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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 30, 1956
After Teaching 50 Years, He's Undecided About Quitting
"I am undecided if I will retire from the teaching profession at the end of this year or continue at some other school," Dr. G. W. Stratton, oldest member of the University faculty, said in an interview.
Prof. Stratton is retiring in June.
"I think the compulsory retirement age is a good thing," he said.
"I like to think that I am still as alert as I was when I first started teaching, but I know I'm not. The two most important things for an instructor are endurance and enthusiasm, and when you reach 70 you lose a little of both."
Dr. Stratton, a professor of chemistry, has been at the University since 1912. He received his A.B. from the University of Colorado in 1907, his M.A. from Ohio State in 1909 and his Ph.D. in 1912 from Ohio State, where he taught from 1909 to 1912. He then came to KU as an instructor in 1912, was promoted to assistant professor in 1914, to associate professor in 1918, and to professor in 1923.
Hobby Is Fishing
Dr. Stratton's main hobby is fishing.
"Dean Warner, the late dean of men, was my fishing companion until he passed away several years ago," he said. "I still love the sport
but I don't get to fish as much as I used to.
"If I had to pick one other hobby that interested me most next to fishing I guess it would be sports. I was captain of the basketball team at Colorado in my undergraduate days. Of course there have been a great many changes since then. No one as short as I am could possibly make a college team now."
Never Wrote Textbook
Dr. Stratton was asked if he had ever thought about writing a text-book in chemistry.
"I have thought about it several times," he said, "but many professors write college texts simply for the money and not for the knowledge that should go into the book
"Most of the time the text is just a rewrite of a past text you have written or a copy from someone else. I am afraid that if I wrote a chemistry text the way it should be written it would be too long."
You spend far more than $4.50 for cokes, gas, or cigarettes in nine months. Cokes, cigarettes, or gas won't protect you from paralytic polio, but polio vaccine will give you about 80 per cent protection.
It doesn't cost you anything unless you're over 20. Even then, the price is only $1.50 a shot.
The Kansas State Board of Health has provided the Student Health Service in Watkins Hospital with 200 doses of polio vaccine a week for students under 20 years of age Ralph I. Caruteson, director, said today.
"We are in the third week and have used only 240 doses," he said. "The vaccine will be sent to other areas if it isn't used here. The student loses out."
"From childhood to late teens, there's not much paralysis, but from the upper teens to the 40's, polio hit hard." Dr. Canuteson warned.
A student committee met Oct. 31 with hospital officials and said it would start action to get a number of students at each house to take the vaccine, Dr. Canuteson said, but no houses have called.
Anti-Polio Shots Guard Against crippling Pain
"We would send out a nurse to give the shots," Dr. Canuteson said. "If a person isn't vaccinated in his home county, he should take advantage of this free service."
Dr. Canuteson told of a person 20 years old who is paralyzed from the waist down, and who can only wiggle his toes. The victim said;
for the refugees, and in other act of relief.
"I thought I should take the shot last summer, but I didn't."
"Churches all through the land have responded quite well," he added.
You can get your first shot immediately unless you have a cold. You can take the flu shot with it, Dr. Canuteson said the second polio shot is given in a month, and the third one about six months later. No one has shown bad results or a sore arm, he said.
The victim contracted paralytic polio late in the summer, Dr. Canutson said.
Dean Barr pointed to the example set by the community of Eudora and their recent move to adopt a refugee family and give the family a home and work.
Commenting on U.S. policy regarding Hungary, Dean Barr said, "We will say sharply as we can this is the kind of thing we just can't tolerate. President Eisenhower has been farsighted in saying this judgment will be expressed through the United Nations so that all may hear it.
"You'll be more protected for the summer," Dr. Canuteson said.
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"I think the fact that the U.S has had to take an unpopular position in condemning action in the Middle East has put the U.S. in the best moral position of some time. It has given us a position of world leadership even higher than before."
Looking back over his 50 years of teaching, Dr. Stratton said, "It may seem to the average student that teaching for that long a time would become very boring. I guess teaching could be very tiresome if you looked at it as the same old thing year after year. But I look at each semester as something new. I have new students and most of them are learning something new. Also, I sort of look at each semester as a new experience."
"No doubt it is a deliberate move," said Dean Barr, concerning Russia's action. "Seeing that England and France were doing something in the Middle East that was difficult to justify morally, Russia thought it was the time to handle a situation that was becoming difficult, no matter what the consequences."
Interviewed to obtain the view of a religious leader on the subject, Dean Barr said, "Everyone should see the utter cullousness in which a great world power has overridden the rights of little people."
"This is a strategic time, both for the U.S. and Christian people, to respond to the need of the world," said Harold G. Barr, Dean of the School of Religion, concerning the Hungarian situation.
Religion Gave Faith
Regarding the role Religion played in the Hungarian revolt he said, "It was quite prominent in one respect. Some observers might say it had no influence at all, but religion gave these people faith to look to the day when they would regain their freedom.
'Religion Gave Hungarians Faith'
"First, religious organizations can give personal guarantees to look after relocating these refugees. A church is prepared to give this type of personal attention."
"No doubt the Russians will try to blame the church, even though it had little to do with the revolution," he added. "They are trying to disprove religion by ridicule and by giving heavy emphasis on science in Communist dominated areas."
"In a situation like this religion can do two things," he said in answer to a question of what American church groups could do to help.
"Second, the Church World Service has shown how a religious organization is successful in administrating aid by acquiring surplus food
Piece Of Shrapnel In New Books
After long use, books usually become "shot," but three books received by the KU library were already "shot."
Staff members noticed damage to the top edges of books the library acquired from a dealer in Paris. Careful use of a letter opener produced a piece of shrapnel.
Don't Sugar-Coat Humanities Harvard Professor Advises
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(IP)—Urging educators to take a tough realistic attitude toward the humanities instead of trying to sugar-coat them in terms suggesting that they can improve the world. Howard Mumford Jones, author and professor of English at Harvard, pointed out recently that the humanities cannot be defended as instruments that "prepare for effective living or for understanding ourselves," or as agents that influence behavior.
Rather, he maintained, they provide "an opportunity for maturation and the development of the soul," and it takes hard work—comparable to that necessary in studying physics or medicine—to understand them.
"The 'humanities' as the objects of study cannot in all cases produce 'humane' personalities," he said. "The desire to produce gracious personalities out of adolescents is entirely commendable and such personalities, if they do develop, should be 'humane' in both senses of the word. 'Humane' persons will not be the product of a milk-and-water version of 'humanities' which are in themselves the product of some of the greatest and subtlest brains."
Three Students Present Recital
Three University musicians performed works by Rossini and Weber-Labunski at a student recital Wednesday night in Strong Auditorium.
Warren Alexander, Richmond, Ind., graduate and a voice student of Meribah Moore, associate professor of voice, sang "Largo Al Factotum" from Rossini's opera, "The Barber of Seville."
Ann and Sue Markwell, Gashland, Mo., juniors, piano pupils of Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano, performed "Perpetum Mobile," written and arranged for two pianos by Weber and Labunski. Sharon Tripp, Lawrence senior, who was to sing "Scheherezade" by Ravel, was unable to appear due to the illness of her accompanist.
Should "Expertise"
Instead of trying to sugar-coat the humanities, he contended, educators must acknowledge that the study of them "is as much an example of 'expertise' as the professional study of economics or medicine." Moreover, he insisted, the "expertise" required in the study of the humanities is not "pedantry, antiquarianism, living in an ivory tower. 'Expertise' is essential to the codification, development and interpretation of knowledge in any field. Humanistic scholarship is as essential to humane learning as mathematical research is to physics."
Courses like Adventures in Literature "may have great teaching value and may even induce some scholars to read more books than otherwise they would have read," he said, but "the maturity required to interpret a humanistic masterpiece is not the same thing as an appreciation of books gleaned from an anthology of adventures in literature."
The humanities, Prof. Jones said, "are principally but not wholly concerned with knowledge of the past. They put the present into perspective, and reinterpret the past in terms relevant to the present."
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Speech Correction Progress Discussed At Assembly
Living proof of what can be done in the field of speech correction was presented Wednesday night in Bailey Auditorium in the first of a series of speech assembles.
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Two children, born with cleft palates, gave a varied demonstration of the help they have received from the University's Speech Clinic by reading aloud the story of the "The Three Little Pigs."
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The production of an air stream and the formation of speech sounds are the two most difficult problems in the care of these handicapped children. The story's "huffing and puffing" requirements graphically illustrated the solutions of these problems.
Doris Nelson, Lawrence senior, introduced the program by explaining the clinic's work with cleft palate children, stutterers, and those suffering from cerebral palsy. Margaret Byrne, assistant professor of speech and drama and speech pathologist, discussed the steps used in the treatment of the cleft palate.
Slides from the forthcoming University television production. "The Cleft Palate," were used to illustrate the work of the surgical, dental and
speech team members necessary in the treatment.
Dwight Carnahan, Macks Creek, Mo., graduate student, traced the steps of speech rehabilitation and described the varying degrees of the cleft palate.
Monday—Magnolia Petroleum Co. Dow Chemical Co.
Engineering interviews will be conducted next week by the films listed below in 111 Marvin. Students are asked to sign interview schedules in 111 Marvin.
Firms Schedule Job Interviews
Wednesday — Socony Mobile Oil Co., Union Electric Co. of Missouri, Esso Engineering and Research Co.
Tuesday — Magnolia Petroleum Co.
International Harvester Co.
Friday - Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, Ryan Aeronautical Co., Atlantic Refining Co.
Thursday Convair, San Diego, Calif., Esso Engineering and Research Co., Atlantic Refining Co.
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