Page 74 Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 18, 1957
After having taught about 3,000 KU students in 35 years, Miss Anna McCracken is going to retire at 65 "before the University lowers the retiring boom on me."
Retires Before Boom Is Lowered
Miss McCracken, instructor of correspondence, said she easily can count 125 names of former students which appear in the Campanile among the rest of KU's war veterans who died in World War II.
"I kind of like to hear the bells ring over the valley," she said. "The sound reminds me of the many fine students who died in the war."
She said probably the most famous of her students is Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet, Pluto. Another one well known this area is Alvin S. McCoy, Kansas correspondent for The Kansas City Star.
Miss McCracken is the co-author of "A Guide to Thinking," a text in philosophy. She was president of the 1953 Southwest Philosophical Conference and was adviser to the KU-Y and adviser to Mortar Board. She is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary business fraternity. A graduate of the class of 1922.
she began teaching philosophy in the fall of that year. She has done graduate work at the universities of Chicago, Michigan and Colorado.
During the later years of World War II, when students from all over the world wanted to take University courses, Miss McCracken transferred to correspondence study.
"What do I plan to do when I leave the University?" she said. "Well, I'm having a house built near Wichita, in which the architect claim I'll be able to get around in a wheel chair at the age of 90."
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