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Education School Has 51-Year History at KU
By Rael Amos
It was a big year for KU-1909. Marvin Hall was dedicated, Haworth Hall was completed. Fraternities and football almost were abolished. The Lawrence streetcar line was reaching toward the campus.
That was the year the campus got a modern sewer system and the student government came into being. The journalism department was founded and University enrollment reached 1,917.
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Opening Statement
And 1909 was the year the Board of Regents established the School of Education. Education training at KU had actually begun 33 years earlier, however, with the opening of a normal department in 1876. By 1879, the number of students in education had reached 27. This increased to 52 the following year.
In the opening year. 1876, Dean P. J. Williams said:
"The pupils are enthusiastic, earnest, and devoted to their work. We believe as they go out into the schoolrooms in the different portions of the state, they will demonstrate, by their superior ability to impart instruction, the value of the Normal School to the state."
Charles Hughes Johnston, a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Harvard, was the first dean of the School of Education when it was established in 1909.
Following Dean Johnston, Alvin S. Olin, a member of the faculty, became dean of the school.
In 1915. Frederick J. Kelly took over the job until he became the Dean of Administration of the University in 1921. By this time, the School of Education had 355 undergraduate students.
Longest Term
A former superintendent of schools in Lawrence and in Duluth, Minn., Raymond A. Kent, succeeded Dean Kelly. When Dean Kent left in 1923 to accept a position at Northwestern University, the next dean served the longest term in the school's history.
Raymond A. Schwegler held the office for 18 years, until his retirement in 1941.
Dean Schwegler came to the University in 1907 from the presidency of Ottawa University. He continued to teach, after his retirement as dean, until 1946. He died in 1952.
1956 a Big Year
Another big year in the school's history was 1956. On October 5, the school moved into the newly-remodeled Bailey Hall. Previously, the school's quarters had been the basement and first floor of Fraser Hall. That area had proved too small, even before the 50 per cent enrollment increase between 1952 and 1956. Bailey Hall previously had been used by the School of Pharmacy and the chemistry department.
In 1953, a member of the education faculty. Kenneth E. Anderson, moved into the dean's chair. Dean Anderson has seen the school's undergraduate enrollment rise from 426 in the fall of 1952 to its present 875.
Around the Campus New Student Art Exhibition Features California Talent
An art exhibit featuring work done by students of Pasadena, Calif. schools is now on display in the south lounge of the Kansas Student Union.
The work of the students is displayed in connection with the eleventh annual Art Education Conference, which will be held here Friday and Saturday.
The grade school children of Pasadena show adeptness in their use of color, themes and art approaches.
The exhibit includes the work of elementary, secondary, and high school students. All forms of communicative media are depicted in the exhibit.
Life in Red China Film to Be Shown
"Face of Red China," a film report on conditions in communist China will be presented in 3 Bailey Hall at 4 p.m. tomorrow.
The report, presented by the Bureau of Visual Instruction, is based on pictures taken inside China in November and December of 1958. It contains extensive coverage of communities inside Red China and how Red China is mobilizing its work with new machines.
Book Review Set
E. Gordon Ericksen, associate professor of sociology will be the speaker at the Modern Book Review tomorrow at 4 p.m. in the Music and Browsing Room at the Kansas Union. He will review "The Status Seekers", by Vance Packard.
The Pasadena High School students display in their watercolor and design projects, some professional techniques. Color and design are used to a great extent along with originality and performance.
Students entering the tournament are James Jones, Timken, and Russell Boley, Prairie Village seniors; Franklin Dale Moore, Holton graduate student and Larry Jones, St. John junior.
KU bridge players will compete in an intercollegiate tournament tomorrow.
James Jones and Boley won the East-West side and Moore and Larry Jones won the North-South competition in an SUA warm-up tournament earlier this week.
Card Players Slate Tourney
Paul J. Parker of Bartlesville Okla, is the new chairman of the Greater University Fund Advisory Board, Lloyd M. Kagey of Wichita, is the new vice-chairman.
Each team played 18 hands in the duplicate tourney and scores were figured on a match-point basis. There were 56 entries in the tournament.
Chairman Named
Cheerleader Named
The Fund, a project of University of Kansas Alumni and Endowment associations, promotes private support through scholarship programs. loan funds and other school improvements where no allotted funds are available.
Anderson W. Chandler is the retiring board chairman.
Bruce Bee, Mission sophomore, has been named to the cheerleading staff to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of William Fricke, Jefferson City, Mo. senior.
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HAVANA—(UPI)—Cuba has offered to negotiate its differences with the United States so long as the U.S. takes no action against her.
Foreign Minister Raul Roa handed U. S. Charge D'affaires Daniel M. Braddock a note yesterday saying Cuba is prepared to send negotiators to Washington "on a date agreeable to both parties."
Cuba-U.S. Peace-Talk Hinted
The note warned, however, that a renewal of negotiations requires that neither the Government nor the Congress of the United States should "adopt any unilateral measure which
prejudices the result (of the talks) or which could cause damage to the economy or the people of Cuba."
This appeared to be a reference to threats that Congress might restrict Cuba's share of the U. S. sugar market or withhold a portion of the money due Cuba to compensate Americans whose property has been seized by Premier Fidel Castro's revolutionary regime.
When a man is wrong and he won't admit it, he always gets angry.— Haliburton
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