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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Nov. 22, 1954
Kansan photo by Bill Slamin
WEAVING A SADDLE BLANKET—for the Delta Gamma house-mother, Chancellor Murphy shows his talent for weaving. All in the dog's work of the chancellor.
From Bullet to Book; All for an Education
By L. D. RICHARDS
"I'm a professional student. I've been going to school ever since 1931. Even in the service I went to school. Why should I quit now? I might leave, though, for a while to get an education."
This unique statement was made by a member of a unique group of people on this campus, and you can lump them all under one heading—veterans.
Approximately one third of the University's population is made up of men, who at one time or another have looked down the sights of an MI, rammed home a 5-in./38 shell, or watched bombs drop from the bay of a B-29.
They have seen the bloody beaches of Tarawa, the gun bristled coast of Normandy, or watched a cold morning sun outline a deadly Korean hill.
Now, though, they sight through a transit, climb the steps of Green hall, and sweat out a down slip at midterm.
They find time for an hour dance, cheer the Big Red, and join the laughter in the Hawks Nest in an all out effort to take one more hill—the Hill.
A big change is made from bullet to book; from killer to Kappa, and for some there is a little difficulty in making the change.
Why did they return to school? What adjustments had to be made, and how is their relationship with the average age college student?
"I found out in the service that without that education you just don't have it." said John Matzeder ex-navy, now a college freshman, in a statement that seemed to sum up the general reason for the return of the service man to school.
Lowell Heinz, ex-marine, college freshman, put it another way,
"Common labor just isn't an occupation I want to follow. I got tired of working with my hands in the Marine Corps."
Difficulty in adjusting to the study routine seems to be prevalent among most of the men. "It is hard to get back in the swing of cracking the books." said Frank Kreimendahl, ex-army, first year architecture. "And reassuming command of proper grammatical English seems to be a major difficulty. The language of the bo'sn mate and the English professor are just a little bit different, and most of the veterans had to listen to the bo'sn mate for four years."
"I got in a tight spot once and my rifle jammed." said Charles Wright, ex-army, engineering junior. "All the English I could think of was in three words."
Different opinions, though, were expressed on the relationships with students of normal college age. The
general assumption was that of a "grain of salt."
Edward Sachen, ex-marine, college junior, had this to say. "On the whole they are a nice bunch of people. Some of them are swell. The guys are a little cocky, but the two years in the service that they have coming up will take that out of them. As for the women I feel a little bit sorry for them when the day comes that they don't have the glory of their campus social circle to back them up."
A Rossini Opera To Be Given in KC
The Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra, conducted by Hans Schwieger, will present Rossini's "Stabat Mater" tomorrow and Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo.
With the orchestra will be the Philharmonic chorus, directed by Dr. William Guthrie. Among those who will appear in "Stabat Mater" areNorman Treigle, Irene Jordon, Walter Fredericks, and Gloria Lane.
Miss Jordon, who made her Metropolitan debut in 1946, sings leading coloratura roles, as well as heavy dramatic soprano parts. Mr. Treigle has appeared with the New York City opera and in 1947 was the winner of the New Orleans Opera auditions of the air.
Miss Lane, mezzo-soprano, has made a number of TV appearances and recently was presented a role in Menotti's Christmas opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors." Walter Fredericks has been guest soloist with the symphony orchestras in Buffalo, Chicago, and Minneapolis.
What does it mean to be the chancellor of the University of Kansas? What does our chancellor do? What is our chancellor like? These are questions that probably run through many a mind concerning our administrator. And they are easily answered.
Dr. Murphy has no typical days. Each of them are diverse. He has had to be away from the office a good deal in the past few years because of serving on a number of advisory committees in government as well as in the field of education. In many ways he said that he had not been around the University as much as he would like to be.
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To give an idea of the many duties that the chancellor performs in a day, Dr. Murphy read through his appointment book,
Bv MARION McCOY
The Kansan Feature Page Oh My-All in a Day's Work
"Yesterday I had nine appoint-ments. They ranged from discussion of the Mental Health Program in Kansas, the faculty club, and YMCA class room problems, and a National Student conference.
"I had 15 phone calls, about one third of which were out of town calls.
"Sandwiched in between this I
had conferences with my staff members.
"At noon I went to a luncheon conference, and then looked in on the remodeling of the Museum of Natural History on my way back to the office.
"Sometimes during the day I have to squeeze in my dictation. I usually receive anywhere from 5 to 15 letters a day to answer.
"I wound up the day by taking my wife and children to the opera last night."
Dr. Murphy laughed as he looked back on an incident which he said pointed out the importance of the chancellor. In 1952 on the day the Olympic basketball team returned to the campus the students worked up a huge rally in front of Green hall to welcome them back. Townspeople, University students and high school students participated in the rally, and when it was over, Dr. Murphy started walking back to his office. He was suddenly surrounded by a group of youngsters.
"Say, can you tell me where I can find Clyde Lelovelette?" one asked. "I don't know, why?" the chancellor said.
"We want to get his autograph,"
the boy replied.
the boy replied.
"Oh, don't waste your time with that fellow," another boy piped up. "He's just the chancellor." With that they all turned and ran down the street.
the street.
"It was not an easy decision for me to make to become the chancellor of the University, for I had spent all my life in the field of medicine," Dr. Murphy said.
Dr. Murphy looked back upon the time when he first came to the University and had to meet with the University Senate, which consists of all deans and faculty members with the title of associate professor or above. He said that he didn't quite know what to say to them, and then he looked out among the audience and saw a great number of faces who had been his own teachers.
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