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University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 20, 1963
After 38 Years
Dean Nelson To New Post
After 38 years, John H. Nelson, dean of the graduate school, is returning to the teaching of American literature, his first teaching assignment at KU.
Since Dean Nelson is 65, he can no longer hold an administrative position. Instead of retiring, however, Nelson has decided to change jobs. After a few months leave of absence to brush up on the latest in American literature, he will be back in front of a class.
DURING HIS 16 YEARS tenure, he has helped build the graduate school to the second largest "class" at the University. Only the freshman class is larger. He is being succeeded by William Albrecht, professor of English, as dean of the Graduate School.
He has held a half dozen administrative jobs at KU, and has been helping run the University for 30 years. He was acting chancellor for two months in 1951.
Nelson came to the University in 1925 from Cornell, where he had been an instructor of English for six years. He holds a Ph. D. in English from Cornell and an A.B. degree from Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.
KU NAMED HIM a professor in 1830 and acting associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1933.
From there he started a rise through the ranks of administrative jobs; associate dean of the College 1934-41; assistant dean of the Graduate School, 1941-46, and Graduate School dean in 1946.
It would be easy to hang the title, "dean of deans" on him, for Dean Nelson has been called by that title longer than anyone else at KU.
He is one of a few American educators who has helped guide a school through the difficult times of the Depression, World War II, the post-war veteran enrollment surge, and the modern era of soaring enrollments and education expansion. Through every change of conditions, his major concerns have been the maintenance of standards and the protection of the University's integrity.
Marvin to Conduct Workshops in Africa
Dean Burton W. Marvin of the William Allen White School of Journalism will be one of a fourman team conducting workshops this summer for journalists in Africa.
The project in July and August will be a project of the African-American Institute of New York under contract with the U.S. State Department. The workshops will be at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 8-21; Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, July 29-Aug. 10; and Lagos, Nigeria, Aug. 19-30.
He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Modern Language Association and of the advisory board of Masaryk Institute, and the advisory committee on graduate studies of the Institute of International Education.
NELSON WAS ONE of the founders of the Midwest Inter-Library Corporation and was a member of its board of directors from 1949-52. He long has been a member of the commission on colleges and universities of the North Central Association, and is a member of the association's administrative board.
Being a member of the commission means extensive traveling, Nelson has visited dozens of colleges throughout the nation, including every one in Kansas. Perhaps no other Kansas college official is better known among "school men," according to his colleagues.
Closer to home, Dean Nelson served on the University budget committee for 16 years and was its chairman for three years.
He contributed to the "Dictionary of American Biography," and with Prof. F. C. Prescott of Cornell wrote "The Prose and Poetry of the Revolution," and with G. D. Sanders, "Chief Modern Poets of England and America."
Somehow, he has found time to do all these things while serving the University.
When he became dean in 1946, the Graduate School had 491 students. There were 2.076 last fall.
More graduate degrees have been granted at the university in the past 16 years (4,338) than in all its previous history.
FOREIGN STUDENTS: Turn in the Future Plans Reports and other forms to the office of the Foreign Student Adviser. 228 Strong Hall by the first day of school. May Issue of the International Campus newsletter for copies of the forms.
Peace Corps Examination: Students interested in taking the June 8, 1963 PEACE CORPS examination can obtain additional information from the Dean of Student's Office, 228 Strong Hall. That information may be found at test sites throughout the country.
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