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First Business Dean Prints Early Accounts of B-School
By Suellen McKinley
The early years of the KU School of Business were not what may be termed "normal" in today's sense of the word.
A recounting of these years from 1824-1947, during which occurred a major depression and a World War, entitled "Four Chapters in the School of Business," was completed last spring by Frank T. Stockton, dean emeritus of the Business School.
THE FIRST of the "Four Chapters" explains the evolution of the school from the Department of Economics. The other three chapters deal with the men with whom Dean Stockton worked and their contributions to the school, the state, and the nation.
In his history of the school's beginnings, Dean Stockton emphasizes the stature and the sense of purpose brought to the school by the faculty through their publications, public service, special activities, and military and related service. He chooses this emphasis rather than concentrating on curriculum, enrollment, and other internal mechanics.
"I am trying to make clear what I think was a dynamic period," Dean Stockton said yesterday while speaking of the history.
The book was published May 19, after two years of research and writing by Dean Stockton. The history is one of 125 publications written by him on the business school and a wide range of other subjects.
"It covers only the time of my deanship in the School of Business." Stockton said. "I have plans for some more publications dealing with the Extension and the Business School at Kansas University."
STOCKTON SAID such historical material should be useful in connection with the coming 100th anniversary of the university.
Edward G. Nelson, KU Director of the Center for Research in Business, says in the forward of the history:
"No one other than Dean Stockton is better qualified to report on the achievements of the faculty during these exciting years. He has followed the careers of these men with the affection that is so characteristically his. Now the time has come to make known his observations of the faculty that served the nation and the state under his long and effective administration."
"My checkered career" is the way Dean Stockton describes his life's work in many fields of study. "I've been sort of inclined not to stick to one area."
HE RECEIVED his A.B. in 1907 from Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., where his major fields of study were classical languages and history. "I'm one of very few business school deans in the country that had four years of Greek," Stockton said.
While attending Allegheny College he played football, basketball, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1911 he received a Ph.D. in Political Economy from Johns Hopkins University.
BEFORE COMING to KU, Dean Stockton taught at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., and served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the head of the Department of Economics at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S.D.
At KU he was the first dean of the School of Business from 1924-1947 and dean of the University Extension and Professor of Economies from 1947-1953.
Dean Stockton retired from adminstration in 1953 to become director of Special Projects, University Extension, and Professor of Economics.
Dean Stockton has worked on many programs in field varying from a Kansas Conference on Aging to taxation and marketing.
"THE ONE THING of which I am proudest is the program I developed at the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth for providing instruction to inmates in college credit courses," Dean Stockton said.
Last March he received an award for the Kansas Citizens Council on Aging honoring him as a "Distinguished Older Citizen." At the present, he is serving as a labor arbitrator.
His history is available at the Summerfield Center for Research in Business.
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