THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
DADDY HAWORTH TELLS STORY OF THE BOYS OF OTHER YEARS
And the "Who's Who of Our Graduates" Reveals Interesting Facts Concerning the Life of Former K.U. Mining Students
ERASMUS HAWORTH
EUGENHIA HAWKOW
It is impossible, in the short space available, to give even a few words to each of the graduate our four managers, because we made good since graduation. In the true sense of the term they have all made good, and the statement will go unchallenged from this University, age and number considered, surpasses them in success, and very few equal them. Some of them have coupled their training in mining with geology, and have devoted their time, principally to economic geology. Some of them have contributed to the commercial side of the great mining industry, and have become salesmen and salesmanagers for great machinery com-
Stewart left almost afoot and alone and some way blew into Douglas, Arizona, just in time to get a position at the foot of the class as draftsman for the preparation of plans for one of the largest copper smelters ever built in Arizona. Now, Stewart never had a habit of staying at the foot of his class, so he stayed away and later way along towards the front. Finally, when the other draftsmans were let out in groups of twelve until the number was greatly reduced, Stewart found himself almost alone, and at the last was the only drawer of two things; first, he knew how to do it, next, his sturdy honesty made him go right ahead.
to decide what to say about Feitshans, While here he was tennis champion and a number of other champions, and best of all he was always a champion in tennis up with the students in our University. After spending a number of years in the pursuit of mining and having made a considerable stake he settled down in Los Angeles to oratory and participating in the gahuels hunt up F. R. Feitshans, owner and manager of the Los Angeles Desk Company, South Hill street. No one ever graduated from this university, the hours of Alma Mater on every and all occasions to a greater degree than F. R. Feitshans, and again, I take the liberty to invite any and all friends of our University to join me when I win in Los Angeles, to call on Feitshans, and I assure you you will never regret it.
1905
Albert A. Hoffman, Oscar M. Kuchs, Oliver N. Wampler, George T. Hansen. If any one class surpasses another I am a little inclined to give the palm to the class of 1905. Here we come and look at what serves to be the salt of the earth. Hoffman, first went to Colonel Green's copper mines in Cananela,
being made now in that business, I am fully expecting that Mr. Wampler soon will endow two or three chairs in the mining department and, possibly, a chair for the Chancellorship of the University, in order that we may always be assured that he will have funds enough to keep the most important parts of the University going, legislature or no legislature.
George T. Hansen. I never think of Hansen without smiling, yes, smiling because I triumphed. As a student Hansen was a little bit inclined to society and more than one of the professors here in the University, when Hansen was working as a school teacher he would lead one to think that Hansen was paying more attention to society than he was to the purposes for which he came to Lawrence. However, immediately after graduation Hansen went to Milwaukee into the shops of Allis-Chalmers Machinery Company, and in the course of time he emerged as a businessman and networked with sales department. He has stayed with the Allis-Chalmers people ever since, and has been promoted from one position to another until a few years ago he was put at the head of their great establishment in Salt Lake City. This branch office here handles the business for all states, and oversees United States, a business ranging from seven to twelve million dollars per year, and our Hansen, who was quite a ladies' favorite mind you, has proven himself so successful that there is no thought, whatever, of replacing him by any one else.
Recently, I understand, he finds time occasionally to pass judgments on mining enterprises, and I have no doubt but that the mines with which he is now connected financially ultimately will bring him income vastly greater than the matter of salary and wages in general and in him, although that is a princely one. Here is wishing we had more Hansens.
Well, the boys have increased in number to seven, and I can no longer take time to mention each one by name. They are all just as good as those that have been named, however, and with a few more years doubtless will give just as good an account of themselves as the boys who graduated from school. We Frank G, Bedell, Frank M, Plake Wilford L, Kepnew, Victor M, Cone George D. Johnson, Lawrence Brett and Hill P, Wilson, Jr.
1906
I suppose that Mr. Cone and Mr. Brett, the way we ordinarily would mention matters, have been a little bit more successful than the others.
Cone now is at the head of a department in the State University of Colorado, with a long string of under studies to come at beck and call.
Brett is president of a private engineering concern of North Carolina where they are reclaiming those valuable swamp lands of that state, and it is reported he is doing very unusually well.
Frank Bedell has joined his brother Harry, and is now producing some of the luscious beetsteaks that school teachers do not get but that business
HAWORTH HALL
The first graduates of our minings school were in the class of 1902, less than fourteen years ago. During these few years our boys have gone out into every part of the world, have scattered all over North America, from Cape Nome to Costa Rica, have penetrated the mountain wilds of South America, where nature has widened vast deposits of copper have traversed the interior jungles of Africa and brought to light many previously unknown treasure lands, particularly in the way of gold and diamond fields.
panies. A very few have gone into the commercial world in other lines of business, but their success has shown how efficient their training was while here and how the team worked collaboratively by improving a good course in Mining Engineering qualifies a man for a variety of occupations.
The hire which has induced these boys to travel so far and wide, and endure the deprivations and hardships of wilderness life, in part, has led many of us to learn that the money barons long ago learned that a certificate of graduation from the mining school of our University was synonymous with honor, integrity, ability and understanding. Yet gone out from other halls of learning surpassing them in these much coveted character qualities. No task is too difficult for them, no undertaking too hazardous, no thrilling activity, no buck the center every time with renewed energy, but always play a fair and square game.
I hesitate to repeat this large list because they number an exact thirteen. Already one has been called to his reward, though not until after he had made a most excellent start for so young a man. He too, Frank H. Blackmar, had gone to South America, where he was developing his skills in the artisals in America. Success was following him wherever he went, but unfortunately a fever took hold of him which finally won.
Wallace E. Pratt of this class has been so successful that for some years he has been drawing a larger number of students while he was in the University. Pratt took the Civil Service examination and was sent to the Philippine Islands. Here, as is the custom with many universities, he climbed up and up, much more rapidly than others until in a few years he was at the head of the Philippine
1902
1903
W. H. Toby, or Bill Tobey, as he is universally called, some years ago abandoned mining and went into business, because he found that he was better qualified for being a banker than a miner. One of Bill's first events that attracted special attention was in Cripple Creek, when he did certain fellows of the company his junior and senior years. In the course of time the Fourth of July came around and the miners, big and little, were engaged in various athletic stunts. Now Bill was champion bicyclist of the whole University and also champion jumper, both broad jump and high jump. He fooled around on the high precipices of Cripple Creek until the other fellows had done their best and then took special delight so as far back as long as he stayed with them he always had a stand-in with every member of the Western confederation of miners located at Cripple Creek.
Wilson is superintending coal mines for the Central Coal & Coke Company, and doubtless will rejoice when the supply of natural gas is exhausted because possibly then his salaries may decrease and his may become increased. The other boys likewise are holding good positions and are doing well.
B. L. Wolfe and M. I. Stewart.
Wolfe, after a number of vicissitudes,
finally settled down to being a school
teacher. This is the worst accusation
I can bring against him. Any
improvement in engineering that will settle down
to school teaching has my sympathy,
so I will let him go at that.
1904
Here we have a bunch of only five.
Charles Klauman, Don Cater, Frank
Rockefeller Paul J. Neff and Spencer R.
Lloyd Bobcock. One is a good man
and is doing well.
men do.
Well, after the smelter was built and in successful operation he was called to Salt Lake City and helped in another large smelter being built for similar purposes. He now is a prosperous engineer with offices in Salt Lake City and in other towns from him for some time, which is the only thing I have against him. He has not treated me right in not writing to me as often as he should, but I have no doubt, whatever, but that I am perfectly safe in guaranting him to every job, and who visits Salt Lake City, that if he will hunt up the office of M. L. Stewart he will receive a most hearty welcome.
1908
or the relief of the Beguine.
F. R. Feitshans, Well, it is hard
Harry S. Bedel, Millard K. Shaler and F. R. Feitshans. It will be noted how gradually the number of students increases. First one, then two and now three. Mr. Bedell secured a position with the Swift Packaging plant immediate after New Media's short time until he was well known as a fuel expert. He held the position successfully until his contact with the packing business showed how much easier it would be to ride around in his cowboy's saddle or sit under the shade of his wife's vineyard to watch the cattle grow. He deserted mining, there and went onto a big ranch in southwestern Texas. His only regret of recent times is that on excessively good years he cannot have quite enough cattle to eat all the grass that grows on those immensely fertile pastures, a half million dollars last year because he did not have cattle enough to eat all the grass in that vicinity.
Mexico, where he spent 3 or 4 years in doing various kinds of work in connection with the ore dressing department. His great mechanical ability here attracted the attention of others so that when they wanted someone to superintend the erection of the ore mill, a twenty million dollar Hoffman was chosen for the position. Here the proposition grew and instead of spending the first fifteen or twenty million dollars as expected, it grew until nearly thirty million were expected before the entire work was done, and this resulted in a twenty million dollar of our Hoffman. Later he was employed for a similar purpose, but on a larger plan, where the thirty million dollar plant was to be erected, which likewise extended until nearly forty million was used. In other words, our man was hired to be the head resident engineer for the development and erection of the plants of the two greatest copper mines ever opened up in South America.
Millard K. Shaler. The latest accomplishment of Millard K. Shaler, which has given him a wider notoriety than anything he could have done, is to becomeoseen with offices in London. Now Shaler, or Doc, as the boys always called him, is a man of many qualifications.
He was graduated from the College in 1901. While a college student he was noted more or less for being a special favorite of all the girls in the University. Later he spent two years in the mining school and then position on the U.S. Geological Survey and did excellent service there for a number of years. Later, he was selected as one of two men to go into Central Africa to explore the wilds of that country for anything of economic importance. They do say that he was not only able yet made public, and gold fields perhaps as rich as the Klondike or the Rand, but at any rate he was put at the head of the office in Brussels, where he stayed until the present European war drove him to London, and practically drove him out of mining into the deep work of helping with the funds of help the funds contributed the world over for the relief of the Belgians.
1907
Oscar Kuchs. Mr. Kuchs scarcely needs a word of commendation from me because he has not written a letter to me for four years, or thereabout. However, I keep seeing during the remainder of his life. From the University he went to Germany and spent 18 months in the oldest mining school in the world, the famous Friedberg Mining School. Upon his return home somebody said that he wanted him so badly that Kuchs couldn't say "no," so away he went to the far west. From that place it was but a step to another, and then another and finally I noticed by the newspaper one day someone told me that the Manager of the big copper plant near Salt Lake City, and one day somebody, I were suspicions as to whom it was, sent me a little newspaper clipping, four lines in length, saying that Mr. So-and-So has resigned the support of the Mackenzie plant and that Qasar M. Kuchs had been made superintendent.
With the tremendous profits
Oliver N. Wampler. Wampler was one of these boys that was always liked, he always had his lessons and was always in a good humor. He was raised at Webb City, Missouri, where his father was a miner operator. He went back to Webb City, came to Kansas, however, to get wife, and then to the girls, and has been a consistent operator in the zinc mines of Webb City ever since he graduated.
Once I wrote him a letter of congratulations and scolded him soundly for not writing offenber but it seems to have no effect upon him. In other words Mr. Kucks now holds the destiny of the copper world very largely in the hollow world of his mind. If any man who went to school in America can show any better success than he has won I would like to know who the man is.
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