all prohlems of the grass- lands, cultural, political. and economic.