Wichita State University - Parnassus Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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1948 Betty Jacobs Editor-in-Chief Dean Campbell Business Manager

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UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT A former bronco-buster from Idaho, Dr. W. M. Jardine is beginning his fifteenth year as president of the University. Dr. Jardine remembers saving the $30 per month he received for punching cattle in order to go to college. Nobody told me I ought to do it, he said. I just decided I should. When he was 20. Dr. Jardine left Idaho for Utah State University at Logan, Utah, where he donned a jersey and went out for football. Since 1906 he has held the positions of assistant United States cerealist in charge of dry grain investi- gations, president of Kansas State College. United States Secretary of Agriculture, minister to Egypt, and Kansas state treasurer. In 1934. Dr. Jardine accepted the presidency of the University of Wichita, intending to stav for two years only. Of his job he says. I believe that the last 1-1 years have been the most interesting I ' ve spent because I enjoy working with young people.