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Retiring after 35 years at KU
N. W. Storer, professor of astronomy, is retiring at the end of this year after 35 years at KU. Storer began teaching at KU in 1935 but now plans to "just take it easy for a while." Although Storer's retirement is due to an age limit, he said he would have retired soon anyway.
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Storer said Wednesday that even though his retirement was brought on by age limit, he would have retired soon anyway because he wants to return to things of a family and business nature.
"I would just like to take it easy for awhile and not have to worry about deadlines hanging over my head," he said.
After receiving his B.A. and M.A. in astronomy from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Storer went to California and completed his doctorate there in 1927. He taught at Smith College in Massachusetts for a year and a half until the curriculum was changed to place less emphasis on astronomy. He then went back to Connecticut Wesleyan to teach there for a year.
Storer said that he might look for a small job with a school that hires retired professors so that he can continue his work in astronomy.
Storer acquired his job at KU in a "roundabout" way, he said.
After his year at Wesleyan of Connecticut, he went to Ohio Wesleyan for two years until pressure from the depression caused the administration to drop 25 per cent of its faculty. he said.
Storer said he went back to Connecticut Wesleyan and held a $1,000 a year job. After his first year there, a professor took a leave of absence and Storer took over his position with a pay increase.
Storer said he taught summer school until 1934 when he was offered a job at Smith College to replace a professor who had died. It was during this year, he said, that he received an offer to teach at the University of Kansas during the summer session on a trial basis. KU decided to keep him for a permanent teaching position as head of the astronomy department.
The astronomy department, he said, is now looking for a professor to fake over as head of the department and is now reviewing four possibilities.
Storer said that if a replacement is not found next year, the astronomy department will most likely be combined with the physics department so that a major in astrophysics instead of astronomy will be offered.
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