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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1950
McNown Sees Improvement In New Generation
By CHARLES PRICE
After 41 years of teaching in colleges and universities throughout the country, William C. McNown, professor of civil engineering, believes that the character and caliber of the younger generation is good and shows tendencies toward improvement.
Professor McNown has faith in the students of today becoming better citizens than those of many years ago.
"I have no sympathy with the supposed fact that youth is decaying," he said. "I don't believe a word of it. This current generation is not any worse than the past two generations. In fact, I believe it is getting better."
In comparing K. U. with some of the other colleges and universities where he has served and visited, Professor McNown said that the University stands out significantly in that "here there is a highly cultural atmosphere which was probably instilled by the early administrators. The University has been very fortunate in obtaining teachers and administrators such as Frances Snow and Frank Marvin."
"Secondly, the University has a most magnificent physical setting on Mt. Oread overlooking the two valleys," Professor McNown explained. "Some of the other college campuses have the advantage of surrounding water, but even with small Potter lake, K. U. ranks along with the prettiest," he said.
While he has been here, Professor McNown said, "the engineering students have always been a serious hard-working group of men. They
Professor McNown, chairman emeritus of the civil engineering department, will retire this June after spending 41 years as a teacher and administrator. Thirty-seven years of his career have been spent at K.U.
have come from middle-sized towns and farms and are not afraid of work. They learn the value of the dollar in their early life and because of this staunch background, are preferred by the industries of the East.
"The days of the unrefined engineer are gone forever. The tendency through the years has been for professional men to develop a more gentlemanly character."
He came to Kansas in 1913 as an assistant professor of civil engineering. In 1934 he became a full professor and chairman of the civil engineering department. Five years ago he gave up his chairmanship for full-time teaching.
Professor McNown is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Theta Tau, Sigma Xi. The American Society of Civil Engineers, The Kansas Engineering society, and The American Society of Engineering Education. He is a former president of both the Kansas section of A.S.C.E. and The Kansas Engineering society.
Seventy years of age but not showing it, Professor McNown possesses a memory that serves him well. He remembers when Jayhawk drive was only a cinder road, and fuel for the heating plant was hauled to the campus in horse-drawn wagons.
He knew the men after whom the buildings on the campus are named when these men were teaching and holding administrative positions. He has seen the School of Engineering and Architecture, which he refers to as "one of the best engineering schools in the country," grow from fewer than 400 students to its present enrollment of 1,455.
Pi Tau Sigma Officers
Pi Tau Sigma, honorary mechanical engineering fraternity, recently elected the following officers: Thomas Fisher, president; Wayne Kohman, vice-president; Howard Hession, treasurer; Joyce Holmberg, corresponding secretary, and Robert Umlhitz, recording secretary.
Phi Kappa Psi Officers
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity announces the election of the following officers: Clyde L. Wharton, Jr.; president; Dave Grimes, vice-president; Roy Eugene Lund, treasurer; Floyd Grimes, recording secretary, and Jack Sevier, corresponding secretary.
Evelyn Keyes Says It's Possible For Stars To Avoid The Psychiatrist's Office
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Hollywood—(U.P.)—It's possible, Evelyn Keyes said recently to be a movie queen without getting neurotic. You just turn a deaf ear to all the phony compliments.
"That's what I do," the peppy blonde beauty said. "And I have yet to spend a small fortune on some psychiatrist's couch."
Miss Keyes says she will be the first to admit a glamour her girl's path is plumb full of chances to climb on a temperamental high-horse.
"And it's awfully hard sometimes to remember you're not worth it. Every once in a while I have to stop and think how small Evelyn Keyes is in comparison with the rest of the universe."
"When you're acting, everything's focused on your own insignificant body," she shrugged. "The camera . . the other actors . . the make-up man everybody's concentration on making you look good.
Alpha Chi Pinning
"They should read the newspapers, too," she says, "and find out what's going on in the world. That's a swell way to convince yourself how insignificant you are."
After hours there always are the glad-handlers who hang around every actress who ups herself to the swimming-pool-Cadillae convertible brackets.
She thinks all actresses ought to get an outside hobby. And that doesn't mean ways and means to snag more camera close-ups or handsome he-men to drag em to Ciro's. Miss Keyes currently is studying up on famous bridges in history.
Alpha Chi Omega sorority announces the pinning of Miss Jeanne Shafer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Shafer of Great Bend, to Mr. Dean Wells, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rene Wells, son of Great Bend.
Miss Shafer is a College junior. Mr. Wells is a college sophomore and a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
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Phi Sigma Initiates 11 At Banquet
One hundred nineteen members of Kappa chapter of Phi Sigma, honorary biological science fraternity, attended the group's annual initiation banquet at the Union the past week. Eleven new members were initiated.
Officers for the next year were announced, and three charter members of the club were given recognition. Dr. Noble P. Sherwood, professor of bacteriology, Dr. O. O. Holmquist, assistant professor, and Dr. E. Lee Tree, professor of bacteriology, are the charter members.
of the physiology department spoke on "The No Man's Land of Science". New initiates are William J. Arnold, William G. Barnes, David T. Dailey, Richard W. Fredrickson, and Howard J. Koonse, College seniors; Mary Lackey, College junior; John F. Bailey, Maurice F. Baker, Shirley G. Gleason, George S. Marquis, and Robert W. Reese, graduate students.
The new officers are Roy Peterson, president; Ivan Shields, vice-president; Mary Works, recording secretary, Keith Bowman, treasurer; Richard Draemel, corresponding secretary, and George Lewey, editor for "The Biologist," national Phi Sigma publication.
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