Thursday, April 27, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Professor focuses on past, present, future
by Kathy Walsh Kansan staff writer
He said that the history department told him he was mad when he said he wanted to teach five courses this semester. James Seaver said he was not crazy; he just wanted to teach.
James Seaver discusses his years at KU.
Norman Saul, chairman of the department of history, said he thought Seaver wanted to do his last bit in the areas he was interested in.
Just as everything goes in cycles, Saul said that one of Seaver's requests was to teach medieval his students; he began teaching at KU in 1947.
"Here's a man that really loves teaching. He's dedicated," Saul said.
"He's an advocate of the humanities." Saul said.
Describing Seaver as a scholar, a teacher and an athlete, Saul said that Seaver was a renaissance man.
Seaver said he liked for his students to see the problems of society in the long run so they could get some perspective on what has happened, what is happening and what might happen in the future.
"The things in history that I'm interested in are to try to get the students to see the bigger picture as it were and to try to get some perspective on what is happening today." Seaver said. "I think history can teach morals to some people, as well as perspective."
But Seaver has done much more than teach.
His first year at the University was marked with success when Seaver coached the championship-winning KU tennis team.
In 1957, Seaver became chairman of the Western Civilization department, which he headed for 27 years.
"My motto in managing the Western civilization program was unless something was going very wrong, I let it alone," he said.
seaver also has served as chairman of the Senate Executive Committee under chancellors W. Clarke Wescoe, Archie Dykes and Gene A. Budig.
"I generally feel that I've had a very fortunate relationship with the
As a historian, Seaver said, he thought he had an obligation to society.
University," he said.
"We as historians have a tremendous responsibility to pass on the wisdom of the race, as it were, the best we know it," he said.
However, history is not his only love.
Seaver said that when he was 17, he had to make a choice between going to Stanford or becoming an opera singer.
Stanford won, but Seaver's love for the opera has not suffered.
I was catastrophically converted to opera overnight; that is, just one performance did it. So sewer said of me, "The first time I bravevature" when he was 13 years old.
"I could see what drama could be when enhanced by music," he said. "I became a convert and began to think I am still collecting records."
For 37 years, and still counting, Seaver has been host of "Opera is My Hobby," on KANU-FM. The show is running from 7 to 8 p.m. on Fridays.
But retirement might not be the right description for Seaver.
This fall, Seaver will be on the team of teachers who will teach a course on the Biography of Rome He will present at the Uman Library in Independence, Mo.
For the past 22 years, Seaver has gone to the library every Monday during the academic year to teach students on history to a group of women
Vandals mar Hoch, signs
by a Kansan reporter
Vandals were busier Tuesday morning than police had originally reported.
Stan Yoder, paint shop supervisor for facilities operations, said that 22 to 25 parking zone signs were defaced with black paint at 3:06 a.m. Tuesd
KU police reported the defacing of only 18 signs on Tuesday.
Yoder said that it cost about $150 to clean all the signs.
"It took two men six to seven hours, and we're still cleaning some vet today." Yoder said yesterday.
He said the vandalized signs were concentrated in areas along Memorial Drive, Strong Hall and Hoch Auditorium.
Yoder said that although he had been working at the University for only a short while, his co-workers say that this was a common occurrence.
Lyle Wylman, patrol lieutenant for parking services, said that there was writing in black paint on the Hoch women's restroom wall and wall.
Wellman could not remember the message word for word.
"It was something about paying for food instead of parking tickets," he said.
Wellman said this was the most extensive vandalism he could remember.
"There's really no way to stop it," he said.
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