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..p.esentin^ ERNEST E. HOWARD
^Sa/m^ nominee ^or
MAN DF THE MONTH
by MORI GREINER
^^T T^'^^L there is real demand for
V-/ an engineering school, we won't have one."
With those words, Ernest Howard denied a bright and shining love.
Howard has been chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Kansas City since 1930, three years longer than the physical plant of the University has been in existence. From the first, it has been his idea that the University should serve the needs of the city as they develop.
''Our desire is to provide whatever educational facilities the community wants and will support," he says.
The University's 'round-the-calendar schedule and 15'hour'a'day opera' tion, and its large strides in adult education, are evidence that the policy is being carried out.
But it isn't always easy.
Ernest Howard, in turning an ex' ecutive thumb down on an engineering school, did so with something of the feeling of a man forced to spit in his own poor, dear mother's face.
For Mr. Howard is himself one of America's outstanding consulting engineers. He is chairman of the United States delegation to the Third World Congress of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineers, to be held this month in Liege, Belgium, and will preside over
one of the sessions of the Congress, to report on recent developments in long-span steel bridges. He is a past director and a past vice-president of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Still, with the best interests of the University at stake, he subdued his pardonably intense professional pride long enough to concede that nearly any boy of the Kansas City area who really wants an engineering degree can get one at any of several top schools.
Although a college of engineering is in abeyance for the present, the University is still expanding. This year, 3,500 students are attending the 16year-old institution, and it is expected that a more or less steady enrollment of 6,000 can be accommodated by 1950.
Discussions concerning the establishment of a local four-year college began as early as 1929, and at that time several men went out to see what they could raise in the way of donations.
Howard approached a certain banker. After he had outlined the plans, the banker murmured, 'T see," then asked, "What do you want of me?"
Mr. Howard didn't equivocate. ''One hundred thousand dollars," he said. "We're trying to raise five million."