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TUESDAY, MAY 22.1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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With Humorous Stude Malott Was First Kansan To Become KU Chancellor
By VERNON SUTTON and JACK ZIMMERMAN
Chancellor Deane W. Malott was the first alumnus and native Kansan to direct the University. He became the ninth K.U. chancellor in 1939.
A native of Abilene, Chancellor Malott received the bachelor of arts degree from the University in 1921.
He said he has never been quite clear on what he majored in while at the University. It was either economics or journalism. He was circulation manager of the University Daily Kansan. He was also a member of the Commerce club, editor of the Jayhawker, a chancellor of Quill club, and a member of Beta Theta Pi, social fraternity.
He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Sigma Rho, professional forensic fraternity; Sigma Delta Chi professional journalism fraternity; Alpha Kappa Psi, professional commerce fraternity; Kappa Delta Pi, professional education fraternity; Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary commerce fraternity; Kansas Educators club; Rotary club; and University clubs in Chicago and New York.
Two years after being graduated from the University he received a master of business administration degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. For the next 16 years, from 1923 to 1939, he was on the staff of the
Harvard Business school, in positions ranging from assistant dean to associate professor of business.
From 1929 to 1933 Chancellor Mallott was in business as vice-president or treasurer of the Hawaiian Pineapple company, Honolulu.
During his years at Harvard he filled various advisory posts. He was a director of Graton and Knight company, leather manufacturers of Worcester, Mass.; a trustee of the Garland School in Boston; and director of Cambridge Neighborhood house.
Since 1939 he has been a trustee of the William Rockhill Nelson Art gallery in Kansas City, Mo. Since 1944, he has been a member of the Business Advisory council of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Since 1945 he has been a member of the board of governors and executive committee of the Midwest Research institute, Kansas City. Mo
In the spring of 1948, Chancellor Malott became a member of the
board of directors of General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.
Chancellor Malott made two trips overseas in 1949. One was to Norway to lecture to universities on American methods of university administration and the operation of independent research institutes. The other trip took him around the world as a delegate, representing the Association of American universities, to an unofficial India-America conference at New Delhi, India.
During 1950, Chancellor Malott was selected for membership-atlarge on the national council of the Boy Scouts of America. He also was elected 1950-51 president of the National Association of State Universities.
He is the author of five books: "Problems in Agricultural Marketing"; "Problems in Public Utility Management" (with Philip Cabot); "Introduction to Corporate Finance" (with J. C. Baker); "On Going into Business" (with J. C. Baker and W. D. Kennedy); "The Agricultural Industries" (with B. F. Martin). He also wrote "The Great Dilemma," an essay in "Business and Modern Society." He is a contributor to the Harvard Business Review.
The Chancellor Regrets Leaving
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will leave the University to become the sixth president of Cornell university. Ithaca, N.Y. His resignation will become effective Sunday July After Chancellor Malott announced that he had accepted the Cornell offer he said:
Many Campus Changes Since Malott Inaugural
"To leave Kansas and the University has been for Mrs. Malott and me a most difficult decision. In my own state and in serving my own university we have spent 12 very busy and very happy years, and we have somehow built ourselves into KU. the stimulating life on its campus, and into the community and state. It is therefore with very great reluctance that this July we shall leave our many friends and fine associations to undertake new tasks in new surroundings.
"Election to the presidency of Cornell university carried with it grave responsibilities and a great challenge for educational leadership. To that challenge I shall respond with the very best of my abilities."
Much has happened at the University of Kansas since Deane W. Malott became chancellor in 1939. Life at K.U. has expanded in many ways, yet along with the expansion have come many administrative improvements increasing the efficiency of the school as a whole.
K. U. is richer by 10 buildings. Battenfeld hall, Templin hall, Jolliffe hall, Foster hall, Lindley hall, the Military Science building, the Engineering experimental building, Danforth chapel, New Fowler shops, and North College hall have been built since Chancellor Malott came to the University.
Construction work has been started on the field house and the science building.
The west wing of Watson library has been added, and expansion of the Memorial Union is now in progress. The Memorial campanile will be dedicated Sunday.
Old Fowler shops is being rebuilt to house the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
But the buildings are only part of the story. Changes also have been made in school curricula.
ment of journalism into the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information was authorized by the state board of regents in June, 1944. It opened in the fall of 1948.
The expansion of the old depart-
Western civilization, biology and speech requirements, and the present four semesters English requirement were introduced in the fall of 1945.
The Navy R.O.T.C. unit was established at K.U. in 1946.
There have been other less obvious changes—the kind of changes that don't show in record books. Teaching methods have been improved. Faculty members have been reminded constantly of the importance of the student. Rules and regulations have been reduced to a minimum, and those absolutely necessary have been designed for maximum efficiency.
In 1941 students carried "Malott's coffin" during a demonstration after the Kansas- Kansas State football game.
Chancellor Malott rode in a convertible in the 1948 Nightshirt parade.
CHANCELLOR AND MRS. MALOTT returned from their round-the-world trip in December, 1949. In India they studied Indian-American relations at a conference sponsored by the Institute of Pacific Relations and the India Council on World Affairs.
THE BEST
The Chancellor officiates at opening ceremonies of the west wing of Watson library, Jan. 18, 1950.