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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 1962
'LMOC' Cartoon Born at KU
"Little Man on Campus," the collegiate cartoon which appears in the Kansan and many papers throughout the country, was born here in 1946. Dick Bibler, creator of the cartoon and a student at Kansas from 1946 to 1950, won a Daily Kansan drawing contest and became the Kansan's regular cartoonist. Soon after this, "Little Man on Campus" was born.
Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, noticed the demand for the cartoon from other colleges and suggested that the cartoon be syndicated. Since this beginning with the Kansan, "Little Man on Campus" has become one of the most widely syndicated campus cartoons in the nation.
LMOC Worthal
Ebler's characters, the sawtoothed perpetual freshman, Worthal's strict, though often-fluorested Prof. Snarf, and the sexy lovelies have become part of the life of millions of people, not only at KU but throughout the country.
"My idea with Worthal," he explained, "was to create a face anyone could be sorry for."
While he was drawing cartoons for the news department of the Kansan, he was also drawing advertisements for the advertising department. Bibler's ads soon became another point of enjoyment for KU students.
Bibler was anything but a "little man on campus" while a student. He came to Kansas as a freshman in commercial art in the spring of 1946 after serving 34 months in the army. He was discharged as a technical sergeant.
During his four years at KU he was president of the senior class; a member of Sachem, senior men's honorary organization; Owl Society, junior men's honorary organization and Kappa Sigma social fraternity.
AFTER LEAVING KU, he studied at Colorado State College and Stanford University. He taught for a time at Monterey Peninsula College at Monterey, Calif.
Bibler is now a professional cartoonist and makes his home in Monterey, Calif.
Bibler's cartoons have been collected and numerous books of these cartoons have been published. The first of these cartoon books was printed in the spring of 1946 in an attempt to bring needed revenue to the Kansan.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Flint, widow of L. N. "Daddy" Flint, is 84. She lives in a two-story home at 16th and Louisiana. This is her home. This is where she reared her family.
Mrs. Flint Active at 84
Active and energetic, she does all her housework. Intelligent, she talks on any subject brought up. Alert, she looks for a chance to joke.
Mrs. Flint came to KU in 1906 with her husband, then a "lecturer on journalism" in the department of English. Mr. Flint and she had sold their paper, the Manhattan Nationalist, to come here. She had metMr. Flint while she was working for his paper. Mr. Flint, owner and editor, had hired her as a reporter, and three years later they were married.
"When I married," Mrs. Flint says today, "I became a housewife. I didn't work any more. My three sons became my career."
But Mrs. Flint could never forget some dates. In 1911 the journalism courses in the department of English were collected into a department of journalism under Prof. Merle Thorpe as chairman. When Prof. Thorpe left in 1916, Prof. Flint became chairman. He retired from this position in 1941 but taught until 1946. The present School of Journalism building, Flint Hall, was named in his honor in 1955, shortly before his death.
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Mrs. Flint did not go on campus often in those early years. But she does recall going to "the shack" for a meeting of Theta Sigma Fhi (honorary fraternity for women in journalism).
"We met in the loft," she says, "and going upstairs I noticed some words high on the northwest wall. They were "speed, brevity, truth" in letters a foot high. This was the students' rule, their yardstick to write by.
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Mrs. Flint was referring to the narrow, high stairs in the old journalism building cast of Watson Library, now used for anatomy classes.
"I remember thinking if I could just make those. I wouldn't have any fear of climbing the golden ones."
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Ben Hibbs Sends Greetings
I wish the University Daily Kansan well on its golden anniversary—and I hope and believe it will continue to provide as good training for ambitious young journalists as it did during my student days at KU. I had a hell of a lot of fun on the Kansan, and I also learned quite a lot. I have never ceased to be grateful to "Daddy"
Flint and his faculty crew for the tough but understanding way in which they pounded some of the elements into our thick skulls during those wonderful years.
Ben Hibbs
(Mr. Hibbs, Class of '23, is the former editor of the Saturday Evening Post.)
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