Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
VOLUME XXVII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1939
NUMBER 4
Malott To Arrive Tomorrow
Lindley Says Last Farewell At Convocation
★ Chancellor Speaks Before 750 in Final Official Address to Student Body Friday Morning
Approximately 750 Summer Session students and faculty members attended the first convocation last Friday to hear Chancellor E. H. Lindley's last formal address to a student body. Chancellor Lindley's present position will terminate July 1, soon after which he will begin a European tour.
D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, led the community singing, with Prof. E L. Anderson accompanying on the organ. "Old-Folks At Home," "Stars Of A Summer Night," and "Home on the Range" were sung.
Introduced by Swarthout
Dr. Lindley, introduced by Dean Swarthout, compared his parting from the University to the parting of two lovers. "First they say good-by in the parlor, then at the door, and finally at the gate," he said. And all during the course of formal parting the gentleman of the house wants to be rid of the suitor, Dr. Lindley continued.
"You don't want to depend too much on others to tell you how old you are. Depend more on your old faithfuls, like the family physician," the Chancellor said.
When Chancellor Lindley first came to the University as chancellor, he happened upon some students who were about to indulge in a little horseplay. One individual suddenly saw him and yelled "Here comes the Chancellor." "That made me feel old," said Dr. Lindley.
"Here Comes Ernie"
"Then this spring when I went to the track meet I heard one student say 'Here comes "Ernie"' And that made me feel about 70 years young," said the Chancellor.
In closing his talk, which was mainly directed to the school teachers present, Dr. Lindley said that teaching has a great calling, and that one of the greatest attributes of a school teacher is his willingness to be forgotten.
SUMMER
SESSION
Slip-Ups
by
Walt Meininger
The notes of the high school music campers being wafted down here almost make up for the blattings that we listen to the rest of the week. How can they sound so bad individually and so good as a group?
Alan Asher was bragging about the fried chicken he turned out Saturday night so we though we'd have a bite when we were at his
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New News Bureau Head Starts Duties July 1
Ray Heady, new instructor in journalism, will take over his new duties as acting director of the University News Bureau, July 1. Heady will fill the position left by the late Prof. W. A. Dill.
Heady comes to the University after three years of newspaper experience on the Pittsburg, Kan., Headlight and Sun, and ten years of high school teaching in Junction City, Pittsburg, and Wyandotte. He is married and has two children.
Graduate Student Dies Saturday After Accident
- Parks, Wyandotte Coach, Succumbs to Injuries At University of Kansas Hospital
Percy Parks, graduate of the University in 1922 and Summer Session student, died Saturday night at the University of Kansas hospital in Kansas City, Kan. Parks was injured when the automobile in which he was riding struck an interurban car near Kansas City late last Wednesday afternoon. He was returning from classes at Lawrence with four other students.
As the news that Parks was in danger spread late Saturday the corridor outside of his room at the hospital was filled with boys he had coached at Olathe and Wyandotte high schools. He coached at Olathe for three years after he left the University and had been athletic director of Wyandotte high school since then.
With Parks when he died were his wife and nine-year-old daughter, Janet Anne Parks, both of whom have been at his bedside since the accident last week. Others at the hospital were officials of Wyandotte high school and the Kansas City Kansas public school system.
Set Coaching Record
Parks was very popular with his students and associates in Wyandotte and had set up a remarkable victory record as coach there. In twelve years his teams won fourteen Northeast Kansas League football and basketball championships, fourteen city championships, two state basketball championships, and three runners-up in the state tournament.
While at the University Parks pitched for the baseball team and was on the basketball squad.
The other coaches that were with Parks when the accident occurred were: Edmun Ash, Harold L. Reade, Ashley Elbl, Alfred Kistra, all students in the Summer Session.
There will be no classes scheduled for the Monday preceding the Fourth of July, Dean Raymond A. Schwegler announced at the convocation last Friday. Classes will meet the following Saturday.
Parks, 37, was born in Cedarvale in 1896.
NO SCHOOL MONDAY
Installment buying has come to stay. But a lot of things bought that way haven't.
First Annual Reading Institute Has 154 Enrolled
★ Meetings To Last Entire Week; Publishing and Instrument Companies Provide Material
The first annual Reading Institute, under the direction of the University extension division in cooperation with the School of Education, got under way yesterday morning with a total enrollment of 154. Even more are expected according to Prof. Bert A. Nash, director of the Institute.
Fifteen well-known publishing houses have furnished exhibits which are on display in Fraser hall, scene of all the meetings. There are four instrument companies represented, and their visual and auditory testing machines have been creating considerable interest.
Two of the machines, the ophthalmograph and the metronoscope, are designed as a diagnosis for prevention and correction of reading disability. The motto that goes with the machines is, "They must learn to read before they can read to learn."
Correct Reading Disability
Outstanding speakers include Dr. Angela Broening, whose next address will be this morning at 10:45; Dr. Grace Arthur, also on this morning's program; Ruthann Smith; Dr. R. H. Wheeler; and Frances Mitchell.
Evening meetings will be open to the public free of charge. These programs will be made up of motion pictures in which children will be featured, and should be interesting to both children and adults.
University recreational facilities have been thrown open to those attending the Institute.
Recreational Facilities Open
The following have registered:
Gordon A. Peterson, Herington; E B. Weller, Blue Rapids; Helen Harshberger, Lawrence; O. J. Silverwood, Ellsworth; Letha Baughman, Winfield; Anna McCormick, Salina E. L. Harness, ElDorado; Ursula Henley Lawrence; Ethel Snyder, Americus; Ida Johnson, Emmett.
W. H. Ireland, Wellsville; Earle T. Anderson, Clafin; E. M. Chestnut, Beloit; Supt. G. A. Swift, Holton; L. E. Smith, La Cygne; Edgar B. Allaugh, Concordia; Lena Van Zand, Hutchinson; Flora Akins, Atchison; Long, Saltem Vadue B. Will, Exeeter, Calif; Eleanor Renz, Lawrence
Madge E. Jones, Kansas City, Kan,
Lucille Gard, Iola; Lauraine Clark
Lawrence; Mildred McElwain, Lawrence;
Eugenie S. Polson, Lawrence;
J. W. Shiderel, Topeka; W. D. Wolfe
Atchison; Dorothy Tracy; Atchison
Althea Smith, Neodesha; Jennie
Merryman, Topeka.
Ruth Crouch, Everest; Pauline Heller, Galesburg; R. W. Forbes, Kansas City, Kan.; Virginia Jones, Winfield; Ruth Johnson, Independence; Nora Baird, Wellsville; Dora Booth, Colby; Ruby M. Smith, Kansas City, Kan.; Ruth Hanna, Gardner; Marguerite Cosgriff, Haskell Institute; Katherine Sunja, Kansas City, Kan.
Edward M. Stark, Topeka, H. A. Billingsley, Lawrence, Margaret Harrington, Wichita; Helen E. Shaw, Lawrence; John H. Thompson, Almena; Milred McCormack, Lawrence; Gertrude Laing, Kansas City, Kan.; Ethel Douglas Lock, Lawner; Alice E. Shimmons, Law-
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Chancellor-Elect Takes Over Duties At University July 1
Deane W. Malott, '21, will return to Lawrence tomorrow preparatory to taking over his new duties as Chancellor of the University. He will officially assume the duties left open through the retirement of Chancellor E. H. Lindley on Saturday, July 1.
Deane W. Malot will officially become Chancellor of the University of Kansas, succeeding Chancellor E. H. Lindley. Malot will not establish permanent residence here until September because of his present work at Harvard.
However the Chancellor-elect and his family will not make their permanent residence here until around the first of September. His duties at Harvard University where he has been assistant dean of the business school necessitate his presence there for the next two months.
Scientific Exhibit Being Displayed at Bailey
Chancellor-Elect---
In a letter to Kenneth Postlethwaite, acting director of the K. U. News' Bureau, Malott said he was "looking forward simply to a quiet unofficial visit and a chance to go over many things with
An exhibit of scientific apparatus for use in chemistry, physics, and biology laboratories is now on display in room 11 of the Bailey Chemical Laboratories.
The exhibit, sponsored by the Central Scientific company, contains the most up-to-date equipment manufactured by that house. The display should be of especial interest to teachers.
Scientific equipment exhibits are held at the University once or twice during the regular fall and spring semesters and once during the Summer Session. The present exhibit, in charge of V. F. Duensing, will be here from June 26 until June 30.
Play Facilities Available In Robinson Gymnasium
Play facilities in Robinson Gymnasium are available for Summer Session students who desire some recreation when they have a vacant hour during the morning or afternoon. Such games as ping pong, badminton and deck tennis may be played in the gymnasium, and equipment may be checked out at the Physical Education Office, room 106 Robinson Gymnasium.
Mr. Lindley and to get acquainted with those around the University whom I do not already know." He will arrive by rail.
Malott Named Unanimously
Mrs. Malott, the former Eleanor Sisson Thrum of Hawaii, may join her husband for a day or so during the first week in July, and accompany him back East. Their three children will not make their appearance here until September.
Lindley's successor was named unanimously by the Board of Regents after a four months' search. In commenting on the appointment, Doctor H. L. Snyder of the Board of Regents, said, "Not much needs be said about a man who was born in Abilene, Kan., 41 years ago, raised in keeping with best Kansas traditions and educated in Kansas schools. With the ideals and knowledge he has gained by his great experience, it has become an honor for the state to call him back for such a high position."
Malott was graduated from the Universitty in 1921, majoring in journalism. The past few years he has directed a course in agricultural industry which he inaugurated at the Harvard school of business. He is an Associate Professor of Business; a director of Gronon and Knight School of Worcester; a trustee of the Garland School, of Boston; and a director of the Cambridge Neighborhood House, of Cambridge.
Lindley Plans to Return
He received his M.B.A. degree in 1923 at Harvard, and was appointed assistant dean of the Harvard Business School, a position he held until 1929. In that year he was elected Vice-President of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, Ltd., of Honolulu, and served with them until 1933. In 1933 he returned to Harvard as head of the work in agricultural industries.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley resigned December 2, 1938 after serving the University as its Chancellor for 19 years. He gave as reasons for his retirement; his age (70), and the desire to allow his successor a year in which to become acquainted with Kansas and the University before being faced with budget problems.
After a year of extensive travelling Chancellor and Mrs. Lindley plan to return to the University where he plans to teach courses in the department of Philosophy.
Those anxious to invest in a going concern should make sure which way it is going.