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Hitt Learns About Students By Watching His Children
"By just watching my two children I can learn a lot about University students," Registrar James K. Hitt said recently.
Since Mr. Hitt's son Alan is 79 years old and his daughter Nancy this does not sound complimentary, but he added that he could draw comparisons of the result of maturation—which means growing up.
The statement shows Mr. Hitt's interest and absorption in his job.
an absorption in his job.
"Every aspect of my daily life as a great person of bearing on my job and in turn on the life of the student," he said.
And he's right. Mr. Hitt welcomes he high school graduates to the university, hands the senior his diploma, and has control of his records.
Mr. Hitt said that the greatest problem he faced as registrar was not the years of extremely heavy nrollment between 1946 and 1948,
u* 1950 when the Korean war
aused so much confusion among
students as to whether or not they
should stay in school."
This concern was quoted in Time magazine. Time quoted him as asking the government, "Just what device are we supposed to give theudent?"
In April 1952, he was elected secretary of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and admissions Officers. He said that is work in this organization made "easier for KU to utilize quickly developments in other universities which might prove useful here." Mr. Hitt was appointed assistant registrar in 1940 and registrar in 346, his return from service in World War II. He spent four years a lieutenant colonel in an anti-aircraft battery in the Pacific. He was awarded an Army commendation ribbon.
0 Froshawks to Regionals
The Froshaws will send 20 members to the Western NCAA regionalist Manhattan, March 13-14. The club will pay the cost of tickets for only one night. A member desiring to both nights will have to pay for one ticket.
He is now a lieutenant colonel in the Army reserve, and helped to organize the Lawrence Reserve Officer Training school, a branch of the Reserve Officers Training school in Kansas City, Kan.
He said that his reserve commission gave him valuable information which he needs to "deal with the problems of this nature which confront many KU students today."
Mr. Hitt was born in Everest, Kan., in 1914. He was graduated from Hamlin High school and received a B.A. from KU in 1934 and an M.A. in 1946. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Sigma Sigma fraternities.
He married Miss Bernadine Berkly in Hamlin Aug. 5, 1936. He said
JAMES K. HITT
that taking care of their two children is a job "which takes about 27 hours a day."
Thursday. March 12. 1953
LET'S DANCE!
the Class of '53 is Sponsoring
All School Dance
At the NEW Student Union Ballroom
March 20th -- 9 p.m. to Midnight
- FOR THE ENTIRE STUDENT BODY
- FEATURING MATT BETTON'S ORCHESTRA
- VARIETY OF MUSIC, INCLUDING DIXIELAND JAZZ
- ADMISSION IS ONLY 50c PER PERSON
Tickets will be on sale soon! Get your date now!
Meeting Set for Dam Protest
Kansas City, Kan.—(U.F.)A state-wide, mass meeting to protest the recent report of Gov. Edward F. Arn's flood control survey commission will be held in Topeka March 18, it was announced today.
O. W. Davis, president of the Kansas City, Kan., Chamber of Commerce, said about 1,000 persons were expected to attend the rally, sponsored by the Missouri-Arkansas Basins Flood Control association.
Willard Breidenthal banker and leader in flood control activities here, told a special meeting yesterday that the Arn proposal "does just what is was designed to do," saying its real purpose was to delay construction of upstream dams.
Modern Small Fry Knows All
San Francisco—(U,P)—Teacher Sarah Hagerty played "The Star-Spangled Banner" and asked her first grade class to identify it.
"I know," a student in the back shouted. "That's the song they play every Friday on TV before the fights."
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