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

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. atural Scientists By BILL KALIS DR. RAYMOND G. STONE, hioiogy de- partment head, is always taken for a native Missourian hut Kenyon and Qhio VVesleyan gave him his first degrees . . . Ph. D. from M. U., and never runs out of interesting episodes that oc- cured there . . . teaches the art of dis- section in his greenhouse classroom and dogs and cats run when they see him on the campus . . . loves sports, and enjoys fishing aside from the oh- taining of specimens . . . was a Re- search Feiiow for two years . . . con- tinues his research in the summers on the Tortugas Islands . . . from there he hrings hack specimens for use in his classes . . . has several otherwise un- procurahle specimens. DR. KENNETH L.MAHONY is a hiologist who likes only one thing hetter than scientific research and that,s teaching his students scientific facts ahout plants . . . students claim he can make an ordinary weed as interesting as a hest selling novel . . . girl students re- fer to him as uma-honeyn . . . received his degree at the University of Vvis- consin and taught at the same insti- tution five years . . . did extensive re- search on the cytology and morphology of An giosperms, and plans comprehen- sive research on the Hora of Missouri. As Physical Education chairman DR. C. E. KENNEDY knows whereof he speaks . . . is an authority on hoxing and has written several hooks on the suhject, drawing on his experience as a Hpron . . . students cali him HDOCH . . . has a sawhones degree from the medical school at the University of Pittshurgh and administers expert first aid to injured gymnasts . . . directed physical education for seven years at the University of Colorado in Boulder . . . heams when he contemplates the recently finished outdoor courts for tennis, haskethail, volley hail, horse- shoe pitching, which will enahie him to hroaden his gym program despite limited equipment and meager indoor facilities . . . is an enthusiastic dry fly trout fisherman and enjoys his golf. Miss VIOLET BOYNTON has charge of women,s physical education classes and was a haskethall star herself in a New York state high school where she captained her team for three years . . . cares not a whit for producing muscled marvels, teaches athletics for health and pleasure only . . . looks young enough to he taken for Hone of the girisu when out on the field . . . is a memher of Standards Committee on Womens Athletics for American Physical Education Association . . . has done Y.VV.C.A. and private school work. CLYDE DEWITT NORTON has a wealth of experience hehind him in his work as chairman of the psychology department . . . formerly was a travel- ing executive for the student division of the Y.M.C.A. and did work in army camps for that organization during the Page 26 W . . ver ant the Po sol self ma Jol in at PS! cla Ui ll-I de grz pa ho 01

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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.

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World War, later transferring to the Navy as petty officer . . . received his iV1aster,s degree from Northwestern Uni- versity . . . was director of the Cincinnati Y.iVI.C.A. schools and for eight years was in charge of student employment there . . i. is an expert at exhiloition hag punching . . . as Popeye won Hobo Day prize last year. DR. LORENZ MISBACH looks as scholarly as his name sounds . . . hetongs to the Hscientific approach to psychoiogyn school and frowns on those who would popularize psych . . . made a lie detector and hopes to get it to a functioning stage . . . was a National Research Council fellow for one year at Johns Hopkins . . . is a native Kansan . . . taught two courses in Greek in senior year at Baker University . . . psych later at Northwestern . . . author of scientific articles in psychological journals. MISS PEARL HAAS helieves college should he like home . . . carries out that idea hy equipping her home economics classroom with comfortable cottage funiture . . . prepares University of Kansas City Coeds for an HTGAH degree fl-low to Get a Husband, . . . a native Kansan, she took her degree from Kansas State at Manhattan, Where she was graduate and research assistant in clothing and textiles de- partment . . . an accomplished musician . . . very active in honorary home economics, frats, Qmicron Nu and Kappa Gmicron Phi. Page 2? Stone Mahony Kennedy Boynton Norton Mishach Haas