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

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C. DEGROFF PLATTE, director of student activitiesp Miss Evlyn Fisher, COUl'1S6l0f of W0me! i Gnd Fl0Yd E- SfUYi0nf V- A- training officer? enrolling students get in contact with them almost immediately. Ze .fdcfminidfrafion of fk M This University's rapid advance from an ob- scure city college in i934 to a school of national significance in i948 should be traceable to some factor or factors in its activity. Perhaps the most logical candidate for the appropriate kudos re- quired by such a successful career would be the factor which is the common denominator of all University policies. This instrumental element is the University Administration. Since the decisions and planning of the members of the Administration represent the most positive single element in the daily life of a school, a large share of the responsibility for either its success or failure must be theirs. Hence it was deemed appropriate for a section of the Yearbook to be devoted to the principal figures of the Administration. Through the concentrated and cooperative ef- forts of Dean Rudolph Heitz of the Law School, Dean Norman Royall in the Liberal Arts College, Pharmacy's Dr. Theodore Dittrich, and Dr. Roy Rinehart, dean of the School of Dentistry, the program of total unification has rapidly come to complete realization. With such splendid work as this, the task of supervision and farsighted guidance which has fallen upon the shoulders of President Clarence R. Decker, Vice-President Robert ivlortvedt, and Dr. John E. Barnett, dean of the Evening College, has been lightened and the University has been able to continue on a progressively smooth and non-frictional basis. Another factor in the harmony which pervades is the complete faith which the Board of Trustees has in the capable judgment, initiative and leader- ship of Dr. Decker. Augmenting this is the under- standing attitude, marked by good fellowship and departmental unity, which has been forthcoming from the entirety of the faculty with unparalleled continuity. Among the progressive policies which the Uni- versity of Kansas City has given an initial impetus to are the establishment of a format which fore- casts more modern educational arrangements in the future. Every student is required to take a certain number of foundation courses which provides a wide range of interest and gives all scholars a firm basis of comprehension for any type of advanced course, in all fields. Another innovation is the splendid program of arranging for the offering of lecture courses by famous visiting professors. Thus an interna- tional aura adds to the advantages of the insti- tution. A plan is now in effect whereby a person may The Kangaroo

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