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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Jan. 12, 1958
He Helped Move KU Off The Hill
"The University should get off the Hill."
F. T. Stockton, director of special projects for University Extension, said this before he became extension dean in 1947. Since then, he has had no small part in getting the University "pff the hill."
Mr. Stockton
While Mr. Stockton was extension dean, centers were established at Garden City and Colby. Circuit instruction for volunteer fire departments and retail sales institutes were organized. The traffic safety education, program was inaugurated and correspondence study techniques were improved.
New institute and short course groups were set up in Lawrence, Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, and other Kansas cities. Fields covered numbered more than 40 and ranged from court reporting to home nursing and tool design.
Mr. Stockton "retired" from the extension administration in September, 1553, to become director of special projects.
"At the present time, I am working on a series of adult education activities which require time and attention broader than one-time shots such as conferences and institutes," Mr Stockton said. "The projects involve a number of classes in certain areas and programs likely
Through the prison education program, college credit courses are offered at the four prisons in the Leavenworth area. "We believe university credit course programs can make a definite contribution to the rehabilitation of prisoners," Mr. Stockton said.
Another project is the traffic safety program. "Isolation of the unfit and training of the fit" is the way Mr. Stockton describes the program's goals.
"Hardly in operation yct is a project to see what can be done in developing educational work with the railroads," Mr. Stockton said. He said he also would like to make KU a regional center for a motor carriers' college where instruction could be provided for all levels of personnel in the highway carrier business.
At Allegheny College, Meadville Fa., where he received a bachelor of arts degree in 1907, he was a Latin and Greek major and a Phi Beta Kappa. At Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., where he received a doctorate degree in political economy, in 1911 he was captain of the football team.
He taught economics and history at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y., from 1911-1913. From 1913-1917 he was assistant professor of economics and sociology at Indiana University. Bloomington, Ind.
He has been a dean three times. From 1917-1924 he was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Dakota. In 1924 he came to KU to organize the School of Business and to serve as its dean until his appointment as extension dean.
Mr. Stockton jokingly referred to being called an "administrative tramp," and quickly added his work in adult education has been "the most challenging."
"The University has got to move off the Hill because the people want it to. Education does not end with the University, but education is a lifetime task."
Being a man who has spent more than 44 of his 69 years teaching or in administrative education, Mr. Stockton should know.
Masters To Solo In Band Concert
Edward L. Masters, assistant professor of band and orchestra, will be trumpet soloist with the University Band in its concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium. The selection, which is his arrangement, is "Andante and Scherzo" by Barat.
Prof. Masters was a member of the famed United States Marine Band in Washington, D.C., for 19 years. He joined the band when he was 18, and he appeared with it as soloist and first-chair cornetist.
EDWARD L. MASTERS
While in the Marine Band, Prof. Masters was an assistant to its leader and was in charge of many of its activities, including ceremonies at the capitol and White House. During his service with the band, he attended Catholic University in Washington, where he earned his degrees.
He taught music for one year in his home town, Charleston, S.C., and came to KU last fall. Prof. Masters is assistant director of the KU band and is also a trumpet teacher at the University. He plans many of the band's activities, including the half-time shows performed by the 100-piece marching band during football season.
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'Prairie Acre Is Last Of Virgin Grassland
Behind Blake Hall on the south section of the Hill there is a portion of ground fenced off by limestone slabs. It is unique in that it is the last piece of untouched Kansas land and it is known in University tradition as the Prairie Acre.
The Prairie Acre was preserved to hallow a plot of ground that had never been touched by plow, shovel, or man-made device that would stand as a monument to the raw country from which our state was carved.
It appears today with the same prairie grass it sported when the first settlers arrived in Kansas.
Original idea came from a group of graduates around the turn of the century: Agnès Thompson, '96, chairman; Amida Stanton, '04; Rose Morgan, '94, and Hannah Oliver, '74.
The original land was property of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity which agreed to give the land to the University for the acre.
The department of building and grounds created a fence for the land from limestone deposits near Potter Lake. A plaque dedicating the Prairie Acre in 1932 was also set in the limestone. It reads:Whereon is set this block of Oread limestone to mark and preserve Nature's sweet fashion of making her garden."
KU Entomologists Get Research Grant
Dr. Charles D. Michener, chairman of the department of entomology, and Dr. Robert E. Beer, associate professor of entomology, have received confirmation of a $4,800 grant, to be spread over a 2-year period, from the National Science Foundation. The title of their project is "The Biology of the Arthropod Associates of Army Ants."
The principal research assistant, Carl W. Rettenneyer, Lawrence graduate student, will leave soon for Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone, to stay for at least six months. The island is not an unfamiliar place to Rettenneyer, for he returned just last April after studying army ants in a project supported jointly by Life magazine and the American Museum of Natural History.
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Study, Travel, Law They're His Specialty
"Life is made up of experiences," says F. J. Moreau, dean of School of Law, and judging from his many and varied experience one is led to believe that the dean has been geeting the most out of life
Last summer Dean Moreau taught labor law for six weeks at the San Juan School of Law in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The dean agreed that teaching in this "independent de-
Dean Moreau
lic was an experience. But he feels that in order to really get to know these "warm, friendly, and kind people, one should have at least six months, to brush around with them."
This summer has not been Dean Moreau's first opportunity to travel outside the United States. He has traveled in Europe, Canada, and Mexico, and he and his family have visited almost every state of the Union.
While in Puerto Rico there just "wasn't any spare time, but I made some," he quipped. During his spare time he toured the island with his wife and two sons, 15-year-old Freddie and 12-year-old David.
Language Studies Important In his many travels, Dean Moreau has seen that language studies should constitute a great part of a person's education.
"This is not true in many parts of the world. In Europe you may be forced to change languages frequently," he said. "The need for language studies becomes more important as the world becomes smaller."
This gentleman, known to many law students as "one of the boys" began his career in a law firm in Madison, Wisconsin in 1924.
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During the course of his career, Dean Moreau has been a practicing attorney in Wisconsin, superintendent of Public Schools in Fredric, Wisconsin, and Professor of Law at the University of Idaho. He came to the University of Kansas as professor of law in 1929. He was appointed Dean of the School of Law in 1937.
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