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Acquainting Self Goal Of New College Dean
By BOB LYLE
The two-fold task of acquainting new students and himself with the programs and procedures of life at KU is being faced by Dr. George R. Waggoner, who has assumed the administrative post dean of the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Waggoner was appointed his spring by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, to take over the duties of the late Dr. Paul B. Lawson, who died last spring just before he was to retire. The 38-year-old Dean, who formerly was associate dean of the college at Indiana University, has been on the campus since July.
The dean is no newcomer to KU. He received the A.B. and M.A. degrees here in 1936 and 1939 and taught in the English department before going to the University of Wisconsin for his Ph.D.
Orientation activities have been of interest, Dr. Waggoner said, but he has not taken too active a part in them since he still is learning his way around the various departments and has been kept busy meeting faculty members.
Commenting on his impressions of students at the University he said, "From association with students with whom I have talked and met, many of them freshman and transfer students, most of them are more serious than the student body at other schools around the country."
A possible suggestion for improvement of the orientation program by more consideration for transfer students was offered by Dr. Waggoner. More attention should be given upper classmen, he believes, because most of the week is devoted to entering freshmen and not enough to those who have already received college credit and must integrate it with their years at KU.
No immediate plans or suggestions for changes in the college have been made by the new dean. Commenting on this he said the objective of his first months in the position will be* to learn his job efficiently.
Recognizing the problems of adjustment for the hundreds of new students who have visited his office he offered this advice: "Students should join activities of their University and participate in fields which interest them." College life is a change for high school students. This does not mean that classes are more difficult, but the college instructor recognizes and respects the maturity of a college student and looks on such a person as an adult. Both academic and applied knowledge are to be considered. "College is a challenging opportunity which should be seized enthusiastically by young men and women."
Waggoner is married and the father of three small girls, aged six, three, and one. Mrs. Waggoner is the former Helen L. Talbert of Olathe. She was graduated from KU in 1935.
After three years of service in Naval Intelligence, Dr. Waggoner
taught at Wisconsin and Pennsylvania State college. He went to the University of Indiana in 1948.
DR. GEORGE WAGGONER
Ericksen to Work In Caribbean On Point Four
Dr. E. Gordon Ericksen, associate professor of sociology, has been granted a leave of absence to work with the State department's Point Four program in the Caribbean.
Four program He will organize self-help public housing programs in poverty-tricken areas not under control or administration of the U. S. government.
Monday. Sept. 13, 1954
The only sociologist in the group of six Point Four consultants, Dr. Ericksen will move into an area and inaugurate self-help housing projects. Later, the others will follow and assist in the actual construction.
"The ultimate objective of the projects" Dr. Ericksen said, "is to improve the standard of living of the people of the Caribbean area and offset potential Communist inroads."
Dr. Eiskensen, his wife and his two children, will leave about Sept. 15 for Port of Spain, Trinidad, to make his headquarters.
nis' headquarter.
Most of his time, he said, will be spent in the Lesser Antilles and in Britain, Dutch and French Guiana.
He will serve for one year, and perhaps two, as a sociological consultant on public housing for the Foreign Operations administration.
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