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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. May 17. 1961
Schoewe Plans to Continue Writing After Retirement
By Virginia Mathews
"I won't have this office after I retire, but I'll be in another part of the building. I wouldn't want to isolate myself. That would be suicide," Walter H. Schoewe, associate professor of geography and geology, said as he glanced around his office.
Half-filled bookcases contain geography books, geology books, Kansas history books and professional magazines. Filing cabinets topped with rocks and tables piled with scattered maps line the walls of his office on the second floor of Lindley Hall.
"I CANT STOP being active in either teaching or research." Prof. Schoewe said. The chipper, 70-year-old man, with the fringe of white hair, twinkling blue eyes, and numerous smile wrinkles about his eyes added:
"Can't and shouldn't stop. As long as my health stays all right I'll keep busy writing for the lavman."
Prof. Schoewe is one of four KU faculty members due to retire in June. He has taught at the University since 1920. Since 1930, he has worked with the State Geological Survey writing articles on subjects such as minerals and political boundaries.
A black and white photograph of a rolling countryside, another photograph of a rock formation, and an oil painting by Thomas Morton titled "Grand Canyon of Arizona on the Santa Fe Trail" hung on the office walls.
HE SAID THAT after he retires in June he may rewrite all of the articles he has already written, bringing them up-to-date and putting them in book form. He plans to write articles dealing with the agricultural history, the industrial history, and a human geographical history of Kansas.
What makes a man become a teacher. Prof. Schowe was asked
"I guess I inherited being a teacher. Most of the Schoewe family and my mother's family were either teachers or ministers."
He laughed as he recalled how he obtained his first teaching position.
"I SAW A NOTICE on the bulletin board at the University of Wisconsin where I had continued with my graduate work after doing undergraduate work there," he said. "The notice asked for stu-
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dents to apply for teaching assist-antships at Iowa. I applied and ten days later I was a graduate assistant at Iowa."
Tongue in cheek, Prof. Schoewe said that he could not go anywhere in Kansas without being on his good behavior "because one of my former students is likely to be there.
"Thousands of students have passed through my hands," he said. "I'm always receiving letters from former students telling me how much they appreciated Yosemite or some other national park. It's one of the rewards for my work."
EVERY SUMMER for the last 15 years he has taught at the 4-H Conservation Camp held for a week at the Rock Springs Ranch south of Junction City. He plans to go back this summer.
"I like to be with young people" he said. "It keeps you young."
He plans to continue an active life because; "It's easier for me to look ahead into the future than it is for students because I've already lived the major part of my life and students still have theirs to live."
Texas Museum's Pamphlet Gets Results
AUST*N, Tex. — (UPI) — The Texas Memorial Museum inaugurated a new mailing series of pamphlets with a bulletin on "Mylohyus Nasutus, Long-nosed Pecary of the Texas Pleistocene," a type of hog, and received this somewhat mis-spelled note from a
recipient included, by mistake, on the mailing list:
"Sirs; You maid a mistake sendeng me that pig paper. Why do pebul waist their time that-away. The only hog bone I'm interested in is a pork chop."
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Conservative Club To Form on Campus
Refreshments Served, Trophies Awarded
Scott Stanley, Bethel first year law student, says a chapter of Young Americans For Freedom, a nationwide club of conservative students, is being formed at KU.
YAF has a reported membership of 21,000 students on 115 campuses. Founded last fall, the club is considered to be an indication of growing interest among college students in the conservative movement.
In a recent telephone conversation, Stanley refused to elaborate on his statement that a YAF chapter is being organized.
He said the officers of the group—whose names he would not disclose—plan to release information later, possibly in conjunction with the announcement of a speaker who will visit the campus.
How They Started
KENT, Ohio —(UPI)—Tree researchers have reported that two species of maples owe their existence to the discovery of single trees on burial grounds.
One species, called Acer platanoides erectum, because of its narrow shape, originated in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, N. Y. and now is widely grown in the Rochester area. The other, known as Acer saccharum monumentale or the sentry sugar maple, was discovered in an old Newton, Mass., cemetery, according to the Davey Tree Expert Co.
That dare we also say. - James
Alumni to Receive Service Citations
Five KU alumni will receive citations for distinguished service to mankind during commencement exercises on June 5.
The five are Austin Bailey, Milburn, N.J., electronics and communications consultant; Leland J. Barrows, ambassador to the Republic of Togo and Cameroum; Haroul V. Boxell, Larchmont, N.Y., retired president of the General Telephone Co.; Balfour S. Jeffrey, Topeka, president of the Kansas Power and Light Co. and W. W. Keeler, Bartlesville, Okla., executive vice-president of the Phillips Petroleum Co.
Norman D. Newell of Leonia, N.J., curator of historical geology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, will also receive a citation voted to him in 1960.
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